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Quote of the Day – August 31 2012
“We’re all just walking each other home”
— Ram Dass
I’ve been lost in the woods of my being for so long. I see but do not understand. I have so long ago lost my way that home has become an abstraction. Then I meet someone who describes their home to me and I get it. I now know what home is. I am still lost but now I know that somewhere there is home. I want to go with this person to home but he tells me he cannot. His home is not my home. He leaves and I am devastated. I now know home exists but I cannot go there
She sees me devastated and asks why. I tell her and she ruffles my hair and tells me of her home. Only the home she describes differs greatly from the one the man told me about. Yet they are both home. How can that be? It seems that home can be more than one thing. She tells me that I cannot ago to her home either yet we have walked quite aways. I hug her and thank her. She leaves with a smile
One by one, you all come to me and tell me of your home. Some things sound so nice and I believe that for me they mean home as well. Other parts sound rough and I know that my home can never be like that. I walk with each one and step by step my home creates itself in my being.
Finally someone comes along and says to me “Beautiful home you have there” and I realize with everyone’s help I am home
Blessings, G
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Synoptical Journey Reversed by G A Rosenberg
Forestal by G A Rosenberg
Butterfly Madness redux
The song remains in motion
Butterfly wings flap
life underground in potential manifests
prayers below bring joy above
cycle continues un-ended unchanged
except by the stirring of wings
— GAR
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Butterfly Madness by G A Rosenberg 2010
Quote of the Day-August 20 2012
Well I think about all the other ways I could’ve played
All the other simple moves I could’ve made
All the other cards that I could’ve dealt
All the books I didn’t read upon my shelf
All the other ways I could’ve sung my songs
I’ve realized that none of it wen’t wrong
It was all play
How could it be any other way?
–Trevor Hall.
Losing myself in the vastness
Not even knowing it as that
All there is
So much more than the me
Or the billions of mes
Breeze on my face
Sand kissing my feet
More than kissing
Sound of surf
Unable to escape
But not needing to
I stare out at far shores
And travel within being
–G A Rosenberg
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Living Scripture Redux and What the Fract?
Living Scripture
We are all living scripture
reflections and statements
of divine being
made manifest
by an act of will
Like most holy words
our message becomes distorted
but are gems less beautiful
because of their flaws
or the sky less perfect
when ringed by clouds
How differently would we speak
if we knew our words
expressed the whole….
how whole would we be
if our words expressed ourselves?
– G A Rosenberg (2010)
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What The Fract? by G A Rosenberg
Rabbit Hole Musing and Purpose
Rabbit Hole Musing
From October 2010:
Joseph Campbell referred to it as the Hero’s Journey. The major arcana of the tarot shows similar cycle. Every time we step through a doorway or start something new, we perform a version of it. Sometimes I feel that most of my life is spent going from rabbit hole to rabbit hole or at crossroads deciding which way to go. It’s one of the reasons why I feel a kinship to crossroad deities such as Thoth in Egyptian mythology, Hermes in the Greek, Eshu and Elegua in various Orisha cosmologies or Ganesh in the Hindu among many others.. They tend to be the tricksters, the ones who teach you life’s lessons by exposing you to possibilities.
There is a history of musicians and crossroad deities especially blues musicians tho they usually see him as being old nick
I have to be careful tho. Every time I start writing about the rabbit hole I hear a whisper “c’mere kid…take the ride” which I guess is nominally better than “Oh my stars and whiskers, I’m late”
Present Day:
The rabbit Holes never stop appearing do they? At least not as long as we’re open to them. I think I’ve figured at least part of it. When looked at in a certain way, each person becomes a rabbit hole. When approached with empathy and a true desire to understand, everyone we meet can take us to a new reality or at least a new take on it. Some realities can be more dangerous to us than others. I’ve met people before and alarms have gone off in my head screaming “HERE THERE BE DRAGONS”. Others I’ve met who have shown me such beauty that I’ve wept to find that I must leave but reconciled that if careful I could take some of that beauty back with me. Neither are the two above mutually exclusive. Journeys never end and each circumstance or person who’s land we visit teaches me about my own.
Blessings G
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Purpose by G A Rosenberg
Quote of the Day – August 2 2012
“Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we’ll take the time to listen.”
― Charles de Lint
Create with me a new tomorrow
Let’s build our story
and don’t worry about leaving out the bad parts
Everything balances
and good and bad relative measures at best
Sometimes the most amazing stories we tell don’t come from narrative. They come from jokes made, kindnesses shown and songs remembered. Possibly not as easily put together as linear narratives but then as complex as we tend to be, how can any story be other than holographic or fractal, the whole contained in the part but oh so many parts. We carry each other’s stories inside of us and occasionally make them our own, at least in the telling. What new stories do you have to tell today? I don’t have to ask if you’ve heard any good ones. If you’ve been listening, you have
Blessings, G
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Tarot – Queen of Wands
Queen of Wands by G A Rosenberg
I’ll play you out tonight with another quote by Mr DeLint:
“The thing to remember when you’re writing is, it’s not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It’s whether it wakes a truth in your reader.”
Night time…
“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. ”
~Vincent Van Gogh
Mother Night folds me to her breast
caresses my being in shades of sleep
The day has drained me
and in her dark being
I will find myself replenished.
Shadows walking through my soul
Shadows caressing me in my bed
whisper lullabies in my ears
and bring me dreaming home
–Gary A Rosenberg
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Clouds at Night by G A Rosenberg
Inside the Multi-Cell
Needing Nature’s Kiss
I sank into green slumber
and found myself here
Harmonizing life touch
flows from and to awakened
heartspace breathing me
Go without leaving
This connection’s always here
My soul feels at peace
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Inside the Multi-Cell by G A Rosenberg
The Tower (Redux)
Expectations smashed
and hopes demolished
Cast down because I didn’t read the small print
I built my house of cards on shaky ground
Amazing how you can convince yourself
you know what’s real
I surrounded myself with illusion
ignoring the warning signs
Now that little kid truth has knocked it all down
Maybe next time i’ll look before I build again
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