TWO VERY DIFFERENT NOTES
by Dan
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Focus on the out-breath. Feel the out-breath and let it go. Accept yourself as an animal. Accept that you will bellow and howl and stamp your feet and lose control. Honour your impulses and be gentle with your wild urges. Let go of self-punishment like it were the out-breath. Do not dwell on having behaved like a depraved teenager with a gun. Do not begrudge yourself the thoughts that keep you in the shower. Know yourself. Know the sticky, ragged caverns of your own dripping soul, it is the wealth and beauty of your place in the world. See the thick, buttery layers of baseless aggrandizement and the scuffed and swollen membrane of the stubborn switch that's stuck on 'run'. Know it. Measure it, with your fingers. And then take your fingers away and look at that space. That space is the distance between complete self-actualization and total annihilation. Out-breath in that space. [$5 USD] -- Hot 8 Brass Band - "Sexual Healing" Today would have been my friend Joel's 35th birthday. He was responsible for recommending this gem that has been one of my most "I loved that one" posts ever (NB: Joel AND the Hot 8 show up in the comments!), so I think of him every time. He was an incredible soul and he is dearly missed. [Buy] Posted by Dan at March 7, 2014 5:52 PMComments
Dan, the Hot 8 song is so good. Thanks for posting it again. Posted by Maryam at March 14, 2014 10:47 PMPost a comment |
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Sean Michaels lives in Montreal. His debut novel, Us Conductors, will be published by Random House Canada/Tin House Books in spring 2014. His work also occasionally appears at McSweeney's. Follow him on Twitter or reach him here.
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