There was never a time when i did not exist, nor you. Nor will there be any future in which we shall cease to be.

Sri Krishna--Bhagavad Gita

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Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead the stars come out every night, and we watch television.
-- Paul Hawken

intention

I BREATHE INTO EMPTINESS

smile

"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders

revealing

i used to work with Architects.. almost exclusively. many wore black -- evoking a kind depth from which no light could escape.

I rather am the kind of deep that lets out pink light.
So now I work with Plants. and YOU.

namasté

<3

in the first 110 days of this year, 2009

14,178,0++,+++ CHICKENS have been killed.

that's 14 billion in 110 days. i suspect that there exists space within the global collective to be more thoughtful about that.



lovely art work courtesy of Ronna

and this, and other fascinating numbers can be found at: World Clock

my other half <3

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THESE GOALS FLOAT (to the top)

my work

a belief

directive

i intend to..

.. its most elemental

say it with me now..

it's a lullaby

an incomplete list (of)

douglasFrances, please

Thank you.

the Diet of Emptiness...

creates the manner of space one may find in-between in-breaths and out-breaths, in yoga.

this space is potentially infinite.

a reduction, with two queries

though a popular title,

a public service...

namasté

ahem,

Isn't It Nice To Receive ------------- ?

what is permaculture?

collect and store

The most difficult struggle in any person's life --

probably feels to that person, something like what your most difficult struggle, feels like to you.  Be Kind.  Hold Judgment.  The issue struggled over is not generally of consequence.

a vision, 1

with thanks to Paul Krafel.

a vision, 2

a vision, 3

Thank You for your Guidance

AGTFGJ

Ain't Got Time for the Gibber Jabber

wife and i, Plectranthus

a list

a formula

a claim

a purpose

Share, Encourage, Celebrate Life.  Acknowledge strength we share with all life.  Cultivate peace.  Express magic in kind.

of land and time

Before people laid claim to ownership of the land, humankind experienced millions of years of harmonious living.  We owned time.  Now, people say the land is ours -- as we shuttle toward an unknown, and turbulent, destiny.  Time owns us.

an irony of driving -- a recontextualization

"We would love to introduce a transportation system to the American public that only kills 40,000 people a year."

astermonstrita

note to self -- before bed, shut down and stow

the local, green economy

As women and more discovered vocations and callings during our great wars, here we are again, in a great struggle for salvation and liberation -- may we all find new work and greater purpose.