new frontiers

it's not so much the job as the spirit with which we do the job, the integrity that bolsters each move. steady as she goes. i've been thinking about my favorite john lennon tune 'watchin the wheels', which i first started listening to at age 4 when my ears were level with the 9 inch speakers in my dad's '65 GMC. and from my four-year-old mind i imagined a person thoroughly entertained by watching wheels, like the mesmerizing effect of a spinning windmill. then as i got a little older, i imagined john wanting to unplug from the 'merry-go-round' of the music industry. but just two nights ago, i was outside looking up at a glittering dome of stars and i heard the Voice arise, the voice of ancestors and spirits past whispering suspicious thoughts and shaking out the spare change in my belly. and then i panned out above the Voice and watched this mechanism as if separate from me, which in truth it is. i was 'watchin the wheels' of my thinking as opposed to 'riding on the merry-go-round' of my neurosis. sometimes you gotta get gospel on it and command with divine authority "get behind me satan!"