sustainability

in this post: facebook interests, website for starpower program, french sociology book, housing works orientation, run in with the office hall monitor, possibility of sustainable relationships, possibility of sustainable activities, architecture and support beams, g-tech, kai and the winos, hallelujah ...

[so i'm adopting this new blog form, mostly to help me remember my thoughts as i come back to this throughout the day. my posts have diminished on this temp assignment, and that's not good, since a significant part of its purpose is the delayed value of me rediscovering my own thoughts months later. the downside is y'all might actually have to look to my blog to see the actual contents of the post. :{ ...not to assume that you necessarily want to or anything like that]

so...starting with hallelujah...A.Ho and I got a drink at the Bourgeois Pig last night since Tuesday are half off bottles all night, and while we were there a particularly stunning rendition of Cohen's "Hallelujah" came up on the playlist, which reminded me how much i like the song and especially the part "i heard there was a secret chord that david played and it pleased the lord but you don't really care for music, do ya? it goes like this, the fourth the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift, the baffled king composing hallelujah..." to begin with there's the overtone of isolation - not any generalized sense of isolation, but the particular isolation of being one among many. it's the implicit significance of the aside "but you don't really care for music, do ya:" here the singer is considering the possibility of an essential truth that could reconnect the lone person with the divine and it's irrelevant to share because the very vehicle one requires to share it cannot be accessed by the person the singer is trying to connect with. then on top of that there's the allusion in 'the baffled king composing' to our capacity to create thing greater - even more human - than ourselves, and the doubly poignant aspect that very often we can experience being profoundly touched, we can create that which touches us profoundly without having access to the why or the how it manages to do so. there's so much hope in that for being human. i guess that's what i love about the song, it's this poignant bundle of the yearning and the hope and the weakness and the tragedy of human experience. [i'll rewrite this so it's not as fumbling, i promise]

Comments

when you say kai and the whino, were you refering to the other drunks, or us?