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November 29, 2003

Everything....

"I've learned in all those places from all those people is wrapped up in those two words. You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.

Everything I am and everything I want out of life goes smack back to that"
- Billie Holiday, Jazz Singer, in her autobiography

An interesting start… I am not sure this is a shared vision of how to look at the world, but its an interesting start.

So the question is, what do I go smack back to? Love is a good start, but what IS love?

What thing is so important in my self-definition that I can claim, “everything I am, and everything I want out of life goes back to it”

I think the way holiday used it; this self-understanding is a sort of tool that is used to value and explore the experenices in her life. Is that true? Who knows?

But I want to know what I go smack back to; and I am thinking about it lots. How about you? If you are reading this, share. What do you think?

Posted by Simon on November 29, 2003 02:28 PM
Category: Big Questions, Little Questions
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i think thats probably a question most everybody asks themselves, albeit in different ways. i just got to university; all the people here are trying to find ways of finding what defines them, what they go "smack back to". I've come to believe that to try to define yourself is an illusion. its like trying to measure all the free energy in the universe- by measuring it you are actually changing it.

Do things that make you happy, and you will be more open to loving, whatever that happens to be, wherever you happen to be. no two people treat love the same way but as i have found from many of the people that i love, both family and friends, love is not as elusive as it is made out to be.

Posted by: Tov on November 30, 2003 10:00 PM

Holy Scorpion!

Posted by: Steve on December 1, 2003 11:40 PM

Billie Holiday as a life model? Perhaps not:
"At the same time her career was taking off, Holiday's private life was deteriorating. She started using hard drugs in the early 1940s and was jailed on drug charges in 1947 after a highly publicized trial. She compulsively attached herself to men who mistreated her, and she began drinking heavily. Her health suffered; she lost most of her by then substantial earnings, and her voice coarsened through age and mistreatment. Although she continued to sing and record, and to tour frequently until the mid-1950s, it was no longer with her former spirit and skill. " She died of an overdose at 44.

Try Nelson Mandela:
"Nelson Mandela's greatest pleasure, his most private moment, is watching the sun set with the music of Handel or Tchaikovsky playing."

Posted by: Such a Mummy on December 2, 2003 08:58 AM
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