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Celebration Day — twenty-one
The Genesis of my peripheral attention is unknown to me. The term has been a familiar one since my childhood but at some point, perhaps through a self inflicted period of auto investigation, after two decades trusting a higher power, I look deeper and wider, breathe deeper and wider, my taste penetrates clearer and wider.…
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Rose Petals
A rose is a rosePoetry LoveLuxuryPerfume MedicineMemoriesCelebration Symbol for rebirthWarTendernessBorn from the tears of Aphrodite, and the blood of AdonisThirty-five million years old and rose petals will be part of this himmas kassa, the hummus I am currently preparing References: 1800flowers / University of Illinois web extension
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Celebration Day — twenty
Celebration: intentional acknowledgment admitting a reason for festivity to honor out of joy or sadness to observe a moment, a deed, a person or people the praise of an existence
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Hummus — himmas kassa, part #2
There is a special physical and spiritual state which arises when an experience occurs through the palate, while the mind finds a romantic bind to the past. Call it joy. Looking to experiment, and build on that state, today I continue to the next step in the process of making a hummus, based on an…
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Celebration Day — nineteen
Joy. That is, perhaps, the true beginning of hedonism, as Aristippos intended it — a state which is truly there to elevate the spirit. Joy has deep roots, and long, bushy branches. Joy encompasses smiles and tears alike. On a given Wednesday, my daughter crossed the Atlantic to be with my father. He had tears…
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Celebration Day — eighteen
The most common day, the least anticipated moment, the most traveled path, the most reliable space, the very essence of a recurring motion, any security in being, all will likely become a new birth, if experienced with the intention to celebrate. A birthdate may otherwise be a mere compensation for the previous three hundred and…
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peripherally awake
the periphery is ever presenta point of focus can not consume itan intrinsic persuasion to focus, though equally ever presentwill ease the effort to see what we wish to seebut the periphery is ever presentever relevantthe periphery includes the point of focuswhen does focus include the periphery?
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lie and lay
lie downlet it all layboth lipsyour foreheada shouldera breastyour navelboth lipson my lips
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Ending again, and again…
“Indubitable signs teach us that this globe had already undergone several complete changes, which have been in effect ends of the world; and I do not know what instinct it is which warns us that there will be still more of them.” Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826) in “The Physiology of Taste” (Meditation 10)
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