Holiday HeArtness
There is so much art in the world. We wear it. We see it. We are it. It is the creative mind coming to life. When we speak art comes out of our mouths. When we dream we dream in artistic fashion, creating. I dreamed that my hair was dread-locked on one side of my head and long and straight on the other. Perhaps my dual nature of the wild side of me that wants only to live in the forest and the other side that years to explore the world we have created as people. Interesting the dream would be my hair. I have been wanting to get a hair cut. It is getting long (and perhaps with split ends) like the man in the video I saw yesterday playing and singing. His name was Reverend Hylton. He seems to be something of a grassroots artist coming to fruition.
In this holiday time we are reminded to be thankful. I am reminded of Christ. And the bible. There was a fruit plucked by Eve in the story of Adam and Eve that gave them knowledge of life itself. What began was the unraveling of our innocence into the mind. How twisted it can become but also how pure it might evolve into its essence of love, a love that is giving, receiving, compassion, joy, connection, truth, and boundaries knowing that to be fully giving one must know what to give and how much before one's spirit may be toppled if they are not careful by giving too much.
People walk the streets alone and lie under the stars perhaps or in a shelter. Houses are vacant. Can we think of others and offer what we can and turn from Scrooge to Mr. Ebenezer, the giver.
I think we can and will especially when we know things will be so much better when we are all taken care of and have the ability to thrive.
There is art on the sides of buildings and spewing forth from the sax and guitar that bumps along. The Buddha sits and is at peace and at one with the universe.
May we stand, talk, walk, and enjoy this life while one with the universe.
In this wondrous universe we all aspire to come to, to be all these things of love. The holidays brings this out (for some). Whether we buy, or not, we all are expressing our joy through just showing up. May we buy with love and compassion and know what is best for each of us. Thinking of the other he bought his shoes secondhand so that those funds would help someone who cannot help themselves at the moment. May they know they can help themselves. For god/God is within you. Peeling away the layers of disbelief wherein the core of our being is a seed that will become oxygen giving life to those of us here on Earth.
Yet with each give there is a take. In art when it is expressed it relieves and enlivens the soul. But yet, this life can be too much when we give away to much of ourselves. One of the greatest artists did such a thing. He cut his ear off and eventually committed suicide.
I hope you all stay here on Earth and live and go through the difficult as well as the joyous and everything in between with love, grace and hope, and one day, when you choose to go, go to the next world.
Here is a song by Reverend Hylton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuQ8vTZ7mv0
Here is a great read of Vincent Van Gogh: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/12/16/vincent-van-gogh-ear/
In this holiday time we are reminded to be thankful. I am reminded of Christ. And the bible. There was a fruit plucked by Eve in the story of Adam and Eve that gave them knowledge of life itself. What began was the unraveling of our innocence into the mind. How twisted it can become but also how pure it might evolve into its essence of love, a love that is giving, receiving, compassion, joy, connection, truth, and boundaries knowing that to be fully giving one must know what to give and how much before one's spirit may be toppled if they are not careful by giving too much.
People walk the streets alone and lie under the stars perhaps or in a shelter. Houses are vacant. Can we think of others and offer what we can and turn from Scrooge to Mr. Ebenezer, the giver.
I think we can and will especially when we know things will be so much better when we are all taken care of and have the ability to thrive.
There is art on the sides of buildings and spewing forth from the sax and guitar that bumps along. The Buddha sits and is at peace and at one with the universe.
May we stand, talk, walk, and enjoy this life while one with the universe.
In this wondrous universe we all aspire to come to, to be all these things of love. The holidays brings this out (for some). Whether we buy, or not, we all are expressing our joy through just showing up. May we buy with love and compassion and know what is best for each of us. Thinking of the other he bought his shoes secondhand so that those funds would help someone who cannot help themselves at the moment. May they know they can help themselves. For god/God is within you. Peeling away the layers of disbelief wherein the core of our being is a seed that will become oxygen giving life to those of us here on Earth.
Yet with each give there is a take. In art when it is expressed it relieves and enlivens the soul. But yet, this life can be too much when we give away to much of ourselves. One of the greatest artists did such a thing. He cut his ear off and eventually committed suicide.
I hope you all stay here on Earth and live and go through the difficult as well as the joyous and everything in between with love, grace and hope, and one day, when you choose to go, go to the next world.
Here is a song by Reverend Hylton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuQ8vTZ7mv0
Here is a great read of Vincent Van Gogh: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/12/16/vincent-van-gogh-ear/
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