from Rumi

by trulymadlydeeply On Wednesday, October 21, 2009 0 comments
The Eternal Idea

You may seem to be the microcosm;
In fact, you are the macrocosm.
The branch might seem like the fruit's origin:
In fact, the branch exists because of the fruit.
Would the gardener have planted the tree at all
Without a desire and hope for fruit?
That's why the tree is really born from the fruit
Even if it seems the fruit is created by the tree.
The idea which comes first comes last in realization—
Particularly that idea which is eternal.

A Cursory Glance

by trulymadlydeeply On Saturday, September 19, 2009 0 comments
If only my words were thoughts at length and speed of flowing air. Quick it runs but down it goes into words slow like heat makes you go,more.heat made from much molecular motion

So many paths crossing lives in minds tossing like a ship from shore to shore - sands and stones are character spots then shown when dock we do to grab and shape this clue

Making better does energy want and move. Get it down to signal, yes, I know you know I know it to be so

See image at site and quickly run most recent rights
This day I felt, recall it now, match up with signs for singers shorn. Shared. KW TS SC SC BK JM DC JW AK AM XX TM SP
Thus all believe again
A poem wrote on my phone so much more than a sound, a note and yet it could only stay awhile though its impact, don't want to lose that
Try to remember thought lines of time like she looks back
Her neck turned to the past of country's last
His flew futuristic always anxious for what's next?
Somewhere right of center they crossed, overlapped while time motion's forward pulled to straight
But tangle singing does run knots across the waves

Character is destiny
Fantasy is fate
Writing out across Hammurabi's slate
Sea, brought back the sea in my hair, sun in my skin
What an incredible time place people food air weather rock swimming laughing SMILING
just so damn content and blessed.
So grateful and full of light and warmth.
Adventure a little
Books and articles eating
Tiny moments of memories, book catapulting
clicking die on felt,
Pina Colada's and tubes, waves and heat with some spray of oil limbs shiny warm
Back it's now parc bench chilly
Palm trees replaced by pine trees
Leaves skipping on cement
Where crabs skipped across sand

my life my lines my beats my rhymes
someone say that one time?
musta been so on my mind

ambient connections of consciousness
collections of my moments
tokens experience,
breathing exhaling truth for another link of green light there's proof
body feeling what's making itself real

stars + planes in the skies
I breathe art
I don't tell no lies
I love trust, believe in my skies
And know enough what's write
about right
And wrong about love
Subversive sometimes
Those time lies
We tell to inside
Never long enough
They keep us alive, aline
By dark ways
Always callin' our bluff
Then see rays, sunshaping
we shine
To meet the night
With slices of life

Pure Spirit, In 3 Parts

by trulymadlydeeply On Monday, August 24, 2009 0 comments
A call to awakening,
"There are enormous pressures in our world that seek to induce mankind to bear the loss of faith and moral certainties by being drugged into oblivion--by mass entertainments, shallow material satisfactions, pseudo-explanations of reality, and cheap ideologies. At the end of that road lies Huxley's Brave New World of senseless euphoric automata. Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphamisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered in the mass consumption of hypnotic mechanized vulgarity, the need to confront man with the reality of his situation is greater than ever. For the dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its senselessness; to accept it freely, without fear, without illusions--and to laugh at it."
-Martin Esslin, Theatre of the Absurd

A poet's painting,
If you are seeking, seek us with joy
For we live in the kingdom of joy.
Do not give your heart to anything else
But to the love of those who are clear joy,
Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair.
For there are hopes: they are real, they exist –
Do not go in the direction of darkness –
I tell you: suns exist.
- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

Guidance a bit more concretely,
"Search for your place of greatest service, keep the initiative despite headwinds, find ways of expressing yourself more effectively, get behind inhibitions, and be practical in seeing what works and what doesn't. Follow the yearning for extended experience in "distant lands," be skillful in displaying your enthusiasm while taking nothing for granted, and allow a new perspective or rhythm of expression to adjust old habits in action, thought, and feeling."
-Robert Wilkinson

Hello Mr. Brainwash

by trulymadlydeeply On Saturday, August 22, 2009 0 comments
I watched this interview of French grafitti artist Mr. Brainwash at the music blog I LISTEN TO EVERYTHING, which I came across thanks to a link posted at Susan Miller's Astrology Zone.
Ah, the chain of linkage!

It's a great interview and inspiring tag-along into the studio and creative process of MBW.

Part I

Carson Daly interview Mr. Brainwash on his show The Last Call [PART 1] from bentzi19 on Vimeo.

Part II

Carson Daly interview Mr. Brainwash on his show The Last Call [PART 2] from bentzi19 on Vimeo.




Notes from my Margin

by trulymadlydeeply On Monday, August 17, 2009 0 comments
I've been on a "pump yourself up" kick lately. Getting into gear to break past whatever may or may not hold me back, depending on the day...
While in a trance of totally-fulfilling-the-moment, I took quick rest stops up exit ramps, themselves mini highways; carrying the flow of the main artery into a write-bite.
Reflecting on the creation, the process, the sensation while fully immersed in it makes for some pretty good not-from-concentrate concentration.

"You can't be scared making art, doing you. No mistake is too bad. All mistakes are perfect mistakes. All flaws are only so in the imagined mind.
Once you make the move, action sees no imperfection -- it only sees possibility."

things I like, things I love

by trulymadlydeeply On Friday, August 14, 2009 1 comments

Former : Square business cards

Top : Creative Design Agency 23 Suite Studio

Bottom : Bar Breton (highly recommended)
_____________________


Latter : Kombucha

My first encounter with this beverage happened late last year, while visiting a friend on the arguably more 'crunchy' of our nation's coasts. I cannot say enough about this miracle elixir. Ok, so no miracles have actually manifested as a direct cause of my consuming it (that I'm aware of) but if you love your body, your health - then learn to love this drink. The smell and knowledge of how it's made may be initially a bit off-putting. Get over it. It's worth it. So worth it.
They've happily expanded their product line to include many-a flavors (mis-nomer as there is absolutely nothing artificial about it) ranging from strawberry, lavender & hibiscus infusions, guava, pomegranate blends, etc etc. It's not the easiest to find at your local bodega but I have a feeling more and more will be carrying GT's "Living Food for the Living Body".

Check out some cool scientific information on the...:

"The culture itself looks somewhat like a large pancake, and though often called a mushroom, a mother of vinegar or by the acronym SCOBY (for "Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeast"). It is scientifically classified as a zoogleal mat."

A ZOOGLEAL MAT? That's pretty coooooooL!

I do realize that to make this sort of "fermented mushroom tea" a priority among the liquids you take in can be off-putting.

Maybe some drank would be better, no?
Water, sugar, purple.

Kombucha culture can dance around in my belly any day!

Because of its fermented nature, there's a slight, slight, %age of alcohol. The teeny little buzz procured from your first few sips of the bubbly adds a nice touch. Guaranteed smile generator.

http://www.synergydrinks.com/
From the site...
"Each batch is gently placed in a warm and spiritual environment where the walls are painted purple and spiritual music is played. Though it may sound silly, the most important thing that we do when making our batches is to give them LOTS of love. "

UH. That's incredible.

Some fun facts:

In his autobiography, Nobel Prize winner Alexandr Solzhenitsyn wrote that drinking Kombucha helped him survive the Siberian slave camps of the former Soviet Union.

Kombucha has been a health-promoting and life-enhancing wonder food since as early as the Tsin Chinese Dynasty of 221 BC. Its popularity has been documented throughout history in all corners of the world, from Russia to India, Germany to Japan.

The Kombucha organism is a symbiotic colony of yeasts and bacteria that form a strong membrane that covers the liquid/air interface of the vessel it grows in.

Kombucha proponents claim many advantages such as better experience with foods that 'stick' going down such as rice or pasta, increased energy, sharper eyesight, and better skin condition.

Kombucha is delicately cultured - some liken it to fermentation - for 30 days. During this period, essential nutrients form like active enzymes, viable probiotics, amino acids, antioxidants and polyphenols. All of these combine to create an elixir that immediately works with the body to restore balance and vitality.

PG Pictorial

by trulymadlydeeply On Friday, August 14, 2009 0 comments
For as much as I love words, images have a quality incomprable in their verbage.
For some eye candy on this Friday the 14th, some static dynamic...











Strange Attractors

by trulymadlydeeply On Wednesday, July 29, 2009 2 comments
Just got this awesome book from the library:
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

The title page presents a gorgeous ambigram, good start.


I've yet to properly crack it open, as it were, but did get a chance to read the inner flap. Which led me to "strange attractors" or, mathematically derived shapes that provide for quite beautiful alternatives to, elaborations upon, the resounding infinity symbol within them.
As M. Hofstadter wrote, "My eye could not help but be strangely attracted by this odd term..."
Take a gander





The artist Nathan Selikoff is responsible for many of these images; drawing from mathematical algorithms into this ephemeral sort of digital abstraction.

Some of them have an inky, smokey osmosis feel.

"...the basic idea hinges on looking at what might be called "mathematical feedback loops"; expressions whose output can be fed back into them as new input, the way a loudspeaker's sounds can cycle back into a microphone and come out again."

Happy discoveries.......

Too Long To Twitter

by trulymadlydeeply On Tuesday, July 28, 2009 1 comments
"...You're grounded. No video games, no Tweetering - nothing electronic. It's desensitizing. Puts you out of touch with your humanity. You can't afford that."

-- Nancy Botwin, Weeds

Mastery

by trulymadlydeeply On Tuesday, July 28, 2009 0 comments
...of words, especially



A Tale of Two Cities

by trulymadlydeeply On Tuesday, July 21, 2009 8 comments
I saved you in my digital pocket, image of a yellow brick road
knowing time would show your right mind'd
idea, in words to curl round, unfurl
grow up from out
and now...
golden vines,
towards emerald ends are paved your lines
foundations down versus walls around
roads they're bridges,
between walled edges
within where wizards doctor answers
awaiting wayward footpad travelers



...Threads feeling worn more by today
an invisible tug of heart strings refusing decay
pulls testing resistance to life's little big questions
shots aiming at meanings made therein by weaving
bow looms add achieving derived from believing,
minus grieving over unknowing exactly
what is under.standing for what you're sewing,
that purpose in the fabric of our lives
each day its maintaining,
expanding in surface, structure-enabled non-framing
we upon it blanket leaves of grass déjà en root
for our picnics off the dark they feast.on stars, to them were offered up nursery rhyme dreams
of light, bright, first one I see tonight
North guiding, shifting good tidings from immortal black daughters
pass then through to dots of white sons
as needles in haystacks knit time's golden strings to thread,
each system dependent on the other over.turn does the wheel,
this rock's sun perpetual dial'd up
revolving motion forever once more


Relation Ships

by trulymadlydeeply On Thursday, July 16, 2009 0 comments
“You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when white wings of death scatter your days.
Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup, but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping;
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together;
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”

The Die Q Game

by trulymadlydeeply On Tuesday, July 07, 2009 0 comments


3 Yes
3 Maybe
3 No
16 Questions, thought up on the spot, progressively.
Give a roll, the die responds

Interesting results...

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

1.) Will these questions turn into something more? Yes
2.) Do the answers stem from chance? Maybe
3.) Is random not random? Maybe
4.) Are you always right? Yes
5.) Is this all numerical chance? Maybe
6.) Does 'No' not come up? Maybe
7.) Is 'No' a figment of the imagination? No
8.) Do you like being compared to a Ouija Board? Yes [hahaha]
9.) Am I wasting time right now? The die rolled off the table and landed on its side, with Maybe and Yes facing up.
10.) Is life not a waste of time? No
11.) Are we indeed building nothing? No
12.) Is this a bigger force speaking via the die? No
13.) Is anything possible? No
14.) Is everything possible? Yes
15.) Will we all get what we want? No
16.) Will we all get what we deserve? Yes

I don't mean to jock...

by trulymadlydeeply On Saturday, June 27, 2009 0 comments
but I wrote this on a whim a few days ago and...

"worn carpets signify well-tread routes.
weave a new one if you love the truth."

I kinda really like it.

Maru

by trulymadlydeeply On Sunday, June 21, 2009 0 comments
Say hello to Maru.
This little Japanese ball of wondurfur is outrageously talented. And no, that's not an overstatement.
Just watch his acrobatic marvels, and giggle your arse off.

I love a box ! !

Many thanks to Wired magazine!

Face Value

by trulymadlydeeply On Thursday, June 18, 2009 0 comments
The MTA has taken to posting inspiring quotes amongst the adspace of their buses and trains. "Train of Thought" they call it. Ok, cool.
One of their latest is by the French mathematician and theoretical physicist, Jules Henri Poincaré. The name was familiar to me because I'd lived just off the rue Raymond Poincaré in Paris' 16eme...so I made a mental note to dig a little deeper.
This just in: thanks Wiki, I am now learning M. Raymond Poincaré was a statesman, not to be confused with JH.
Sidenote: every street name, metro station, bus stop, restaurant location/name means something, has a deep and distinct history there (and in other cities too, obviously) - usually tied to a historical event or notable person. I like that. Cuz as cool as "Evergreen Ave." is, there's just something a liiiiitle cooler about a 'secret' history behind your present-day stomping grounds.
So anyways... The "Train of Thought" quote was published as:
"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of thought."
After a quick search I came to discover that the last word was changed from "reflection" - as it was originally formulated - to "thought" as it appeared on that 5th avenue bus on that fateful Sunday eve.
Is this an honest mistake? Or perhaps a meta-commentary on behalf of the MTA staffer? Because to me, "thought" and "reflection" provide two pretty distinct readings, endings to that train of words.
Someone should inform the MTA: your caboose is too loose. And I'm not talkin about the quote! (Badummchhh)
So basically, what difference does a thought make when reflection is not engaged?
I'd say not much of a difference. Either that or too much of a difference...
;)

Potential Energy Mattering Consciously

by trulymadlydeeply On Sunday, June 07, 2009 2 comments

Mind Over Matter

Observing
Expecting
Resulting
Reacting
Reinterpreting
Retrograding
Restoring
Constructing
Concluding
Continuing
Commencing
Collecting
Unfolding
Understanding
Underestimating
Integrating
Controlling
Commanding
Conferring
Creating
Deploying
Destroying
Deciding
Colliding
Crossing
Connecting
Expanding
Convexly
Fluxing
Forgetting
Yet
Never Escaping
Unbroken
Unmolded
But Always
Reshaping
Renewing
Remaining
Wide Open
These Systems
A Token
The Matrix:
Bespoken

Revolutionary Road

by trulymadlydeeply On Monday, June 01, 2009 1 comments
"You know what's so good about the truth? Everyone knows what it is, however long they've lived without it. No one forgets the truth... they just get better at lying."

Sublimation

by trulymadlydeeply On Monday, May 25, 2009 10 comments
This is a story about melting potential hate into glory
mix master me runs the ship over what you cannot see
but take a little time
while speaking eye to eye
to peer deeper past the face
the words of people down the street
take in expression
an aqueous transmission sands slip through
the oasis.of her lips, they speak
queens, goddess alike
from Cleopatra comme une femme fatal
to Jackie, Amelia in the air
she managed to release her heart
Helen adventurous
yet trapped, where no one could ever tell her no
so life was only hers to say yes to
and there further down the river,
frogs they sing
disjointed natural harmony
as this vessel moves through their
turning heads, containing worlds apart
of each other
they're connected by that
2 inch valley in the middle of
all our skulls
past which life shines through
a light-giving first earth mother

Notes from my Margin

by trulymadlydeeply On Saturday, May 23, 2009 0 comments
Art is not about making the best, most perfect and magical thing, image, creation, motion. It's about connecting with yourself: good & bad, impulses, desires, imagination, and the influences you've internalized; and engaging it in any & every way you can dream of. And persisting. And staying focused and inspired, true. Working continuously.
And in that way, magic happens.
The best part of you happens.
By way of impassioned love.

Full Circle and the Buffer of the Third Point

by trulymadlydeeply On Thursday, May 21, 2009 0 comments
One year, 3 months and 4 days ago, upon my return to the United States known as America, I began a new chapter in my life. I also began reading a fantastic book by the name of Eat, Pray, Love. Like all things that motivate the best in people- emotion (mountainous and valley-like), inspiration, new sights and new horizons, empathy and relation; the word on the greatness of her work spread fast. It's a quaint thing. I'd wanted to do an entry on the book after I'd read it, while the imprint it left was still fresh, the ink of her words gleaming on my dead-of-winter Caribbean tan. But I didn't. I just never took the time or allowed that inner seed of desire and will toward expression to plant itself into this blog's box. Ah how it works. All in due time, my dear. Methinks the seed was itself still developing.

So sitting here, 456 days later (I'll give a buffer of 3 days for the time it took from landing to me actually obtaining the book in question), surfing these boundless and tangled interwebs, I ran into author Elizabeth Gilbert's February 2009 talk at the TED conference.
Timely.
Now.
Three months later, and not a moment too soon. Not a minute later than it should.

'surprisingly moving', indeed. The point of her thoughts in talk barreled over me in the same way she recounts her encounter with poet Ruth Stone's "thunderous train of air". The air of creation, of inspiration. That 'other', that genius, that 'buffer' between us - creative souls - and the eventual alchemical outcome of its passing through.
Like the holy trilogy, trinity.
The number three and its effectivity in tying together the ends of then, now, there.
It, Me, This.
Genius, Man, Creation.

"One manifests as two.
Two is transformed into three.
And three generates all the myriad entities of the universe."

He is the middle man to us as middle men that does not ask permission and will not be told 'no'.
Tom Waits asked him to wait, for a more practical time at which to create.
But if you've opened that portal, have stepped once through that door, you will know that forever more, the mirror you see in that room cannot but bounce you back to it.
The Room Full of Mirrors has eaten many souls alive. Those tortured artists Gilbert mentions, the ones who fall into the River of their image, not to rise up like a Phoenix, but drown in their thesis...
& I wonder, drawing out the mirror parallel farther...
Have you ever noticed the infinity produced by two mirrors reflecting the space in between? Curving to the side of an ever-shrinking bending of your line of sight.
That space, is it the buffer? Is it the genius fairy-like creature "living in our walls", two mirrored walls perhaps, with the second mirror as the manifestation of our creative efforts, with our being standing as the other mirror?
Or are we the space between? One side delivering through us what is to bounce back on the other, exactly the same but shaped by our standing there, filtered through our abilities, sensibilities, sensitivities...
Going with option number two -- when that second mirror ceases to back us up in our reflections, and we're left facing ourselves, the work perhaps a little more void of the fullness of bending holograms, is it any less valuable?
Any less of a study and capture of that momentary self-fulfilled truth?
This moment after the allah, the olé: she admits the inevitable difficulty, of dealing with just 'me', sans a fairy genie. And so full is this portion (I admit, I teared) that it deserves its own quote:

"Maybe it doesn’t have to be quite so full of anguish
if you never happened to believe in the first place
that the most extraordinary aspects of your being came from you
but maybe if you just believed that they were on loan to you
from some unimaginable source for some exquisite portion of your life
to be passed along when you're finished, to somebody else.
If we think about it this way it starts to change everything...
Don't be afraid, don't be daunted, just do your job.
Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be...
If the divine cock-eyed genius assigned to your case decides to let some sort of wonderment be glimpsed for just one moment through your efforts, then olé.
And if not, do your dance anyhow.
Olé to you nonetheless just for having
the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up."



glorious

by trulymadlydeeply On Thursday, May 21, 2009 0 comments

Confluence

by trulymadlydeeply On Friday, May 08, 2009 0 comments
"What the eyes represent for most painters, the mouth was for Bacon, the locus of human identity. The mouth is what bites, suckles, and howls at the moon. By contrast, the eyes are likely to be missing entirely or smeared shut or obscured by a milky scrim, as in his portrait of the writer Michel Leiris. With Bacon, the windows of the soul--not that he believed in the soul--always have the curtains drawn."

- Richard Lacayo on Francis Bacon


A moving passage I read on this morning's passage:

"I heard them talking to one another in murmurs and whispers. They talked about illness, money, shabby domestic cares. Their talk painted the walls of the dismal prison in which these men had locked themselves up. And suddenly I had a vision of the face of destiny.

Old bureaucrat, my comrade, it is not you who are to blame. No one ever helped you to escape. You, like a termite, built you peace by blocking up with cement every chink and cranny through which the light might pierce. You rolled yourself up into a ball in your genteel security, in routine, in the stifling conventions of provincial life, raising a modest rampart against the winds and the tides and the stars. You have chosen not to be perturbed by great problems, having trouble enough to forget your own fate as man. You are not the dweller upon an errant planet and do not ask yourself questions to which there are no answers. You are a petty borgeois of Toulouse. Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time [!]. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.

The squall has ceased to be a cause of my complaint. The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the stars."
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry from Wind, Sand and Stars

Held in Montreal, Expo 67 (The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, a sort of "Worlds Fair") was nicknamed "Man and his World", taken from Antoine de Saint Exupéry's memoir Terre des hommes, (literally "Land of Men"), translated as Wind, Sand and Stars. Housing was one of the main themes of Expo 67. Habitat 67 (above) then became a thematic pavilion visited by thousands of visitors who came from around the world. During Expo 67 it was also the temporary residence of the many dignitaries coming to Montreal.

Nice old-school poster for the Expo 67 :


"It is considered to be the most successful World's Fair of the 20th century, with over 50 million visitors and 62 nations participating. It also set the single-day attendance record for a world's fair with 569,000 visitors on its third day. Expo 67 was Canada's main celebration during its centennial year. The fair was originally intended to be held in Moscow, to help the Soviet Union celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution but, for various reasons, the Soviets decided to cancel, and Canada was awarded it in the fall of 1962."

Knick-knack misc things of the day...

Shoelaces

by trulymadlydeeply On Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1 comments
A while back I made an analogy in the typical fashion of me;
all at once, a mini epiphany.

But here it is, encore, walk with me as I stretch it out a little further. Diluting nectar with some water to make juicy juice.

People: we're like shoelaces.
It seems like we're separate. Each end existing independently of the other, hanging out, doing its thing, flopping around. But then you start to trace your way back to, wait, why am I flopping around like this? And you see that you are not, in fact, alone, maybe, even, part of another end. And that you are holding a bigger entity together.
You are not just a cool string with a plastic cap for a head.
You are part of the shoe. An integral factor in the equation of kickin kicks. And so essential, too! And so you keep moving. Weaving in and out you discover the rest of your essence is doing so much more than you'd thought, you, over there flopping around. You, plastic shoelace end.
There are parts which are in constant contact, friction, tension and motion. And so you weave. And bob. And make it to another end. It's like, hitting the shores of the new world (aka the Dominican Republic).
All over again.
But, you know, this plastic end, though it looks just like me, well, it's not, it's flopping on the other side of this shoe and, well, that's a whole different world.
And then someone spills ketchup on you.
Oh, heavens what a nuisance. So you get pulled out, to get ready for a good cleaning (or replacement even) cuz you know they'd be damned if they're not rocking some fresh crispy joints.

And then you realize, stripped of your shoe-home that yea, there are two ends to this shoelace story.

But there is only ever one shoelace.

Storie Tyme

by trulymadlydeeply On Sunday, April 12, 2009 1 comments

In the hidden annex of winding, short but uplifting, engulfingly protective streets, cobblestoned neighborhoods, stood a perfectly nondescript batiment. Beyond the dark-papered facade, a hushed room, lighted low. Burgundy velvet banquettes line the periphery, nouveau-baroque tables, glinting at the edges and centered with reflective black Plexiglas stand between the benches and various upholstered chairs. Thin, delicate white plates are neatly lined for tonight's dinner. Glasses of wine sit emptied, catching flickers in crystal, twinkles of tea lights. Table setting. The air, it's lent a light fragrance from the lush vegitation, plants and flowers selected specifically for sensuous qualities, for the muffled huddles offered to separate eventual rolling conversations. Of groups of six, to eight, to twelve. Parties. Have filled this space. A space often rent of emptiness in spirit.

And corners of the room are made to bend, as mirrors are placed to reflect the smiles of unknowns facing angles of soon-to-be acquaintances. That is, when the champagne starts to flow, members' brains allow an engaging show. A drum kit sits. Piano perpendicular to it. Mic stand, awaiting perhaps a jazz band. The manager makes it a point to adjust the volume of style parallel to mood. Of the food. Menu dreamed up of ingredients complementing a most personal touch. Those invited are well aware, tonight's mantra is 'get ready to share.'

To be continued...

Journeys, Destinations, And Somethings Before In Between

by trulymadlydeeply On Monday, March 23, 2009 1 comments
Oftentimes it is said "It is the journey, not the destination" that counts. But I wonder, does a journey not have an almost all-decisive impact upon a destination? And what about the starting point? In a way similar to first impressions and automatic intuitions that shape and determine the course of relationships or events, the 'starting point' seems to me to entirely dictate the initial direction of a journey, which, effectively, determines the potential paths available further down the road...How much of it is under our control and what is merely (I say 'merely' but, in using the word, do not intend to lessen the importance of...) a fortuitous coming-together of the right place, the right time, the right conditions? This question's answer ultimately depends upon perspective, something to be understood after the fact...
Whereupon one may pause along a long enough stretch of road to consider that, this and the next.
Turn left, go ahead, pass jail, collect.
Pick up, drop off, car wash, trade-in.
Map blown out the window, lost yet loving it, pulled over- too fast.
Slow down, can't back track- one-way highway
Missed exit, re-route
Driving yourself crazy
Pancakes at dawn to ride out the storm
...
Just a little mind bite for March. 23rd, Two Thousand and Nine.

'Don\'t be flacid at the critical juncture'

by trulymadlydeeply On Monday, March 09, 2009 0 comments
proclaimed the subject of
junk e-mail
sitting, face facing the window on a little street's world
to my right
window on a
binary
black white code of IT
in the driveway stands a postman
not yet ready to deposit today's not-so-holy grail
his life interrupts
what would digitally dictate sans hesitation
because a computer doesn't
get off on
the latest
Victoria's Secret
catalog.
So there Mr. Postman stands,
with a dozen well-shaped girls in his hand
and some great new cotton, silk, satin
Very Sexy, demi-cup, Our New Tech Patent
for firmer
looking
hardware
he can't help but stare...
flips to
pages of warm, hot sands
tropical waters lapping at the shore
of
models baring the best
of
this season
next season
swimsuit season
almost at the border of sunny days
yet still standing in a filmy, rainy haze
that's ok
his government job keeps him warm
and then:
"Don't forget to order
before upgraded shipping is over!"
"Naw, that's alright by me,
I just got my kicks for free,"
he moves on to his daily
trail
sticks in the day's letters,
delivers my mail.


succinct swervin

by trulymadlydeeply On Wednesday, March 04, 2009 0 comments
don't be fooled by the milky way between the lines
it's not the road,
it's the bridge.
and the destination, as always,
is unknown.
knowing is not possible.
read between the lines and you will find..........
more lines.
feel between the lines
and
they will wrap around
_ . _
non-linear answers

this screenshot is not enough.
but the colors mesh well today


"Furthermore, the highest attainment is the event of one of many individual selves discovering itself"

the lines on my hands

by trulymadlydeeply On Thursday, February 26, 2009 0 comments
said the teller, told to her
colors bheaded, bled into lines
barcodes telling your many lives
"paper or plastic?
that'll be $6.99"

Strength

by trulymadlydeeply On Tuesday, February 24, 2009 0 comments
Bombs falling:
their way of
Externalizing
resent, a command from the control tower.
No? Not resent? Static slips out: 'Come in fighter one, we've lost contact.'
"Must let them know who is boss."
Prove it to the other side,
"This war will make us rich, it serves them right."

Destruction comes not from true strength
yet does indeed til the soil for continued death.
That countless-illion-dollar war has, by now
proven a heavy, false strength-necessitating, weakness.
But whose?
no, not MY weakness
Who would be strong enough to take the blame?
Strength sees none to begin with,
yet may be blinded by a former ig'nance,
you see strength makes you see it is only so through refusing to be
not. Negated. But
Once begun, bomb begets bomb
and tangles up lives
Of someone's brother, mother, sister, wives.
Could anyone truly admit, consent that yes, this war's strength is legit?
Or has it gone too far, reaches back into history, long been too late to quit

In turn some sheltered, bombarded they are
by inspiration.
shell clips raining a hard-fought protected sensation.
Perhaps the kind that could feed a nation
Rations of war hurriedly dropped down
from a place in the sky where a pilot,
bird of prey,
'that guy' thought he'd find a piece of His pie.
Helping myself, is that really helping others?
One based on the former
forgotten in favor of more like yore, huh?
If I bake it to feed it
to them the way it is eaten
by lovers not fighters,
would the gesture be taken as a weakness
spur increased hunger to bite
the hand that feeds...

Inspiration.
The word almost feels bad
in my imagined mouth.
Alongside actual hardship
Strength born of actual weakness says
Don't eat it, quick
spit it out.
How'd it get in there it doesn't belong
On the tongue of someone who'd use it
for what is not wrong
for he, might be right for she
"who's to say?"
While strength knows its team,
strength cannot pave the way,
though yellow lines down strength will lay.
Its components: a cabinet full of spices, tricks of games and vices
From whence it derives its strength to be wrong
in so doing,
trips on a fatal flaw, Achilles heel,
Iron-fisted rich meal.
Look deeper to see it, as the stronger you are, the harder to fall, the longer it may take
to uncover what many still only know as fake:
the source of real hunger, teeth just about to break,
tongues blood-ridden and bitten.

Makes a prince from a pauper once starved for food alone,
Now left to feed his strength, an ever-emptied bowl
of a currency that can destroy the soul:
when stemmed, removed from its petald-weakness, made no longer whole
placed upon a shelf, the bell jar doth toll
dictates what's to be seen bi the eye
is only one half of that proper flower in bloom,
a full token of respect
paid to soldiers too late, their strength too broken to cry.

Although I haven't spoken
of it, my mind can taste
the distaste
of over-thought, over wrought visions of peace in the Middle East
the ME; one giant metaphor for the inner beast which thumps
we each hold, held inside us
not always awakened to have, to serve as a figure-shaping coal.
and then there are those
Bombs Over Baghdad, with them we
Wobble the line don't want to tip it into cliché,
my sources have a need,
must remain pure, shored-up close to the chest,
experience born of that spring can shoulder the eventual decay,
the sudden unrest.
Strength admits its defeat in the face of real life
to turn it on its back,
Making more of the rest,
remains,
strength becomes a middle-man,
recycling gains.

Certain speeds will help the drifter stay in shape.
Doesn't worry much about the past
That thing- it takes care of its own assit's
just so simple to see,
Revisiting themes will evolve to revolve you back rather frequently.
Fear not their shapes will change
Enough to stave away inclinations toward
running from boredom of and with
that which your strength picks.
The real strength lets you
keep your authenticity
Reserve some of those thoughts for just
_e. Takes it not beyond to break under pressure.
Keeps it buried down under,
compression making strength's stone for the brighter, the sharper, the better.
And all the same those bombs they fall,
in waves of multiple elements
encased by see-through material, strength
found in the silver lining of a locket
breaks open, to crash upon times like these: fertile lands scoured by a bent-over
seed
gathering,
what is it, exactly?

Like a tree trunk it is
1 O.A.K.
See, its innate.ure all of the time.
Snowflakes build up to avalanche over a warm life
bones they'll melt
to reveal water and a whole new shell.
It meta-morphs,
moves on with its partner in crime,
Sees a new partner in: Time, here comes change with that grandfather clock
Strength builds itself up for the flesh to receive,
a reality that
strength has been here before, tore down walls once felt a necessity
understands and believes the seasons' weather will weather incessantly
Salt poured-into-wounds in the road, cracks in the base
braces wheels against ice,
a colder, stronger version of life.

In hindsight those who've known,
Confess that pain was their strength
When their weakness showed, eventually made it around to accept
Strength is weakness,
one strong enough to allow
seams undone of strummed, stirred strings still
in.tact it can also be trapped
But don't squeeze too tight:
fast it will flow,
Strength will always prove stronger than your physical might.

Smarter too, did it make that known?
One would hope it not the case,
Its poker ace:
Strength likes to come along quietly
Unassumingly, maybe even in spite
Of itself,
strength knows minimally.
As the more it comes in contact with,
strength admits it is inherently inadequate.
Intends to enrich blank stares of pauses, its own in introspection,
where most-certainly feared emptiness eats strength up hungrily.
For a future recollection,
Strength's memory banks on what its lost
to teach it further lessons in gain.
Strength hesitates not to readdress, reinvest
In more and more of different
which strength eventually melds into same.

The Day Now and I Met

by trulymadlydeeply On Friday, January 30, 2009 1 comments
Hi. My name is I.
I am so clever. And that is not an astute observation. Instead, it is a fact. The proof is that I tricked. My I into an escape.
Out of I, I came into I. I am the great outdoors. I write from indoors don't think I am that special. I do not yet operate remotely . close to what I know as normal.
I should stop addressing I as such. But as an eye rolls on moving out, to, like I said, escape, I use language, words, copy, paste, carbon past present future date to shape the column; as a glass blower uses once tiny grains of sand to produce a fish tank.
I know, that was not lost on I either.

Now, I doesn't intend this to get as hairy as Who's on First. Nay. I want to get to the point.
The point is:

I is the point. The point of departure and eventually, the board room.
I like to be silly and, in speech, I infer that I have implied bored room. That's was just a clue as to how I could sound. I doesn't mind, and I quite enjoys, when words describe potential re-al I tie it all together, now.

So the point was:
The day now and I met does not constitute as a day.
Infact, I says 24 hours do not exist, even though I know they do.
So the word 'day', in actuality, is just a reference to a point on a line that is still running in time. Yes, both the point and the line.
Here is now now.
I got to go,
I just got here.

Wingdings 3

by trulymadlydeeply On Thursday, January 29, 2009 1 comments

If I could speak Wingdings, it would say that life, and the tri-angles of my, that, language are
pointed, but nonsensical.
nostalgic for puzzles of brain-teasers,
but ripe with the knowledge of the answer-key in the back of the book,
that mind
that
can't help but want to
cheat for the ease, cuz homework is no fun.
as easy as an idea of playtime instead
and as difficult to make it =
something
not entirely useless in its
wing-d 3ss3nc3.
beautiful for the sake of
thinking that beauty can be easy to create
access and address as
such. by-the-by,
meaningful symbols stripped of their anchors- those perforated last pages,
set and refilled with answers
anew,
don't know what they're doing without moving
floating
sailing
in each and every direction.
at once free
and a tied-up trailing dingy,
casting side-long glances
in2 Mrs.' grade-book.
hoping for the teacher's red marker
of validity,
conforming comfort to fit in the top ranks of
A
plus a little arrow, cross
extra-credit brings you up
to 1hundred and 3
top of your soule class.
Yes you can succeed,
little wingding.


from:

by trulymadlydeeply On Friday, January 16, 2009 0 comments
the deeper into the darkness you dig,
the more space carved out for light to shine.

The Forerunner

by trulymadlydeeply On Friday, January 09, 2009 1 comments
Knowledge and Half-Knowledge

Four frogs sat upon a log that lay floating on the edge of a river.
Suddenly the log was caught by the current and swept slowly down the stream.
The frogs were delighted and absorbed, for never before had they sailed.
At length the first frog spoke, and said, "This is indeed a most marvellous log. It moves as if alive. No such log was ever known before."
Then the second frog spoke, and said, "Nay, my friend, the log is like other logs, and does not move. It is the river that is walking to the sea, and carries us and the log with it."
And the third frog spoke, and said, "It is neither the log nor the river that moves. The moving is in our thinking. For without thought nothing moves."
And the three frogs began to wrangle about what was really moving. The quarrel grew hotter and louder, but they could not agree.
Then they turned to the fourth frog, who up to this time had been listening attentively but holding his peace, and they asked his opinion.
And the fourth frog said, "Each of you is right, and none of you is wrong. The moving is in the log and the water and our thinking also."
And the three frogs became very angry, for none of them was willing to admit that his was not the whole truth, and that the other two were not wholly wrong.
Then a strange thing happened. The three frogs got together and pushed the fourth frog off the log into the river.

Poets

Four poets were sitting around a bowl of punch that stood on a table.
Said the first poet, "Methinks I see with my third eye the fragrance of this wine hovering in space like a cloud of birds in an enchanted forest."
The second poet raised his head and said, "With my inner ear I can hear those mist-birds singing. And the melody holds my heart as the white rose imprisons the bee within her petals."
The third poet closed his eyes and stretched his arm upwards, and said, "I touch them with my hand. I feel their wings, like the breath of a sleeping fairy, brushing against my fingers."
Then the fourth poet rose and lifted up the bowl, and he said, "Alas, friends! I am too dull of sight and of hearing and of touch. I cannot see the fragrance of this wine, nor hear its song, nor feel the beating of its wings. I perceive but the wine itself. Now therefore must I drink it, that it may sharpen my senses and raise me to your blissful heights."
And putting the bowl to his lips, he drank the punch to the very last drop.
The three poets, with their mouths open, looked at him aghast, and there was a thirsty yet unlyrical hatred in their eyes.

My father-in-law, Christiano Oiticica
by
Paulo Coelho

Shortly before he died, my father-in-law gathered the family together and announced:
“I know that death is just a passage, and I want to be able to make this passage without any sadness. To put your minds at rest, I shall send you a sign that it was worthwhile helping others in this life.” He asked to be cremated and for his ashes to be thrown into the ocean at Arpoador beach in Ipanema while a tape played his favorite pieces of music.
He died two days later. A friend arranged for his cremation in São Paulo and when we returned to Rio we all went to Arpoador beach with the radio, the tapes and the package with the little urn containing his ashes. Standing facing the sea, we discovered that the lid of the urn was closed with screw-nails. We tried to open it, but to no avail.
There was nobody around, just a beggar, who came up to us and asked: “What do you want?”
My brother-in-law answered: “A screwdriver, because my father’s ashes are inside this box.”
“He must have been a very good man, because I just found this lying over there,” said the beggar, holding out a screwdriver.

the liberation of danger

by trulymadlydeeply On Sunday, January 04, 2009 0 comments
?

The question. Mark-ed. How often it is employed. How easily it can be overlooked.

When certain, it springs up to unsteady perhaps to ultimately re-steady.

When uncertain, it is inherently present in all things, out of nowhere, it rears its curvy back, its period . , perhaps to reassure that there is, somewhere, an end and. with it, a new beginning.


Ends. Means. Meanings.
To question can be deeply 'dangerous'.
To ask the right questions only to be fearfully face-d by empty pages. Knowing that the answers must be filled in by none other than he who posed the problem of...I can't stay silent, salient without wondering...

Why? When? What? The hell?

Where am, are, does this, that, and the other...

To stop the senseless circles of huh?
That one puts oneself through.
If ever. One were to stop and listen to...speak to...encourage the discourse of
honesty with the 2-sided, one minded
Source.

seemingly vague. simply plain enough to - no, you cannot touch . it .

Which makes me hope that if ever, whenever one has chosen a path, a direction, a stable and steady notion, they can ask themselves...Is this...it? Right?

There are two worlds we may simultaneously lead. I'm pretty sure that's what someone once or twice told me. The world of 'must' for the need of physical - cannot-go-bust.
The other of this-is-my-happy-place-other. At night we all give in.
Dreamscapes painted by a need to remind the left mind of its inner right to escape, while remaining rooted in, the 3-d place of...

Danger. Dangerous minds conjuring up plans of schemes to eventually free what does not exist.

To be or not to be.

IS THAT THE QUESTION?






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