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ntiguous ground we can build on a ground where is it is spring and day in a season of burgeoning green and light but what grows in us now step out of doors time to take a stand for the living ground beneath our feet the eclipse season comes the sun and moon conjunct uranus revolution sweeping the ground beneath us even the most stable of things convulsing as these luminous hands arc darkly toward a horizon of change when it s time it s time the only thing i can think of for myself to is dedicate myself to fostering the return of the communities of the natural world on whatever small bit of the earth i can manage to serve as best i can the herbalism class i m taking from sajah popham seems like one way to start that return he s quite amazing in the way he integrates old knowledge and experiential work it makes me realize once again how powerful gaining deeper knowledge by interacting with the natural world is as i sit at my computer in my house still dreaming i heard a martial arts teacher say the other day what is our original nature it s our body and its networking awareness wake up which leads to rumi sit be still and listen because you re drunk and we re at the edge of the roof the digital age is destroying us the internet complex has become inseparable from the immense incalculable scope of 24 7 capitalism and its frenzy of accumulation extraction circulation production transport and construction on a global scale behaviors that are inimical to the possibility of a livable and just world are incited in almost every feature of online operations fueled by artificially manufactured appetites the speed and ubiquity of digital networks maximize the incontestable priority of getting having coveting resenting envying all of which furthers the deterioration of the world a world operating without pause without the possibility of renewal or recovery choking on its heat and waste any possible path to a survivable planet will be far more wrenching than most recognize or will openly admit a crucial layer of the struggle for an equitable society in the years ahead is the creation of social and personal arrangements that abandon the dominance of the market and money over our lives together this means rejecting our digital isolation reclaiming time as lived time rediscovering collective needs and resisting mounting levels of barbarism including the cruelty and hatred that emanate from online equally important is the task of humbly reconnecting with what remains of a world filled with other species and forms of life there are innumerable ways in which this may occur and although unheralded groups and communities in all parts of the planet are moving ahead with some of these restorative endeavors and not a song but another poem i keep thinking of w s merwin s poem thanks though i just discovered that there is a slight two word discrepancy in the last section second line of the online versions and i don t have his book to check it still here it is as it most often is if only i could resist quoting everyone i m thinking of reading and trying not to let this discourage me from posting and adding this particular post to the dozens of drafts i start but never finish let imperfection rule thanks w s merwin listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings we are running out of the glass rooms with our mouths full of food to look at the sky and say thank you we are standing by the water thanking it standing by the windows looking out in our directions back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging after funerals we are saying thank you after the news of the dead whether or not we knew them we are saying thank you over telephones we are saying thank you in doorways and in the backs of cars and in elevators remembering wars and the police at the door and the beatings on stairs we are saying thank you in the banks we are saying thank you in the faces of the officials and the rich and of all who will never change we go on saying thank you thank you with the animals dying around us taking our feelings we are saying thank you with the forests falling faster than the minutes of our lives we are saying thank you with the words going out like cells of a brain with the cities growing over us we are saying thank you faster and faster with nobody listening we are saying thank you thank you we are saying and waving dark though it is and i couldn t think of a song at first but then it suddenly appeared in my mind of course tom waits step right up https www youtube com watch v uyycitidzvi p s i had not heard this version of step right up before but courtesy of youtube s accidental on purpose controls the autoplay switched onto it and my mouth fell open at the first two notes it s really worth listening to from the album live in bremen https www youtube com watch v f_3ezq_duny pps and whoa fumbling with the blues on that live in bremen album at 7 56 minutes in april 4 2022 april 4 2022 leave a comment how you living there s some knotted up energy right now in the cosmos i think it s calling us to be aware and engage in further unknotting of the energies within us and all around us that takes a little development of consciousness while the universe kindly points out where we re currently stuck and can t just walk away we have to learn to undo the knots our bodies and life energies are tied up with it reminds me of one of storypeople s old stories called angels of mercy most people don t know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don t get too comfortable and fall asleep and miss your life i fell ill in the night last night my stomach issues which left me a little wiped out this morning but i m starting to feel better i listened to russell brand talking with wim hof and there is a certain irrepressible optimism in what hof is saying that helped turn me around hof challenges brand to climb kilimanjaro in the span of one day with him and the 32 other people hof is leading up the mountain in the cold and scant air wearing only shorts shoes and hats well the women get to wear a bit more and brand asks him what kind of training and preparation is needed to go on this expedition and hof says i think you are ready now the preparation and training is step by step just one step at a time and brand laughs and recalls something ekhardt tolle says even if you are spending the rest of your life in prison you are not in prison for life in this moment there is something so empowering about what hof says and this has always struck me as the most essential quality in any healer their capacity to empower others to find their strength and resilience to go against the grain of circumstance and find where you need to go next what s essential for your path a path that gives you more life hof says this work he does is not crazy but it s outside the box and it s possible and nowadays we need to think outside the box which is another way to speak of learning how to unknot yourself about 10 12 mins into the video with brand hof goes into an excellent rant in his fierce dutch voice yelling just recently when australia was on fire more than a billion animals died nobody gives a shit when the amazon was on fire nobody gives a shit some people say something but in general everything keeps on going sodomizing the planet polluting the planet exploiting it and people staying insensitive they stay like blobs https www youtube com watch v bakirqzyfv4 22mins yes you go wim it feels like we all should be yelling and maybe we all are in one way or another it s so easy to have a sense that anything said like whoa the emperor has no clothes falls on deaf ears while the weight of human folly grows and grows i keep thinking the tree pollen that i m reacting to now has embedded in it the olfactory screaming of the trees that can t take what we are doing to them a life of dead soil bad air synthetic fertilizers pesticides herbicides and perhaps even deeper a loss of any sense of their intact communities while we plant them as mere ornaments to or as instruments enabling our ersatz life trees as decorations in the toxic wastelands of our cities captive and isolated in the terminal monoculture sinkholes of our urbane indifference or as cloned plantations of our future toilet paper so we think we alone are the essence of meaningful sentience as if we can survive as the fittest alone on the top of an evolutionary peak without a web of trees and all our other relations and still be fully human no wonder my body is uncomfortable with experiencing this tree pollen but this perspective can only makes sense if i think trees are truly sentient and everybody knows they cannot be we know humans have evolved past animals but plants were never even in the running all men know this comfortable truth we can discount any life forms compared to human life most preferably those humans of a certain color gender and economic status this video ends with an interactive demo of wim hof s breathing he and russell brand seem so into being who they are taking such a fierce stand against the deadening inertia of habits and convention i started getting better right away i like to call russell brand russell firebrand but wim hof s right up there too the droll mr brand contrasted against that huffer puffer mr hof but they have a united front of a certain inconoclastic indominability some background i don t know if you are familiar with hof but he s a rather remarkable person as his website says dutch extreme athlete wim hof got his nickname the iceman by breaking a number of records related to cold exposure including climbing mount kilimanjaro in shorts running a half marathon above the arctic circle barefoot and standing in a container while covered with ice cubes for more than 112 minutes hof uses some simple cold meditation and breath practices as his foundation and he s been teaching all sorts of people how to readily practice some of these he says that our bodies need to have cold and other environmental conditions that we have to exert our strength to deal with this keeps us from slipping into a comfortable reliance on an environment that never pushes us physically just knots us up with endless mental stress both of these are debilitating we can t explore and discover what our capacities for either strength or repose actually are hof has surprised everyone not only by his capacity for extreme endurance events but the fact he s also taught a lot of others to do things similar to what he does as someone who also has had immune system problems and fatigue i want to say it s equally important to listen to your body and truly rest when you need that but i think in general most people are able to do this breathing and a short time of cold showering that hof recommends even me and i have cold urticaria and have had anaphylaxis from jumping in cold water you can look at hof s website if you are curious to know more https www wimhofmethod com and here s a song for the zeitgeist and the wake up call of this era we ve been living through https www youtube com watch v dbemo3npw9s february 3 2022 july 23 2022 1 comment this bodily love of being alive from august 2021 i love the photo my friend sent of being at the ocean especially fun to see his wife s sandy toes and feet like she has been freely immersed in playing at the water s edge so much ease in her stance that speaks to the ease in all of us beyond her repose the steady grounding and holding of the sand bluff strata of a timeless tempo of change above the temporary tents of our housekeeping at the ocean s edge i can feel my toes responding such a primal memory of feet and the grit of sand salt water and sun a liberation into my childhood memories of the beaches of lake michigan and later the pacific i ve learned a somatic word for this resourcing the felt sensation of intrinsic relaxation comfort well being and safety the body knowing what it needs to do in this world to be open to experience the visceral love of being alive the here and nowness we are the resonance of always presencing in body memory waves of endless paralleling patterns arising for the tasting self similar at any scale out of the cradle endlessly rocking every breath moving us more deeply in the world we came with the rippling tide of our being spreading wide and swimming on the feather river of my childhood comes as if calling cold green and deep the channel between rocks the narrow beach and above all the cold cold baptism of the mountain river my middle sister s lips blue with so many hours of immersion as we dove again and again and let the water carry us so quick a rushing so deep between the solid rocks the watery plume traveling betwixt and between the thread of human lives in everyday living passage rocky holes borne into the stony lining of the storied river banks where the native americans ground acorn meal the later boring of nomadic miners sluicing the water glints of gold in the grains of sand then great hydraulic piles of rock and dirt displaced earth heaping like stone stupas of industrial prayer making the lost land beneath lake oroville and then the stratifying incinerations in all directions that perhaps history will sift through remembering this sword of fire seeds of embryonic return floating like ash sticking in the spiraling body of the always present dreamtime openings found in the rock glyphs and food appearing again water flowing underground the circling passage into the heart of living out of the darkness of the edge the ouroboros horizon around eve s apple the mirroring world we fall mesmerized into the serpent goddess chavva who bore life in all its bifurcated cosmetic chaos treading from the sea of origin shiny with the dawning time s up interruption a neighboring blower starts like a chain saw to aerosolize the dust and debris of our living let us breathe in the complications of being human without tension without holding back present to what s there without shoveling it into the burying ground ditch of dissing stress hear the time signaling the slower tempo of weekending the orchestrating mercy relaxing the quickening tempo a klaxon of annunciatory change time in its human weather and ritual garb the man on the dump sifting definite articles indefinitely while the moon rises in the empty sky welcome home um okay to try to return to some grounding so far the day isn t too hot though last night i was talking with a neighbor who said there was a 20 chance of rain which isn t materializing in this moment so watering and the resourcing power of watery experiences will have to suffice for now and grace and gratitude for a milder day so far my poetry group met wednesday and instead of our usual workshopping poems we ve each written and sent to each other we are taking a little summer break and shared reading some favorite poems one of the women in the group read three crow poems by scott ferry i was muc...