Monday, April 02, 2007
anxious
I believe i am beginning to understand where this restless anxious feeling happens for us city dwellers. I am listening to a Prairie Home Companion on web radio. As garrison keller gives a detailed description of how people live in small towns. Methodical and filled with generations of tradition even if it can be a hinderance or hassle. In the city there is much randomness. Peopledon't think through what they bring to the city they just do it. Whether those things be actual objects for market or ideas it is more about if there is a market or audience. I feel often i am foced by city culture to accept so much of it by default. It is almost impossible not to live by default.
hd 1:30 PM
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I went canoeing and camping a couple weeks ago, which just happened to be in the midst of the worst Nor-easer that RI had seen in three decades... 70mph wind gusts and a freezing rain.
And yet, I commented to my camping companions that it was easier in a way, than daily life. Instead of the usual conflicts (Man agains Man, Man against Machine, Man against God), it felt like my struggles were focused, and briefly managable: Man against nature and himself.
For me, in the city, there are so many battle-line fronts... not that we are always waring against others, but as we come along side our friends, our neighbors, we must war WITH them, fight/struggle with/for them... and there are a lot of them...
... so I find that my infrequent excapes to the countryside, though grueling, are simple. And refreshing.
GK reminds us of so much that's easy to forget.
-Nick B.
And yet, I commented to my camping companions that it was easier in a way, than daily life. Instead of the usual conflicts (Man agains Man, Man against Machine, Man against God), it felt like my struggles were focused, and briefly managable: Man against nature and himself.
For me, in the city, there are so many battle-line fronts... not that we are always waring against others, but as we come along side our friends, our neighbors, we must war WITH them, fight/struggle with/for them... and there are a lot of them...
... so I find that my infrequent excapes to the countryside, though grueling, are simple. And refreshing.
GK reminds us of so much that's easy to forget.
-Nick B.
and the enemy seems clear and i can feel it.