I wake up as if i had not slept for days prior. serious slumber
and
feeling as if i can go back to sleep/ but as soon as I wake, the
thought occurs to me that i should sell everything i own, but not like a
normal sale...a sale to some one monied, a patron, an agent of some
kind, connected to other talent and institutions that can make something
with it. it was all my legacy jewelry. and the more i think about it
now, the more i really feel a lot needs to be broken, ended/ let these
new beings go on into the lives they wish to build, but let them do it
with not a sliver of who came before them./ they have no knowledge of
them anyway, and their every being is against the value systems of the
earlier generations.
though
in recent weeks margaret has taken to tell me how my mother broke the
"pristineness" of our family by having a child out of wedlock, and her
father, the literal overbearing, all controlling throne and patriarch of
the family, went against his own mythology, his own iron fist, his own
sternness as the big police serious man that he was and accepted her, it
, me and told her she dont need to bother about my father, he dont need
to be part of this family (my father was on shit i believe. i dont
know. i was not there, he did tell me he waited for me to be born to
know if i was his though. told me that in my teens and of course he
proved to me to be on prime shit)...and so margaret says after marina,
there were others, marjorie, merle. and now mandy has reached the
pinnacle of two children, two fathers, two different names...all the
things unheard of in this family, and i heard how margaret was just
imposing and widening her sense of what she was taught. and likewise me,
grew up knowing that was not possible or the things to do though my own
mother did the exact same. all weird actually. cause if i could go back
and change my life, I would have two children, two different fathers,
but i am also glad, standing here, i dont. its like i want the children,
and would wish to change that, but dont prefer to have the conditions
under wish they were presented. that too is weird and complicated.
but just as i pine for children now at this stage,
I
have some kind of feelings about my lineage, and the blessings of
theirs i have now in my possession, I see it need not be passed on or
distributed to anyone. i am making the call that would be a further
negation of truths that I hold dear. and indicate all the things that
have died in these last sixteen or so years, or even longer.
but the sale and money.
i
at first thought of a million for my writings and like $500K for the
jewelry. but I realize that is way too cheap. if it was produced.
my one book, Ant Bites alone, its memoir. then turned into a movie.
Then my decades long of journals from 1990 and my travelogue.
Then
my books, chaps, and compilations of poetry, there are nine volumes.
My UNPost.org blog and all my other professional essays published. Then
my dissertation. Someone else can rewrite that right now and do damn
good by integrating all the revolutions these intervening years.
published book for sure that would do well internationally. Then there
is my art and all that can be done with it, via ArtPost. school, paper
and stationery products. Then my cache of photographs. OMG> I even
underestimated the trove
This has got to be a good $5-$7 million TT
it is just raw material. like gold, ore and oil
and what it can be turned into is where the money is at.
How about that?
the world has gotten to the point of buying genius, creativity, brand and competence in raw form,
and
i think to sell these things as It has been on my mind for many years:
what to do with my life works. Things arent happening for me. I do not
have children to pass them on to and even then, they might be trifling
despite all i tell and teach them and be like all others and frivol away
what they are given, i think even just like me. I frivoled away a lot
of money in my youth. thinking I would always have and surely generate.
it was an idea to just dispense with it now and not after i am gone.
to make and find use of it now even if it is dollars to continue living
and
now i think, if i was able to do that in any way at all, it would be
the money to go on, live quietly, even have a child if i so choose,
living very modestly, we being bush people, nature people, builders,
nothing spectacular, no scenes, just survivalist mode and function...my
child growing their own food, knowing how to build homes, running
electricity, building sewage systems. making valuable the sun and the
wind. simple
it is how i emerge from sleep with answers
whether they manifest among the lessers, that is an entirely different questionit is how i emerge from sleep with answers
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