Los Angeles 2020: Leaf in the Wind

The individual floats through the mass of the living.
The amassing massive mission of the masses.

To become,
to amass,
to become mass
one must first be weighty.
Be of some weight,
be of some substance -
be substantive,
be sustaining.

To be alive is first to be beyond mass,
beyond form and beyond the desire to be substantive.

To be alive one must first be self-sustaining and self-aware.

To be alive one must first exist and experience self-consciousness.

To be, is to be more than mass,
more than a sum of one’s parts -
but a whole entity
alive in knowing
that life is the gift
of wanting more than death,
and not wanting to kill the spirit -
any spirit
which animates the soul
to fill the eyes
with love of life.

~~ Other People's Fingerprints ~~
Sometimes after 1930, Derek Walcott wrote his poem,
The Season of Phantasmal Peace:

"Then all the nations of birds lifted together

the huge net of the shadows of this earth

in multitudinous dialects, twittering tongues,

stitching and crossing it. They lifted up

the shadows of long pines down trackless slopes,

the shadows of glass-faced towers down evening streets,

the shadow of a frail plant on a city sill—

the net rising soundless as night, the birds' cries soundless, until

there was no longer dusk, or season, decline, or weather,

only this passage of phantasmal light

that not the narrowest shadow dared to sever.

And men could not see, looking up, what the wild geese drew,

what the ospreys trailed behind them in silvery ropes

that flashed in the icy sunlight; they could not hear

battalions of starlings waging peaceful cries,

bearing the net higher, covering this world

like the vines of an orchard, or a mother drawing

the trembling gauze over the trembling eyes

of a child fluttering to sleep;

                                                     it was the light

that you will see at evening on the side of a hill

in yellow October, and no one hearing knew

what change had brought into the raven's cawing,

the killdeer's screech, the ember-circling chough

such an immense, soundless, and high concern

for the fields and cities where the birds belong,

except it was their seasonal passing, Love,

made seasonless, or, from the high privilege of their birth,

something brighter than pity for the wingless ones

below them who shared dark holes in windows and in houses,

and higher they lifted the net with soundless voices

above all change, betrayals of falling suns,

and this season lasted one moment, like the pause

between dusk and darkness, between fury and peace,

but, for such as our earth is now, it lasted long.”

Los Angeles 2020 : Distinction

The energy of ‘distinction’
mine, your's, our's -
collective distinction
and each distinct individual.

You are distinct.
You are distinctive.
You are distinctively living your distinction.
Your individual unique Soul’s presence is distinct.
Your true nature is to live your distinction. 

How does your distinction manifest?
How are you distinctly different?
How does your distinctive self grow it’s distinctive presence?

As the creator of your distinction,
are you aware of how others experience your distinction?

How you see yourself as distinctive,
becomes how others experience your distinctive presence.

You are coded, at the core of your being,
with your distinction.

Cultivating your distinct frequency of living
is akin to vibrational doctoring of your eminence.

The purity of your distinction,
your living essence at the core of your being,
is embodied to broadcast your distinction far and wide.

To see, is to feel, is to experience,
is to be aware of your distinct self.

Your Awareness directs your distinction,
you distinctly change every body and every thing
you come into contact with.

Your distinction alters space, form and time.

To cultivate your distinction
is to use your Extra Sensory Abilities
to sense your existence -
in a precognitive, past-cognitive,
and post-cognitive way.
All of you, within everything,
coexists simultaneously.

Sensory perception
is the ability to sense your existence
and sense your distinction -
in all  of you, within everything,
coexisting simultaneously.

Awareness
is touching various everythings
under your observation -
in a way that they,
those everything sense you,
and you sense yourself in them.

Your distinction self-permeates existence
and permits your existing.
It is in being yourself,
that you know yourself
and every thing knows you.”

~~ Other People's Fingerprints ~~
Sometime after 1936, Pema Chodron wrote;
“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake
is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land,
 to experience each moment as completely new and fresh.
To live is to be willing to die over and over again.”