From the Tao Te Ching
Who is filled with harmony is like a newborn. Wasps and snakes will not bite him; hawks and tigers will not claw him. His bones are soft yet his grasp is sure, for his flesh is supple; his mind is innocent yet his body is virile, for his vigor is plentiful; His song is long-lasting yet his voice is sweet, for his grace is perfect. But knowing harmony creates abstraction, and following abstraction creates ritual. Exceeding nature creates calamity, and controlling nature creates violence.
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- ELH
- I am motivated by all means of vibrant, ecstatic co-creation: ritual, dance, sharing, music, poetry, healing with food and herbs, burning man, laughter, cultivation of abundance and biodiversity, entheogenic experiences, dreaming, honoring synchroicity and myth-making. I love words, books, glyphs, stars, flowers, vegetables, fungi, campfires, scrabble, northern new mexico, spooning. I grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where a dried-up arroyo is a child's playground. Here, I found shards of broken bottles, juniper berries, crumpled old grocery lists, rotting apricots, sparrow's eggs, piñon nuts ripe for rattling, petrified newspapers, quartz crystals, ristra-fallen chiles, arrowheads, and micaceous sand that sparkles in the high desert sunshine. Magic remains my mirror. I make humble offerings to source, every day. I've spent the past two years exploring Mexico and Guatemala, and discovering the ritual of solitude, that creation is ongoing, and that waking is the flipside of dreaming. I live in Northern California.
previous posts
thinking about
- ashayana deane: "history is the mythological variant we have chosen to take literally."
- calendula and chamomile
- big sur
- rudolf steiner
- the new world
- thomas berry
- chimayo dreams
- the union
- green
- everything michael pollan
- waves, wave crests, wave bellies, shells
- rachel carson
- tom robbins: "i believe in everything, nothing is sacred; i believe in nothing, everything is sacred."
current and recent reading
- thomas berry, creative energy
- kelly kindscher's medicinal wild plants of the prairie
- margaret atwood, oryx and crake
- pierre teilhard de chardin, the phenomenon of man
- daniel pinchbeck, breaking open the head
- dennis tedlock's popol vuh
- john major jenkins, maya cosmogenesis
- william faulkner, light in august
- terrence mckenna, archaic revival
- edith wharton, the age of innocence
- dylan thomas, poems
- paulo coelho, the pilgrimage
listening to
- bon iver, flume
- futureprimitive.org podcast
- damien jurado
- bill moyers podcast
- sonny and the sunsets
- gillian welch, revelator
- michael hurley, sweedeedee
- nina simone, i shall be released