More (quiet) inspirations was Re[2]: [at-l] Events today

[tmcginnis@ucclan.state.in.us (Thomas McGinnis)]

     OK, just to keep it all in one spot, here goes.
     
     Got inspiration this morning from watching Lagunatic's "Trail Magic" 
     AT video while I dressed for work. Lot's of neat passages in 
     there......Well, that and little hints and flavors from at-l posties 
     today leaves me with:
     
     
     There is a road, no simple highway
     between the dawn and the dark of night
     and if you go, no one may follow:
     That path is for your steps alone.
     
     (Ripple, by Robert Hunter, 1970)
     
     
     And as well, from a Nietzsche preface:
     
     For he who proceeds on his own path in this fashion 
     encounters no one: this is inherent in "proceeding on one's 
     own path." No one comes along to help him: all perils, 
     accidents, malice and bad weather which assail him he has to 
     tackle by himself. For his path is his alone.
     
     
     And to reinstall part of the quote in Datto's original post:
     
     When you start going public with your calling, you'll begin 
     hearing people's rash opinions about it. 'You shall know the 
     truth,' Flannery O'Connor once said, 'and it shall make you 
     odd.'"
     
     
     
     Have a grateful day, Y'all.
     Sloetoe
     
     (Once in a while you get shown the light --
     in the strangest of places if you look at right.)


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Subject: Re: [at-l] Events today
Author:  Thomas McGinnis at UCCLAN
Date:    10/20/99 6:05 PM

     OK, just one more post:

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Subject: [at-l] Events today
Author:  Datto <datto994@yahoo.com> at ima
Date:    10/19/99 11:50 AM

I picked up the text where I had left off, which said,

    "To say yes to a calling is to move toward it, and
to move toward it is to confront the paradoxical
universe. We move toward light and are beset by
shadows, move toward wholeness and are pried apart,
reach for a dream and are rudely awakened. When we set
foot on alien turf, some part of us senses danger and
leaps to the defense. While one foot moves forward
with surety, the other catches on a root like a lasso.


     Which reminds me terribly of
          
     
     Round and round The Wheel goes round
     It won't speed up and it can't slow down
     You can't go back and you can't stand still:
     If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will!
     
     (The Wheel, by Jerry Garcia, circa 1976?)
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