I have varying stints of renewal from time to time, waves of ideas and way outs crashing over my cynical psyche, I figure write a blog post while I’m upbeat enough, last week was a bit of a high wall I hit: A piece of childhood was lost, a career avenue hit a dead end and I was injected with Cement!
No, I’m not an Anti-Vaxxer but you don’t expect a proverbial CAT truck to hit you the day after. Provisions must be made if it becomes an immunisation shot, especially for children, it’s no walk in the park! Anyhoo, glad to do my part and bear witness to the mobilisation of Good, complete with directional stickers, tent cubicles and congratulatory mini-chocolates!
This age is scary at no mistake, this is where Muse puts her armour on and sets us to work, in poetry and song. Protest via social media and art – Dear Writers of today, we are the archivists of tomorrow – Whatever we write about from this moment on will have a conscious or unconscious connotation of these present events. Those reading False Providence in the future WILL see Donald J.Trump in President Craven, then again others might see Jair Bolsonaro or Narendra Modi or Janos Ader – Hell, I don’t even know where British Democracy is now or where it’s even going…
My brief sense of renewal may bring a new path ahead, another branch of the arts: Photography – again, another method of recording current events through the muses. I hope it works, I’m running out of ideas and a milestone birthday is on the horizon. We are what we do and what we fight for and against.
There are many weapons for many a battle, the sword, the gun Yes but also the Pen, the Guitar, the Camera, the Canvass. Muse makes use of us all, we feel useless until she says otherwise until that Eureka moment that unfortunately, not many get. My Resistance membership came from a young age, before it was a trend, before 2017, authority let me down seven ways to Sunday and Twelve months to Christmas. I don’t do well with it, I don’t trust it – But don’t you worry none I’m civility itself! Lol
Dear writers and artists, the fellowship of Muse, we are entering choppy waters. We are witnesses to this story, our records may inspire some and may warn others. Heart Of Darkness was based on a true genocidal Frenchman, To Kill a Mockingbird could easily define any decade in The South these days. Bear witness and open that laptop/art studio…
We have work to do.
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