You choose a career, a focus for your life, and something rises, silently, certainly not invisibly, to overtake you with the infinite fixins, add-ons, applications that have attached themselves, like barnacles, to the body of the whale of a profession. Maybe my anxiety is tied to the feeling of determinism these Medias embody, while the higher part of me insists on causeless love... a well-spring of all-that-is. Identity is a mask so anxious to make you make it yours. It makes me anxious to allow it such free and fancy, fatalistic reign... whoa buddy, no, I can't be contained! Ok, let's reconcile, I'll hold you for a while...
You've got a core tool, but now, seemingly, you can't use it unless you've got the service. Ok, fair enough, we all need to connect this tool to a larger network. But oh, here comes the army. And they tell you, in that definitive marketing speech which too-easily overrides the independent-thinking minds of many that, don't think twice- you won't be complete without 'em, those tiny soldiers profiting off slices of slices. Trickling down, out, are we destined to function as nature intends it... Independence a figment of modern man's new mental survival mechanism... potentially destructive as mass quanities of 'me'...
Find a reflection in the passageways of our breathing bags, divided into infinitesimal hair-thin branches reaching to the limits of their tissue’d walls.
Or roots of hulking trees, beneath the singular trunk, split off to find their own means, of moisture trapping for the massive all.
Dedication to discrimination an asset rising in value, dropping in availability as waves of distractions fight
to feed on the most natural of half-way fictional resources; one standing apart from it all, though its holdings are forever unfolding, tick tock, it's so golden.
Speaking of time, try blowing the roof off your view of the life you're living... Imagine it a small chapter in a huge book of never-ending War and Peace. You may have noticed the brilliance of a little kid, or a 22-year old who radiates wisdom, has an adept talent beyond their years. How are these beings seemingly 'born with it', while some 60-year-olds are just breaking past a mold to understand lessons better late than never? Perhaps the previous chapters of those more-like-Fall-chickens left them ripe for the aging as a newborn baby, embeded already with eons of experience. While younger souls, so to speak, are gaining the lessons to pay off in future dividends of lifetimes at another other end...
This 30,000-mile-high view is deliriously en-light-ening. Literally, I feel way light (too little oxygen, perhaps?) let me come back down... The dharma (धर्म) of your time on earth can be clicked into place with a bit more grace. There's a bigger reason here, a knot in a string that's got a major gift to wrap up...
And there's no way of knowing what it is,
unless we go inside.............. stay riding
Everyday is Christmas.



"Tirumalai Krishnamacharya was 50 when this film was made and is arguably the most influential yogi in establishing what yoga has become today. His students include Pattabhi Jois the founder of Asthanga yoga, BKS Iyengar, Indra Devi, and his son Desikachar. Most of todays leading yogis have studied under one or more of Krishnamacharya students. Krishnamacharya was born in 1888 in a remote Indian village and lived to be over 100 years old until his death in 1989. He is known as not only as a most influential yoga teacher, but a scholar, and a healer. Krishnamacharya was known to be able to voluntarily stop his visible heart beat/ pulse for over two minutes, probably by drastically reducing venous return to the heart.
The Yoga Sutras of Patanajali spoken In Sanskrit by Kausthub Desikachar."

A gentle, intense yet centered artist who has lived in hipster-territory since it was a major liability on your life to do so... His works are playful and poignant, detailed yet sweeping in pigment that float you from one bustling scene to another; connected by themes which seemingly haunt him, popping off the canvas, out of their screened lines to trace around you...
When I asked him how long he'd been working he replied "Since I was 5. I know that's what they all say but it's true."
When I asked him what motivates him to work, constantly, (his works and processes, and the artifacts of his daily life were living amongst one another. The separation between art and life, work and rest, did not make itself apparent) he took a beat, a pregnant moment, reflected and, seemingly teetering on the edge of tears, told me with clarity and a knowing in his voice, that he suspects it has to do with narcissism, with neurosis.
Peter Park
I met Peter in our Art Since 1945 art history class. We, along with around 12 of our classmates and one fantastic, fabulous, insanely intelligent teacher (see: Filiz Burhan) had the pleasure of tripping out to Munich on an overnight train, Gare du Nord -> Munchen. As was the norm with Prof. Burhan, virtually each waking-daylight-filled moment in a city was spent dedicated to tracing the arch of art history as it was developed, now displayed, in whichever important capital we happened to be visiting. From there we hit Switzerland where, after a day of museum hopping, a small group of us, including Peter, bonded over defecting from the larger group by exploring the outer reaches of a somewhat uninspiring Basel. The little adventure we took made Switzerland a little less neutral.
Walking round the New York Times building last year, I ran into him, now enrolled in Hunter's MFA program.
His photographs from our Art History days always wowed me. Now, his works do too...
Works in Progress (aka that Exclusive sh*t)
Shannon O'Leary
White-collar assistant by day, quirky comic-heroine by night, I wanted a dash of black-on-white. I also wanted to finally get a glimpse of the much heard about, little seen work she produces. Shannon and I bonded as obviously outside-the-box colleagues in a too-buttoned-up work place. Each afternoon around 3, I'd take a little coffee break and meander to her desk to talk billing, Pepperidge Farms cookie collections (Distinct Chocolate variety, Orchard variety), art, music (her love for metal and metal shows), tarot and astrology, and whatever else we could think of to giggle over. She enjoys Swedish comic conventions and a good glass of red.
George Venson
A San Antonio, Texas native, George lives conveniently close. But that's not the only reason why he was included in the show ;-) . George loves the word subversive. Seemingly. And every time we speak, he's got some absolutely fascinating tidbit that I rush to add to my Misc file in the notes on my phone, for future research, of course. He loves awkward. The more 'off', the better. Mind you, he won't make an issue of it. But you'll know.
He didn't say a whole lot about the works he showcased the other night, but their impact goes beyond words. You'd even overlook them, if not for the fact that the room's center was filled with a deep-red screen, beautifully dividing the space, quietly leaving a mark on the night as it structured social circles North, South, East, West. If not for the sadistically hilarious sight of someone innocently sitting on the couch, a heavy lead pipe menacingly hanging over their unknowing head.
For this gilded piece he has one word: sad. Just, sad.
Mireille Moga
Ah, yes, family love. She's been taking pictures for as long as I've been able to wrap my head around the concept of "cool"; I think her artistic streak defined that for me as a little kid... watching her tote around a Canon or Pentax in a Crown Royal bag. She's got an eye that I can always see. Her mark extends past the undiscriminating lens. The 12 photos she gave for the show were taken for The Architectural League of New York's show on the changing face of New York City. This Friday.

I was on chatroulette, for the first time, one night. For two hours this Floridian kid and I talked, or didn't, just sat there, oh gosh what was his name?. It was nice. Might sound creepy, but it was real. Why? Because I was real. And so was he. Ugh let me not toot my own horn. But I remember this other night, last summer. I'll get back to chatroulette in a moment. After these not-so-brief messages. I went out to this Bar in New York, the music there that night created a precious element... met a fellow, we talked, chilled, it got mellow, and high, and as I do, when I reach the sky, I riffed and riffed and spoke in tongues and connected with another person's lungs because each breath I took shook this person's world, and mine, truth be told, I say the darndest things, you've got to believe it, no need to see it. But, really, who doesn't? No, I mean, I really say the darndest things! Must have been the Bacchic influence. And now that I've stated it, probably took the edge off of the ability, revealed too much, set a standard, nothing to prove but expressing a groove. Keep moving...About what you may ask does my mouth, not much its the fingers that do the talking on this couch. If I told you, I mean really told you, I'd have to kill it. And I'm on a live trip continuing with the direction I was going in... homie's (he wasn't a homie, really) sitting there, in the same state as me, only I've taken the lead in the matter, get your minds (maybe it's not your minds, maybe it's just my mind, but I'll cover everyone's bases and therein reveal my own, oh jeez does it sound like I'm blown? [not]) out the gutter I'm a lady, not a pitch-and-hit batter. Flash back there we are and he's like, I've never met anyone like you, had this kind of connection, spoken like this with anyone. And I smiled and I thought, this happens more and more, all the time.Ah, les genes! So I said that, probably came off conceited as hell but it was earnest. And in that moment I couldn't have told that he thought me to be so, full of myself, but shoot, what do I know?. Because I talked of THE self, kept it as transparent as glass, reflecting my other half, wholly out of myself. Ugh God, I can be overly earnest. Oscar, you get me, I'll use your cajones. So maybe it is you, "it's not you, it's me", you..You don't need to remember it for it to be a part of your puzzle. And if it made it past your skin, others breathed it in, then there's little chance it won't prevail. As part of the matrix, as woven and contained within. Well, who cares? Ah, but you care. Everyone cares. Caring's the issue, and it's not, tu vois?. How truthful is something that happened in the past when your present is thousands of exits away, tethered nevertheless to that series of non-linear days, mem-o-rays, right up to the now here we go...... What are you building on, little life Jenga (a cat I once had may he rest in peace), let's raze this section right here, the foundation has been compromised, plant a seed in its stead, when stacking gets shaky, back to the Earth.with it, quaking, shivering, shaking. Can I stick another brick on? Replace the ancestry of an all-too-human race? My life's a brick, a part of the delicate game of pick-up-sticks, it's too late, I'm here, I fit.
Oh yea, and that time on chatroulette -- I won't go in depth, but I heard myself saying, that life is like a wave. positivity cresting, you waiting to catch it, like Clay Marzo magic, oh don't get me started on tsunami dreams.



French-English dictionary may be necessary
It asks, drift off and find, what's on your mind?
Walking through each song, like a stroll - tree-lined avenues
Brass bands with beats to spare

that JMZ track shakin the-
City snakes its way
into lively dwellers' skin
Skim the surface of the beautiful mess
they're living in
Further the numbers they climb,
Harder for some to find that piece of mind
Alienated did he call it?
Bars across their windows
So they slip downstairs
Into the after-hours darkness
For a drink to keep 'em company
In this town built on steel
Time to trim these tips,
Split out ends and make our way
past those man-made debts
subtle incongruousness
Building blocks, the sunlight
Now seeps from underneath
This garden of adapted souls
Making the most of their shadow goals

Would pull us all together
As well as it has with us
The world would be
One giant
Thundering heart
In the purest mind
Seeing with the clarity of
Timelessness

sitting smiling peacefully with a monument, its magnitude of beauty- focused centrally
in the corner, reclining with the scene
a face, my face
then 4 pairs of legs walk across a stage
scrutinizing two mojoin pins, removed from my possession
with a pair of eyes, and a single lens
and hundreds of others viewing past-present tense
vacation shots of a life
lived spontaneously
this photographer, where did he come from
we ran into him on the street
at an intersection of time gone by in the windshield,
spinnin round a traffic circle eye
from where he began to follow me
questioning the playbacks
does he see what I see?
and from the crowd a man, seemingly a professor
professed this love to me:
the id doesn't like it when a mirror's not around
try to sleep without one
see if you can stand your ground
so of course upon my waking,
I realize the space, blank
thereupon my childhood bedroom wall where one had hung, now displaced
then spoke a need to see this id encased
according to a Freudian kind of studied taste
but right before I rose up and out
from the cacophony of the raw
a boy in this dream I know asked me, please
make me anxious tonight
I have some work proposals that I need to write
my dreaming id understood it perfectly
over-seeing this unknown churning underbelly
catharsis dream-work delivered intentionally


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