Glass Music Glass Harp

Masks

We made masks in my Integrated Arts class. 

This process made me feel very Diving Bell and the Butterfly-esque.

I love GLiTTER!

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

I haven't posted on here much recently, mostly because I've been so busy with school.

I watched a movie in my Transpersonal class called The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

It's the true story of a man named Jean-Dominique Bauby who was the editor of french Vogue. He had a stroke and suffered from what is called locked-in-syndrome, where he was completely conscious, but stuck in his body. He could not communicate with the outside world, however, a speech therapist devised a system with him where he would blink his left eyelid depending on what letter he wanted to use. They ended up writing an entire book this way. This is the best film I've seen in a long time.

Crappy cellphone quality

I've noticed that many people have been bummed out recently.

Maybe it's the seasons changing. It's more heavy than ever before.

Collective seasonal affective.

Why do people choose to stay in relationships that aren't good for them?

Or even, relationships that are hazardous to their well-being.

I've seen this happening to the people around me a lot recently.

I don't know. I think they're scared, and stuck..   I like being independent.

No Boundary by Ken Wilber

The more I value anything, the more I become obsessed with its loss.

Most of our problems are ones of opposites and the boundaries they create.

Our habitual way of trying to solve these problems is to attempt to eradicate one of the opposites.

There is not the least bit of evidence to suggest that after centuries of accentuating positives and trying to eliminate negatives, humanity isn't any happier, more content, or more at peace with itself. In fact, the available evidence suggests just the contrary: today is the "age of anxiety", of "future shock", of epidemic frustration and alienation, of boredom in the midst of wealth and meaninglessness in the midst of plenty.

There are no dividing boundaries between any things or events anywhere in the cosmos.

Every thing or event in the universe seemed to be interconnected with every other thing and event in the universe.

Quantum theory has abolished the notion of fundamentally separated objects, has introduced the notion of the participator to replace that of the observer, and has come to see the universe as an interconnected web of relations whose parts are only defined through their connections to the whole.

Today in class we lit candles, drank chamomile-lavender tea, ate dark chocolate, and painted our favorite song lyrics with watercolors.

Vermont

Shadow of Flowers on a Wall by Candlelight

Gong

Sound, no longer measurable

with sense of hearing.

As if that tone

outstripping us on every side

were space maturing.

Paintings by Ugandan children who are victims of human trafficking

Patterns

Clouds amaze me, every day.

If you get a chance and want to watch the most recent episode of Project Runway, it's a pretty good example of art as therapy.

Good Advice

Decordova

A Motivational Bathroom

Nature and Technology

Spare-change-bot

Reclaiming

Go to the Fogg Museum

What The Bleep Do We Know?

Gregg Levoy - Callings

"It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for." - Oriah

"Suffer creatively, not just neurotically" - Madeline Woodman

It's really nice to have flowers in my room

Lilies smell delicious.

The Books

Realize that your eyes are made of atoms that are microscopic and are mostly empty space. They're in fact filled with the substance of your life. Your very essence fills these spaces. And even if through accident or surgery those powerful structures have been removed out of your body: relax, let go, expand. There's more space than there is matter, more space to relax.

And the meteorological man, with the whirlwind girl,
And a mote in the sun, and a squid in a bag,
And a raccoon hat, and a talking plant,
And a careful goat in a sewer system shaft.
(Lyrics to a popular folk song put into a free online translator through multiple languages)

(These samples were taken from talkboy tapes found in thrift stores)

Carl Jung

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

I'd rather be whole than good.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.