Posted on 07/12/2014 6:28:29 PM PDT by lee martell
I just saw Yoko Ono's latest Advice Tweet; "Count All The Words In The Book Without Reading Them, Count All The Objects In The Room Without Classifying Them." My first impluse was to roll my eyes, shrug and say, There she goes again. I still have that reaction to some degree, but it's not as simplistic and vacuous as may first appear. What may appear as an unfettered indulgence of somewhat with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, could also be seen an a cerebral exercise of the imagination. A 'jumping off point' for conventional, linear logic, if you will. Then again, she may just be playing with the public again, contemptuously testing their level of tolerance. "How crazy can I get, and still be called a genius or the true Muse of John Lennon?" I'm sure Yoko will devise a new test for us very soon. Be ready!
What a startling confession! I never knew he said this. I have a little more respect for Picasso, the man than I did before. At least he knew not to believe everything printed about him. Even shortly before his death in ‘73, back when I began really paying attention to the driving forces in society, people were still quite in awe of him. Jackie O. included. He was as magnetic as Errol Flynn is reputed to have been, but without the looks or screen presence. The media world was much smaller then, and easier to control or manipulate.
Now, now. You’re going to make that little black boy in the striped shirt come back here and accuse us of being ‘raciss!’
My thoughts are is it’s some type of koan rather than something to be taken literal.
Yoko Ono say die the brain cells do, use them not I now, John song sing in head.................................ooooh shiny!
That’s the description I was looking for. Thanks. I knew it could not have been a Haiku. I make jokes about her, but I have to admire Yoko’s tenacity. At the age of 81, she presents herself as someone who long ago grabbed onto the essence of life and shows no sign of easing her grip. She comes from a family already quite wealthy before she met John. Here is another aspect to her life not terribly well known;
Yasuda Zenjiro was the great grandfather of Yoko Ono. When John Lennon saw Yasuda’s picture, he said; “That’s me in a former life”. Yoko said,’Don’t say that... he was assassinated!”
Although Yasuda Zenjiro lived to be 83, he didn’t die of natural causes. He was the son of a poor samurai, but grew a mind for business and became very wealthy by 1876.
In 1880, he set up the Yasuda Bank, which is today known as the Misuho Financial Group. In 1921 he was assassinated because he refused to make a financial donation to an ultra-nationalist.
How many people do you know who can say they are a decendant of a samurai warrior? Not many, I suspect.
Domo Arigatou, is the way I meant to say thanks. I had forgotten how.
keep playin’ those mind games forever
Alzheimer’s is a terrible disease.
Another version of Give Peace a Chance.
In other words, ignore reality.
LOL!
A three card monty game — of “I buried Paul?”
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