![]() On my first read of these poems, I found them "too intelligent," with too many allusions to things that ordinary people don't know.īut as I began to reread, new levels opened to me. The Bronx, the dust bowl of Kansas, even classic movies like The Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Country Girl that I've never seen. These were far removed, and thick with people, places, and things I don't really know. I just finished Paul Mariani's The Great Wheel, and I found his poems to be very close to my own experience. And the strangeness comes from the fact that so many of these poems are not me. There's the Armless, Legless Wonder, the usher at a local theater who doubles as a seminary student, college kids using Corona's to ponder mathematics and God, barbers, crying piano players in Nordstroms, Hart Crane, working men, classic movies, bank tellers, babies being breastfed in convenience stores. These poems halted me, left me unsure, head swimming in their strangeness. Leaks in - halting, unsure, a bit like mourners I had been excited to pick up some of his work and find out what it was like.Īnd what was it like? Well, I think this quote from "Freida Pushnik," one of the opening poems about the Armless, Legless Wonder who toured with Ripley's Believe It or Not. Though I've not read any of his previous work, I was aware of him through Image Journal. When I picked it up, I was pleased to see it was by B.H. But this month they set up a display in honor of the "holiday," and Usher caught my eye with it's beautiful cover image. ![]() Our local public library has a decent collection of poetry, I've picked up Thomas Lux and Anna Kamienska from their shelves along with the expected classics and poet laureates. From changing our minds to changing our brains to changing our societies to solving global problems, we’re ushering in a completely different future for the planet.National Poetry Month affords me the opportunity to see and hear about poetry in places I normally don't. As we as a species jump to the next level of flourishing, we are unlocking creative potential the world has never known before. This is the most exciting time in all of history to be alive. Just as the Renaissance of the 1300s changed art, law, education, politics, religion, agriculture, science, and every other facet of human existence, the compassion produced by Bliss Brain transforms the material reality in which we live. It’s contributing to Jump Time in collective planetary evolution. This isn’t simply helping us feel better as individuals. Bliss Brain is a wonderful-feeling state, but when practiced consistently, it leads to trait change, as neural pathways are repatterned in much healthier ways. ![]() A critical mass of people is using the human superpower-unique in evolutionary history-to reshape the tissue of their own brains. We’re leaving behind the standards of behavior that defined “normal” in the last century. ![]() At a Gates Foundation conference, former US president Barack Obama declared, “If you had to choose one moment in history in which to be born, and you didn’t know in advance whether you were going to be male or female, which country you were going to be from, what your status was, you’d choose right now.” He observes that the world has never been “healthier, or wealthier, or better educated, or in many ways more tolerant, or less violent, than it is today.” As a species, we’re moving far beyond the survival mentality of Caveman Brain. ![]()
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