Consciousness Meets West

Morning Thoughts #131

Greet the day with a salutation. Oh royalty that enters to just as quickly split! Another angle of surfing light. See the sun pioneer itself across the sky every day, seemingly captured, like everything else, by the mythos of the American West.

We, the children of western expansion, bear its lessons in our blood. When our lives become overfull, we tend not to rejoice in the abundance. Perpetually on guard against overcrowding, with a hair trigger, we cast off our best comforts for the sake of future space.

But here’s the thing, ahead is no good at all if it’s too far ahead. What does the future hold? Do you squint through your best perceptions as an act of conscious self-defense? Oh, American who does this, you might be doubly cursed! Are you living the combustion that results when ingrained restlessness meets modern self-consciousness? To always want to find the path that leaves but never want to know where it leads!