CxD #239: Four small 🎁
As seen at the top of my Rhetoric of Animals class syllabus:
“An animal that could speak said, 'Humanity is a prejudice of which we animals at least are free.’” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The documentary Stutz is about the healing and opening power of therapy and the joys and laughter and freedom it makes possible. May everyone find a skilled therapist as a trusted partner on their life journey.
Hint: those who “don’t need therapy” are the people who need it the most. The reason they think they don’t need it is because of their fear of discovering things they’ve worked extremely hard to hide. But fear is a friend telling you there’s something really important for you to consider. May courage help you become more of who you are!
What’s it gonna take What’s it gonna take What’s it gonna take? To free the ce- lestial body From way up there it looks so small From way down here it looks so small One peculiar organism aren’t we all together Everybody steps on ants Everybody eats the plants Everybody knows to dance even with Just one finger What’s it gonna take What’s it gonna take What’s it gonna take? To free the ce- lestial body?
When I took another look The past was not a history book That was just some linear perception
Ash to ask and dust to dusk a dime a dozen aren’t we just? But a dozen dimes will buy a crust of garlic bread What’s it gonna take What’s it gonna take What’s it gonna take? To free the ce- lestial body When I say celestial I mean extra-terrestrial I mean accepting the alien you’ve rejected in your own heart When I say heart I mean finish The last one there is a potato kinish Baking too long in the sun of Spud Infinity When I say infinity I mean now Kiss the one you are right now Kiss your body up and down other than your elbows Cause as for your elbows they’re on their own Wandering like a rolling stone Rubbing up against the edges of experience What’s it gonna take What’s it gonna take What’s it gonna take What’s it gonna take? To free the ce- lestial body?
The most immediate way I have of responding to this beautiful Nietzsche quote is to recommend An Immense World: How Animal Sense Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us written by that young and wonderful Atlantic writer Ed Yong. In the the early days of the pandemic I read everything he wrote about it and found him very good company!
Thanks again for a wonderful post, Krzysztof!