SlyBrand

Harvey Kay, in the post he made on Friday said, “I would like to see the strife and struggle that Memphis has had to face.” That got me thinking about alot of things, the most interesting to me being the idea of human struggle, more specifically, wrestling. Harvey said he was disappointed in the current Seal of the City of Memphis, because it lacks any representation of that strife and struggle associated with our city. That raises the question, what would give our seal more of that? I think the concept of wrestling is an idea worth discussion.

Wrestling is interesting to me because of the primitive, humanistic quality of it and more than that, the tension and symbiosis intrinsic to the struggle. It takes two to wrestle, and each one’s move is determined by the move of the other. It’s a “get to know you” kind of thing, a flesh-on-flesh working out of different forces, a “with you” activity. A final conclusion is always met. But the process of getting there is a dance … powerful, beautiful at times and ugly at times, tense and confusing and full of raw energy.

Kinda reminds me of a city I know.

Definitely reminds me of the city I want to live in.