http://karma.blogsome.com bringing it back into balance... Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:59:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "There are some changes coming in my life. I can feel them already. My tarot reading yesterday, by my mother over a toke and a glass of red wine, coincided with the first day of spring. My boyfriend commented cynically as I described its revelations in brief; ... http://karma.blogsome.com/2009/03/22/full-circle/ A fresh cup of coffee over a fresh piece of mint gum gives, for a brief moment, the impression of that ‘holiday feeling’, born of the association slowly made over the years between winter mornings and peppermint lattes. Some day, I like to think, my house will smell like coffee, ... http://karma.blogsome.com/2009/03/18/tastes-like/ It’s my fourth grade classroom, at a West Olympia elementary school in the mid nineties (replete with mauve, teal and salmon detailing). We have the fourth and fifth grades together, actually - part of this ‘Alternative Education Program’ idea that’s going around. On this particular afternoon, we have all pulled our ... http://karma.blogsome.com/2009/03/13/based-on-my-observations/ Lately, something has been stopping me from writing. Actually, that’s not right. I have real moments of inspiration, and I seriously get rolling for a while. Ideas verily erupt in my brain, leaving me with (quite realistically) more to expunge than seems physically possible. But the more time I spend with something, the less ... http://karma.blogsome.com/2009/03/12/pure/ Reactions? Interactions? Events? The more I think about it, the farther I get from causality, and the farther I get from time. I’m still not sure of what I’m getting closer to. It’s ironic, because I flash between picturing this on a macroscopic scale and considering it in terms of ... http://karma.blogsome.com/2009/02/12/65/ If you forget everything else - especially when you forget everything else: Write it, or you will forget it. Nothing "isn’t worth writing down." Even nothing is worth writing down. Write without thinking. Keep thinking once you’ve stopped writing. Write every day. Yes, even if you have nothing to write ... http://karma.blogsome.com/2009/02/05/write/ One might be under the assumption that the hole is generally filled with water, enough to buoy one slightly. The analogy changes rather drastically in the absence of that factor. It hurts a lot more to hit the bottom of a dry hole after a long fall. There is the possibility of ... http://karma.blogsome.com/2008/08/01/bottoms-up-addendum/ I already know I will not die helplessly. I do not fear death, nor presume to concern myself with its persistent imminence. So if death is not the object, but it is the only final and insurmountable one…What have I to fear? http://karma.blogsome.com/2008/07/30/onward-and-upward/ It’s really something to be ‘bottoming out.’ There has been a loss of control. But it’s been more like a blip in the power steering than, say, spiraling into addiction or becoming trapped in a bad relationship. I guess this means something different to everyone. Either way, it’s quite the experience. The ... http://karma.blogsome.com/2008/07/30/bottoms-up/ I remember one of the first things that struck me about the film Donnie Darko. It was during the assembly, as the ‘inspirational’ speech was being given, and things began to speed up around him. "I’m moving through time," he said. It was profound, and yet when you think ... http://karma.blogsome.com/2008/06/27/time/