recovery– a beginning . . . from a web page to a blog . . .

“from a whisper to a scream . . .” elvis costello

thoughts . . . etc . . .

traveling amongst the years . . .

we are all as alice after chasing the white rabbit, awakening as infants after falling through the rabbit hole . . . forever trying to comprehend the absurdities of man . . . i’m late, i’m late . . . .

“don’t believe in yourself, don’t deceive with belief, knowledge comes with death’s release. i’m not a prophet or a stone-age man, just a mortal with the potential of a superman; i’m living on. tethered to the logic of homo-sapien, can’t take my eyes from the great salvation of bullshit faith . . . . ” david bowie

and so on . . .

what can (will) i tell you about myself? well . . . i am a forty-six year old male and i am married to a beautiful woman named kathleen– kathleen and i live on a small hobby farm in upstate new york– besides doing the work thing, we occupy ourselves by making chimes, bird houses, and in general, pursuing any activities which are productive and constructive to our immediate environment– i am a writer of poetry and prose, philosopher of default, and an occasional minstrel of my own compositions– residing in upstate new york, yet forever a child of the ocean from the providence plantation–

a lot has changed since i have worked on this page (scratch that) blog– “september 11th” hit kinda hard within the state of new york and i have spent the time since doing some major flip-flopping– of course that must mean that i am a liberal, yup, i guess i have to confess to that– personally i think it just means that i am able to think and that i am able to re-evaluate my own beliefs and change them as i see fit without worrying about what some other flag-waving asshole thinks– one nice thing that i have always noticed about liberal folk is that they not only have intelligence . . . they use it too–

i have never been pro-war but after the 11th i found myself quite hawkish and i felt that the united states had the right to tear up the rest of the world to get osama-bin-laden– however, our wonderful king got distracted somewhere along the way and decided to settle old family grudges and add to our oil supply– he obviously wasn’t that concerned about the families that lost people in the attacks and he obviously doesn’t have any problem forgetting about the americans that jumped to their deaths from the towers– looking back at the succession of events since the 11th i would not be surprized to learn that king george was also involved with the 11th or at least aware that something major was going to take place– i believe that he planned to use a major attack on the USA as an excuse to attack IRAQ– now, i can only add my voice to others that oppose the war and hope that king george is brought up on war crimes and impeached–

i DO support our troops in IRAQ, yet i am sick to death of the endless magnetic yellow ribbons– most appear to have been slapped on because it was the thing to do and i can’t help but notice how they appear to have faded as they and the troops are so easily forgotten, replaced by thoughts of michael jackson, brad and jen, tom and katie and the rest of the crap that people distract themselves with– i also have an increasingly hard time with the way our troops are being portrayed for some of the things that they are doing– although i don’t condone abuse of prisoners etc., i feel that these young men and women have been trained to follow orders and it is the higher commanders which should be answering to charges– take it all the way up to rumsfeld and bush and slap their asses in jail–

in short, i DO support the troops– let’s bring the kids home before anymore die, lose an arm or a leg or maybe their minds–

peace,

john bourne harbour