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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
Tue, 13 Jun 2006
Checkpoint/Recap/Thanks
I want to thank all of you. Those familiar and those new.
The birthday piece that I wrote on Friday-week-ago generated quite
a bit of traffic from like-minded people, and the response has been
very kind. Many, many kindred spirits of all ages are out
there, and it has reinforced my contention that
none of us are alone, no matter how much we feel that way. We
simply don't communicate enough to realize how much alike we are. I
guess that the lesson is, to paraphrase Reagan (the only sane thing
that I remember him saying): "Tear down that wall." If you have a
moment of lucidity and state who you are and what you know, you
just might immediately find that you're, well, normal. Those around
you will likely breathe a sigh of relief and excitedly tell you that
that's what they feel too. We're all, most of us anyway,
very much the same way, silently.
My lord, we are strange clammed-up creatures. Always a moment away
from peace of mind.
The audio engineer musings, though, have generated a response that
has been really surprising, and surpassingly fulfilling. I guess that
people are copying it and sending it around; the website has seen a
bit of traffic, but the response has been utterly out of proportion to
that; I've received emails from every continent except Australia and
Antarctica. I've received communications from musicians that I worked
with long ago on tours that I've long forgotten. I've received
phone calls from audio people and musicians. The common
response, again, has been essentially "I knew that." I guess that
maybe another illusion can fall as well. That'd be cool, eh?
It has been the best possible birthday party, and I thank all of
you.
So, anyway, please don't look for Daily Wisdom here; I am much more
practiced and better at daily folly. My fingernails are just as bloody
as yours from trying to hang on.
But the fingernails have had a ten day respite, and have had a
chance to heal a bit, and I am very grateful to you. I bet that I can
hang on better now. Maybe I'll be able to articulate some other
insight sometime. But if I do, I can absolutely guarantee that
it will be nothing original, and it will be something that you already
know, and something that you should be talking about matter-of-factly
every day. We're human beings. This means that we are all damaged, and
we are all brilliant, and we are all flawed, and these things mean
that we are all wholly normal.
The bottom line is that it all comes down to communication. We're
only as melancholy as our secrets make us. If there are no secrets,
there is no place for The Uneasiness to take root.
Go out there and have a big heart today.
Forward.
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