Metal Monday XI - Soul Journey

2/24/2016

My thoughts of late have been focused on my own struggles and personal turmoil. I have suffered much over the past few years, pushing hard to find my way back from the depths. I have wondered and wandered long, and the further I get, the further my search seems to go. I am coming back into my own being, my own person, once allowing myself to dissipate and be swallowed by a story not of my own. I can no longer allow weakness to breed in my heart or mind, plaguing my soul with the weight of a dying world, myself barely escaping the crushing density. So, I look onward, planning a Soul Journey of my own into the northern expanses. I hope to find some meaning along the way, the distination only being part of the whole sojourn. So, I leave you with food for thought about the ultimate questions. Who are you? What do you?

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THE MAD BARRON

QUOTES I ADMIRE
"A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." - from the Wilderness Act, 1964

"I owe my solitude to other people." - ALAN WATTS

“I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained;
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition;
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins;
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God;
Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things;
Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago;
Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.”
― Walt Whitman

"In the ancient world, people placed heavy stones on the graves of the dead so their souls would not wander and inflict the living. I always thought this was simply the practice of superstitious and primitive people. But I was about to learn that the dead can hover on the edge of our vision with the density and luminosity of mist, and their claim on the earth can be as legitimate and tenacious as our own."

- Dave Robicheaux (In The Electric Mist With Confederate Dead)