final lines ...

acceptance ...

quiet reflection ...

caught in a loop that’s breaking - happens from time to time - haven’t been plowing the ‘unified field’ - simply lost ‘in’ sight - reflection and reading helps - being good to your ‘self’ - the david lynch book - rothko’s artist’s realities - drawing - a cd of voices of history; lenin, churchill, pankhurst, salter, gandhi, nightingale, russel - coltrane and monk at carnegie hall in ‘57 - drawing - bill’s reflections - service - action - planning - drawing ...
lally’s blog bothered me the other day - the ‘year’s best’ - the same way truth exposes something ugly you’d rather not look at - there are things i don’t have to consider if i keep them comfortably distanced - thankfully, he usually has that effect upon me - i bring my own gas to the fire - thinking of things like; filters of quality - having to always search for the good - advertiser’s perception of what the public wants or needs - executive decisions about what is good for the ‘majority’ and the scary realization that it might be true - could the majority be a barbaric bunch of aggressive hooligans lusting after big meals, 4th meals, more and more cheap stuff, and horrific reality tv that exploits recklessness and careless daring with a tribalistic frenzy that resembles a pack of blood thirsty hyenas - or brutality, inhumanity, or waste as though karma forgives and mother earth is going to tit-feed us into eternity ... maybe our acceptance of the things that are so blatantly wrong today is in large part due to what the majority has been feeding their brains over the past generation - kinda like, we are what we eat - a soft diet of banality, low expectations, hostility, sloth, and creamy illusions - no wonder the war [or any war or conflict] is tolerable - or the slaughter of things for waste - or blindness beyond comfort zones - saw the ‘baraka’ movie last night - a picture of the planet ... and if that don’t make you want to strangle law making authorities or institute capital punishment for stupidity, nothing will ...
its pretty hard to be at peace when you can imagine the deafening roar of millions of cries of consequence [starvation, diseased, poverty, abused, used, etc.,] ... never-the-less, tellers say that if i’m in ‘fit’ spiritual condition everything is exactly as it should be - screw on the ray bans and ipod and kiss zero seven goodbye - and another day goes by ...

power trio ...

mitch shelly, bass + bob borso, drums + dave smith, guitar ...

of all places - easton again - porter's pub - haven't played with some of these guys in years - they have definately been honing their craft - ass to the wall creative energy and improv skills - can't remember hearing a guitar 'attacked' in that way since i saw mike sterns at 55 grand, or jeff beck, or the 3 string guitarist with miles at the hollywood bowl back in '88 ...
incredible talent - perhaps a little less finessed than what i prefer; but when you have as many chops as smith it must be pretty hard to 'contain' yourself ...

cool walk ...

not angry, just desperate - small worlds - backbeat accelerants - half is less than nothing at all - translucent veal - parched skin - tissue veils - riffling bins - de-spiting self - weather sets - a penny on the floor is nothing more - axiom of indifference - bright light, big shadow - arithmetic with doctor no - adam’s zones - omnipresent phones - mad manipulations - cerebral ejaculates - unbiased premonitions - falling like reigns - steadfast and true - humbling harshness - tamarind seeds - amber dawn - you can’t take back what you’ve given away - truncated hearts - thought counts - good cheese may not taste as bad as it smells - lamb less mangers - empty chairs - like harris in pollock - fireplace pissers - not tartan -acquired taste - excuse for reason - forgiveness - come hemmed - racquet ball deeds - gorgeous girly dreams - accept to not expect - prepare eventualities -

free from ...

Forgiveness does not mean condoning or excusing.
Forgiveness means giving up all hope of having had a different past.
When I forgive, I get free from the past.
Tim Meir

[see lally's alley for more insight]

peace ...

a wish for the best ...

peace on earth ...

enigma ...

linings ...

ten years of solitude - des pres with borges - bogie, bacall - year of the falcon - tied, ripped, and chewn - symbols of hope - timid tamed shrews - preposterous pigeon holes - frenzied fake news - money for rope - unimaginable cold - to the eyes of a dragon from a festering rat - geologically brazen - in spite of the fact - foretelling tales - end dropping reigns - brass rings spinning - fumbled refrains - visions of what will come - faculties tact - beleaguered towers - apple’s get back - angels’ display - insolent diatribes - deniably contrite - a coward’s persuasion - unstarving wolves win the fight - fly or move astray - upright positions - unwilling prey - on broken glass - to what mirrors say - surviving abrasion - looking away - smoke of gomorrah - diverting collision - yielding rights - chicken or raisin - baked salt and clay -