• On hope

  • Apr 6 2022
  • Duración: 9 m
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On hope

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  • Hope is one of my favorite words in the English language. (And Hope is also its own language!) I cling to both… The word “Hope” and the Hope language. I sing to it! Hope is that springtime temperature rise, sublimating the previous winter’s oh-how-cliché, dry, jaded ice; that springtime temperature rise moisturizing and soothing my cracked lips… Indeed, hope has a tropical quality. Hope causes the palm-trees to hula dance. Hope places the glow in the turquoise, “crystal clear” oceanwaters. Yes, because Hope is the sun and every star like it. Not only providing light but also creating life and meaning, and daydreaming, and sleepdreaming. Don’t be deceived! by the darkness and the cold. “Things are not always what they seem.” Look to the streetlights. Then you might see Hope’s sacredness snowing divinity rainbows upon which the dreamy persistent, resilient sunflower prayers of near infinity grow. Hm, is that an overdose of unbelievable figurative, imagistic language? Then again, magical realism is all the rage these days. Certain shades of magical realism radiate waves of hope, sort of like 19th century romanticism, giving the most abstract, allegedly low impact aspects of imagination their own outer space imaginations with imaginary space station cafes (oh yes, space coffee is great when you need to caffeinate, the best!), winery lounges open for tastings and relaxation, (just please don’t mix your uppers and your downers — it’s dangerous!)… …these abstract outer space imaginations grow things of mystifying beauty, thus they’re great for inspiration, creating art… no matter what your trade is! They take you on spiritual vacations! I’ve been saving up for one! Three decades of loose change! Shaking my piggy banks like they’re tambourines, to the rhythms of “Imagine,” by John Lennon and “Californication” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Anthony Kiedis’s rhythms remind me that it’s not just what you say but how you say it. There I go again with another cliché! Keep em’ coming. Then again, some so-called cliches are actually nearly timeless and hopeful sayings… they stay around, like the Earth, …if we don’t shoot heroin into its dirt and pollute the water and the air. Yeah, so I think so-called cliches can serve like single words so long as you surround them with exotic birds — the exotic qualities are immersed in the context of personalized reflections on striving, with Hope, for universals. Hope believes in and espouses universals! Maybe that’s why Proust’s In Search of Lost Time seems, to me, so hopeful and absolutely sublime. Has almost all I could ask of art and literature except for rhyme. Hope is 2008. “Hope and change” President Obama all the way! It was a time to celebrate. Hope is a holiday! Hope is the patience while we were waiting in pain but not in vain (!) (thank fate’s grace!) — for nearly a year — for the Covid vaccinations Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna would eventually make. Hope is universal healthcare, which yes, the richest, “the one percent” should pay for. Some critics might say it’s not fair to punish and enslave them for the success they achieved. But let’s face it, at the end of the day it was their lucky fate, the right DNA, the right time at the right place, the right friends with the right connections. It doesn’t have to be quite that way. We can make society and nature a little fairer by sharing resources — water, knowledge and money. Hope knows it can most likely be done! Hope is hot and sexy! Look at Hope’s flexibility! Winning gold medals at the summer and winter Olympics. Then again, hope feels the Brail utterance of the gold medals and wins, inherent in every zeptosecond of existence. That’s hope’s most fundamental principle. Hope breaks bad habits, like sucking on your thumb, drinking alcohol till your numb, fucking people you don’t really want;...
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