Still Sundays
October 9th.
Filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky on “self-existing magic of things” and more. Your talent is a body. Marc Jacobs on innovation.
I find myself intellectually incapable to accept any of the etymologies offered behind “Indian Summer” and google’s curation of history doesn’t satisfy.
October is a solid indigo night, made for returning and leaving at the same time.
Autumn in New York is the muse for so many jazz compositions because only music can capture an indigo night.
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Yesterday I saw a film by Nathaniel Dorsky who has been making and exhibiting films within the avant-garde tradition since 1964. His works have bee shown internationally in museums and theatres ... read more »
Tagged art, choices, life, nathaniel dorsky, process of writing, questions, relating, social media, twitter, words, yoga
September 25th.
made-up memories. a genetic predisposition to engage with life. a real dreamer. real magic. when the Universe bends to become the bow.
It’s so still that I can taste the difference: my black tea with milk is tasteless without the nectar of orange blossom honey this morning. I forgot to buy it yesterday.
Sugar doesn’t taste the same. Not in my tea and not what I can recall of it tasting when I was a kid. When I think of my childhood I recall sugar like a person with personalities, faults, issues, and plans. A relative everyone had to welcome because that’s what you do: pour sugar, large amounts, in desserts, eat items ... read more »
Tagged choices, economics, harlem, life, nyc, process of writing, questions
September 18th
Although there is much to be written this Sunday morning, yarns of thoughts are spinning by themselves around the needle of stillness, I just want to observe and gather some more.
It has been a very full week, more eventful than my typical weeks, and although Sunday puts it together, however fragmented, I am going to need much more time for this week.
Next Sunday I will wake up earlier than I did today to feel Stillness exhale on my skin instead of my gasping for it this morning. Today I slept in Stillness and awoke to the sudden announcement that it is cold and Autumn has arrived although the colors of Fall haven’t ... read more »
Tagged carl jung, choices, dreams, life, process of writing, questions, relating, sublime flux
September 11th
You have to be very alive to dream new dreams; Mama: relationships like buying a house; Whitman.
It can never be just “September 11th” in New York City again like another September 9th or April 9th or whatever other date that comes by every year. This date now means many things to many different people. But history is filled with such dates. Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day is just another day “when something awful and atrocious” happened to most, but to a few it remains as fresh as September 11th is to some of us. Soon another generation will come for whom September 11th will mean differently than it does to us now.
When ... read more »
Tagged choices, dreams, life, nyc, process of writing, questions, relating, whitman, words
From Prague
Stillness doesn’t need a day. My father says, “Marry someone who…” Katherine Anne Porter: “…one powerful motivating force that simply carries you along…”
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I didn’t think it was Sunday this morning. There is no time in Prague. Prague ate time a long time ago. What is a long time ago when something circumvents time from the beginning? Maybe there really are people, cities, and loves that are born outside the parameters of time. Time may have been their mother but they are still looking for the other half of their genetic make up. Eternal orphans that everyone wants to adopt but no one can. Ghosts that weren’t born so they never ... read more »
Tagged choices, katherine anne porter, life, prague, process of writing, travel, words
