Once, when I was doing walking meditation, I wound up walking right through the boughs of a maple tree, and when I got a close-up look at a leaf, I saw ants farming aphids on it. They kind of tickled them with their antennae and teeny droplets of -whatever- would come out. I could see the dried up aphid corpses the ants had left behind, too. It ( Read more... )

I've been wanting to finish "Doohickiii" for a LONG time. Finally, last night, I filled in the last significantly-sized empty space with this:

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Go see Let the Right One In. Loved it!

How's your Thanksgiving going?

Here's some assemblage art I did.


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I plugged in my portable hard drive, which I've been backing things up with for a while now, and it didn't turn on at all. I know that all I can do is take it somewhere to see if they can fix it and get over it if that stuff is lost, but for now I have an obnoxious panicky feeling in my chest, and I'm very distracted and off in space but my mind ( Read more... )

This morning I woke up at 5, and when I put the covers back over my head to get some more sleep, I knew it was out of fear and dread, not tiredness. That kind of clarity is what meditation gives me. You should meditate.

Still couch smurfing. I move once a week, and this week is no exception: I'm heading to the monastery this afternoon for a week-long (silent) retreat ( Read more... )

It's cat-sitting time. I've been sitting on this futon for hours. This room is so tiny, I feel quite disconnected from the world, and this entry here is what I'm doing about it. Hello, there, everyone ( Read more... )

This dude's art is a lot like my abstract art, and I like it a lot.

http://www.basco-vazko.blogspot.com/