October 2nd.
Lymph nodes for spiritual bacteria. Dialogue with the body (video link to blindfolded yoga with Marco Rojas). Notes from Protests and Revolutions: the phenomena needed for a revolutionary movement.
The windows in the bedroom had to be closed last night. The room was chilled from the October breeze, a carrier with a post-card from the future: winter is around the corner.
I wish I didn’t write as slowly as I do. I wish I didn’t see putting words on paper as setting lights on a stage (and on worse days delivering thought babies!). I wish I wrote as fast on Sunday mornings and when I attempt fiction as when I am writing an ... read more »
Tagged choices, life, marco rojas, nyc, politics, words, yoga
Found this in the Meatpacking district near High Line in New York City: “Friendship is a fashion accessory.”
I thought about what could have compelled someone to graffiti this? Like what must he or she have felt to just scribble this…not much effort…
In this social media world where much is mostly a performance (unless you just what to simply share information and NOTHING more and Lord forbid if people can let you do that in peace) and world at large too I suppose, people want something special, unique, beautiful, without the effort and honesty required. When transitory is enough, how can you ever go deep?
Indeed, friendship is often a fashion accessory.
But ... read more »
Tagged friendship, new york, nyc, photography, photos, seekfindseek, words
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 Still Sundays:
On Friday evening I visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art and was mesmerized by this amazing sculpture. I am sure most people who visit there often are quite used to it and hence could and couldn’t understand my state of awe. I took many photos and I felt none captured how I was actually feeling when I saw it. I gave up and in my silence contemplated why I was so drawn to it. I thought about it rest of the night and then while listening to a group of percussion drummers outside an art gallery in downtown Philly it finally clicked. That sculpture is precisely how I feel after I ... read more »
Tagged art, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, beauty, philly, photography, photos, sculpture, seekfindseek, words, writing
September 4th.
Spirituality is a nose everyone has. Thich Nhat Hanh on art. Words are a bow and an arrow. Diana by Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
From what I can recall: earlier this week…
Thursday: surrender should not come at the expense of exploding…what good is any practice if you are trying to hold it together as if life is some performance…emotions should be like pop-tarts: cold, warm, hot, toasted, and done. Would anyone reading this in Prague or Lahore know about pop-tarts? Of course they will! There is google! Why am I not thankful then?
Wednesday: Maybe this is why we have weeks made up of days, call them by whatever name, so as to track ... read more »
Tagged art, life, questions, Thich Nhat Hanh, words
