- SALT
- by
James Bell
We watched the movie made about Gandhi -
the bit about making
salt struck me
with how such an act could be considered
dangerous,
bring down an empire
and unite a nation.
Nothing can be done without salt, though
common -
as much a consituent
of life as earth and water
or the sun itself. Empires in the end always
find they cannot
rule light and its magnitude
deprive us of it by locking us away. So, salt
they
chose to rule and tax apart from earth and
water.
There was the bit too about spinning thread,
make your
own cloth to make simple clothes - who knows,
when we
loosen
ourselves from a desire for mere fashion and
instead function
we start to look at
life with some simplicity -
start to taste the
salt of life beyond.
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