Billy Collins…
October 22, 2009
Forgetfulness – Billy Collins Animated Poetry from smjwt on Vimeo.
Government 2.0
October 20, 2009
I have been following Adriel Hampton on Twitter he has some very interesting ideas on transparancy in government..
In between summer and winter comes the fall..
October 19, 2009
In between summer and winiter comes the fall…above is a shot from a sweltering summer day in the ‘qua two years ago…I was just learning how to use the camera then…below from the same year is one from the winter…as we are now in the fall I place those two pictures in this post to offer a contrast in seeing on the landscape…
Yoga today in the moment…
October 18, 2009
I made yoga today despite ugly weather conditions out there today. I didn’t want to take the easy way out and vegetate in front of the television set. The young woman, Christina, who used to teach the class has been replaced by Sinda who also took over from Diann when she declined to get certified. I like Sinda as a teacher. I loved the other two. Every teacher’s style is different. They bring in their own unique talents and energy. Nothing can be taken for granted. Life is always in constant change. The lesson from Sinda today was to focus the inner light. I took it to heart and after class have been working on various forms of my craft. In my ongoing study of seeing, I have posted pictures and videos seperated by two years also concentrated on this day in October.
Here is a study from two years ago to the day with some pictures of today mixed in…
I had time as usual waiting for the train to come so I pulled out the Flip and recorded a few moments of video today. It helps pass the time on the platform especially admist the tuned out fellow passengers spacing out on their cellphones as we live in a nation digital zombies, myself included.
Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite
Political Advertising on Youtube…
October 14, 2009
Real Simple Syndication…(RSS)
October 14, 2009
Real Simple Syndication which is known by its acronym should be adopted by local governments. RSS is a simple effective way to distribute information. Rss allows users to subscribe to the information you put online. As you add new information to your site, the users who have subscribed will automatically receive that information like the way they receive email. This saves citizens time because they don’t have to return to the site and it broadens the number of users who that actually see the information.
In the moment…
October 8, 2009
In the moment posted in the moment…yes, it might be a little stale…to keep posting and keep fresh is a very difficult task…how much of our lives really could be that interesting?…and if it were the interesting, wouldn’t we burn out from the intensity…just about ninety nine percent of people have no idea of what it means to maintain a blog and produce a cable access show as well as regularly post to youtube. They expect to see million dollar productions and inevitably when one doesn’t reach that exalted high they get bored and ignore it…meanwhile, not acknowledging how passiv they are in their lives..
I have found though writing in in the moment posting in the moment allows certain narratives to become apparent and a strength results from that..also what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger…cast like Esau into the psychological wilderness, the isolation has not killed me..at times I have wrecked myself with alcohol or drugs coming quite close to the edge but as this post testifies I am still here breathing growing strong…
as I look around all those poeple who pretended to be economic geniuses were just riding the wave of the scam…the people my age are burnt out but the kids coming up from the rear don’t look like they have any substance and they disappear rather quickly…does anyone expect Lady Gaga to be here in a year or so?…
so today I took my nieces into Whippoorwhill Park in my ongoing nature educatioin of them….they loved it and I was psyched to capture the park in the fall…I had been there in in the late spring and in my continuing exploration of the light of the qua wanted to capture the fall light…I plan to return in 90 days or so for the winter…
so this is where I am at in the moment…with my nieces in the nature of Whippoorwhil Park…
Time and the enchanted forest…
October 5, 2009
Time and the enchanted forest…I took Lia and Isabella yesterday through the woods on the way to Rite Aid…from a year ago they now can make it down the hill…a year ago they could barely do that…it’s the beginning of Fall and the end of summer so there is still some of the summer charm left…especially yesterday on unseasonably warm day…we were going down at dusk and there was a warm glow from the sunset..there’s nothing like seeing the sun set against the hill…once we came out of the woods they saw the playset down at Bellschool so we went over there to have fun…I had to cut it short if they wanted to get their candy as Rite Aid closes early on Sundays…we went over there and then walked back up the hill where we were granted by a nice surprise when Checkers(Adam) stopped by in his car and made them both a balloon animal before driving us up the hill to my parents house for dinner…it’s nice being with the kids as they are not yet corrupted by time and cold indifference of societies stare…
The passing season of light…
October 4, 2009
The passing season of light…we are into fall now here in the Qua and today has been an amazing light show….with the return of warmth, and my prediction came true when I said at the end of August that we had a full month of Summer left, it’s been a wonderful day to be outside…it’s a typical lazy Sunday with football on and the last day of the miserable Met’s season and my mother and sister down with her daughters for Lia’s birthday…time moves fast the girls are becoming bigger…when I last saw them in March seems like a million years ago…such though is the life of the poet because I am not staying in one place long either…
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