Mileage for the mind
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morslaI love it how sometimes, songs that you forgot all about can creep up and surprise you again. I've spent the last few days unwinding (or winding up, ready to burn out all that energy) to things I've never heard before. AFX, Front Line Assembly, Rareform, Planet Kaos, Solenoid... all had their time in my speakers.
There's something comforting in settling back into songs that have stuck with you for years, though. The sound washes over you, and you can settle into it like that first night back in your own bed, after travelling.
I've shifted back from two-day-old electronic recordings, to decades-old Metallica, and it is good :)
Still no news about work, but I'm too distant to worry about it now. Tiredness helps to further the gap between my mind and the world it observes... and I have secret weapons in the fight to become tired. The final Tai Chi class for the year ran last night, giving me another half-dozen movements to think about over Christmas. Final Wushu is on tonight, and I think I will push myself as far as I can go. For a change, I'm not going out tonight, or doing anything much over the weekend, so I'll try to find those lost reserves of energy and burn them up in a single session.
It's been a good year for training. I have 14 forms to practice, now, split between Liu He, Tai Chi, the Shaolin forms, Qi Gong, Liu He Mantis and Meihua Mantis - plus the forms from styles learnt in the past. I wanted to stretch my mind as well as my body - and it's certainly a stretch, remembering all the movements and applications.
I tend to find solace in movement - whether that happens to be practicing a form, walking for hours, or on a dancefloor. Find that space in which to think, while your mind stops to consider things.
There's something comforting in settling back into songs that have stuck with you for years, though. The sound washes over you, and you can settle into it like that first night back in your own bed, after travelling.
"...and my ties are severed clean
the less I have the more I gain
off the beaten path I reign
rover wanderer
nomad vagabond
call me what you will..."
the less I have the more I gain
off the beaten path I reign
rover wanderer
nomad vagabond
call me what you will..."
I've shifted back from two-day-old electronic recordings, to decades-old Metallica, and it is good :)
For Whom The Bell Tolls
"Make his fight on the hill in the early day
Constant chill deep inside
Shouting gun, on they run through the endless grey
On the fight, for they are right, yes, by who's to say?
For a hill men would kill, why? They do not know
Suffered wounds test there their pride
Men of five, still alive through the raging glow
Gone insane from the pain that they surely know
For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls
Take a look to the sky just before you die
It is the last time you will
Blackened roar massive roar fills the crumbling sky
Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry
Stranger now, are his eyes, to this mystery
He hears the silence so loud
Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
Now the will see what will be, blinded eyes to see
For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls"
"Make his fight on the hill in the early day
Constant chill deep inside
Shouting gun, on they run through the endless grey
On the fight, for they are right, yes, by who's to say?
For a hill men would kill, why? They do not know
Suffered wounds test there their pride
Men of five, still alive through the raging glow
Gone insane from the pain that they surely know
For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls
Take a look to the sky just before you die
It is the last time you will
Blackened roar massive roar fills the crumbling sky
Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry
Stranger now, are his eyes, to this mystery
He hears the silence so loud
Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
Now the will see what will be, blinded eyes to see
For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls"
Still no news about work, but I'm too distant to worry about it now. Tiredness helps to further the gap between my mind and the world it observes... and I have secret weapons in the fight to become tired. The final Tai Chi class for the year ran last night, giving me another half-dozen movements to think about over Christmas. Final Wushu is on tonight, and I think I will push myself as far as I can go. For a change, I'm not going out tonight, or doing anything much over the weekend, so I'll try to find those lost reserves of energy and burn them up in a single session.
It's been a good year for training. I have 14 forms to practice, now, split between Liu He, Tai Chi, the Shaolin forms, Qi Gong, Liu He Mantis and Meihua Mantis - plus the forms from styles learnt in the past. I wanted to stretch my mind as well as my body - and it's certainly a stretch, remembering all the movements and applications.
I tend to find solace in movement - whether that happens to be practicing a form, walking for hours, or on a dancefloor. Find that space in which to think, while your mind stops to consider things.
"...and the earth becomes my throne
I adapt to the unknown
under wandering stars I've grown
by myself but not alone
I ask no one..."
I adapt to the unknown
under wandering stars I've grown
by myself but not alone
I ask no one..."
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metallica
Date: 2003-12-19 05:59 am (UTC)why are ya waiting to hear from work? is that cause u havent started back up at csiro??
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Date: 2003-12-20 01:57 am (UTC)Oh, I started back alright. Just had some problems with being paid, and finding out whether I have a contract past the 31st, is all. Things are looking more positive, but I'm prety drained from the last week.
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Date: 2003-12-20 06:41 am (UTC)