Lost Divas
I just spent the better part of the morning reading blog posts on here from 2005, 2006, and 2007. I think I wrote more concisely back then. I stuck to the topic -- natural perfumery -- more than I do now. I was audacious and brave and above all, really angry with the monsters messing with all the new scent artists who came my way. I also did my own thing and shared it with others who also did their own thing. I followed links in those old blog posts and was sad, so very sad, to realize that nearly all of those links for my friends and acquaintances of yore lead to nothing. Websites no longer exist, people too, and their art is gone forever. They were muses, heroes, and inspiration. What began this morning as a starting point for inspiration to write about what defines natural perfumery became a solemn walk down memory lane that saddened me deeply. That article will have to wait a while.
You are still here, holdin' it down!!--- and that matters, immensely. :)
ReplyDeleteI think, for me-- what defines natural perfumery is a respect, and fascination for the soul of things... plus a need to interact with all ancient, primordial plant attitudes that have been existing and developing for gazillions of years before us. ... and be like a bridge or a door where contemporary human needs and feels and ideas about beauty or purpose or economy or, or, and, and, etc. can be in alignment...., and in some form of Co-Production with things that are way beyond ourselves. ... , A reverence for the power & complexity, variety of attitudes, and miraculous utility inherent to life-forms....
life-energy-material-chemical-mechanical artform-functionalities
of stupendous grace and sensibility... .
Already existing, as nature. ...,
Which tends to really highlight the absurdity and perversion,
coercion, exploitation
of industries and economies going great lengths to sell unholy synthetic sensory replacement, tryna make the real and good nature of reality seem distant, uncomfortable, unsuitable, unnecessary, irrelevant as all but commodity.
&so natural perfume, for me-- is also very pointedly a divestment
from the unhealthy modes
pushing reality in wrong directions
bcus of regime-maintainers who have lost their way and are wrong-wrong. ...
& Yeah, love+compassion is the cure and all, but like you said somewhere ago... there are people thatr immune to the cure, cant want health, & needa be circumvented as succinctly and harm-minimizingly as can be done by us plucky commonfolk w a sense of connection and propriety.
(i paraphrase lol)
:)
so yeah.
There lol. ...
Certainly grandiose and run-on enough.
but for real though
I mean it.
.....like,
Its a Living Tradition of Knowledge.
...
That understands something very vital, even if only subliminally or intuitively or whatever,...
&
it doesnt matter why, or how, or when "X-Actly," a person can or chooses to engage, because
the living collective tradition itself is fundamentally built into an ethic of stewardship...
that involves some degree of visceral cherishing and reverence
for the mystery and miracle of being alive...
in a culture of life,
in a moment
in a vast continuum
constituted by living traditions of knowledge.
.... , and in being live players of it, as we may---- to channel our sensibilities, and struggle, and exert will and feeling and collective spiritual-emotional gravity, with bitter-joyful, unequivocal necessity ----
to put the real world into better alignment.
Keepin it a live.
"lol"
but
I feel the heartache of it, too... (maybe less directly, with less comparison... I was twelve in '07... oof lol...)
but it is not a minimizable thing when acutely feeling a loss of connection,
& a sense of friendly, valued souls no longer in community.
It is a grief, for real.
....
and parallel unison is great'n'all but
there is an emotional reality to operating spiritually isolated, even while doin the good work.
"lol," lol.
Bitterjoy, Griefhappy, ++++, ....
things will get better. i believe they will.
maybe just collapse for a while more first.
not irreparably though. nah.
wouldnt be any goddamn fun to have it irreparable
& fun wins.
...
:)
I do have faith though
in the communities of good people...
still operating synchronously thru
whatever fragmenting and re-cohering they do....
... the brutality and gutpunches of it to just be weathered through
like, ouch!... fine, godammit...
guess i'll keep holdin' it down, then.
:...)
:,)
:)
<3,
Dav
All of this, yes! You reminded me of something one of the monsters said in a phone conversation when you brought up your age in '07. The monster said, "There are always more people. More new people," to exploit and taint and manipulate to their way. It was like a punch in the gut for me. That and their remarks about their mother -- I won't go into that because it was beyond horrifying to hear the words spoken with such carelessness and hatred. I love your presence here, Dav.
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