Freedom #2

                                                               Freedom #2

 

                    

                             

                            "Freedom is the right to tell people what they don't want to hear."
                                                                                       George Orwell      

Freedom presents herself powerful and grounded. Her voice is kind, clear and direct, her words tethered and directed by the winds of passion and change. She looks right into your soul and dares you to look back with the same honesty and authenticity. Freedom will not be anyone other than who she is.

As a meal, freedom is a banquet of wild and rare delicacies, spices from unknown places, exotic, undomesticated wild meat that would have killed, if itself had not become prey. Wine of such vintage and bouquet that just the smell and sip bring ecstatic intoxication. The nourishment from the meal of freedom is light and filling, a sustaining infusion that builds blood, muscle and bone and helps the mind focus.

The music freedom makes is bold and soothing, a steady rhythm that builds in intensity and crescendo to orgasmic heights and then declines to soft interludes of space and mystery. Freedom's sound is clarion as brass and tempered as the aged wood of Stradivarius, with piercing highs and resonant cello lows.

In vehicular form, freedom has a powerful engine with German engineering and efficiency, a plush interior not overstated and ornate but sleek and sexy. The vehicle is a ride of pleasure and thrill, an extension of the driver, the vehicle will respond on a dime, so training is required to master the maneuvers. Only the highest octane fuel will suffice for this kind of machinery and maintenance is a spiritual discipline.

As freedom morphs into nature she is our sustaining planet in all her glory. The mysteries of weather, majesty of oceans, beauty of sky and water configure in the greatest show that is life. All patterns, cycles and rhythms are the acts, scenery, costumes and actors on this magnificent stage. Humility is the only price of admission, but it is the price that will be exacted if it is not paid willingly.