#0099 Snow

December 26 (typed at desk)・ Our city is snow fallen. By nightfall Christmas Day I walked on white land. Cool air of first snows. Pretty lights...strung upon few houses and gardens. All felt special. But I was most possessed by a small one story house... 

Paint a cream that is near but not wholly vanish by snow. Dim lights of hypnotic blue, sapphire purple, ruby and delicious citrine line along curves of a footpath leading to the front door. Smoke absent from the chimney but still I imagine wood fire kindling within and without end. Petite orange bulbs glow modestly on the branches of a singular leafless tree on the lawn which slope slightly downward toward the entrance. Perfect evergreens tower close. Lights too drape just upon their lower wings. 

The wind froze the night and the cold gradually took my body. However the frost bit any fragility away and I was electrified.

#0098 Musings

Musing: Start When You Start
My stomach is better today. There’s nothing wrong with starting tomorrow by the way. It took me a long time to understand being present but I understand it now. However it really is not about starting when, finishing when. We’re not failures because we started later than this instant. Nor did we fail if we quit in the middle of it or if we never started. I will often wait weeks, months, years to start. I will often quit during or even before. There are some very important things I don’t get to for months or years. There are some very important resignations in between it all. But the truth is I have begun before starting because I prepare. In my preparation, I come to reason why. My work stands by for when I’m ready, because it’s my work. And I know myself and when I’m ready. It’s about a feeling of resolve. The feeling of completion is not material.

Musing: Summer
We might seem like we have one dog but in fact we have 3. My brother’s Summer. My Summer. And Summer’s Summer. And then I came to the conclusion that at any time we have 3 selves too. The public’s, our own, and God’s.

Musing: What Kind of Writer?
My own kind of narrative. Something special and original I can live with and live in. Conventional atmosphere has no right air to feed this very special type, I really suffocate. So I cultivate my own liveable sphere. Mix my own dirt, make my own planet. But I still need the water of Mother Earth, she’s very generous in that way, I’m thankful. I respect all professionals, because they make a mere job a true profession, a craft. I can’t do what they do but I want to be that kind of pro.

Musing: Nothing Is Original
Nothing is original? No. Everything is original. Even the replicate, even the imitation. It’s an original imitation. The copy of the original copy. Original intention happens regardless. However that says nothing about whether the production ends up as value or hoax. That has to do with moral discipline, ethics. People are confusing principles of creation with personal expression. Principles are unchanging and eternal. Expression is always experimental and original.


#0097 Silent Night

I had spent the past few days decompressing. There’s an invisible gravitational pull towards entropy – randomness, chaos. We all exhaust, and we all grow impatient. It’s not a fault, it’s a default. There’s just a fine line between becoming aware to elevate our consciousness and being subject to fear of judgement by having expectations. I can understand why people get chronically ill and mentally unstable… there’s such anxiety and depression circulating in the consciousness of society. It’s normal, however, not taboo.

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Social conversations are hardly about what we enjoy and like to do. What are dreams and what are our personal dreams and how we’d like to make the world better in our own ways. It’s too much about selling and being sold something, how to get rich, how to get noticed, how to get more, get it faster and how to get it all. We are captured through insatiable attention and begin to lose focus and solidarity. We are not absolute beings therefore we cannot claim to have absolute judgement. Trying to control anything is nothing more than conditioning ourselves out of potentials and possibilities of our natural creative human being.

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What is a peace of mind worth? What is freedom worth? What is a breath of fresh air worth? Worth nothing because it cost nothing. It’s not about worth. It’s not about being deserving. It’s also not about sacrifice. It’s about responsibility and a sense of pride in the laborious and terrifying pursuit of our better selves. It’s about doing our best and acknowledging that everyone is doing their best, no matter what it seems. People get loud and noisy and material and unsympathetic as self-distraction… they’re panicking and pretending like they’re not capable of being hurt. No one knows what they’re talking about. Everyone gets hurt.

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We have our own stories. And we have to tell it in our own ways. Stories are meant to restore faith in humanity not store unhelpful beliefs. The ordinary way is extraordinary. We have everything we are looking for. Cease to expect, control, or chase. Just observe and allow. There’s a great plenty of unique beauty that only we can see and feel moment to moment, if we allow it. If we allow ourselves to fall in love with the great unknown, with possibilities. To be curious, to surrender our inflictions, to have wonder.

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When our intelligence is given free will, it will always execute it and override the natural default toward entropy. That’s why when things make sense, our opinionated perception can shift entirely and instantly to a clearer objective. Free will requires continuous exercising. The way to exercise our free will is in seeking meaning and our personal truths. Honor your rights of innocent inquiry and be proud of your own special internal rhythms and unique melodics. We are responsible for the energy we manifest. Be resolved in that responsibility.

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I love you and hope you will have a peaceful Christmas Eve. ♥