5/20    maybe with the onset of good weather a constant barrage of readings and book parties happening, so many people are writing, performing, giving workshops [my next ones in july] and publishing. this is good, yes? I think of how many people are talking more, wherever they are, with friends, cohorts, etc. this growth in communication must be leading to better relations, better deals, more words to get lost in.

my friend Roscoe was talking about making an effort to get his work (most prolific he is) into print before print is no longer there—growth of digital books, increased cost of paper (analog?) books & their transport, and the expected falling apart of chunks of our political, economic and ecological systems. (are books sustainable?) do we get local, back to samizdat, depending on how the networks hold out. how far back to oral tradition? where do you keep what you’ve created?

poetry/revelation/connection. reading Chi, a small book by Master Waysun Liao. he says we’re born with our yin, yang and tao in perfect balance. but by relating to a world outside ourselves, we lost that inner balance. people are a lot more alike each other than not, many political issues (universal health care, rich paying more taxes) around 80% agreeing. we all have in us the Buddha nature. every chance we get to catch a glimmer of it, to hear that tone/chord/arpeggio, like the sun-glistening water dispersing into thousands of drops falling over 90 foot tumalo falls. every poem/song/painting/creation has the potential to get us back to that balance, being of the main stream, shedding the false gravity and costumes of our lives

we each need to find our radiance, how we pucker the localest parameters. finding the now in the walk from here to there, shoes against pavement, wind through the screen I am. instead of waves of me gong out to the immediate future why not bring whats about to come to where I open my petals?