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Preparing To Meet The Stranger

29 Tuesday Mar 2016

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The ocean had the character of a pond yesterday morning. It lay nearly motionless, like some giant jade puddle.  Last evening it was another character completely, thrilling, tumbling, incoming tide waves that when I closed my eyes sounded like a little waterfall.  I walked a long way yesterday thinking about what lies hidden in the bay and what lies hidden in our hearts, in my heart, listening to the negative tape reel play on and on. I thought a long time about the silent crimes happening all around us, silent victims, silent bystanders, the crimes we perpetuate against ourselves alone in the dark or walking with our lover in the sunshine carrying a bag full of hard things buried so deep we can barely acknowledge it exists.

We have very little love for ourselves because of that albatross we affixed. Think about it.  How much do you love and care about yourself, truly?  Do you believe that you deserve to be loved as much as you need to give love? If you do, I am glad, truly, and you are blessed.  If I loved myself the way I love my son, if I forgave myself the way I’ve forgiven others, what a different person I would be. Someday I would like to love myself enough to tighten up my backbone, tear off the albatross, honor it on some holy fire and walk away from the ashes renewed so I can be strong in the face of doubt, of fear, that I can let go, take chances, smile, allow myself to feel happy, forgive myself truly and be the person I was meant to be.  And write without resistance.

Who am I to set myself free? What gives me the right? Oh just wait and see.

Working Vessels

14 Monday Mar 2016

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Silence and time.  They allow me to hear the noise of my thoughts, to sort them. Try and make sense of them, put them to good use.  There is no sound with me right now other than fingertips on keys, my constant companion tinnitus, and every once in a while an exhaled breath.  (Breath holding, bad habit number 298 that needs work.)

My thoughts are like a glass of sea water.  Let’s have a look at that glass.  On some days the glass is a happy little vessel of a certain age, content to be plain, unadorned, nothing fancy like her champagne days.   On other days the glass believes it is something else, some other thing that is chipped, cracked, black and purple bruised, the handle is broken and no one would want to sip from such a wreck. On the happy days the glass knows it can hold whatever I put into it, be it milk, champagne, or poison.  So often I put a scoop of sea water in my glass.  It’s full of salt, there is silt at the bottom, it is littered with sea debris that cannot nourish me or anyone.  I let it stand and watch the contents settle. It remains a glass of silty sea water.  I pour it out and watch bits of sand wash down the drain along with warm, sudsy water.  My thoughts are rarely clear, cool and refreshing, nourishing, but I would like them to be.

When I’ve had enough listening to my own noise I walk down to the ocean and listen to its noise, the gull noise, the chatter of spring birds who live in the condos behind. I hear the chatter of the people. I check my resting face and wonder if the ugly is still there, then erase it with a smile. I inhale and exhale because I forget.  Soon their chatter stops being noise and becomes their story–I am listening instead of hearing now.  Sometimes I am tempted to push their pause button, suggest a different tack to sail, give them a little food for thought. Then I remember that people aren’t looking for answers to questions they haven’t asked.  They just want to tell their story.

Someone once suggested an idea for their next art project and I thought to myself, “That’s kind of a strange idea.”  I almost said it aloud but stopped before I could tip the sea water out.  When my glass is tall and straight, filled with diamond water, I recognized that I wouldn’t tell a kid on the beach not to make a sand birthday cake, here kid, why not use this camera phone and take pictures instead?  Every person is their own story, they are the architects of their lives, and when they find a way to create, to express their wisdom, their pain, their struggle, their vision, all that’s left to do is celebrate!

Sorting Seeds

12 Saturday Mar 2016

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Wide awake in Allentown.  What the hell does that mean?  It means everything we believed to be strong and secure can change in a heartbeat.  Sometimes our anchor is dislodged by an outside force, but… but!  We have the power to take up our own anchor and head for new waters. It’s hope.

We are our own being. We are the creators, destroyers, and creators of our own life.  That includes our art, be it poetry, a novel, restoration of a classic automobile, pencil sketches, photography we made on a camera phone. We are the creators, destroyers, and creators of it all.  And we do not make art every day.  Most days we exhale carbon dioxide, we speak questions, look on others with hard filters, our heart beats longings, and we have no idea what the path ahead looks like.  Most days we are just one hour at a time, because it’s all we can do, and that is a noble thing, just getting through our current trajectory.  I love to listen to people speak about their current trajectory.  I have no wish to point them to some “better” way because only they know their way.  So many stories standing out there in the sand, written and unwritten by the tide, or on the bow of a ship or the fin of a dolphin. Seen, gone.  Meaningful to them and them alone.  They carry their lives on their faces, in their dented cars, dented faces, wrinkled brows,  unknown stories, and we judge them at first sight.  Their story is theirs, and my reaction to them is mine.

Today I am interested in sorting seeds. What have I written so far that is ready, what is written that needs attention, food, watering, growth?  What have I written that needs to be put away, compost for better things?  Today I am interested in truth, the ivies that follow me from a garden I planted in my past. If I could plant a seed today, what would I want it to yield?  This is what I want to know, today.  And that is all.

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