BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Saturday, July 3, 2010

The other side of Marilyn Monroe


Eclipse of a Shining Star



At first, I wanted to compare Marilyn Monroe to the moon; from her perspective.  As a cold rock drifting closer and closer to the sun, seeking the warmth it offered; but never enough.  Blinded
always a full moon.  Being lost when she came to trust only the warmth of the light as it landed on her face to guide her.  Only by casting a shadow onto earth as she disappears into the warmth of the light, did we realize too late,  even stars have a dark side.

But earth too is just another cold rock that depends on the sun for the light that gives us life and keeps us warm; with a dark side no different than the moon.  Marilyn was more like a star with a dark side expected always to light up the lives of those who dreamed along with her as the earth turned on and off to the sun.

Like any star without a dark side, our sun too will burn out and go dark one day.   And along with the light that gave the moon it's dark side, disappears on earth the pain without the light needed to live.




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