PA: Blog-City // 05
December 20th – A message:
This is a message to those bold and daring individuals or individual who has taken the initiative of posting their thoughts and feelings after entries of this blog… multiple times. I understand the ways that sometime life or the things or people in it can generate a lot of stress and a lot of resentment and a lot of pain for us all, and I understand fully the need to displace some of that stress by taking out aggression on the object that causes that stress. Everyone at one time or another needs to exert some anger, otherwise it will simply build up bigger and bigger and eventually- you’ll explode. In that understanding I wish to express that I love the fact that ones such as yourselves have chosen this, my blog, as the outlet for your anger and aggressions. I want this place to be a forum, a release, for those of your who are consumed with the trials and pains of the everyday world around you and the struggles that are contractually bound to the lives we live. I want this place to hold no boundaries, no repression, and no restrictions. I want this blog to be not only a blog with one voice and one direction, I want it to be a chorus, a seething mass of voices and sounds generated by all people and all directions. The spirit of the Black Book is very deeply tied to the act of release, to expulsion of stresses. And I want this place to be an outlet where all can come freely and express everything within them without any judgment or resentment. With that understanding, I wish to thank those who have taken the initiative, and have taken the bold steps to set the example that steps beyond the box. Those who can lash out at even the individual who operates the very site they use as the canvas for their anger and expression. I encourage others to follow should one so desire or feel a similar need.
Also, to those who posted the first few steps to a glorious new direction of freedom of expression on this blog, you will notice that I have taken the time to remove your aggressions from the blog. In such acknowledgement, I would like to think of it as taking your anger, your hatred and fears and removed them, symbolically, from yourselves. That you’ve laid it all out, that you’ve absolutely exerted your feelings, and now that their out there and open and free, you can utterly release them and they are no more. I will continue to remove whichever ranting appears here as a favor and as a service to those who post them. I am glad to offer this service and this example, and again thank those who took the effort to provide the opportunity.
And now- onto more relevant news- its nearing Christmas! The season is ripe and the holiday is just around the corner! In the spirit of Christmas, and quite tangent to the spirit of giving, my family (those that live downstairs) took it upon themselves to steal a Christmas tree from a nearby empty lot. This is a story that demands elaboration- I don’t know exactly how it got started, nor whose idea it was initially. But walking about in the freezing weather one night not long ago, the owners of this fortress stumbled upon a shabby old tree standing alone in a vacant lot. Dave just happened to have a hacksaw with him. It was late and the sky was dark, but my mom just happened to have a flashlight. Noting the fortune of such a series of coincidences they immediately set upon the tree as trees do go for a great amount of green this time of year. Seeing as this one was free as long as they could get it away without being seen they figured on it being a solid investment. While the flashlight is shone on the base, Dave takes two quick saws and the entire thing crumples- for it is not a very sturdy tree- directly onto my mother. It is at that moment that a car slowly drives by. Well having just seen a tree fall on my mother, naturally the first thing that Dave does is shout- “Turn the flashlight off! They’re gonna see us!”
The flashlight goes off and when the car passes they roll the tree of my mom, get it into the car, and haul it home. It really is a shabby little tree but when lit up it actually does quite nicely. And there are gifts beneath it, and thats about all that matters. ^_^ More or less. And that is how we got our tree this year. SCHOOL ENDS TOMORROW! Merry Christmas everyone!
