By the Time I get to Phoenix

By the time I get to Phoenix she’ll be rising …. Oh man I can’t even tell you how much T.so loves this song and especially the version done by Dean Martin. His voice so smooth and the timbre in it fits perfect to the sentimentally atmosphere in this song. I guess he never ever thought of being the sad one who - nuts but true - left his love and is sad to the bones about it.

Phoenix on the other hand is a mythical bird that dies in flames and is reborn from the ashes. It is also said that a single tear from the Phoenix could heal a person no matter what he is suffering from. So maybe T.so and GGGee should touch a Phoenix’s tear. The symbol of the Phoenix is very old and has its origin in the ancient Egypt and mythology of old India. So the principle of utterly destruction to be reborn again is very old and maybe one of the deeper truths of human mankind. You may not know it but trees are the keepers of many secrets and old stories. They were whispered from tree to nuts and when we will be trees, we will tell them to our nuts! So we know that men so proud and glorious could go down in flames in a second. But very seldom do these men know how to rebuild their self from the ashes. I will whisper this secret in T.so’s ear, maybe he will listen to it. (one part of the secret is to destroy only the right things not everything) If he does, chances are not bad, that in the destruction of his matrimony lays a deeper beauty: A beauty of rebuilding a trusted and lovesome partnership with GGGee.



I like this picture of the house, which has been torn down, see there is a magnolia in the background, not really to be seen. You have to look carefully, so another truth that we trees do keep is that beauty hides itself from time to time. Magnolias tell another secret: Beauty lasts only momentarily, a flower so sweet can’t bloom forever. To be aware of the real beauty, it must end. If not, the beauty in things won’t be realized, it would be taken for granted. That counts for a partnership too, not every day will be honeysuckle sweet, but like flowers will bloom every year, sweet days – worth to be remembered – will come again. (try to find me in the first picture, well near the sky)

So let’s see and hope that this nut person will listen to a nut, which keeps a lot of secrets. I’m a knight of the order of the Phoenix and know the secret of how to be reborn. Some other men do know it too, but they always make the mistake to be reborn in cycles. A cycle always leads you back the start. Make it a spiral and it seems to bring you back to the start, but in reality you have reached a higher level. That is true rebirth or palingenesis.

PS talking about magnolias: T.so loves this flower and dreams to lay himself to rest under one of these trees. He wants me to come with him, well I guess that means I would never become a walnut tree, but hey T.so if you really want me your buddy on the ferryman’s boat, I’ll do the job. I guess we have mentioned this before, don't we?