9/29/09

Fruit crisp...yeah, lets do some autumn food





Got great crispy apples at the farmers market plus yummy tangy plums.
Recipe from Allrecipes.com for a crisp...and voila, I'm hooked.
This is the second one and I am just beginning...

Next one I'll add fresh ginger, or candid ginger.

"The Trifecta Project" is born and I'll have a couple of days to chill, write up my "Cultural Fun" itinerary for family & friends to visit Vienna and Austria in the winter.

Love has found a warm home in my heart.
I am committed to a life of collaboration, friendship, studentship,and sobriety.

Great food too :)

9/28/09

Victory of Light over Darkness aka Evolution

Today!
A planetary collaboration of sorts.

Connecting and networking with my personal global soul tribe.
My core being tested, I realize that my memory needs most support.
If I can remember all the good, great, in light of the truth seen images, I have all the tools for evolution to take place naturally and grow as a Human Being.

Meditation ~ Yoga, photography ~ writing, food ~ wild crafting = personal health
Having Kiki, the spaniel, in my life helps greatly:)

My wish, to heal all the misunderstandings in my body and mind, which inform my reality with things untrue. May these misunderstandings be filled with the golden light of the truth.

A freedom of sorts.

9/24/09

Mind maps, how the brain works, soft ware


Started a map for the budding creative collaboration on the TRIFECTA lifestyle CENTER.






http://www.thebrain.com/?gclid=CODxqf65iJ0CFYKCzAodZzQcZA

Exciting possibilities also when used as autobiographical mapping.
Another day of research and development from home base.
Staying connected to my Heart connections.
Walking Kiki.
Thanking God and my Guru for driving, so meditation can happen naturally and my life unfolds like a rosebush. Yes, with thorns:), thats nature for Ya.

9/22/09

Excerpts from Hugh MacLeod's blog




Check him out at:

I just ordered his book: "Ignore everybody"

"The thing about wor king as an artist is that you never rea lize how much of the work is on top of making the actual art.
I was remem be ring how when I star ted out, I would visit the stu dios of more esta blished artists and couldn’t begin to grasp how they ran the show. It’s taken years to slowly put each piece in place. Every day there’s new pro blems to solve, but if you can solve them in a way that sticks— so that from now on that issue is cove red, even tually you come up with an effi cient sys tem for sup por ting the most impor tant work you do, which is the art.

“Artists can not mar ket” is com plete crap. Warhol was GREAT at mar ke ting. As was Picasso and count less other “Blue Chips”. Of course, they’d often take the “anti-marketing” stance as a form of mar ke ting them sel ves. And their patrons lap­ped it up.

The way artists market them selves is by having a great story, by having a “Myth”. Telling anecdo tal sto ries about Warhol, Pollack, Bas quiat, Van Gogh is both (A) fun and (B) has a mythi cal dimen sion… if they didn’t, they wouldn’t have had movies made about them. The art feeds the myth. The myth feeds the art."

Yah, TRIFECTA lifestyle, is it myth (yet)? The Pegasus we are riding in on sure is...I mean the Unicorn Pegasus of course.

9/21/09

GOOD LUCK alive and well






Some of my friends have never found one.... some people don't know they exist.... most people never even think about them.
FOUR LEAFED CLOVERS!

Dawn and I have been on a roll. A meadow outside her house, a place we visit sometime twice a day to walk Kiki, holds a 5+ acre clover field. We are talking billions of 3 leafed clover. White and red flowered.
Since childhood, whenever I see clover, I look for the four leafs. It's said to bring good luck to the finder. It's said to give it away to th first person you see.

It's amazing, when you look out on field with so many designed by nature plants of the same kind. To think that some, every once in a while will grow a little differently. Have an added surface to receive the sunlight. An extra capacity to give oxygen. Just a little.

And as we walk, with our eyes resting on that divine green color, there it is, a four lefed clover, among all the regulars. Something happens, it's a mystical movement of the heart and mind.
A cousin of gratitude.
The sister of awe.
..............................
Surely things will work out just fine in the Design Divine.

9/17/09

Intergenerational Culture is the Secret of the TLC

The Trifecta Learning Center

exists to:

Reverse ignorance about art, by building intergenerational community, where art becomes the product of collaboration, focus and learning about the creative process across all the disciplines and mediums.

  • Reverse ignorance about food, by offering natural organic products from local artisans. Health and noursihment are experiential.
  • Reverse ignorance amongst ages and races, by welcoming all people who want to experience the effects of a Trifecta lifestyle.

Project TLC reverses cultural ignorance in a community by having people intentionally working, eating and creating art together.

The intergenerational gap that is filled by the TLC

creates world peace on a local level.



9/16/09

Who's reading this blog?




Since this is a personal log, a place where I can write and post photos, to remember what is going on in any given circumstance.

I can also choose the style to write in to a personal poetic meandering of words.
So, here it goes...every time I want to "write" the flow from the heart stops and a cold, calculating wind blows across my inner vision.

All kinds of thoughts are flying through my brain scape..."you don't know anything...why do you think this is important...when has anything important happened in your life?"...so belittling, so discouraging...so untrue.
In order to be undisturbed by these lie-bites, I need to close the windows and the door to my inner sanctum.
Enter the Heart of writing...and document what is alive.

I see seeds of passion, a passion so uplifting and inspiring to people who come to seek a lift.
In form of yoga and movement sessions...indoor or outdoor...with music or in silence...incense or fresh meadow country air...simultaneoulsy soothing and invigorating.


I see a large space, with filtered light,
bright...clear and clean...the floor wide open...smudged with dhoop.
Good audio system with I.pod dock.
Golden orange mango light.
Mirrors surrounding us on three sides.
Plants flourishing in a corner.
An altar to the Divine. Candle lit.
We begin by sitting in silence, we breathe, we move slowly and deliberatly.
We merge into alignment with purpose and intention.

This is my classroom, this is my gift, this is what I want to exprience.
This is what I want to give to those who come.


9/13/09

Organic farm visit













Dawn, Kiki and I went to visit an organic farm, that delivers our weekly veggies and raw milk.
Here are a couple of snap shots....

9/12/09

Virtual Business Meeting



Yayyy!

First virtual business meeting using google apps for simultaeneous editing.

Love my partner and our business!

Thank GOD for this opportunity of sober endevors and collaboration.

Air guitar contest




To the sound of Jet...

9/11/09

Contrast color versus feelings







Totally grumpy today....

Too much sugar?

Colors and a long walk, yoga and dancing at home with just Dawn and Kiki what I needed to at least consider feeling happy.


Sobriety is a work in progress.


Yes, WORK!

"It takes great effort to stay afloat in joy." Gurumayi

....It's worth it :)

9/10/09

That was then...this is now




Have to offset with current pics...and current feelings.


Transformation and learning occurs daily, with a lot of help from my friends and family.


A holla out to Tom, who keeps me real and engaged.


Young Adult phase...young, yes, adult...didn't quite make it that far

Band name: "EXIT". Music a mix of Pink Floyd and Talking Heads per a studio executive at Sony.

Dawn the cutest baby ever...so bright.

Bolinas was home town 1980 to 1986 for me...longer for Richard.

Harbin was the summer get away from the coastal fog.




Pitru Paksha, time to honor and remember our ancestors






AND the lineage of the Guru.






No wonder I'm compelled to recite Shree Guru Gita.






Have been digitizing all the family and childhood pics Dawn is keeping for us.







Still the same person.



Living evolutionary lives.



A Siddha "cub".


With deep gratitude to my Guru and the sangham!

9/7/09

Rodin, up close...no kiss






Stanford's Rodin sculpture garden at midnight.

Art assignment for illustration project for Tom.

Experience of artistic heaven before the shut gates of hell for me.

SLIDES OF LIFE

Guess what?....

LUNAR CALENDAR