[MD] Ever redefining self

[Heather Perella]

Hello,

     What's there to understand?  What's there to
know?  It could all begin with a scenario like this. 
If you know yourself, then you may not think of
others.  If your Self is larger than and beyond your
skin, then how far does it go and is your ego trying
to expand, too?  So with these questions I throw this
all away and hear a cicada in the summer and realize
that's the same sound I heard last summer and the
summer before that.  This feeling comes over me.
     Night time comes and I hear this sound no more. 
Soon, in some months, the weather will cool and the
cicada will be gone.  The quietness, the infinite with
all these dreams reaching into this endless space (not
time-space), with no boundaries to stop these dreams,
to give these dreams shape, and thus, the dreams
expand with no edges stopping them.  The dreams
themselves, full of colors and sounds, edges and
boundaries, and then the sun rises in the morning, the
clouds in the sky yesterday are not here today.  The
edges and boundaries of this dreaming venture forth
and are crushed, over and over again, crushed.  This
murdering blow that pounds and destroys - and to think
it is me surviving this - I laugh!
     This was today's experience on the back porch. 
What would happen if it stormed?  I laugh inside.  
     I find this kin to what Joseph Campbell called
the first primal energy, which is 'life eating
itself'.

Some everyday living, in the hills on a summer's day,
SA  

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