Wednesday, February 5, 2025
I love how animated young children are. Dogs are very animated too. Both seem to have this shameless intimacy that many of us seem distanced from. People can be standoffish and frightful. Sometimes, children and dogs are not animated nor intimate because they are conditioned by their frightful parents. But when you interact with one that’s undefiled, you know who you’re dealing with – Eternal Truth.
The word animate means to bring to life or be alive. Intimate means very close. Intimate might also imply that the relationship is so close it’s hard to detect any deception or fear. It’s hard to tell the difference between the animated being and unconditional love itself. No judge. No critic. No label. Just purity, alive and well.
Something strikes me about the word animate. It has in it the word mate. This is also true of the word intimate. Who is this mate? How does one listen to herself and speak? How does one touch oneself and feel touch? I don’t understand how intimate life is, nor do I understand how I am animated. It all feels so warm and fuzzy, connected and ensconced in decadence, just to be me.
It’s hard to say what this closeness is. I’m dancing around the subject. Well, that’s exactly what love is, the Eternal Subject, dancing around itself. It’s integrated once you figure out how intimate life is. It’s animated, once you figure out how a relationship is a dance card for ONE. But here we go again. I’m dancing around The Subject. How subject and object unite – that’s an intimate question for which I have no answer. When used as an adjective, intimate means close. When used as a verb it means to be made known, as in a hint. I can only dance (or animate) around the subject. I can only intimate at it. Do you get the hint?
Happy Birthday RJH. What a character!