Friday, March 24, 2006
Day 51 - Google News as Shadow Trigger
Let's kick things off with a David Byrne quote:
I realized the validity of this as it applies to broader life today when I logged onto to Google News to see what was going on the world I'd shut away for the last three days while sick. Despite my illness, life lately has seemed alright, until I peeped the day's headlines: Russian Spies Betraying the US in Iraq, Bird Flu Due on US Soil in a Few Months, Professor Killed in Chemistry School Blast, Increase in Super-Resistant TB, etc. after maddening etc. While a general malaise descends when taking these ominous signs in total, to tease them apart reveals different feelings they elicit in different areas of the body. Meaning: each headline highlights, points out, teases forth, or illuminates a different element of ourselves we may be unaware of, in other words, our shadows.
So how about this, for a One-Minute Module: each day, check out the news. But rather than react, panic, or blog about it, simply read it and be aware of the feelings it creates within you. Word.
"It is assumed that I write lyrics (and the accompanying music) for songs because I have something I need to 'express.'.... I find that more often, on the contrary, it is the music and the lyric that trigger the emotion within me rather than the other way around." --From the liner notes My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
I realized the validity of this as it applies to broader life today when I logged onto to Google News to see what was going on the world I'd shut away for the last three days while sick. Despite my illness, life lately has seemed alright, until I peeped the day's headlines: Russian Spies Betraying the US in Iraq, Bird Flu Due on US Soil in a Few Months, Professor Killed in Chemistry School Blast, Increase in Super-Resistant TB, etc. after maddening etc. While a general malaise descends when taking these ominous signs in total, to tease them apart reveals different feelings they elicit in different areas of the body. Meaning: each headline highlights, points out, teases forth, or illuminates a different element of ourselves we may be unaware of, in other words, our shadows.
So how about this, for a One-Minute Module: each day, check out the news. But rather than react, panic, or blog about it, simply read it and be aware of the feelings it creates within you. Word.
