I know - the whole grace acquiring thing took way longer than expected :)
Reposted from faceook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Diving-for-Pearls-a-response-to-the-UK-riots/150085801739436):
Hiya, I'm putting this out there because I value your opinion. Please feel free to share back your opinions as you wish (with everyone on this page or just me). If you're not interested, you may simply leave it be, or share it with someone you think would be interested.
I’m sorry if you find any of the following over-laboured or offensive, perhaps you could help me do a little editing.
I have an idea about why we are currently seeing riots on the streets, and what we can do (without too much effort if everyone does a little bit) to help.
It's not a new idea. In some ways it's a return to older values, in some ways it mirrors current government policy, and some people are already doing it! But expressing the idea like this may link things up for some people in a way they haven't thought of before and perhaps promote some positive action.
And I’m not talking about anything I haven’t experienced first hand.
I think perhaps the current divide in society may begin to be healed by addressing the competitive nature of the middle classes. As a class they have a tendency to pour all of their considerable intelligence, energy and resource into their children. This is a good thing. But it is also creating an ever widening divide between their children, and those children who come from less effective systems.
Groups are always stronger than individuals. In healthy families children are supported and they learn how to share resources and work together for mutual benefit. In less healthy families children have to look out for themselves, and often have to defend themselves from daily physical or verbal attack by their own parents and siblings.
Children who are fighting to survive rather than being supported often feel that competition for a good life is so fierce that unless they are extremely intelligent, or miraculously become a pop star or a footballer, then they are basically gonna spend their lives stacking shelves.
More than that, they don't really understand what a good life is. In their version – largely gleaned from adverts - it simply involves having a lot of money (which they will already have figured out at a reasonably young age they aren't going to get from that job in Tesco).
Small wonder they have no interest in investing themselves in a system which looks like it will leave them forever marginalised and unfulfilled.
I think a positive shift could be attained in our society if people freely shared some of their skills with their communities, especially those parts that are struggling.
A trait of the middle classes which may see them disinclined to embrace the above idea is that they tend to care very strongly for the people in their tribe (family/ social group) but much less so for anyone outside of that bracket whom they don't feel they understand so well.
Many give to charity, or partially adopt for a short time some of the scruffier friends their children bring home, but perhaps they feel unable to do more without compromising their own positions, and anyway, they've worked hard, if other people want the good stuff, they should work for it too!
It would be good if we could widen that focus a little so that the middle classes felt they could take as much pride in the health and wealth of the whole community as they do in their own families and houses. This pride needn’t express itself in the form of handing over money, in fact it would be much more useful for them to share a bit of their time and, with that, their life skills.
There are very compelling reasons to do this, not least of which is that if everyone is pulling their weight then certain individuals won't have to work so hard! But, the reason that may ring most true for the middle classes is to do with the fact that it's all very well to build pristine walled communities to keep your children safe (gated, or merely ring-fenced economically), but the moment your child steps outside of that small world they become vulnerable to less pleasant realities.
Essentially, I'm saying the best way to keep the children safe is by sharing resources. Not giving it all away, but just sharing a little bit of your special stuff. The stuff you're good at. The stuff it feels good to share!
Education doesn’t just open doors, it shows people where the doors are.
Nobody has to do anything they don't want to do (I'm not about to offer to cook for anyone outside my family, cos I'm appalling at it - but I can sing a few songs, share my guitar and show people the moons of Jupiter through my binoculars, and I can take some time to help people talk through their problems – that’s all stuff I like to do).
Where a person sees something they care about (a filthy local hospital for example) and they know they have the skills to make a difference they should be encouraged to get involved by volunteering a little of their time and energy.
If everyone gives a little to support the things they care for then there will be ample support where it's needed, and plenty in the pot for us all to share.
A few things to note. You cannot force your values on anyone else. If you create something positive, the people who are interested in it will come.
You won't personally be able to reach out to everyone, and you may find there are people you can't even bring yourself to like!
Don't worry about that. If you can't like them, leave them be. Perhaps one of the people you do like, who is growing through the things they are learning from you, will have the key to help those other people. And when they are unlocked, those people you didn't like may amaze you.
Every person has wonders in them. Yours will look as amazing to the people who don't have your skills as theirs will look to you.
There is an ocean of untapped potential among people who are currently struggling to survive. Imagine what the world could be if we all got to shine.
...
How do we get there?
It really is as simple as giving a little bit of your time over to sharing what you love with anyone who is interested in it.
It's not just the skills themselves which you'll be sharing, it's the knowledge of how to build relationships with other people, and the revelation that attending to the nitty gritty of life is a worthwhile enterprise because of the results it brings.
And you will almost certainly find yourself learning some pretty interesting things in return.
Given time this ethos would hopefully not only greatly lessen civil unrest, but would also provide an economic boon by getting more people actively involved in doing things, and getting more people interested in the things you have a passion for.
In the short term, life will just be more fun for everyone.
Another benefit is that we will become more intelligent as a society as more internal connections get formed; in some cases just strengthening existing connections between people and groups, and in other cases forming connections which include entirely new perspectives into our thinking.
There may be extremely tough looking problems which we can't currently find an answer to simply because the necessary intelligence and perspective is locked in the head of someone we are currently maligning as "a complete scumbag".
With a little effort we can link up with the people round us in fun and fulfilling ways (the ones we like anyway - and I think there will be enough overlap that everyone will find a few hands reaching out to them – although it remains each individual’s choice which hands they choose to accept).
A further benefit of this movement is that we can spend less mental energy worrying about our society and our children – because we’ll be actively involved in that society (as will our children), and will therefore have more energy available to spend in other ways.
On that note, I have an open question for anyone who is intrigued by it. Does the current economic model work? By that I mean, can all the countries attain a certain level of prosperity if things are going well, or can a country only be in a positive position if a certain number of other countries are in the shit?
If the latter is true, it would be great if we could be honest about this and start looking for something better.
Love and empowerment to the people!
x Tanya
Thursday, 11 August 2011
Wednesday, 20 October 2010
There we go
Quick update from my Holding Blog.
3) So I've now read the first book in the "Conversations with God" series.
Opinion?
If reading "Life and How to Survive it" at the age of 19 was like being given permission to be myself, like receiving validation that the way my mind worked was not only OK but actually pretty groovy, then reading CwG at the age of 33 was like coming home.
I recognise the world its describing. I know that world. It’s not a stretch. It’s what feels right.
I’m currently reading “Anatomy of the Spirit” by Caroline Myss (which was given to me by my Honey). Feels like I’ve found a teacher…
2) Communication skills… I’m still not terribly objective. Get a little too far into my own groove to really be able to properly share this stuff. I’m sure it’ll mature with time.
1) Grace? Have I developed grace, you say? I’ve certainly managed to find a bit more than I had. We'll call it a work in progress.
Well, moving on, the reason I’m writing just now is to share something I found using one of my favourite games.
To play this game think of something you want an answer to, choose a book which you love, and which loves you, and open it randomly. Point to a random place on said page, and read.
Or get someone you love to say “when” in order to pick the page and the place on said page.
I played this with my Honey last night over the phone.
The book was “Advanced Banter, the QI Book of Quotations” by Johns Lloyd and Mitchinson. Page 100.
Subject: Encouragement.
I would lose the word "most", but other than that, that’s what I was trying the say in “The Big number 2”.
It’s what I believe to be true.
I also believe it's both completely possible and absolutely wonderful.
And believing that it’s not only true, but also both possible and wonderful, I really can’t help but dedicate myself to making it so.
And I’ll do it by being totally myself. In all my grandness and foolishness. Because by being both as grand and foolish as your soul can reach, you give other people permission to do the same.
You got something better to be than yourself?
Love you Guys.
x
TP
3) So I've now read the first book in the "Conversations with God" series.
Opinion?
If reading "Life and How to Survive it" at the age of 19 was like being given permission to be myself, like receiving validation that the way my mind worked was not only OK but actually pretty groovy, then reading CwG at the age of 33 was like coming home.
I recognise the world its describing. I know that world. It’s not a stretch. It’s what feels right.
I’m currently reading “Anatomy of the Spirit” by Caroline Myss (which was given to me by my Honey). Feels like I’ve found a teacher…
2) Communication skills… I’m still not terribly objective. Get a little too far into my own groove to really be able to properly share this stuff. I’m sure it’ll mature with time.
1) Grace? Have I developed grace, you say? I’ve certainly managed to find a bit more than I had. We'll call it a work in progress.
Well, moving on, the reason I’m writing just now is to share something I found using one of my favourite games.
To play this game think of something you want an answer to, choose a book which you love, and which loves you, and open it randomly. Point to a random place on said page, and read.
Or get someone you love to say “when” in order to pick the page and the place on said page.
I played this with my Honey last night over the phone.
The book was “Advanced Banter, the QI Book of Quotations” by Johns Lloyd and Mitchinson. Page 100.
Subject: Encouragement.
The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond our wildest dreams.
Sidney Madwed
I would lose the word "most", but other than that, that’s what I was trying the say in “The Big number 2”.
It’s what I believe to be true.
I also believe it's both completely possible and absolutely wonderful.
And believing that it’s not only true, but also both possible and wonderful, I really can’t help but dedicate myself to making it so.
And I’ll do it by being totally myself. In all my grandness and foolishness. Because by being both as grand and foolish as your soul can reach, you give other people permission to do the same.
You got something better to be than yourself?
Love you Guys.
x
TP
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
Reality Mechanics aka Reimaginating the Laws of Thermodynamics, just like the IChing told me
Hello Guys!
If you don't love a bit of science, then just skip to the colourful bit at the end. (Thank you Peggy. I love your beautiful small round head).
http://www.fact-index.com/t/th/thermodynamics.html:
Thermodynamics is the study of energy, its conversions between various forms, the ability of energy to do work, and the spontaneity of processes. It is closely related to statistical mechanics from which many thermodynamic relationships can be derived. It is not concerned with the concept of time, or that of rate of change (derivative in time). As a result, it has been suggested that this science should rather have been called thermostatics.
The Laws of Thermodynamics
Alternative statements are given for each law. These statements are, for the most part, mathematically equivalent.
Right then. That's the "currently understood science" stated. Now on with the fireworks...
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thermodynamics:
Hmm, very clever, but not clever enough. It's a joke. A fix. A lie. (Garvey, well done that man).
Try this:
Life is actually an awesome casino. All the Elvises you can eat, and the win is guarenteed, guilt-free and glorious!
Come again?
Lets have another look shall we.
0th) Luke warm tea.
If you leave a cup of tea in a room it will equalise it's temperature with the room. This is a well known piece of hedge science, and the bane of busy tea drinkers everywhere. But who said the room was cold? If the room is blazing with the light of a million of our suns then the tea will get very excited indeed. It too will blaze.
We are creatures of energy, as is everything around us (tap your desk, that's congealed energy mate).
It takes one person to turn onto an idea that makes them blaze and they will take any who care to stand close to them long enough with them. With no irony at all (American trans. "I am completely serious"), I can tell you I am currently blazing. (All the malarkey on this blog is what happens when I blaze - and no, I don't mean that I'm stoned - what will you do?)
The laws of return state that where you give freely you will receive back 3-fold, but when you cheat you steal from yourself. If you have a look at this again, you'll see this is just a restating of the zeroth law. Put any two things together and the temperature will equalise. The more you put in, the higher the temperature at which equalisation occurs. The more people who do this the greater the exponential effect, and hence the good return on your initial energy outlay. It's science mate. Go forth and blaze and, slowly, you'll find that the world can't help but blaze with you.
1st) Energy can neither be created nor destroyed only changed.
As creatures of energy, imagination and story we have the power on a moment to moment basis to transform energy. And best of all, the easiest way to do this is to have a laugh. How amazing does everyone feel after they've had a good laugh? The air sparkles don't it.
So don't sit in your brain when trying to figure something out, it's the equivalent of constantly clicking your mouse when you PC is trying to think (I mean process…). Go do something fun, your mental secretaries will thank you for the air and you'll get your answer that much quicker. You can answer any question this way. For example: What is your deepest love..? (And if you find the answer to that question, blazing is assured).
And the best bit is, you don't need anything more than you already have. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. All you need do is look at exactly what you got, inside and out, and laugh. Let's face it, you are funny. Just look at you! Hilarious :)
There are a couple of rules you may wish to note as you evolve from a meat creature into a supernova, just cos it'll make things easier. Who wants a hard life? Have a look: http://tlandu.blogspot.com/2010/09/open-source-code.html
2nd) Entropy.
In other words, everything is a bit leaky. All things, whatever they are, radiate (lose) energy. Of course they do! Everything is constantly trying to communicate with everything else. And we blessed creatures have the ability to interpret the messages encoded in this leaky energy. Each message like a little song telling you what the thing is all about and where it currently is on it's journey through time.
Go somewhere you find beautiful and just listen. Watch the images that flash before you. We are all living in a multidimensional puzzle game. Like Zelda. Play your flute, don your mask. Really fucking listen, and then go do exactly what the excited whispers of inspiration tell you to do.
But don't ever stop listening.
Everything is singing, and if you can hear it, it's singing for you. By the same truck, if you don't love something, can't listen to it with an open heart, then leave it alone, it's not for you. Including this blog. Seriously, don't worry about it. If it's important it'll catch up with you soon enough.
3rd) All processes cease as temperature approaches zero.
But absolute zero is not possible to achieve in this universe, and therefore processes will never cease. Why is that? Well. Go read Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch (quite a Guy). I'm currently on page 28.
Hey, Book club! Jump in, give it a read, and let me know what you think you fascinating creature.
Summary
Am thoroughly looking forward to seeing this world blaze bright with the awesome light of more than 6 billion supernovas. But don't fret it. All in your own good time Guy, at your own sweet pace, with a temperature you find agreeable and the beverage of your choice. Yeah it's the start of something new, big, and fantastic. But it's also very chilled, ridiculously easy, and more than anything else, profoundly fucking funny.
X
TP
PS
Phil tells me I need to hold fire until I've finished the book before I really try and get any kind of message out there. Luckily no one is really reading this blog at the mo, so I can post with impunity. Once I've done the book (and the other 2 bits) I think it'll be time for an email.
It's now 22:10 10.10.2010. Make a wish...
x
TP
If you don't love a bit of science, then just skip to the colourful bit at the end. (Thank you Peggy. I love your beautiful small round head).
http://www.fact-index.com/t/th/thermodynamics.html:
Thermodynamics is the study of energy, its conversions between various forms, the ability of energy to do work, and the spontaneity of processes. It is closely related to statistical mechanics from which many thermodynamic relationships can be derived. It is not concerned with the concept of time, or that of rate of change (derivative in time). As a result, it has been suggested that this science should rather have been called thermostatics.
The Laws of Thermodynamics
Alternative statements are given for each law. These statements are, for the most part, mathematically equivalent.
- Zeroth law: Considered to be more fundamental than the other three laws, it was not termed a law until after the others were already in use, hence the number 'zero'. There is some discussion about its status. Stated as:
- If each of two systems is in thermal equilibrium with a third system, all must be in equilibrium with each other.
- 1st Law: Is stated as follows:
- Energy can neither be created nor destroyed only changed.
- The heat flowing into a system equals the sum of change in internal energy plus the work done by the system.
- The work exchanged in an adiabatic process depends only on the initial and the final state and not on the details of the process.
- The sum of heat flowing into a system and work done by the system is zero.
- 2nd Law: A far reaching and powerful law, it can be stated many ways, the most popular of which is:
- It is impossible to obtain a process such that the unique effect is the subtraction of a positive heat from a reservoir and the production of a positive work.
- The entropy of a closed system never decreases (see Maxwell's demon)
- 3rd Law: This law explains why it is so hard to cool something to absolute zero:
- All processes cease as temperature approaches zero.
- As temperature approaches to 0, the entropy of a system approaches a constant.
Right then. That's the "currently understood science" stated. Now on with the fireworks...
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thermodynamics:
0th) You must play the game.
1st) You can't win.
2nd) You can't break even.
3rd) You can't quit the game."
Hmm, very clever, but not clever enough. It's a joke. A fix. A lie. (Garvey, well done that man).
Try this:
Life is actually an awesome casino. All the Elvises you can eat, and the win is guarenteed, guilt-free and glorious!
0th) Dedicate yourself to the game and we all win, and keep winning.
1st) Winning your bit of the game is as easy as doing what you love and listening for feedback.
2nd) Doing what you love to do at any given time will get you the best feedback. You just have to listen.
3rd) Best news? You get to play this game forever... And the long term win is guarenteed. No worries. Ever. Happy days :)
Come again?
Lets have another look shall we.
0th) Luke warm tea.
If you leave a cup of tea in a room it will equalise it's temperature with the room. This is a well known piece of hedge science, and the bane of busy tea drinkers everywhere. But who said the room was cold? If the room is blazing with the light of a million of our suns then the tea will get very excited indeed. It too will blaze.
We are creatures of energy, as is everything around us (tap your desk, that's congealed energy mate).
It takes one person to turn onto an idea that makes them blaze and they will take any who care to stand close to them long enough with them. With no irony at all (American trans. "I am completely serious"), I can tell you I am currently blazing. (All the malarkey on this blog is what happens when I blaze - and no, I don't mean that I'm stoned - what will you do?)
The laws of return state that where you give freely you will receive back 3-fold, but when you cheat you steal from yourself. If you have a look at this again, you'll see this is just a restating of the zeroth law. Put any two things together and the temperature will equalise. The more you put in, the higher the temperature at which equalisation occurs. The more people who do this the greater the exponential effect, and hence the good return on your initial energy outlay. It's science mate. Go forth and blaze and, slowly, you'll find that the world can't help but blaze with you.
1st) Energy can neither be created nor destroyed only changed.
As creatures of energy, imagination and story we have the power on a moment to moment basis to transform energy. And best of all, the easiest way to do this is to have a laugh. How amazing does everyone feel after they've had a good laugh? The air sparkles don't it.
So don't sit in your brain when trying to figure something out, it's the equivalent of constantly clicking your mouse when you PC is trying to think (I mean process…). Go do something fun, your mental secretaries will thank you for the air and you'll get your answer that much quicker. You can answer any question this way. For example: What is your deepest love..? (And if you find the answer to that question, blazing is assured).
And the best bit is, you don't need anything more than you already have. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. All you need do is look at exactly what you got, inside and out, and laugh. Let's face it, you are funny. Just look at you! Hilarious :)
There are a couple of rules you may wish to note as you evolve from a meat creature into a supernova, just cos it'll make things easier. Who wants a hard life? Have a look: http://tlandu.blogspot.com/2010/09/open-source-code.html
2nd) Entropy.
In other words, everything is a bit leaky. All things, whatever they are, radiate (lose) energy. Of course they do! Everything is constantly trying to communicate with everything else. And we blessed creatures have the ability to interpret the messages encoded in this leaky energy. Each message like a little song telling you what the thing is all about and where it currently is on it's journey through time.
Go somewhere you find beautiful and just listen. Watch the images that flash before you. We are all living in a multidimensional puzzle game. Like Zelda. Play your flute, don your mask. Really fucking listen, and then go do exactly what the excited whispers of inspiration tell you to do.
But don't ever stop listening.
Everything is singing, and if you can hear it, it's singing for you. By the same truck, if you don't love something, can't listen to it with an open heart, then leave it alone, it's not for you. Including this blog. Seriously, don't worry about it. If it's important it'll catch up with you soon enough.
3rd) All processes cease as temperature approaches zero.
But absolute zero is not possible to achieve in this universe, and therefore processes will never cease. Why is that? Well. Go read Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch (quite a Guy). I'm currently on page 28.
Hey, Book club! Jump in, give it a read, and let me know what you think you fascinating creature.
Summary
Am thoroughly looking forward to seeing this world blaze bright with the awesome light of more than 6 billion supernovas. But don't fret it. All in your own good time Guy, at your own sweet pace, with a temperature you find agreeable and the beverage of your choice. Yeah it's the start of something new, big, and fantastic. But it's also very chilled, ridiculously easy, and more than anything else, profoundly fucking funny.
X
TP
PS
Phil tells me I need to hold fire until I've finished the book before I really try and get any kind of message out there. Luckily no one is really reading this blog at the mo, so I can post with impunity. Once I've done the book (and the other 2 bits) I think it'll be time for an email.
It's now 22:10 10.10.2010. Make a wish...
x
TP
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Holding Blog
Hello,
I awoke this morning pumped full of the fecund juices of creation. But more on that later. Before I write again I have some missions to go on. Promises to keep:
1) Acquire (some?) Grace.
2) Learn to communicate more effectively. It's all very well blissing out on beautiful music and then spilling my deep felt truths from that divine trance, but it's not what I'm about. If I'm going to waggle my arse in public the idea is to provide a succinct message about where the honey is, not to hypnotise everyone with my arse.
3) Read more of Conversations with God. BTW, I'm calling the almighty "God" again. It's just such a powerful word no other will do. But when I refer to y'all as Guys you know exactly what I mean yeah? I'm naming you as Gods. As baby Universes in your own right. As creatures of imagination and story and meat. Children of God. Wrought from the very stuff of God. All that Jazz.
In the meantime, anyone got a message to share then email, comment, pick up some litter, whatever. I am loving the messages, bring them on. Help me out, I've got missions.
Love you Guys.
x
TP
P.S. Finally listened to the 1st song off of The Seldom Seen Kid. Ha ha ha. Talk about future echoes, or parallel evolution or whatever has happened there. All I can say is, Yes! Of course!!!! But then I do have a lot to learn about grace still...
I awoke this morning pumped full of the fecund juices of creation. But more on that later. Before I write again I have some missions to go on. Promises to keep:
1) Acquire (some?) Grace.
2) Learn to communicate more effectively. It's all very well blissing out on beautiful music and then spilling my deep felt truths from that divine trance, but it's not what I'm about. If I'm going to waggle my arse in public the idea is to provide a succinct message about where the honey is, not to hypnotise everyone with my arse.
3) Read more of Conversations with God. BTW, I'm calling the almighty "God" again. It's just such a powerful word no other will do. But when I refer to y'all as Guys you know exactly what I mean yeah? I'm naming you as Gods. As baby Universes in your own right. As creatures of imagination and story and meat. Children of God. Wrought from the very stuff of God. All that Jazz.
In the meantime, anyone got a message to share then email, comment, pick up some litter, whatever. I am loving the messages, bring them on. Help me out, I've got missions.
Love you Guys.
x
TP
P.S. Finally listened to the 1st song off of The Seldom Seen Kid. Ha ha ha. Talk about future echoes, or parallel evolution or whatever has happened there. All I can say is, Yes! Of course!!!! But then I do have a lot to learn about grace still...
Monday, 13 September 2010
Open source code
For Dan.
From notes written on the stoop. 10:06 12/09/2010
Listened to a bit of Elbow. Then moved to Last FM for some Placebo radio (Cheers Pirate boy).
So, if everything is made of energy, and Guy gave the world to us, and if we can transform energy using our actions, words, thoughts and emotions (which we can) then the challenge has been set.
Come all you geeks and programmers, how will we define our new reality?
Here are some basic rules and parameters to begin with. Basic laws of return to follow (assuming you'd like the world to be a nice place to live in for everyone).
1) First do no harm. From the oath (cheers Dave). Sounds right don't it but it wasn't until last night that I really got it. I'd been to a petrol station outside Epsom for gas and groceries, and petitioned Ganesh (the dude behind the counter) to assist me in clearing a block. (I asked him what the answer was, and he said £76.81). It was time for Dave and I to have the big convo about the house. Nervous much? I drove home through happening and a part of me was feeling scared of the dark, when it really sang for me. First, do no harm. Basically, don't worry. Don't conjure dark clouds in your head.
2) Do what you love. Don't worry about what everyone else is doing. Pour your love into the things you care about. If everyone does this all will be actually groovy and everyone/thing will be cared for. Family, friends (bipedal or otherwise), dreams. If you can't love it, then leave it alone, it's not for you.
3) Laugh often and well. Can't find nuffin to laugh at? Try this:
http://www.youtube.com/user/greensville#p/a/u/2/N3ZtNCNVl3c
or this:
http://www.youtube.com/user/greensville#p/u/16/UZZC_hk830w
You'll know you've really got the knack of this life when it becomes funny.
4) If you must judge, forgive first. No ones saying you don't get to think it through in your own time, in your own way. Just try and let go of the idea that the situation (whatever, whomever it is) is intrinsically fucked first.
5) Give freely where you love and there will always be ample. For you and for everything else.
6) When you cheat you steal from yourself, and when you do that you steal from everyone. Don't cheat.
7) Tidy up after yourself. Leave things a little better in your wake if you can. Pick up rubbish. Make the bed. Do the dishes. Figure out your shit. That way the folks who come after can get on with what they love without muddying themselves up trying to figure out your shit.
8) Be a bare witness to the events that unfold for you in front of you. Bare witness to your pain and other's. Really listen. If you find yourself wanting to say "yeah, but", stay quiet and listen.
9) There is no pain you are supposed to hold on to. Only information, given freely and with love.
10) All things radiate energy (its called thermodynamics baby). All radiation contains a message and some messages take longer to receive than others. Go to places you love and listen with open heart, ears and eyes.
11) Well this one goes up to 11...
Trust. Deep trust. This is a perfect world. You will get everything you need and more (as your needs change) in time. When you feel lost just trust that in time the world will return. All you need to be is yourself, and this plane of reality will rise to astonishing and beautiful heights. Breath into it. Test where you are by seeing how you feel. Breath and move further in. How do you feel? Breath and move.
12) OK, 12.
Tell your child they can do anything. Then ask them what they want to do. Listen to their response. Play and enjoy.
13) So whose counting?
Genius. What is it and how can you be one? Easy! Just listen to what you love, love it, and respond. Don't hold anything back. The love will flow through you and be transformed and everyone will marvel at what you have wrought. Me especially, cos I am deeply interested in stuff. Make me some wicked good stuff please guys. Phil is also deeply interested in stuff, especially nature. Anyone out there up for properly learning to talk to animals? I'm nailed on sure that they are funny as fuck.
14) What does Guy want, who is in all things?
Send up a prayer in my name
How?
See number 2.
And the beautiful thing is that once people know the right thing to do, they can't help but act from that truth deep inside themselves. (Ha ha, it's too late for you. You've read all this now, it's in you. Love you guys. x)
And so it builds exponentially as we all remind each other "Tiddler" style (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tiddler-Julia-Donaldson/dp/0439943779) of the way back to the light.
See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other. - Carl Sagan (Contact).
My love and I had a wonderful 3rd date yesterday in Croydon.
The best bits were spontaneously picking up rubbish with him. Making the bedroom at Bertie's all nice again for Claire, and washing more dishes than we'd use the night before before we left.
Because each of these was an act of love, freely given, which then resonates out.
I left Bertie a lovely ginger root on his veggie rack (shhh, he doesn't know yet).
Bertie turned me on to ginger and lemon tea (add honey to your own taste - from local bees if you have allergies).
It's awesome. Chop a couple of slivers off the ginger root (they're dead fucking cheap) and bung 'em in your favourite mug with a slice of lemon. Pour on hot water, and imbibe the loveliness. Best of all, if it goes cold it's still nice. And if you fancy another after 20 minutes just pour more hot water over what's left in the cup and go again, with no side effects, other than the satisfaction of a nice cuppa.
Look forward to playing with you again later. My 5 year old is now working on flight. He had an awesome idea for how we can break orbit without using all that fuel. Mas tarde wapa niños.
x
TP
21/09/2010
PS, if you're gonna bung a slice of lemon in hot water, make sure it's one of the unwaxed ones. Unless of course you like a little wax in your tea...
From notes written on the stoop. 10:06 12/09/2010
Listened to a bit of Elbow. Then moved to Last FM for some Placebo radio (Cheers Pirate boy).
So, if everything is made of energy, and Guy gave the world to us, and if we can transform energy using our actions, words, thoughts and emotions (which we can) then the challenge has been set.
Come all you geeks and programmers, how will we define our new reality?
Here are some basic rules and parameters to begin with. Basic laws of return to follow (assuming you'd like the world to be a nice place to live in for everyone).
1) First do no harm. From the oath (cheers Dave). Sounds right don't it but it wasn't until last night that I really got it. I'd been to a petrol station outside Epsom for gas and groceries, and petitioned Ganesh (the dude behind the counter) to assist me in clearing a block. (I asked him what the answer was, and he said £76.81). It was time for Dave and I to have the big convo about the house. Nervous much? I drove home through happening and a part of me was feeling scared of the dark, when it really sang for me. First, do no harm. Basically, don't worry. Don't conjure dark clouds in your head.
2) Do what you love. Don't worry about what everyone else is doing. Pour your love into the things you care about. If everyone does this all will be actually groovy and everyone/thing will be cared for. Family, friends (bipedal or otherwise), dreams. If you can't love it, then leave it alone, it's not for you.
3) Laugh often and well. Can't find nuffin to laugh at? Try this:
http://www.youtube.com/user/greensville#p/a/u/2/N3ZtNCNVl3c
or this:
http://www.youtube.com/user/greensville#p/u/16/UZZC_hk830w
You'll know you've really got the knack of this life when it becomes funny.
4) If you must judge, forgive first. No ones saying you don't get to think it through in your own time, in your own way. Just try and let go of the idea that the situation (whatever, whomever it is) is intrinsically fucked first.
5) Give freely where you love and there will always be ample. For you and for everything else.
6) When you cheat you steal from yourself, and when you do that you steal from everyone. Don't cheat.
7) Tidy up after yourself. Leave things a little better in your wake if you can. Pick up rubbish. Make the bed. Do the dishes. Figure out your shit. That way the folks who come after can get on with what they love without muddying themselves up trying to figure out your shit.
8) Be a bare witness to the events that unfold for you in front of you. Bare witness to your pain and other's. Really listen. If you find yourself wanting to say "yeah, but", stay quiet and listen.
9) There is no pain you are supposed to hold on to. Only information, given freely and with love.
10) All things radiate energy (its called thermodynamics baby). All radiation contains a message and some messages take longer to receive than others. Go to places you love and listen with open heart, ears and eyes.
11) Well this one goes up to 11...
Trust. Deep trust. This is a perfect world. You will get everything you need and more (as your needs change) in time. When you feel lost just trust that in time the world will return. All you need to be is yourself, and this plane of reality will rise to astonishing and beautiful heights. Breath into it. Test where you are by seeing how you feel. Breath and move further in. How do you feel? Breath and move.
12) OK, 12.
Tell your child they can do anything. Then ask them what they want to do. Listen to their response. Play and enjoy.
13) So whose counting?
Genius. What is it and how can you be one? Easy! Just listen to what you love, love it, and respond. Don't hold anything back. The love will flow through you and be transformed and everyone will marvel at what you have wrought. Me especially, cos I am deeply interested in stuff. Make me some wicked good stuff please guys. Phil is also deeply interested in stuff, especially nature. Anyone out there up for properly learning to talk to animals? I'm nailed on sure that they are funny as fuck.
14) What does Guy want, who is in all things?
Send up a prayer in my name
How?
See number 2.
And the beautiful thing is that once people know the right thing to do, they can't help but act from that truth deep inside themselves. (Ha ha, it's too late for you. You've read all this now, it's in you. Love you guys. x)
And so it builds exponentially as we all remind each other "Tiddler" style (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tiddler-Julia-Donaldson/dp/0439943779) of the way back to the light.
See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other. - Carl Sagan (Contact).
My love and I had a wonderful 3rd date yesterday in Croydon.
The best bits were spontaneously picking up rubbish with him. Making the bedroom at Bertie's all nice again for Claire, and washing more dishes than we'd use the night before before we left.
Because each of these was an act of love, freely given, which then resonates out.
I left Bertie a lovely ginger root on his veggie rack (shhh, he doesn't know yet).
Bertie turned me on to ginger and lemon tea (add honey to your own taste - from local bees if you have allergies).
It's awesome. Chop a couple of slivers off the ginger root (they're dead fucking cheap) and bung 'em in your favourite mug with a slice of lemon. Pour on hot water, and imbibe the loveliness. Best of all, if it goes cold it's still nice. And if you fancy another after 20 minutes just pour more hot water over what's left in the cup and go again, with no side effects, other than the satisfaction of a nice cuppa.
Look forward to playing with you again later. My 5 year old is now working on flight. He had an awesome idea for how we can break orbit without using all that fuel. Mas tarde wapa niños.
x
TP
21/09/2010
PS, if you're gonna bung a slice of lemon in hot water, make sure it's one of the unwaxed ones. Unless of course you like a little wax in your tea...
PPS
For the really good stuff crush and bung in a couple of "Poor Man’s Capers". These are the seeds from the Nasturtium. I just randomly grew some this year. Phil pointed out they were edible and had a nice peppery heat to them. Just the extra kick I was looking for ¦ )
Sunday, 12 September 2010
I believe in Guy
10:06 12/09/2010 Shed stoop (started as notes on paper)
Ok, firstly it's important to note that I have decided to re-christen God as Guy. Several reasons, chief of which I want to make it clear that it's not the Christian God or any other word driven deity I'm currently dancing with.
Guy is the essence of all. We are manifest in a realm of boundaries and parameters, made from the stuff of Guy, but we were also given free will. Which basically means we get to do as we please. There are rules of return which govern this Universe of energy. More on that later once I've dropped Sarah's bf off at home and finished the weekly shop. (Keeping your promises is a very important rule, because you get what you ask for, and trying to pull in another direction means working through messages which will feel painful - that's why, unless you're an enlightened motherfucka, divorce is such a bitch).
You may possibly have to wait for more on these rules until after little man's bedtime, but bare with me it's coming...
Why Guy? After Guy Garvey, lead singer of Elbow. Like much else which I am currently finding completely fucking awesome in my life, I didn't know him from Adam 2 weeks ago. Why this accolade? For The Seldom Seen Kid in general (not the first song on the album, which Phil says is the exception that proves the rule, only he doesn't quite say it like that), and for Mirrorball and The Loneliness of the Tower Crane Driver specifically.
Particularly The Loneliness of the Tower Crane Driver. Deep truths run through all creative mediums where the creator creates purely for love of what they are doing (as opposed to money, sex, fecklessness, boredom, revenge etc - powerful emotion breeds powerful messages, and the finest, most personally satisfying, most powerful, creative, nurturing and ultimately destructive force there is, is love).
To me The Loneliness of the Tower Crane Driver sounds like my soul's mission. A description of the journey I'm on which I would say started with the Protestant Reformation when many strands of energy (generations of people) gradually lost their esoteric sense of Guy (the feel of him) and bent their heads to studying the esoteric body of him (the world).
That must have tickled, but I think he's bored of being tickled now and wants to be believed in again. Otherwise where am I getting all this shit from, and why am I sharing it now?
Here are the lyrics. The music is also awesome. Picture the great thudding footsteps of Shiva when you listen.
Gotta get out of TV
Just pick a point and go
The ticker-tape tangles my feet
As I search for a face that I know
Come on, tower crane driver
There's not so far to go
I must have been working the ropes
When your hand slipped from mine
Now I live off the mirrors and smoke
It's a joke, a fix, a lie
Come on, tower crane driver
Oh so far to fall
Send up a prayer in my name
Just the same
They say I'm on top of my game
Dwindle gentle rose
Send up a prayer in my name
Listen to that album (somewhere you feel happy and safe, with headphones the first couple of times). Guy's love is self-evident all through it (except the first track which I have, until now anyway, found myself unable to listen to).
Hence I can now state categorically that I believe in Guy.
And the good people of Purley know that if I'm listening to my soul song on the way to my car I do struggle to keep the pure fucking love from exploding through my voice - which has an odd bell/ chime quality now which it never had before.
SEND UP A PRAYER IN MY NAME!!!
How?
Love babies. Love.
Incidentally apparently Guy (that's Garvey, not the almighty) has a show on BBC Radio 6 from 10pm to 12 on a Sunday night. Phil told me a couple of days ago. I am so listening to that tonight. Hopefully he's doing it (apparently sometimes he gets stand-ins).
Hang on, just go check shall I... After all, what else is the interweb for?
Bum holes, he's not on this week. Next week then.
x
TP
Ok, firstly it's important to note that I have decided to re-christen God as Guy. Several reasons, chief of which I want to make it clear that it's not the Christian God or any other word driven deity I'm currently dancing with.
Guy is the essence of all. We are manifest in a realm of boundaries and parameters, made from the stuff of Guy, but we were also given free will. Which basically means we get to do as we please. There are rules of return which govern this Universe of energy. More on that later once I've dropped Sarah's bf off at home and finished the weekly shop. (Keeping your promises is a very important rule, because you get what you ask for, and trying to pull in another direction means working through messages which will feel painful - that's why, unless you're an enlightened motherfucka, divorce is such a bitch).
You may possibly have to wait for more on these rules until after little man's bedtime, but bare with me it's coming...
Why Guy? After Guy Garvey, lead singer of Elbow. Like much else which I am currently finding completely fucking awesome in my life, I didn't know him from Adam 2 weeks ago. Why this accolade? For The Seldom Seen Kid in general (not the first song on the album, which Phil says is the exception that proves the rule, only he doesn't quite say it like that), and for Mirrorball and The Loneliness of the Tower Crane Driver specifically.
Particularly The Loneliness of the Tower Crane Driver. Deep truths run through all creative mediums where the creator creates purely for love of what they are doing (as opposed to money, sex, fecklessness, boredom, revenge etc - powerful emotion breeds powerful messages, and the finest, most personally satisfying, most powerful, creative, nurturing and ultimately destructive force there is, is love).
To me The Loneliness of the Tower Crane Driver sounds like my soul's mission. A description of the journey I'm on which I would say started with the Protestant Reformation when many strands of energy (generations of people) gradually lost their esoteric sense of Guy (the feel of him) and bent their heads to studying the esoteric body of him (the world).
That must have tickled, but I think he's bored of being tickled now and wants to be believed in again. Otherwise where am I getting all this shit from, and why am I sharing it now?
Here are the lyrics. The music is also awesome. Picture the great thudding footsteps of Shiva when you listen.
Gotta get out of TV
Just pick a point and go
The ticker-tape tangles my feet
As I search for a face that I know
Come on, tower crane driver
There's not so far to go
I must have been working the ropes
When your hand slipped from mine
Now I live off the mirrors and smoke
It's a joke, a fix, a lie
Come on, tower crane driver
Oh so far to fall
Send up a prayer in my name
Just the same
They say I'm on top of my game
Dwindle gentle rose
Send up a prayer in my name
Listen to that album (somewhere you feel happy and safe, with headphones the first couple of times). Guy's love is self-evident all through it (except the first track which I have, until now anyway, found myself unable to listen to).
Hence I can now state categorically that I believe in Guy.
And the good people of Purley know that if I'm listening to my soul song on the way to my car I do struggle to keep the pure fucking love from exploding through my voice - which has an odd bell/ chime quality now which it never had before.
SEND UP A PRAYER IN MY NAME!!!
How?
Love babies. Love.
Incidentally apparently Guy (that's Garvey, not the almighty) has a show on BBC Radio 6 from 10pm to 12 on a Sunday night. Phil told me a couple of days ago. I am so listening to that tonight. Hopefully he's doing it (apparently sometimes he gets stand-ins).
Hang on, just go check shall I... After all, what else is the interweb for?
Bum holes, he's not on this week. Next week then.
x
TP
Saturday, 11 September 2010
Double crack-a-jack
I've fucking done it.
No one finds their true love, God, and mysteriously the means by which to stay in the house of the dreams in a mere fortnight eh? They do now.
And I'm gonna share it babies. Woosh! here we go.
And the fucking fab thing is that 2 weeks ago it wasn't true. I always had a vision of what I wanted but I've let it evolve with me recently. I've allowed myself to be wrong. Gloriously wrong for all to see. I've allowed the possibility that I might not get my way. Really knuckled down and looked it in the eye.
And the result is that I am right.
And I get it all.
The whole beautiful vision in the Big Number 2 is going to come true.
Play time babies.
Now who has a funny story of sommat that's actually happened which happened to you or you heard about directly via the old 6 degrees?
I'll start shall I?
So, my son Benjy's bezzie mate Flynn's dad's mate's missus (as all the best stories begin) was asked to look after a dog by a couple of mates. The dog was well old.
Oh man, she thought, I just know this dogs gonna carck it while I've got it.
Sho enough. The dog dies.
Oh man.
So she had to get this dead dog to the vets so they'd dispose of the body, but she didn't have a car or much money and it turns out they'll charge you for coming to pick up dead animals if they have to send an ambulance to do it.
So she came up with the genius idea of putting the dog in a big silver DJ case and taking it on the train.
She's at the train station. No lift. She has to drag the case up the stairs.
So she's huffing and puffing her way up the stairs with this case when a guy comes up to her.
Are you alright there love?
Um.
What's in the case.
Er. Well. It's... my husbands DJ equipment.
Do you want a hand?
Really? Oh thank you!
So he takes the case. And he runs off with it.
x
TP
No one finds their true love, God, and mysteriously the means by which to stay in the house of the dreams in a mere fortnight eh? They do now.
And I'm gonna share it babies. Woosh! here we go.
And the fucking fab thing is that 2 weeks ago it wasn't true. I always had a vision of what I wanted but I've let it evolve with me recently. I've allowed myself to be wrong. Gloriously wrong for all to see. I've allowed the possibility that I might not get my way. Really knuckled down and looked it in the eye.
And the result is that I am right.
And I get it all.
The whole beautiful vision in the Big Number 2 is going to come true.
Play time babies.
Now who has a funny story of sommat that's actually happened which happened to you or you heard about directly via the old 6 degrees?
I'll start shall I?
So, my son Benjy's bezzie mate Flynn's dad's mate's missus (as all the best stories begin) was asked to look after a dog by a couple of mates. The dog was well old.
Oh man, she thought, I just know this dogs gonna carck it while I've got it.
Sho enough. The dog dies.
Oh man.
So she had to get this dead dog to the vets so they'd dispose of the body, but she didn't have a car or much money and it turns out they'll charge you for coming to pick up dead animals if they have to send an ambulance to do it.
So she came up with the genius idea of putting the dog in a big silver DJ case and taking it on the train.
She's at the train station. No lift. She has to drag the case up the stairs.
So she's huffing and puffing her way up the stairs with this case when a guy comes up to her.
Are you alright there love?
Um.
What's in the case.
Er. Well. It's... my husbands DJ equipment.
Do you want a hand?
Really? Oh thank you!
So he takes the case. And he runs off with it.
x
TP
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