Synergy is such a stupid word. Not all mistakes are negative and not all hand holding is miracle work. We learn by our mistakes. October. 1992. DUI. St. Croix County Slammer. Nearly lost the scholarship. Never before had I celebrated Easter break-I never really did celebrate Easter. Three years away from home, living like a vagabond, and there I was-Easter Dinner with the family in March 1993. Celebrating a new Driver's License. A new appreciation? No. My aunt pulled me
aside. "Every man needs a chain," she said as she gave me a late birthday present. Inside-a gold necklace. Men in my clan don't wear necklaces. "Every man needs a chain," she said. I didn't know what she meant until she died a few weeks later. Every man is a danger to himself. Trade in the hand cuffs and the stupidity for the respectable version. Every man does need a chain, a link back to the earth- something solid. Gold, wire, steel. It doesn't matter. The final link to earth is rotten and holds no hope.
jdw
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It takes me a while to process things, but the last lines here seem wrong to me now. Our ties to earth are not rotten. We are animals that make monuments, that use stone and metal for many tasks. The final task of earth is to show that we did not die without: without family, connections to people and the earth. While it seems that we can be alone or create alone-ness, that is a construct, a disease of the brain only now experienced in this time.
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