{"id":202,"date":"2015-02-19T07:58:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T13:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifewardlearning.com\/?p=202"},"modified":"2015-02-19T07:59:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T13:59:42","slug":"commonplace-being-and-becoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lifewardlearning.com\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"Commonplace: Being and Becoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lifewardlearning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/4839026248_78eb2e6bb7_z.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-204 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lifewardlearning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/4839026248_78eb2e6bb7_z.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"4839026248_78eb2e6bb7_z\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lifewardlearning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/4839026248_78eb2e6bb7_z.jpg?resize=300%2C200 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lifewardlearning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/4839026248_78eb2e6bb7_z.jpg?w=640 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h5>\n<h5>&#8220;Do you mind a further inquiry, Mr. Henderson? What kind of traveler are you?<\/h5>\n<h5>&#8220;Oh \u2026 that depends. I don&#8217;t know yet. It remains to be seen. You know,&#8221; I said, &#8220;you have to be very rich to take a trip like this.&#8221; I might have added, as it entered my mind to do, that some people found satisfaction in <em>being\u00a0<\/em>(Walt Whitman: &#8220;Enough to merely be! Enough to breathe! Joy! Joy! All over joy!&#8221;). <em>Being<\/em>. Others were taken up with <em>becoming<\/em>. Being people have all the breaks. Becoming people are very unlucky, always in a tizzy. The Becoming people are always having to make explanations or offer justifications to the Being people. While the Being people provoke these explanations. I sincerely feel that this is something everyone should understand about me. [\u2026] And if I had been capable of the alert consciousness which it required I would have confessed that Becoming was beginning to come out of my ears. Enough! Enough! Time to have Become! Time to Be! Burst the spirit&#8217;s sleep. Wake up, America! Stump the experts. Instead I told this savage king, &#8220;I seem to be kind of a tourist.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<p>-from <em>Henderson the Rain King<\/em>, by Saul Bellow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>___________________________<\/p>\n<p>CC image courtesy of AndreasS on Flickr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do you mind a further inquiry, Mr. Henderson? What kind of traveler are you? &#8220;Oh \u2026 that depends. I don&#8217;t know yet. It remains to be seen. 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