Thursday, August 31, 2006
Category: Whatever
Today was the day that Nived booked to Boston.
The man has an insatiable desire to conquer the world and damn if he won’t do it.
Best of luck brother man.
Archive for August, 2006
Boston Boy on Rye Hold the Mayo
Thursday, August 31st, 2006Been Raining A Long Time
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006Creative outlets are somewhat like water behind a dam finally breaking out, or not.
I have seen playing guitar, composing music and recording as sort of the rain falling.
Man, its been raining a long time.
Then I see the dam or levee breaking as sharing all that with others. I certainly haven’t wanted to but. . .
If the rain don’t stop the levee’s gonna break.
One Red Blood
Sunday, August 27th, 2006In the 2002 film starring David Gulpilil called The Tracker we see many questions posed by the film, and answered by the viewer. Typical of a film I suppose but what isn’t typical are the powerful close-ups, overwhelming soundtrack, context and David Gulpilil.
Also on the DVD is a documentary of David Gulpilil by Gulpilil. The title is One Red Blood.
Gulpilil narrates and after being taken on a snapshot of his life he sums up that we are all brothers and sisters, with one red blood.
I dug that idea, despite leaving out some of the bloodless beings, because the concept uses color to unify rather than divide.
The Human Condition
Sunday, August 27th, 2006Sunday 8/27/06
Category: Global Health
I’ve always thought of this as the plight of being a human, or joy, or whatever grabs your fancy.
Then I realized that this is not the truth of it.
The human condition is a disease that the earth has.
We humans are like a virus (The Matrix) that the earth has caught and there ain’t no getting over it, or is there.
Quite possibly, the earth will outlast humans, actually it will, though the face of the earth will be different than it was before the advent of intelligence of humans and hence, the vanity of humanity. But then the earth has always been a dynamic evolving flowing fluid rock.
Get well soon.
Vertical Integration
Sunday, August 20th, 2006Sunday, August 20, 2006
Category: Culture and Values
What is vertical integration? The short answer is controlling everything in a process from the beginning to the end.
I came across this term recently while continuing to read the history of the oil industry, The Prize, in reference to John D. Rockefeller and his plan to control the world oil industry. Rockefeller isn’t credited with using the term but is credited with being the first real world example of using vertical integration on a massive scale.
So I’m thinking about how this can impact our lives. I’m thinking that controlling everything from the top down in one’s own life would lend a sort of ability to reach a satisfactory end. I’m thinking, yes, but we are particles in the breeze, we can’t control anything.
Then I think, no, my contention is that the individual is ultimately responsible for themselves so control is in fact always present. We control our decisions based on conditions we may not control. We can however move to a place where the conditions are right, mentally and physically. This reminds me of holistic management.
Holistic management is a reference to seeing the big picture, acknowledging the big picture, when making decisions. Coined by Allan Savory of Holistic Management International the process simply refers to being aware of all implications before making a decision.
Our ability to make informed decisions affords us vertical integration of our lives.
Now use it.
Nothing Matters
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Much ado about nothing. Matters of and pertaining to absolutely nothing.
Let us handle these matters directly.
Wise Old Owl
Monday, August 14th, 2006Monday, August 14, 2006
Category: The Meaning of Life
Came across this in the book The Prize all about the petroleum industry history.
A Wise Old Owl Lived in an Oak
The More He Saw the Less He Spoke
The Less He Spoke the More He Heard
Why can’t we all be like that old bird?
This recalls to me an old saying (presumably) I read in a long forgotten work of fiction.
Least Said Soonest Mended
1967 VW Deluxe Microbus
Sunday, August 13th, 2006Sunday, August 13, 2006
Category: Whatever
I purchased this way back in the eighties. I had been wanting this year model with the walk through feature and lucked onto a lead that panned out. Drove it until 1997.
Been parked in the weeds.
Took it out.
Law
Sunday, August 6th, 2006Sunday, August 06, 2006
Category: Law, Nothing But A Human Institution
Well, well, well, oh well. John Lennon.
This topic is probably way too intense, volatile, provocative and controversial to sum up in a classic four paragraph derivative.
No, actually.
I can do it in one.
Law is like values, an expression of values in fact, like culture, law is the glue that binds. In the US, the glue is rotting and thus the framework is failing soon to disintegrate.
There are a couple of films that really impact this topic in an enlightening way, The Last Wave by Peter Weir and Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? by the Cohen Brothers.
In the former there is a culture that believes laws are more important than man. In the latter we see the devil mocking and scoffing at the suggestion the law matters by dismissing it as “a human institutionâ€.
Both these are valid truthful displays of the subjective, of the fact that humans create their culture and sometimes enforce their culture.
Law is only as powerful as its enforcement.
Truth and Humour
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006Thursday, August 03, 2006
Category: Culture and Values
For a long, long time I’ve used humour as a way to speak the truth. Unwittingly, ironically, intentionally, curiously, and shrewdly.
Without a sense of humour life is meaningless. No. . . wait . . nothing has meaning anyway.
Don’t we all use humour? Don’t we all have a sense of humour? Don’t we all sense irony and humor (US spelling) in the human condition? Don’t we all see the truth? Nope.
You know how they say the truth is hard to take, and yeah, truth can be hard to take, but lies are harder to take.
The truth is really what this web site is all about. Finding truth, recognizing truth, allowing truth, thinking truth, being truth, letting go of the truth.
Is Dave Chappelle perpetuating racist stereotypes? Jon Stewart? Stephen Colbert? Monty Python? Richard Simmons?
Using the Chappelle example, the truth is that Dave is simply observing reality and in so doing raising our awareness of the cultural issues and stereotypes we are all hung up on. (Not European, should be “upon which we are hung upâ€.)
Humour is our only real hope as humour is a visionary perspective that is required to recognize that nothing has meaning without point of view.