A friend wrote to me in email:
It's sort of amazing how you're traveling the world and people are looking at you—your life—on nearly a nightly basis, don't you think?
I realize I'd not been thinking. Not like that. And this friend is unique. He thinks in that way for me and asks the salient questions.
So, yes, it is quite amazing that I'm traveling in this way. Thank you for asking.
When you truly realize that this life and living is an
absurdity, then you join in the dance. You take part in
this absurdity. The body-mind organism continues to live
in the world, but without any sense of personal doership.
— Ramesh S. Balsekar
To be alive, to be able to see, to walk--it's all a miracle.
— Arthur Rubinstein
I remain wide-eyed and dumbfounded about all this accidental wandering. And a whole lot in awe.
HOLDING STILL, a film by Florian Riegel, is being screened at Duisburger Filmwoche 34 on November 3. It appears I'm going to be traveling again.
Die Duisburger Filmwoche ist das Festival des deutschsprachigen Dokumentarfilms. The Duisburg Film Week is the festival of the German documentary film.
2 comments:
I have never thought about you as NOT travelling. It occur to me now that I never think about what you can´t do, I only think about the things that you actually do. And that´s a lot. Enough to make me breathless now and then...;-)
Thank you, Sadie Ruben. Maybe you are naturally breathless and full of wonder.
I don't think of myself as traveling or not doing so, but that question from a friend pulled me up abruptly and made me think about being up on a screen in so many places. I haven't traveled in a very long time, but I seem to have been everywhere this year. Some things in life can surprise you more than others.
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