Hey all, there was something deep and dark that i wanted to post about from a nightmare i was given 2 weeks ago, but i can't remember what the hell it was. But last night, my dearest and i were telling camp stories, and i shared this one with her. There may be more of the same posts like this relating to the 7 deadly sins, but i really don't recollect me breaking all seven, because greed was never a part of my life.

When i was about 9 years old, my folks sent my sister and i to camp for aout 7 days. I immediately made friends on the bus, and some at the camp too, however to my recollection i don't think i was even trying to find friends, i think i was pounded by a tsunami of confusion, not knowing why i was going to camp or if it was my will. We started camp on Friday morning and ended the next Sunday. We formed groups of 5 for the Saturday talent show, i really like the boys i was with, there was a straggler in the mix, he associated himself with us, but i never thought of him.

Sunday morning, the last day of camp, my camp counselor came to wake me up we stayed up late talking with the girls from the other building from the same camp. I wore my new green Star Wars shirt, in fact i was saving it for that last day, it was the only shirt out of the whole store i wanted. As i sat down to eat breakfast alongside my counselor and friends, the straggler was there sitting across from me drinking his milk, he pounded it down on the table and it splashed all over me and my favorite shirt. Something happened inside myself, and i jumped over the table at him and beat the shit outta him. I did have a fiery temper at a young age, but it never manifested itself in physical violence, i had no idea where it came from, but i do now. Wrath is definitely my sin. And i carry my metaphysical cross eternally because of it.

We typically know what we're doing, who we are and where we belong, but when you realize where you are isn't where you belong, you become lost in many ways, even lost within yourself. Before Christmas i had a drink with a couple of guys, i was invited. It felt like i was a kid again, and in that aspect also, i was lost. Understand that this has nothing to do with resisting change, it's all about who you are in your comfort zone. As i drank, tanked and clanked our bottles together, i really felt like i belonged, but as i looked into the review mirror of the van i was in, i saw someone who was lost. An expression i'm all to familiar with. It's like youy're split in two, one you is at the top of a snowy mountain cutting the rope that releases large boulders down the hill towards the other you at the bottom.

This uncertainty makes you anxious and jumpy, ready to bolt when you get the chance, when i said i was leaving they said to wait till they're done. I kinna thought oh shit, and refrained from loking at myself in the mirror again, yet i did, trying to toughen up my image to myself.

Monday morning i had a thought that awoke me with discomfort, if you read back at the previous and old posts, i always talk about two me's, in the physical and metaphysical sense. I always seem to think that that the other me is the evil, or wild and unchained me. And people all the time say hey i remember you, and peg me to somewhere i've never been before.  So in a way he thwarts my virgin appearance , which led me to believe that yes, he is the evil me. But the thought that proded at me was, what if he too has a family, and in his eyes, mind and heart i am the Hyde to his Jekyll.

Look at my life, i'm a lot like you were.      

This morning an epiphany fell upon me. It might be a fenced epiphany because of to whom it applies to. Knowledge is great but it will end, the knowledge that you currently know of, ends because it is all that which will be massed on one point of whatever it'll be. To know is the beginning of knowledge. Knowing is ever flowing. This is what i know and have known, but knowing is the beginning also, applying is the forging of knowledge. People know a lot of things, but without applying it to your daily life, it's not worth knowing. You give space to nothingness. I've spoken about this before in the post, "Apply Within" but this is not what this post is about. It's about the old man...                                  

The old man whose name is known as SOCIETY. This epiphany came so quick, i had to force vomit the thoughtback up so i could swallow it with understanding. I've spoken many times before, even in my essays about society being an old man whom the world is strapped onto, he's also at the same time the man that doesn't come out of his home, he's set in his ways, so forth the rules of society be written, we conform to his laws. Rather than being an outcast that lives off the grid, we dare not step out of the ordinary. I thought about how i would do things after seeing I Am Legend. I would liberate peoples minds to what the possibilities could reveal, and there forth bring a new sense of astonishment of reality and being.

Sling-shot into a hyperspace vision, i saw that i would be the new king of society, no better no worse. I have written that i once tried to create a new word for normality, to define word from definition. Of few things like myself that defy definition, Normality cannot be broken and separated. Set into a stone not even diamonds can cut. I have always been the pauper, and now that i see what i have seen, i wish to remain the pauper.

                                             Happy New Year, Space Snowman...

I really didn't want to post about this, but as i had freed myself by writing my poetry, and this being an extension of them, i will. For anyone who had read the "Will Heaven Help You" post, this has do do with my father, pretty much closing up the whole post. By the way i purposely left out the question mark in the title, because its intent is to form question and impose thought.

Last week early Sunday morning i watched The Devil's Advocate, and noticing the sweet and sour similarities Pacino's character had in common with my father. Always a salesman, with ability to manipulate the conversation with charm and a sharp tongue. My father died last January 20th, i was and am still torn, i don't know how i'm ever going to get over it, his death and why i care so much for someone who didn't share the same care for my mother and me. As i watch i remembered that when i was getting to know him, his phone wasn't working because he nor his current wife had paid the bill. Out of my cursed caring heart i payed the $84.14 unknown to both of them.

He had a heart attack and at the exact time i had payed the bill, someone called his house, his wife answered then phone, then hung up to call the paramedics. She called me an angel, she didn't know what she was going to do. So much sympathy, he saved the devil...so much conflict within myself. It made me think that he made me save him, yeah the devil made me do it. The first person i've ever wanted to kill since i was 7. Given by blood his sin, wrath heh... i never thought about how he saved me until now granting me salvation from the result of my wrath. Was he really saving me or was it an advantage of his  for me to be tempted by his powers of influence over the police. Which to mention was happened on December 21st of a year forgotten.

Anyway...why do i still feel so bad for him, i think i feel bad for myself, people hated me because who my father was, it made me feel like i'm the only one who's going to love him. I even had the feeling sunk into my bones that my mother disliked me too because i looked so much like him, loving me at arms length. I still get so choked up now seeing a father and son playing and being with each other, i'm so happy for them yet so bitter with myself.

Once upon a time there was a heart that lived without any fear or knowledge of self-consciousness. Its constant loneliness had made it very sad, so the creator created another heart to keep it company, but this heart had a brain so the two would never become bored. Things were fine until one day the second heart said something without thinking and hurt the first hearts feelings. So it fled and spent time alone and created itself a physical body, so no matter what was said, it could shield itself from expressing its emotions. It showed the heart that he was stronger now and invulnerable to many things, this time he left for good. Eons alone, the heart with a brain could ponder and postulate what emotions and thought have to do with each other. He then realized that thought and emotion do swim together, but mostly in different rivers. The creator realized that he was becoming a free thinker and created more hearts to keep his mind off of his mind. The hearts all discovered the truth about the first heart, they too had built themselves shells and fled. The heart with a brain soon discovered that the brain was a bane.

We humans are that physical catastrophe. I'm not tryna get all Heaven's Gate on you all, but we are such an insecure species that we've built our bodies bigger and stronger, so aside from the fact that we can convey expressions other than those of fear, sadness and bitterness, we can also assault those that hurt us. We've also invented cars. The shell in a shell, the bigger the car, the tougher we become or pose to be. As a medicine man i use this story which i've created in the first paragraph to help people cope with the ghost they've become, the shadow of our former selves. We are not our bodies, we are our hearts. I've spoken about this several times in posts like "Triple Helix" We also at times use our shell color to intimidate others.

I wrote a poem a long while ago about me confronting my insecurities about my shell .

"I appear to myself as the meek geek and a silent genius
i'm frail as feathers but when called out or sensing unrest
it feels like i'm climbing into the behemoth that is my shell
protecting me from everything from emotions, insecurity, inadequacy and physical pain
what a loser...oh such a loser, the self loathing i feel when i exit the brutal carcass." 
                     ::Excerpt from Two Last Pieces And Neither Fit::
 
I'm tall, muscular and imposing at times, heh, being 6'2", I am not my body really, which i attribute my own self identity crisis to. Yes i am that second heart.

Darkness so unrelenting. The orange security lights, the green glass windows, trees that stand miles in unison stature, and not a telephone pole to tangle their lone beauty. Today we marvel at buildings that defecate the sky. I can only speak for myself in my generation, because i'm unusual. There was always something so entrancing about green glass windows and orange security lights to me, heh and i've reconnected with that, because when i get out of work it's dark, and our lights come on, and across the street, Nstar has those big green windows, i wish i could be seeing out of them.

Face it people we're losing our world to the advances in science and technology, polluted streams and skies. What sincere memories are we going to leave the next generation? Oxygen tanks and 78% pure water? Being a New Englander for a year has put me in that seat, it's amazing that we still have these sights to see. A couple of weeks ago Cheryl and i made a stop to where the very first postal route was born, and the stone that marked it was plunged into the ground by Benjamin Franklin himself, we both had to touch the stone. The reason why we have relics in museums is because we can't leave things alone, where they were, every find is a coup. Even as old as New England is knowing that it was the first to get trampled over, it still holds so much of it's own history, native and non native.

Science and technology should save our world as it was and give enough to new trends, tools and entertainment. But in the world were headed to, you can make a camera that takes snapshots exactly as you see things through your own eyes, but what's the use of having it when you don't have anything beautiful to shoot?

                                                     See You Space Cowboy...

Falling Maple leaves pirouette and blow forward as infinite as a snowy day dead and curled Oak leaves scrape across the street imitating the bursting motion of a chipmunk. Together they blanket the streets and ribbon across like a sidewinder snake.

The post promised will take a back seat to this one because i've felt this one for some time. We all think when we move away the changes will come quick and drastic. Someone goes off to college, a friend will move to the mainland, a relative quit their job for one of higher pay. All these things do change as do the people whom the changes affect, yet landmarks will, they'll do one at a time. This post has in some ways a connection to do with the Mountains Disappear , but at a different angle, i needed to see the baseball through the broken glass of the room that caught that fly ball.

I've always advocated the good change does, it reinvigorates the spirit. If i were to sleep under two moons worth of thought what if i was still in Hawaii, i'd be face to face with the facts that things in small town America @ Hawaii rarely change. even in a busy metropolis as Honolulu is, buildings get torn down, they get erected. Our human hearts somehow dilutes the rationality of that, which is what i'll attend to in the next post.

                                                        See You Space Goblin....

Happy Halloween!

Good morning all. I'm feeling very bluesy this morning metaphysically and emotionally, like an old world immigrant getting into his first argument with an American, and thinking what was that all for? Spirit of rebirth and growth breathed into my face this morning as it made me recall when i had cut my hair. I had cut it in grievance to my elder Bill Tiger losing his left foot to diabetes. When i cut my hair i brutally hacked it. Ugh you should see how many typo's i'm fixing this morning. Later in that day i got a haircut some green hair glue and some new clothes. I felt so new, like a kid almost, so elated with a new watch, so happy that when someone asked the time, he'd give them the exact time and seconds. Ugh....i hate the word elated, i never use it. But that's what kids are.

Yeah i know i don't belong in this here and now, told many times by my grandmother i was born a century too late and my mother a century too early, i feel like an eternal specter.... time to lose my self again.... soon. When i was a teenager i've accepted the fate that the people in your life will not always be there, not in the terminal way, but in the way that you may never see them again, parting ways, either romantically or scholastically. I guess this has a pull on you no matter if the words are intended for those leaving this world and your life, i tend to use the word pull because of the sensation i get when i express how i feel when i'm feeling it, but i'll go through that in the next post.

All you say to your friends, family & co-workers will be the last thing you say, because whether or not they're there when you or they die, the last words you speak will be the last. It's some give and take process. Heh...i just realized another reason why i'm writing this, it's completely subconscious i swear. My friend at work, Jorge.

I don't think i should be worried about what i'll say when i die, i don't see that happening again anytime soon. But i think it's really all about leaving in a good way, although i've left a lot of people in a bad way, either in bed or a hospital bed. But time hopefully has mended those broken bones and broken hearts, i wouldn't try to go back and fix things, this life doesn't come with a handbook but we tend to write one as we grow,  if we don't, there's no further growth. So after shoveling all this stuff up from the past, i feel like i want to shovel dirt over myself and let the day fold over me. I'm guilty...as i've said before, no one's  innocent, no one.

                                     Goodbye Jorge! See You Space Gigolo!

As you've read from previous posts written in the seasons of wither, i have a cathartic embrace with Autumn. Rounding out the years' end is a very emotional look back at the entire mess. My mind usually retreats to very somber memories of the past and the oh so sad rain. My Tharsis, the eternal hole in the city, the crying alley where i've  spent nights under the narrow alcove, tapped constantly buy the calming rains, volleying me between my conscious and conscience realms.

The lonely Christmas evening i spent sitting on a fire hydrant playing with superstition under the ceasing rain. As i waited for a car to cart my soul to my four corners, a black cat from across the street shared it's sorrow of lonilness with me, i'm not a cat guy, but i like em okay. He or she jumped into my lap as if it were mine. I stroked it and and talked aloud to it. As my ride came i wished it never did. Yeah i'm dark, but in a good way. All of those emotions that i've held only festered in me. So i got rid of the really bad ones and held onto the ones of true sadness. Sometimes i want to lose myself again, in fact i'm really eager to, but i can't just leave home, i'd have to leave a note for my lovely wife, but then if i do, i won't be lost. I've found a nice underpass to sit under.

I'm not or have ever been normal, nor do i strive to be. I carry my 50 pounds of blues on my back, i can never escape the blackness, because i've made it my home, and it's home in me. I don't want people to think i'm down or depressed, this is a part of me that will be here forever, no matter how good i'm doing throughout the day, week, so on. There has always been two me's and two realities that lie within each, and then some. Life is not one reality but it is the one that most people only know or choose to appeal themselves to. "We exist in a world where the fear of illusion is real, and we cling to the past to deny and confuse the ideal, once inside we can see and believe in a god we can feel." Temptation - The Tea Party

My mind's eye has always been a positive, strong and furtive tool that i've always wielded to help those around me and those that are connected indirectly. Last year i was blessed with the gift and chosen to be a medicine man. A gift that i've refused  for the past 5 years. I've been scolded by bald eagles in my dreams and elders. The responsibility scared me as it does any young man living the life of Simba exiled. But the responsibility grants the powers of sight,  knowledge and understanding of all living things. Sometimes we don't like what we see but it comes with the responsibility.

I've always expressed that my Autumn song was native in nature. Sometimes when we look back, leave the world for 10 minutes and come back we realize we've known concretely what we've always known.


[Bill Tiger, you are remembered.]

                                                          See You Space Ndn...

Double shot tonight boys and girls. Two posts that i worked on today while @ lunch, heh i owe it to you loyal readers....drifters, hehe.

So yeah i've really been nesting on this post, it just bugs me at the amount of money, attention and detail that goes into the advertising and the quality the product produces and the guarantee the company puts into the product, doesn't add up to anything. Mass production of any product doesn't equal the quality of anything nowadays. Last weekend i was at the Big Y supermarket browsing the cereal aisle, and Fruity Pebbles has "50% Better Tasting" branded on the top of the box. So that means that for 35 years i've been eating mediocre cereal, not to mention all of the things i've been consuming my entire life. We the generation of the 1970's remembers the false hope in advertising the wrong color on the box of a toy. We all wanted the color as displayed on the box, and the ultimate bummer picked up our faces off the floor after we opened it to utter disappointment.

If you don't have a good product, leave it in research and development. Of course if anyone falls ill or dies, a check can usually compensate said person or family. No one nowadays really stands behind their product with conviction and guarantee. The problem is also that people are sue-happy, always looking at where the next buck can be taken, so of course no company is gonna stake themselves on flaky feedback.

We're all taught by our parents to buy USA made vehicles. The thing that puts us in the seat of a foreign car is the fact that price and convenience outweighs the conscience of buying domestic. We have to worry about number one, us the consumer. It's tragic that hundreds lose their jobs to foreign transported vehicles, but sector 1 has to worry about sector 1. Not that sector 2 is  pulling in more business from production.

 Back to the small scale, if i buy say a small power tool that's telling me that the max output is 6700 rpm's, but the battery life of said tool is used to the maximum capacity rpm's for 20 seconds dies, it's not a good tool no matter what the hell i'm cutting or drilling. Numbers don't lie, but again people don't pay attention. Comparitive shopping has never been familiarized with chronic indecisiveness. Buyer beware huh?

                                        My Momma Told Me, You Better Shop Around...