Posted in Drama, Monarch Park, cosmology, election, herbs for dogs, mantra, moans, pictures, race, tai chi walk, theatre, this blog, truisms, water fuel on Jul 14th, 2009
Concepts
energy
a word as worn as love
and we’re really talking spirit here
or pattern
and not the four forces of physics
for the most part
spirit ‘s a good’un
at least its a word
that doesn’t pretend
to mean anything in particular
essentially a mystery
Sister Catherine said
spirit and energy
pattern and taste
presence
presence
now there ‘s a word
hard to describe
unless you [...]
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I’ve just posted a page about meditating on mingmen, Life Gate or Life’s Door, the diaphragm’s cross.
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the video
the text:
My Leonard Cohen Story: The Bourgeois Blues
This concerns Lee Harper’s amazing first poetic outpouring, which my father sent to Leonard Cohen. Lee was, and is, beautiful, so Ted enclosed a “head shot”.
A few days later Ted said to me, “You write poetry,” and then something like, “Wow! Your good. You’re really good*,” [...]
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Posted in Drama, humor, metaphysics, stories, trivia on Sep 13th, 2008
The Mayan Creation Myth and Why Things Are As They Are
I have just post a video of me reading this short story/sketch.
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Posted in Drama, Ted Allan, psychology on Aug 12th, 2008
In Ted Allan, my father: part two, I talk about his history with his sister Sadie, which he wrote as a play, I’ve Seen You Cut Lemons, directed by Sean Connery, which he and Jiohn Cassavetes later adapted as the play and film, Love Streams. I also talk about Leonard Cohen and the Bourgeois [...]
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Posted in Buddhism, Consciousness, Drama, HHO, Monarch Park, cosmology, detox, dogs, ecology, for now, greenwash, happyness, humor, mantra, metaphysics, moans, observations, poetry, psychology, stories, theatre, this blog, trivia, truisms, what I do on Jun 22nd, 2008
they should put timers on the street lights!
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