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Posted on October 13, 2010 by Michaela

Honestly, don’t you sometimes just want to join the…

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Love by Rumi

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Michaela

I Know

You circle my heart, a blissful schemer.
What are you up to?
I know.

You have a secret design
for my bleeding heart and sullen face
I know.

Once you’ve stolen
mine and everyone’s heart
what will you do then?
I know.

By the warmth of my tear
and the chill of my fear
please go ahead and ask
if I know fire from frost.
Because I know.

My heart and soul ablaze
your skirt afire
consider the difference.

Pain knows about pain
flame knows about smoke
and woe knows rue
I know.

I whisper into my soul
Be patient, a real man.

My soul replies:
I am neither male nor female
and I know many heartbreakers.

My heart you ruffle like dust grain in wind
did you not promise
to lift ash from an ocean of flames ?

From: “Love Mad ” – Poems of Rumi

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Jupiter is in the sky

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Michaela

Telescope by Martina

Jupiter, The Bringer Of Jollity

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On the Sofa with Benno

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Angelika

A conversation between Benno and Angelika
October 11th, 2010

October in Michigan, photo by Paul

B: Are you there Geli?

A: Hello Benno!!!
I wish you a fine Canadian Thanksgiving Day!

B: Wow, so cool, thank you so much!
So what’s on the agenda today?

A: Would you mind telling me what Thanksgiving Day is all about? We do not have this here in Germany. There is something called, “Giving thanks to the harvest”….but this is a Christian holiday and I do not celebrate it.

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The wisdom of Rumi

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Michaela

Pick your brush

These spiritual window-shoppers,
who idly ask, ‘How much is that?’ Oh, I’m just looking.
They handle a hundred items and put them down,
shadows with no capital.

What is spent is love and two eyes wet with weeping.
But these walk into a shop,
and their whole lives pass suddenly in that moment,
in that shop.

Where did you go? “Nowhere.”
What did you have to eat? “Nothing much.”

Even if you don’t know what you want,
buy – something, – to be part of the exchanging flow.

Start a huge, foolish project,
like Noah.

It makes absolutely no difference
what people think of you.

Rumi, ‘We Are Three’, Mathnawi VI, 831-845

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Mountains

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Michaela

The Rax always helps

Where I am from, people habitually indulge in three major passions: music, mountains – and misery. By the way, the latter is an expression of sheer frustration of not having enough time for the other two and it is he perennial excuse for drinking.

So today I am going to talk about mountains.

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The master of chaos

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Michaela

Jackson Pollock’s “One: Number 31”, painted 1950.

Jackson Pollock was a major force in the abstract expressionism movement, and a dark and moody maverick. He was undeniably an innovative artistic genius and more. His technique has been carefully studied and it’s been determined that some works contain properties of mathematical fractals, and that the works become more fractal-like chronologically. Some goes as far to speculate that he may have been aware of the nature of chaotic motion, and through his paintings was creating what he perceived as perfect representations of mathematical chaos- and all this more than 10 years before Chaos Theory was discovered. So much for the critics that casually dismiss his work as mere paint drippings.

Jackson Pollock painting in his Springs, NY studio --1949.

The process of creation….

Jackson Pollock, Master of chaos

Uncoverer of Beauty and Truth

Abstract Expressionism in it’s purest form

Jack the dripper, driven to create.

A true giant, suffering from depression and alcoholism, dying in a car accident he caused driving drunk.

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Lightness by Paul

Posted on October 11, 2010 by dsrtsng

When things are allowed
to be just as they are,
Something comes,
A clarity, a lightness.
There is nothing to fix.
Everything is.
There is sensing and aliveness.
The darkness outside slowly becomes light
And the sun returns.

–Blandford Nature Center

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The wisdom of Rumi

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Michaela

Love has nothing to do with
the five senses and the six directions:
its goal is only to experience
the attraction exerted by the Beloved.
Afterwards, perhaps, permission
will come from God:
the secrets that ought to be told will be told
with an eloquence nearer to the understanding
of these subtle confusing allusions.
The secret is partner with none
but the knower of the secret:
in the skeptic’s ear
the secret is no secret at all.