Unlikely et fortuitous. Spontaneous yet exemplary, if bearing no course credit. Somehow this ripening autumn woozy-aired squash on an FM Portland, Ore commercial music station I've never knowingly listened to before came this refrain hypnotic followed by outer city interior trip a la Lewis Carroll & Alice down a new rung to Wonderland...:
Lyrics 🎶
(female voice over trip hop setting)
I'm friends with a monster that's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're trying to save me
Stop holding your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
(Male trip-rap voice over shifting rhythm)
I wanted the fame, but not the cover of Newsweek
Oh, well, guess beggars can't be choosey
Wanted to receive attention for my music
Wanted to be left alone in public, excuse me
Been wanting my cake, and eat it too
And wanting it both ways
Fame made me a balloon 'cause my ego inflated
When I blew; see, it was confusing
'Cause all I wanted to do is
Be the Bruce Lee of loose leaf
Abused ink, used it as a tool
When I blew steam (wooh!)
Hit the lottery, oh wee
With what I gave up to get was bittersweet
With this like winning a huge meet
Ironic 'cause I think I'm getting so huge
I need a shrink
I'm beginning to lose sleep
One sheep, two sheep
Going cuckoo and cooky as Kool Keith
But I'm actually weirder than you think
'Cause I'm
(female voice over opening chorus)
I'm friends with a monster that's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're trying to save me
Stop holding your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
Well, that's not fair
Well, that's not fair
(male voice back to its rhythmic base)
No, I ain't much of a poet
But I know somebody once told me
To seize the moment and don't squander it
'Cause you never know when it all could be over tomorrow
So I keep conjuring
Sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from
(Yeah, ponder it, do you want this?
No wonder you losing your mind
The way it wanders)
Yo-lo-lo-lo-yee-whoo
I think you've been wandering off down yonder
And stumbled onto Jeff VanVonderen
'Cause I need an interventionist
To intervene between me and this monster
And save me from myself and all this conflict
'Cause the very thing that I love is killing me
And I can't conquer it
My OCD is conking me in the head
Keep knocking, nobody's home, I'm sleepwalking
I'm just relaying what the voice
In my head's saying
Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the
(female lead voice over chorus trip hop)
I'm friends with a monster that's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're trying to save me
Stop holding your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
Well, that's not fair
Well, that's not fair
(male lead voice descends deeper into mix & trippy hop)
Call me crazy, but I have this vision
One day that I walk amongst you a regular civilian
But until then drums get killed and I'm coming straight at
Emcees, blood get spilled and I
Take it back to the days that I get on a Dre track
Give every kid who got played at
Pumped up feeling and shit to say back
To the kids who played 'em
I ain't here to save the fucking children
But if one kid out of a hundred million
Who are going through a struggle feels
And then relates that's great
It's payback, Russell Wilson falling way back
In the draft, turn nothing into something
Still can make that
Straw into gold chump
I will spin Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack
Maybe I need a straight jacket, face facts
I am nuts for real, but I'm okay with that
It's nothing, I'm still friends with the
(female lead voice)
I'm friends with a monster that's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're trying to save me
Stop holding your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
I'm friends with a monster that's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're trying to save me
Stop holding your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
(C) Eminem ft. Rihanna - The Monster (Lyrics) [I'm friends with a monster]
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My kid goes to a Montessori school founded by a Sikh family. She’s learned creation myths in a narrative way, as well as about ancient gods and goddesses and antiquity. She knows to prioritize caring for herself, then others, then her environment. She is thoughtful, polite, and well behaved. We focus on learning as fun and use lots of tactile things engage her interest. I think we’re doing it “right”, if that exists.
That curiosity and care as the basis for learning is such a nourishing approach. Montessori’s framework really protects a child’s natural sense of wonder. As children grow and begin to handle more complex ideas, it becomes helpful to gently introduce a sense of coherence at the deepest level of reality. Here, we can think of God not as a being, but as the objective reference point thru which they observe their experience to make sense of the world, a way to notice patterns clearly and to understand what is sustainable vs patterns that are harmful. This helps develop the ability to think carefully about cause and effect.
Modern discourse often misses this, reducing objectivity to data or procedures, and in doing so, it can leave people without the deeper sense of truth that makes sense itself intelligible. Without that foundation, both individuals and societies become more vulnerable to subtle manipulation.
Stories of gods in the plural can be beautiful and inspiring, but they often show only fragments of this deeper order. Left unanchored, they can make understanding feel emotional or subjective rather than clear and grounded.
When children learn to recognize this deeper sense of order early, they grow into people capable of both critical thinking and empathy. They learn to give respect and expect it in ways that make sense, and their natural curiosity can flourish safely within that framework.
Thank you for sharing your perspective, it’s a thoughtful reminder of how genuine care and curiosity can lay the foundation for deeper understanding and growth.
Unlikely et fortuitous. Spontaneous yet exemplary, if bearing no course credit. Somehow this ripening autumn woozy-aired squash on an FM Portland, Ore commercial music station I've never knowingly listened to before came this refrain hypnotic followed by outer city interior trip a la Lewis Carroll & Alice down a new rung to Wonderland...:
Lyrics 🎶
(female voice over trip hop setting)
I'm friends with a monster that's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're trying to save me
Stop holding your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
(Male trip-rap voice over shifting rhythm)
I wanted the fame, but not the cover of Newsweek
Oh, well, guess beggars can't be choosey
Wanted to receive attention for my music
Wanted to be left alone in public, excuse me
Been wanting my cake, and eat it too
And wanting it both ways
Fame made me a balloon 'cause my ego inflated
When I blew; see, it was confusing
'Cause all I wanted to do is
Be the Bruce Lee of loose leaf
Abused ink, used it as a tool
When I blew steam (wooh!)
Hit the lottery, oh wee
With what I gave up to get was bittersweet
With this like winning a huge meet
Ironic 'cause I think I'm getting so huge
I need a shrink
I'm beginning to lose sleep
One sheep, two sheep
Going cuckoo and cooky as Kool Keith
But I'm actually weirder than you think
'Cause I'm
(female voice over opening chorus)
I'm friends with a monster that's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're trying to save me
Stop holding your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
Well, that's not fair
Well, that's not fair
(male voice back to its rhythmic base)
No, I ain't much of a poet
But I know somebody once told me
To seize the moment and don't squander it
'Cause you never know when it all could be over tomorrow
So I keep conjuring
Sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from
(Yeah, ponder it, do you want this?
No wonder you losing your mind
The way it wanders)
Yo-lo-lo-lo-yee-whoo
I think you've been wandering off down yonder
And stumbled onto Jeff VanVonderen
'Cause I need an interventionist
To intervene between me and this monster
And save me from myself and all this conflict
'Cause the very thing that I love is killing me
And I can't conquer it
My OCD is conking me in the head
Keep knocking, nobody's home, I'm sleepwalking
I'm just relaying what the voice
In my head's saying
Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the
(female lead voice over chorus trip hop)
I'm friends with a monster that's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're trying to save me
Stop holding your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
Well, that's not fair
Well, that's not fair
(male lead voice descends deeper into mix & trippy hop)
Call me crazy, but I have this vision
One day that I walk amongst you a regular civilian
But until then drums get killed and I'm coming straight at
Emcees, blood get spilled and I
Take it back to the days that I get on a Dre track
Give every kid who got played at
Pumped up feeling and shit to say back
To the kids who played 'em
I ain't here to save the fucking children
But if one kid out of a hundred million
Who are going through a struggle feels
And then relates that's great
It's payback, Russell Wilson falling way back
In the draft, turn nothing into something
Still can make that
Straw into gold chump
I will spin Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack
Maybe I need a straight jacket, face facts
I am nuts for real, but I'm okay with that
It's nothing, I'm still friends with the
(female lead voice)
I'm friends with a monster that's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're trying to save me
Stop holding your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
I'm friends with a monster that's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're trying to save me
Stop holding your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
(C) Eminem ft. Rihanna - The Monster (Lyrics) [I'm friends with a monster]
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My kid goes to a Montessori school founded by a Sikh family. She’s learned creation myths in a narrative way, as well as about ancient gods and goddesses and antiquity. She knows to prioritize caring for herself, then others, then her environment. She is thoughtful, polite, and well behaved. We focus on learning as fun and use lots of tactile things engage her interest. I think we’re doing it “right”, if that exists.
That curiosity and care as the basis for learning is such a nourishing approach. Montessori’s framework really protects a child’s natural sense of wonder. As children grow and begin to handle more complex ideas, it becomes helpful to gently introduce a sense of coherence at the deepest level of reality. Here, we can think of God not as a being, but as the objective reference point thru which they observe their experience to make sense of the world, a way to notice patterns clearly and to understand what is sustainable vs patterns that are harmful. This helps develop the ability to think carefully about cause and effect.
Modern discourse often misses this, reducing objectivity to data or procedures, and in doing so, it can leave people without the deeper sense of truth that makes sense itself intelligible. Without that foundation, both individuals and societies become more vulnerable to subtle manipulation.
Stories of gods in the plural can be beautiful and inspiring, but they often show only fragments of this deeper order. Left unanchored, they can make understanding feel emotional or subjective rather than clear and grounded.
When children learn to recognize this deeper sense of order early, they grow into people capable of both critical thinking and empathy. They learn to give respect and expect it in ways that make sense, and their natural curiosity can flourish safely within that framework.
Thank you for sharing your perspective, it’s a thoughtful reminder of how genuine care and curiosity can lay the foundation for deeper understanding and growth.