Raucous Calls

"Hugin and Munin fly each day
over the spacious earth.
I fear for Hugin, that he come not back,
yet more anxious am I for Munin"

-Elder Edda - Benjamin Thorpe Translation

 

Thought and Memory, two crows coming and going. Odin was worried about Alzheimer's more than run-of-the-mill dementia; guess he had given it some consideration while hangin' on that tree.

Lately life has been bangin' away at me with more than it's customary zeal for breaking the status quo. As a stone-cold Erisian from way back, s'no surprise. The latest round has been harder than most though. Moments of schism are deeply affective; when you realize viscerally that you don’t love/want something you were devoted to any more, and maybe never did. Liberating, but when you look at the cost of the misjudgment, and watch the object of your wasted time spinning away on down its wide and indiscriminate destruction path, it’s a little sad.

Sad doesn't trump stupid though. Being at odds with change is...well...stupid. Mutaphobes suck, mutaphiles rule and all that. It's not that consistent order is negative; sort of need it for cool stuff like peace, molecular cohesion, and a decent stir-fry; but there's a time and place for everything. The things that we are are not the things that we were. Note: I wrote something here that was not positive, but when I finished it there was no feeling in it so I zeroed it as just an echo. 

Chi'ing the Ku* a little today, lost time tastes like Tab.

* There is a Chinese maxim: "Eat Bitter or "Eating Bitterness", known as Chi Ku. It is a Chinese phrase for enduring hardship. Or as Occidentals would say: "Grin and Bear It." Other references are: “Keep on Truckin”, “Hang In There”, “Stick It Out”, “Suck It Up”, etc., all to mean to endure something unpleasant in good humor. Or to continue despite difficulties in a general phrase of encouragement meaning to stay focused. In relation to, quoted by; “If you're going through hell, keep going.”-Winston Churchill. /  “We acquire the strength we have overcome.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson. / “I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.”-Jewish Proverb. / “There is no success without hardship.”-Sophocles