Month: December 2011

Quote of the Day – December 2 2011

“Art is whatever you can get away with”
–Andy Warhol

 

Juggling time and meetings
juggling actions and scheduals
Weighing words and thoughts
like spinning plates on sticks
It’s bloody exhausting

yet when i stop
it all falls down
words, deeds, actions, thoughts
people, meanings
its madness!!! Chaos
and it leaves me open, vulnerable
to change and growth

How can I know my lines
if I’ve lost my place in the script
Script? Oh yeah I burned the script yesterday
and have gone on as myself
Sans makeup, costume, design
you’ll have my authenticity.
no, better yet. I’ll have it…

–GAR

 

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Curves by G A Rosenberg

Arrival by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – December 1 2011

‎“We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.”

                                 –Joseph Campbell

In another quote Dr. Campbell talks about how every life stinks to some extent so life = stinking rapture or would that be a rapturous stink? Either way I like it

Tonight I listened to a brilliant keynote address by Norman Kunc talking about looking in the correct location for things like reasons, causes and solutions not the most obvious or brilliantly lit ones. He used the old joke about the man looking for his keys in a brightly lit area. When asked whether that was where he lost them, he said no and pointed to a darker area. It’s just easier to see over here.

I see application there to some of the economical, political, ecological and spiritual issues facing us today. There are many people shining lights saying “Look here, look here!!!” and some of those lights seem pretty attractive and yet we lost our way in that dark patch over there and only by looking there can we find a solution. Very often the bright lights are trained on external things sublimating our inner search.

Namaste, GAR

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Burning Shadow by G A Rosenberg

The Watcher by G A Rosenberg