Breathe In Breathe Out
Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 07:21AM I'm up early this morning contemplating slowness and noticing and being here now. The Bush song "Machinehead" popped into my head. Well no, that's not it actually - seeing Gavin Rossdale perform live a song that had the lyrics "breathe in breath out, breath in breathe out, breathe in" last year at a charity benefit in the South Bay popped into my head. So I looked it up and discovered it was originally a Bush song and then I tracked down the above video. Here are the lyrics:
breathe in breathe out :: tied to a wheel fingers got to feel
:: i spin on a whim i slide to the right :: i felt you like
an electric light :: for our love :: for our fear :: for our
rise against the years and years and years
got a machinehead better than the rest :: green to the red machinehead
:: and i walk from my machine :: i walk from my machine :: deaf
dumb and thirty
starting to deserve this :: leaning on my conscience wall ::
blood is like wine :: unconscious all the time :: if i had it
all again :: i’d change it all
It was a terrific concert. He's a wonderful showman and I remember smiling to myself as younger people in the audience (and then later online) marveled that he could still rock it at over 40 singing a song about being 30! Imagine!
I am thinking about owning your own story this morning. About doing my best not to take on the projection of others as part of my job on this planet, nor projecting myself and ideals onto others and pressuring them to take those on either.
This can be tough. I'm sure you know this as well as I do.
We are social creatures, but basically we can only view the world through our own lenses. We can certainly be compassionate, but our own perceptions will always color our world. I've been reminded of late just how much this is true.
The Internet allows us to be frank and candid in a way that we were perhaps only before in letters, as Amber Neslud of Brass Tack Thinking points out on her blog this am:
"On the web, words can be more than just words. They’re small little reflections of who we are, what we believe, and what we want others to know about us."
Reader Comments (1)
Yah social creatures is the right word...