July 2011
31 posts
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73. FINDING IT
What ARE you looking for? What are we looking for? I am struck by the light, the joy, the HUMOUR of the people I have met here in Kenya thus far. People here are joyful, respectful, grateful for all they have. Even when a majority of the people live extremely, well roughly — millions in slums.
Had a long conversation over a campfire until the wee morning hours with a journalist who lives...
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72. HELP
Hey guys, East Africa is in some serious need right now. I’m in Kenya, although not in the refugee camps… but seriously, the situation is dire — and so, so unfair.
Take a spin on the lottery wheel of life — and see where you would end up. Think about that.
Everyone wants to give, I don’t know a single soul who wouldn’t if they had the opportunity to donate...
71. CLEAN
“…hold fast to what is good; love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honour. Do not lag in zeal, be ardent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer. Contribute to the needs of saints; extend hospitality to strangers. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with...
70. GLANDY
A flurry of words for this evening’s refrigerator poetry: Wind rushing Run till we land Face and re-vamp Fondness makes me high Relief after this spectacle Step out of the folding in, It doesn’t have to be edgy Drama is Internal Tip-toe Vanilla creation Don’t ask anymore This souvenir you will again leave
Stress, resultant behaviours have left me this way. Was it worth it? Is it ever worth it? ...
69. SEDUCTION
I am not swayed. There are existent avatars that seem to attract — the outrageous, the dramatic. The super-sparkly, the hedonistic. The ones we romanticize, sexualize. The fameballs.
Having come from a business where everything depends upon popularity — everything, it seems — I have to stick to my gut on this one: the true lights, the displays that come from a truly...
68. ON TOUCHING, AND SLIPPERY SLOPES
Its a slippery slope. When we do slip, the trick is to try not to fall all the way back in.
Relying on what I have found… that glimmer of true self that always remains constant. I am more than a social security number, an imdb rank. I am more than somebody who must fall into a track that is familiar. And I am NOT anybody else. Tradition should be honoured and respected, but we can make...
67. LIVE
Time of your life.
A soul dear to me raised a good point. That being, the weak projection, “I’ll see you at some point in the near future, hopefully” should be replied with, “well, you’ll see me a whole lot in the past, and we’ll have some really awesome times there, you can depend on that!” It’s all memories, soon enough.
The past might be a bit...
66. GROK
Without going outside, you may know the whole world. Without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. Thus the sage knows without traveling; He sees without looking; He works without doing. But traveling does help us Grok this way way better. -Tao Te Ching via JW2S Its funny. At this precipice decisions have already been decreed....
65. LAZE
This is hard work. Its much easier to let laze and ego reign.
We modern humans like to complicate matters, don’t we!
Stick to your guns, lady. You’ve already come so, so far.
64. LASER EYES
its wild…. I am able to read people’s flash drives in a nonosecond these days.
where did this laser capability come from? this is what I have been cultivating?
the clairs sing, in characteristic harmony or discord — instantly calling tones of god-shaped holes, wounded moles, faerie souls.
a bit of makeup and a great frock can transform only one layer… we got about...
63. HUMILITY
Wouldn’t say boo to a goose! Oh Tommy Tank, Monkey nut.
Londontown, a new adventure awaits in this patchwork of peoples, cultures, stimuli. I plan to dip my toes back into urbane existence, re-connect with Western thought and a more comfortably familiar culture. Yet unlike my spear-throwing steps in this city at the green-ripe age of 21, I now find myself enjoying a character ride from...
62. STRING
woah, # 26 on repeat mode. I just realized a while later. fill my creative well, huh? i trust. trust, trust.
Wu Guanzhong exclaimed that artistic creation is a kite: the artist should always hold onto the string, no matter how high the kite flies. The unbroken string of the kite is the connection between the artist, life, and people. Without it, the artist will lose sentiments and...
61. STAINED GLASS
These moments are all acts of God’s grace. My tinted glass mood reveals respect for a new shade of existential. Show me the way, Lord, because I want to live my life in the highest light. Let me find love everywhere, love for the good of all beings I come to know. Please let me live like you — without jealousy, anger, or blindness And return from my journey shining a bright light unto the...
60. ADJUST
“Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed — in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. -I Corinthians 15:51-52 (KJV) Turn and face the strange. I’m havin’ full-body hives. A reaction to something inside. Psycho-somatic? The immuno-army...
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59. SHADOW
“Wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore get wisdom: And with all thy getting Get understanding.” -Proverbs 4:7 (KJV) Jung: Know your shadow. Guilt shame fear are within you, buried. Avidyic garbage loops. “If you dance with the dark, it comes into the light. Meet it head-on in the full light of your love, acceptance, and compassion, and it crumbles.” -Bobby K *****We will no longer mistake the...
58. CLEAR
I ching wisdom this week: ‘The image is of a magnificent mountain in the early morning, quiet and unmoving, lit by a brilliant sunrise by which everything is seen with utter clarity.’ Never been so clear. Not in the last 12 years, anyway. That’s like half my life. This is breaking records. [That’s what she said.] What have I discovered? Its incredibly easy to communicate. To know. To see, to...
57. KNOWING
“Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it’s the same with people.” -James Salter, Burning The Days I can’t remember, ever, what doesn’t matter to me. I was trying to remember how and when one particular romance started. And I have no clue. Apologies. Wish I could. But the underground river glowworms were never fully...
56. TREAD
“When the act of reflection takes place in the mind…we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty. Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms…even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory… The soul will not know deformity or pain. If, in the hours of clear reason, we should speak of the severest truth, we should say, that we had...
55. BATHE
In God’s beauty. This bounty of nature: I see it, I reflect in it, I feel and honor it in my spiritual roots. The sky, these spirits — my ancestors — Grandmother: musical prodigy, culinary goddess: you imparted these genes to me Father: integrity, sense of self & clarity Mother: this coin of beauty and grace — you have shown me both sides well The water, earth’s azure blue...
54. BLIND
faith & love.
My Gingi doppelganger: has so much pure, innocent love. Absolutely darling, incredibly affectionate and well-behaved, he even smells sweet — the best scrappy mini-kitten I’ve probably ever met. He is also starving.
Sometimes God doesn’t deal a fair hand — but my little friend doesn‘t know that. Kitty McPhee has so much courage: sheer, blind guts to come up to...
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53. RAISING LIFE
Ubud, Bali. I sit on my balcony gazing out over the paddies. Looking at the art I have purchased from the local craftsmen. Watching the rice farmer prepare his field, plant his seedlings. This life is so honest, simple, pure.
Re-directing my thoughts from places of hurt, failure. Connecting with the plant and animal spirits, and understanding that their essence fans the base of our fire....
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52. FIVE
The number of petals on a plumeria flower. The number of elements, the number of senses, the number of organs of perception. The number of branches on this peace tree in Kawah Putich, Id.
Last night I attended a 5-hour ceremony at the Ashram north of Ubud celebrating Shiva, the destroyer god in Hindu tradition. With 400 Balinese, I danced traditional hindu mudras, sang bhajans, ritually gave...
51. GARUDA
The eagle. She flies high, soars on winds over the green green fields below. I think its alright from this vantage point. My heart still needs the perspective. And when I’m ready to come back down to the earth I will march with the parade of smiling children :o) Barong, barong!
batur crater lake today
50. THE BLESSING OF DIRT
“That’s The Way”
We have no choice but to loo in the hole and bath with the bucket. Its actually rather sensuous. We have no choice but to eat a bit of GMO and MSG, lest we starve. Its actually kindof tasty, and the headache induces a much-needed rest. We have no choice but to inhale the choking brown air of these polluted streets. Its actually the only way to our final destination. Want to...
49. ANTHEM #3
My fellow co-creators: This is a call to you. I seek you, and you seek me. We are the children of this new world, we are the tribe of colorful conspirators. Join me on my journey to bring light and love to the world. Via this peephole we call cinema. And I call to you, my dear co-commentator, partner in Robin-Hood crime, my soul-mate prince: Meet me outside the Extra-Jumbo Saucepan, on the...
48. GAIA GIFTS
Smiles Light Love …all abounding with this spirit. And we ask the question of Gaia, who never stops giving to us: do we ever give back to her?
At Rainbow gathering here in Indonesia, at a campsite high in the mountains, close to Kawah Putich and Ciwideh, I suggested one afternoon that whoever wanted to should come trekking to find some hot springs. So, we set off, and asking the one person we...
47. RAINBOW SPIRIT
Dynamic moving, giving to each other.
We are lit with the rainbow current —
How can I help build this fire? How can I help cook lunch? How can I help lead the expedition, the exploration, the building-creation? My rainbow contribution builds this spirit. So does yours. Life can be so incredibly simple. Everything is explained, has been prophesized, is biophysically re-enacted in every...
46. USA
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
My oh my how I love my home country
we are beacons of light, should we choose to shine; it is our birthright
white peace and love: guiding her path
from the smoggy, corrupted, surviving streets of Jakarta
<3
45. YOU CANT SEE THE WIND
To correctly have influence over others, you must, as Native peoples say, walk a mile in their sandals
Once we know where they come from we can be truly Roman.
Inspired by Bobby K:
Exerting influence can be a tricky business: I saw this with the Thai mafia. Thoughts and actions that attempt to manipulate or gain power over others leave nothing but hate and animosity in their tracks and will...
44. ANTS
What are we, all of us, but ants marching?
Millions, millions, millions into towering anthills?
I did not kill the ants on the bus with me, in the hotel room with me, on the top of the mountain with me. I am not afraid of them :)
My antennae will follow this stomping path to my home.
And one day I will see the queen, if not embody her myself.
a rainbow anthill, bangkok
43. TEST....
…. This station is conducting a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test.
I was sorely tested in Thailand by a bike gang mafia member. I’d like to believe we are all human…. but holy wow! this man lacked humanity, some of the deadest, blackest eyes and aura I’ve ever peered into.
I negotiated, I lost but I also won in this Mexican standoff.
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