Tag: spiritual journey

Creating Absurdity

 

“Envision possibility. Don’t worry who else believes in it; the universe is only looking for instructions from you.”
— Marianne Williamson

 

Creating the world I live in
breaking the chains I’m given
freeing myself for living

 

I have to admit tho I keep getting pulled in by all the political bread and circuses. It may be easier this year since they’ve added so many clowns. Take the latest news from the south for instance. Supreme Court Justice Scalia died of a hard attack yesterday. He was 79 and not particularly in the best of health so it probably did not feel totally unexpected. Yet immediately the radical right jumped in with conspiracy theories about how he was murdered (by Obama in at least one reported theory no less). Putting aside the absurdity of this claim for a second one has to ask the next logical question. If he was going to be murdered, why would it be now. The timing is already causing a shit storm due to the fact that President Obama is in his last year in office and the republicans don’t want him to do his appointed job. If it was that easy to assassinate Scalia would it not have been wiser to do it a year ago before several of the most controversial and closest decisions to come down the pike in a while? One has to wonder.
Blessings, G

 

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InsightInsight by G A Rosenberg

 

A Successful WorkingA Successful Working by G A Rosenberg

 

Chronos Steals

 

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”
— John Burroughs

 

The clock on second hand wings
soars away with me running after
in frustrated yearning
seeking that extra hour
for laughter with a friend
or tears with another
or a few more moments to read
or make love
or just fuck
Even a song would be nice
yet Chronos steals our moments
and we must make do with what’s left.
Still so much better than
not having a clue
of what to do.
— G A Rosenberg

 

Blessings, G

 

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Exotic Forest DanceExotic Forest Dance by G A Rosenberg

 

Answers ForthcomingAnswers Forthcoming by G A Rosenberg

 

The Artistic Glimpse

 

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds… Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― Neil Gaiman

 

My inner world cannot be perceived by others not the way that I can perceive it. Of course this tends to be true of everyone. Artists tho show glimpses into their interior world. The ability to do this despite the medium may serve as a definition or description for what makes an artist. The medium doesn’t matter much. If you can look at the product or work of another and catch a glimpse into their process and perhaps a greater understanding of your own, then you very likely stand in the presence of an artist.
Blessings, G

 

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Not My Standard RealityNot My Standard Reality by G A Rosenberg

 

Fire Monkey Finds His YearFire Monkey Finds His Year by G A Rosenberg

 

Cernunnos in ReposeCernunnos in Repose by G A Rosenberg

 

A Man of Pure Restrictive Conviction

 

“Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.”
— Paulo Coelho

 

Oh so confident in your views
reality lies down at your feet
yet you beg before it
convinced you know of its treat
and still in giant stride
you feel no remorse
at tearing down all others
because you are right of course
yet then the silence spins around
your tower crashes to the ground
in your facade there is a crack
you’ve found some knowledge that you lack
and so you rebuild your crumpled frame
and in your course become convinced
that you hold the key once more
and on such scant evidence!
Would you hold the secret key
and jump away from pure conviction
then know truth’s inconsistency
and certainty’s restriction.
— G A Rosenberg

 

Blessings, G

 

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Finding the Colours to Build a DreamFinding the Colours to Build a Dream by G A Rosenberg

 

Mindscape 23Dreamscape 23 by G A Rosenberg

 

Recreating a Legendary History

 

“History records man’s perceptions of the “truth” and these perceptions are firmly distorted, as anyone knows who has researched historical sources.
On the other hand Legend and Myth preserve the essence of the truth. This is validated by the similarity of world legends that persist in all parts of the world and in all cultures and religions. ”
-Christopher S. Hyatt

 

We honour our pasts in strange ways
tho we remember it not
after all it is not the truth that lives on
and facts are easily distorted
It is story that lingers.
Everyone knows the myths of their country and culture and connect to it on a visceral level more than they ever could dry historical facts.
If you want history to be remembered a certain way despite how it may or may not have happened, the easiest way is to make your version of history legendary. Have clear heroes and villains. Remember everything the heroes did in the most positive light possible and everything the antagonists did in the most negative. Make it romantic and sexy and you too will have created a new legendary history that will be taught in school textbooks and sworn to be the way it was.
I’m sure some examples easily come to mind.
Blessings, G

 

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Staged RitualStaged Ritual by G A Rosenberg

 

The Doctor Will See You NowThe Doctor Will See You Now by G A Rosenberg

 

Cheese Gratings

 

“I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession but the art of poetry carries its own powers without having to break them down into critical listings. I do not mean that poetry should be raffish and irresponsible clown tossing off words into the void. But the very feeling of a good poem carries its own reason for being… Art is its own excuse, and it’s either Art or it’s something else. It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese.”
—Charles Bukowski

 

Sometimes it is good to throw my words into the void. It is the one time when there is no echo so I don’t have to hear the same distortions that seem to plague me when I speak to others or even carry words into my own head. Indeed things that enter the void tend to disappear for good so what better place is there to get rid of things one no longer wants. Oddly enough tho since the void is also the fount of creativity, what comes back from such an exchange is often worth so much more. Indeed it may be the best conceptual recycling and renewal program ever. Yet it has such a bad rap tho I guess most people are somewhat weary of the whole losing things forever idea. Yet the risks are worth it
Blessings, G

 

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Unfolding FlowUnfolding Flow by G A Rosenberg

 

Alchemical FlameAlchemical Flame by G A Rosenberg