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		<title>thin as smoke: take two</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[as thin as smoke
as thin as smoke
incense before an altar
smelling of roses
smelling of shit
which is it
swirling
phantoms
a life led
Maggy says we are the river
Maggy says we are the smoke
Maggy says we’re Living Spirit
Maggy says it’s not a joke

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		<title>dumbfounded</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[dumbfounded


 
they say the map
is not the terrain
and words are symbols
concepts are abstractions
aren’t they?
abstracted from the map
the babbling mind
that pull us out of presence
we are removed by the chatter
from the stuff that matters
and though the feel is real
it’s the quiet visual
that leaves me dumbfounded

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		<title>where we came from</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[where we came from


 
it’s as much an “and” as an “or”
the opening and closing the door
and it’s a “letting go” for sure
I sound as though I’ve been there
we fell a long way
from “being”
to comprehensions
(and it’s awfully confusing
this comprehending,
this trying to understand)
but they tell me “knowing”
is where we’re going

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		<title>Tee said&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was telling Tee that I needed a simple text, an &#8220;Enlightenment for Dummies&#8221;, and she replied that finally there is no guide&#8230; you have to go the last step alone, uncharted&#8230; ultimately all the Gurus will tell you that for the finally step there is no path, no bridge. You have to jump&#8230; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behold: the Business of Isness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Behold: the Business of Isness
I have found an answer to the puzzle
and of course it is not The Answer
Mooji says
ask who the I is
ask who the watcher
who is it that sees?
and Mooji says
I&#8217;m not interested in the answer
just study the question
who am I
who am I
who am I
and the answer is The Jewel in the Lotus
Om [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terry Prachett said something like…</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terry Prachett said something like…
I’d rather be a rising ape
then a fallen angel
we are monkeys
who stopped throwing shit
got down
off the trees
and ended up building things
like lampposts
the renaissance ape
that’s so much more interesting
than bread fish and ribs
wine and dust

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		<title>untitled: at the bottom of the glass</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been polishing this poem ( posted as stumblings)&#8230;
Untitled: at the bottom of the glass…
at the bottom of the glass
cold currents cut between us
I saw oceans and islands
separated
isolated
these bodies
these others
they seemed empty
sure we are not concrete
and we are ephemera
shifting constellations
a flux
&#8220;consciousness&#8221; &#8220;awareness&#8221; &#8220;mind&#8221;
is it more than a jig
an air
shadows swimming
in bliss and fear
illusions
confusions
momentary clarities
stones in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a couple of new pictures&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted a couple of new pictures:
see fall 09 for a larger image



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		<title>i am his own devil: a poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[video of a poem

i am his own devil
one day I found myself with a nasty ugly thought,
and caught myself (for once), and explored it&#8230; 
 
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		<title>Evil and Devil</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post I talked about evidence of spirit and the divine coming out of synchronicity which implies an intellegent design, a patterner. Meanwhile, personally, I have not seen evidience, directly, of a corresponding malevenlent grand entity.  There may well be one, a Lucifer, a Devil, but our stupidity, in itself, can explain much of the evil [...]]]></description>
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