The New seminole
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
--Viktor Frankel
(From celebrated Austrian psychiatrist and Nazi concentration camp survivor's 1946 book
Man's Search for Meaning)
--Viktor Frankel
(From celebrated Austrian psychiatrist and Nazi concentration camp survivor's 1946 book
Man's Search for Meaning)
It's funny how things repeat themselves in the world. The word "Seminole" is what an 1840's white soldier heard when he asked his Indian scout who all those Indians were way out on the Everglades horizon who they're always chasing but can never catch. The scout used the Muskogee word "Seminolay" which means "wild, not fenced in, free." This was his way of saying those Indians you can never catch are "free men." Well, the New Seminole are trying to keep it that way. If you read my books you know by the second book, that's all we did, staying on the run, never staying in one place longer than Micco Busimanolotome thought was prudent. Although I had a real problem with that because he was always uprooting us just when I was getting settled in to the branches of my new hammock tree, in retrospect, my father-in-law was channeling the thought processes of his long dead ancestors which kept us "free" (and alive) longer than we probably had a right to be what with Uncle Sam's big bad army on our tail.
“Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”
--Viktor Frankel
I was introduced to the works of Viktor Frankel by my father-in-law and chief, Busimanolotome Osceola. He told me to read the guy, that it would help me understand where he-- my Micco-- was coming from and help me to accept responsibility for my choices, no matter how "wrong" in the eyes of the world they may be. I'm pretty sure Frankel didn't mean we should interpret them the way we did, but we did, and now Frankel's Nazi concentration camp guards have become our guards in the guise of Uncle Sam and his alphabet soup of agencies bent on taking us out.
How ironic, right? Busi would have laughed and said, "How Dark Energy" because if you read my books, you'd know he believed Dark Energy/Matter, that unknown thing between the atoms and the stars, was irony. You can get a quick feel for Frankel here. SPOILER ALERT: Stop reading if you haven't read my books.
I personally believe that we did the right thing-- responding to our calling, i.e., to "act responsibly" as Frankel suggests-- up until that crazy motherfucker Indian Larry blew up the dike holding back Lake Okeechobee. That wasn't Busi or Viktor's idea but we are taking responsibility for it . The Dark Energy is thick around us now and no one is laughing.
--Viktor Frankel
I was introduced to the works of Viktor Frankel by my father-in-law and chief, Busimanolotome Osceola. He told me to read the guy, that it would help me understand where he-- my Micco-- was coming from and help me to accept responsibility for my choices, no matter how "wrong" in the eyes of the world they may be. I'm pretty sure Frankel didn't mean we should interpret them the way we did, but we did, and now Frankel's Nazi concentration camp guards have become our guards in the guise of Uncle Sam and his alphabet soup of agencies bent on taking us out.
How ironic, right? Busi would have laughed and said, "How Dark Energy" because if you read my books, you'd know he believed Dark Energy/Matter, that unknown thing between the atoms and the stars, was irony. You can get a quick feel for Frankel here. SPOILER ALERT: Stop reading if you haven't read my books.
I personally believe that we did the right thing-- responding to our calling, i.e., to "act responsibly" as Frankel suggests-- up until that crazy motherfucker Indian Larry blew up the dike holding back Lake Okeechobee. That wasn't Busi or Viktor's idea but we are taking responsibility for it . The Dark Energy is thick around us now and no one is laughing.