I am the Rider of the wind, thought Archimedes of Syracuse

I am the Rider of the wind
The Stirrer of the storm;
The hurricane I left behind
Is yet with lightning warm;
To speed to thee, o’er shore and sea
I swept upon the blast:
The fleet I met sailed well, and yet
’Twill sink ere night be past.

From Manfred by George Gordom and Lord Byron

This quote reminds me of another that is by Archimedes of Syracuse; Pinned up on my wall overlooking my desk and still visible at night times when I’m working late or reflecting with the power of tired creativity, my exhaust burning vicious oil,

the quote says in capital letters, “GIVE ME A FIRM PLACE TO STAND AND I WILL MOVE THE WORLD”

My todays are still impacted by my yesterdays; my boat carries the electrostatic energy, the warmth, of the lightning that had stuck me last night.

What a sleepless night it was but one with many dreams— of me with different people by my side to whom I would exert highest frequency of wavelengths in those very dreams but also to whom

I wish not to ever speak today in this and any other reality.

But the energy does not go anywhere.

It slowly becomes my potential to be stored for another eternity.

If me and death came eye to eye, I would say to her, Give me another day on the dirt ground of the earth and I shall move the world with what I know now—

with what I know now…

When yesterdays were my todays, in those twenty-four hours I took actions that I did not know would cause lightning.

When yesterdays were my todays, I was stirring the tides that had made my boat go astray and drift away.

So do give me a firm place to stand, says the Castaway,

And I’ll show you how fast I can survive and save all the corals in these oceans from going extinct.

But don’t believe the Castaway. He is solely drunken by the mere promise of life.