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Re: moth
hello, all!
welcome home, jeni. =)
all of this discussion about "moth" by jeni and mark caused me to go back to
look at the lyrics (it's one of those songs i don't know very well yet), and
now i'm thinking all kinds of things about the necessity of painful
sacrifice in order to ultimately achieve peace and hope:
"isaac's knife can cut away all the poisoned yesterdays and the anger
ease it down into the ocean let it drown
as far as east is from the west I let you go
I know it's best
and my answer to the years of strife is the way I choose to live my life
[snip]
it isn't suffering you fear but loss"
these words have been pretty real in my life for awhile--there are so many
things that we cling to, refusing to loosen our grip on... as the song seems
to imply, it 's not the actual process of letting go that frightens me, but
the actual loss of things that only serve to poison my spirit, whether those
things be relationships, values, or even material possessions... but
there's also an element of hope--"my answer...is the way i choose to live my
life..." there is intense empowerment in knowing that we can consciously
*choose* to embrace sacrifice in order to finally reach a point of true
freedom.
so i know that this really doesn't have much to do with what jeni and mark
had to say, but they've inspired me. =)
>You know, I think what's cools about interpretation is
>that a song could mean something totally different to
>many people (and I don't think our ideas are totally
>different, Mark), and still be valid and contextually
>based. Who knows what people mean EXACTLY when they
>write things. If Linford and Karin wrote so that we
>could understand without thinking much, we probably
>wouldn't like it much.
precisely. and if all of you on this list didn't challenge me to think (at
least occasionally), i wouldn't be here.
>You know, I am crying buckets over not being able to
>afford the Calvin college faith and writing
my tears are blending with yours', jeni...not only is anne lamott absolutely
wise and incredible and honest and funny, but chaim potok is going to be
there, too!
what a lovely sunday...
where are the rest of you? i know we have a number of great thinkers out
there.
speak.
love,
amyjoy
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