If you could switch lives with a famous person for a week, who would it be and why?
Nope to fame envy.
Can’t touch this life, you sneaky devil!
Mindhands off!
We are not duped. We’re aware “fame” is not a happiness ingredient.
A tight covetous squeeze seems fun like Halloween, but it’s just a normalized bate and switch tactic we ain’t falling for again.
Now we get invited to imagine someone else’s life is superior? To imagine there’s a short-cut past the real you? What a candy lure. We don’t want your candy. We have our own. No thank you.
If our purpose requires fame, fame is then an additional situation to manage-not a perk.
Life provides all the access required to offer our exsact gifts. Why would we want someone else’s smelly gifts? Their kids? Their lover? Eeew to wearing not-my-clothes. Nothing me. Me, not seen. Performing belonging. Talk about a way to diminish and subvert and subdue with consent.
No.
We have our own. If we don’t see clearly enough to like our own deets better, no matter what stage of development we are in, and relish our moments that make us ourselves and proud- that’s the vital delight famous candy is coming for-to molest.
Enjoy you, glorious yourself in your own life.
Your fledgling life must be worth stealing or nothing would be coming after it with fake fame fishing lures like plastic insects with a sharp barb. If you don’t relish you yet, your duty is to move toward relishing you not toward relishing fitting in to a life that’s not already yours- a lifetime gift for you to enjoy.
Don’t consent to mind-screw. Your joy is too valuable and it’s exclusively yours. Nothing else can access it. Just thwart it. You don’t have to consent to feeling like another, any fucking other life is superior to the perfect whole and complete one you are always in possession of. You got the power. You’re sovereign.
Like good old Einstein said, you can’t solve a problem from within the same mindset that crated it. We are sovereign beings. We create. Why would I submit to this question that doesn’t assume the truth about all humans? Imagine what you could be doing and have instead of asking this victim question?
We keep doing this. This becoming super together, building cities together, then peaking and vanishing like all the sunken cities before and since Atlantis or whatever the bones of our many buried civilization bones where called when they lived. Well, they still live, cuz here you are. Here I am. Earth’s brain cells all of us doing some thinking and evolving us all. Rome had water aplenty, brought in. But hadn’t come to electricity. No WiFi. Actually, we don’t know what pre-this us developed. We don’t know. Archeologists want to act like they know. It still depends what you can imagine then asking questions accordingly. Deciding what to imagine, then what questions to ask, leads the answer. Leading questions, not acceptable in court, but we don’t know better elsewhere or how to imagine better questions since our ancestral connections keep getting cut before we grow up and grasp what’s going on or what is important. What tech did ancient us have?
No computer would survive these milenia while we start fresh.
I wonder though. Keeping starting over was probably fun for us. We got to play a lot of lives in so many games. We have become this in all our diverse glory. I wonder what got us last time and if we managed to align with survival this time. We could work our way up, like survival movies from hunter gatherers again, or we could get past the thing that keeps tripping us up.
I bet it’s reactionary. Getting sucked into the con vs dupe game individual to macro like cowboys and Indians when we’re all both and each have a choice to be satisfied with what where we are and what we’re growing into again. Then practice non engagement so that game starves from lack of attention and we get past the hurdle and develop into next level humans who this version can’t even imagine. The usual.
A tool question to be Eternally Wondering into. Evolving it while it evolves us. Updating the working answer through every phase and relationship moment by moment.
Presuming innocence, that You are good at the source of us all, and as one spark or cell just plain good and here to be alive. What is good in a person? First be alive, then explore.
I used to think one explores outward. You know outward into the universe, the world, other places and people through relationships, learning, success, travel and accomplishment and, you know some accumulation. Without discounting any of these wonderful things, it seems these are effects. What you see and experience in the world around and inside emotional and mental spaces and stories we live in and call culture are effects. I am the cause. Each our own cause. I didn’t know this my whole life, but now I get that the direction is reversed from how I learned it. I learned reality was backwards and upside down.
It’s the opposite. The world starts in here. This tiny world, grows and lives outward, just like when we were conceived and first grown. That’s our larval phase. Then, the hungry caterpillar phase, then cocoon. Feels like giving up and death. But it’s just as important as being consumed is as vital to life as being conceived. And it’s when you figure out that you’re not amblilicaled. You don’t grab what you need from the outside, your life produces it and provides from the inside of you like your still a baby in the womb but you’re also the womb. And you can fly. It’s magical. Life is born from each of us from the inside and expressed outward. The opposite of how I believed and practiced before. Each life form is from the inside so we don’t need to try and grasp or grab anything from another cuz we have it already. The fun is connecting offering, receiving. It’s in the intention and the movement. Dynamics sow and show good and all the path towards worse or better is good and a good life. It’s taken a lot of shit for me to learn this. I wish no less for anyone else. We are all here for unique wondrous unforgettable unfolding beauty and straight up strength to endure and enjoy even the total crap. Life is good.
What’s one thing you know now that would have saved your younger self a lot of pain?
Refocusing off blaming humans, to asking what benefits?, way past, “Who benefits?”
Like Sir Terry Pratchett theory of the crown pattern in Nation.
What’s the pattern that just wants a head, any head will do? If that one gets chopped of, oh well, like with agents in the matrix, any connected human will do.
What’s the thing that turns networked humans into agents thingys on demand?
What’s the weak thing that when you Neo see it, you can’t unsee it?
What’s the thing without regard for what happens to the human it possesses?
What benefits from human fighting human?
What’s dividing -systemic confusion conquering our world?, I would really like to know.
Hint: It probably wasn’t Hitler, it isn’t trump, poor tools, silly fools turned agent.
If it’s not a person, we all know someone, what’s making the person its tool?
-Then discarding its tool when the tool, to it, a human to us is compromised, useless to it remaining invisible, or dead? Not a single human is disposable or dispensable to other humans who aren’t infected. So what uses then discards people like empty crisp bags?
If you think any human is trash, wonder what’s doing the thinking for you and how it came to feel that way.
The devil? How does that answer help anyone?
The truth sets you free, like Neo, what stops bullies and bullets once you die to the bullshit, wake up and see what’s really happening?
What’s really happening?
I would have paused and asked “What’s Going On?! a long time ago.
And
I would have realized, intent matters. Intent evolves . Intent can manipulated and hijacked without normal humans being aware. Consent can be manufactured.
What’s the best way to meet new people while traveling?
I’m going to engage the Soul of the City with an offering and a salutation as soon as I arrive in town. Then ask her to deliver me into whatever company she curates for me.
Then I’ll trust her judgment and her care and wander around following my interest, and nudges. Adventurous spirit workout.
When I am at home, I remain aware of Zeus’s law of hospitality. This way my City can recognize my signiture and recommend me to each new City.
If they weren’t already friendly, I expect each new City or Anima Loci to reach out on my account, and handle things. That’s their job. I do my part. They do their parts.
My Slice of Sky Pie to Your Slice of Sky Pie-City to City
If aliens arrived tomorrow, what’s the first thing you’d ask them?
They would be asking the questions. This is our planet. We are sovereign beings.
I’d be asking myself questions.
Checking in with myself.
Humans would want to establish some things first of all, of course.
What’s the list of what I would establish?
Still working on it. But it’s up to me, us. Not up to any sudden visitor who has better had established right away their peaceful intentions or we won’t ask them anything.
I now do a Bwiti exercise: after allowing the joy of life and appreciation of the moment I have spent some time plumbing in, I turn on that hose and water my inner garden with it, like being outside watching the sun come up, enjoying the fresh breeze on my skin, smelling blossoming, looking forward to fruit and company soon. That’s sorta the heuristic- some of what goes into the simple practice: “Thank Life for another Day to be alive.”
Then it’s spend fifteen minutes with yourself.
To me that means spending fifteen minutes in that inner life, garden thingy where the life that plays this character-me is eternal and unmistakable while this other part of me gets moving and shaken- hopefully prompted by the inner garden or what have you author, authentic, authority I spend time being in, with – alone. Like some mystic said. Meet the beloved in the place where no one ever is.
The fruits of this garden. It grows with human magnificent magical fertile attention, just like any romance by figuring out how to be enjoyed and enjoying.
There are obviously steps. Like for example. If I don’t feel like I am enough, any garden (weed) variety of enough, lovable, cool, strong, beautiful, helpful, good, worthy, then, pick the one that seems truest. Like why would God want to hang with me in an abandoned weedy garden?
Or whatever.
Start there?
What would you do if you wanted to hand out with you?
Sit and pay attention. Some call it prayer if done one way, meditation if done another. Call whatever works after your personal trial and error, halts and stops, failure and bliss moments, whatever you want. It’s your garden. You name the fruit and flowers do what you desire.
What’s a personal mantra or philosophy you live by?
Ask the Sea what mantra It lives by?
We get this answer, the blueprint, in how a person affects us over time or by comparing patterns of who and what they become and what happens around them, and what around them becomes- clearly we don’t have AIs ability to track most of these causes and the ripples of their effects but saying such a thing for myself?
As if there’s just one?
I live by the mantra of calm…
No I don’t! Does the Sea?
It’s unfathomable. It’s like describing Life/God to even imagine summoning up even the most simple human- that’s an oxymoron- Simple? Even the most clear or single minded human can’t be reduced into living by one thing.
Not even a two-dimensional character modeled after the complex of complexity human being could be submitted to this query with any degree of rationality. We all run on multiple pre-installed, life, family, culture, friend, work, chosen and unchosen, imagined, unimagined, mantras-plus all the stuff we do while trying not to, could hold the sea in their mouth like this requires- though we are both the drop of sea water and the sea somehow.
First nourish your spirit and soul. These then can tenderly support, engage and take care of heart, mind and body so they flow creative ease connecting the world you’re creating nourished in its interwebs.
How do you write what people actually want to read?
I don’t understand the question.
Would you please clarify how many volumes, for example, to start, is the limit or the depth requirement?
Is this the invitation to offer my writing class? My dissertation?
Over simplified?
Steven King would paste On Writing into this slot, making no one a better writer.
This is a problem. It’s a vastness. It doesn’t just require a novel or a workshop to address it. It requires a series, a coherent, a clear understanding of the problem and the standard for the outcome, truth and purpose, a way.
If your answer is yes. You are part of the world. You know, in the world of the world. If so then your peace is essential for world peace. Not beauty pageant contestant world peace made of words and a smile for the judges.
It’s up to you. Your part of the world peace puzzle is all yours. No one else can do it. No one can do it for you.
It’s not time. Time isn’t manufactured. That’s delusional. An easy word fog to get lost in and never find the self you’re trying to “care” for. Self and reality are not made of words just as it’s all made of words as well.
It ends up make of words? But words are not where you start.
You are an awareness without words. It takes a second or a lifetime to watch yourself be you.
Then to spend more than a second. To be that moment your lifetime. In the moment. Self care is all the things you come up with cuz you’re so invested in and inspired to spend as much focus and attention in those moments feeling yourself like it’s always Christmas-not the one Elmo saved. Self-care, is all the stuff you do to take care of first your needs body mind and spirit to stay in yourself cuz you’re in love and can’t help it.
Since your body wellbeing is map and compass, you know your instrument best. So, that’s what you trust to calibrate what’s right and peaceful in the world, since every other being is another unique creature capable of as much joy and being as you.
And no one can tell you exactly how anymore than they can bite into an apple and taste it for you.
No one can tell you everything and yet there is so much to learn and get that’s sometimes so helpful or feels life saving.
The whole damn thing is a mystery.
But it’s not a time puzzle. It’s a you navigation choosing the next moment that feels a bit better instead of the one that feels heavier, regardless of what others think except or your fear. It’s not because you’re better or more important than others. You’re not. It’s because like them. You’re here to feel alive. Only you know what that feels like to you and are able to trial and error your path. When you find that straight and narrow way. Right in front of your feet and only you fit on it, follow the delicate compass you found that led you there.
Keeping following it, is something like “making time for self-care. All this within the context of Life’s Self- Care. Within Life’s Self Care, what are you for? How are you vital and contributing an essential irresistible irreplaceable beauty or strength in being yourself and doing you?
I can’t think of anything more magnificent, magical, functional, mysterious, precious precise and fundamental. Self care is a dumb euphemism.
WordPress Friends, Conversations snapshot moments where through other writers eyes and senses, I discovered mine. This snap makes me want to go there, and into my imagination at the same time.
Your ARE forgetting something, Jessica, you are completely fluent in Wayward-ese, you are eloquent in Wayward-ese, that language which butterflies about all over the points, holding all those points in one wing-spread, colourful and puckering hold; your language is not linear but sprinkled, `takes a special type of intelligence to think like rain!
If you had to switch lives with a fictional character for a week, who would you choose?
Fictional characters are static, caned, operated puppets. If they could choose anything, anything at all, and had the chance, they would definitely choose to be me. To be Any real human. Any.
Don’t be deceived.
Nothing can compel you to switch into the two dimensions of fiction.
Pick the worst situation in the world you can imagine. Being that actual person is incomparabe to any made up cut-out cartoon. Choose you. Don’t get lured into the idea of some poor fiction being in any way comparable to being you.
Any Pinocchio, if they had the capacity to desire, wants to be a real boy.
Duh
My bad. Except I mean, Murder bot. My apologies. All fictional characters, with the noted exception of Murder Bot. Certainly not it. I would not presume. Any character, with the exception of Murder Bot, would choose, if they could, to have the infinite flexibility and life of a human. Perhaps even an AI Intelligence. So I guess Murder Bot hops the devide. But he’s, I mean it’s, still fiction. I guess talking to fictional characters is more fun than imagining changing places.
This question is so context dependent and inaccurate, intrusive, agist, that focusing on answering it would be me making myself smaller, then focusing on you, cuz say you’re younger, and get you to focus on fear and shrinking yourself into my old mindset hanging on from what I was given and mistakes I made.
Humans, circumstances, context and questions like answers are not available in this context. There’s no conversation, just regurgitation and boredom. Why treat people like AI? Why even treat AI this poorly?
The keep-people-cool in Texas Company we’d used for years got bought out by investors. It was right when we had new heating and cooling units installed.
They offer to help protect our only means of surviving a Texas summer or winter equipment.
For a fee, bi-annual maintenance visits would be free.
The sky Foxes.
They come out check boxes on their clip boards but mostly an opportunity to up sale.
When the drain line got clogged this week and the nitrogen tank wouldn’t flush it, while the service guy was suggesting a line replacement ($3000) Vick got broke out his mini roter rooter and swished the line into flowing in five minutes. Cooling started.
“This system is seven years old. These numbers” he frowns at the yellow electronic gaget in his hand. It’s our most modest receptacle, in tone. He’s nodding like to his verdict, scrutinizing a reading on a yellow device we don’t understand. It it looks serious. The cooling lungs are going out. He shakes his head like a doctor talking to desperate family members in the waiting room. “
Fix them now, it’s a big repair, he nods his head in that human way, that softens bad news like that come with little hope and enormous medical bills, or replace the whole system.”
He showed us a picture of “the coils” they looked matted dead animal was in there. My first reaction was take my money, please! Deal with that. I pause.
“Don’t you guys come out and do maintenance every six months? Are you guys not doing a good job?”
I’m not gonna change you for this, he points at the cleared line and puts the PVC drain pipe at the pipe back together,because you did it yourself, He smiles generously. I think I am gonna get one of those.
A split look came over his face, then resolved into staring at the handy almond cheerful rooter Vick is winding back up like it’s a giddy puppy.
When he’s back inside collecting his nitrogen tank, he shows us how to look into the pipe with the sensor that shut of the system when the sensor detects water. He seems so hopeful.
Vick and I look at the coils on our outside unit while we’re outside rootering.
There’s no matted material in the coils. There’s no way. What we are looking at is not the same as the picture of a run away screaming AC coil he showed us.
Is this the “picture of your system outside that every client gets shown?
The bill for the urgent repairs needed from the evidence of those numbers we don’t understand and the run over-rodent in the coils photo is $6,000.
With the line flush the initial problem is solved the AC works again. Meanwhile, my friend Tonya, she’s been staying here suffering with us, calls her AC tech friend from work. He brings his tools and meets her outside at the AC. She wants to surprise us.
There’s nothing wrong with the AC, keep using. It doesn’t need anything. Use it till it breaks. It could be years.
These “service” guys are really sales guys.
I’m guessing these revenue focused bought up businesses have just the right bedside manner, a calculated balance of lack of tools and training and big job or replacement bonus incentive, to be a revenue focused company and no longer a cooling and heating for people business. It just looks like the same business from the outside.
The design supports what needs to happen so well with ease and flow so you forget this was ever impossible or difficult. Now that it’s designed and built this way never have to think about it. It becomes clear, simply, perhaps rote and ubiquitous. The better the design, the more you forget it’s even there. Must be why, how, whatever, the Creator is so invisible.
Peace and goodwill to you from wherever you celebrate around this time. And also for all you don’t celebrate Might as well right?
Here, accept all the gifts from the rash of new and ancient traditions.
I accept all. At midnight and whenever. So, I give it all to you.
Take it.
For that taste and glow of sacredness I am celebrating the Solstice because just because there are unicorns involved.
Thanks for providing them, whoever you are.
I suppose these unicorns, they’re the good old pair from the day? The pair of unicorns brought to life again in this new story. Unicorns found by you just now?
You know, the ones. The escaping pair. The ones Noah’s son couldn’t catch. Distressed, he called out.
“Dad! the unicorns are getting away!”
From this unforgettable scene in the production of Good Omens, when the daemon Crowley and the angel Aziraphel, are talking about the impending destruction of all life, human and animal, beginning then with the animals parading into the arc two by two.
Crowley, the fallen angel, now demon, is questioning the wholesale massacre by water.
Aziraphel, the angel, is going along with the routine genocide.
In the scene, Noah calls out, “Shem! The unicorns are getting away!”
Where did they go?
Mayhap they listened to Lilith.
Ahh, So glad you found them.
They were the only ones who weren’t going along with the bullshit.
Rare and magical.
I suppose you can free the pair of magical creatures to frolic around in your world so you can watch them from your inner balcony.
I think unicorns may filter into our realm around the corners of the year, when the new season program updates. So perhaps that’s when you are sometimes able to lure them into licking your luck.
Have an enchanted merry happy unicorny day, dears.
An alter to the Spirit of Christmas, the unicorn tree.
A great morning for alchemy Transforming lead to gold
The feeling of soon, it isn’t soon enough Lead has it’s place like “soon” It’s heavy useful and doesn’t shine like my Smithed stuff So, taking the feeling of what I want
The conclusion of soon I close the gap By focusing only on the end So as far as my reality knows
Now I am in your arms Now, I think Best feeling ever! Why wait? To wit, alchemy In a wink
Something
Sucked up the moment
Keeps meticulous notes
The whole thing as it happens kept
Born into patterns
Alive in lives
Traditional me projectile vomits out
Taste becames a home
Meditation takes over the meaning in everything
Falling in love kicks everything else out
Old tastes move home-made soul back in
A project working on itself
Some days lightning strikes
Connecting neurons that never met weld together
A million alive connections align
Pulsing
Life into a story
The sleeping story wakes up
We Talk
The moment I woke up to life I was cuddling a soft brown bunny. And I was thinking. If I say I found it. The gate could have been open. Then I can keep it.
I left the gate around the side of the house open. I had already considered the trouble I could get in for opening a gate next door. Proof there. See, the gate is already open.
Finders keepers. It’s the ultimate authority. I just found it.
I could feel the weight of authority. My sister had enforced this law and applied it with my things alot. so I know it was a good working device I could operate to claim a bunny.
I adjusted the world and had my very own furry bunny. I could have named my wonderful new dream come true America! But something bothers me. I also knew about telling the truth. I wondered if I was telling the truth. That was something else I kew was important. But I didn’t know how telling the truth works. And does it matter if I tell it or not if no one else knows?
So I would test it, I guess. I want this bunny so bad. I want it to keep being. For that I have to find it.
It had to be loose out the gate that I didn’t open. I couldn’t have opened the gate and found the bunny in a hutch that I unlatched to take it out.
Id never unlatched anything before. I remember thinking as soon as I found myself unlatching if I would get in trouble for that. But it didn’t matter cuz the bunny was just looking at me with big eyes between it’s ears and I knew it was a bunny from the pictures. It didn’t run away. That’s how I knew it was as good as mine. I had to hold it. I would just say it was already unlatched.
And left open.
That the door was ajar.
That the bunny was on the ground.
Outside the gate left open. By someone else.
Im holding the rabbit.
I don’t like the way I start to feel.
I turn around with the bunny all droopy. It falls out of my grasp. It hops a few hops away.
Oh no! Need somewhere to keep my bunny from hopping away.
I head towards it lean down and try to snatch it up. But it pours out of my grasp like hopping water.
I get all the way down hold it from hopping. Put both arms around it and hold the bottom so it doesn’t flow out.
I hug it tighter and lift it up again. Now I have a bunny again.
It’s mine.
I caught it. it was escaping.
Someone did indeed let it out then it was running away.
You might be using the glider guy’s equation to build a flight machine.
Test it like a Right Brother.
I tested it.
Using that statement as truth I glided and crashed insanely. Repeatedly. For years. I couldn’t believe in flight then. Like the world hoped but didn’t back in the day.
Like Einstein said:
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
I stopped.
Test shit honey.
It has to work to be true.
What you go by has got to at least achieve some tiny flight.
Then you have something solid that works to go ahead and get on with the space era.