Ebb & Flow
Ebb and Flow
Collection of yesterday…
I make these things called “shadowpeople”. They begin as found wood and then they get carved, sanded, pierced, poked, burned, painted, inked and varnished into these sentinals or totems. They increasingly look darkly expressive. The newest one had an elongated neck, only partial arms and a mouth open in a banshee wail. They are beautiful, but scary. The shadow people began last year when I needed an outlet for processing the mental stress that came from being powerless in a situation involving where I live and my daughter. They have evolved and I love working with them.
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Yesterday I was at my meditation class and I got a chance to witness a “pissing contest” by two males I both know and enjoy. Each one was attempting to topple, without acknowledgement, the other without seeming to care about doing it. These men, both middle age and established, reminded me of the male peacock, in a bit of a war dance, taking side-swiping pecks at the others while they did their version of the fan dance. That funny little “Y” chromosome never ceases to amaze me.
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The DharmaPunx group has been V E R Y quiet lately. My personal practice has been “going”. I can’t say well. I can’t say not well. It just is. It really has situated itself into my life well, so it doesn’t seem to require much mental manipulation in order to sit for 45 minutes a day. It’s just something I do. Sometimes life works it magick and I miss a sitting. That’s okay too. Strange. I would like to become that detatched to eating!!!
