by Doris | May 20, 2008
Today Turtle and I commenced on day 2 of driving the Sprinter back to Atlanta from Seattle. I fell asleep in the passenger seat after a satisfying breakfast in Bozeman, MT and was woken up by my disgruntled road manager who was like, "D, I've been behind this cavalcade of tour buses and cars for the past 20 minutes and I can't pass them! I'm so frustrated because they keep slowing down and speeding up." The cavalcade was in the right lane and there were cop cars in front and in back driving in the left lane, so you weren't permitted to pass. And, as you know, time and speed are of the essence when you are trying to get somewhere. Turtle was getting really irritated and finally was like, "Who do they think they are, the President?! I don't care if it's the Pope!" And then we suddenly realized that Obama was scheduled to speak in Bozeman that night and that we were literally driving behind him! (He did a town hall meeting in Billings, where we were headed.) We laughed our asses off--what are the chances?
by ty | May 17, 2008
We're up here in Bellingham, WA, about to head to Seattle for the last show of the tour, and last night I had this dream that I was looking at the cosmos, out into vast space, the light years upon light years of distances in the star-filled galaxy, and I thought, 'this is not what we think it is...we will realize that what we've seen as untravelable, inconceivable distances were never physical distances of any kind..." But rather, psychological and psychic distances, completely accessible, right here. Like something we've been able to touch all along, but we've been framing it in the wrong terms, as outer instead of inner space. That maybe these unreachable places are frontiers of our own, barely touched-upon, inner realities.
I woke up thinking, 'well, we can only perceive through our senses but we all intuit metaphor and an aliveness beyond the apparent solidity of things...so maybe it's possible or even likely that the universe is not at all what we think it is.'
then i read in the ny times (my guilty pleasure) that a letter of einstein's about god and science just sold for $404,000. the article says:
Trying to distinguish between a personal God and a more cosmic force, Einstein described himself as an “agnostic” and “not an atheist"...
Einstein said, “[Atheists] are creatures who — in their grudge against the traditional ‘opium for the people’ — cannot bear the music of the spheres..."
"[It] is too vast for our limited minds.”
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by Toller, January 25, 2007
Aw Nate, i hope you are ok!