5/19  art expands the mind, shows more of our senses potential, the worlds potential, clarifies/ahas. natural beauty does this as well, filling with a positive energy, a clarifying, etc. was couple days ago at Tumalo falls 10 miles west of Bend (OR). Spring water running hard, sun out beautiful. the falls is 90 feet with a viewing spot at the top. seeing the well-li8t water sparkling apart as it goes over the edge, momentum meets gravity with wind & water’s cohesion. all that light can say. trying to follow a drop as far as I can. tying to slow time the tiniest bit. add to that seeing the water approaching the edge, its sped and clarity, a siren call from that water, wanting to jump in and know the inevitable flight and smash. the yang to the crystalline beauty, to join with and be nothing more than water and air.
seeing connections no one else does, brain dependent on what. art takes us to a split-second universe-gapping experience/hint. since now is an illusion, what else is possible. but our bodies, our sparks support systems, are tuned with the now and all its rules. maybe some forms of insanity are your perceptions/consciousness going into a space that isn’t here and now, where some of the rules/truths are different.  while the body’s still here, swimming through.

I would not want to constantly have the perceptions of the voice of my poetry. look what at did to van gogh (or because other things going in van goghs brain his art is what it is. art. something special and inherently non-rational. I distinguish tween then non- & the  ir-, non- in the tao/zen sense. not a challenge just that my perceptions differ from yours.

reading Angelmaker by nick harkaway. much enjoyed his first novel, gone away world. Angelmaker involves a dooms day weapon that works by so increasing everyone’s ability to see the truth that they cannot function. our evolution inside this micro-dimension leads some folks some of the time to perceive beyond the norm, to translate that difference as best as we can, tempted by it, like the beauty and momentum of the waterfall, to be of that same moment/infinity as that water droplet going over