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Beast Burden of the Cloud
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A sage walking in the forest comes upon a child singing the alphabet. "Why do you sing this way?"
"I'm praying, but I don't know what to say. If I sing the letters, God will put them together the way they are meant to be."
- adapted old story
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I've been singing the alphabet a lot lately, and also praying for healing, strength, peace and recovery for others. Things have happened in my local little world that are hard respond to, and often, I don't know what to say. Can you relate?
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That's a part of an artist's way: working through emotions and ideas in new and handy together materials, cryptic keys, and by designing things that can't be defined or described easily. Think collage, weaving against the pattern, making a meal with no recipe, scribbling...
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If everything about life could be articulated in a few sentences, we'd write 10-page manuals about how to live and call it a day.
For someone from marketing and sales, I used to know what to say: to spin the terrible toward the better, promote a client's agenda, sell a concept or a ticket or a thing, enhance happiness, bring beauty forward, inform.
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But these days, as gorgeous as things are are outside, with snowfall of little buds falling about, bright sun and green-yellow unfolding leaves, birds chirping and rivers running, I feel something is amiss.
So, I sing the alphabet my own way: by making this, and trying to articulate here the larger constructs of why.
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What about you? How do you create and relate in times of change?
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How do you pray when you don't know what to say?
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Do you immerse yourself in nature?
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Do you make things? Do you go to church and kneel with formality? Do you sing the alphabet out of order and out of key?
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I have more questions than answers for sure, but I also have art and writings I left for myself from an earlier day. Answers at that time. Maybe they still hold true. If they don't then maybe it's time to let the alphabet loose.
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In quantum physics theory, the intention of the experimenter can determine an experiment's outcome. In this tiny world of stuff, scientists have an understanding that intention itself —and witnessing something — can shape the results of an experiment. This is one of the reasons "double-blind" is considered a better scientific approach. But don't we know that we are affected by …
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Some content here is political, some personal, much of it philosophical, and all of it meant to shine some light into the lives of my readers, because it was written to shine light into mine.
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POLITICAL ACTION AREA It may be best to plug into your local groups, and show up in the ways you can. Peaceful crowd sizes matter, as does your positive energy and adherence to non-violence. Showing up for Voting Rights legislation is also a core way you can protect
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