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Living in the moment is a fascinating concept. One of my early poems is about this:
WatchTower
I live
in the past
and the future
Now
is just a
watchtower
As I see
you live
this moment
I wonder
how it
feels
Recently, at an improv performance the topic called out was "Living In The The Moment." We were doing a segment in which two people do movie reviews. The audience provides titles, then the two reviewers talk about the film and describe a scene, and then other players act out the referenced clip. I was one of the actors that had to do the scene after my colleagues set it up. It was, they said, the scene in the icecream parlor, where X and Y are deciding what icecream to buy. Heavy. In the moment. Reminded me of this post.
Speaking of living in the past and future... One year ago tomorrow I posted about what to do when sleep alludes you. I like the way it came out. I've come to realize that my pop culture allusions often go unnoticed (although, yes - anonymous that was the Mr. Clean slogan, thanks to google I was able to quote it right). There's a Billy Joel reference in the linked post of above. Recently there was a quote from a song of a singer/songwriter who has become an extreme Muslim.
posted by rabbi neil fleischmann @ 1:13 PM
3 Comments:
You're young, it's not your fault sounds like Steven Katz/Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam.
Billy Joel quote "In the Middle of the Night" from River of Dreams? Or is there some reference to "Keepin' the faith" in "Mountains of faith?"
Correct, Avi - You're stll young, etc. is from Cat Stevens' Father and Son (the scene of that father and his son brought the quote to mind).
Mountains of faith is a phrase from River of Dreams:
In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
From the mountains of faith
to the river so deep
I must be looking for something
something sacred I lost
But the river is wide
and it's too hard to cross.
BTW -
Cat Stevens; contrary to popular myth, born Stephen Demetre Georgiou, not Steven Katz.
From the cool site
http://www.katz.us/
(which links to other sites that back this up)
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