Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Cistern of Thoughts


"The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love. Born out of concern for all beings."


-Buddha

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Cahuilla Selhiisce (storytelling)

In Native American culture, corn, bean, and squash are referred to as the three sisters.


Lovely culture.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Seeing Things




'The objects we describe as beautiful are versions of the people we love.'


- Alain de Botton "The Architecture of Happiness"

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Transcend


"When the last tree has died
and the last river been poisoned
and the last fish been caught
we will realize we cannot eat money" Cree proverb

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Celebrate.

Let us trust ourselves as a starting point towards being fulfilled.


Seek progress and not perfection, because perfection is ultimately unknowable and unachievable.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Stone Studies

Together.
My thoughts stack themselves.
These quiet observations collect and when the right wind blows through, a more profound structure is formed. The dots connect, the stones stack, and I am more at home in my head than anywhere else.


I love to read the lines in the sand. I observe where we stand and marvel at the implications of divisions that we impose upon ourselves socially and societally. Perhaps it was my youth filled with many different views of culture that led me to stand by the notion that we are all in one gnarly game of make believe. It's written in the stones. It's ancient and yet present. There is the age old struggle that we must overcome.
We are greater than the linear.


I picture our collective consciousness stacking stones, waiting for us to build our homes out of something more stable than commercial sociopolitical stereotypes.


The details in the fabric speak of a more simple truth ingrained in present complexity. It begins with arguing that anything complicated breaks down to something very simple.


Embedded in the sand and stones of our time remain all that there is. We break things down to classify them as separate. We break ourselves down and away from each other to feel distinct, for comparison of this separate state. There's a whole web to be spun. What are we writing?


I personally stack each tallest small stone knowing that before it was placed there it knew it's home.
Let energy bind us together, not leave us alone.


Thursday, June 2, 2011

Motion and Sun Sets

Spontaneous Sunglasses Sunset.


On each drive, feel alive.


I will, I do, I feel fine.