joined on 06/15/05
last updated 02/05/08
about me
I believe in apprenticing oneself to wonder. I believe in kindness. I like to play and create. I worship.
I am allergic to orthodoxy, and I have little interest in the drippy pseudo-spirituality that struts and masquerades as authentic realization; but authentic realization, evolution, unbounded creativity, the cultivation of wise power, dancing full-bodied heart-melting bodice-ripping worship, passion, compassion & humility, and celebration of mystery, that's what I like.
The whole, holy adventure.
Mammals Landscapes Microorganisms Art Infinitudes.
Body, hunger, swaying, surrender, games of make believe and imagination, subtlety.
Dancing!
Sweating, swimming.
Oceans. Rivers. Mountains. Forests.
The elements. The world of form.
The possibility (humbly considered) of worlds beyond the apparent world, or perhaps just more scope and dimensionality to this world than we can possibly conceive of.
The poetic balance between simplicity & the glut, between the profligate beauty and multitudinous muchness of our world & the perfect purity of one single perfect anything (blood cell, hazelnut, kiss, bowl of soup, lion, freckle, drum beat...).
Melody, rhythm.
Singing.
Language.
Mirth, mischief, silliness, compassion, reverence, and joy.
Hiking, camping, lying in the meadows belly down.
Wind.
Vegetables, herbs, flowers..
Yoga, meditation, silence.
The inexpressible.
Learning and playing.
Evolution. Collaboration. Play and communion with big-hearted, wide-open-minded, sultry, vulgar, pure, voluptuously imaginative, transparent, wise, kind people.
September 5, 2005
Lauren is so exceedingly wondrous a woman that any testimonial can, at best, merely point toward a fraction of her quality of depth, beauty, brilliance, heartfulness, . . .
In the company of Lauren, you are likely to feel:
CHERISHED and uncommonly understood
INSPIRED to be your very best self and to stretch yourself beyond
your comfort zone
THRILLED by the adventurous unraveling of ideas
AWED by the asking of real questions
BLISSED at the joy of human connection & tenderness
MOVED to get funky and shake your bad thang, sweat and grunt
BLESSED by the radiance of her soulful devotional ways
ADMIRATION-FILLED at her subtle sensitivity and the bottomless well
of her wisdom
HORNY ‘cause she’s so freakin smart and sexy
PLAYFUL as you behold the deep joy bubbling up from her depths and
beyond
LUCKY that life smiles upon you such that you might know so true a
friend
NOURISHED by the wild current of life and the warm arms of love, as
they freely make their home in Lauren
I LOVE LAUREN.
July 11, 2005
Lauren, oh beautiful woman, has depths of heart kindness and wisdom grace which will move you to joy, and draw forth deep healing- astonishing!
She is also playful frisky sweet and sultry.
Grounded in earth, moving through wide waters, fire filled star reaching, goddess!
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31337 Gardening,
Edible and medicinal plants of the wild,
Food Geeks,
Food Not Lawns,
Grow Organic!,
Healing foods and herbs/TCM,
Herbal Medicine,
Herbalists,
Horticulture and Permaculture,
organic & sacred forms,
Permaculture,
Raw and living foods support,
Seed Exchange,
slow foodies,
Urban Farming,
Vermicomposting,
"that's the secret of enduring life; to face death, sickness, injustice,
fear, and to say: It's a game, my heart, a game, don't be afraid."
Thu, June 22, 2006 - 8:14 AM
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Fri, May 26, 2006 - 1:52 PM
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"Dropping knowledge is a global initiative to turn apathy into activity. By hosting an open conversation on the most pressing issues of our times, we will foster a worldwide exchange of viewpoints, ideas and people-powered solutions."
Go here, and browse the Question Ads Gallery, and check out that table!:
www.droppingknowledge.org/web.w...bin/dk
Fri, May 26, 2006 - 11:32 AM
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There is an interesting thread in the KosmicBlogging Pod on Zaadz. It is a response to the following statement by Andrew Cohen:
”Unconditional love has no value whatsoever if you're interested in the evolution of consciousness. I know that this ideal is very popular in the postmodern spiritual marketplace. But let's just think for a moment about what the phrase implies. It means “I'll love you absolutely and forever, no matter what you do and no matter what you have ever done—whether you ...
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Stuart Davis is it. Read up:
"The Mystery is kind enough to manufacture forms which we can inter-subjectively and inter-objectively relate to, interact with, and SERVE in the name of love. All forms are sentient. All work is supposed to be the Play, the metaphor we conduct ourselves within as Agents of Kosmic Communion. Do not be mistaken, that is the fucking Hokey-Pokey people, that is what it's all about."
You like? Here's his blog:
stuartdavis.com/blog
Thu, January 19, 2006 - 8:50 PM
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THE KNOWING by Sharon Olds
Afterwards, when we have slept, paradise-
comaed, and woken, we lie a long time
looking at each other.
I do not know what he sees, but I see
eyes of surpassing tenderness
and calm, a calm like the dignity
of matter. I love the open ocean
blue-grey-green of his iris, I love
the curve of it against the white,
that curve the sight of what has caused me
to come, when he’s quite still, deep
inside me. I have never seen a curve
like that, except the earth f...
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uh oh. i just realized:
i like to fight.
the vitality of it.
it's like a hot hot shower.
if you do it right, playful, with
your heart light, even when RAGING
the honesty geese, your immediacies, your naked brain soft eyes and drunk love, come back home, your
stale skin remembers blood and mirth,
contrivance is impossible,
all your stupid puny ideas,
self-importance,
shudder themselves, a spritz of humorous oblivion
splitting
light, into light light light lightght gh t li
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The woman who was helping me check out my cd's at the library today was older, her 70's probably, smile bright as birth. She saw the Peggy Lee cd I'd picked up and flushed and said, "oh, God. I loved to listen to her sing. She simmered!" Then she starts singing "Fever" and snapping her fingers.
I love my librarian. Whipsmart and still sexy, in that manner of intellectuals who no longer take themselves seriously. She kept raving on about Peggy Lee, and said, laughing, "It's something about ...
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Yes, and here, right here
Between the moonlight and the lane,
Between the tunnel and the train,
Between the victim and his stain,
Once again, once again,
Love calls you by your name.
Leonard Cohen
(thanks DavidD, for the reminder)
Thu, December 15, 2005 - 2:18 PM
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from a Thangka at Menla in the Catskills
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