4 july 09
Sitting down in Ha Noi. 1,000 eyes, 1,000 arms.
“The fiery force is nothing more than the life force as we know it. It is the flame of desire and love, of sex and beauty, of pleasure and joy as we consume and are consumed, as we burn with pleasure and burn out in time.” - Harold Norse 1917-2009
Strive to be intuitive,
spontaneous,
and simple.
Travel lighter,
journey farther,
survive longer.
- Lao Tzu
The essence of being is an unseen characteristic.
I am pretending to be exactly who I am.
Be magical. Embrace your unlimited potential. Let it go.
Joyful existence.
Practice attention and compassion and forgiveness.
Plant a seed. Dance like nobody's looking.
Create like a God, order like a King and work like a Slave.
One fish asked another fish, "How's the water?"
Later the other fish asked, "What is water?"
Storytellers have a survival advantage in the tribe.
Live broadly, create boldly. Life is short, art is long. Art, like life, follows the creative path of nature, not the values of human society. True education flowers at the point where delight falls in love with responsibility.
You have now entered The Center of the Universe.
The center of the universe is in your heart.
Theoretical prognostications: The heart is directly connected to the hand.
Jump!
Feel free to dance around at your leisure. You will discover collections of writing, images and podcasts.
"Journeys," celebrates travel, stories, cultures, beauty, diversity, love, passion, art, romance and truth. Why people stay alive.
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“Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point."
- Robert Rauschenberg
...the only people that interest me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing ... but burn, burn, burn like roman candles across the night.” - Jack Kerouac
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My experimental literary journalistic novel, A Century Is Nothing is available through Amazon.com and D&R Books in Bursa, Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey.
It's a formula at one with Stendhal's idea of a book. It holds a mirror up to the blue sky and down at the muddy path, reflecting everything.
Word of mouth is the best advertising. Speak memory.
I was assisted by a Ghostwriter and they deserve full credit. When you work in the Department of Wandering Ghosts it's another story inside the story.
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Now I am free to drift, float, process new sensations. This transition feels calm and centered. It dances free with the kindness, respect, dignity, gratitude and the mind-fullness it deserves. Out into the stillness, from the center.
There's nothing like holding the weight and smelling the pages.
"...Flowing through the six empty places;
Rising and sinking without fixed law,
Firm and yielding transform each other."
He's a peripatetic linguistic ESL gardener in Asia. The University of the Street provides evolutionary educational evidence as humans experiment with symbolic English landscapes. He's a Vietnam Veteran, writer and photographer exploring geography, languages and cultural storytelling.
