My first memory

I was waiting for Myo to get a tire alignment in Seattle, WA, and I happened upon a very activist-y library and meeting point. There were a bunch of activities going on, and among them, an open workshop for people to talk and discuss about individualist-y and activist-y stuff. I joined them mid-meeting, and I was given a sheet of paper with a few exercises on them. They are the following:

1. write a religious text/series of verse, ten lines to 2 pages. it is your religion, and your verses, the only thing that it shares with what you know of religion is form, the content and the worship of the blasphemy is up to you. assign a significance to particular weather or declare and explain your holy days. no longer than a page.
2. write a manifesto ten line-2 pages that speaks in the language of plants, their scent, color, and cultural associations.
3. write ten sentences that say only things that are true.
4. write ten lines using the most simple sensory language possible about your first memory.
5. write ten lines-2 pages about what liberation tastes like to you.
6. write ten lines-2 pages about how your mother's touch differed from your last lover.

I had little time left, but I decided to take a shot at #4. This was the result:

I was carried into a shower area surrounded with light blue tiles. The tiles felt cold to the touch, but not as cold as the water that soon began hitting me all over my body. Startled, I wanted to get away from the water, bu the shower walls were higher than my own body, and large arms wet all my skin further. I yelled and cried in protest, but I was only pitied, and the water fall and the scrubbing of wet skin and ragged material on my own skin continued all the same.

Then I began #3, but only managed to write two sentences:

• Perception inherits existence.
• Consciousness inherits choice.

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"
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Collective 2013 Whims

05/30

• "... hablo ahora desde una perspectiva distinta, como magnate del tiempo..."

05/31

Man sees the fractal, and it does not fit

the flat models of his mind

so he cuts it down without a frown,

the handsome tree.

Instead of adjusting mind to world, he adjusts world to mind.

To solve a problem properly

which firstly one has caused

it's not enough to add some act,

one must dig to the source

and yes, that probably will requisite

core changes in what was known,

but yes, as times are changing, change ourselves too we must

or risk turning dull and obsolete, sake only for past lust.

Don't trees retain humidity better?

They are lifetime experts at it.

But the energy and culture

that the mind would take to adjust

was maybe lost with time and pain,

or servitude unjust.

Only patching on top of dysfunctional layers

might keep the broken layer hidden deep

and it could long fester unnoticed.

But searching deep and revealing

will show the problem inside

and help one know how to fix it

06/01

Resentment of the past can jade

optimism and creativity, replace curiosity with fear,

and impoverish the soul.

Such a flat chaos, at a distance.

Dry, dusty environments continue to correlate with

slightly bloody, dry mucus (snot).

Only one day of working, and I feel my

fingertips less silky and slightly more ragged.

And I always wore gloves when working.

Nosotros, los pollitos viejos.

Old puppies.

Conscious steps.

06/02

The smaller seashell is no less beautiful than the large one; they are made and grown from the same subtle origins and process. The larger one might be more remarkable, but the two are at their core, the same.

06/06

El matrimonio es como un músculo. Si no lo ejercitas, se debilita y deja de servir.

Mario Arévalo

06/08

It doesn't matter how many languages you know if you have nothing to say.

Pete

Knowledge is like breakfast. You don't just eat once and that's it. You have to keep eating, learning, all your life.

Pete

06/14

Three shimmering sparkles in a drudging flow.

06/22

Cultivating the mind allows new ideas to seep inside.

01/08

An enclosed canister of warm air and goals and expectations shoots its way through the sky, then seamlessly touches rock one more, and the tiny people come out bursting from inside.