Embrace the Pendulum: Come to Austin
Life is like a pendulum
Swinging back and forth
From
Happiness to Sadness
Peace to Madness
Justice to Mercy
Triumphant to Tragic
Coordinated to Spastic
Iron to Plastic
Frank’s Nouns / Monet’s Adjectives
You site the opposite – you write the opposite
Make a mental deposit of such lists composite
As honesty and clarity become tangible along the transition
From the polarized perspectives of a mere swinging pendulum
Intellectual eccentricity / Spiritual simplicity
Both I found this week in good ole Austin, Texas
The Wizard Academy / the inviting Combs’ family
Both extremes of the pendulum on which I did swing
From a Magical World - Absolute Particles he did teach /
With a bed and breakfast - 15 minutes away for retreat
No need to mix both locations, to make black and white - grey
But to appreciate separately, just as night and as day
There’s no worry not to feel challenged or conversely - intellectually inferior
As well as no need for a hotel with lonely crystal clear mirrors
Just the openness to absorb beauty in the worlds of both turfs
The strawberry in a Godzilla Roll / the mere salt of the earth
The Wizard Academy / a Southern home’s hospitality
An appreciation for both you will come to endear
Embrace the pendulum: Come on down to Austin
Reinvigorate your soul and do so without fear
January 18, 2006
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