Thursday, May 15, 2008

Perhapses and Considerations

My friend Susan's father is 86 years old. We all hang out together sometimes (Susan and I have a beer and he has brandy) and he talks and I love to hear his stories.

He's actually been through quite a bit in his life. He had tuberculosis when he was younger and spent a year or two in an asylum. He was in the merchant marines during WWII and his ship was hit. Everyone had to go into the water which was very cold. All of the life vests had little red lights on them so people would be easily visible in the water but it was so cold, you only had 15 minutes. He was obviously picked up in time, but he said the whole sea was filled with little red lights and you knew they were all dead.

Anyway, he writes a lot (I'm sure he would blog if he had a computer) and one day when we all met for breakfast, he brought me one page. Here it is:

Our thoughts about perhaps are that of consideration but how far is consideration from reality? Can it in fact ever become reality or is it actually a reality that is on the shelf like any commodity awaiting future shipment?

What keeps consideration from happening? Is it not the pluralization of our system of dimensions?
The quorum of thought needed to be possessed by brain power to shove consideration into the realm of now.

Isn't that what life's form is developed from?

Obviously much of perhaps and its counterpart consideration are left on the shelf for another day of dawning lite to reflect glory. But that which is into existence, the reality that besieges us, begins to dim and fade into or near hyperbole. Permanence begins to show in detail that perhapses and considerations are mine fields of conjecture that can be born into life.
by Jim Farrington

What do you think?