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the crow october 2009 the crow random observations from an old crow friday october 30 2009 note from a cosmic dust mote photo by stephane guisard found here just when i reach the point where i question the value of going on a friend sends me a link to a wonderful video from which i found a second one that knocked me out of the downward spiral and took me out of myself for a few moments hope you all enjoy the videos i found them delightful and uplifting thanks ken posted by the crow at 11 49 pm 14 comments labels the universe in all its glory tuesday october 27 2009 i m just saying owwooooooowooo sometimes the only thing you can do is howl posted by the crow at 2 28 am 18 comments tuesday october 20 2009 i ll be back i have a number of things to sort out need to focus my attention on them will visit other blogs when i am able take care friends posted by the crow at 5 23 pm 2 comments crikey i ve been keeping a photographic tank watch log to try to monitor how fast i m going through heating oil snapped this one early this morning before the oil man arrived didn t notice my nemesis until i was cleaning up the picture for my log look at the size of that spider for comparison s sake that oil gauge is about 6 inches high this is why i don t like going to the cellar c 2009 martha mclemore posted by the crow at 9 32 am 5 comments hey god i have a question post removed by author upon reconsideration of content c 2009 martha mclemore posted by the crow at 7 53 am 4 comments friday october 16 2009 ten commandments good morning i found the essay below by following my nose from whiskey river that fount of wisdom and profundity i visit each morning although franck has written specifically about artists i think this has application for all those who create i hope you enjoy franck s ten commandments martha franck these ten commandments on seeing drawing were revealed to me on a mountain but also in a meadow on a beach and even in the subway for their revelation did not come all at once but in installments as it were over the years and always while i was busy drawing and invariably on holy ground but that may be because while drawing all ground is holy unseparated from the whole 1 you shall draw everything and every day 2 you shall not wait for inspiration for it comes not while you wait but while you work 3 you shall forget all you think you know and even more all you have been taught 4 you shall not adore your good drawings and promptly forget your bad ones 5 you shall not draw with exhibitions in mind nor to please any critic but yourself 6 you shall trust none but your own eye and make your hand follow it 7 you shall consider the mouse you draw as more important than the contents of all the museums in the world for 8 you shall love the ten thousand things with all your heart and a blade of grass as yourself 9 let each drawing be your first a celebration of the eye awakened 10 you shall not worry about being of your time for you are your time and it is brief frederick franck posted by the crow at 6 43 am 12 comments monday october 12 2009 long ago and far away corpus christi texas 1952 judging from two photographs of myself taken 37 years apart i have always wanted to be a cowboy cowgirl for those who insist upon gender accurate labeling when i was five in the 1952 photo that amounted to sitting on a pony wearing chaps and a stetson my daddy had stetsons so that red felt thing on my head was a stetson too had to be by the time i was 42 in the second photo face added to john wayne movie poster in photoshop i had further defined my desire moving from range riding cattle driving cowboy to sheriff champion of law and order defender of truth justice and the american way whatever the hell that means i don t know what happened to those two people but i can t find either of them today maybe i m evolving maybe i m lost c 2009 martha mclemore posted by the crow at 11 56 am 27 comments labels who am i really friday october 9 2009 good morning welcome to this world we all enter this world in the same way naked screaming and soaked in blood but if you live your life right that kind of thing doesn t have to stop there dana gould courtesy whiskey river posted by the crow at 7 31 am 12 comments sunday october 4 2009 another jazz sunday morning good stuff following my nose around youtube this morning i found the following works of art five pieces from miles davis from dizzy gillespie from stan getz charlie parker chick corea and thelonious monk with coltrane posted by the crow at 9 10 am 5 comments friday october 2 2009 been to the river vagabond we live unsettled lives and stay in a place only long enough to find we don t belong mark strand ps thank you jim penny for the reminder posted by the crow at 6 43 am 8 comments thursday october 1 2009 hallelujah leonard cohen whose song suzanne was the source of my daughter s middle name sings to my heart especially now that his voice has gotten older less perfect more moving i have nothing to say today that is worth sharing except that i hope you enjoy his songs two more cohen had this to say about the song in the third to last link above dance me to the end of love it s curious how songs begin because the origin of the song every song has a kind of grain or seed that somebody hands you or the world hands you and that s why the process is so mysterious about writing a song but that came from just hearing or reading or knowing that in the death camps beside the crematoria in certain of the death camps a string quartet was pressed into performance while this horror was going on those were the people whose fate was this horror also and they would be playing classical music while their fellow prisoners were being killed and burnt so that music dance me to your beauty with a burning violin meaning the beauty there of being the consummation of life the end of this existence and of the passionate element in that consummation but it is the same language that we use for surrender to the beloved so that the song it s not important that anybody knows the genesis of it because if the language comes from that passionate resource it will be able to embrace all passionate activity posted by the crow at 9 32 am 14 comments newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom about the crow photo behind the blog title brian stormont took this picture of the crow in february of 2006 with his new camera i m following his blog eye dull moments stargazer about me the crow home is in a small town in south central pennsylvania 45 miles as the crow flies north of baltimore i am a displaced southerner aging less gracefully than i d like a helluva lot faster than i d like but i m trying to slow things down a bit to make this ride last as long as possible view my complete profile blog plaid the crow s wings followers blog archive 2022 1 november 1 2021 3 august 1 july 1 june 1 2020 6 december 1 june 1 may 2 april 2 2019 5 august 3 july 1 may 1 2018 5 december 1 october 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november 12 october 16 meaningful quotes we are displaced by time marian marshall suplee griest late first mother in law spoken to me in january 1994 in a dream after her death we ve got to live no matter how many skies have fallen d h lawrence via whiskey river 8 22 2014 there is something scary about letting ourselves go it means that we will screw up that we will relinquish the possibility of perfection it means that we will say things we didn t mean to say and express feelings we can t explain it means that we will be onstage and not have complete control that we won t know what we re going to play until we begin until the bow is drawn across the strings while this spontaneous method might be frightening it s also an extremely valuable source of creativity the lesson about letting go is that we contain our own creativity we are so worried about playing the wrong note or saying the wrong thing that we end up with nothing at all jonah lehrer via whiskey river 10 22 2014 shrinking 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