March 18, 2019
This morning I'm remembering watching cartoons with my little brother, Peter. Sun streaming in the windows, leafy trees, the sound of Mom in the next room and Wile. E Coyote getting crushed (yet again) while Roadrunner zooms past through the canyons in a flurry of dust?
It didn't dawn on me until a friend pointed it out that it was Wile E. Coyote himself, who set the traps that got him, again and again. Stars and moons swirling around his head. His obsessive attempts to catch the elusive Road Runner always kicked his ass. In every episode he ended up slamming himself with fast-moving trains, fat boulders
+ an anchor falling from the sky into the cactus-filled desert?
Wile E. believed if he got the Road Runner his appetite would be satisfied. Then he'd relax. But I don't think so. I'm thinking he'd still be his anxiety-riddled, contraption-building-self, sweating it out to catch something else. Because there's always something else.
Blow a kiss to whatever you're chasing, whatever you keep crushing yourself with.
Wish your personal Roadrunner well, beep beep.
What do you really want/need today?
Do that thing.
xo b
There you go again, Betsy, zeroing in on the heart of my 'matter'. So we need to stop chasing the roadrunner, huh...
ReplyDeleteLove you, Kath <3
Hello there, Thanks for reading. Heart of my "matter(s)" too. Now, to turn our attention to not building contraptions and cages for ourselves. xoxo b
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