2006年NPR美国国家公共电台九月-We Never Go Away（在线收听） |
| Welcome to This I believe, an NPR series presenting the personal philosophies of remarkable men and women from all walks of life. I believe in honor, faith, and service. I believe that a little outrage can take you a long way. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in empathy. I believe in truth. I believe in the ingredients of love. This I believe. Throughout our series, This I Believe, we've heard people from all over the country and from all walks of life. Today's essayist didn't have to go far to turn in his submission. He is Dennis Downey, a poet and performer from Falmouth, Massachusetts, and he lives near our series' curator, independent producer, Jay Allison. Most of the essays sent to us, about 15,000 so far, come as text via the Internet, but this one was delivered in person by hand on an audio cassette. The sentences, such as they are, came to us by ear. They might be a little hard to understand on the page but by ear the meaning can be felt. Here is Dennis Downey with his essay for This I Believe. I believe in genes and a forward flow of time and in all things visible and invisible. Smaller than a light microscope sees, a gene is a genie, is a ghost, is one-half of each of us given by one-half of each parent. And each of us comes from 2 parents, each of whom came from 2 parents, each of whom came from 2 parents. In an endless crisscross of streams of time and person's going backwards. And each of us is as in our own incarnation. A soul inside a body for some reason, a fire, a flame, a soul. What we desire, that we desire, lighter than the flesh, the soul's the glow of us. The soul is the particular glow that the genes make when they make. It's the soul that stands the body up and gets it moving forward. Everybody's soul is on a journey. I believe we live in a solar system that we go around the sun, the sun, and that the sun is a giant ball of flame. I believe that most of the energy for everything on earth comes from the sun except for the energies of the Earth itself, because the Earth itself is also on fire, inside, in the center, at its core. We know this from volcanoes, that there is a fire going on inside of the earth. We stand on an earth that is a boiling ball of iron, on fire in space, spinning at its core as it circles the source of sunshine. And each generation is short, a mutation, first we're a child, then an adult, then a parent in turn to a child, then an old person, hopefully. With change, constant change all around us, always throughout. Who wears what, who is in charge, what music sounds good. And I believe that a book is a box because a book carries something from some one person to another. And because it is used and can be used to carry ideas across time, which is how ideas build up. And each of us is not only our own lives unwinding forward, but also a part of and in service to the larger life for the tribe, which in turn is in service to the larger life of the species, which in turn is in service to a larger life source lost in a bath of stars that is a galaxy scattered in the hugeness of the universe. We are not lost when we die, we never go away. Why would we go away, when we're gone, we come back. Dennis Downey with his essay for This I Believe, Downey dropped off his tape with us, because he lives nearby but we invite you to send us your essay over the Internet, no matter where you live at NPR.org. For This I Believe, I'm Jay Allison. Next Monday on morning edition, a This I Believe Essay from Bengeover Juosio Belaflect. Support for This I Believe comes from Capella University. You are listening to All Things Considered from NPR News. This I Believe is produced for NPR by This I Believe Incorporated and Atlantic Public Media, for more essays in the series, please visit NPR.org/ThisIBelieve. -------------------- genie a magical creature in old Arabian stories that will do what you want when you call it criss-cross [countable] a pattern made up of a lot of straight lines that cross each other see also zigzag Inside the box was a crisscross of wires. crisscross adjective a crisscross pattern of streets incarnation [uncountable and countable] the state of living in the form of a particular person or animal. According to some religions, people have several different incarnations see also reincarnation She believes she was an Egyptian queen in a previous incarnation . unwind 1 [intransitive] to relax and stop feeling anxious a beautiful country hotel that is the perfect place to unwind 2 [intransitive and transitive] to undo something that has been wrapped around something else, or to become undone after being wrapped around something She started to unwind her scarf. |
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