[William A. Baurle]

Originally Posted by Jim Moonan

Bill, thanks for checking in -- I'm glad but not surprised that you see the video as I see it. You have not an ounce of political correctness (the bad kind) in you, do you? - congratulations on that. I'm still working on it. Left wing needs a right wing to fly, donnit? Ha!

Indeed. It's all about balance.

Nature is all about balance, and the greatest teachers took the middle path, like Guatama Buddha and that famous Jewish carpenter from somewhere over there in the desert places...oh what's His name...dammit, that memory of mine! (The Guy who died between 2 thieves, in the middle...)

Geometry starts with a Point. The Point in the middle: that's where the Troof is, the God's honest Troof. Julian of Norwich, who said that "All manner of things shall be well", wrote much about the Point.

A point, from which one draws a Line.

Points & Lines; zeroes & ones.

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Now what was my point?

I keep forgetting...

I forgot...



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[Jim Moonan]

Some sacrilege: done well, I see similarities between the commercial advertising art form and the poetic art form. The economy of visuals is comparable to a poem’s economy of words, the crystallization of the message, the careful attention to detail, etc.

More sacrilege: I can imagine Yeats’ “Vacillation IV” transposed into a 30-second Starbucks commercial. Forgive me.

Billy Collins has had his poetry animated with good success: https://www.ted.com/talks/billy_coll...caught_in_time

And there is the poet David Whyte who delivers incredibly powerful seminars and presentations to corporations that infuse poetic energy into corporate culture….

But this conversation has digressed. Nicely. I’m surprised. Thank you Marilyn.