Keeping Your Innocence

  As my first entry, I would like to introduce my view on the child within us and the joys of nature and our connection with other humans.  In the coming blogs, I will touch on this theme further so for now I will simply express it's importance.  The world around us is a scary place which will eat you and spit you out if you take it too seriously. If we continue ignoring the simple pleasures and instead obsess on the achievements of others, never taking full worth of the beauty around us and the preciousness of this span of 70 years we spend on this spinning rock in a mysterious vacuum, you run the risk of dying lonely and insignificant. In keeping in mind the simple joys, like literally smelling the roses (when's the last time you did?), the last 6 billion years of this Earth's growth into beauty remains valid.  

  I ask you to take just one day, or night if you see fit, and throw the worries of judgement off your back (to a legal and decent degree of course) and do the things that make you happy, like walking barefoot, singing, playing in the mud, finger painting, whatever simple joys that make you smile and possibly others grimace.                    

  

Everybody gets anxious in the elevator, or has a hard time sustaining eye contact with strangers.

I give you the following songs which inspired this entry:

Song Title                                      Artist                                 Album Title

Ghost of Corporate Future     Regina Spektor                Soviet Kitsch

Old Before Your Time             Ray LaMontagne &          God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise

                                                  The Pariah Dogs

Woodstock                              Joni Mitchell                      Ladies of the Canyon