I’ve heard the term “Golden Dawn” used a lot in San Antonio. Not where I’m at – Seattle. I thought about that term as I watched a rosy-fingered dawn awake while I was at Austin’s airport.
I did show up at the airport barefoot, as is my current summer travel style. Passed through security then pull out some sandals. (Piper Sandals, handmade in San Antonio.) Finished dressing after getting through security.
Another lone barefoot, Hawaiian shirt wearing, reeking of patchouli person afloat in a sea of suits.
Always try to make the days more surreal, whenever and wherever I am.
“You participate in society by your existence, Then participate in its life through your actions — all of your actions. Any action not directed toward a social end (directly or indirectly) is a disturbance to your life, an obstacle to wholeness, a source of dissension.”
(Marcus Aurelius – Meditations – Book Nine, #23)
Writers & Poets dot org? (Note to self; self, what was that link for?)
Notes from the back of an air-sick bag:
Reading Alubrquerque and then looking at the window of the plane and seeing the Sandia Crest, the sprawling ‘burbs creeping up its flank.
Lubbock – Las Vegas – Seattle. I’ll be back in Vegas in a little while. I hope.
“Flying over the hump,” not in its original meaning, but as a point, referring to winging back and forth across the western United States, especially if it means getting over the Rocky Mountains.
Opera notes:
Rather good show, near as I could tell. “All those Opera World people, you know.”
No, I don’t. doubt I will, either.
Wotan was good. “Secular Humanism – the downfall of the opera.”
Tomorrow night, it’s Johnny Cash Night – like the main character in Die Walkurie? He fell into a ring of fire.
But Sister had T-shirts made up, and we’re all supposed to wear them – to the opera.
One of my cousins had the best commentary, “Oh no, Siegfried isn’t the best, see, Brunhilda is Valkyrie and then she’s just a house wife? I don’t think so.”
