one thing that is missing that i find missing that humans are suffering from that humans in the new world in the modern world, humans like me, due to migration, due to becoming economic refugees, due to seeing glimmer and shimmer...is community, meaningful community...everyone is a commodity, everything is private, every part of you at once dismembered and together...parts, parts of a whole...the whole is left...f the whole is the modern mans attitude...
this is missing and this is causing hurt and isolation and frequent trips to the bar and to the pusherman and the crystal meth for those who live in houses and weed for people in buildings cause it's something that can go around in community in ceremony...
what are things we can do together that last more than a night, more than a few dates, more than this moment?
one thing about religion, my friend herme recently told me, is that it draws people together, it keeps them in community, so even though you and i share all these views on life, even though we have so much of the venn diagram on the side of similarity - grew up in same city, both male, both colored, both critical of the apparatus, both educators - we also only saw each other after years of not, due to random circumstance.
in the absence of random, in the absence of institutions that meld, we seek solace at bars, cafes, cheers, where people will know our name so long as they are still employed by the owner, so long as there is business, so long as we don't get pushed out from soaring rent, so long as we have enough to pay for another drink, so long as we stick to being intoxicated and caffeinated...
building meaningful community means all of us, means humility, means more than a bubble, means living in alignment with the One, means a community in worship...
...the prophet tells us to live life like a traveler with your grave right besides you...
understanding the grave, seeing myself in it, even as i sit in this cafe, after kicking it with the barrista i've known for a couple years, i know that my work is now, that it is in the interactions, it is in the experience, it is in how i can be of service...
one thing? poetry cafe with herbs...
this is missing and this is causing hurt and isolation and frequent trips to the bar and to the pusherman and the crystal meth for those who live in houses and weed for people in buildings cause it's something that can go around in community in ceremony...
what are things we can do together that last more than a night, more than a few dates, more than this moment?
one thing about religion, my friend herme recently told me, is that it draws people together, it keeps them in community, so even though you and i share all these views on life, even though we have so much of the venn diagram on the side of similarity - grew up in same city, both male, both colored, both critical of the apparatus, both educators - we also only saw each other after years of not, due to random circumstance.
in the absence of random, in the absence of institutions that meld, we seek solace at bars, cafes, cheers, where people will know our name so long as they are still employed by the owner, so long as there is business, so long as we don't get pushed out from soaring rent, so long as we have enough to pay for another drink, so long as we stick to being intoxicated and caffeinated...
building meaningful community means all of us, means humility, means more than a bubble, means living in alignment with the One, means a community in worship...
...the prophet tells us to live life like a traveler with your grave right besides you...
understanding the grave, seeing myself in it, even as i sit in this cafe, after kicking it with the barrista i've known for a couple years, i know that my work is now, that it is in the interactions, it is in the experience, it is in how i can be of service...
one thing? poetry cafe with herbs...
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