My art
is refutation of your dismissal.
December 21, 2007 Friday 8:21 AM
Better, the journal was running an hour later than it really is here in Boulder, Colorado.
You ask if I’m ready to be brilliant today. I don’t know, that’s pretty daunting. I’d just like to show up, do my job, and go home and not worry about it till I come back. But that’s not me, is it?
When you have unlimited time without distraction you get a lot of room to listen, you almost have to listen or go mad with all the thinking. Thinking rides shotgun, but it doesn’t drive. That makes a connection to your feelings all the more important. Your sensations connect you to the world out there. They are your feedback from which you gain control. Control the "you" that is the complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.
Your sensations can be real or imagined. Pilates focuses on the real sensations that directly relate to the realm in which we exist—gravity. Not spirituality, gravity. Forget the interpretations, let’s go with what we know for sure. Acknowledge that. Pilates is survival training for the gravity jungle.
You do pilates when you need to. You understand the target. You know how to get there. It’s a conditioning method. Conditioning is putting into a higher state of readiness. Getting ready…for whatever comes up. In your body, in your mind, in your spirit, completely coordinated.
Is that being brilliant enough? Pointing to pilates as the refinement of the wick, to burn as needed.
Choosing your attitude in space
Victor Frankl, in Man's Search for Meaning says that the only freedom you have that is inescapable is your choice of attitude.
Ideas and Ideation
It's a big world out there, but not so big in the world if ideas and ideation. At some level there's always what we get and what we don't get. No one has all the answers, but there are those who get the questions better than others.
"Never deny a person their right to suffer." mjm
I'm not sure how that applies to me, but surely it must.
",,,without you in it."
I pray for you, I really do. The world would be so much less without you in it.
From a friend...
"There's a price you pay for subordinating your I.Q. to anybody." jm
I don't think
I don't think it mattered what Joe wanted the work to be. What matters is that Joe's work reveals what matters.
The only company there's ever been
I have found in this journal. More out of desperation than anything else. To have someone to talk to that could listen, or at least observe what there was to be said. (not that anything ever was (but we know better than that, don't we?))
Not said, but listened to. The observer sits in observance of what there is to hear. the thinking thinks, the observer listens.
In quantum, for something to exist it has to be observed. what is the observer? what is being in observance of? and how consumed can you become with that? i don't know.
Why bother?
Why bother? Because not to care is to give up hope that anyone hears you. If you don't care you might as well be dead because death comes looking for you. Hope looms over death, caught in its wake.
