Comments on: don’t think you knew you were in this song

By: EarnestGirl

EarnestGirl — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:42:37 +0000

p.s.: please pardon the crappy spelling above.
And one other of my own small comforts in the face of post-cultural depression: Leonard Cohen’s lyric (and his music altogether) “There is a crack, a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

By: EarnestGirl

EarnestGirl — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:37:42 +0000

“me too and this is what helps”…. blogs like this one. And just sitting together here in the ether and holding hands and wiping tears and laughing a bit maniacally and trying to cobble together some community despite the bedlam.

By: crazymumma

crazymumma — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:47:04 +0000

That is the album I would have had on a desert island with me if it were to happen.
Best not to dwell on apocalyptic thoughts. The world, she will continue in its terrible and beautiful way and our children will delight and curse it just as we do.

He was soooo stoned when he wrote that album. Just look at his eyes on the album art.

By: Damselfly

Damselfly — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:03:50 +0000

Please let me know when that Prozac comes out.

By: Antigone

Antigone — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:09:25 +0000

I don’t even turn the television on anymore. Nor read the paper. Kind of like closing your eyes just before the barrel goes over the waterfall.

By: mo-wo

mo-wo — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:55:42 +0000

I’ve been trying to articulate some wide reaching angst that goes to anger for me. It came to me in flash when I lost tolerance of self-selecting terrorizing myself with some prime-time criminalist-heavy social horror, [insert Law & Odor franchise reference] I feel it is a kind of contemporary xenophobia where we don’t fear everyone, we fear everything.

Now I’ll have this angle to flesh that out as well. I feel I have a lot to pray for this Easter.

Thanks for placing that song, too. I had forgotten it.

By: coldspaghetti

coldspaghetti — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:47:27 +0000

I hear you, I hear you. I know that feeling well — it is one of the things that whisks me away to far off lands.

Sending supportive thoughts…

By: janet

janet — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:04:40 +0000

I think you are on to something with your diagnosis.

I have been consumed by anxiety lately. Galloping-out-of-control-in-my-chest anxiety. I simply can’t watch documentaries right now. I can barely watch the news. I can’t read about 100 year jail sentences for stealing money and 1 year sentences for stealing a child’s innocence. I just can’t.

I’m trying to do my part to make things a little better. Recycling. Composting. Raising little hens in the backyard. It’s not enough. I know this.

I’m trying to impart to my children a new respect for the world. I feel like this economic crisis is a huge opportunity to change our model from growth to sustainability. But nobody in the mainstream is talking about that possibility. Will we save ourselves? I don’t know. All I know is that my grandchildren might be completely disgusted by me one day for this legacy we are leaving.

By: mamie

mamie — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:55:05 +0000

once again, you have laid out a post that seems to have been sketched from my own mind and thoughts, made much more effective by the bowie lyrics that made me shudder and your brilliant way with words.

tim and i have actual discussions about how we would survive post-apocalypse…things like, we could take to the hills behind our home, purify water, shoot deer, organize a community with strengths to support us all…and then i realize this plan would likely not include internet and i feel a bit sick.

the thing that swayed me towards the having of my children was the thought that they could be the change. if they cannot, well, i am not sure what to do. it is a scary thought to realize our choice for them might not have been the right one.

and i will most definitely hope that the change comes in all of us, not just our children. until we start making the choices to release from our cycles to expand and destroy, we cannot go forward. your not alone up there, o’ prophetess. sorry, that is probably not really a comfort.

By: bon

bon — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:38:16 +0000

oh Beck, apologies. i in no way meant to suggest most Christians are eager for the Rapture or even believe in the concept…rather, just that those who do go on about Armageddon being at hand tend to view said Armageddon in relatively positive and deterministic terms.

i think particularly in Canada that’s a very small proportion of Christians…and many churches are actively trying to bring the term Christian back the middle. for instance, my mum’s mainline Protestant church is very active in environmental stewardship…but their membership probably aren’t the ones talking about Armageddon to Christy.