Question Mark – Daily Object Writing Sept 17
Sep 16th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Daily WritingShe had gone off into the wilderness, a cabin by a quiet lake, a log fire and a library of books. She was seeking wisdom, trying to distill it all down into something she could practically use to live a good life, but all she was coming up with were question marks. Just when she thought she’d worked through an insight and had something settled, some opposing philosophy would interfere with her fishing expedition and the barb of a loitering question would get stuck in her consciousness. She’d tug away for hours thinking she had an answer on the line before she realised it was only an old boot or that things had got snagged on a rock of stubbornness.
She continued to send out sniffer dogs of inquiry to the Tomes she was plying through, Plato, Descartes, Jesus, Buddha, the Koran. Self help books from every conceivable corner seemed to say similar things in different ways – but the overwhelming gush of information had her in over load and the sluice gates needed a good opening to wash out all the old and put in the new. After a refreshing walk taking in pleasant smells of unfamiliar grasses and listening to the rhythms of the crickets and breezes through shifting leaves she was ready for another round.
Back to the pitching plate her arm swinging over, seeing if the back stop of wisdom was going to take the strike or whether another arc of philosophy would be whacked into the outfield…..
