11.02.2013
fake story true story holy spirit
Fake story the first time I tried to ride a bike went well for about 18 seconds. The paternal push and steady guide led to renewed symbiotic confidence for both in the exchange and then I was free: Free to ride in a straight line for exactly 9 seconds. Then I figured out how to turn right into oncoming traffic. I got run over by a bus and was reincarnated as a 1980's-style ten-speed bike. A banana-colored bike whose first and only true owner was a different dad on an opposite coast. For a couple weeks I helped him get to his job with new confidence and autonomy, shiny new bike that I was. He started to get in shape, more newbikeesque himself, change his whole outlook things looking up etc etc. Then one Saturday morning I was stolen and sold to a bike repair shop and broken down into spare parts. That slowed the reincarnation process a bit but eventually I came back as a mosquito. That was something one could really get the hang of: finding cool people and drinking just a little bit of their blood. I hope I continue to be reincarnated in this fashion. It's something I'm good at.
True story: My kid and another kid and I are hanging out we got on the piano for a little bit. My kid approaches it like maybe Cecil Taylor or Albert Ayler would've at a very young age, like he'd just found 88 perfectly symmetrical boards waiting for a hammer and nails. The other kid approached it like Erik Satie would, with a dancer's sense of balance and whimsy, in search of the first melody. I don't think they really understood each other's approaches, but it was beautiful to see in aggregate. When I got on the piano myself, rusty, dazed, it was like riding a bike for the first time and trying to decide between the competency of a tottering metric near-straight line and the chaotic bliss of letting gravity velocity and sheer chance do their collective thing.
Brothers and sisters, which is the true representative of Holy Spirit? Conceptualized as tongues of fire but people couldn't be jazzed were it true fire could they? Oh many readers know that I would personally be inspired to receive only metaphorical fire. So we must be talking prophetic fire, aha, or maybe true fire is the call to action.