Quote 7/10/07

16 years ago

From "Dreamtime"

***and I sang with my Gods

and I danced with my Demons

and I found them to be one and the same***

J. Sims

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andie_rathbone
16 years ago
Hmmmmm, I've got to think about that one. I guess Gods may become demons depending on your perspective at any given point in time.
Pidge
16 years ago
Me too, Andie and Lilo, but I interpret it as meaning the thing we worship and think of as a "god" or "gods" may well be actually demonic. Or that worship of any kind has a demonic undercurrent. Or that what we celebrate as the best in us is actually our own self-delusion. Does any of that make any sense?
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calliope
16 years ago
Ohhhhhhh. I like this one, because it's like eating olives for the first time. You have to let it sit on the tongue for awhile to appreciate it.

My take is that you do not translate this too literally. I don't think it's talking to the supernatural or divine, but rather the forces at work deep within our selves. Not that they aren't either one of those things. I think it speaks to our own fears and hopes.

It tells me to step forward and address the ideas flitting and floating around in my mind. To embrace and celebrate the things making me happy, hopeful and satisfied fully, and then to wrestle with my own demons, instead of shirking or hiding from them. Dance with them and know them and master them.
Josh
16 years ago
Good analogy, Suzy...I'm still chewing on this quote...I do like it. Lilo, is "Dreamtime" a book, poem, play, song? I'd like to read more by J. Sims. josh
lilod
Original Author
16 years ago
It is a poem, J. Sims had some poetry published in a Zine -
It is hard to find a venue for poetry, and one certainly doesn't get rich writing it.
cinderalla
16 years ago
How about the following:

"Before you criticize someone, first walk a mile in their shoes. That way you're a mile away when you criticize them -- and you have their shoes."

"I saw a sign: "Rest Area 25 Miles". That's pretty big. Some people must be really tired."

"In my day, we didn't get that disembodied, slightly ticked-off voice saying 'Doors closing.' We got on the train, the doors closed, and if your hand was sticking out it scraped along the tunnel all the damn way to the Silver Spring station and it was a bloody stump at the end. But the base fare was only a dollar.
-Retirement Home Quotes"

"Always Remember that Politeness, Understanding and Manners is a great way of communicating so that every one gets satisfied with the communications."

"People who complain are like words that are spoken without merit and with out constructive purposes."

"It's not what you know...It's who you know and what they know!"

"This 'project description' gives a whole new meaning to the old joke 'Start coding. I'll go see what they want done.'"

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acorn
16 years ago
I was back in the city for a few days when Lilo posted this quote from one of my poems. I was surprised to see this quote and happy with the response. I am at work right now and I will post the whole poem when I look at it again, I might write them but darn if I remember them. LOL
J. Sims
mwoods
16 years ago
Your wrote that ??? The talent around here is just amazing. OK..now you have to show us more of your poetry sometime ,if you don't mind.
acorn
16 years ago
No I don't mind. I like shareing thoughts, and I like the format of poetry because one can make a point without too many words.
Josh
16 years ago
Acorn...I didn't know you were J. Sims...and didn't know what a Zine was or where I could find one...LOL Will look forward to any more work you'd like to share. josh
andie_rathbone
16 years ago
Is this a first? One of our posters the author of the daily quote? I'm impressed Acorn. Don't hide your light under a bushel basket.
oakleif
16 years ago
Why am i not surprised that the most tantalizing
quote came from a KTer.
Josh
16 years ago
Now I've found out what Zines are...some great ones on art online that I'm looking forward to exploring. But what's a TKer? josh
cinderalla
16 years ago
Dear acorn, it has been quite sometime since we have heard from you. Please do post some of your wonderful poetry as they have the means to relax the mind.
acorn
16 years ago
Wow! I haven't been online for a couple days. Thank you for the support. I will post another poem, right now I am at the feed store...later. I post the ones that have already been published, I don't want to give too much to i-village. LOL
oakleif
16 years ago
Josh, more than a month later, i read this again. I meant GP not KT. Must have gone to sleep during those two letters.LOL Sorry.
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