Friday, December 8, 2023
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Sunday, September 24, 2023
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Sunday, July 30, 2023
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Thursday, June 29, 2023
Monday, June 19, 2023
Sunday, May 21, 2023
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Friday, May 19, 2023
Sunday, May 7, 2023
The Law: A deeper dive
I love the adjectives that get at the true spirit of law. Like, organic law (constitutions, charters), Legal Positivism (An ujust law is still law), versus Natural Law (an unjust law is no law at all, St. Augustine), and their applications within the provinces of juries, such as jury nullification, which is the equivalent, I think, of the application of Natural Law, to which I otherwise do not prescribe. Municipal codes, Codes of Federal Regulations, case histories, and State and Federal codifications of legislation, which oftentimes subsume well-established case law. Recently, the law was asked to absorb a seditious conspiracy to overthrow a presidental election. The law absorbed the test and in doing so actually revealed its beauty. The visible law of symbols that is recorded as law, as well as the antecedent human stories that form factual bases, are both sociologically driven by human beings. The law is mankind's greatest work. Medicine is next in line, and music rounds out the trifecta.
Law is both visible and, most facinating, invisible. The inaudible and invisible is what I find so interesting. The fact that the law is a fabric that unites us all and governs our actions, hopefully ensuring that we do no harm. When the law becomes a subject to question, we can both see it and hear it and then embark on the mental process that justifies its application. The Law behaves very much like Gravity.
Saturday, May 6, 2023
Monday, May 1, 2023
Monday, April 24, 2023
My Body is a Universal Response to the Call of the Universe
My body has evolved such that it can tolerate the forces of nature and co-exist with the laws of the universe, meaning that it, too, is of the universe, which can be called the Source, the Ultimate, the Force, Life, God, or the Kingdom of God. This is Samadhi, which is maintained through Sadhani. At some point, I will be called to join the Sangha, further expanding my knowledge and practice of Dharma. The notions of impermanence, renunciation, cessation, and release are solidifying within me. WHen the city of mind is calm, like early SUnday morning, these notions thrive within me, contributing to me forming a better reflection of the universal. A better man.
Friday, April 21, 2023
The quilted lap of all cat tops
The quilted lap of all cat tops
cups a universe of the black bean-like pawy-like pads
within ephemerial wafts of bad breath
in the dark small hours illuminated by the lumens by lamplight
in this recling device body folds
directed primarily by that same gravity that trees ignore like reclining kings and queens
which is why
I would not know
As it seams the skins of my two hands shining lightly.
Monday, April 17, 2023
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Sunday, April 9, 2023
Best List (No Ranking)
Radiohead, The Smile, Neil Young, Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pixies, David Bowie, Police (though their work hasn't aged well), Greatful Dead, Uncle Tupelo/Son Volt, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Steven Wilson/Porcupine Tree, Zero 7, Electric Light Orchestra, Supertramp, Fleetwood Mac, Lou Reed, Cars, MIchael Jackson, Jimi Hendrix, Alt-J,
Sunday, April 2, 2023
Friday, March 17, 2023
Thursday, March 16, 2023
Friday, February 24, 2023
Thursday, February 16, 2023
The antonym is the shadow of the word. The richest soil has seen the most death and decay. Two sides to every sheet of paper. The light creates the dark and the dark
breaks the light. "Light breaks where no sun shines." Ego is theeee problem. Deduct it from all equations before it's too late. Mind that life will give you 180 degrees each day. Plenty of time to screw things up. But that time best spent in the business of our youth, because time runs out.
Sunday, February 12, 2023
A Blue Jay, Animated Venn Diagrams, the Task at Hand, Relative Centers, and Amino Acids
A blue jay shows up good in the winter woods.
As differences disappear, so do the perfect circles conjoined, eventually, and becoming the single one.
Peak performance during the task at hand requires one to withdraw from it both quick and perfect once she's
done.
I think that center of anything is only just that. The centers relate exactly to the task at hand. A universal center is incapable of detection, so its progeny, infinite in their singular time and space, inherit the incalculable project and go right to work.
Decades later I would find myself thinking about an Astonomy Ph.D candidate who once assured me that God is a euphemism for amino acid. Because he matriculated into the graduate level of nonother than Vanderbilt university, I really listened.
Thursday, February 2, 2023
The bridge to Samadhi, . . .
A window full of butterflies, My body in the morning, The sound of the rain on metal, A belly full of change,
"just relax," rattled out the rain.
Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Grace, Impermanence/Ballast, Lessening, Gratitude, Love, Forgiveness, The Was-ness of the past, The Is-ness of the present, The Adventure of Letting Go into the Future,
The not watering of negative seeds, The watering of all others, The universal fabric, Deep consciousness and navigation of spaciousness and time, My time finally came for letting go. I think the kingdom is light blue. For me anyway. The present moment moving forward in the thinnest of incremental slices all at once.
Sunday, January 1, 2023
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