Resurrection

Resurrection

Sorrow creeping through the back door
Knives bringing all the guilt gore
Lives sand on a quick shore

And isn't it just easy tonight
To trade your dark for light
mystery for sight
intentions for right

Crime making callous hearts break
Mind steeling so you can take
Blind from all the people that you forsake

And isn't it just easy tonight
To trade your dark for light
mystery for sight
intentions for right
history for might
tension to divide

Oh, did the winter wash you out
Did the songbird make you doubt that you were young
Hey, does the wind go through your soul
Will you give up your control and start again

Sunrise breaking expectations
God-like bringing new sensations
Wide-eyed at this transfiguration
in me

-Todd Anderson April 2010

Getting Harder and Harder to Be Social

I have not kept a regular blog. For the three or four (?) of you who actually will get this in your news-feeds, this is not new news. But I was thinking today after reading a NY Times post on the use of the word "socialize" as a transitive verb, that it is becoming harder and harder to be a truly "social" being.

What I mean is that it is difficult to develop relationships that inter-face in a medium other than technology (i.e. in real life). I am making some progress, but I find the internet has a tendency to degrade all social situations because of its all-pervasiveness.

For instance, calling my family or my friends with "news" is often redundant because I have already shared it via Facebook, Twitter, Googlebuzz, email, or something else. You pick up the phone and repeat everything you said in the email you sent two days earlier... Sort of weird.

This does not make the internet bad (though not necessarily neutral), but it does mean I have to work harder at being social, even though I can be potentially "mass-social" in an instant.