sunbeam
funny. i went to borders one time out here (because its the only thing to do in town). It was a friday night and they were apparently having an open mic. things were O.K. i guess up until this couple came up with a keyboard, and instead of playing something on the actual keys, they turned on one of the prerecorded tracks the keyboard came with and POOF lo and behold they'd written a song to it. all i remember, really, was some horrible off key singnig about rainbows on my mind and sunbeams and singing together to a preset on a huge old plastic keyboard the guy was holding up to the microphone like a guitar and not playing...
small town open mic with neo-hippies.
C.S. Lewis (leads in to the following by speaking about the difference between looking at a sunbeam from the side, or from dead on - ie seeing dust floating in a ray of sun coming in a dark room through a crack in the door, or looking dead on the sunbeam and seeing trees and sky and grass or whatever else is outside the door).
"A young man meets a girl. The whole world looks different when he sees her. Her voice reminds him of something he has been trying to remember all his life, and ten minutes casual chat with her is more precious than all the favours that all other women in the world could grant. He is, as they say, 'in love'. Now comes a scientist and describes this young man's experience from the outside. For him it is all an affair of the young man's genes and a recognized biological stimulus. This is the different between looking _along_ the sexual impulse and looking _at_ it."
small town open mic with neo-hippies.
C.S. Lewis (leads in to the following by speaking about the difference between looking at a sunbeam from the side, or from dead on - ie seeing dust floating in a ray of sun coming in a dark room through a crack in the door, or looking dead on the sunbeam and seeing trees and sky and grass or whatever else is outside the door).
"A young man meets a girl. The whole world looks different when he sees her. Her voice reminds him of something he has been trying to remember all his life, and ten minutes casual chat with her is more precious than all the favours that all other women in the world could grant. He is, as they say, 'in love'. Now comes a scientist and describes this young man's experience from the outside. For him it is all an affair of the young man's genes and a recognized biological stimulus. This is the different between looking _along_ the sexual impulse and looking _at_ it."
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