Maybe tomorrow I will be a rock star. Maybe tomorrow I’ll get on that. Maybe tomorrow I am a rock star. Maybe tomorrow I will be what I am not. Maybe tomorrow I will seem like I did yesterday. Maybe tomorrow I’ll remember what I meant by maybe tomorrow. Maybe tomorrow will be today and yesterday the day after.
Maybe tomorrow isn’t real. But then again, tomorrow never knows.
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“Oh, if there’s an original thought out there I could sure use it now” Bob Dylan’s Knocked Out Loaded Album
Ever feel that way? Ever feel that your thoughts are endlessly repeating? Girl, girl, rock and roll, bike, gun, girl, the meaning of the universe, girl, soil health, girl, math, girl, responsibility, girl, music, rock and roll, girl, rock and roll, girl, rock and roll, rock and roll, rock and roll, rock and roll, girl, you get it, rock and roll.
So it goes with my brain. (Love “and so it goes” by Kenneth Patchen. Judy is a big fan. I never have read much but what I have is all that and more. . . and so it goes. Gotta read that junk soon.)
Now that I realize that my readers need really concise language that cuts right to the point, with no brain exercise required, no thought, no effort, instant comprehension. . instant comprehension’s gonna get you. . . gonna knock you off your feet, I will make no effort whatsoever to accommodate that ridiculous request or implication or contradiction or criticism.
What does it mean? It means a lot. Keith Richards – funny tune about. . girls, rock and roll, girls, rock and roll
So lets stop pointing fingers for a second and talk a little bit about responsibility.
What is that? What is taking responsibility. I just read a Carol Burnett quote, of all people, Carol the great philosopher, in Ecological Home Ideas, along the lines that only she can change herself, no one else can. Just thought of it. It didn’t inspire this post, Insanity did, of course, but now that I am off and running on the responsibility gig again I remembered the quote. Somebody out there likes me – David Bowie
Taking responsibility is to realize the truth that all our thoughts and actions derive from us, intentionally, by us and due to us. I know, I know, who wants that? How can I go on if I can’t say “it’s not my fault”. Easy, actually. No subconscious, no unintentional, no accidental.
If you accept that for a moment, think about it, reflect upon it, there comes the idea of freedom from manipulation and pain, by recognizing control of us is ours.
We can control ourselves if but we would. Manipulation, derivation, obfuscation, lazination, crazy Nation, will cause reactions, but, we can also learn to act, only act, never react. Each movement carefully and instantly produced from a life time of disciplined study and inward visits.
Yuck.
Pun intended.
Wellp. Some of my readers can’t comprehend what I am saying or understand the words coming out of my mouth.
Too bad, so much to miss, so little comprehended.
So let me spell it out. Don’t Question Mark is a pun, a reference to my name and a reference to the question mark. Now to take that further into the realm of this diary, this web log, this whatever, into the realm of philosophy we look at Question Mark as an action.
To question mark? What is that? To question me, the pun obviously, so don’t and also to question in general, and also to use the question mark. So don’t question mark can mean don’t ask questions, and don’t punctuate, as well as don’t always question or in one philosophical sense immediately reject.
Strangely enough, not question marking can be seen as keeping an open mind.
For those of you comprehension challenged, now that you are completely lost, I will elucidate.
Don’t Question Mark means Keep An Open Mind.
Why didn’t I just say that? Don’t question Mark!
Sometimes I jot down ideas as titles and am left with no clue as to what the hell I meant.
But probably on this one, well, I would guess that this philosophy, the philosophy of letting it all go is the key reference.
So the problem solved deal is obviously a reference to this wonderful diary.
The diary of problem solving.
No Problem.
Buddy of mine just picked up a 2006 Buell Ulysses.
For those not in the know this is a motorcycle, designed specifically for jonezing the flow. More on jonezing the flow some other time.
In discussing his decision to purchase this this thing, he mentioned letting go, and the phrase was born when I uttered it.
If you wanna jonez the flow, you gotta let go.
