Monday, December 11, 2023

AGNSW ~ Georgiana Houghton ⟣⟣⟣

In conjunction with the major exhibition Kandinsky at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Invisible Friends is a rare Sydney showing of ‘spirit drawings’ created in the 1860s and ‘70s by Georgiana Houghton (1814–84). Recently ‘rediscovered’ by art history, Houghton’s outwardly abstract artworks – among the most astonishing images of her time – have now assured her place as one of the most radical of spiritualist artists and a precursor of the abstraction to come. Houghton was a prominent figure of the early spiritualist movement in Victorian England, which played a significant role in 19th-century culture. Spiritualism is a belief system that centres around communication with the spirits of the dead, often through people known as mediums. A trained artist, Houghton was also a medium. When painting, she sought to express the connection between the visible world and the invisible spirit realm, considering the ‘manifestation first, and art second’. With her hand guided by those she called her ‘invisible friends’ – long-dead artists, family, friends and angels – she created intricate, swirling, mesmeric images, only a few of which survive today. This exhibition of her watercolours, rarely seen outside their home in the chapel of the Victorian Spiritualists’ Union, Melbourne, is presented alongside an exhibition of works by Vasily Kandinsky (1866–1944) to reveal the significant role spiritualism played in early modernism.


 

Tuesday, December 05, 2023

E N V I R O N M E N T A L Protection & Progress Towards Transparent Positive Carbon Credits

Huge News! 

Carbon Credit Markets Just Got A Whole Load More Transparent, Simpler and Easier. 

Saving Our Earth, Sustainable Climate Action, One Open Source Ledger At A Time. 

Thank You @Hedera and Partners 🙏

Saturday, December 02, 2023

Maryam Hasnaa

Are you still over focusing on what others think of you instead of focusing on being on the path God carved out for you?

Come back into wholeness.
Return to who YOU really are and always have been. 
Do not abandon yourself.
Again. 

It’s so easy to make it all it about you and its so easy to completely forget yourself as well. 

When you’re triggered you’ve split into extremes of good vs bad, right vs wrong.

It’s counter intuitive to recognize how healing ourselves informs, supports, allows and sustains our ability to serve those currently experiencing the most direct tragedy and harm.

Can you abide as your healed, whole, holy self in this one bare moment?

Any remaining wounded, fractured, attached mind self of course still matters and doesn't necessarily need to be in charge of choices of actions, deeds and behaviours. 

Similarly your unhealed inner child does not have to be driving your energy in motion. (e-motions) 

Slow down internally, pause more, in that ever increasing and subtle gap there is grace, there is space, there is a conscious choice to be less reactive and more able to discerningly respond. 

Part of that wholly human grounding choice, is to be responsible for all of your parts. Own Up, show up, centred, surrendered and wholly vulnerable. 

Feeling undervalued and unsupported while trying to simultaneously support others is not what the New Earth is asking for. 

Any inner voices, outer attached minds, vapid voids and insecure followers that are asking for this are the ones that benefit from you not being gently boundaried and fully embodied. Return to The Self.
And who is The Real Self? 
Who am I (really) before The World Told Me Who To Be? 

Stop confusing being fractured and distracted, trying hard to "heal" The World, with the actual knowing presence of being aware and engaged. With your own TRUE NATURE, firstly? 

The leading edge is, can you navigate the world at this time and the heartbreaking truth, while staying embodied and connected to yourself, your community, your soul family, and to the Earth.

Deep attachment, familial wounding, collective and individual pain points are what are being gifted as rising glimmers, or "triggers". 

Be flowing and conconcurrent, hold simultaneously to your cleansed and healed WITH the work of letting go and creating fresh inner space (growth) for those who are willing to be present with the moment to moment metamorphosis.

It time to attune to divine creativity. 
Who you really are and always have been. 

Imagine fresh spacious energy, flooding and fresh coming in, filling you with creative energies, ideas, visions and insights and inspiration. 

The alchemical process that returns you to who you have always been, is directly linked to our simple open hearted compassion for true self and others. Therefore true creation requires us to be in relationship with those that are most in need. And your needs MUST always come from an authentic FULL overglowing place of enough is enough. Firstly. Share the flowing dam over flow and do not dry out or deplete in any wasted over sharing, being overtly drippy or leaky, in a tepid over service to others. 

Honour those leaving the Earth, grieve and celebrate lives, protect and support those that are vulnerable to harm. 
Being From Love (not for love) always sustainably prevails and that the light of True Nature lives naturally and brightly in your heart. And that Pilot Light of Consciousness also lives in hearts of all of our fellow humans. It is all our common, simple, ordinary birth rite without having to Do a god damned THING. 
Maybe some have just become so junked up and covered over and conditionally stuck in societal attached smaller stories (that is NOT the real them) so their light has dimmed? They follow The Herd, They Do Not Question anything, they attach to THINKING they know by insecure mind fractures and attachments? 
Maybe some cannot yet access their own Inner Light & Let it Shine? Maybe some are so stuck up, busy serving from leaky deficits, busy keeping up with false prophets, busy by passing and busy competing and dominating and doing whatever it takes takes takes to win at life? No wonder some ill advised worry and stress of dis ease ex hausts those on any external death defying trajectory? 

Those who slow, know. 
Those who flow, know. 
Those who Let Go, know. 
Those who listen, know. 
Those who Pay Attention, know. 
Those who don't take anything personally, know. 
Those who (really) Be their best, know. 
Those who pause, more, subtle, nuanced, discerning, know. 
Those who don't split focus in foolish fractures, try hard multi task, chase and reach hard for something they already are, attached to belief, conditions, creed or dogma, know.
Those who connect to Their Real True Natured Self, Know. 

And how does anyone "know"?
Simply remove all that we are not.
Drop the expert external labels, ditch the stuck anchors, lift small, yet heavy BS wah wah on repeat insecure "not enough" stuck on stories, get concise, be simple, get kindly direct, reduce distraction, stop addictive, mind splitting, crisis to crisis dis integrated ego attachments, beware of false prophets sucking you dry, selling you lies of "healing" (when YOU already are whole, once you realise, there is NOTHING to realise...) 

From LOVE
NOT
For Love.

And to do that? 
answer until negation, 
answer until reality is revealed, 
answer until all that we are NOT, is removed. 
answer by removing the inherited, attached, fractured, splitting conditional terms & conditions. 

And what then remains?
Only YOU will know when YOU really know...
spacious and gracious and taketh NO crapeth... dumped from ON high by those WHO think they know YOU better than YOU know your whole self. 

Laugh, smile, accept, expand and allow.
How precious? 
So blessed? 
A Humble Humanity, 
One True Nature, 
is ever so detached from thinking and ever so forgiving
(once we ditch ALL the try hard attached loose lipped labels...that is)

So Who am 'i"? really? 

Be so FULL of your ever so humble and grateful and TRUE self, that the raw and unadulterated NATURAL energy simply over flows as an AUTHENTIC supportive, real, right now, kindness. 

No hard or leaky or drippy or insipid empty cup, service
Yes to rest, restore, recharge, reflect, rise and repeat.

No over stress to dis ease of exhaustion
Yes to support and kindness that does NOT deplete. 

No insipid, tepid, mind fractures
YES to wholeness and FULL unadulterated individuation

no stuck on or up expert external attached labels, 
Question EVERYTHING, especially your own self talk...

no covered over people pleasing and countefeit empathy, 
Yes to kindly showing, inspiring and living YOUR best life.

no serving from a try hard, far from whole, insecure, leaky deficit
yes to listening, receiving, paying attention, 

no insecure hear we go AGAIN wha wah victim moaning dis ease
yes to making creating building as SHIft Happens 

always choose what lights YOU up, unapologetically, 
do not ever over explain
avoid the split minds attached to shallow waste water drains, 
don't play there at all, 
avoid the addictive conditional trips and masquerading fault lines
don't ho there at all, 
avoid attaching permanently to grating, sharp, blunt or drugged out blind alleys (as much as short term fun may lurk there, Don't get sucked into attaching to somewhere YOU don't belong)

Whatever YOU choose
Let Your Unique Light Shine
and don't let quackers quack quack and drop their crap. 

Go Forth, Walk Tall and Spread That Joy
said one leg to the other... 
or not... 
lighten up FFS
absurd, eclectic, unique, let go
life really is too short to Be stuck somewhere YOU do not belong, 
why so siri ass? (unless it really is...)
Monty The Python Knows... 

Friday, November 10, 2023

Wednesday, November 08, 2023

Leading Life Long Learning

L I F E   L O N G   L E A R N I N G
Moodle is a free and open-source learning management system
written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.
Moodle is used for blended learning, distance education, flipped classroom
and other online learning projects in schools, universities,
workplaces and other sectors.

 

Friday, October 27, 2023

Hello Future Now.

Playing Hide and Seek?
Coming Ready or NOT!

This is HAPPENING NOW and rapidly spreading though traditional "everything". 

"Tokenization"
You say? 
What is this you speak of? 
Maybe you don't want or need to understand, and that's OK. 

Realize those who do understand, are creating, building and transforming RWA, NOT just in Finance, but in any area which can be tokenized. 

And if you do not (yet) have a need a want or an inclination to learn, be  aware, life long learners in all countries, all societies, all what were once labelled "less developed" or "emerging"  nations, ARE applying themselves and availing them selves of limitless opportunities. Simply by being connected, paying attention and creating. How awesome is this change! Personal responsibility is finally arriving and the waste of "middle" anything is being called out for what it is and eliminated. 

This change happening rapidly now is creating a No more excuses, No more hiding or seeking, no more wondering why some get "ahead" and other's stay stuck. These real world communities are supportive, transparent and transformative and just happen to be creating something simple, common, easy and everywhere. 

The Rolling Stone Started in 2008 and now is simply gathering momentum. 

And it is not slowing down for any reason, as there are NO reasons, once we get out of our own way.

And stop hiding behind excuses like "why wasn't I told?" "why wasn't I aware?" "when did all this start?" "hmmmmpfff, think I'll go back under my rock or mushroom or doom scroll screen and have a little ostrich party..." 

Please, when this just becomes The New Old, which it rapidly is, do not say the opportunity was not evenly distributed or worse whine and whinge and finger point 

"it's those people/governments/businesses/institutions/ over there's fault" why wasn't I TOLD! 

This train left the station years ago, did you buy a free ticket to ride? 
This ship set sail many moons ago, are you on board? 
This plane ain't aimlessly taxiing or in a holding pattern, what class are you flying? 

The simple point is, anyone, anywhere, anytime (life long learners first that is...) can be as involved in availing and creating this opportunity as they choose. Tokenization is levelling and opening vast new playing fields that the "middle" anything will NOT be amused by. Digital tokens can be applied to ANY RWA and will see many traditional roles, up to now, either evolve, grow, shift and tokenise, open source via the convergance of DLT, DAG, aBFT, AI, web3 et al, or simply fade away and become the next video store... Bueler? Ferris? Dinosaur? Anyone...? Remember those glory daze? Forest ran as "You Can't Handle The Truth" coming ready or not... no more hide no more seek... this shift is happening whether Minions or Barbie approves or not! 

Any old, expensive, slow, redundant bureaucracy, tied up in red tape, pen pushers, sellers, marketeers, selling an intermediary service which can be "tokenized", read pretty much anything, but real estate, any contracts, many legal wills, probates, banking, finance, house sales, mortgages, supply chains, music, movies, medical supplies, streaming entertainments, EFTPOS, credit/debit cards, insurances, pretty much anything that has attracted fees for sevice (hidden or up front) or a commission for doing your paperwork, will be made simpler, faster, easier, cheaper and more directly secure due to open source removal of "hiden middle" anything. Concentration of digital ownership, waste and delay and inherant clunkiness of walled garden web2 and your data used for their profits will be minimised further by the return to a open source trust layer with trusted identity. Peer to peer from YOU direct to who you choose to interact with for whatever reason. DLT open source makes this trusted, safe, transparent and easy to manage with connected inexpensive digital asset wallets, time stamps to finality, bad actors easily seen, called out and shut down, plus the exponential scale of TPS using DAG (which is NOT blockchain) Leaderless, permissionless, trusted layers of what Tim Berners Lee who simply connected pre existing dots to make WWW flow and happen all those decades ago, is NOW happening again at a far easier level. DLT is here to stay, the labels of "blockchain", "tokenization" and "RWA" may confuse some, but the again who knew the specific language of web2 social media only 20 years ago? Humans learn by curiously leading, asking the "dumb" questions, playing, practicing and questing or humans are controlled by waiting until they are told or sold what to do. Hence only a few "bad actors" got a hold of web2 and made a closed wall, closed garden fortress many humans now blindly attach to. If it is free you are the product being sold. In web3 you remain in control of YOU! Learners finally become responsible for what they create and contribute to a coimmunity WITHOUT ownership by an institution. It is that simple. Real World tokenisation is opening and levelling a truly global open source playing field that YOU own and control and the old masters, the closed wall over lords and puppet masters pulling your strings, do not like it one little bit. 

Those who hoose to be (real) life long learners who take responsibility NOT to be attached to the old ways, not attached to "that's the way we've always done it" and be compliantly spoon fed by the "middle" or "master" or "expert" anything. Those learners who are aware, who are taking responsibility, who ARE 4th or 5th generation active creative digital citizens, (NOT passive screen consumers or doom scrollers BTW) are making real shift happen, right now. 

Imagine? 
As Mr Lennon once invitingly asked? 

Or once controlled? 
As Mr Lenin once told and sold? 

Which Lennon or Lenin? you can choose... John or Vladimir? Creatre or Control? 
your Lennon, open, choose to create your own free future, now? 
your Lenin, closed, do as you are sold and told in a contolled environment? 
Both have merit probably, but can you sit with the uncertainty of NOT knowing? Yet? 
Remain fluid and flowing, no conclusion? 
Remain open to the opportinities?
Remain a life long learner? 
Remain curious and compassionate and kind? 
Remain connected as a learning community NOT attached to "that's the way we've always done it"? 

and what future are you choosing for you right now? 

Intentional, a curious connected open to source flowing consciousness? 
or 
Survival, a closed doing, going through the routine ground hog motions?

That is RWA (tokenization) authentic life long learning in a NUT shell... 

#DYOR 

There are so many free and abundant learning resources out there
It is the will to learn that is lacking

Don't remain too closed for too long
or your dinosaur might sneak up and EAT you...! 


Tokenization of Real World Assets (RWAs) is fast becoming a key use case of web3 as enterprises, institutions, and individuals realize the transformative potential of blockchain in bringing increased liquidity, opportunity, and efficiency to traditional finance. 

Hedera Governing Council Member and asset management firm @abrdn_plc - currently managing over $600bn AUM - stands at the forefront of this innovation, recently partnering with @ArchaxEx to tokenize abrdn’s £multi-billion money market fund on the Hedera network. Check out the full replay below of @chainjournal Editor-in-Chief @dberlind interviewing abrdn’s Senior Investment Manager Duncan Moir on how abrdn is utilizing Hedera and #DLT for fund tokenization

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Scholarship Recipients

The Brett Whiteley Studio, administered by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, awards an annual travelling art scholarship to talented artists aged between 20 and 30 with an established body of work.

For the 2023 scholarship, the Studio will offer two types of residencies under the one application: a residency at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris, for one artist, and a two-week residency at Shark Island Kangaroo Valley for five artists.

Mrs Beryl Whiteley (1917–2010) generously allocated funds for the scholarship in memory of her late son, Brett Whiteley, both to encourage excellence in painting and to offer young artists career development opportunities.

The 2023 scholarship has seen an increase in its cash prizes and will consist of one recipient receiving $50,000 and three-month residency at the Cité as well as five recipients each receiving $10,000 and a two-week residency at Kangaroo Valley in the Southern Highlands, NSW. The Shark Island Kangaroo Valley residency will be administered by the Shark Island Institute, in consultation with the Brett Whiteley Studio and the Art Gallery of NSW.

Residencies will occur on the following dates:

Cité internationale des arts, Paris from July to September 2024 with a further three months in Europe – for one recipient only

Shark Island Kangaroo Valley from 7 to 20 November 2023 with a curriculum and various events and programs produced by the Brett Whiteley Studio – for five recipients simultaneously.

To be considered for selection, an applicant must comply with all entry instructions and conditions.

This year the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship will be judged by guest artist Guido Maestri.

Recipients and finalists

"In its 25th year, the annual Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship has been awarded to six artists.

Mark Maurangi Carrol, age 28, from Randwick, NSW has been awarded a three-month residency at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris and $50,000.

Five other artists each receive $10,000 and a two-week residency at Shark Island Kangaroo Valley in New South Wales: Sis Cowie, age 24 from Malvern East, Victoria; Joseph Christie Evans, age 23 from Newtown, NSW; Lauren O’Connor, age 29 from Enfield, NSW; Oliver Scherer, age 25 from Wheeler Heights, NSW and Angus White, age 24 from Hawthorn East, Victoria.

These artists, along with five other finalists, were selected from 181 entries by guest artist judge Guido Maestri, who has curated an exhibition of paintings from the bodies of work of each finalist and scholarship recipient, which is on display at the Brett Whiteley Studio.

The annual scholarship was created from an endowment by Beryl Whiteley, who died in 2010. It was inspired by the profound effect international travel and study had on her son, the artist Brett Whiteley, as a result of winning the Italian Government Travelling Art Scholarship at the age of 20.

Previously, the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship was awarded to a single artist each year and included a three-month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. However, due to COVID-19 international travel restrictions, it was not possible to host the 2020 and 2021 scholarship recipients overseas, and instead a local residency was awarded to five artists. Thanks to the continuing generosity of Shark Island Kangaroo Valley, in 2022, both the overseas and the local residencies have been awarded. In 2023, the previous year format was maintained, and the cash prize increased to a total of $100,000 across the six Scholarships." 

via NSWAG

Sunday, October 15, 2023

Thursday, October 12, 2023

kintsukuroi

“It’s where the light gets in”
Elevate Me! 

Kintsugi Dawns - A Crack or A Chalice?
Beauty or Broken?
Mind The Gsp - Respect the Pause 
We Choose What We See
Respect - Diversity - Character Lines! 
One Unique in One Creation 
All Included All Gods Creature's
Great & Small  

More… 
To Come 
There Always is 
Enough IS Enough 
No need to reach hard 
No need to try hard 
No need to be needy 
Surrender To True Nature 
Meet needs Speak Up 
Full Fill Your Own Non Leaky Cup 
Your Own Way of Being
Aligned and Kind 
Open and Potent 
Completely Let Go, flowing, connected 
Pebble pond ripple simple 
Pay It Forward 
Simple 
Not Mind Attached 
Simple 
Once You Know It 
Simple 
Relax, Flow, No Thing Is Under
Control… 
Simple, Common, Ordinary, Everywhere 
Drop All The Attachments 
No matter how subtle 
Ditch the enabling 
Drop the enmeshment 
Discard the entitlement 
Let go of mind addictions, mind afflictions 
Get over any inherited lack 
Cease competing, comparing, 
convoluted crapping on 
Be ever so unadulterated 
Embrace inner silence
Spacious receptive awe some 
From love 
Gracious grounded humanely humble
Not for love 
All answers appear in a surrender to space 
All answers appear once we allow grace to find us 
Compassion n kindness n mischief n joy 
Create No Try Hard The Love
Create No Try Hard Ever Present 
Create Moment To Moment 
Fear Not The Flow 
Fear Not True Nsture 
Simply Be It, Not In It 
The Witness Embrace it 
Self love self care self knowledge 
Stand it, embrace it, allow your own 
true nature to be to speak to connect 
Commune in Community 
Let Love Be An Unreasoned Excuse 
Love is a State of Bring 
Not a feeling not an emotion not limited at all, 
No entry portal no logic no messy mind attachments 
Love is Ever simple, see? 
Happiness Bliss Ecstasy
These are All Creatures True Natured States
So lift all the veils 
So ditch all deterrents 
So drop all masks and facades and charades 
Connect To Each Minute Momentous Moment 
Detach From Vapid Vacant Mind Attachments 
Once You Negate All That is not… 
Once you re integrate missing puzzle peaces 
Simply Return to Who you Have Always Been 
That simple is hard for life long mind attachers 
Simple is hard For conditional crisis to crisis 
Explore and Ask to negation? 
Who am I? Really? 
Beyond who the world has told you to be? 
Reveal the light joyous Truth of 
Who You Really Are 
Get rid of the conditions unconsciously inherited 
Try hard possessive 
Compete noisy nosy attached mind thinkers 
Once we get out of our way
What is left? 
What remains? 
Who Am I? 

Broken yet whole
Complete yet fractured 
Absolutely unadulterated yet messy cyclic 
True Nature, Seasonal, All included. 
Whole Total Complete 
That has never changed 
All ok
We all already are 
One Creature
One Creation 
Once You Know It 
Remind it remember it 
From love not for love 
Completely Mind Unattached 
Absolutely Connected as True Natured 
Self 


 

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

SXSW ~ C R E A T E

sage - simple - secure - sensual - safe n sound - so hot 🔥

E X P A N D - e X p L o R e - D I S C O V E R - m O r E 

Wendy n Brett know… 


 

Sunday, October 08, 2023

Life is Simply...

never be afraid to recieve, to give, to align and be kind

never be afraid to trust your own Self Knowledge of lived experience

never be afraid to drop the labels, drop mind attachments, 

drop The Good And Be The Great.

Never stay stuck where the pool is slimy, shallow, 

never stay floundering where control is apparent, 

never stay somewhere merely trying, doing good, 

when 

Enough is Enough 

is All Ready Here, 

Reciprocate Joy in Open Hearted Greatness! 

Simple Joy, commune in community, 

celebrate birth days

celebrate life long friends, 

celebrate, 

embrace The Magic of Mystery, 

Thank You Creatives

Thank You Mad Dance Floor Moves

Thank You Simply Shen Grounded, 

Sally such

A Fun Party!


Now Sun

Now Day

Now Rest, restore n Rise,

Life here is all the best

Life here, is true nature, is simple, 

serene.


Now 1000kms 

Gentle Man 

Start Your Engines. 


F A S T C A R S

Wednesday, October 04, 2023

The Shape Of Water

 

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Anna Purna Living & Parenting

10 Notes on Parenting Teens

 

How Carrie-Anne Moss 
Stepped Out of Her Comfort Zone

BEING A MOTHER HAS TAUGHT ME SO MUCH ABOUT MYSELF.
by Carrie Anne Moss

"My desire to grow is something I truly appreciate. I offered a course for a few years on Annapurna Living called Mother. What a deep and beautiful experience we all had exploring our journey as mothers. I recently came across some notes I had taken a few years ago while speaking to a dear friend/mother/mentor who has a grown daughter.  I wanted to share these notes with you— Perhaps one of you needs this inspiration. Parenting teens is often challenging.  May these notes support anyone who needs them. Notes from my friend Malin about parenting teens:

1. Be delighted with them just the way they are. 
Even with patterns of withdrawal, 
isolation and addiction to electronics.

2. Work on personal grief/anger/sadness 
(connected to teen) 
so we become less prone to leaking 
these emotions onto them.

3. Remember all is well and your connection 
is not lost. You have not lost your teen.

4. Make yourself available to your teen 
and patiently wait for them.

5. Go to them. 
Don’t expect them to come to you

6. Show no judgment. 
Don’t Fake enthusiasm. BE REAL.

7. Remember your teen wants you.

8. Loving limits firmly set. 
Drawing limits will never make you lose your child.

9. Do not make your children reassure you. 
It is not their job.

10. Having healthy mentors/friends 
who have crossed thresholds ahead of you 
of raising children is very helpful and reassuring.

Sending all you brave mamas so much love."

Carrie Anne Moss


Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Devoted, Dear To Life

Please Dear Life, 

Wholly Devoted and A Simple One Living A Kind Full Life 

Please, Just DON'T F%^k With My Energy. 

Hells Angels aka Devils Heavens, 

We Have Connections You Know... 🔔💋🔔🤣


Kindness is a super power
It doesn’t cost anything 
You don’t need to meditate for it 
Or search spiritual texts 
It’s not mysterious or esoteric 
It’s not political, religious or moral 
Yet is so powerful and healing 
It could utterly transform humanity 
If it were practiced always.

𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚎 and hold the 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 nature's 𝚜𝚘𝚏𝚝𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜,
𝚜𝚑𝚎 roars and 𝚋𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚖𝚜, 
DEVOTION, loving
𝚜𝚑𝚎 finely, subtle fully 𝚏𝚕𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚜.
love and wisdom is DEVOTION
𝚜𝚑𝚎 alchemizes 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚒𝚙𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 BLISS as pure Gold.
𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 infinite 𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚍𝚒𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚎 moon sun 𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚘𝚗
𝚋𝚊𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚗𝚐 and 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚐 yin yang 𝚙𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚜.

Joyously Simple.

 

Weird & Wonder Full Culinary Practices

Is that really a thing… 


Beavers eating cabbage…? 


I’d rather watch a cabbage eat beaver… 

Now T H A T would be uniquely delicious 

Tbh 😂


🥬 🍽️ 👄 🦫

Wabi Sabi


K I N T S U G I 

we’re all in this together & it starts with you! 

 

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Created in 2015... Don't Say You Didn't Know, This is NOT New & The Future is Already Here, Just Unevenly Distributed.

 "Pay Attention, Be Astonished, Tell About It" 

Mary Oliver

"Upstream" by Mary Oliver

Concentration is indeed a difficult art, art’s art, and its difficulty lies in the constant conciliation of the dissonance between self and world — a difficulty hardly singular to the particular conditions of our time.















"Two hundred years before social media, the great French artist Eugène Delacroix lamented the necessary torment of avoiding social distractions in creative work; a century and a half later, Agnes Martin admonished aspiring artists to exercise discernment in the interruptions they allow, or else corrupt the mental, emotional, and spiritual privacy where inspiration arises.

But just as self-criticism is the most merciless kind of criticism and self-compassion the most elusive kind of compassion, self-distraction is the most hazardous kind of distraction, and the most difficult to protect creative work against.

How to hedge against that hazard is what beloved poet Mary Oliver (September 10, 1935–January 17, 2019) explores in a wonderful piece titled

“Of Power and Time,” found in the altogether enchanting Upstream: Selected Essays (public library).

Mary returns to the problem of concentration, which for the artist is a form, perhaps the ultimate form, of consecration:
The working, concentrating artist is an adult who refuses interruption from himself, who remains absorbed and energized in and by the work — who is thus responsible to the work… Serious interruptions to work, therefore, are never the inopportune, cheerful, even loving interruptions which come to us from another.

"It is six A.M., and I am working. I am absentminded, reckless, heedless of social obligations, etc. It is as it must be. The tire goes flat, the tooth falls out, there will be a hundred meals without mustard. The poem gets written. I have wrestled with the angel and I am stained with light and I have no shame. Neither do I have guilt. My responsibility is not to the ordinary, or the timely. It does not include mustard, or teeth. It does not extend to the lost button, or the beans in the pot. My loyalty is to the inner vision, whenever and howsoever it may arrive. If I have a meeting with you at three o’clock, rejoice if I am late. Rejoice even more if I do not arrive at all.

There is no other way work of artistic worth can be done. And the occasional success, to the striver, is worth everything. The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time."


Upstream is a tremendously vitalizing read in its totality, grounding and elevating at the same time. 

Complement it with Oliver on love and its necessary wildness, what attention really means, and the measure of a life well lived

then revisit Jane Hirshfield on the difficult art of concentration."

Maria Popova via The Marginalian