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23 April 2008
Days and days off... perhaps it's something about the weather (looking up and out of the window I can see flowers on the trees) but walking around in the streets I feel a little more serene. There are few things in which one can take such simple enjoyment as just walking through the city listening to something good. Music in your headphones and a swing in your step. Feeling cool, feeling glamorous, as if you're in a film. Trying not to walk too obviously to the rhythm, or get too excited with the perfection of the moment when everything - weather, rhythm, lyrics, the movement of the people and the cars around you - lines up perfectly. As Ani sang, 'If my life were a movie...'Otherwise, killing time just a little. Reading and rereading Ginsberg. Poetry anthology, though wish I had also brought 'Spontaneous Mind', a collection of interview transcripts and other fascinating snippets from the great man. I never get tired of his wisdom and humanity. So brave, so enlightened, so thoughtful. Flawed, of course, as we are all, but aware of that, and so ready to give all of himself in the name of greater illumination of the human condition. There are a cluster of people - writers, artists, performers, whose work never fails to cheer me, and give me fresh hope. Opens up new possibilities or reassures me that there is understanding and warmth out there in the sea of unintelligible, sometimes-hostile humanity. As Kurt Vonnegut said, and I am particularly fond of quoting: 'Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.' utterly utter [
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