Feeling the Burn

There is a scene in Jane Wagner’s “The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe” [performed magnificently by Lily Tomlin] in which one of her characters [Agnus] says,

I want to share something vital
I just read in this self-help book
I took from the trash can
in the ladies’ room at the
House of Pancakes.
Will, by G. Gordon Liddy,
Master of the Watergate caper.

My new guru.
Who,when holding his hand
over a lit candle said,
“The trick is not to mind it.”

There follows a rant on things she says she doesn’t mind and then:

For life
is like that candle flame
and we
are like Gordon Liddy’s hand
hovering
over it.

And it hurts
like hell,

but the trick

is not

to mind it.

…

…

I MIND IT!

[If you ever get the chance to see her do this show, you must jump at it!]

There is stuff going on that I wish I did not mind. I thought I was going to write in more detail about that in this post, but I’m going to go do something Christmassy instead. Maybe that’s the trick to not minding….