If this doesn't scare you...

... nothing will. This link was sent to me by my friend, the artist Gary Lloyd, along with his wishes for the new decade. The speed and quantity of information coming at us in this twenty-first century is astounding--more, perhaps, than the human mind can tolerate. It was T.S.Eliot, wasn't it, who wrote that "mankind cannot bear too much reality"? What would he have had to say about virtual reality? I plan to introduce each of my forthcoming speaking engagements with a poem. I plan to invite participants to close their eyes and slow down their minds enough to hear the words and see the images, to create space for the poem to simply be. I plan to contrast that endless flow of superfast information with a single breath, fully experienced... Thanks, Gary.