Loose Leaf Notes

1. Mind full or Mindful?

2. I try to wrap my head around the mysterious nature of the universe: that nothing is permanent and nothing is destroyed and it all exists at once. These days, I brace myself for the worst and secretly believe in the best.

3. This is my favorite self-portrait taken at COHAB Market in High Point last weekend.

4. And this is my practice: Sun and moon. Breakfast and dinner. The arts. I keep in mind not to over-intellectualize. I keep it simple but don’t oversimplify. Curiosity is important. Beauty is salve.

5. Look out of any window Any morning, any evening, any day / Maybe the sun is shining / Birds are winging or rain is falling from a heavy sky/ What do you want me to do / to do for you to see you through…

6. “The logic of dreams is superior to the one we exercise while awake,” the artist, philosopher, and poet Etel Adnan wrote as she considered creativity and the nocturnal imagination. It is an insight that transcends the abstract imagination of art to reach into the heart of reason itself, touching the crucible of consciousness and everything that makes the matter huddled in the cranial cave a mind…

7. …After all, we are born dreaming and spend a third of our lives in the unconscious reaches of the night. Often, what we find there surprises us, even though we ourselves originated it, being always both the dreamer and the dreamt. Sometimes, what we find there awakens us to revelations our conscious mind has grasped for but failed to seize, bringing into our waking lives breakthroughs of understanding that forever change the course of our ordinary thought.” From Dreams, Consciousness, and the Nature of the Universe, Maria Popova

8. If you go blind, your other senses take over and get stronger. The purpose of dreaming, so says neurologist David Eagleman, is to defend the visual territory from the take over of the other senses. Studies have shown that it takes 60 minutes before that starts to happen.

9. Walk out of any doorway / Feel your way, feel your way like the day before / Maybe you’ll find direction / Around some corner where it’s been waiting to meet you. Box of Rain, Grateful Dead

10. I like that ring and spring rhyme with cha ching and that butterflies fly by.

11. I think of April as a fling but May could be the real thing.

12. Quantum Physics explained in 5 minutes HERE. 

13. Words by poet Andrea Gibson.

_________Thirteen Thursday