Quote of the Day – January 4 2013

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
– Lao Tzu

 

On the last leg of a rather nice trip in which I reconnected to family and learned to let go of expectations of arriving anywhere that I expected at the time that I’d expect. Yes, the return trip East to West has been as filled with schedule changes and overnight stops as the eastward journey has been. An interesting symmetry tho this one sustained by a week of memories of babies, dogs and sisters. I also feel in some ways I reconnected with elements of my past that I had let go.
Blessings, G

 

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Earth Mandala
Earth Mandala by G A Rosenberg

 

Weaving Reality
Weaving Reality by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – December 15 2012

“Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. “Life” plus “significance” = magic.”
― Grant Morrison

 

Empowerment. To invest with power? That seems silly. Aren’t we all pretty powerful? Sometimes we need to be reminded of it, tis all. Like the song says “Oz didn’t give nothing to the tin man, that he didn’t already have”. In the Hindu Ramayana the deity Hanuman has many abilities but he can only use them when others believe he can. Ultimately we all have amazing abilities and powers. Most of us tell ourselves we are powerless. We even come up with elaborate stories to explain why we are powerless and who it is to blame for our lack of power.
That isn’t to say that we’re not capable of doing pretty horrible things to each other. Unfortunately many of us know what its like to be scarred by another. Of course, many of us also know what its like to scar in return.
Empowering tho is different. Somewhere inside of us we realize what we’re capable of and it scares us witless. If we have these abilities, isn’t it our responsibility to use them to help each other? Responsibility can be a pretty frightening thing, can’t it. So we put our fingers in our ears and sing “la la la” very loudly whenever someone dare tells us what we are capable of.
What would it be like if we all took things in our hands, woke up from our complacency and started using our powers to help and heal each other? That would be pretty significant in itself, wouldn’t it?
Blessings, G

 

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KIng of Wands

Tarot – King of Wands by G A Rosenberg

 

purple sojournPurple Sojourn by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – November 12 2012

“Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

 

How far do I travel when roads diverge?
How many possibilities can I hold
before the wave collapses
and my way becomes fixed? >

 

How much of life’s poison must I swallow?
How many blessings by grace receive?
How many loves to meet and hide from?
How many times must my soul bleed?

 

In my life I feel I have had more joy than sorrow. I’m not sure how much of this is due to my outlook. I have long ago given up holding on to most of the things that most people seem to. When something hurts, I feel the pain and do my best to make it stop hurting. Looking back at past pains, replaying them in my head seems silly to me for the most part. Tho I can understand the impulse. Still while i am willing to hear the pain and sorrow that helped shape friends old and new, i want to hear some of the happy stuff as well. What flower or sunset or light in a child’s eye filled one with joy and awe? What point was the happiest and most soul fulfilling in their lives. I’ll show you mine if you show me yours 🙂

Blessings, G

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Observer by G A Rosenberg

 

Red Ripples by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day — June 9 2012

“I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?”
— Richard Bach

It must be worth it. After all, I now live my life to be not only the person I am but the person I will become. Every day life shows me new facets, endlessly fascinating. I find encouragement for my art and inspiration for my spirit. So much has life offered me and I only hope that I have given back. I guess the bottom line question is Have I given all I can to be the everything I can be?
Blessings, G

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Cosmic Spiral 2 by G A Rosenberg

 

Living Cells by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – March 20 2012

“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.”
–Pablo Picasso

I have every intention tonight of returning to last night’s subject of responsibility and freedom and how they interrelate with compassion. Indeed i feel lately that most of my thoughts and meditation have been spent on those subjects. I have a bit of a side trip however. Something amazingly cool today that I wanted to share with you.

Today we went to the National Gallery in London. I went from hall to hall looking at some amazingly evocative art and was impressed as always by how you can look at some of the pictures and continually see something new whether it is something in the subject’s expression or in the colour choices or the light or the way that the various character’s interacted with each other, each picture spoke volumes.
Then I started watching the other people in the art gallery. I watched their body language and expression and how they interacted with each other. I started thinking about what their clothing styles said about them and what their lives were like. Gradually it dawned on me that what I was watching was art watching art and how much of a masterpiece each one of us are.

Next time I go to an art gallery, I would love to bring a camera, not to photograph art but to photograph the people looking at art. For what I saw there was beauty.
Blessings,
G

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Gallery Tour B by G A Rosenberg

“You never learn how to write a novel, You only learn how to write the novel you’re on”
–Gene Wolfe (to Neil Gaiman)

I see a definite metaphor in the above quote unintended tho it may have been. You never learn how to live a life. You only learn how to live the life you’re on. Wow. This may seem obvious but at the same time I find it profound. It kind of throws the idea that one of us can tell another what to do totally out the window. I mean, perhaps general guidelines (i.e. Love is better, almost always. Honesty works better, almost always, particularly honesty with oneself) but absolutes, probably not. We all have our own novels to write (lives to live) and tho part may be as a collaboration, ultimately we have to make the choices. Namaste, G

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Hearts and Mind by G A Rosenberg

Colourscape with 3 Moons by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – January 8 2012

““Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.”
— Alan Moore

If you think about discovery of truth as being an ever evolving process, than what we believe at any time would be when compared to Truth (large t) would be a lie or at least an approximation. The thing about lies as most of us learn most often they don’t hold up. The more we build on the foundations of the less true, the shakier it becomes until it becomes perceptible to us…How cool when we can learn from art, story, or performance lessons that shake our perceived reality so that the upheavals become less necessary. Namaste, G

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Life Storm by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – August 27 2011

“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.”
— Joseph Campbell

 

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Woodsong by G A Rosenberg

Woodabstract by G A Rosenberg

Nights of Magic

Considering that it had been overcast all day, last night was surprisingly clear. The moon was full and beautiful. My friend in South California, Michael on occasion talks about the wings of the moon (he is a poet, a visionary and an awesome friend, tho we have never met face-to-face) and I always imagined them as wispy cherub wings but last night I actually perceived them as huge angelic wings spreading out behind the full moon in a most amazing way. I walked underneath her with Rufus on the leash besides me. I was listening to Jonathan Elias’ Requiem for the Americas (Jon Anderson from Yes and from Friends of Mr Cairo does vocals on many of the songs–highly recommended) . The particular song had a line about pulling magic from the sky. I was feeling charged up from the moon, the music, the evening that included the production of poetry and a long online inspiring conversation and the anticipation of the vacation we left on today and just felt this amazing SURGE of ENERGY and connectiveness and I wanted nothing more than to go down to Grimston Park, shuck my clothes and dance sky-clad underneath the light of the full-moon to the beat of drums that  echoed inside of me. Imagining explaining the possible subsequent arrest warrant to Aaron and Zev helped me resist that temptation ;).

Instead I felt part of another vision that corresponded with the middle pillar of the Kabbalah Tree of Live. Feeling the energy from the Moon (Yesond) channeling and grounding itself through me into the Earth (Malkuth). Feeling that the Energy came from the Sun (Tipareth) and the Sun got it from a higher source (Kether) I felt that I was chosen to undergo and be part of this ritual and it felt….right….;)

The trip up here to Tofino today on Vancouver Island was great. It rained and was overcast but there is an energy shift that hits me when I get to Vancouver Island. I feel an overwhelming sense of peace that seems to increase the closer I get to Tofino. The three of us walked on the beach, climbed rocks, played in the sand and swam (in the cabin’s salt water pool). After getting Zev to bed, I went out for a walk on the beach. Despite the moon being full, the sky was too overcast to see her but still on the dark and quiet beach, the waves could be heard, lapping onto shore, the ocean singing its song. The song spoke of enjoying the everyday magic I have in my life and welcomed me. It told me that one key to happiness is the enjoyment and appreciation of what one has. Nice stuff.

Sailing to Paradise