Knowledge is Dangerously Fun

"The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly." Proverbs 15:14

Holy Shit, I love companionship but boy people have a way of hampering my mood.

The Co-Dependent expert would say, boy do I let people hamper my mood....

This moment in time is a testimony to what I already know. When I wake fresh faced and renewed is when I should sit down to the methodical tapping on the keyboard in pseudo NY silence and compose.

Reasoning would say I have to experience to write. And right reasoning can be. But....

It is often the minutes when I first rise and prepare for the occasion, I am the most optimistic of what a day can bring and what humanity can show.

I'll commence.

If you decide to stay in your hole/haven/hovel in NY, you can never use the excuse resembling the adage, Ignorance is Bliss, because you would have to be a blind fool to not know the activity that ensues once you step over your threshold in Manhattan.

For example.

Fennel sausage and poached eggs pouring over thick and flaky cheddar biscuits served at a neck breaking pace on the art street Great Jones, immense amounts of Europeans picking over and purchasing stacks of dark denim washed American icon Levi's in SoHo, or shirtless roller bladers dancing in the prisms of sunlight reflecting off the gentle ripples of the Hudson would all pass you by without a blink.

If indoors was your rightful choice on this winter thaw (though New Yorkers think a heatwave has hit), you wouldn't have sat amongst the towering palm trees and soaked in the symphony sounds of a free concert in the Financial Center's glass atrium with a tenor voice chilling you to the bone. The crane operators working Saturday overtime as they resurrect the World Trade Plaza in the empty acre by acre footprints of a bitter memory wouldn't even cross your mind.

Salty tears could not fall as you read the gripping declarations imprinted on the Irish Hunger Memorial Museum walls nor could hoppy suds flow down your throat with such quenching

satisfaction like you hadn't had a drink all day...

"A little learning is a dangerous thing;

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:

For shallow draughts intoxicate the brain

And drinking largely sobers us again.
Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts,
In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts,
While from the bounded level of our mind,
Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind;
But more advanced, behold with strange surprise
New distant scenes of endless science rise!"

Alexander Pope

Hard to be stagnant when you're chasing a dream....

Wouldn't you rather bask in the know?