February 3, 2006
Shrinkwrapped today posts on the subject of where a man invests his treasure, and how difficult and rewarding it is to dig it up and hand it over to Life. As the comment indicates, we liked it a lot.
Even our imagery reminds us of just about our favorite passage in, as the post's poster boy Robert Avrech might say, the Christian Bible. Just for fun, how many memes of the Seven Parables of the Kingdom might apply to this material?
We'll have some ideas.
It's poignant that the courageous cinéaste kid in the anecdote will not be exempt from the inextricable root-tangle of the weeds and the wheat. In this prodigious world, Robert's path will lead through unspeakable joy, and unbearable suffering.
Avoiding it by clinging to Kurosawa over Karen is not an option. That path ends in the devouring maw of The Beast in the Jungle, a sterile seed in unwatered soil.
But we more than sympathize. Stepping off the next cliff, launching the vertical dimension, is no small death.
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