Loose Leaf Notes

1. When I meditate I either see, hear or feel my TM mantra. It’s up or down, left or right, in or out. Sometimes it’s right there and other times I have to find it.

2. I’m a mandala in your eye / a sunflower dancing / on a black scrying mirror / where the sun and moon / are lovers -From A Pupil of Poetry HERE.

3. What would Jung say: In a recent dream I was trying to tie up long laces on my shoes and it kept not working. The third try looked great but then I saw a knot that stopped it from closing. I managed to get the knot out but as I did the whole lacing came apart. The laces were pink.

4. There was a time when I playfully added different endings to my last name Redman so it would be less male orientated, like Redmantra, Redmana, Redmandala, Redmagma and Redmany more where that came from  – Read about my name spell HERE.

5. In Grateful Dead circles, 4:20 is time to light up the herb. In British circles it’s also the time for High Tea, which has the word “high” right in it.

6. An AI hallucination is when a generative AI system confidently produces false, nonsensical, or factually incorrect information that isn’t grounded in its training data, appearing plausible but misleading users into believing it’s real. I prefer Wikipedia.

7. I like the sparkle and the jingle of this season.

8. My friend Ruth recently posed this picture. I commented: 1987 at the Blue Mountain School. Taken by Sparky. The day Joe and I collided.

9. After we collided and all the books I was holding fell to the ground like something out of a movie, the weather started to get colder. Joe gave me his Irish sweater to wear, a sign we mark to this day. I had a room to rent.  He needed a room for the winter. Soon we were housemates…

10. Thirty eight years later.

11. I literally have hundreds of poems on the moon, but I couldn’t find one with the moon as a mandala.  I’ve had moon as a silver trumpet, a Christmas sleigh, a crystal ladle, Mary’s Halo, a scoop at the Milky Way counter, a  headlight, a nightcap, a cameo pin, a glass slipper, a night altar, a sacred hoop, a medicine wheel, a pressed petal, a tack that holds up the dark,  a cauldron of light,  a womb, a jasmine bloom, a tipped beret, a snowflake, a capsized buoy, a skipping stone,  an empty boat, a wheel of cheddar, a full bodied figure, a bell to ring, a lip gloss of light, a coin to toss, an eyelid sleeping, a turntable spinning, a thumbprint of evidence,  a bare bulb that dangles, a cat’s bowl of cream, a dreamcatcher, a cauldron, a mother of pearl, a parasol of pink, a eye that blinked, a dark weight and a dinner plate…but no mandala. Yet.

12. I do have a name for a future book of poetry on the moon: Moondala Ooh La La.

13. I hope your Christmas is Out of This World.

___________Thirteen Thursday