from Uric Hubert Rainard to me , yes, but to the community we have created around this blog. \u00a0I cannot say my blog, because if your do not read, I do not write. That is the true sense of the new way of Media, the end of Iconism as we know it, but the beginning of Iconism as a fulcrum around which the community develops and then the Icon itself dissolves into the community.<\/p>\n
As I was struggling with my first challenges with fame, I took a local train in the ordinary class in Mumbai. \u00a0At rush hour its an experience that defy’s your sense of individuality. \u00a0Your are just part of sweaty bodies exchanging breath . Your existence just an extension of the other. I started my first poem that to this day has remained unfinished :<\/p>\n
Give me the courage<\/p>\n
my friend,<\/p>\n
to be ordinary ….<\/p>\n
Amazingly fame created not a sense of strong identity but a loss of identity. \u00a0Now of course I have gambled with fame long enough, like a game of dice, up one day and down the next, to know that life’s lessons compel you to be ordinary always, but extraordinary through the path of humility \u00a0that life enforces upon you. So now the only thing I have to add to the poem is the line :<\/p>\n
lost in humility ..<\/p>\n
Uric’s letter :<\/p>\n
Dear Mr. Shekhar Kapur I am not totally amazed that you are just as accessible as you were three years ago, and just as adroit and wonderful a host, as you are, who is always available in the sense that it is here that you share your world and that we as your guests are welcomed to be ourselves respectively. It is a deep honor and I came by accidently because I looked up my name on the internet search, and a comment I made when i was last here came up. It was when Anthony Minghella passed away\u2026 sorry for your loss, then\u2026 and I remember being moved by the great array of your blog\u2026 it\u2019s total open-ess. I was also present to read and be a part of the wonderful hopeful gifts of support, when Heath Ledger passed away and the strength of spirit, that must have taken. You are just amazing and I say that because _In every way I feel the very expanse of knowledge that surrounds you. I presume you travel so easily, by this heart that is your foresight_ that you are always prepared, because you live in the immediacy of Now. I can feel it as I write. I used to blog a lot, but I have not for awhile, except to blurb on the Facebook, but this year I will be re-creating my attenuation to the great orb of consciousness, because I believe the existence of true wonder is to be found in our natural selection and cultivation of honored friendships. I hope that you and all of your most honored guests have a most wonderful New Year. Ulric(seattle)<\/span><\/p>\n Thank you Ulric, from me on behalf of the community that urges me to host this blog.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" from Uric Hubert Rainard to me , yes, but to the community we have created around this blog. \u00a0I cannot say my blog, because if your do not read, I do not write. That is the true sense of the new way of Media, the end of Iconism as we know it, but the beginning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n