AH... is late on March 1st... First day and Saturday in March. I am near the beginning of the movie Conclave.... and earlier than I am watching now... the quote about The Center Cannot Hold was mentioned. I have thought about this phrase for a while.... hoping the e fof the American body politic had some goodness and all in it ... I wonder and I hope. I think it is there... However - the whole Yeats poem is interesting and I am looking at it now and will get back to .... it soon. Probably post something on Facebook eventually, soon. In politics... can the center coalesce and beThe The Force for GOOD.... ??? And how might America get there? A new political party? A centering of most politicians? A revitalization of one of the parties into doing what is truly right?
As a Democrat I hope they will regain the power necessary. ON ANOTHER hand... REPUBLICANS... in a fantasy of mine could do what is right... instead of what is convenient and safe. Safety, security, status quo VS fear, uncertainty, a new order or a return to the best of our basic order?!???
As I watch more... the speech made be Fiennes as the Conclave begins it's work says...
He most fears CERTAINTY... And he call for variety .
"Certainty is tghe great enemy of unity
Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance."
The idea of Certainty is often on my mind... even as I fail, or seem to fail, at being tolerant and not so very certain. I just bought a couple of copies of the book "Comfortable with Uncertainty" by Pema Chodron. It is a book I read years ago... and as I remember it was full of ideas and suggestions about how to deal with the many issues of life. All the many issues of life. To not Grasp. To let go. To be mindful. To no attachments to good or bad things.
As the speech goes on ... Fiennes mentions DOUBT.. a word that essentially began my college career many many years ago. Interesting reminder. Timely... for all!
Doubt, sins, mistakes, forgiveness... FAITH... And CARRY ON...
And now it begins.... The Conclave and all the issues and thoughts and possiblities and hopes. AH HOPE!!!!
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HERE:
William
Butler Yeats his most famous poem, “The Second Coming.” Here is
the entire poem:
Turning
and turning in the widening gyre
The
falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things
fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere
anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The
blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The
ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The
best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are
full of passionate intensity.
Surely
some revelation is at hand;
Surely
the Second Coming is at hand.
The
Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When
a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles
my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A
shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A
gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is
moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel
shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The
darkness drops again; but now I know
That
twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were
vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And
what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches
towards Bethlehem to be born?
