Forest of the Heart

A treatise on the quality of naturalism in modern thought/action and how life-transformation may be 'wed' to real hours.

A Saturday fun adaptation of The Emerald Forest (Powers Boothe). Enjoy! 

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Amlan Satan and his Ivy-pals had erected a special forest 'dominion' after graduating and thought back on their time in the urbanized world of manmade structures, as he prepared for his icy-novel about the splendors of returning to a state of natural life, reminiscent of the days of Earth's 'storied' past.

However, his wife (Ezzy) was not so happy about this 'return' to nature and thought back more 'sentimentally' about the advanced and intricate tech-toy world of social-media and magazine-cinema culture and all its lifestyle gems and insurance and securities/confidence and why (perhaps) this new life, rationalized by Satan's senses of Thoreau-like wonder, would potentially 'ruin' her daisy-like indulgence 'fantasy' of achieving a more world-placed and 'ornamental' Earth-race existence (hmm).

He liked dressing up like a pirate in college and was a big fan of the Pirates of baseball (Pittsburgh) and college-basketball (Seton Hall) and wondered (earnestly) if this venture into the Earth-forest for a refreshed 'examination' of life-consciousness would potentially liken him to other 'princes' of the inquiry into self-made or 'tailored' and even social-media culture 'friendly' personality in exchanges/presentations of fashionable life-direction portraits (ha).

AMLAN SATAN: We'd wonder how modern institutional thinking and organizations (e.g., Security-Council) reflect this micro-culture interest/rate for activity in Earth-forest constructions of 'sincere' Earth-race politics, inventive...and synthetic (positively).

Maybe his wife Ezzy was convinced her beau and his Ivy-friends of this forest-circle of which she was now the 'trophy-wife' found the real drawing for this return to forest-life from an iconic modernism 'evolution' meditation/paranoia film like John Boorman's exquisite portrait of the 'compromise' of adjusted life-conditions based etiquette-chess, The Emerald Forest. Was this a fantasy...or hubris?

EZZY: You don't miss a single 'trophy' from your time in Earth-circle(s) world, Satan?
AMLAN: Nah; however, I suppose my Upper-Deck (baseball) card collection was 'true' genius (ha).

EZZY: Be careful what you 'dare' to wager you may just 'leave-behind' for ideology, Satan.

AMLAN: Alright; maybe we'll order some wax-candlestick making home-kits online for Valentine's-Day (ok?).

EZZY: Aha, the 'opals' of memory erecting the 'jungle' casing of treasure-hospitality among intelligentsia!

AMLAN: Maybe vanity's face erases heat.

EZZY: Maybe (only).

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). 

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)