Terra Firma

"The Rules According to Which the Thélèmites Lived

All their life was regulated not by laws, statutes, or rules, but according to their free will and pleasure. They rose from bed when they pleased, and drank, ate, worked, and slept when the fancy seized them. Nobody woke them; nobody compelled them to either eat or to drink, or to do anything else whatsoever. So it was that Gargantua had established it. In their rules there was only one clause:

DO WHAT YOU WILL!" Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel

And he does...


Well, His Majesty hath arrived, rosy and sweet as morning dew!
Who knows what love is unless they have gazed into their own infant's eyes. Infants are blind and innocent like angels and I am not being sentimental. They remind us of all that is pure and natural, all that we have forgotten and all that we will come to forget in time. They remind us of how harshly we have been judged and how harshly we judge others, forgetting that we all started on equal footing and were shaped by time and circumstance in our myriads of different ways. The world is a hurtful place and we have all become mistrustful. Infants remind us to forget all that negativity. New life is a positive force.

In him there is true free will, raw and untainted. His potential is vast and unknown and I hope as parents we don't stifle his spirit. For the moment we are content to simply gaze at him and let him be. We marvel at his every feature and pinch ourselves like unlikely lottery winners. We wonder how he will change and what other delights we are in store for.

Nikkos Odysseus Spencer Slocombe, welcome to the world and welcome to our arms. The gift of life is bestowed upon you so remember your manners and you will go far. Maybe not as far as Frank Turner the Wondering Minstrel but far enough to get away from your degenerate parents and their retarded friends. Be good, be better, be strong and don't be a wise ass. No one likes a wise ass.