Wednesday, December 19, 2012

the penultimate paradox


12.19.2012

Yesterday I shopped for something to hang on the wall in room five and bought two packs of Tibetan flags, imagining hanging them all over the room and…it sounded collegiate so I hung the flags across the 103ft railing of the building and I still have nothing to put on the wall except my matted images.  Does it smack of anything unhealthy?  Please Lord I do it because I have nothing else. 

I will be so glad.  Four years is a long time to anticipate.  Wrong or right only the meaning of the coincidence will remain unresolved, God of course will also remain unresolved.  You’re the dude, the master and the maker, the destroyer and the bruiser.  Twenty six and seven year olds dead.  It is the last sign.

Are your arms too short to box with God?  Here’s a hint:  the mystery of the left jab.  Take God in close, real close, so close God’s almost behind you and then taunt, distract, mock, and up with a left to the marbled chin and bam, God’s scratching dandruff on lane 9 at http://hartfieldbowling.com/.  

Two upper middle aged mainland Chinese check into room one and it’s not even noon.  Their guide says we’ll see you at six and off he goes, the woman pulls the chair out and a commentary comes forth.  On the edge  of a cliff where paragliders jump a circle of women and children sing and clap and bang drums, a truck, the first to be up here in a week, unloads rebar at the former house across from the banyan tree. 

It isn’t hard to admit I am wrong.  And come Saturday I have no place to hide.  The people closest to me here will no doubt say there goes john dai, in disgrace, so fooled, misled so many, ok to mislead someone means they actually believe(d) a miraculous moment would transform all humanity but we plod on.  What does the world need?  Only that which the maker of this universe has promised to do.

It is chilly again, Maya takes and Didi washes the clothes after we removed the blanket covers from five blankets.  Facebook will be deactivated at the end of Thursday.  Social media.  What a concept.  It can work but really, it is the penultimate paradox; connecting with others from far away, disconnecting with others sitting next to you.  I became addicted to it, but it is much easier to quit than smoking. 

Would this be a good time to recap the last four years?  Ha, is that possible to do with any brevity?

Dr. Laura from Larrabee Iowa, December 2008

Sativa Divinorum and the Caucasoid Shaman December 2008

Across India January 2009

Goa March 2009

Sarangkot April 2009

23 April, 2009 Al-Ain, in the neighborhood of Al Ameriya, UAE

Sarangkot-Varanasi May 2009

July-October 2009 Nepal, India, China, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver,  The Soo, Detroit.

Pittsburgh Oct 2009-April 2010

San Diego May 2010

Gazientep, Turkey May-April 2011

Sarangkot

Salalah October 2011 to July 2012            

That wasn’t too hard.  Anything else, any significant moment, event, that started it all but has told me nothing at all.

Huh?

New Zealand.  Three hours on a hotel bed in Dubai, you went deep, very deep, into the silent depths of the soul and all that came forth, write a letter and New Zealand.  Where’s a Daniel when you need one?  Such mysteries leave me thinking many things until time erases them one by stupid one.  But not these two.  Maybe I have already written the letter I don’t know.  Emails, faishbook, comments are today’s letters, right? 

As for New Zealand, I have no idea.  The last colonized island in human history, right?  So?

I have four bags of candles, about forty.  One job to do, cut the bottom of empty water bottles and strong winds will not blow the candle out nor knock over the plastic bottle over because the heat from the candle somehow creates energy that it shares with its plastic buddy.  I’ll have to do this to believe it.
I’m glad no one has been reading this blog.  Why, look at them Chinese in the west.  Would the locals arrest me if I started saying things to frighten people?  No one seems frightened at all here because they embrace fate or they don't understand a word I say! 

                                                      Ah Tiksa and goodnight.

                                    How do you get mountain children to smile?  Chocolate of course

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