The story of our need for legacy, passion, beauty and truth; through the eyes of an extraordinary young girl with the pure heart of a master teacher……..
ARISTOTLE’S PRAYER.
The truth is that Eris Totle, a girl considered by her peers as ageless and knowing, could bend history to her liking. She could at once hold knowledge, beauty and humanity in her every thought. She lived outside common thought and common expectation, yet she was no mystic, nor would anyone take her for anything other than a youthful, exuberant girl. That is, unless they caught the glimmer in her eyes or her left raised eyebrow. Then you would know her through how you felt just being in her presence.
She was once quoted, “I don’t know what your job is, but mine is to fully understand and finally gaze from within the beauty that is me. In this ever so illusive place, within me and within you, all our parts become one, whole and at once BEAUTIFUL.”
She was nine years old. She is also Aristotle’s prayer for the world.
Click Each “Aristotle’s Prayer”
Song Title for the Full Story
- The Spirit of Rosa
- Aristotle’s Prayer
- Which Side of the Penny is Yours?
- A Chance for Beauty
- The Boys in Red
- How Do I Go On from Here?
- I’m Gonna Get My Needs Met
- A Boy Has Been Born
Featured “Performance Yoga”
Lizzie Brooks
Quotes Taken from “Aristotle’s Prayer” Script and Lyrics
“We trip, stumble and run after beauty, as we each define it, trying to capture and hold it tightly… all the while claiming it “mine”. Beauty is illusive in this game and like a wild stallion is most magnificent when not named, penned, owned or branded.”
~ Gary Powell
The pattern of the possible is preferred above the rule.
Lyric from the Song “Aristotle’s Prayer”
“The big idea is this: the world CAN be known and our ability to reason remains
our best hope for surviving. This is as expressed by Aristotle some 2300 years ago and is an idea still struggling under the weight of still-born conformity.. and pancakes.”
~ Gary Powell
“Aristotle said, ‘All men by nature desire knowledge…’ where the relationship between knowledge, self-discovery and beauty are all intertwined for the unconscious to ruin.” ~ Gary Powell
“Hell, most everyone has experienced betrayal, but seldom are we aware when our APTITUDE or our POSSIBILITIES have been hijacked! There is a law against this…
but we lost it.” ~ Gary Powell
“Galileo, one of the greatest minds ever produced by humanity, was sentenced to life in prison for THINKING. Consequently, no one runs that risk anymore.”
~ Gary Powell
Illusion here knows no bounds.
Betrayal here makes no sounds.
Employed at your discretion.
Now mine by your deception.
In the shadow of your fear,
How do I go on from here?
Lyric from the Song “How Do I Go On From Here”
“Finding the best use for our individual nature hardly has any place for habit,
yet, we are…. both habituated and institutionalized
across almost every thought and behaviour.” ~ Gary Powell
Each moment’s been filled with a new loss to mourn.
But life has just spoken, an offer, a token;
a boy has been born.
Lyric from the Song “A Boy Has Been Born”
“Rosa Parks’ triumphant moment of reason over darkness has earned her place not in the back of the bus – but at the front of Aristotle’s Prayer. ~ Gary Powell
I see a hand that’s down your pants, you’ve taken no notice before.
You’ve been led astray, I hate to say, the hand it is not yours,
Oh, which side of the penny is yours, me lad?
Which side of the penny is yours?
Lyric from the Song “Which Side of the Penny is Yours?”
“A famous painting depicting Galileo’s trial in front
of the Catholic church tribunal was just beggin’ for a lyric…
so I offered Galileo “The Boys in Red”… retroactively. ~ Gary Powell
Menu of ShowsTo sit in judgment is a wonderful thing.
We’re wanna-be pontiffs of the most right-wing.
We decide who starves and we decide who’s fed,
cause everybody answers to the boys in red.
Lyric from the Song “The Boys in Red”