It’s time to Rock and Roll…
Last night a friend sent me a text just to check in. When this happens in life it’s about concern and expectations and maybe it demonstrates the best part of what humans can be and quite frankly are. This blog about seeking peace and joy has always been about experimenting with different lenses on experiences most of us have had or will have or wish to have or never want to have. The blog has never been a prescription, never attempted to be a road map. It has been an attempt to lay out one person’s parts for constructing a compass of sorts and long about a year agate choice was made to suspend the writing to work on some other parts of the collective soul. Well ..those parts are now up and flowing and creating questions that this blog can muse regarding and since typing exercises the finger muscles used while keyboarding on the piano-that flow continues one of the new streams life is presenting in my personal seeking piece and joy universe and speaking of flow it’s time to let that stream flow down this lazy river and offer it to anyone who might care to use some time seeking peace and joy.
Enough with all the why this is a new blog after so many moments gone by—let’s “Rock” and “Roll”!!
ROCK
One of the new streams that will be part of this blog moving forward is the Disability Rock Opera” inspiration has brought into my adventure but we’re not going there today. We are starting with real rock—No not Grunge, 90’s Alternative Rock, Not regal, not Old School Hip Hop and not Punk.. and not in any way shape or form disco. We are talking the big three. Igneous - Sedimentary—and metamorphic .
Most of the Earth’s surface -it’s landmass etc is covered by Sedimentary rock. This rock is formed by little bits of stuff just sitting around-d for a really long time and being under pressure for a long enough time time that it quits moving, gets stuck and hardensIt seems like a lotto ideas held by a lot of people follow this pattern and yes it seems to happen all over the world. It isn’t shocking that most people suggest that things are just a certain way—you know “it is what it is.” Well while sedimentary rock covers a lot of the planet guess what? It isn’t what the world is really made of.
Igneous
Igneous rock you know the type that comes from the center of the earth the heart of the planet and is formed from heat and lava…well that makes up the majority of the Earth’s crust and maybe life events that are explosive and create streams of flowing thoughts and emotions really make up the most significant parts of our lives and moments of discomfort and change wind up forming the shell that defines and protects our inner core?
Metamorphic
Now This is an interesting type of rock. It is formed when the Earth’s crust big plate of stuff decide to attempt to occupy the same place at the same time and these collisions have such force that completely new structures in the stone appear. Yes this is the stuff of mountain ranges and tsunamis. Landmarks often show evidence of metamorphic change or igneous eruptions and so it is with life.
Each type of rock has qualities and usually is pretty easy to identify so pick up a rock or two and think about what is happening in your life right now for that is a method for exploring the next step in the seeking peace or joy process.
We won’t go too far down the path today although it’s probably made of gravel sand and chips of the most common mined rock which is limestone and limestone makes up the base for most roads sidewalks and driveways and along with sand works together to make concrete and cement. Now we find so much use in this sort of rock yet we often seek and pay for diamonds and rubies, and sapphires and emeralds which are not as much a part of our daily lives but in terms of Earth time these stones didn’t work harder to become special or really change more than most other things on the planet. Other than making great cutting edges and stereo record player parts diamonds might be a girls’s best friend but give me sand any day. Sand makes castles that help us realize that no kingdom states around as the waves of time move in and out. Sand helps us get a grip when the ice and snow make our wheels spin and sand allows us to form glass that provides protection and let’s us see into things including the future and past with stuff like a telescope. Sand in an hour glass let’s us have a time perspective and some illusion of control when it comes to time. Speaking of which this blogs thanks you for spending some of yours reading or listening today. Oh and what goes with rock?—Well Roll of course but that’s for tomorrow or the next day for sure.. Oh and if you used to listen to the pod…it’s coming back too….
Find some peace and joy comes what may and understand life is messy so leave a beautiful stain.
