[MD] Uncertainty

Sun Sep 13 20:07:26 PDT 2009

Marsha,
Coming from an anarchisitic introvert it means all the more to me.  Thanks.

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:42 PM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:

> John,
>
>
> Yes, goodie, it's magical, but tell me again why the sky is blue, Daddy?
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> I have a spider tattooed on the back of my neck.  It is there to weave the
> thread of communication.  I had always thought it was to sing Her song, but
> surely it must be to hear the woven threads of others, like your beautiful
> little stories.  Thank you.
>
>
> Marsha
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:moq_discuss-bounces at lists.moqtalk.org] On Behalf Of John Carl
> Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 2:56 PM
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Subject: Re: [MD] Uncertainty
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:26 PM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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> >
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> > I like spiders...
> >
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> >
>
> Ok that reminds me of a story.  A story with a moment hanging by a thread
> and the thread was a spider's web tendril, woven by a damaged spider.
>  Damaged but alive.
>
> The spider's plight was witnessed by a little girl, with her dad, at the
> dump.
>
> I guess I'm gonna tell you the story because it's been in my head to give
> to
> you.  I'd like to plop the book it comes from in front of you and make you
> read it for yourself in the author's own excellent words.  But I can't do
> that.  All I can do with your eyeballs is try and lure them onward with
> words.
>
> so sit down and shut up.  You wanna hear the story or not?  It's called,
> The
> Garbage Man's Daughter.
>
> The story as I heard it was told through the viewpoint of a young woman.  A
> bit troubled.  Worried somehow, that things went amiss and she's writing a
> letter to her father, going back to where she felt they went wrong.  Where
> they took a wrong turn from understanding each other.
>
> She starts by describing her nature as fact-oriented.  Every evening, as
> she
> grew, she spent in front of the tv, absorbing the facts of her world from
> Dan Rather.  She got kinda gloomy after a while.
>
> She never believed in Santa Claus.  She called her parents by their first
> names and announced, "Bill, Wanda, I don't want you to write "From Santa
> Claus" on my presents anymore.  Santa doesn't exist.
>
> She also didn't want any such things as pretend dolls, or toys that were
> imitations of things.  She wanted microscopes, a gyroscope.  She'd sit in
> front of the tv, play with her gyroscope, contemplating  the way a planet
> spins, and absorb the facts as presented by Dan Rather.
>
> She pondered the idiocy of the whole Santa Claus - Tooth Fairy mythos.  Why
> would adults make up fairy tale characters to take the credit for the good
> things they do?  Why not rather invent mythical creatures to cover up
> embarrassing moments instead?  "oops, it looks like I've been struck by
> that
> nasty fart fairy again, the wicked little beast."
>
> But in her extreme empirical devotion to fact, she goes a bit too far.  She
> hears her folks talking about the garbage man and assumes him to be another
> one of those inventions to cover up the fact that adults have to take out
> the garbage in life.
>
> Only this one seems kinda cool to her.  A character with a little pizzaz.
>  She pictures him, big belly, cigar, curly hairs poking through the top of
> his long-john tops.  She's actually pleased that the "oldsters" have a
> spark
> of creativity in them after all, after all that other blatantly
> manipulative,  "Be a good girl or Santa won't bring you any presents" crap
> or the equally offensive "Nice girls go to heaven".
>
> Jesus, Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, the easter bunny?   Boring.  But the
> Garbage Man, he strikes her fancy.
>
> And then, one early morning, when she happens to be up for some reason...
>
> She hears out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
>
> She springs to the window to see what is the matter
>
> And what to her wondering eyes did appear,
>
> A man in coveralls with a garbage can coming out from the rear.
>
>
> All of a sudden, the thought that the Garbage Man is actually real shakes
> her empirically built universe of cold hard fact to its core.  She finds
> faith.  She constructs a world where the Garbage Man lives - at the Dump!
>  In a teetering shack where his many children scramble through the crap
> looking for the good stuff.
>
> It makes her mad that his children have to live in squalor.  It doesn't
> seem
> fair.  Are all the other fairy tale creatures slaves as well?  Maybe some
> fiendish intelligence is MAKING Santa live in the cold North Pole and maybe
> the tooth fairy doesn't like changing good money for germy teeth.  It sure
> makes sense that Jesus didn't want to be crucified.  Who would?  What kinda
> mean intelligence is running this show?
>
> She begins to make little offerings of good clean food and nice clothes in
> the garbage.  She worries that it seems like the Garbage Man just mixes up
> her stuff with all the other messy garbage in the back of the truck, but
> figures it must be one of those magic things like Santa being able to visit
> all the homes in the world in one night.  A soul  finds  faith and makes
> offerings, the old pattern arises.
>
> Until, after a while, her parents noticing the disappearance of food and
> clothing from the house, start to cross examine her and through their
> questions, she begins to realize the mistake she has made.  The final blow
> comes when her dad takes her to the dump and she sees the fact of the
> enormity of the place and the enormity of her mistake.  A deep depression
> starts to step in, but her attention is distracted by the weavings of a
> damaged spider, and the magic that is life enters her mind and helps to
> heal
> her.  One little spider.
>
> The mind makes its own magic, whole worlds out of the slenderest of
> threads.
>  That's a good thing.
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