Ever have a dream of seeing someone
and you see them the very next day?
Ever feel like something is filling you in?
Opening a door
Turning on a light
pointing down a path?
have you seen how they built the Golden Gate bridge? It works with the landscape. I managed to cross it on bicycle the other weekend and it was definitely a significant life experience. I’ve driven across several times, but it was so spectacular to feel the vibration of this huge structure gliding over the oft windy straits that is San Francisco Bay. I happened to look down over the railing when I was in the center of the span. There was this real low rumble and very bass tone coming from below. AT the moment my eyes dropped to the water, this mammoth black and white and peopled vessel that was HUGE, complete with pool and sun deck and bocce bowlers waving up from their cruise queues, headed out with the sunset. It was amazing to see such a large ship from so far above.. keep going across to Marin County and the red hills with dune flora really catches the sun in this earthy red rebellion that stands out of the ocean with it’s Georgia O’Keefe sexy curves. There’s an energy in the landscape over there. If nothing else, it sure takes a lot of energy to pedal up into it. Rolling hills and serpentine roadways. Always a good match for a helmet-less bike rider. If there’s one thing you ever do if or when you come to San Francisco, ride bike or walk across the Golden Gate.
A 5.2 on the Richter scale has the effect of making people seem more friendly, honest, and sincere. It makes you arrange you life so nothing can fall on top of you, unless you want it to. A 5.2 on the Richter Scale is like a lot of heavy trucks passing by, with someone large and omnipotent dribbling them near the ground like fast basketballs. Like an infinite regression of little reminders that “everything is change, everything is change, everything is change.” A 5.2 on the Richter Scale will give you things to type about, talk about, write about . . . but it will also:
SHAKE RATTLE AND ROLL
SHAKE RATTLE AND ROLL
SHAKE RATTLE AND ROLL IT
SHAKE RATTLE AND ROLL!
BE HERE NOW seems to be a good way to realize that each moment is an infinity in itself. I allow myself all too often to get pulled into the mechanistic river rapids that ‘modern’ culture can be. Even while immersed in a stressful environment, you can choose to try and stay relaxed and awake and able to think clearly. When you wake into each moment as if it were your first, and you accept it as if it were you last, you will be ready to feel that all times are the same.
Song that would be the theme track the last little while . . . my Short-Duration-personal-saviour:
I’ve Been Let Down – Mazzy Star
I’ve been let down
And I still comin’ round
I’ve been put (pulled) down
And i’m still comin’ round for you
Comin’ round for you
Take away everything that feels fine
Catch a shape in the circles of my mind
Make me feel like i belong to you
Make me feel even if it ain’t true
Catch a train on a silver afternoon
A thousand miles and i’m getting there too soon
Take me there when i should be going home
Tell me why i still feelin’ all alone
I’ve been let down
And i’m still coming round
I’ve been put (pulled) down
And i’m still comin’ round for you
Comin’ round for you