We’re all here and we’re all queer… one way or another.
The song which is working its way through my psyche’s ears at the moment, which is a part of the soundtrack of my mind, is Far From Any Road by The Handsome Family.
From the dusty mesa
Her looming shadow grows
Hidden in the branches
Of the poison creosote
She twines her spines up slowly
Towards the boiling sun
And when I touched her skin
My fingers ran with blood
In the hushing dusk
Under a swollen silver moon
I came walking with the wind
To watch the cactus bloom
A strange hunger haunted me
The looming shadows danced
I fell down to the thorny brush
And felt a trembling hand
When the last light warms the rocks
And the rattlesnakes unfold
Mountain cats will come
To drag away your bones
Then rise with me forever
Across the silent sands
And the stars will be your eyes
And the wind will be my hands
If it is familiar to you… it’s from the soundtrack of the TV series True Detective. Or you’re more musically in the know than I am, which is fairly easy as I don’t listen to music that often.
A series which I only half watched as my mind was far from the road of watching TV and more on the road of letting things play in the background while I explored my own inner paths… sometimes inspired by what I half watched and let enter my conscious mind which then led me wherever it led.
We’re all here and we’re all queer… one way or another.
This scene, captured by a fan of the show, was of particular interest to me:
I can relate to it… from both sides.
We’re all here and we’re all queer… one way or another.
Sometimes I know what’s on my mind is too heavy and abstruse for anyone else to handle… but they asked and I felt like indulging their curiosity with a bit of – are you sure you want to know?
Sometimes my curiosity is met with me wishing I hadn’t asked and been so insistent about wanting to know, because someone else’s abstruseness is too heavy for me to handle.
We learn and learn some more, whether we ever really learn, or whether what we learn sinks in, or… you know… sometimes we just do what we do, regret it, or maybe don’t regret it but… it serves a purpose of some sort anyway.
Happy Saturn Day… don’t get so caught up in the restrictions in your life that you lose sight of what opens up when something else closes.
Or something like that.
We’re all here and we’re all queer… one way or another.
That’s being human for you and living, experiencing this human life.
An Upturned Soul 
Very taoist way of thinking, i do agree, when there is no message, it’s very powerful.Thank you.
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TY 🙂
Confucius say… whatever people want him to say, but what did he actually say?
The message is whatever we want it to be, including nothing at all and sometimes nothing at all is the most compelling message.
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At least we’re out of Mercury. Yowza.
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We talkin’ ’bout Mercury in astrology which totters backwards and forwards in an optical illusion kind of way and which astro-buffs blame for communication snafus, or hump (humpty-dumpty) day also known as Mercury day (Mercredi, Mercoledi, or Wotan’s day), or that fascinating substance which gathers in blobs that moves around all quickly-like, which measures temperature and which caused cats to dance in Minamata due to humans being typically human. Yowza indeed! 😀
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Point well taken. I am totally caught up in what door has been closed – or rather where I perceive myself shut out of
Btw, I really liked True Detective. I sat down and watched the whole lot of them at once
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I think we all do that, focus on the door which is closed and is shutting us out, because it is known and seen, whereas what lies ahead and beyond is unknown and unseen and much harder to deal with and no matter how hard dealing with a closed door is… it still appears more tangible than the open doors through which we’ve never been.
I enjoyed True Detective too, even though I only half watched it and missed the last episode. It was rich with the brilliance of humans and other things 🙂
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