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		<title>trade off: a poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 01:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[trade off
 
 
so say I was this amazing tree
and nobody saw me fall
in the forest Jesus was listening
to the sparrows
and their repetitive call
so Van Gogh just enjoy
leave your ear in place
and chill
the morning ’s cool
and suffering passes

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		<title>lost words: a picture</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 16:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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see larger at art spring 2012
I was so chuffed about this picture, which I finished yesterday &#8211; I think it takes the work up a notch&#8230;.

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		<title>&#8220;are there words&#8230;&#8221; : picture</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 17:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[are there words before and behind
twined in the grain of our lives
and do they meet?

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		<title>Bron&#8217;s pregnancy&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 17:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[pregnancy. pregnant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bron has sat for us pregnant, last month

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and this month

&#8220;I have no words
to weave through here&#8230;&#8221;

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		<title>new work&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[after Andrew said &#8220;stop&#8221; (see below, last entry), he said, &#8220;Take another board, start another picture&#8230;&#8221;
I only had a small piece

which you can view larger at art spring 2012
along with this weeks other new work

(rather a depressed text, I&#8217;m afraid)
and other spring work
send Norman viral
(tell a friend)

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		<title>Chedee said stop&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[last Sunday, at the life drawing session, Andrew
said, &#8220;Stop!&#8221; So I did&#8230;

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		<title>new mini mantra</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a new mini mantra
it is
bless this moment
bless this moment
bless this moment
bless this moment
but it can alternate with
still the thinker
still the thinker
still the thinker
I
bless this moment

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		<title>new art work</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[there&#8217;s new art work on my site: at art spring 2012



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		<title>the thing is:&#8230; take three</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recorded my &#8220;Jesus&#8221; poem,  &#8220;The Thing Is&#8230;&#8221;






I  like this poem/lyric/song and I&#8217;m going to record it (with musicians, and magician) until I get it right and we turn it viral (if it takes forever&#8230; cause the thing is, love is an option&#8230;.
So please send this to your friends, cause love is an option, love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music as Buddhisatva</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consciousness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ee&#8217;s as complex as any of us
but he spends his days
his life
playing music
which lends him some bliss
cause it spills him into wordlessness
highlights flux (the mirror of impermanence)
and makes emptiness easy
music: the void that dances
selflessly


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