January 4, 2010

  • When I was a young man, I used to dream of a lover
        with long soft hair, flowing in the wind ...

    I don't know who wrote it,
       but Buck and Susan Raye said it all for me.

    I dreamed of pursuits of learning and loving
       And life itself would point the way for me.

    others tried to take control and guide me
       along paths they chose to direct my life for me

    I've only one life and it's mine to choose and travel
       I will make my mistakes and I'll make my marvels.

    I have mostly me to account to,
       And it is my own life so I'll live it free

    Singing dum te de dum -- dum de de dee.
                                                      LGC

      

Comments (3)

  • this may be all the proof we need of the need for a different kind of 'schooling'. how to teach them to buck the traces of others sooner. or something ; )

  • @belskaylar - 

    Thanks for the note, Kim, and I agree. Having taught school for a time, I have had cause to wonder at how most children's minds are so programed by their/our environments that so much of the wonderment that should be there is not such, but mostly a mind-boggling array of firmly held attitudes about life and "the way things are" and less of what could be/should be. Sigh. grey

  • Hey, Kim;
    Usually when I spout off like this it is partly because I've been reading a book or three and partly because the author of what I've been reading agrees with my own personal philosophy, theosophy and proclivities. In this case, the author is another in my private pantheon of goddesses, Ursula K. LeGuin, and the book is, "The Dispossessed." She is more renowned for "The Earth Sea Trilogy." This humble Servant of The Great Wheel doth declare and depose that she be goddess material of the highest order. Amen. When I want to worship a goddess, by damn, she gets properly worshiped. Sigh. grin. grey

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