Across the Sea of Ignorant Lies: A Framing Fantasy-----Part One

Once upon a time a smart man, who lived on a beautiful island which was part of a powerful kingdom, discovered a great truth. He knew that the truth would make everyone's life better, throughout the kingdom. He told all his friends the truth but their lives did not improve, because the king's men would not let them use the truth. The smart man thought that if the people across the sea also knew the truth then the entire kingdom would rise up as one and demand that the king let them use the truth. If he didn't they would be strong enough to throw him off the throne and find a new king who would.

The smart man had a problem. How do I get the truth to the people across the sea? I can't swim and I can't even see across the sea, much less throw the truth to the other side. I would travel across the sea myself but the people here need me to be a smart man. I can't leave them alone. Besides, lately, king's men, masquerading as priests, have appeared on the island, saying that the truth is false and that I am silly and not smart at all.

The smart man went to his friend, the crafty man, and told him of his dilemma. The crafty man built him a sturdy boat of aluminum. They wrote the truth on a scroll and gave it to another friend, who was a talented seaman. He cast off toward the mainland in the sturdy aluminum boat with the scroll. The smart man knew that as soon as the truth got to the other side the people would force the king to let them use it to help themselves and the kingdom would prosper. The boat never reached the other side.

to be continued.....

Gettin Sirius

It has come to my attention, after several good jolts to my head from friends I trust, that it's about frakking time that I begin to use this marvel of cyberspace, my Blog, for the porpoise it was intended for. They also have recommended that I, heaven forbid, promote my Blog by informing folks that, verily, it exists. What a concept!!!

Therefore, I will make every effort to post essays of import and substance to it on a semi regular basis. I actually have some relevant content to post and will soon begin installments of "Framing as an Expression of Chakra Energies" by Will Servant hisself. That bastion of self serving prose will be followed by "A Framing Fantasy" which may or may not appear in installments as well.

Most of my meanderings are, as Boots always enjoys reminding me, wordy, and I will have to experiment a bit with the relative lengths of individual posts. Living as we do in the MTV world of short, rapid edits most of us are best served by the literary equivilant of the sound bite. Unless I have the power to capture the imagination of someone such as Will Shakespeare, which I do not, (although I did steal my name partially from him) it is unreasonable for me to expect that readers will follow and digest excessively long posts (like this one is becoming).

We will see what works and I hope that readers will chime in on that and other issues of comparative communication in their comments.