incredible toys you got there matey

lazy beetle finds a toy

he asked, "why do you always have to be making something?" 

and i realized i've never really thought about that question so directly.  

"because it's the reason that i exist"

and i don't know what to make of this.  well, maybe i do.  

in a way creation is the driving force of existence 
i enjoy amplifying this force into my everyday life 

and i'm just so curious about what would happen 
if i draw something without looking,

or write a long sequence of unrelated words into 
a mass of word constellations: ready to excavate for raw idea material.

it's more than mental construction of a "purpose-driven life" --
it's instinct.  i swear it is.  i'm being alive and interested.  

if i stopped...i would get bored out of my mind.  this is why i never get bored.  and it's impossible to just halt a creative process that's constantly purring.  why would anyone want to stop that??

[pu-erh tea = yummm]

biscuits:

1 c white flour

1 c whole wheat flour

4 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

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mix dry then add:

1 c milk

stir in but not too much, keep the dough fluffy.  

drop on pan and back 10 min at 450degrees

[ennnnnnnnnnnnnjoy]

another baby book full

snow finally

suspicious of stories??

Found this TEDx by Tyler Cowen interesting, yet disheveled and limited in focus.  But it is worth listening to, got the mental juices flowin, especially toward the end when he finished rambling about kinds of stories and why he is suspicious of them:

Tyler Cowen, you are putting a lot of unnecessary semantic constraints on the word story; as if the definitions of story are limited to linear narratives.  This is not true, stories are more than words or history.  stories have the power to engage and fuse all the senses at once, and convey knowledge, information, ideas, and inspiration.  If you read Leslie Marmon Silko (Ceremony is a good place to start) or several other Native American authors you will learn a lot about this concept.

sunrise phone photos

<3 solar flare

fly

new d.i.y. tab on website

hmmm

i find that if i am not meditating mystically in my life, i begin to feel listless and a bit depressed.  and how do i fix this?  first, i go for a run.  then, i do some freakin research.  watching stargate at 5 this morning also helped, i can't believe i've never seen it before.

as a sidenote, check out these major chemtrails from the other day:

and that's just a little square of the vast iowan sky, full of jet trails that were not going away anytime soon.  

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purrrr-blam-blam

tests

brainstorm salad

hypergalactic fairy warrior

(click to enlarge

also: our.windowfarms.org

knowing?

“People think that when they turn their eyes from the earth to the sky they see the heavens.  They set the orange fruit apart from the green leaves and say the know the green of the leaves and the orange of the fruit.  But from the instant one makes a distinction between green and orange, the true colors vanish.

People think they understand things because they become familiar with them.  This is only superficial knowledge.  It is the knowledge of the astronomer who knows the names of the stars, the botanist who knows the classification of the leaves and flowers, the artist who knows the aesthetics of green and red.  Astronomer, botanist, and artist have dne no more than grasp impressions and interpret them, each within the vault of his own mind.  The more involved they become with the activity of the intellect, the more they set themselves apart and the more difficult it becomes to live naturally.

The tragedy is that in their unfounded arrogance, people attempt to bend nature to their will.  Human beings can destroy natural forms, but they cannot create them.  Discrimination, a fragmented and incomplete understanding, always forms the starting point of human knowledge.  Unable to know the whole of nature, people can do no better than to construct an incomplete model of it and then delude themselves into thinking that they have created something natural.

All someone has to do to know nature is to realized that he does not really know anything, that he is unable to know anything.  It can then be expected that he will lose interest in discriminating knowledge.  When he abandons discriminating knowledge, non-discriminating knowledge of itself arises within him.  If he does not try to think about knowing, if he does not care about understanding, the time will come when he will understand.  There is no other way than through the destruction of the ego, casting aside the though that humans exist apart from heaven and earth.”

Masanobu Fukuoka, One Straw Revolution, 154-155

earth as an electron
we are so worried about extraterrestrial life -- what about intraterrestrial???!

this lady is interesting...i don't agree with everything but love the info

dream

drawnbits

 

acorn squash bread YUUM

yesterday i made my own acorn squash bread and it turned out to be

INCREDIBLE

you can find the recipe here