Waking up
Posted on 05 June 2010
The sun is out up here finally in Seattle. So much rain. Something so beautiful about the various shades of grey when it’s overcast, when it rains, but there’s no question that the sun lifts something in one’s heart. I’ve had such a hard time writing anything here for the Blog since I’ve been so swamped prepping GrassRoots, which has been a delightful experience all and all. And I don’t really have much time now — a final rewrite on the script here in Cafe Vita, best coffee I’ve had almost anywhere and great music drifting and even bags of coffee a few feet away from me. They roast their own coffee here. It couldn’t really feel much better right now and yet…and yet…I can’t help sit here, in the midst of this small real world that is Capital Hill in Seattle – the sun, the shimmering still wet streets…I can’t help feeling that – yes, don’t forget – the ocean is turning blacker. BP can spin it. They can break up their company and leave “the American manager VP” to oversee the “damage” so their CEO (such a lovely, hip English fellow, a bit like an even more debonaire Tony Blair). And Obama and his very smart, ambitious folks can spin it too. Spin away, give speeches, gather for larger meaningful meanings. But you can’t spin away the blackness that spreads like something even worse than cancer. You can’t spin away the fish, little baby creatures on the brain chain, swimming innocently into the blackness. You can’t spin away the black rocks, birds, seaweed, ocean floor. Black. What a color. Black. And it keeps spreading, even as the sun rises so beautifully this morning up here in clean, serene Seattle…
5 responses to Waking up
I recently returned from India where there is a place called Subramanya’s Well. It’s actually a spring and the interesting thing about it is, you can draw forth only a cup of water at a time. As you draw forth a cup, the spring replaces it, keeping it ready for the next person.
That seems like such a great ecological metaphor for all the globe to consider. It presents an image of sustainability and at the same time, offers up a picture of the connection between people and nature, a link which can nourish us spiritually as well as physically.
As a westerner, it strikes me that there are many such metaphors, many such places in other parts of the world, such as India, which can wake us up and feed us. Maybe drawing on these wells can help wake us up to better practises, at a time when so many of our own wells seem to have run dry–or to have spilled out wastefully in the wrong places.
Things like the blackening ocean sometimes make me wonder if the human brain is really part of evolution. If it is, here we have an example of an animal’s “thoughts” (us as animals seeking new energy sources) having the ability to screw-up things for other species, Something intangible becomes subject to the laws of “survival of the fittest”. Whatever life form that might feed on oil (and have its own new thoughts) will take over for a while.
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Glad to see you are liking Seattle… Are you still scouting locations for filming? check out Ballard and the Lighthouse coffee shop in Fremont…
Do you need any extras?
Have Fun!!
Yo! Stephen! Welcome to the Emerald city! Indeed, cafe Vita serves a really good coffee, I agree.
If you’re ever in Ballard check out Cupcake Royale, they also have really good coffee and the best cupcakes on the planet.
I moved back to Seattle in 2008 after having lived in Astoria Oregon since about 1994, eventually hope to transfer to Olympia or peninsula when an opportunity arises, now that my daughter Stella has graduated and is more or less attempting to live on her own….
Please shoot me an email if you’ve got the time, my sister has inquired as to whether there is any need for extras in your film, her sons would be extremely good candidates if so. She’d like to contact you…
Amazing, here we still all are, living and learning eh?
Really enjoy your poetry, check out studio eight if you like, your poetry would be well appreciated there for sure.
Again, welcome to Seattle, hope all goes well with your film, I think it will, it’s an interesting venture for sure.
Peace!
Theda/Dede Spracklin
thedagirl@msn.com
Yo! Stephen! Welcome to the Emerald city! Indeed, cafe Vita serves a really good coffee, I agree.
If you’re ever in Ballard check out Cupcake Royale, they also have really good coffee and the best cupcakes on the planet.
I moved back to Seattle in 2008 after having lived in Astoria Oregon since about 1994, eventually hope to transfer to Olympia or peninsula when an opportunity arises, now that my daughter Stella has graduated and is more or less attempting to live on her own….
Please shoot me an email if you’ve got the time, my sister has inquired as to whether there is any need for extras in your film, her sons would be extremely good candidates if so. She’d like to contact you…
Amazing, here we still all are, living and learning eh?
Really enjoy your poetry, check out studio eight if you like, your poetry would be well appreciated there for sure.
Again, welcome to Seattle, hope all goes well with your film, I think it will, it’s an interesting venture for sure.
Peace!
Theda/Dede Spracklin
thedagirl@msn.com