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Lagunitas, California, United States
Still looking through a 26 year olds eyes. Do we all feel like that? Sometimes independent, strong, fearless.... while at the same time insecure, meek, and full of fear. Can be persistent, steady, and focused...and then pretty much a total basket case. So there are no rules........only this moment. That's the hope. Love is all that matters, how much Love I hold in my heart and give to others. My dream and hope is to be divorced from the past or future, which keep me from the spontanaity and magic of the present.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

4AM

Trying to write wanting to write can’t sleep so might as well. Making sense of it is not the prize just blah blah blah write to fill the time ease the soul keep from picking up someone else’s writing. Gosh, that’s so tempting. To read what’s already written, and so much of it. Could fill my days escaping into stories and pictures real and imagined. So many ways to take a trip without putting words to paper. But…….

What about my own creativity my own story, not my story story but a story. Although I suppose all writers have a bit of themselves, their heart their soul in the story they write. Yes? Maybe not. I’ve read some pretty crappy stuff.

Do you think our parents/ancestors leave psychic mush in our DNA, our neural net, the stuff that haunts us, that makes us wonder why we feel this way, act this way, think this way? What I mean to say, the things we can’t explain that don’t seem a part of us, but seem to have always been there? And not good stuff, let’s get clear about that. The dark parts, the sadness, the self-sabotaging thoughts, the complacency, the holding back on our dreams. Do you think some of that is ingrained by another life, another spirit?

There I go off in the ozone. I like it there. I want be to somewhere besides here in my own head.  Been reading about our souls, before life, during life, after life. Reminds me this isn’t all there is, thank god. I’m not sure what is “there” but that other dimension is captivating engaging comforting. So much of what I give power to, what I may think is important, just plain isn’t. Just useless sludge.

And I will stop here, because if I tell you what the only thing that matters is, I will sound trite and like so many of those sayings clichés spiritual wisdom coming out of my you-know-what.  The word, at least this morning, seems so over used and does not do its’ meaning justice. The meaning being grand, vast, empowering, blessed, heartfelt.
But, I do wish you much of it.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Bin Laden

Ok they got him
I’m chucking my Buddha in the back seat
Not just throwing him in the back
But covering him with a blanket
Want to feel good about someone getting shot in the head.
That Buddha is trying to creep out
With a little mindful smile on his face
Get back there you bald round man!
Teaching me about not harming
Not today
What about all those harmed Sept 11?
And around the world in the name of a god who doesn’t exist
What about the trauma some will never get over
A shot in the head seems a small price to pay
So it’s rationalizing
So one shot won’t stop future terror
So what
I’ll let the round man who smiles sweetly
Out when I’m good and ready
Probably tomorrow.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

After seeing I AM (Documentary by Tom Shadyac)

It’s a lot of spacey mind stuff that makes sense
We are all connected
By our hearts, guess what
Our hearts talk to our brain
Not the other way around
Every thought of stress….or love
Makes a pattern in the universe
Grief is a type of love also
Its what opens our hearts
To let more love empathy compassion out into the World.
That is such a good thing
To know that empathetic principle or energy
Is the best part of us.
Gives me hope for us humans
The animals already have it down.
Consensus decisions already happen in the natural animal kingdom.
We humans seem to be lagging
If the tallest mountains in the world, and the oceans and air
And all that connect us, are enter-twined in shared energy
How can we help but to love all be all share all
Quit consuming all?
How can we be guilty of doing….nothing?

Thursday, April 21, 2011

My 'Coffee' Table

My desk, well, actually my coffee table.
Why do they call it a ‘coffee’ table?
TV table, living room catch-all table maybe
But coffee?
Ok my desk-table in front of TV in the living room
(Why living room? Do I live here?)
Geez, Kim .  Just write quit questioning.
 With computer,  and sundry paperwork, let’s see, ten books.
Ten books? What the…..they’re only here because I think I’m reading all of them.
Some even at once.
Ok there’s more. Five candles. One of those angel/jesus tall ones in glass.
I like those. Burn forever.
One beautiful crystal. Tigerbalm. Some pictures in a pile.
Whatever you do don’t open an old box and pull out pictures that rip your heart open,
Because they end up on this table ripping you up for weeks.
Till you figure out where to put them, till in the future you find them again.
Sheesh....when they say our lives are a circle I get it.
Pen, remote, phone, calendar, little coasters (that must be for the ‘coffee’)
I like this little prose poem.
Is it a poem?
Well, it is my table I’m writing it on.
So I’ll call it whatever I want.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Bombs Fall

Bombs fall out of the sky
The sky, the same beautiful shade of blue
Men, their fear palatable as fresh cut pears
Running on human adrenaline
The ants in the dirt marching
It’s what ants do
Men surviving or not
What men do
The sky still a beautiful shade of blue

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Why read why blog why read blogs

What do people want to read when they read blogs? Not that I think too much about that when I’m writing. More like what I DON’T want you to hear than anything I might want to announce to the whole crazy world, when the fact is, most people are not listening anyway. I was perusing the blogs and was amazed at some, totally bored with others, and educated by a few. Guys with guns claiming to be Christian libertarian conservatives geez, moms with babies, please! Bible sales and wow people sell stuff on blogs. One written by an American in Palestine, a Malaysian far from home, cancer survivors, more babies, ok the family blogs are cute, more selling shit… and more. People sure have stuff to say. What does that say about me? I think I’m writing to practice writing and practice what it feels like to know some unknown person may happen on it and read and hopefully may be be amused, touched, floored, shocked…..or bored. Ha!
Tonight wanting to escape from my life from my feelings so it all looks interesting. Not like I don’t have a stack of reading material to catch up on; the two novels I’m in the midst of (one I’m rereading because was so spaced out on my trip think I missed some The History of Love not what you think but even better!) anyway, the old National Geographics appealing with information new to my mind migrations human population art travel beautiful pictures, The SUN  my favorite magazine in the whole world (I actually read that cover to cover when it comes, and wait for the next), all the Google lists of items to look up and read on all-manner-of-subjects. And then there s the ‘spiritual’ stuff……the old standbys that save my ass when my heart feels the world is ending once again, the Death and Dying book which teaches me compassion, Emmet Fox, Cornfield, the Course, and all the little posts-notes-trick-sayings that help keep me sane and back in the moment. I could read for days and days and days, and do nothing else, and never catch up. And probably only really escape in small moments. But they are sweet.
But really, writing is what I want to do. Make you myself all of us laugh, think, philosophize, care, love, open our hearts, let you see me; but god not too much, be vulnerable but please watch out that’s too close.
So just for now in my minds eye I see the greenest rolling hills, the air is crisp, smells so fresh and wonderful, the sky incredibly blue, and nothing touches me but this visual. Nothing can touch my heart but this. Just for now. And I didn’t have to read a thing!