May 20, 2012.
Today: New Moon; Solar Eclipse.
It almost feels predetermined but Albert Camus’ words came to mind nonetheless: “benign indifference of the Universe”.
It is not a surprise that I woke up thinking about Albert Camus since I fell asleep while reading his words last night.
This Sunday morning’s energy is some light in water that doesn’t move quite as you expect.
Due to travels I have been mostly unplugged. I haven’t even had time to “tweet” that I have no time to tweet. This amused me. How strange is this social media trip that constantly makes us feel as if something is happening when nothing is happening?!
Writing today feels like it once ... read more »
Tagged books, choices, family, nyc, questions, relating, social media
Still Sundays
May 6, 2012.
The moon rode into Earthtown last night. I could hear its supersteps around midnight.
How wide are your shoulders, Time?
New York City is a funny bone of time zones. Usually when we are awake here the West Coast is still asleep and over the Atlantic people are ending the day. How many more ways can I be in between worlds?
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I finally finished a fiction short story yesterday. It is 700 words over the submission guidelines but other than that it is finished. I could make it into two different stories I suppose: keep one for myself and the other one for submission. Or I could diligently ... read more »
Tagged beauty, choices, life, marco rojas, process of writing, questions, yoga
April 22, 2012.
Mirror Mirror on Stillness’s wall which Sunday is the truest of them all?
Last Sunday I was swimming in the lakes of nostalgia for certain places and this Sunday the present is all I could ever hope for.
Nostalgia, I hope you like the caricature we have created of you, a doodle of escapism framed in fad.
When I am nostalgic about certain places and times, it is without longing to “go back” unless I am desirous of being imaginative and want to go “back in time” to a period in which I was never born or participated. My nostalgia is more an impromptu tribute to all things for which there are no ... read more »
Tagged choices, life, mama, questions, relating, seekfindseek, story, travel
Still Sundays.
April 15, 2012.
It wasn’t until this weekend, last night, when I felt there really is something distinctive about this time of the year, particularly April 15th.
In 1865 on this day Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
The Titanic sank.
In 1927 a great American asset, the Mississippi river, became a tremendous liability when the sky fell down in the form of non-stop rain causing the river to burst and cause one of the greatest floods in American history.
In 1986 on this day American warplanes bombed Tripoli in retaliation of Libyan terrorism.
2012 seems packed with events but time is passing in slow motion. It is only April 15th and so much ... read more »
Tagged choices, life, music, paris, questions, social media, sublime flux
March 25th, 2012
STILL SUNDAYS
New York City can’t make up its mind whether to continue enduring pain and stay in winter or finally move forward into spring and summer.
Stillness is a peyote that shows what is real.
You can’t jump into stillness, you work your way into it and realize it is a fusion of all sorts of coming together.
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It was in Paris when James Baldwin was first able to come to grips with his explosive relationship with himself and America. Of course that is not why I went there in 2001—I have never followed in the footsteps of anyone—-this is not a boast, just a fact, just how ... read more »
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