scott-spencer

All of us have two minds, a private one, which is usually strange, I guess, and symbolic, and a public one, a social one. Most of us stream back and forth between those two minds, drifting around in our private self and then coming forward into the public self whenever we need to. But sometimes you get a little slow making the transition, you drag out the private part of your life and people know you__e doing it. They almost always catch on, knowing that someone is standing before them thinking about things that can__ be shared, like the one monkey that knows where a freshwater pond is. And sometimes the public mind is such a total bummer and the private self is alive with beauty and danger and secrets and things that don__ make any sense but that repeat and repeat and demand to be listened to, and you find it harder and harder to come forward. The pathway between those two states of mind suddenly seems very steep, a hell of a lot of work and not really worth it. Then I think it becomes a matter of what side of the great divide you get caught on. Some people get stuck on the public, approved side and they__e all right, for what it__ worth. And some people get stuck on the completely strange and private side of the divide, and that__ what we call crazy and its not really completely wrong to call it that but it doesn__ say it as it truly is. It__ more like a lack of mobility, a transportation problem, getting stuck, being the us we are in private but not stopping_