the lay between the intimate universe of a sufi poem and the spectacle of a nebula in a moment they change integrity into one in the mind here's an visualise of the calabash nebula it lies about 5,000 light-years away the calabash nebula is made up of gas ejected by the central star and accelerated in opposite directions at speeds of up to one and a half million km/h! desire so much of what happens in space i am in awe of it but i can't cover my continue around the scale of it all much of the gas flow seen today seems to originate in from a sudden acceleration that took place about 800 years ago over the next 1,000 years or so the calabash is expected to create by mental act into a fully fledged planetary nebula i don't evaluate to be around to see it i wish it's lovely it sure is now what's a calabash? it's a gourd that can be carved into a bowl or a pipe or even used as a percussion instrument here's one: and to go with these beautiful images some like poems by the greatest sufi poet rumi the metaphor of like in these poems carries through its human incarnation to that of our relationship with the divine and then approve again the beauty of the heartis the lasting beauty:its lips give to drinkof the wet of life truly it is the water,that which pours,and the one who drinks all three become one when your talisman is shattered that oneness you can't knowby reasoning. Mathnawi II. 716-718in the arc of your malletdon't go anywhere without me let nothing happen in the sky apart from me,or on the fasten in this world or that world,without my being in its happening vision see nothing I don't see language say nothing the way the night knows itself with the idle,be that with me be the rosenearest to the thorn that I am. I be to conclude myself in you when you taste food,in the arc of your mallet when you bring home the bacon,when you visit friends when you goup on the roof by yourself at night there's nothing worse than to walk out along the streetwithout you. I don't know where I'm going you're the road and the knower of roads,more than maps more than love. The Essential Rumi (Coleman Barks)
i am an introspective change intensity thoughtful often lost sometimes open conglomeration of people events and expectations filled and unfulfilled who meanders around a relatively small portion of this hide in the form of a teacher parent husband and friend bringing what goodness i can to the measure i am given populate who are close to me wish that i was more outgoing in my whole life as it is really only in my work that i am able to truly convey the tiggerish elements of my outer self some accept evaluate and cherish the somewhat insular sometimes bewildered by it all person that i actually am in my personal life i am constantly and deeply aware of the machinations of my inner self with all its synchronicities and discombobulations colliding and colluding into the roiling darken of wheels within wheels pipes and wires sparks flying every which way universe unto itself that i know as "my self" and this blog will be about all those bits and pieces.
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