I’m becoming increasingly concerned by the threatening possibility that the only way to stay calm these days, is quite simply to withdraw into apathy, to block the incomprehensible amount of flying bullshit from every direction.
As soon as I’m anywhere near disingenuous or needlessly competitive self aggrandizing energy, or a TV set, or in earshot of any radio station tuned to just about ANY news station, my brain literally begins to block sound and light, and I start tunneling all mental and physical efforts toward escape.
Currently tangled in the net...
Currently tangled in the net...
Or maybe this is the detritus result, a remnant sensitivity if you will, to ditching anti-anxiety pills in order to preserve my sanity, memory, and sense of control over my faculties.
Long sigh into the vastness...
People who need health care in America are fighting against its provision; one of the world’s oldest and certainly one of the largest organizations - the Catholic Church - is cracking under child abuse scandal and scrutiny now directly hitting the leader itself; the US Census Bureau has decided to offer me the choice to be called a Negro; we seek refuge via Facebook-Twitter-Texting-big screen/little screen love-with-no-talking-or-touching but constant me-me-me marketing; earthquakes are shaking up shit everywhere; China is buying up everything and we have a Tea Party; Israel and Palestine… … …; we're in a recession but people are getting richer...; the Congo – the Congo – the Congo – anybody?; and on and on and on… And here I am, in need of creative inspiration, desperately gripping to the idea that photography of the non-journalistic kind is important. Humpf.
Deep breath…
TV/Radio/PC ga-ga off.
Click wheel activated.
Headphones in, vital stats normalizing.
Smilin' - in Jamaica.
Nap time.
Flying Bullshit ? Now that's a scary thought.
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