Friday, December 12, 2003
When the Student Is Ready, The Master Appears
Watched Catch Me If You Can tonight. Made we want to start writing bad cheques.
But then I do enough of that already.
Funny how people will take you at face value like that. Wear the uniform and no-one looks twice.
A friend who did graffiti understood this well. Not run-of-the mill "Kilroy was here" sort of graffiti, really interesting prints that he'd wheat-paste in out-of-the-way spots.
"Always wear coveralls," he told me, "And if anyone looks at you funny, just start scraping off the last poster you put up."
Who's going to bother the janitor? There are so many people in this world that we don't see. If you can convince someone that you're one of them, then you're practically invisible.
How many people and things in your life do you see? How many do you pass over?
I'm still amazed by songs that I've been listening to for five years, some twist of lyric or harmonic shift grabs my ear and my brain reorganizes itself around it. That chord progression has been the same since I first heard the song. Only my understanding of it has changed.
Recently I had the understanding that the whole of the universe is like this. We can look as deep as we want into any one thing. And it never ends. It always is just as it is, at every level for always. It's just sitting there waiting for us to make up a question.
The universe in a blade of grass.
-Trevor
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But then I do enough of that already.
Funny how people will take you at face value like that. Wear the uniform and no-one looks twice.
A friend who did graffiti understood this well. Not run-of-the mill "Kilroy was here" sort of graffiti, really interesting prints that he'd wheat-paste in out-of-the-way spots.
"Always wear coveralls," he told me, "And if anyone looks at you funny, just start scraping off the last poster you put up."
Who's going to bother the janitor? There are so many people in this world that we don't see. If you can convince someone that you're one of them, then you're practically invisible.
How many people and things in your life do you see? How many do you pass over?
I'm still amazed by songs that I've been listening to for five years, some twist of lyric or harmonic shift grabs my ear and my brain reorganizes itself around it. That chord progression has been the same since I first heard the song. Only my understanding of it has changed.
Recently I had the understanding that the whole of the universe is like this. We can look as deep as we want into any one thing. And it never ends. It always is just as it is, at every level for always. It's just sitting there waiting for us to make up a question.
The universe in a blade of grass.
-Trevor
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