The way my mind races
To and from so many places
You think I’d know the drill
How to just get my fill
It’s a real tough situation
Caught up in rabid imagination
Thoughts are spending time in gestation
Not ideas, more like inspiration
Revelation flows from heaven
Dripping like bread that is unleavened
We rest on day number seven
So you can get your engines revvin
And prepare yourself for the work
That you may indeed never shirk
To bring to pass and build up Zion
Self-perfection, communities tryin
Tryin so hard to see the visions
Of hope faith charity in decisions
Not drawn off by all derisions
Repentance, a life revision
Archive for October, 2008
Life is not about collection. It’s about creation. Art, science, etc, they’re just different manifestations of human creativity. Often it feels we get caught up in the collection part of it. It’s necessary to collect to create, but too often we cease creation in favor of collection, for the immediate gratification, the rush of happiness when we have something.
We decide that some things are good enough as they are (i.e. as we receive them) and place the joy of getting above that of the joy of creating. It’s not a good thing to be caught up in. I myself collect notebooks and scribble, write, jot, draw, sketch and so forth in them constantly yet I have not filled but a handful because I move on to the next one too soon.
If you observe the Book of Mormon cultures, it is precisely when they begin to wear their gain- no longer create and use, but simply display, that they fall. This is because they go from creation to collection with the vain and costly apparel. They cease to labor for sustenance and to provide and begin to labor to have and revel in excess. This is also the case when they begin to create evil things rather than good. When your works are evil, you are evil and have no part in God’s grace until you repent and create good.
So what is our focus on? Are we building up Zion? Or are we collecting brownie points by attending meetings, reading scriptures, etc. In addition to Who am I, Where did I come from and where will I go, I add this corollary: Am I becoming what I am supposed to and not just acting how I’m supposed to act?
The gold of Hollywood is coming down
They’ve lost the shield, sword and crown
From San Francisco to Boston is lost
Life is coming on
Life is being lost
High on life people trying to fake it
We can see through all the smoke and mirrors
Yet still enticed by the glitter
Fakers looking pretty
Fakers die alone
The fall of this house will be the greatest
We’ll watch it from afar and cry
All of our drams collapse unrealized
Dreams of a new future
Dreams ended and past
i imported all the old kerouac stuff now, so you can go back and look at it. i will be publishing 5-10 of my newer poems and so forth in the next while. seems appropriate that with the import, this is post number 50.
“Best of”
Frustrations Probably the closest thing to a Love poem I’ve written
Beat The very definition of how I live
Rollin Through This is one of the first things I wrote, took forever to put it online
Omtopable Definitely a great word I made up, meaning “the time between starting and beginning”
Madness Without a doubt the best thing I have ever written
I’m also really really ready to go back to the field. I had a lot of inspiration out there that I don’t have here. Too many distractions and unnecessary indulgences on my part. My wound is progressing nicely- recovery is slow and boring, but still in progress.
Working on:
-More poetry
-The walk pt 2
-Notebook work
-quote compilations
-various sketches
-religious piece on self-deprivation for enlightenment
Read, weep, inspiration.
I really love ukulele covers of songs. Especially when it’s T-Pain.
Or when it’s Still Alive
Especially Usher
And let’s never forget the Ukulele Orchestras (vid1) (vid2) (vid3) (vid4)
And of course, Cowboys From Hell
Okay, I think I’ve got it.
Richard Alpert is one of the survivors of the Black Rock. The island has preserved him as a means of bringing people to the island. He works in tandem with Jacob, the “good” part of the island. While on the island he and his fellow Black-rockians discovered more and more about its special properties. Magnus and Richard were especially keen to the island. We know Magnus’s progeny would later establish places on the island to test and measure the special properties. Could Magnus be Alvar, preserved by the island in time? Alvar is a part of the Life Extension Project.
More on the Good part of the island- the monster exists to protect, and might have even been created by these same people. So, the original inhabitants of the island and the Dharma initiative are related, but must maintain a delicate balance- the idea of good and evil. Dharma could only observe what “the others” knew already, the others had to pretend to be disinterested. Eventually the original others realized Dharma was becoming defunct, overthrown by the evil Dr. Mittelwerk. Thus they eliminated the original Dharma, severing whatever ties he had to get to the island.
The Bad part of the island is now Matthew Abbaddon under the orders of Charles Widmore. Widmore knows where the island was because his company was contracted out by Dharma to build the stations (theory). He needs to get to the island to control its properties and understand more about the power it has. He and Mittelwerk are in cahoots. Ben, as a “good other” like Richard, wants to stop Widmore. He cannot kill Widmore as the evil part of the island preserves Widmore just as the good preserves Ben and the Oceanic 6.
Season 5: the Oceanic 6/Ben/Richard Alpert are in a battle of time and an attempt to return. Sun is on her own trying to get her way back however possible- even using Mr. Widmore, to get back to her husband.
On the other side is Abbadon/Widmore/Mittelwerk. They are working to discover the island before the others so that they can manipulate the islands powers for evil. Or is it for good? Are they trying to use the island to prevent the Valenzetti Equation? Who knows. I don’t claim to.
So that’s the race to the island, obviously they will both reach it, but we don’t know at what time they will reach it. Needless to say, it’s going to be amazing.
