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