May 2013
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Chiwan Choi | Jessica Ceballos & Poesia Para La... →
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Following Los Angeles poet and literary activist Jessica Ceballos to a market in Highland Park, the author, an independent publisher, experiences the future right now.
Jessica Ceballos is doing amazing work, using poetry to give her community an opportunity to speak and to be heard.
Powerful stuff.
My new post on the Literary Alchemy column. It’s a big shout...
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On Friendship
(click on above for “I’ll Be Your Mirror”)
Let me begin with —
I’ll be your mirror Reflect what you are, in case you don’t know I’ll be the wind, the rain and the sunset The light on your door to show that you’re home
-Velvet Underground
Within my circle of friends, watching films and having dinners usually surrenders to conversation; mind-bending, lengthy and worthwhile conversation. And up...
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“Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a...”
– Jean Baudrillard
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April 2013
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when I grow up
Looking over facebook posts, realizing there’s a deep sense of sadness amongst some of my friends, because of ongoing national and worldwide tragedies. Going to two funerals in one week kind of forces me to look for a reason to smile, for a sense of balance, though its perfectly alright to feel no need to smile (considering). I think society has forced us to respond in ways that create burdens on...
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Grief on a Pedestal
To sit and think and write of the agony and despair of being tortured by endless supplies of surrounding loss - is to wallow in our weeping. To place grief on a pedestal, and press pause. Our tears slowly turn to clay, sculpting endless supplies of surrounding…words. Our frowns struggle to lift us to places forgotten, to avoid falling into the still of life’s estranged but necessary other half....
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people come and go, their goodness remains.
I was gonna write about how today marks the anniversary of meeting an angel. An angel who - while disguised as human -came into my life like a tornado, bringing heaven and the stars with him, only to as quickly -as the just fed happy hummingbird- fly away, leaving a necessary, and wonderful, lasting impression. But…we’ve all heard that love and life story, and I might tell it later.
Instead, this...
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Bluebird Reading: Featured Poet Introduction: Iris...
Reading at the Bluebird Reading Series 4/14/13 in Highland Park, CA
Please meet…Iris De Anda. She’s a force, a true free spirit, warrior, a mujer of many talents. When she’s not writing, she’s working with Las Adelitas; a clothing line she co-founded with the intention of creating dialogue, awareness, and pride in the Mexican culture. She’s also a certified practitioner of the healing arts....
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nothing wasted
In this society, to love with your entire being is a curse.
A curse that all souls should be committed to and that I’d bet my life on. A curse to proudly secure in the trenches of the space hidden in the pause of entanglement, love briefly put on hold. A curse that warms like the sun, building foundations of time,
memories to unravel slowly in. To love, as if society...
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“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate...”
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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Bluebird Reading: Featured Poet Introduction: Neil...
Please meet the first of four poets on the lineup for the April 14th Bluebird Reading Series in Highland Park… Neil Aitken
Award-winning poet, writer, website designer, and editor of the always-rich-in-the-finest-poetry journal Boxcar Poetry Review But, most interestingly, not only is he a skilled painter of words, he is also a poet of painted imagery. The attached photo: Funeral Procession:...
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today is wonderful
it’s not what you experience during a meditative state that is significant, but rather the non-experience that is a crucial step towards a peaceful, fuller consciousness.
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List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments on... →
to put on your to do list
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“The Pueblo Indians told me that all Americans are crazy, and of course I was...”
– Carl Jung
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Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Brains, Dimensions &...
One of the fundamental aspects of Gurdjieff’s psychological ideas is that the human nervous system is composed of three “brains,” and intellectual brain, an emotional brain, and a moving-instictive-brain. A similar concept is emphasized by neurologist Paul MacLean, who calls them the “reptilian,” the “paleomammalian,” and the”neomammalian”...
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a simple smile
…the inspiring awe of a Teslin Lake, embedded into the curves of a simple smile. The fishermen have shown me the certain greatness that lies beneath the magnificent beauty of the still waters, and beside the restless trees that embrace them. A life so beautifully delicate and complex that even men yearn, as women do their families, to foster a particular process of sharing time with, and to better...
March 2013
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