Los Angeles 2023: Azteca Prayer Dance

Witnessing someone else pray
is a sacred dance,
an opportunity to take a spin
in their world view.

Sample, swallow, ingest their diet,
see how they consume experience,
and transform sensations into wisdom.

A deep dive inward into inner space,
is a flow into the depth of possibility,
allowing, permitting the astounding
to potentialize as the yet unimagined.

Resting, being supported by Space,
in its rawest restorative form,
after being shaped and shifted
through transformational
change of states.
Unconscious to conscious,
Space dust to spacious matters.

Prayers are the imagination asking,
visualizing more, using skills to imagine.
As all that matters shapes and forms,
it is willed into becoming more than imagined.
A culmination, an accumulation -
multiple sensations simultaneously
exploring Space and filling it with more.

Imagine Peace at the center of asking,
Peace at the core, wisdom in the code,
stillness in the dance, inhale, exhale.
You in charge of your peaceful life force,
causing breathing, by pouring in more of you,

being the effect, a individualized head and heart 

full of source energy, composed, wise to Peace.

All a dance from the realm
of recognizable to unrecognizable,
sensed to insensible, seen into unseen.

Peace enters the physical realm,
fills up with more existence,

fills already-full Space existing,
and seems to fully disappear,

as our attention loses track of the Peace,

at the center of all that lives in existence.

Yet, Peace is present in all living things.
Peace is at the core of all beings.
Peace is the first enlivening breath,
a force moving within all that lives.

Take a deep breath to recognize Peace.
Peace is within every cell of your being,
Peace sounds alive your genetic composition.
Peace is all around, within,
and is the fabric of your universality.

~~ Other People's Fingerprints ~~

Sometime after 1402 Nezahualcoyoti wrote;

“We will pass away. 

I, Nezahualcoyotl, say, enjoy! 

Do we really live on earth? 

Ohuaya, ohuaya. 

Not forever on earth, only a brief time here! 

Even jades fracture; even gold ruptures, even quetzal plumes tear: 

Not forever on earth: only a brief time here! 

Ohuaya, ohuaya.”

Los Angeles 2022: Meaningless Becomes Meaningful

This Earth suit we wear, 

shaped through millennia, 

integrates our upgrades, 

creating new visions 

inspires new realities.

Manifesting 

from the inside out,

light fills the inner mind,

releases visions 

from the inside out. 

As Earth suits be to do, 

the Being within 

imagines its own spirit 

presence is enough

to take shape 

and with more 

presence is enough 

to shape forms.

Physical experience 

dematerializes,

returns to spirit

becoming wisdom.

Wisdom becomes spirit,

and is spent as wisdom.

Wisdom imagined into being,

intends to become wiser.

Wisdom becomes presence 

and with more presence 

imagined into being, 

wiser in the becoming.

Wisdom grows 

to evolve presence,

presence evolves 

to grow more wise.

Spirit spent 

with intention 

makes wisdom 

physically present.

Persistent vision 

builds into shape.

Consistent consciousness 

shapes

by pouring life force 

energy into form.

Suits are formed 

to shape our future.

Imagining our future 

shifts our form. 

Imagination is 

the future in voice, 

the future given voice, 

the future speaking through us, 

the future sounded through earthen bodies.

We shape and we form by imagining,

by imagining visions of the future reimagined. 

We are the ancestors of shape shifters.

Imagination imaging sound, 

creating sound to carry sound - 

telepathic teleported transmissions 

of futures imaged by the many, 

lived by a few. 

The sum of all your parts makes you, 

makes you whole within your existence, 

you make yourself ageless 

you create formless, shapeless, timeless,

formed meaninglessness becomes meaningful.

~~ Other People's Fingerprints ~~

Sometime after 1923 Alan Shepard said; 

"Fix your little problem and light this candle."

"If you don't use your experience, your past is wasted, and you are betraying yourself." 

"I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.”

Los Angeles 2022: Show my-self value to my valuable self.

“Waking up each day 

is an Olympic event. 

Channeling through the fog, 

reaching the great divide 

arriving crossing thresholds, 

coherently enhancing focusing. 

We are all born energetically open. 

Months in the womb creating flow. 

Each spinning energy wheel intact. 

Each distribution channel exact. 

Third eye open sensing the physical. 

Second and first eye receiving data. 

Each human wants to self-realize. 

Understand what their life is for. 

Comprehend the larger picture. 

Be historically compassionate. 

Be actively expanding self-knowledge. 

Each human desires choice. 

Feel the power of individuality. 

Clarify personal ability. 

Be living their own truth. 

Be experiencing their own authenticity. 

I am unique and create individuality. 

We are unique and we create humanity. 

They are unique and they are essential. 

Each one of us is born, lives and dies. 

Each one of us is purposeful in intent. 

Sensuality is being sensational. 

Resisting any urge to self-desensitize. 

Freeing old to become new wisdom. 

Releasing imagination to shape the future. 

Revitalizing renewing reorganizing self. 

Today is the first day 

of the rest of your life being lived. 

Tonight is the first night 

of the rest of your self-fulfillment. 

Each twenty-four (23hr 56 min) hour cycle 

is wiser than any other you already lived. 

To each their own. 

To each one of us our own 

understanding that there is 

always a larger picture, 

more to imagine, sense, comprehend. 

No need to judge, use self-discernment. 

No need to fix, save, rescue, heal. 

Imagine seeing what you need to see. 

Be change you want to see. 

Be change by being more than you see. 

Show me what I don’t see. 

Show me what I need to see. 

Show what I don’t know. 

Show me what I need to know. 

Show my-self value to my valuable self.”

~~ Other People's Fingerprints ~~ 

Sometimes after 1871 

Lesya Ukrainka wrote;

"Whoever frees himself 

will remain free, 

but whoever tries to free someone else 

takes him into captivity."

Los Angles 2022 : Free Yourself

Within our human body 

and within our galaxy, 

exist photogenic possibilities. 

You have the capacity to see, 

look within, 

gaze into your mirror. 

What you see is a reflection 

of your existence. 

What makes you, 

and makes your experience, 

are your choices. 

The ancient definition 

for the word ‘destiny’ is : 

"Living the result of your choices.' 

Everything you need is within. 

Everything is within your gaze. 

Everything is within your reach. 

Everything is possible.

Look within to access to activate your potential. 

Free yourself.”

~~ Other People's Fingerprints ~~ 

Sometime after 1964, 

Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin said or wrote; 

“We spend most of our lives 

cutting down our ambitions 

because the world has told us to think small. 

Dreams express what your soul is telling you, 

so as crazy as your dream might seem ...

You have to let that (dream) out.”

Los Angeles 2021: Historical Shapes

Historical Shapes 

We live the shape of our time. 

We shape the times -

that we live. 

The times that we live shape us. 

I shape the tension in my body. 

I release the tension in my body. 

I reimagine the tension to reshape. 

I reshape the tension by imagining. 

History is my and your story combined. 

My history is individual, not yours. 

Your history is unique, not mine. 

Together we shape history. 

First I shape my history. 

First you shape your history. 

Together we live shapes that form history. 

My form, your form, together we form. 

History is uniform, 

formed from historical shapes 

of all sizes, from all minds, into one. 

Imagine that we can reimagine history.

 

Reimagine all shapes, 

and all sizes of all forms. 

Exercise your mind forms, 

and form new mindful stories. 

History does not repeat, 

each moment is new - 

each unique mind, 

full of new stories.

~~ Other People's Fingerprints ~~

Sometimes after 1494, Fuzuli wrote; 

"Oh God, make me acquainted with the affliction of love! 

For one moment make me not separated from the affliction of love! 

Do not lessen your solicitude from the people of pain, 

But rather, make afflicted me one more of them!"

Los Angeles 2021: In The Instantaneous Moment

In the instantaneous moment,

At the brink of yesteryear, 

Lives a heart with many chambers, 

Living the still art of inner ear. 

Cycles of wisdom renew the old. 

How can there be mistakes

When everything has the same goal. 

Each moment’s decision, 

Becomes the next moment lived, 

The next moment unfolded 

Within quantum’s pyramid. 

Cycles of wisdom used to choose, 

Become the chooser and the chosen, 

And the choice which is never new, 

Destiny lived can never loose, fate is due. 

Everything evolves, 

From old wisdom renewed as wise, 

The newly wiser transforms the old, 

The old, a shinier version of what was new. 

Receptivity of wombs, seeds, bodies, 

Relaxing, opening to effectively please, 

Growing more wisdom in the choices, 

Creating more wisdom in the release.

~~ Other People's Fingerprints ~~

In 2021, Ann Buxie wrote and read;

"Fantastic is from the word fancy -

meaning to make visible,

(by imagination),

to bring to light."

Beijing 1990: Long Walk Home

The first time I moved home to Beijing, 

it was a late 1980’s bone-chilling winter. 

No one had heat, ration coupons, 

cooking coal, communal hot water.

We made much noodle soup.

Ate dumplings on special occasions. 

Got warm walking the neighborhood 

to the local hot water dispensary. 

Learned to self-generate internal heat. 

We wore two layers of long underwear 

under thick cotton pants and

winter coats of multi-layered felt. 

Night markets served roasted 

sweet potatoes pulled from the guts 

of roadside coal-fired barrels, 

Hot almond pudding was poured from

giant Silk Road ancient-brass teakettles,

and fresh warm hand-pulled noodles 

swam in salty garlic ginger 

broths as old as Beijing. 

One day we had an opportunity. 

A trucker carrying trade goods, 

up north beyond the city borders,

offered to drop me and my friend, 

at the Great Wall of China. 

It was -20 degrees celsius that day. 

To get back to the suburbs,

in order to catch a bus into the city, 

we had to walk many kilometers - 

stone by stone along that great wall.

At any shelter we came upon, 

we stopped to get out of the wind - 

old remains of guard-houses,

land-surveying lookouts, 

navigation towers, 

stacks of fallen stone piles. 

We recalled stories of potential - 

invasions, battles, explorers, artists. 

Those who came before us - 

our collective ancestors of humanity

whose steps we were retracing. 

Recently, 

a modernization took place. 

No need to walk 

the Great Wall of China. 

Now, you can fly up 

in a chairlift and toboggan down,

shielded from the cold to avoid 

our ancestral trials and tribulations. 

Recently, 

I saw a butterfly walking. 

Stretching its legs, 

resting its wings, 

cultivating an alternative 

perspective. 

She used her arms, 

hands, legs and feet. 

It wasn’t because she couldn’t fly, 

She valued the climb, 

savored change. 

After investing her energy, 

to acquire this experience, 

she flew away - 

her choices converting 

from experience into new wisdom. 

Is that why the crawling caterpillar 

decided to become a butterflying? 

Intention and desire 

to experience unencumbered flight

instead of undulating wave motion. 

If evolution occurs by choice, 

then does changing your state, 

exist as potential, 

imagined-inwardly. 

Futuristic possibility 

imagined manifest. 

Stone by stone, step by step, 

transformation slowly remakes us - 

Born children we all become ancestors.

Los Angeles 2021: Sky Dancer

Sky Dancer 

Look up at the Sky. 

Our Earth moves 

around a structure 

we call the Sun. 

This movement 

is called a revolution.

Our Earth's surface, 

respective it's center, 

rotates once every 23 hours, 56 minutes - 

at a speed roughly 

of 1,610 kilometers per hour. 

Sky Watcher

Look deep into the Sky. 

Our neighborhood galaxies 

are moving towards a structure 

called the Great Attractor

at a speed of nearly 

1,000 kilometers per second . 

This region of space is roughly 

150 million light-years away from us. 

The Great Attractor’s mass 

is 100 quadrillion times greater 

than our Sun. 

It has a spacial span of 

500 million light-years.

The Great Attractor is made 

of both visible matter 

that we can see - 

along with non-visible dark matter 

that we cannot see. 

Sky Observer 

Look deeper into the Sky. 

The motion of our Earth 

is relative to our Sun. 

The motion of our local group of galaxies 

is related toward the structure 

we call the Great Attractor. 

 

What universal structure defines 

the motions of all things? 

Movement 

inside and outside us- 

circling spiraling cycles 

within and infinitely 

around us. 

Sky Being 

Look up into the night sky. 

Our Earth is moving 

towards 

the constellation Leo 

at the speed of 

390 kilometers per second. 

Therefore all of us, 

all life on Earth, 

are moving in unison 

in the same direction, 

towards together in the same destination. 

Seen or unseen, 

conscious or unconsciously - 

we are made 

of the same materials 

and animating life forces. 

Sky Listener 

Notice the night sky. 

Our true nature 

is a diversity 

of ever 

transforming sameness 

producing uniqueness.

Los Angeles 2021: Earth Dancer

Earth dancer

Look to the Earth 

Down, around, inside you.

Look to the Wind 

Up, about, within you.

 

Look to the Fire 

Interior, 

Dematerializing unmaker.

Look to the Water 

Around, about, 

Materializing maker. 

Fluid flow essential to form. 

All forms of life 

omniformly 

held in liquid. 

Viscosity reforms 

all forms 

uniformly. 

Without Water 

there is no form, 

no unison. 

Shape your imagination 

with your expanding presence - 

grow to form. 

Look to the Air 

Transporter, 

of your other world 

life-force energy.

Move through the portals 

into your worldly vessel - 

that which we call human 

is that which is Earthbound. 

Look to Blood, 

Composed of the same material 

that matters into human, 

also matters being alive 

into the Stars. 

Look within, 

Lead your breath 

to transport 

more 

of your exacting presence. 

Existence, 

presented as your presence. 

Flowing 

throughout your channels. 

Streaming 

the data of your imagination. 

Matter making 

is a state of art, 

the art of making 

your state of mind 

into matter.

Diatoms magnified

Los Angeles 2020: Legacy Footprint

When we do not count our blessings
then we fail in
global collective good.
The betterment
of our communities
is augmented
by our ability,
to put into practice -
the cherishing
of our common unity.
This, our home planet,
has a simple existence.
It’s easy living here,
versus living
on other
planetary bodies.

So, if, this existence
means and involves
valuing all life;
in all forms,
of every age,
in all dimensions -
then these our values
evolve us intelligently.

We become more,
more than now,
more than before,
more than
our combined pasts -
more than we currently
imagine
possible.

Imagination
is the treasure
we all hope to gain.

It is our individual,
and collective,
sight seer abilities
growing stronger
with each experience;
that awareness
of ourselves,
and what we
choose to create -
this self-consciousness,
is what awards us
the title of
an 'evolved being'

Los Angeles 2020: Spring Sprung

In the farthest corners
of our known galaxy
we gathered.

Together we brought
Souls together
from the center
of our unknown Spaces.

We considered peace on Earth,
and peace beyond our land + sky.

We created conversations
about everything peace related.
We were peaceful.

When the Sun rounded
the corners of our Earth,
and the morning star rose
in the gardens of our galaxy -
the sound of the auroral borealis
clicked loudly in the sky.

We woke from our harmonious dream.

Two rainbows bloomed-arches,
castles in the sky
uniting our heavens
with our earthly bodies.

2020 tales were told
by the tellers of stories,
the wordsmiths,
and the crafters of silver linings.

Through the wind and rain,
hail and storm,
lightening and solar flares
came the beginning of the end,
and the end of our beginnings.

We matured.

We were being promoted to mature -
emotionally and physically,
spiritually and mentally.

Destiny drew us
past the illusions of duality,
dragging us head over heels
into bipolar polarities.

We perplexed and pretended
that we were afraid
of the known and unknown.

The truth was embedded
in the story still being told,
never-ending simple complexities
told over, and over, again.

A simple HELLO
would have sufficed,
but we were too busy
struggling to figure life out -
instead of living it gracefully.

We were grateful
to that
which evolved us,
intensified us,
and focused us -
each one of us more clearly.

“Home again”,
we shouted
as the Sun fell
and the Moon rose.

Dawn cracked the sky,
like ice freezing storylines
onto the surface
of a cold winter pond.

Life homemade,
handmade sometimes -
made by the sweat,
and courage,
of the hearts,
which crave peace.”

Los Angeles 2020: Glimpse Inside

Walking around
my neighborhood today,
I make another new friend.
It is easy
when people are friendly.

The hummingbirds and lady bugs
move around with me.

I step around and over
the cat food thrown about
the sidewalk for the wild street cats.

One of the street cats is pregnant.
That means a kitten marathon parade
running through our yard's backlot -
the iron cat competition.

LAX is a few blocks in one direction,
fewer planes arrive each day, empty.
In the other direction, towards Hollywood,
are city fracking drills and oil rigs pumping.

When the wind blows the wrong way
the air smells of a cocktail mixture
shaken methane mice
stirred with etheric evergreens.

It’s a bizarre smell,
strange old musk antique,
yet modern industrial stink.

The constant hum of the city is bygone chic,
quiet and secretly stabilizing.
What happens inside the Earth
does not stay below ground,
but plays out in the surface residents.

Humans host organisms,
and microorganisms host other life forms -
then we all mix
in the river of blood
that runs through all of our veins.

I inhale your exhales.

We drink the same water,
Water already rained down,
a few times or more,
and run through
a few many life forms.

Living life,
in this biological bubble,
the watery suit of human ecology -
we are the virions,
who have gone viral,
in our virus environment.

We are simply made,
of the same ingredients,
as every living essence,
who has taken form.
Everything hosts life,
which hosts more life.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

~~ Other People's Fingerprints ~~
Sometime after 1904 Dr. Seuss wrote;

"From there to here, and here to there,
funny things are everywhere."