Tuesday, November 10, 2009

I'm aghast I haven't updated this for so long. Moods change. Not in the same mood. Cannot articulate current mood. Probably has to do with the aging process. However, recent visit to parents' abode indicates that I, myself, am not OLD yet.

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Anonymous said...: You'll always be young at heart Marylyn!; 5/04/2010 9:17 PM

Missing Marylyn

This blog is the place for what I'm missing in myself; it's an invitation. Build it and I will come? I will say nothing objectively new here, show no photograph that doesn't resemble one someone's already taken, but it may be new to me. The medium is (a big part of) the message. Presence on the internet may create an apparition within the soul, whose eyes are given anew by the world each day. (I don't even believe in a "soul," really, so there ya go; problematic enterprise from the start.)

A Control Theory of Attachment Behavior

Every living being has been
early, incomplete
and non-functional.
Completion is,
in a sense, arbitrary--
The same archetypal energy
in endless fragmentation.

The heart is
the heart of things.
Doubts, blame and excuses,
a wide range of visual stimuli,
love thrown into bias by lust--
eventually they must part.

You will not be shocked
by the change.
Finery and money become
more attractive,
essentially luminous
and knowing,
to keep blood sugar
at a constant level.
The specificity of
the other animal
cherishes most
those who feed us.

In the vicinity of the mother,
categories of meaning overlap.
Placed with other monkeys,
we cease crying
and are content.

M. Coffey, May 2008

Composed of "found" lines from: "How to Expand Love" by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, "Zen and the Art of Making a Living" by Laurence Boldt, and "Attachment" by John Bowlby

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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