Carroll Gardens is lousy with statues. One of the more famous one is of St Lucy with her eyeballs on the plate at the corner of my old block on Third Place. It is a memorial to Tuddi who was an old time resident who died many years ago.
What is interestting is you can see the bar in the background. Back in the day it used to be the Three Fours as the address is 444 Court St. Now it is a hipster bar called Abeline with a Western motif. It is run and patronized by hipsters. They had outside seating before the virus and the typical hipster drinker was a mom with a stroller and a dog attached getting their drink on in the middle of the day. The bar is always full of kids as these hipster parents don't want to lose out on their drinking so they bring their brats everywhere.
The other thing that is interesting is that the statue gets a lot of offerings. Not candles or cards or other tokens of respect. No cigarette butts the the hipster scumbags toss on the floor. The owner of the building has to come clean it every day.
It is sick out there and getting sicker.
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One time I went to the shul in Beverly Hills and they had a statue of Sammy Davis Jr. It only had one eye on the plate.
As Jack Elam said, "I'll keep an eye out for you".
Kudos to open eyes, wherever they land.
I can think of no better words for sick times than these:
For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them. But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.
Blessed, I tell you, blessed, blessed, blessed are those who know how to Stop, Look and Listen.
I love the sequencing, See, Hear, Understand, Turn, Heal, as it moves from physical sensory input, to thought processing, to action and wholeness of being.
Feel, Think, Do and BE!
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The word you used in this post reminds me of an old joke:
Karnak: Motif.
Ed: Har har har - motif!
Karnak: *glare*
What does Leon Spinks want for Christmas?
And here's the other joke, for what it's worth:
The song the Dems (or Demos as edutcher calls them) in Opposite World closed with last night:
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
And what are we to look and listen for? Current observable reality and the Grace and Truth present within it. (I didn't realize the Dems were using that song until after I'd written the first comment here.)
In my book, it's Truth and Grace held in a balance that runs down the middle of the narrow path the Good Teacher (who was said to be full of both) talked about years ago. Too much Truth without Grace leads to judgment, with criticism, negativity, and contempt in the sidecar. And Grace without the presence of Truth leads to enabling, denial, manipulation; with passivity and resentment plodding alongside.
Storytelling is one of the ways Truth and Grace is revealed, conveyed, and invited.
As a Storyteller, TY, you're up there with the best of them. From my view, there's a pinch of something missing. The sickness so well described is out there. What's the antidote or at the very least the leveling agent?
The positive I see in the posted story is the fact that amid the changes, care-less-ness, and dishonoring going one, someone still cares enough to come every day to clean the area up. And write about it.
For Kamala the commie, it was "everybody look who's going down".
I read that she chose her Secret Service code name: Pio-knee-er.
PIO
Programmed input/output for IDE hard disks
Public information officer of a government department
Person of Indian Origin not living in India
Police Intelligence Operations of the U.S. Army Military Police
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