Showing posts with label steppenwolf. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 20, 2011

The meaning of "organic."

The "organic" word is hippy! Cool! Naturrral! Or with the more provocatively French you could say "Au naturel!" For a deaf or hard of hearing person not to do anything with hearing aids and cochlear implants one could try and claim as being the "organic" wholesome deaf person.

Sure. If you believe in that.

Although I do have my "organic" moments whenever I take a shower.  Even going for swim at a remote swimming hole and go "au naturel" within the volcanic bedrock deep in the territory of Oregon could constitute as an "organic" wholesome moment.  Make that pretty darned wholesome moment. Even singing some songs as you hike the trails would be an "organic" moment because it comes naturally to use your voice. Even if you're tone deaf. Nothing more "organic" than using your voice and scream "Hello" and hear the "organic" echos reverberate off the canyon walls.

Just because one action, belief or way of doing is considered as "organic" or "wholesome" doesn't necessarily mean it's natural. Having an "organic" moment by running nekkid through the city streets in broad daylight with your dingleberries bouncing like leather Hacky Sacks will certainly earn you a trip to the nearest asylum. So, is using your voice to yell "fire" in the most shrieking "organic" way will certainly be a guaranteed way to get yourself arrested.

But I'm sure speaking and using your voice constitute as an "organic wholesomeness" action. Something like the time when one deaf person decided to to speak at the Senate Health Hearing in California decided to go really "organic." The whole nine yards, vocal cords and all. After all, to speak and use one's voice is quite natural for many deaf and hard of hearing people. I don't think you can't get any more "organic" than that. Signing is also "organic," too.  The Native American Indians were doing their own "organic" stuff for a long time until a better, improved "organic" way of communicating stepped in.


I end my thoughts here with a captioned 1967 song called "Born to be Wild" by the Steppenwolf band. Crank up that volume and enjoy your "organic" moment whether by feeling it or by listening to it.