the nature of natural

how we think about nature...is it possible to think about the natural world without politicizing it? without fettering it with possession, romanticizing it, thinking of it in the context of us, instead of vice versa? is it possible to appreciate and admire for the truth of it, and not the conceived meaning?
i'm not talking coats and rugs. i'm not talking cameron's avatar dream...what is the mystical but an experience?
we must be together...
i almost said without words,
without clothes,
without the fucking money.
and speaking of,
is that it? the last remaining vestiges of the natural within us?
meditation and sex? or a combination therein?

too many people on the side of mythos are dedicating their energy to alchemy, and not the real kind, not the kind that can save us (finding the chemical compassion), but still the fucking money. if you can hear me, false-chemists, hear this: IT'S STILL ABOUT THE MONEY, FUCKERS! by putting your learning in the desire of the material, you are missing the point. put your learning in the desire.

love,
c

river music

belle by sun apes

inspired by buttermilk voodoo & poison ivy

The Search

We should always be on the search but never the hunt; for the search allows us to see and find the truth, regardless of previous thoughts and/or conclusions; while the hunt aims at finding what we already feel to be the truth. In short, be mindful that you are always searching and never hunting. Until next week...
(pic taken in Germany near the Austrian border in the Alps)

va beach squirrel goddess

My friend Jackie Tripp told me this story yesterday. When she lived in VA Beach as a kid, her babysitter was known as the Squirrel Lady (do you know this lady?). This lady was lucky to have a wooded lot in the beach town, and felt she should express her gratitude to nature by building houses and a network of bridges in the treetops for the squirrels. No lie. It gets weirder.

Apparently, the squirrels were so impressed by the treetop housing that they began to regard this lady as some sort of deity, and would drop off their live babies on her porch so that she could raise them by hand, bottle-feeding and keeping them in blanket-filled terrariums in her kitchen! Jackie saw this with her own eyeballs! When the babies were big enough, the lady would release them into the trees, where the adult squirrels would collect them.

Suburban Squirrel Goddess...just something to think about.

Photo of the Week ~ Good Times

Always Dreaming.....

Explorations around the island

charlotte's spherical education

charlotte has a new blog about an atom-to-globe learning model that i'm guessing will frequently host some lovely/killer poetry.

check it out:
spherical education

i've invited her to join in on our fun here too!

New Year's Friend

I went to Atlanta for New Years for a week and while I was walking around downtown I met the following woman. She was on the phone while I was walking by her and she said the following to whoever she was talking to, "Girl, I'm gonna have to call you back, something too good to past is walking by and I ain't gonna let it past." She immediately hung up and started shouting at me. I walked over to her to see what was up and the following entailed. She began telling me about her life in the ghetto and how rough it was with all the drugs and violence. The story went on to say how she left the ghetto and traveled all over the world living off the land and doing humanitarian work for people less fortunate. She told me how she sits with her signs at the airport, or on the streets, just to make at least one person feel better or at least brighten their day. I ended up talking with her for about an hour. She was one of the sweetest old ladies I have ever met; a mother and caretaker to all. Needless to say, she brighten my day.....

Happy New Years to everyone and all the best for 2010

Pat

camber sands