the paint on my hands.
a bountiful revolution, spiritus mundi, deus ex machina, metanoia, kensho, moksha, kairos, the human potential movement, phenomonology, satori and ethical eschatology.
Music
Movies
annie hall, roxanne, parenthood, urban cowboy, annie, almost famous, 25th hour, squid and the whale, margot at the wedding, frida, stranger than fiction, desperately seeking susan, pollock, milay at steepletop, mr. mom, mississippi burning, the devil and daniel johnston, stealing home, shawshank redemption, superbad, meet the parents, the green mile, goonies, winter passing, the muppets take manhattan, toy story, vanilla sky, elizabethtown, along came polly, say anything, volver, father of the bride, home alone, a very goofy movie, billy elliot, legend of billie jean, sigur ros: heima, i'm reed fish, mystic pizza, tootsie. the rose, about last night, annie, houseboat, an officer and a gentleman, gleaming the cube, a prairie home companion, father of the bride, a mighty wind, witches of eastwick, it's a great pumpkin, Charlie Brown, fast times, rear window, pillow talk, the nightmare before christmas, baby boom, rachel getting married etc.
A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred. Violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem; it merely creates new and more complicated ones. Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. Martin Luther King
I have no need for drugs - I carry all of that inside myself. They do not realize that being an artist I want to be in those states of ecstasy or vision while keeping my awareness in tact. I am the poet and I must be able to feel and see everything. I do not want to be anesthetized. Anais Nin
I'm just not here today
I don't want restaurants and expanding cultural events
I want an old shack in the hills
rent free
with enough to eat and drink until I die. Bukowski
This was the day I pecked a hole out of the cocoon and saw the ingredients that would constitute my spiritual path. This was the day I knew the ingredients of the path that would serve me: love, poetry, prayer, meditation, community. I knew that sex could be as sacred as taking care of the poor. I knew that no one comes holier than anyone else, that nowhere is better that anywhere else. I knew that resurrection of the mind was possible. I knew that no matter how absurd and ironic it was - acknowledging death and the finite was what gave you life and presence. You might as well make it good. Nature, family, children, cadavers, birth, rivers in which we pee and bathe, splash and flirt and float memorial candles - in these we would find holiness. Anne Lamott
I'm a bird.
I'm everything, without anymore confusion.
All the bells, the rules, the lands, the big grove, the greatest tenderness.
the immense tide.
garbage.
water jar, cardboard cards, dice digits duets.
vain hope of constructing the cloths.
the kings.
so silly, my nails, the thread and the hair.
the bantering nerve.
I'm going inside myself, one absent minute.
I have stolen you and I leave weeping.
I'm just kidding. Frida Kahlo
I wasn't born from a whistle or milk from a thistle at twilight. No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock kneed and upright. So enough of this terror we deserve to know light and grow evermore lighter and lighter. Joanna Newsom
I am not I.
I am this one
walking beside me when I do not see
whom at times I manage to visit
and whom at other times I forget
who remains calm and silent while I talk
and forgives, gently, when I hate
Who walks where I am not
who will remain standing when I die.
. Juan Ramon Jimenez
There is no secret handshake. There's an IQ prerequisite test but there's no secret handshake. Troy, Reality Bites
A year ago this month I turned in a letter of resignation to the amazing company where I have worked for the last 5 years in the courageous hopes that I was FINALLY ready to live the creative life I was made for.
These days I am a working painter/photographer/writer and am VERY interested in supporting myself financially creatively, no matter how terrifying that may feel this morning.
So I am spreading this message in the hopes that you will pass it along to anyone who may be interested in hiring a local photographer, or in commissioning a custom made one of kind piece of art work to hang in their home. Now close your eyes and make a wish. I'll see what I can do.
Who I'd like to meet:
....all the fabulists, the warriors, poets, pickers, prophets, pushers, pilgrims and preachers. sally mann's grownup kids, leonard cohen, maya angelou, anne lammot and someone good. like you.(and me)
hey kiddo... great to hear from you.. where are you living these days? aren't you in L.A.? you look pretty happy in your pics... really cool to 'see you'. r.
Hey lady!! I can't wait to finally meet you. We are having our first opening January 16, 2009 from 7 to 10, check the myspace for all the info and the address! Miss Jessica Seaton will be one of the featured artists and I know that means you will be there!! Yay! See you soon! xoxox
thank you thank you thank you for hosting such a beautiful NYE gathering...it was one of two highlights of my evening. {note to self: find an antique row boat in 2009}
i miss you! i wanna take you out to thai food or something to thank you for my birthday party. when is a good time after nye? love you so much! can't wait to hear about your christmas trip back home! all the photos look soooooooooo lovely!!!
