Samuel Scoville: Trust the Process

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Trust the Process

Trust the Process

aka: thy willy/nilly be done; be
hap-y, don’t worry: crucify the
ego beyond goodies & weasels..

His ex-girlfriend’s mom told him
trust the process and she left him
anyway, damnit: the process should
go my way if I trust it, otherwise
why trust.?

Governance I Scream:

Scissors cuts Paper.
Paper cover Rock
Rock crushes Scissors

My Will (decider) governs
My Intellect (knower)
and My Affect (feeler)

My Intellect (knower) governs
my Affect (feeler)
and my Will (decider)

My Affect (feeler) governs
my Intellect (knower)
and my Will (decider)

Liberal Art moving in a cloud
of unknowing knowingly: pillar
of fire from time to time; manna
good for moments only, no
generalizations, no replicating, no
squirreling for later, no passing it
on, giving it away, no common sense

1 comment:

Tom October 5, 2011 at 5:35 AM
Make mine Neapolitan, please, Sam. No, go ahead and make that three scoops of Affect, but put it in a cone of uncertainty. Thank you.
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I choose, as a determining POINT in my life, to acknowledge a bullet fired into the armpit of my grandfather, Samuel Scoville, Jr. by a thief in the night sometime in the late 19^thc.

The thief escaped, my grandfather having pulled his own pistol from beneath the pillow, squeezing off a couple of rounds and sending the burglar scurrying into the Connecticut night...

For reasons of family notoriety, the incident was reported in both New York and Philadelphia papers. A former roommate in Philly called up Young Goodman Sam, inviting him down for a weekend gala: The Yale-Penn Football game. “You can take my sister Katherine, and chaperone me and my fiancé, he said.

In those days couples were not advised to be alone. Unaccompanied.

Sam took a steam-driven locomotive train down to Philadelphia, escorted Katherine to the leather-helmet contest, fell in love, asked her to marry him. She did & they lived more or less HAP-ily ever after, generating a tribe of offspring who like wise generated in kind so that if it hadn’t of been for that bullet, well, it’s impossible to begin to consider how unimaginably different life-as-we-know-it would have been. No one can say.

For one thing: YOU, dear Reader, wouldn’t be reading THIS HERE right now, resurrecting these words to walk around in your skull-haus this very be-here-now moment. So even you are impacted forever by that bullet.

(I could drive up to Connecticut right now, retrieve the small bite of lead, drop it in your hand and remind you how co-incidental our life is—how inexplicable, how arbitrary & selective our accounts, how much we omit which is also absolutely necessary, how inadequate our because & affects.)

The bullet is a NECESSARY but INSUFFICIENT cause of who-I-am, without which any explanation would be incomplete. Sam Scoville

Samuel Scoville

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Trust the Process

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