Los Angeles 2017: Space Time Constant: Learning To Care For Each Other

We are all learning to care for each other.
I sometimes hear people say,
"What are we going to do with,
where are we going to put,
how are we going to treat;
our Elders, our orphans,
our unHoused, our protestors,
our veterans, our journalists,
our differently abled, our artists,
our migration borders, our refugees,
our homeland, our reservations,
our planet, our nature,
our insanity, our madness,
our children who are our future."

History will remember us
for what we will not imagine,
and what we will not do.
Perhaps way in the future
our children will be taught,
that thousands of years ago
lived some do gooders,
who came together to will more,
who united to create more together -
where there is will, there is a way.

People creating more support
is an emanation of more love.
To create more love,
each one of us chooses
to want more love.
To want more love,
each one of us chooses
to want more peace.
To create more peace,
each one of us chooses
to want more peace.
To want more peace,
each one of us chooses
to want more peace.

I often meditate on the value of more.
More that is not greed,
but more that is beyond greed.
Perhaps each one of us is designed
to first experience greed,
in order to experience lack.
Perhaps each one of us is designed
to first experience lack,
in order to experience fear.
Perhaps each one of us is designed
to first experience fear,
in order to experience survival.
Perhaps each one of us is designed
to first experience survival,
in order to experience the value of Life.
Perhaps each one of us is designed
to first experience Life
in order to experience death.
Perhaps each one of us is designed
to first experience death
in order to experience more Life.
Perhaps each one of us is designed
to experience more Life
in order to experience more firsts.

The space time constant is more,
but not necessarily of the same.
Time and space are not as constant
as everyday life would suggest.
The gravitational pull on the human heart,
beats slower for some and faster for others.

Time is not what we think it is,
our human bodies, such as they are,
are water based atomic clocks -
which on Earth run slower at Sea level,
and faster at on higher ground.

Time dilates traveling through Space,
one true constant is the speed of light.
Time can run faster or slower
depending on how high you are,
and how fast you travel.
Sit more and reduce your height.
Breath more deeply to increase fuel intake.
Be still more to slow your movement.

If each one of us is unique
then how can we come together?
Uniqueness powers individuality,
and diversity powers the mind.
Acceptance frees imagination,
and imagination creates more.

History will remember us
for what we imagined,
and for what we did.
Perhaps way in the future our children
will be inspired and taught
that thousands of years ago
lived some do gooders,
who united, together, created more.
Where there is will, there is a way,
where there is more will, there is way more."

~~ Other People's Fingerprints ~~
Sometime after 1879 Albert Einstein said;
"The true sign of intelligence is
not knowledge but imagination."

"Still Flower in Busy Crowd" by Karin Lisa Atkinson

"Time Space Constant" by Karin Lisa Atkinson

"Saturday Night Fever" by Karin Lisa Atkinson

"Mad Scientist's Mobile Lab" by Karin Lisa Atkinson

"Sunset Water Bird" by Karin Lisa Atkinson

"Light Breeze" by Karin Lisa Atkinson

"Stream of Sun" by Karin Lisa Atkinson

"Hitchcock Prays for Peace" by Karin Lisa Atkinson

"Glow of Friendship" by Karin Lisa Atkinson

"Artists United, United Artists" by Karin Lisa Atkinson

"Think Beyond the Bright Lights" by Karin Lisa Atkinson

"Core of Every Heart Beat" by Karin Lisa Atkinson

Los Angeles 2017: Life Loves Colour

I feel like a planetary nebula
revolving in a constellation
when I sit my attention
in the center of my heart.
I watch the trafficking
of other people's creations
spinning around me,
but this I can only do
if I keep my awareness still -
this I can only see
if I keep my awareness centered
on myself.

Space, my relationship to it.
Spacial awareness.
Spacial recognition.
Spacial differentiation.
Spacial depth perception.
Life loves colour and form.

A moment ago, I googled "planetary nebula".
I wanted to see this described,
by some human perspective,
by some humans seeking perspective.
It strikes me often that the meaning
humans attribute to things outside themselves,
are often a metaphor for their own life.

Humans make up words based on something
they experience outside themselves.
Humans see something then feel the need
to describe it to someone else -
in order to have the experience
it must first be understand to be owned.
I believe that this human pattern of behavior
has become a recognizable tradition over time.

Human recognition of
function over form,
form over essence,
substance over form,
existence preceding essence,
essence preceding existence.
Are humans determined by
what surrounds them, by actions or words?
I, who freely, transform my situation into action.
I, who have, ability to see the world for myself.
I, who see, myself amidst all inner outer worlds.

A poet once said,
"... the world is
a mirror of my freedom".
"... man first of all exists,
encounters himself,
surges up in the world –
and defines himself afterwards."

A moment ago, I googled "constellation".
I wanted to see this described,
by some human perspective,
by some humans seeking perspective.
It strikes me often that the meaning
humans attribute to things outside themselves,
are often a metaphor for their own life.
Looking at an other body to understand their body.

Constellation: a group of stars
forming a recognizable pattern
that is traditionally named
after its apparent form formed.
Modern astronomers divide the sky
into eighty-eight constellations
with defined boundaries.
A group, or cluster, of related things.
Example given: "no two bodies ever show
exactly the same constellation of symptoms."

Planetary nebula: is a kind of
emission nebula consisting of
an expanding, glowing shell of
ionized gas ejected from
old red giant stars late in their lives.
Nebulas were once thought to be cloud, mist -
being a relatively short-lived phenomenon,
their bodies expiring only after
a few tens of thousands of years,
compared to a typical stellar lifetime
of several billion of years of formation,
before recomposing their bodies to deform.
Body creates another body.

A mechanism for formation
of most planetary nebulae
is thought to be the following:
At the end of the Star's life,
the outer layers of the Star
are expelled by strong stellar winds.
After most atmosphere is dissipated,
a planetary nebula nucleus,
the ultraviolet radiation
at the hot luminous core,
ionizes the outer layers
earlier ejected from the Star.
Body creates another body.

Around the central Star,
absorbed ultraviolet light
energizes the shell of nebulous gas,
causing the Star to appear
as a brightly colored
planetary nebula.

Body is formed from the body of another.
We all live in bodies formed by other bodies.
Bodies linked and formed over time,
a lemniscate temple housing memories -
a place-value store of treasure
crafted over millions of years,
googolplexes of bodies forming
an infinitude of perpetual ephemeral bodies.

I feel like a planetary nebula
revolving in a constellation -
when I sit my attention
in the center of my heart.

When I sit my attention
in the center of my heart.
I watch the trafficking
of other people's creations
spinning around me.

This I can only do
if I keep my awareness still.

This I can only see
if I keep my awareness centered -
on my own body, my own form,
and what lives within my self.

I, then experience, Life in many forms.
I, that Life loves, making diverse forms.
I, that Life colors, by unifying all its forms.
I, We, Life - all,
all its colors, shapes and forms.
Life loves color.

~~ Other People's Fingerprints ~~
Sometime after 1904, Joseph Campbell wrote;
"Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again."

"Layers of Light" by Karin Lisa Atkinson

Los Angeles 2017: Urban Planet - Everything Revolves Around It's Center

Cities on planet Earth tend to be large.
What is large about Earth-bound cities
is their personality and history -
the history of their personality.
Be careful, when you investigate a city!
Take small steps, long breaths, smile often!

When searching a city for any sign of Life,
close your eyes and feel your way around.
Move in circles starting from the city center.
Close your eyes, open your heart,
extend your hands in front of you,
plant your feet on the ground,
stretch and separate your toes.
The best part of the body for navigating Life,
is the soft part between your fingers and toes.

The soft part of the body,
between the fingers and toes,
is the last place corrupted by greed.
The location of the body's soft spots -
remember, hold the memory
of how to be a child,
and be child like.

If you encounter someone in the city,
don't crush their hand by shaking it!
Torturing the soft spot between the fingers,
with a vise-grip-like wrench of their hand,
will squeeze the Life out of their body.
If you meet someone living in the city,
best to smile, from ear to ear.
Let them know that there is nothing to fear -
not a single thing hiding between your teeth,
or lurching beneath your tongue!

My experience, of which there is plenty,
has taught me to smile and laugh
when greeting people.
I expose the inside of my head,
by letting them see into me,
all the way in to the back of my throat.
I let them see my friendliness!
Imagine while they watch me smile and laugh,
I imagine that I have super powers -
or at least the ability to smile and laugh at will.
I have the power to share joy,
spread kindness and offer friendship.

When exploring cities on planet Earth
it's great to let people know,
what is in your heart and on your mind!
Empty your mind, clear your throat,
release your yesterdays and tomorrow
so you can choose to create a new today.
Be your best hand-shake foot-forward self -
be available and present
by offering a spectacular beginning
to any introductory moment.

Let go of being the enemy of friendship,
so you can first be human!
If you see enemies first,
then you will never have friends.
It is harder to make a friend,
if they were first your enemy.

Above all things,
the most important thing of all,
is to fill your time with human kindness.
Be friendly, be a friend to attract a friend.
Friendship is what makes the world go round.

~~ Other People's Fingerprints ~~
Sometime after 1936 Pema Chödrön wrote

in her book "Practicing Peace in Times of War";
“When we’re putting up the barriers
and the sense of “me”
as separate from “you”
gets stronger,
right there
in the midst of difficulty and pain,
the whole thing could turn around
simply by not erecting barriers;
simply by staying open to the difficulty,
to the feelings that you’re going through;
simply by not talking to ourselves
about what’s happening.

That is a revolutionary step.
Becoming intimate with pain is the key
to changing at the core of our being -
staying open to everything we experience,
letting the sharpness of difficult times
pierce us to the heart,
letting these times open us, humble us,
and make us wiser and more brave.

Let difficulty transform you.
And it will.

In my experience, we just need help in learning
how not to run away.”

'Urban Planet' by Karin Lisa Atkinson

"At the center of everything is it's own center.
The center of each thing's center is central.
Central to the center of each thing is it's core.
The center, of the core at the center of all things, is central.
Central to all things is the core meaning of what is central.
The central meaning, of all cores, is the Life at the center.
Life is, the core of all centralized things, central to Life.
Centralized cores, are at the center, of all concentric Life.
Concentric Life is organized according to what is central.
What is central is the core meaning of concentric life.
The core meaning of Life is Life having concentric meaning."

'Everything Revolves Around It's Center' by Karin Lisa Atkinson 

Los Angeles 2017: False Spin, Magic Realism

Spin a yarn, weave a tale,
share a story, tell a lie.
What makes truth true,
and not a web of worries?
What makes culture real,
and not inappropriate appropriation?
What makes culture whole,
and not fabricated or manufactured?
Does a person's intention and desire,
individual permission and personal history,
create peace or foster war within?

In the world wide web of communication
is there common unity and common sense,
but does good intention count for anything?
Communion, existence is an encounter
in balance and equalization, where everything is
neither independent nor dependent -
existence is interdependence on everything else.
Everything is something that once held another shape -
and once experienced something other than it's self.

Wellness is well intended
when a person's heart and mind
creates for self and common good.
Heart felt self-respect promotes dignity,
and self-inclusiveness outweighs exclusion.

When respect is felt by all,
everybody's life counts,
everyone feels like they matter -
our planet physically counts for something.
Planetary spiritual alchemical charm -
a consensus of consciousness
that our collective Ancestors
called manifesting Magic.

When a person's Magic is real
presence manifests quiet calm to the quick -
such power moves the mass to heal,
to feel feelings felt,
intuitive ease in the core.
Magic does not take an army
to soldier belief or enforce followers -
Magic is awareness flowering
from the power of self-creation.

Magic rewards what gives life, not takes it.
For Magic, there are no rules of engagement.
Magic is presence, presence powers the cells -
empowers the Magic of gifting and receiving
simple insights, that manifest light in the day,
which at night warms and feeds the internal fire.

Magic is a lightness of being -
a Magi's illumination converts cold unconsciousness
and burns transparently clear any reign of illusion.
To take another's power, or life source,
will not give more to yourself -
but will be your unmaking
and only take it's toll,
extract an illusion at a cost
of your own self-respect and dignity.

Magic realism requires belief.
If I had to believe in something,
I would believe in myself.
My ability to spin a yarn,
weave a tale, share a story -
with peace, my life feels true.
Without peace what I create lies,
and my creations might lie awake
unable to rest in peace -
unable to touch any heart,
reach into what matters most,
travel the transformative void of now.

Atoms carry our stories,
memorized spins,
woven yarns of tales told.
Pushed dominoes stacked end to end,
mirroring solar storms of distance futures,
often mimicking the fear of our present dances.
The movement of each choice a truth or lie,
and everyone and everything in between,
creating a spin that blurs each choice.
Each choice archived in the world wide web,
each choice a dream not yet true or real.

What is the stuff that dreams are made of?
Yarns spun, tales woven, stories shared?
Inappropriate cultural appropriation?
Manufactured culture, fabricated reality?
Truth be told, what is true might not be said,
but truth is felt in hearts as worldly wisdom,
and does not create a web of worries,
but rests the soul at one with peace.

What choice will you make?
What choice makes you?
What choice will unmake you today?
What choice will you unmake today?
Truth be told, what is said can be undone.
To rest the soul at one with peace,
be magical today and tonight rest easy at peace.

~~ Other People's Fingerprints ~~

In 1894, John Jacob Astor IV wrote,
"They had often seen it in the terrestrial sky,
emitting its strong, steady ray,
and had thought of that far-away planet,
about which till recently
so little had been known,
and a burning desire had possessed them
to go to it and explore its mysteries.
Now, thanks to apergy,
the force whose existence
the ancients suspected
but of which they knew so little,
all things were possible."

"Magic Portals, Atomic Turnover" photo series 

by Karin Lisa Atkinson

"Magic Portals, Atomic Turnover" photo series 

by Karin Lisa Atkinson

Los Angeles 2017: Lingering Impressions

If it was not for the blur
in One's Life
then One would have
no hope of recognizing
that reality is not real -
that reality is only one
experience of oneness.

Born in the blur of Life
hope comes from
impermanence
to arise
from transient evanescent,
the inconstancy
of one life lived
by One.

Effective living
betters mediocracy
and restores
individual livelihood -
to self-create
sustainable subsistence -
one life valued
by the One
who is living it.

One sets One's own
individual standards,
to be beyond
ultimate meaning
and purpose -
to see clearly
One's own
unique existence,
to be the One
in one once-in
one lifetime.

To be certain
of change,
is to be
confident of Mind,
courageous of Heart -
to create one life
worth living,
once
in one
moment.

One's livelihood
worth living
is to live
for One's own
self betterment -
to provide
One's own life
the talent
to transform
from mediocrity
and meaninglessness.

To be One's own
self-guidance system,
is to be one force
and freak of Nature -
an awe,
in awe of awesome
momentary awesomeness -
living one life
is a flash
in One's moment
of eternity."

~~ Other People's Fingerprints ~~
In 1046-256 BC Laozi Li Er 李耳 wrote;
"Knowing others is wisdom,
knowing yourself is Enlightenment."

                                 Photography by Karin Lisa Atkinson

Photography by Karin Lisa Atkinson

"Create Gentle Impressions" by Karin Lisa Atkinson

"What is Life if not gentle -

all Life values gentleness

admires gentleness, 

is in awe of gentleness. 

Who are the gentle - 

those who understand 

the power, 

 the presence 

and the passion 

of that which is, gentle.

Why are the gentle valued 

by those who are gentle, 

by those who are not gentle, 

by those who desire to be gentle -

gentility is the ability to respect Life. 

Gentility is a gift given 

to those who have the ability to listen, 

gentility is a gift cultivated 

by those who want to be listeners, 

gentility is a gift valued 

by those who want to be listened to, 

gentility is a gift of peace 

to all those who want to be peaceful. 

To be gentle is to be at peace, 

to be at peace is to be gentle, 

listen to the sound of peace, 

it sounds like gentleness -

step gently

leave gently, 

create gentle impressions, 

be peaceful."

"Full Impressions" by Karin Lisa Atkinson

"Beauty among Life's pins and needles,

always there, sometimes blurred, 

but always present in full bloom,

or as presence in a seed, 

hidden below the surface, 

yet ready to blossom, 

on any given day and night, 

all year long, all the time, 

Beauty isn't seasonal, nor finite, 

Beauty is eternal, infinite -

seek Beauty to find Beauty, 

because Beauty is always present, 

buried within the seed that contains all Life"

"Moving Impressions" by Karin Lisa Atkinson

"Impressions move the Mind

to change form into emotions -

and transform perception of Self. 

Impressions can magnify to simplify, 

and minimize to complicate - 

extolling the magnificence of Life, 

while glorifying the significance of the living. 

Take a moment to reperceive, 

and that one moment will change your life - 

transform how you lead to live your life, 

and how you live to lead your life."