Year of the Dragon

PREFACE

Before I was taught to be a doctor or lawyer, I once dreamed of being a waiter. Serving food and cleaning tables. To me at the time, it seemed like a really good thing to do. I thought that preparing and serving food with the intention of replenishing people's bodies and souls with spices and good will was to be reserved for the happiest of people.

But today we here have grown to value specific extremes. And we have succeeded in pursuing those extremes with a ton of efficiency.
But to be any one thing, is to not be everything else.

Some people have seen the dangers of a power hungry corporation and react to it by being the opposite. But those people are still tied to the very thing they despise. You doing something because of something else still makes your actions derived from the thing you are reacting towards...

Do something because you want to, because you love to... if it goes along with this or doesn't go along with that... so be it. Haters gonna hate right?

For in farming, we have valued banging out the most crop in a short amount of time. Out of all thousands of variety of apples, super markets only sell a handful. Handfuls that share a common weakness, but are poured with pesticides to counteract the self balancing way of nature, just to have an apple that taste like the one before it.

Farmers call this monoculture. This is what we do to many aspects of our life. It is easy to label something as evil and something else as good. To be have the largest bank account, to be the funny guy at a party, to be in control. But having tons of money is just having tons of money, the funny guy who tries so hard is not funny at all, and the control freak has no control of their life whatsoever... Anything can be taken to an extreme.

And the harder you try to preserve the extremes, the more cancerous you become. Diverting resources to maintain a state of affairs in what is a dynamic, changing, cross pollinating universe. Until you start to kill the very system that you depend on.

All this holding on and clinging is derived from a fear within. As I learn to let go and swim WITH the waves, I find the more and more that I actually delight in it.

Eat a sour apple, it makes you have a funny face.
Don't be afraid to be an asshole, that's kind of funny too.
Paint because you have something to share.

And don't forget to be a doctor, because you love it.
Or to be a lawyer because money can be fun.

That's how I see it right now.


YEAR OF THE DRAGON

I feel like dancing with the old, to repaint something new
I feel a reconfiguration of the globe is in due
I feel the sun wants it too

I don't know where it will lead
But I know maximum surprise is what I need

Call it want you want
Write it in any font

It's already been going, it's always been here
All we need to learn is what it means to steer

A violent rage of kisses is on the way
And no matter what we do to delay
This dragon can't be slayed

Draft post #2

I have blurry eye sight.
Am I looking at the same world when I take my glasses off?
Yes and no. But most of all, maybe.

Have I forgotten what "everything" means?
Yes and no. But most of all yes...
And when you forget everything, you forget everything.

But that's okay cause it's always there..

Bye

Sunday splatter

"Arrows and Ocean" by Saurabh and friend(s)

Draft Post #1

I feel like writing again.

I'm like a fish in a sea.
To be more specific/or to generalize.. I'm a drop of water.

Nope.. Scratch.

How many best friends am I allowed to have?

Haha.. Scratch

Faith
Isn't the difference between wave and particle a leap of Faith?

Nope.. Scratch that

Why do I think about these things all the time?
Am I a nerd with no direction?
Who needs one?
~One that wants one.

..So do I want direction?
~Aren't I direction itself?
What's my direction pointing towards?
~Anything, because it's my direction.

Scratch my back... seriously

Haven't we been here before?/Wing Chun Poetry III

Haven't we been here before?

Nope.

It's a new year, everyday, every moment. Change is the norm and you only need the courage to acknowledge your freedom to be thrown into everyday life that is not everyday life.

After a while with some practice, you'll forget who you were yesterday and remember who you are always.

I've come to learn that you don't need to retreat into the mountains, shave your head and wear robes to start a lifetime of spiritual growth. You can do it paying a mortgage building a white picket fence. There is no right or wrong way to approach truth. Surroundings will adjust accordingly to how you handle what is on your plate in front of you.

But enough of confirming an old superstition..

"Physical Energy" done by Ginny Cooke and Friend(s)

Pudding
If the proof is in the pudding, then I have to remember to taste it once and a while.

May I have this dance?
What do you think we're doing?

Excellent chance of success
50%

Permenant Records
How permenant do you want them to be?

Back to Square One
What a complete place to return to

Can God create a rock so heavy that even he can't lift it?
I guess... if he wants...

If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
What tree?

Tao Te Ching 37
TLDR: Just Be

Dreams
Are you dreaming the dream?.. Or is the dream dreaming you?

Haven't we been Here before?
Yeah, we're Here right Now

2012

We'll see.