PROJECTAPOLOGY IS GOING HERE:
Day: June 10, 2016
Man rescues dolphin in Namibia
What a beautiful specimen.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1298022/Man-rescues-benguela-dolphin-stranded-beach.html
“Time to get off my ass again…”
I am sitting on a rock in the forest when a stranger approaches:
“Imagine that you are here and that I’m here
and that we can do anything that we can dream of,” she starts.
Elaborating,
she starts to check off a list of being that floats conveniently to the fore,
like a powerpoint in the sky:
“In dreaming or in waking:
I am not currently a refugee,
nor am I currently bound by famine with very few options – check.”
I am not currently detained against my will – check;
I am not currently homeless, though this may be a deficit as relates my degree of comfort – check;
I have my speaking voice and can communicate with others [this may be a deficit too] –
even in languages I don’t know, with google translate – check;
I have been educated, able to think critically and to solve problems creatively;
I have my limbs and they work;
I am not terminally ill (well I am, yet seem currently to be in good health);
I am crippled by past trauma yet have the ability, will and resources to heal these wounds – check.”
She stops and looks at me with an earnestness that could spontaneously cure a hardened alcoholic of denial:
“Now fuck off and start being grateful for everything you have and start using what you have been given to create change in the world.”