Thursday, June 14, 2012

Into the Fray

I have lots of thoughts and i'm lousy at putting them into words.  

Death is the craziest thing.  The one thing that we can't ignore, that turns all of us to ash, that we try to ignore but we can't ignore.

Beautiful things come out of dust, out of nowhere, out of the womb, out of heaven and the world with all its glory and all its terror.

There is something very important and profound about the thing we call love.  No one can quite figure it out but it is powerful.

There is something amazing that happens when people get shaken up.  When their world gets completely destroyed and they have to reconstruct everything they know.  They have to ask what and who it is that they truly love, what they care about, what claws its way inside of their restless, despairing heart and ignites that fire that we always talk about but don't understand.

They have to ask what it means to be alive, what it means to die, and why the world is the way it is.

Love seems to be the one thing above all else that keeps people going, that gives them a reason to live.

I kind of like it when things stop being so pretty and proper and fun and turn nasty, ugly, real, serious, and important.   Part of why i like the music that i do.

Once more into the fray...

Into the last good fight i'll ever know.

To live and die on this day...

To live and die on this day...




So who do you love, and why are you alive?

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