Late last night (technically, early this morning), I arrived back in Rhode Island after traveling for some 27 or 28 hours. I traveled across half of this planet, which I like to think of as my larger body.
My smaller body is this sack of shirtless skin, muscle and bones that you’ve come to know so well on this blog through my pictures and talky blogs. But dare I say that you know my larger body even better. My larger body is the ground you’re standing on at this very moment. It’s the sea, the sky, mountains and valleys of Planet Earth.
The planet is my larger body (and your larger body, too) because we are so deeply interconnected.
For example, at 41,00o feet, I was served a breakfast of scrambled eggs while on the plane. The entire planet (the entire universe, really) was contained in those eggs. The rain was contained in my eggs in that it watered the grains for the feed of the chicken that produced the egg. The farmer was in the eggs, as well, as he collected the egg. And his parents. And his parents’ parents. The wind, the oceans, the rivers… they’re all the egg, too. As the perspective widens, we all become involved and included. An egg contains the entire planet, and the entire universe.
And in this way, this planet is the larger body of each of us. If we really internalized this belief, what a profoundly different world this would be.
January 29, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Like the earth is one of your balls which we happen to walk on
)
January 30, 2010 at 4:25 pm
I don’t know what I was thinking of. I wanted to say “live on” not “walk on”.
January 30, 2010 at 10:03 pm
or lick or suck on?
January 29, 2010 at 12:31 pm
DW, sounds like you need a good rest…
January 29, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Wow…boggle…why did you have to get that deep when I was trying to eat my Wheaties? Love you Davey and welcome home!
January 29, 2010 at 12:59 pm
They must have laced your complimentary beverage with lsd.
January 30, 2010 at 10:45 am
DW-is just getting philosophical-thats his forte.he is not tired at all.he is more like Deepak Chopra.
January 29, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Good lord Davey! Watch what you say because everybody is going to walk all over you.
January 29, 2010 at 1:53 pm
like your example.. haha, so funny..
January 29, 2010 at 1:56 pm
How overly cliché of you.
January 29, 2010 at 2:02 pm
As I far as I can see, the post can be interpretted as that everybody and everything is interlinked with each other. And probably not only on this planet, Davey. With the sun, for example, too, as its light decorates our everyday lives and helps fruits and vegetables grow up to be eaten by us.
However, it seems to be just a funny allegory and have no value for better understanding the world around. Surely, I don’t excluded that I might be too nearsighted.
January 29, 2010 at 2:26 pm
You really must learn how to sleep on planes.
January 30, 2010 at 10:49 am
why sleep=youre flying on top of the world.
January 29, 2010 at 2:47 pm
oh…when i read the title, i thought you were going to say that your body got bigger from all the food you experimented with in australia lol. well thought as always =) glad ur back safe.
January 29, 2010 at 2:55 pm
January 29, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Welcome back~~:P
January 29, 2010 at 3:08 pm
Not gonna lie Davey, pretty trippy. A bit far out man. But I suppose the slaughter house that the chicken is going to is also in th egg? (pretty sure machines are doing the egg collecting, not farmers). Never the less, well said Davey Wavey, very insightful.
January 29, 2010 at 3:26 pm
Glad you are “home” wherever that is and for however long it will be so. Welcome back.
I think you would enjoy being part of a gathering of the great thinkers of this world. The theorists and theologians. What do you perceive happens when life leaves this bag of skin, muscle and bones? Do you accept the possibility of a parallel world where our life essence (spirit for lack of a better word) goes after leaving this body? I don’t think this is the place for a deep theological discussion though.
I think it is important however to ease the physical suffering in the world inasmuch as we are able. If we are connected to the egg, certainly we are even more connected to our brothers and sisters and caring for them (possibly thru caring for the universe) is the most important reason for our existence.
January 29, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Ummm this puts a new twist to…
High in the sky
January 29, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Davey, You have to see the movie Avatar. It fits this concept perfectly!
January 29, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Good post Davey and good attitude. What previous posters probably don’t realize is that after that long on a plane, a plate of eggs seems like the most wonderful gift you have ever received. I’m ready to bite nails after a 4 hour plane trip, I hate to imagine 28 hours, uuuhhhh!!! I really want to visit aussie land but I keep thinking,,,28 hours on a plane, OMG! I would have to stay,,,oh,,,about a year to make up for that!!
January 29, 2010 at 8:31 pm
Posts like this are what keep me reading your blog.
January 29, 2010 at 8:54 pm
I see in my mind the movie airplane when the stewardess sings to the sick girl.
“There is only one river, there is only one sea. It flows through you, and it flows through me.”
January 29, 2010 at 9:33 pm
so what are you trying to say? that the chicken laid the egg and that the chicken ate the grains and that the rain watered it and … and… and..
I don’t get it. What’s your point?
PS. I am not being sarcastic – just not getting it. In what way does that make my (or your) life any better or worse? To me it seems just like another tongue twist of the brain
January 29, 2010 at 11:22 pm
such a beautiful post
reading this made me feel that i am so much closer to you than before
bc we are all connected davey
even if you are 3k miles away
January 29, 2010 at 11:30 pm
There’s a theory that with the world as intertwined as it is and with all of us constantly gaining and shedding cells and molecules from our bodies we could, indeed, have molecules in our bodies at this moment that were once a part of Chaucer, Goethe, Henry VIII, and even Hitler. We’re all made of earthly stuff and we pick it up from many sources. From the air we breathe that cycles through our veins and out our noses again, to the water we drink, use as part of our corporeal make-up and then pee out, we could have molecules in us that have cycled through millions of people and animals, potentially. We are essentially made from this earthly or cosmic stuff and we will one day return to it.
I feel like I should be singing the opening of the Lion King for some reason…
January 30, 2010 at 12:58 am
very true!
January 30, 2010 at 7:38 am
Welcome home Davey!! Get some rest!!!
January 30, 2010 at 7:42 am
Davey, Are planes really better than an old-fashioned sea voyage?:)
January 30, 2010 at 7:44 am
Well I get it and every time I sit in front of a plate of food I look to see the clouds and the rain and the sun and the farmer who raised it and the truck driver who took it to the market, etc. and give thanks to all. You are the best Davey. Sounds like you’ve been reading Thich Nhat Hanh. Good stuff.
January 30, 2010 at 8:54 am
Funny guy, you’re jet lagged mate, go to bed for a week, gee wizz we really sucked it out of you down under!!!!
Thanks for the visit, It would have been bona to cross paths, I did look out for you when I was on Wentworth Ave.
Love and Peace to a beautiful soul xx
P.S. I reckon Mitch’s heart is acheing BAD XX
January 30, 2010 at 9:23 am
We use to talk like that in my pot smoking days.
What R U smokin?
hehe
January 30, 2010 at 9:31 am
I thought those eggs tasted odd… The acid in the rain was contained in those eggs as it watered the radiated grains for the feed of the inhumanely mass produced chickens that were steroid laden & sleep deprived in order to get those eggs. It was not a farmer in the eggs, it was a greedy corporation, and most probably an underpaid migrant worker that collected the egg. The wasted, untapped energy of the wind , the full of dying life oceans, and the pollution of the rivers… they’re all the egg, too. Enjoy your breakfast. And today..help save our earth!
January 30, 2010 at 10:10 am
How very Avitar. *imagines davey blue*
January 30, 2010 at 10:13 am
If your eggs were actually hen layed and not manufactured, the hen unlikely ever saw any grass or anything else for that matter. Instead, she likely lived out her life in a small cage not much bigger than her body and leaving no room to even turn around. She ate hormones and manufactured feed. Her “farmer” was mostly mechanical and the operation was headed by a CEO. Yard chickens or even chicken pens are largely a thing of the past. Unfortunately.
January 30, 2010 at 10:19 am
Go see AVATAR. You’ll love it!
January 30, 2010 at 11:32 am
In 3D!
January 31, 2010 at 8:53 am
Blew me away, I loved it!
January 30, 2010 at 10:56 am
You’re so right Davey Wavey. We are all interconnected.
However, I’ve never felt so distant from other people.
I was at a meeting this morning and somebody shared that they used to exist, now they live.
I only exist. I’d like to die. NOW!!!
January 30, 2010 at 11:00 am
gr8 words from a creative mind-you are a web-designer-and a creative one at that.this is what creative minds do flying over the pacific ocean at 41000 feet.btw-how many meters is that?
January 30, 2010 at 11:37 am
To Alex Cowan: man I hear you totally. I was just talking to some friends about how I can be in a group of people and still feel totally lonely. I think a lot of people do. I believe it is because we are taught from birth that we are seperate from each other.
Luckily I can say that I don’t always feel that. Sometimes I feel totally connected.
But I do see the interconnectedness of everything just as much as I see the illusion of detachment.I just wish I didn’t feel so alone all the time.
January 30, 2010 at 12:30 pm
We are all one with the universe…glad you are safely home after your long journey…
January 30, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Wow! It is a long trip.
When flying from Korea to Amsterdam to NYC several times, I found I was beginning to understand how large and how small this planet really is. And, what really hit me was how very much alike the people are around the globe. Our fundamental needs are identical. Many times I wish that the world’s leaders grasped this, especially when they seek to make enemies of the earth’s people.
Glad you’re back!
January 31, 2010 at 4:09 am
For Fluffybri
I’m so pleased I’m not the only one. Where are you? I’m sure if we’re together, we’ll never feel alone again.
You can contact me on ajc1977@hotmail.com
Take care
Alex
January 31, 2010 at 9:21 pm
Davey you and I are not of this earth, both of us and all of us are of this universe. You are 26 I’m going on 56. Scotty and I have the same affliction, and I’m afraid it’s terminal for both of us. You love now and have difficulty accepting same, but your disease is curable, while ours can be best described as treatment in progress. Scotty may indeed know why this is and I wish he would tell me. He will find out eventually that what we have is indeed special, rare and we need to embrace it and accept it. ” So lets get this sex thing over with and get down to what really matters.”(now you know you’re with a real man and his orientation has no significance.) Sootty and I get the joke. You, on the other hand, don’t have to. You are absolved. I’m not a priest, in fact an atheist. You will accept my blessing anyway.
February 1, 2010 at 10:10 am
Did you smoke something before posting this one? All in good fun- Glad you are back
February 1, 2010 at 11:44 pm
I am largely shocked by the low mindedness of most of the replies to this post….
Holy s**t, are gay men as stupid and shallow as some appear here?
We are all interconnected, and until we realize that and live it out on a daily basis, our society will be as shallow and money-driven as it is currently.
Fred Lucies flucies@gmail.com
February 4, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Hey Davey,
Now just turn that into a government and the world looks pretty peachy! lol
Kenneth R. Livingston