Friday, May 16, 2014

Define Everything

I gifted myself six writing sessions with an artist I really dig, Shira Ehrlichman. I had a hard time narrowing down my chosen course from her ridiculously sublime offerings, but eventually settled on an exploration of writing about spirituality. We began today and I don't want to reveal the whole process, because I respect Shira's intellectual property, but also because I think you should enroll in her classes and discover for yourself.

What I will tell: I'm trying to write about God.

Obviously, a pretty common project. Yogic theory says that God, or the Divine, is in all things, in everything. I definitely came across that idea in my Presbyterian upbringing. JOHN AFRICA said that "God is common as dirt."

In poetry, we want to be so specific. Microscopic. Freeze frame the moment when it happens, before it happened, the aftermath. Poetry fogs the windows and cuts the lines. Everyone is hostage until it is told. If God is everything, how do you define everything?

Everything includes what scares me. Is God a car accident? A car accident is sometimes described in Divine proportions. "Because of the accident, I woke up, and it all changed." "Because of the accident, I got home too late. It was better that way."

Is God a Hurricane? Hurricanes clean natural systems. Water is more clear afterwards, the air is sweeter, the planes were grounded, traffic stopped.

Does God benefit universally in every act? Or not?

Is God there when crimes are committed? Is God the criminal? The victim?

God is everything.

A central metaphor to Hinduism, Buddhism, and where they bleed into Yogic theory is the lotus, a gorgeous flower rising out of muck.

Where is your God?

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