Random Awesomeness

I select my Steinert number three blowpipe. It's appropriately thick and heavy. The tip glows. The furnace roars. I open doors and gather. The first gather is small. A base on which to build. It's like an opening sentence. Erasing at this point is easy. It cools quickly. Air is trapped. The first bubble expands [...]

My friend Bob was a SUPER HUGE! St. Louis Rams fan. I am not a sports guy. At all. But I became a Rams fan (for one season) for Bob. It was the fall of 2010 and by then, I had known Bob just long enough to have a some idea about what the score was with [...]

Inhale, two, three, four, five, six... Exhale, two, three, four, five, six... Inhale, two, three, four, five, six... Exhale, two, three, four, five, six... I find counting as I breath to be quite effective. Counting them helps keep the breaths slow and thus the mind can more easily focus on this essential activity, rather than [...]

Some of the most fascinating images I have ever experienced, come to me when I first open my eyes following the meditative section of my practice. A bird flits by just a few feet from my face and lands in a nearby tree branch. Calling directly at me, the bird cocks its head as amazing [...]

I'm beginning to become aware of different subtle patterns and occurrences. Developing spontaneously... or so it seems. They fit into larger, more complete images, feelings... ideas. Each becoming a kind of theme on which I can attach the more tangible aspects of what happens during my morning  practice. Sometimes, its a sense of nearly imperceptible [...]

The wind blew fine, powdery snow into swirling eddies of white. It flowed through the streets, around cars and houses, depositing it's absence of colour everywhere. Erasing all form. Imposing it's chaos upon the surfaces of order. The wind blew it's angry voices into a howling choir of screams. It filled the air with a [...]

Who am I within Far too near I need come      

Yup, I got nothing more today... Too Damn Happy!!! All I got to say. There's a song with that title by one of my favorite songwriters but I don't remember any of the lyrics just now. Just the title. All I need. And the happiest thing is this fun realization of what this fun realization [...]

Everything clicks. I feel the excitement as the audience begins to sense it too. The moment is transported to that never never land of sound and rhythm. All that led me here, forgotten. The hours of contemplation, of practice, of trial an error. As if I was made to do this from the day I was [...]

The following is a piece I did for the the writer's group in the Utne Reader online community. (As I mentioned in yesterday's post) We were doing Exercise #2 of Ursula K. Le Guin’s book Steering the Craft. ------------------ After the Festival, After the festival, the station is teeming with people in traditional and not so [...]