fragmentation..

 

fragmentation

the seeming separation

of it all

and descriptions 

reinforcing separation

make appearances 

of unquestionable

persuasion seemingly

until there arises

a resonant assertion

of the nothingness

of it all

the iceberg

 

the iceberg

implies that

that much more

lies below what

appears and is

unknown

yet the appearance

including thoughts 

of below are all

unknown

"“In my time, Ernest Hemingway wrote a certain kind of story better and more effectively than it had ever been done before. He was properly accepted and acclaimed. He was imitated almost slavishly by every young writer, including me, not only in America but in the world. He wrote a special kind of story out of a special kind of mind and about special moods and situations. When his method was accepted, no other method was admired. The method or style not only conditioned the stories but the thinking of his generation."

---John Steinbeck on Ernest Hemingway

The first manuscript of East of Eden (later this part was omitted when published)

Steinbeck and Hemingway the two stalwarts of American and world literature were competitors. Steinbeck however has always great respect for Hemingway.

The above lines on Hemingway's Iceberg theory proves it again.

Pic : Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck

the backdoor..

 

the backdoor 

seems disheveled 

not the showplace

offered out front

but the freedom

the lack of

order and plan

may be the chaos

appearing as order

out front

stillness without bounds..

 

"How still the evening is,

As hushed on purpose to grace harmony!"  (Much Ado About Nothing)

stillness

without bounds

is the actor

acting with grace

with no mind to the

clamor and chaos

inside and out

contentment

 

"Our content

Is our best having."  (Henry VIII)

contentment

is what is sought,

seeking to find

silence which

is not but may

appear as

contentment

the appearances of home

 

"When I was at home I was in a better

place, but travellers must be content."  (As You Like It)

home 

is not home

not a place

from which

one departs

nor to which

one returns

yet it may

appear as

from and to

conditioning..

 

'Tis like to be loud weather.'  (The Winter's Tale)

conditioning

repetitions in

time's stories

configure a 

future story

in the image of the

conditioning

conditioning

seemingly

begins at birth

and is synonymous

with I am and 

trappings

emptiness birthing as

conditioning

William Carlos Williams

 

Such poets as Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, and Cid Corman found in Williams an alternative to the academics. As Bruce Cook explained, Williams "withstood the influence of Eliot, ignored the New Critics and the academic poets who followed their lead, and simply went his own way, his lines growing shorter, more austere, more pointed with each poem." With this style, reported James Dickey, he appealed to many aspiring writers who looked at his work and said, "Well if that's poetry, I believe I might be able to write it too!" But while the younger poets, including the Beats, found a prophet, a father, and a personal friend in Williams, the old master was no easy critic. "It was Williams who told Ginsberg that 'Howl' needed cutting by half," disclosed Linda Wagner.

a healing emptiness

 

time

and aging

affects us all

that's the story

convincingly told 

yet there can appear

a healing emptiness

in these empty words

pretense..

 

the

pretense of knowing

more than 

the immediacy

the appearance

the story

seems futility bound 

though we pretend

and the pretense is

it too

pointing

to that which

is not there

seems a futile

errand yet

that which 

is not there 

may appear as

pointing

nothing is not permanent

 

nothing

is not permanent

is not impermanent

is not

nothing

is not nothing

simply not two

is not it

nor is

simply two

nor is

simply

nor is

Liberating philosophy to fall asleep ..

 

Liberating philosophy to fall asleep by

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI0PdpzRuEg&t=307s

00:00:00 Erosion of Memory

00:03:26 Liberation of Insignificance

00:06:08 Democracy of Oblivion

00:08:21 Illusion of Permanence

00:10:00 Weight of Significance

00:11:30 Witness Fallacy

00:13:04 Memory Paradox

00:14:42 Continuous Present

00:16:19 Burden of History

00:17:55 Cosmic Perspective

00:19:40 Self Illusion

00:21:15 Attention Economy

00:22:52 Freedom of Anonymity

00:24:30 Myth of Originality

00:26:14 Quality of Attention

00:27:52 Inheritance of Forgetting

00:29:26 Intimacy of Impermanence

00:31:05 Currency of Remembrance

00:32:40 Fallacy of Control

00:34:15 Ethics of Presence

00:35:58 Wisdom of Uncertainty

00:37:42 Poetry of Passing

00:39:27 Alchemy of Acceptance

00:41:14 Inheritance of Anonymity

00:43:04 Futility of Fame

00:44:47 Wisdom of Trees

00:46:34 Liberation of Letting Go

00:48:16 Horizon of Being

00:49:53 Paradox of Legacy

00:51:34 Economy of Attention

00:53:13 Intimacy of Mortality

00:54:56 Gift of Obscurity

00:56:44 Ecology of Memory

00:58:19 Museum of Memory

00:59:47 Freedom of Finitude

01:01:29 Whisper of Reality

01:03:08 Mirage of Digital Immortality

01:05:04 Mirror of Mortality

01:06:52 Currency of Experience

01:08:29 Gift of Insignificance

01:10:19 Quantum of Presence

01:12:01 Meditation of Mortality

01:13:43 Phoenix Principle

01:15:22 Ethics of Inheritance

01:17:08 Liberation from Judgment

01:18:44 Authenticity of Anonymity

01:20:35 Poverty of Posterity

01:22:25 Joy of Recognition

01:24:10 Wisdom of Humility

01:26:07 Eternal Present

01:27:55 Courage of Impermanence

01:29:36 Weight of Memory

01:31:11 Mathematics of Memory

01:32:58 Joy of Contribution

01:34:35 Ownership Illusion

01:36:12 Ultimate Privacy

01:38:00 Quantum of Influence

01:39:40 Wisdom of Trees

01:41:12 Illusion of Permanence

01:42:56 Freedom of Completion

01:44:39 Gift of Absence

01:46:11 Natural Cycle

01:47:38 Mystery of Influence

01:49:16 Trap of Legacy

01:51:03 Equality of Oblivion

01:52:44 Freedom of Anonymity

01:54:20 Distortion of Memory

01:56:04 Dance of Remembering and Forgetting

01:57:44 Continuity of Elements

01:59:32 Renewal of Wonder

02:01:21 Invitation to Play

02:03:09 Value of Experience

02:04:43 Intimacy of Impermanence

02:06:25 Lightness of Being

02:07:58 Wisdom of Insignificance

02:09:40 Appreciation of Finitude

02:11:23 Authenticity of Temporality

02:13:06 Gift of Transience

02:14:37 Freedom of Ordinariness

02:16:17 Return to Essence

02:18:01 Quantum of Identity

02:19:44 Economy of Attention

02:21:24 Paradox of Legacy

02:23:07 Courage of Acceptance

02:24:59 Weight of Remembrance

02:26:30 Ecology of Identity

02:28:11 Horizon of Meaning

02:29:54 Quality of Time

02:31:31 Liberation from History

02:33:15 Ownership Fallacy

02:34:51 Gift of Obscurity

02:36:35 Wholeness of Being

02:38:10 Mystery of Being

02:39:47 Wisdom of Letting Go

02:41:24 Return to Source

02:43:00 Liberation of Attention

02:44:34 Dance of Existence

02:46:03 Now of Eternity

02:47:51 Gift of Anonymity

02:49:32 Eternal Now

contrasts

 

contrasts

are expressions

of seeming separation

to create images

imaginings of life

and of death and

sometimes the

paradox of the 

emptiness of these

contrasts

clouds (Shakespeare provoked)

 

clouds

appear as shapes

dragons sometimes

forks and trees

naming the unnamable 

a search for home

(Anthony and Cleopatra)

busyness

seeming much to do

and the rain

in opposition

(King John)

tears

and swollen rivers

dissolving

the boundaries 

separating home

(Richard II)

the weather

seems to facilitate

or oppose

bringing to stories

uninvited guests

(Love's Labor Lost)

youth

a scattering for

experiences away

while never departing

from home

(Taming of the Shrew)

descriptive words..

 

descriptions

are appearances

of words

attempting to

describe what

appears as

everything~

This

all

appearances

are simply

nothing as

everything

light

may appear

as a dark tunnel

with an end

bathed in

light 

one liners..

 

one liners

doing seems to happen

boundless freedom may appear bounded

nothing expresses

stories are nothing

appearances are already nothing

if found, it is not it

lost and found is a sign for seekers

life appears as death appears as life

life and death are not two

it's all ordinary and extraordinary

words are mappings of the un-mappable

predictions write new stories

history tells no tales

Death is home..

 

Death

is a matter of time

is the primary avoidance

told in separation

a repeating story

which already is

an appearance of the

nothingness of home

Death is a comedian:

She watches your every fleeting attempt to stay alive, to cling to that which you claim to own and know.

She laughs as you struggle in your confusion, and your fumbling around looking for her grace.

She smiles gently when you run from her loving embrace.

With hope, you evade her, but she is everywhere, she is undeniable.

And when you are not looking, and when you least expect it, you will be swallowed up into her belly which could never be avoided.

And her childlike laughter at your striving attempts to remain separate, which once upon a dream seemed so malicious and malevolent will be recognised as unconditional love and compassion that you always longed to come back home to.

Her grace is what you call evil, yet in the natural reality it is the maternal and loving caress you most deeply yearned for.

She is home, yet she is your annihilation.

~~Alexis

Mars..

 

Mars

seeming

emptiness

as fullness of

observation

and forms

with naming

and no names 

as it seems on

Earth

continuity..

 

continuity 

is synonymous

with what seems

as separation

as conversation

as story

surprise

may seem to 

defy continuity

and suggest

its absence

Walking in May..

 

Permanence

Appears as

Temporary and changing

Paradoxical and not...

everything

is the fullness

of nothing

as is anything

A

Counter-narrative

Seems to accompany

The 

Narrative

always

unfulfilled is

the seeker's trouble

seemingly until

the trouble fulfills

nothing changing

is the totality

appearances

are in agreement

silence

as undefinable

appears as 

sound and silence

framed in separation

 

stories

framed in separation

are what's apparent

with or without

the frame

a carrot

is always there

for the seeking

individual

and uhh

what's up doc?

the individual is

a carrot

empty stories

suggesting

everything and

nothing

memory

 

a time and place

named as memory

is a story appearing

empty and perfect

without 

a time and place

nature's suggestions

 

nature and words

appear with twoness

with separateness

which is necessary

for perspective and

for stories and

there seems no

departure from these

appearances of

emptiness

The Blotter..

 

it's

what seems happening

with no explanation

and no matter the story

it's 

everything and whole

Durango Police Department

Wednesday

11:12 a.m. Someone reported a broken sprinkler head in the southeast corner of Greenmount Cemetery, 900 Cemetery Road.

1:20 p.m. Someone reported a man trespassing at the Durango Mall, 800 South Camino del Rio.

2:56 p.m. A man was pacing back and forth in the lobby of the Durango Library, 1900 East Third Ave.

11:14 p.m. A man was breaking windows around East College Drive and Main Avenue.

Most items in this column are taken from logs of calls made to authorities. Their accuracy may not have been verified by an investigation.

~~The Durango Herald

Light appearances..

 

Light

may appear as a

tunnel with an end

bathed in

Light

an awakening

may beacon

from behind a

now closed gate

a futile attraction

NDE

(near death experience)

a dark tunnel 

ending in light 

inviting the discovery

of the tunnel

as an appearance of

light

You are not..

 

You

are not who 

you think 

you are

You 

and thinking

are not but

you appear

to be 

You

aspects..

 

Aspects

of life are

fleeting appearances

which are already

but may seem

to be now and

perhaps saved for

an identification~

an aspect

pretending

Front only the essential...(Henry David Thoreau)

 

searching for life

separate from death

hiding an obvious 

simultaneity and

available freedom

in a life story

The essential

simplicity defies

explanation

freedom of emptiness..

 

It doesn’t need 

to be figured out

figuring reinforces

the story's seeming

separation and hides

another story of

empty freedom

What doesn't change..

 

appearances

can suggest change

or the changeless

appearing to

change

maybe a shift

of perspective

out of the blue

appearances

never seem static

cannot be pinned

or defined

or mapped

nothing displays

as dancing

appearances 

the bridge..

 

the bridge

seems the 

connection

of this to that

and the bridge 

not to be denied

hides with appearances

of this and that

propensity

 

propensity

is to perceive 

as conditioned

fixing yesterday's

problems

freedom

from conditioning

is not rejecting

the conditioning

bird chirping

arising 

as the walker's

welcome of spring

The news is old..and noticing..

 

The news

Is old news

Already

The news is

And isn't

Lives and dies

Simultaneously

The news cycle

An empty story

presence

and the noticing

perhaps a grain of sand

or a spent banana peel

or the noticing itself

presenting as

presence

perspectives

are common for

everyone

the appearance of

separation prevails

regardless of lenses

perceiving

"I agree"

usually a pleasing

retort for each

end of a conversation

"I disagree"

another possibility

maybe not as pleasing

two appearances of

conversations which

smoke in the fires

of no-other

emptiness..

 

it's the

emptiness which

in its fullness

expresses what

seems happening

democracy

 

democracy

best not defined

but seems to point

to an equality

beyond all knowing

and in the story

of relationships 

may seem as

enlightenment

presence..

 

presence

the word arose

naming that 

which cannot

be named

as do all words

tho some may

seem to favor

nothing and 

others something

remembering

experiences of

presence

is a story which

may arise and

point to what

never arises and

never points

presence

is nothing 

seeming to

suggest what is

un-mistakingly

present and not

the search

 

the search

is futile due to

the lack of

opportunity

to conduct 

the search and

the lack of a

participant 

but in the 

story that is

another story

directness

 

directness

of what seems happening

may end the search

searching elsewhere for 

what is revealed already in 

directness