The Sunday Sermon
What's up y'all? I remember when I was a kid and used to tag along with all my friends to these different types of churches, Seven Day Adventists, Lutheran, Baptists and how mesmerized I'd be when the Pastor or Preacher was really talking something good, spreading the good word on a human level, not just in a bible-thumping sense. It's a pity that we don't get together like that outside of a religious context. Wouldn't it just be cool to come together, hear someone who has something to say say something and raise our collective consciousness. Because I don't care how long you been going to church--if the preacher or pastor ain't challenging us, we gonna go right back to work and continue to conduct ourselves in that eh-hem, less than cool way that we tend to do.
Anyway, last night I read the following poem at Women in Film & Television (WIFT) Award Ceremony:
Tante Liv
(The Ordinary is the Extraordinary)
Your
silver
plastic clock
still
ticks
beyond
your
existence
How many hours
minutes, seconds
after the moment
of your
death? (it too
will someday
expire).
It sits
atop
your
beside
table &
awaits
you.
No one
has
moved
it.
Beside the clock:
a case of screws;
kløver vaseline;
air freshner;
1 ceramic
dish full
of rocks,
a dead butterfly.
This sits
atop
a pile
of fragile
from
age
newspaper
clippings:
Articles
put aside
for an
anticipated
eventual
read:
Kvindehistorie:
De farlig Kvinders Ø:
Sprogø;
Simon & Garfunkel har
igen fundet sammen;
Kunsten kan
ses på
bundlinjen...
A postcard
from
Ireland
(to you
& your
deceased
husband);
a pile
of kitchen
towels
never to
be touched
by you
again
(probably
washed by you).
In the drawers:
lightbulbs;
panties,
a thermometer,candles
stockings;sanitary
napkins; tennis balls;
a nokia charger,
die (terning);
swimming goggles;
a Mediterranean salad
dressing kit...
Jars full of
ancient candy;
several varieties
of bathing soap;
gammel dansk;
body lotion;
gardening
shears...
mosquito
repellent
matches;
needle & thread;
nail clip set;
vatpinde
hair rollers
(with strands
of your hair)
clothes pins...
handkerchiefs,
Ipren; yarn,
a bike light;
a tape measure;
reading glasses;
a deck of cards--
a compass.
This assortment
of
oddities,
a shrine
untouched
since
your death
A rock
visited
only, when
someone
is in
need
of something
(a tire patch
or bubblegum)
and so asks
for it,
to which
the answer
(grief
shrouded
with humor)
is
always
"Go to Tante
Liv's drawer.
You'll
find
it."
June 9, 2007
Rest in Peace Tante Liv! You were definitely one of the coolest human beings I have ever met. It was an honor knowing you and you always inspired me, as well as I am sure, every one else you came in contact with, to be a better human being.
Whew! Yeah, I'm a bit teary eyed now as I finished typing that poem...but anyway, the sun is shining and Summer is here. The funny thing is that it has almost been a year now since she passed on to the other side...
I was going to write about the stupid Prime Minister's son who wrote a pamphlet suggesting that Europe should become more like the U.S. and that stories of race, bad healthcare and poverty in the U.S. is exaggerated here by the liberal press, but then again, what kind of assessment do you expect from a rich kid???? It just pisses me off when people with a silver spoon rammed up there arses go on about how things are not that bad. Duh!!!
Race: There are more black men in prison in the U.S. (1.1 million) than in the rest of the world combined. Take into account that when and if these men ever make it out, they will not be able to vote for the REST OF THEIR LIVES.
Poverty: There are 1.5 million NYC families (the riches city in the U.S.) who live below the poverty threshold established by the federal government. This means that every night, when this IDIOT rests his head on his pillow 18,000 children in the city that never sleeps, sleep in homeless shelters.
healthcare: According to SeeingBlack.com:
Report: U.S. Health Care System Ranks
In health news, a new international study has ranked the United States health care system last among major rich countries even though the U.S. spends double what the average industrialized country spends on health care. The study by the Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. ranked last in most areas, including access to health care, patient safety, timeliness of care, efficiency and equity. 45 million Americans, or 15 percent of the US population, have no health insurance.
My message this week: Yeah we all living good here in Denmark & beyond, but let's not act like it ain't all that bad for other folks, cause you know what? It actually is, and taking the time to deny the issues actually perpetuates the ignorance, rather than spreading the knowledge, educating folks, so that we can do something about it.
I'm out!
Anyway, last night I read the following poem at Women in Film & Television (WIFT) Award Ceremony:
Tante Liv
(The Ordinary is the Extraordinary)
Your
silver
plastic clock
still
ticks
beyond
your
existence
How many hours
minutes, seconds
after the moment
of your
death? (it too
will someday
expire).
It sits
atop
your
beside
table &
awaits
you.
No one
has
moved
it.
Beside the clock:
a case of screws;
kløver vaseline;
air freshner;
1 ceramic
dish full
of rocks,
a dead butterfly.
This sits
atop
a pile
of fragile
from
age
newspaper
clippings:
Articles
put aside
for an
anticipated
eventual
read:
Kvindehistorie:
De farlig Kvinders Ø:
Sprogø;
Simon & Garfunkel har
igen fundet sammen;
Kunsten kan
ses på
bundlinjen...
A postcard
from
Ireland
(to you
& your
deceased
husband);
a pile
of kitchen
towels
never to
be touched
by you
again
(probably
washed by you).
In the drawers:
lightbulbs;
panties,
a thermometer,candles
stockings;sanitary
napkins; tennis balls;
a nokia charger,
die (terning);
swimming goggles;
a Mediterranean salad
dressing kit...
Jars full of
ancient candy;
several varieties
of bathing soap;
gammel dansk;
body lotion;
gardening
shears...
mosquito
repellent
matches;
needle & thread;
nail clip set;
vatpinde
hair rollers
(with strands
of your hair)
clothes pins...
handkerchiefs,
Ipren; yarn,
a bike light;
a tape measure;
reading glasses;
a deck of cards--
a compass.
This assortment
of
oddities,
a shrine
untouched
since
your death
A rock
visited
only, when
someone
is in
need
of something
(a tire patch
or bubblegum)
and so asks
for it,
to which
the answer
(grief
shrouded
with humor)
is
always
"Go to Tante
Liv's drawer.
You'll
find
it."
June 9, 2007
Rest in Peace Tante Liv! You were definitely one of the coolest human beings I have ever met. It was an honor knowing you and you always inspired me, as well as I am sure, every one else you came in contact with, to be a better human being.
Whew! Yeah, I'm a bit teary eyed now as I finished typing that poem...but anyway, the sun is shining and Summer is here. The funny thing is that it has almost been a year now since she passed on to the other side...
I was going to write about the stupid Prime Minister's son who wrote a pamphlet suggesting that Europe should become more like the U.S. and that stories of race, bad healthcare and poverty in the U.S. is exaggerated here by the liberal press, but then again, what kind of assessment do you expect from a rich kid???? It just pisses me off when people with a silver spoon rammed up there arses go on about how things are not that bad. Duh!!!
Race: There are more black men in prison in the U.S. (1.1 million) than in the rest of the world combined. Take into account that when and if these men ever make it out, they will not be able to vote for the REST OF THEIR LIVES.
Poverty: There are 1.5 million NYC families (the riches city in the U.S.) who live below the poverty threshold established by the federal government. This means that every night, when this IDIOT rests his head on his pillow 18,000 children in the city that never sleeps, sleep in homeless shelters.
healthcare: According to SeeingBlack.com:
Report: U.S. Health Care System Ranks
In health news, a new international study has ranked the United States health care system last among major rich countries even though the U.S. spends double what the average industrialized country spends on health care. The study by the Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. ranked last in most areas, including access to health care, patient safety, timeliness of care, efficiency and equity. 45 million Americans, or 15 percent of the US population, have no health insurance.
My message this week: Yeah we all living good here in Denmark & beyond, but let's not act like it ain't all that bad for other folks, cause you know what? It actually is, and taking the time to deny the issues actually perpetuates the ignorance, rather than spreading the knowledge, educating folks, so that we can do something about it.
I'm out!
