Watching Shadows On The Wall

people say i'm lazy
dreaming my life away
they give me
all kinda of advice
designed to enlighten me
when i tell them
that i'm doing fine
watching shadows on the wall
"don't you miss the big time, boy?
you're no longer on the ball"
i'm just sitting here
watching the wheels
go round and round
i really love
to watch them roll
no longer riding
on the merry-go-round
i just had to let it go
--john lennon*
(from watching the wheels )
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Ives and Wheeler Points with Darwin Plateau
Wallace McRae with Paul Zarzyski: "Reincarnation"
cacti outside Turquoise Canyon
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The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew. It passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal. It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead. Men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals, and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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*thirty years gone today