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"this is the world as best as I can remember it"

Saturday, January 27, 2024

Tinkering with the Karma Machine

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  Tenaciously tinkering with the Karma Machine, making some adjustments, mostly small. — Actually listening when daydreaming comes more natu...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Creativity is a Flow

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  1 Floating. 2 Paddling over an abyss. 3 Creativity is a flow  that you can ride, an ever-cresting wave.   4 Until the wave crashes  and th...
Saturday, January 13, 2024

The Red Snapper

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  The Captain of the Red Snapper is trapped, though once the trapper. Peering through a translucent eye ice upon ice is all he does spy. Div...
Tuesday, January 09, 2024

Hearts Shine Through

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Seeing Kevin in a dream but Vincent is there too. The world transformed by their vision nearly blind - mentally ill but somehow   their hear...
Monday, January 01, 2024

Gifts from Greta

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  Some time in the recent past Elias has discovered Greta Van Fleet and come to enjoy their music which really surprises me.  He is not much...
Saturday, December 30, 2023

The Dreaming Tree

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  Inside the heart of the dreaming tree wondering at what is revealed to me. To feel the tilting and spin of the earth. To know being buried...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

The Wisdom of Clocks & Glasses

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  Time to see  what is to be seen. To experience what has ever been. To know it truly  when sight is keen. Wisdom is full but foolishness le...
Saturday, November 18, 2023

My Desolation

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Sitting in the comfort of my desolation. A cushioned couch for my consolation. An inner world springs forth, my creation. Offered in awed s...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

Doodles and Korea

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Prior to our current state of easily accessible art-making technology I was a frequent doodler.  It was something to pass the time in meetin...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Shannon, Friend of Kevin, Artist

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She is an artist, a friend of a friend who was also an artist and also happened to be my godson.   I met her through him back in my college ...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

The Magical Dobie Pad

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  A dream: I handled the dirty dobie pad rotating it gingerly in my hand.  Someone had thrown it out, ignorant of its import.  What I had fo...
Friday, November 10, 2023

The Blues

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  The Blues sing to the soul in deep emotional hues. A transcendent force like  taking the stairs by twos. It is a melancholy medicine heali...
Wednesday, November 08, 2023

Fearful Symmetry

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  My heart stays hidden   in a small brick tower  of fearful symmetry… …afraid to face a world that ignores my wishes  even if they are self...
Sunday, November 05, 2023

The Ultimate Measure

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Who can truly fathom the circumstances of life? With so many branching paths and soaring sorrows that appear to  accumulate and, sadly,  ...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Commuting in the City

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Commuting in the city is a repetitive dream, a circle of stop and go, merge and diverge, wish and wait. A necessary evil when you don...
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A. Monk
“Aaroneous Monk” brings to mind the image of a bumbling but well-meaning hermit who continually trips himself up in his overgrown beard as he attempts to battle evil in the world but, more often than not, forgets about the darkness in his own heart. It also sounds similar to the legendary jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, but with a faux-Greek twist. Thelonious was known for being able to maintain two disparate rhythms going at the same time with his hands seemingly disconnected from each other. That kinda sums up my struggle...
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