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July/August 2001
Transcending the Tyranny of Time
We seem to always be running out of time,
literally and inevitably. This can create panic, a sense of falling hopelessly
behind in achieving our lifetime goals, a feeling of self-depletion, as if we
are in a losing race with an all-powerful and merciless opponent, time itself.
Transcending negative conceptions of time,
requires a bit of serious relaxation and a new outlook. Maybe we would be
better off attending to the task at hand instead of worrying about perpetual
time-binds. Recall the Lord Mayor's reply in
The Yellow Submarine
when Young Fred frantically tells him about the calamitous approach of "the blue
meanies" and asks, "What shall we do!" The ancient Lord Mayor, who is in the
process of leading the Pepperland Band, simply says, "Finish the quartet."
Perhaps we can learn to think in terms of
completion instead of depletion. The passage of time is a natural thing. It
need not be a trauma. No matter how long we live, some dreams will remain
unrealized, some projects unfinished. Life is a limited, finite situation and
accepting it as such, in itself, can bring a certain kind of creative
liberation.
-- Bill Joyner
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"Don't be outraged, be
outrageous!"
--Tom Robbins
Dear love, did you not
guide us into this world? Did you not follow us as a loving friend all of
our days, and even into the darkness beyond all knowing? Now, please rest
your hand upon us as time falls away, carry us when we stumble and cannot
go on, and bring us at last to the eternal homeland of your perfect love.
Amen.
It's easier to find a
traveling companion than to get rid of one.
-- Art Buchwald
More And Less
Linger long toward the evening. Relinquish more and more 'till all is one
with none. A billion details can be scaled down to one. Take a deep
breath, then slowly, slowly, let it go. Beneath the undertow find the
overflow. Allow less and less to happen more and more
--BJ
...to refuse food and
drink... is more than pleasure, it is the joy of the soul
--Tolstoy
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Don't just do something,
Buddha said, stand there.
--Daniel Berrigan
When one is so far advanced that
every shadow and every echo has disappeared, so that one is entirely quiet
and firm, this is the refuge within the cave of energy, where all that is
miraculous returns to its roots.
-- The Secret of the
Golden Flower
A kind heart is a fountain of
gladness making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
-- Washington Irving
 "What does this little symbol
mean?" some have wondered. I'd like to claim, in true Taoist form, that
it means nothing at all. But, in fact, I did first draw it as symbolic of
a bird in flight encircled somewhat by a circle of necessity. Over the
years, it has opened up in a way that expresses how I'd like the world to
be, safe & experimental, open & free.
--BJ |
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The Cinema Circus
Movie-Go-Round
Celluloid Friends Worth Revisiting
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"There are only a few great movies, with
most films, it doesn't matter whether you see them or not."
-- John Malkovich
Billy Budd
Young Terrence Stamp will always own this role as the innocent, fun-loving
sailor who runs afoul of the conspiring first mate, played with such menacing
wickedness by tough guy Robert Ryan. Peter Ustinov is the conscience-stricken,
duty-bound captain in this visualization of Herman Melville's short story. As
the final authority on board, the captain feels compelled by wartime rules of
the sea to condemn Billy Budd to death, although he suspects that the young
seaman has been framed or set up by Master-at-arms Claggart (Ryan). Why does
Claggart so despise and persecute this guileless, completely likable angel of a
boy? An elderly shipmate, known as Dansker, nails it right on the head when he
is asked by the presiding officer of the court, "In your opinion, is there
malice between the Master-at-arms and Budd?" "Aye," he replies, "Master-at-Arms
bore malice toward a grace he could not have. Pride was his demon, and he kept
it strong by o9ther's fear of him. Billy could not understand such a nature.
He saw only a lonely man -- strange -- but a man still, nothing to be feared.
So Claggart, lest his world be proven false, planned Billy's death." This film
is not exactly light entertainment, but it has great depth, as well as
unforgettable scenes and characters. -- BJ
What Are People For? Essays by Wendell
Berry
The message of both the TV programs and the sales talks is that
the watchers should spend whatever is necessary to be like everybody else.
When Schulman, a historian at
Boston University whose first book was "From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt," speaks of
the "Southernization" of American life, he isn't talking about Jim Crow and the
blues. He means their milder reincarnations in the anti-welfare, Lynyrd Skynyrd-listening
South that sloughed off its regional shame around the time Richard Nixon became
president. Southernization was an attitude that spread north - suspicion of
government, anti-elitism, racial resentment, a highly personal religiosity.
-- George Packer on...
The Great Shift in American Culture, Society and Politics by Bruce J.
Schulman
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Washington: Maureen Dowd
We want big. We want fast. We want
far. We want now. We want 345 horsepower in a V-8 engine and 15 miles per gallon
on the highway. We drive behemoths. We drive them alone. This country was not
built on H.O.V. Lanes. We don't have limits. We have liberties.
We'll bake the earth. We'll brown
& serve it, saut it, simmer it, sear it, fondue it, George-Foreman-grill it.
(We invented the Foreman grill.) We might one day bring the earth to a boil and
pull it like taffy. (We invented taffy.)
If rising seas obliterate the
coasts, our marine geologists will sculpt new ones and Hollywood will get bright
new ideas for disaster movies. If we get charred by the sun, our dermatologists
will replace our skin.
We will drill of oil whenever and
wherever we please. If tourists don't like rigs off the coast of Florida, they
can go fly fishing in Wyoming. We won't be deterred by a few Arctic terns. We
don't care about caribou.
We want our refrigerators cold and
our freezers colder. Bring on the freon. Banish those irritating toilets that
restrict flow. When we flush, we flush all the way.
We will perfect the dream of
nuclear power. We will put our toxic waste wherever we want, whenever we waste
it. We have whole states with nothing better to do than serve as ancestral
burial grounds for our effluvium. It can fester in those wide open spaces for
thousands of years.
We will have the biggest, baddest
missiles, and we will point them in any direction we like, across the galaxies,
through eternity, forever and ever.
We will buy, carry conceal and
shoot firearms whenever and wherever we want, as is our constitutionally
guaranteed right. (We invented the Constitution) We will kill any criminal we
want, by lethal injection or electrocution. (We invented electricity)
We are America.
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THE 2002 SEED CATALOG
CALENDAR!
Short reviews and
stories about films on video that you might like to check out. The format
will be much the same as the 2001 Calendar - The Soul Seed Circus.
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"The Soul Seed
Movie-Go-Round"
William T. Joyner, Editor |
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