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 »
Tagged art, choices, life, process of writing, questions, social media, twitter
February 26, 2011
Still Sundays.
There is fair weather, great weather, and then weather I simply categorize as Wrath of the Universe.
New York City’s weather yesterday was some Wrath of the Universe.
The weather in New York City feels like a curse from the Universe right now. Did winter come late this year?
I know my mother is right and I am not supposed to take it personally. It is just winter. It doesn’t have a personal vendetta against me. It will pass like all the years before. But I do take it personally. In my vocabulary the word cold doesn’t suffice…only wrath of the universe makes sense. I know there are ... read more »
Tagged art, life, questions, relating, religion, social media, viktor frankl
February 19, 2012.
I ate a lot of Internet this weekend. I justified it because I ate healthy and kosher. The meat of the articles was halal. Fresh sources, great nutritional articles, lots of juice for thought. And I usually don’t eat meat: I had not browsed through any of my feeds or online journals in over a week. As is often with most things that happen to me, I had tapped in to the momentum exactly at the right time.
The right place, the right time, the wrong me.
I gathered that social media is going through some mid-life crisis. I thought Internet was only a baby. Don’t you first have to grow up, live ... read more »
Tagged bernard shaw, choices, life, nyc, questions, relating, seekfindseek, social media
February 5th, 2012.
The super bowl of social media and creativity.
I woke up thinking about Wednesday this morning. As if Wednesday was a person I knew.
This last Wednesday was a chaotic morning and no amount of breathing was going to lift me out of the mushroom of frenzy.
Usually calm and steady, on Wednesday morning I was agitated and hyper sensitive to noise. I always try to see what is the longest amount of time I can go without plugging into music with my headphones. This time even music didn’t help. People rushing to some grand nowhere. I joined them to head to one of the most dilapidated parts of New York City. ... read more »
Tagged art, authors, bell hooks, books, life, process of writing, questions, relating, social media, twitter
