Painting

Shades of sadness
Hues of happiness
our palette of humanity.

The process of blending emotions
is the making of our heart.

We cannot just tear apart the canvas
as if to remake ourselves
in a new color.

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Best to leave this poem un-named, un-finished.
The words I just blurted out
watching a friend struggle with a relationship.
I wanted to record the thoughts for later use.

Our humanity is always an unfinished work.

So much I would like to teach, however,
like this poem: enlightenment, peace, heaven
arise from an inner artistry outflowing from the expression of living.

:)

Peace

Finding Grace

In meandering have you found peace in your movements?

It's such a puzzle at times, the working towards a balanced life.

Yet balance is never a final solution. Especially if balance comes from being an action of response over a process of acceptance.

In the struggle to stay upright, at times life's meaning is spotted in sideways glances. Its feels as if you held still just a little bit longer: life will become clear...

And the answer people seek? Well its...

I hope your movement is graceful and with a smile :)

I guess the secret is discovering that even when tumbled about, life is always graceful.


:)

Peace

Paper Airplanes

Here are the detailed plans for building the perfect Paper Airplane.

I kept this plane secret from the military for years, now declassified and freely available to all children around the world for purposes of fun.

Peace

Understanding Relationships 101

Many assume a relationship or marriage is the sharing of life's journey.

Yet the journey of a life is personal for each person. No matter how closely we are tied with another, our lives are always personal in nature.

What is eternal in a relationship? (even if it only for a single smile or for 50 years), From moment to moment, occasionally we rise out from our personal bubbles to mutually share a moment.

To have a lasting relationship is to embrace the shared moments and let life meander freely as it will.

In this every relationship lasts forever if the moments are embraced: even as we shift to share journeys with new soulmates that tumble into our life.

From moment to moment to be eternal in the sharing rather than the journey is the key…



Peace
Love to all those I have/will/do share moments with in my life.

Exploring the empty space

Heh: The mysteries of living
Heeee.... the discrepancies of lying

Cut it all apart with the simplicity of truth

Discovering:

Life carries on and on and on

It's the beat of the blood
in the pace of the breath
silhouetting dancing of the spirit.

Leaving always an empty space to reside in.

Our nature is a choice, in the ticking of moments:

Letting outside whims define you
or
swirling it about to be about living

Life carries on and on...
in the simplicity of being one with myself :)


Peace

Journal Entries

Just some entries from my journal.

The path of enlightenment
could be simple
as a single breath

or

complicated
as an entire lifetime

It's a personal decision we each make.

I taste you
Sweet, ripe, ready, moist

You dream of me
everything desired and more

In the modern age people seek immortality thru comfort... Ever lasting life will never be discovered in the cracks of the couch...

To be alive is to openly reveal thoughts over hiding them to be forgotten. To live is an expression of action rather than the burying of dreams.

Peace

A birthday gift to you

Its been one year.

Brisamina is running about being one year old as of yesterday!

A Personal Tao has been out for a year. As a living book it's been changing and growing also.

Being a father, the one simple desire I have is a gift to my children. Not a gift as a thing, but a gift in life to help make society a place worth living in.

We can make a difference, society is merely a reflection of our actions! We can help each other to be ourselves, To remove false layers of pretense. A secret is that to be truly ourselves is to create a future which is wonderfilled.

This is the message that Martin Luther King, Jesus, Gandhi and others of peace have shown us.

Who am I to think I can say it any differently?

I am just a father holding out my hand and lifting others by passing on a smile then to swirl to make us both laugh. We are all hoping someone is out there to toss us back up into the air to fly, if even for a moment as a child again.

Being an angel means ---- having no wings
means lifting up to their feet
those who have fallen off the beat

What those great people would say today... Isn't for them to say
Its been handed to us now, here and now
To stand up and make our way into truth

Because we don't have wings ---- yet we can help each other fly

Its the only gift I know which can last and will make a difference.
The gift to say: Hey just be yourself :).
It's enough to make one fly.

Peace

Life as art in action

Today's poem
I talked with a breeze and these were the words that echoed back.


Kites
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Living
My fingers as brushes
painting a life
in movement, in action
as me.

My calling: is to climb winding sky stairs.
To taste distant stars, the night, the day
all mixing to a single incoming scent.
As an inrushing breath reminds me:
I am ascending only within myself.

Exhaling...

To be the wind... is to be free,
despite others trying to tie me
upon kite strings...
back down to the ground.

The sky is my canvas.
Setting loose, flowing with what comes forth.
Discovering greatness

is coloring outside the lines
of being tangled in one's roots.

Peace

Our Earth

I highly recommend the movie An Inconvenient Truth

The science is accurate and the presentation very clear.

Our world is what we make it to be in our actions. Even when action is inaction, the world will change to match our lifestyle. It's really is up to each and every person to make a difference. We do matter.

Anyways great movie, one of the best I have seen in years. The message is one of hope, if we just act simply. It doesnt take anything hard to make a difference in the current ecological situation. But no action (in this case means the same old action which is creating the problem) does mean no future for our children.

To truly follow no-action by living simply. As a Taoist the consumer style of always wanting bigger/more is baffling, since such activities actually reduce a person to be smaller. Yet perhaps thats why. As it gets more painful to live in a culture that creates pain, perhaps always buying more helps to deaden the pain. Yet such a life style leads to frost bite or perhaps sunburn of the soul either way, we create the climate we live in. Its truly a choice we each make, and we each make a difference. You are not powerless when taking the time to be yourself and not a consumer expression of living.


Peace

Learning and Doing: Two seperate realities

I should know better and I do, yet something about living suggests that we need to make mistakes as part of our experience. It's as if we are programmed into making mistakes just to help keep things interesting. Which makes sense, since so many important discoveries are based upon when people make mistakes :)

Anyways. I have been sick the past week. In my energy practices one rule is you don't practice when you are sick. It just makes things worse. Silly me, I was so determined that I went ahead and continued and then over last weekend, still worked chores around the house. I treated the energy work as it were normal exercise (I also discovered long ago to do a low level amount of work when mildly sick since it helps me heal faster normally, as it aids in my sleep cycles to be more complete and deeper).

Bad move, it just ended up getting me extremely sick, and for the last week now, I have been 100% exhausted and barely healing off the results of the bug. Feels like I have been living in molasses.

Of course now, I really really understand why you don't practice qigong and energy exercises when sick. It opens up your entire body, down to the deepest parts of your being. Of course if you open yourself up that deeply then the virus also gets the opportunity to go extra deep into you also. Gads its not fun. I understood this concept before (you can be taught something but until you experience it it doesnt always sink in), I now fully accept it and at least I learned an extremely valuable lesson. Even if it means the past week was terrible in my body and mind being down and out.

Hopefully this week I will be healed enough to get back to writing and responding to everyone.

Live, learn and swirl I guess


Peace.