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...also amazed by the way synchronicity works in our lives sometimes, especially when we are tuned to our inner true, deep existances, am sharing these truths, that were found in a form of a mail this morning, just a f t e r having written my thoughts and experiences on life, inspired by the recent photos of my neighborhood.
It was like being asked to emphasize and share the value of Inner Peacefulness even more.....so here they are, in three pieces, no eye candy this time, just bare words.... of tremendous imporatance.
As fate (coincidence, synchronicity) would have it, Nanao Sakaki was in town for an impromptu poetry reading at The Drawing Studio on Fourth Ave. Synchronistic because I have just been reading Inch By Inch: 45 Haiku By Issa, translated by Nanao Sakaki, which I checked out from the public library. In his reading he did not read from his haiku translations, but rather from his English language poems. At the end of the reading he sang an old folk song in Japanese.
The artwork of the artist Hiroshi M (Miyamoto??) hung above Nanao during the reading.
Here are some lines from Nanao's poem "Just Enough" which he read tonight:
Soil for legs
Axe for hands
Flower for eyes
Bird for ears
Mushroom for nose
Smile for mouth
Songs for lungs
Sweat for skin
Wind for mind
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Here's an interview with Nanao Sakaki.
While Dublin's wax museum was preparing to re-open in a new location things were a bit higgledy piggledy. Half finished wax works were strewn about the place and older works were sitting around, mostly headless and covered in plastic
In the main hall here, people just kept walking back and forth going about their business. I initially just set out to catch the living as a juxtaposition to the half finished manikin. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that all their legs were in sync!
This was WAY too much fun not to share, and had so many oddball
synchronicities it just makes my head spin. Let me step through this.
Picture 1:
A tweet by Astro_Clay
"Clay's "Pic of the Day:" Today a bit tougher...a beautiful tapestry
of color...but where? Go for it Tweep geogra twitpic.com/2ysnkr
"
twitter.com/Astro_Clay/status/27758351669
So I click through, thinking if it is a pic of the day, it will be
like my pics of the day, right? Food, friends, a restaurant/workplace
or other social space you went by. Right? Ah, but no. This is from an
astronaut. Where do astronauts spend their days? Well, if they are
lucky, NOT ON EARTH. See next image.
Picture 2:
The TwitPic by Astro_Clay
So what is the picture of? EARTH. Duh. /headsmack
So what's going on? Did he, what, post this from outer space? Did he
take this pic actually today? My mind is getting a tad overexcited at
this point, but I don't jump to conclusions, but instead dig a little
deeper. Read the comments. ;) This is a puzzle, a game. He posts a pic
of the earth from outer space, and the game for his Twitter audience
is not "Where on Earth is Waldo?" but simply, "Where on Earth?"
Picture 3:
TwitPic: Astro_Clay
He posts the pic, let's folk guess for a day, then posts the answer,
and often a new pic. See this list? This isn't new, this is something
he's been doing for a while, and he typically has over a thousand folk
each day viewing and trying to guess or deduce where the daily image
is from. What an utterly amazing concept. So simple, so educational,
and so engaging. Hey! That would make a great acronym — SEE: Simple,
Educational, Engaging.
Picture 4:
Earth Observatory: Bechar Basin, Algeria:
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=7934
One of the comments mentions that Clay's images are used by experts to
do research and other work. He (PC01010) gives a link. Ah, this
explains a lot. The image is from 2007, when Clay was hanging out on
the International Space Station. Really. I can prove it. Meanwhile,
the Earth Observatory cleaned up version of the image explains which
team took it, when and where, all that.
Picture 5:
The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth:
The Earth Observatory image also linked to the original.
eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS015&am...
Looks familiar, doesn't it? I was so delighted to discover the Gateway
to Astronaut Photography of Earth. A mouthful, but what a fun idea!
Picture 6:
NASA: Missions: International Space Station: Expedition 15:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition...
See? I said I could prove Clay had been hanging out on the ISS. The
Earth Observatory page linked to this one also.
Further digging showed that other astronauts are also back here on
earth sharing images from their days off Earth, and others have also
made similar kinds of games out of them. I think the gaming is such a
wonderful idea.
I thought about showing more than one astronaut doing this, but
decided against it. Why? Lots of reasons! All that synchronicity I
mentioned earlier.
Clay ANDERSON? Hello, possibly a long lost relative of some sort. His
hometown is Omaha (I have relatives there). He got his Masters degree
at Iowa State (Go, Cyclones!), and I am an alum there also. My degree
from ISU is partly music composition / vocal performance / piano, and
guess what? Clay likes those, too. What a small small world, even if
the picture didn't already make that very clear.
Brian Dettmer
Synchronicity
2006
Altered Record, Frame
6-3/8" x 6-3/8" x 1-3/4"
Image Courtesy of the Artist
261/366 - 2008
This photograph is part of the Synchronized Synchronicity project that Dagmar and I are incorporating into our 366 sets, where we alternate calling the theme for each Wednesday's entry.
The assignment for this week is "glass".
Cool is in Athens, GA..... until next time.
While waiting for the tram to arrive this asian couple walked by. I liked their synchronous steps and couldn't resist to take a photo.
Als ich auf die Straßenbahn wartete, spazierte dieses asiatische Pärchen vorbei. Mir gefiel die Synchronizität ihres Schrittes und ich konnte nicht widerstehen, dies abzulichten.
"you can hear the sound of the underground trains
...it feels like distant thunder....."
© Liis Roden
Master Charles Cannon and I back in the day. He's had a great influence on my life. A greatly intuitive teacher. Vedic Monk taught by the greatest guru, Muktananda.
Multi-media performance by Jo Ellsmere, Kai Steamer and lizsolo Mathilde, utilizing movement, music and prose to express the theme of Carmen Auletta's poem, "The Mask."
Odyssey ( maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Odyssey/98/7/23 ), Sunday February 5th at 12 Noon.
An Odyssey Fundraiser.
GO AND SUPPORT ODYSSEY! :)
(photo taken at Odyssey the October 16, 2011 - performed by Jo Ellsmere, Pyewacket Kazyanenko and Kai Steamer)
sincronicemos...
nuestras mentiras
;)
let's synchronize...
our lies
;)
"Synchronicity" --- The Police
esta frase genial es de Teresa O.
this terrif sentence was written by Teresa O