Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for November 18, 2016

Find who the instigator is…

who’s on first

sets the whole stage

The theme of my everyday life isn’t a maddening susurrus.

It’s a horrific cacophony.

The wind cries…Mary.

Enough with the drama, lady. Buy some earplugs.

Apical Ballooning Syndrome: The “Broken Heart” Syndrome

Ballooning—The collapse in 3 parts and then unable to regain original shape.

The last one is the one that gets it done.

Hoping that you reach your destination up there somewhere before your red balloon decides to pop..

Cries and Whispers is my least favorite Bergman movie.

When i wish to escape I read a good book, but of course you can always just close your eyes and think of England!!!

Terry do you hear a lot of whispers above the madding crowds

 

___ Weird

___ Surreal

___ Absurdist

___ Nonsensical

 ☑   Whimsical

Later, the susurrus was found to be the heartbeat of the world itself.

It was a world she would eventually be leaving

She would leave it head first, and emerge in another world.

She would enter that world naked and screaming, in the usual way.

The tyranny of the Matryoshka continued, unbroken.

The Red Ballon can do that for you. This takes me on a poignant trip down memory lane. Makes me feel very un-lame, oops. Cant imagine that was Teresa’s point, though it makes me wonder if she has seen this:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MPdavmesbe8

Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva’s name means “the one who sees (or hears) the cries of those who suffer.” In China he is known as Kuan Yin (or Kuan Shi Yin); in Japan, as Kannon, after whom the Canon electronics company was named. (It was founded by a devotee.) Avalokitesvara represents Great Compassion-the key concept for any Bodhisattva, but attaining its highest expression in Kuan Yin. Using skillful means, Avalokitesvara can take on many forms to help in many ways. He is often portrayed with multiple arms-four, six, eighteen, forty, or even a thousand-and multiple eyes or faces, to portray his ability to help in many ways, and to perceive all of those who need help.

Chinese forms of Kuan Yin are often female.

The red balloon, in this case, did not represent a cerebrovascular aneurysm, which can cause relief from Earthly care on the occasion of its bursting.

It is a very quiet and peaceful way to disappear though, unless it occurs during a sneeze or in childbirth or some other form of strenuous activity.

I don’t actually recommend it, though.

I want one of those red balloons.

“Last,” because successful? Or “last” because unsuccessful?

I need to think about this problem in Lame Logic, and all those Voices whispering out there aren’t helping!

I believe, without checking it, that Bodhisattva was on Steely Dan’s AJA album.

Oh, man… I missed by a mile. It was on Countdown to Ecstasy, 1973, not 1977’s AJA. Off by four years!

No relation to Sarah McLachlan’s Fumbling Toward Ecstasy, so far as I know.

…though I do love her voice…

The saddest balloon.