63\u00a0 bar rises 29.78\u00a0 0mph W\u00a0 dew-point 54\u00a0 Summer night, cool<\/p>\n
Waxing Gibbous Thunder Moon<\/p>\n
Travelers and Magicians is a Bhutanese movie, the first one I’ve seen.\u00a0 It’s theme spoke to the question, “What is your dream for this stage of your life?”\u00a0 A Bhutanese official, newly appointed to work in a small mountain village, has an opportunity to go to America.\u00a0 He considers himself modern, hip and wants very much to go.\u00a0 On the road he meets many travelers, one a monk who tells him a tale of a young man who studied to be a magician.\u00a0 There is a Canterburyesque flavor to the movie, a pilgrimage story of a sort.<\/p>\n
It reminded me most of Emerson, who spoke of the futility of going to Italy to see beautiful things, when beauty is a notion within each of us.\u00a0 The young official also meets a beautiful girl on the road, one he learns plans to return to her village to help her aging father.\u00a0 By the end of the movie it is clear that he will return to the village.<\/p>\n
A strong and persistent strain of my thinking in the last few years has focused on just this notion.\u00a0 Where we are is where we will become who we are.\u00a0 This is\u00a0 true, for me, I believe.\u00a0 Here in Andover, removed from the urban thrum, the constant action of political and religious life diminished by distance, is where I will become an old man, an elder.<\/p>\n
My dream for this stage of my life is not yet as focused as the other three dreams I mentioned:\u00a0 revolution, children and writing.\u00a0 Even so, its outlines seem clear. \u00a0 As I have until now, I will continue to support and nourish the dreams I have for political change, a healthy nuclear and extended family and writing.\u00a0 The nesting or embedded nature of these dreams will remain, not get left behind.<\/p>\n
Here are the emerging elements of my dream for this stage.\u00a0 Kate and I will, together, create a paradigm for optimal living on suburban and exurban lots of 1+ acres.\u00a0 We will focus our home and energy on supporting creative activity.\u00a0 Somewhere in the mix, I believe, is Kate’s commitment to medical services for the poor.<\/p>\n
Or not.\u00a0 I don’t know.\u00a0 This next phase hasn’t gelled in my thinking.\u00a0 It may be that I don’t need a dream for this stage, that I’m already living it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
63\u00a0 bar rises 29.78\u00a0 0mph W\u00a0 dew-point 54\u00a0 Summer night, cool Waxing Gibbous Thunder Moon Travelers and Magicians is a Bhutanese movie, the first one I’ve seen.\u00a0 It’s theme spoke to the question, “What is your dream for this stage of your life?”\u00a0 A Bhutanese official, newly appointed to work in a small mountain village, … Continue reading Where We Are Is Where We Will Become Who We Are<\/span>