Balanced Living

Students mostly all, well, many sit

in Jensen classrooms  with arms

across their chest memorizing

information flapping about the

room  looking for places to

perch if not roost &

brood.

Room in the Inn. 

Who takes notes in the middle of rugby

or Gold’s gymnasium work-outs?

Calisthenic going on.  

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I believe it is at the borders of the stupid

and the offensive just shy of transgressing

these 2lines (wherever they might be said

to be drawn) that THE GOOD STUFF 

begins to reveal itself.  On the edge.

Know what I’m saying?

Ooops,

slipped,

damn:

bad stuff

instead.

Don’t have to define “THE GOOD STUFF”

Let TGS  be loose and ill-defined for now.

We all know what it refers to in general;

it’s when we start trying to get SPECIFIC

that confusion might be said to generate.

     We might could salute & celebrate

                  Indeterminacy

  because the more specific we get about the         

 

       LOFTY AND HIGH ~MATTERS  

            health care and wellness

         truth & honesty;  love & lies,               

              goodness  & beauty,

            atrocities & the horrors…

           sustaining the human race

the more we generate dissension,

the more disagreement,

the more diversity

and diversion,

squabbles &

scruples,

threat &

terror:

  Contra Versions  Contra Dictions

             Converse Actions

               (that triad!)

The tensions rise with specificity  as  we

try to determine  General Good  among

our selves and  SELVES. Yes?  Devils

in the details.

Consider as a rule (for the moment), that

in trying to argue-out & express what’s

GOOD and  what’s NOT: 

 

    the more GENERAL: the less Trouble;

      the  more SPECIFIC: the more agony.

Notice how general that rule is. Just shy of

where it starts to hit  the fan,. just short of

where dissension breaks out and tensions

crack open—just at those borders  that IT

gets interesting, true?  Leave IT undefined

for now.