SYMBOLIC STIMULI
Any minute iota of energy: whether imagined or real: actual or virtual, or verbal or aural, visual, olfactory or gustatory or tactile, may induce movement, may start fires , erode mountains; or easily prompt us to act, impel us to steel ourselves to do something in response to the stimulus, in any form it may come.
African Americans were energized greatly by the royal British wedding of Megan Markle and Prince Harry on May 19, 2018. Some media have focused on hats, flutters, and frills.
But I look to latency not "patency," to what lies beneath, not atop the greatest global reconciliation of our era, ranking with King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, who traveled to Israel from Sabea and Ethiopia to try him with hard questions, whose answer she not only knew but was!
"I am black and beautiful," she said, as recorded in "Song of Solomon" 1:5 (NRSV) In thus declaring herself and baring her soul and self to a man who had already 700 wives and 300 concubines, 3000 proverbs, 1000 songs, the "wisest man who ever lived and the richest, " say words written in the Bible. Queen Sheba was saying that "I outrank them! outrank all, in wisdom, splendor, beauty. I am!"
We, who once ruled all, anciently, observed and understood that in that ceremony lay a mighty move of God! We, in the United States of America; we in Toronto, Canada, we in Great Britain; we in the 53 Commonwealth nations; we around the world and all others, who bore witness to this nascent regal rejoinder of divine genes, that once were sullied by racism. Science now recognizes are the same thing, none inferior nor superior, the same. The political possibility of oppressed deliverance in their royal wedding, is civilizational regeneration, deliverance that is representative of a reconciliation, a restoration by love of, what was before. Their connubial symbolism lifted us intuitively, epigenetically!
Perhaps I err. Perhaps, I have presumed too much by conflating the symbolism of the royal nuptials over-much, to make them more than what they were. If so, I beg for mercy, for pardon of almighty God, whose words I may misconstrue. I beg your pardons too, Dear Reader, whoever, wherever you are, when you take time to read these words.
Sunday, May 20, 2018
SYMBOLIC STIMULI
SYMBOLIC STIMULI
Any minute iota of energy: whether imagined or real: actual or virtual, or verbal or aural, visual, olfactory or gustatory or tactile, may induce movement, may start fires , erode mountains; or easily prompt us to act, impel us to steel ourselves to do something in response to the stimulus, in any form it may come.
African Americans were energized greatly by the royal British wedding of Megan Markle and Prince Harry on May 19, 2018. Some media have focused on hats, flutters, and frills.
But I look to latency not "patency," to what lies beneath, not atop the greatest global reconciliation of our era, ranking with King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, who traveled to Israel from Sabea and Ethiopia to try him with hard questions, whose answer she not only knew but was!
"I am black and beautiful," she said, as recorded in "Song of Solomon" 1:5 (NRSV) In thus declaring herself and baring her soul and self to a man who had already 700 wives and 300 concubines, 3000 proverbs, 1000 songs, the "wisest man who ever lived and the richest, " say words written in the Bible. Queen Sheba was saying that "I outrank them! outrank all, in wisdom, splendor, beauty. I am!"
We, who once ruled all, anciently, observed and understood that in that ceremony lay a mighty move of God! We, in the United States of America; we in Toronto, Canada, we in Great Britain; we in the 53 Commonwealth nations; we around the world and all others, who bore witness to this nascent regal rejoinder of divine genes, that once were sullied by racism. Science now recognizes are the same thing, none inferior nor superior, the same. The political possibility of oppressed deliverance in their royal wedding, is civilizational regeneration, deliverance that is representative of a reconciliation, a restoration by love of, what was before. Their connubial symbolism lifted us intuitively, epigenetically!
Perhaps I err. Perhaps, I have presumed too much by conflating the symbolism of the royal nuptials over-much, to make them more than what they were. If so, I beg for mercy, for pardon of almighty God, whose words I may misconstrue. I beg your pardons too, Dear Reader, whoever, wherever you are, when you take time to read these words.