Jazzbird

A bird that i could not see but only hear - for so long. A musician, who improvises like a great jazz player. I would listen for as long as she was near, sometimes every few days. One time i saw her yellow beak, like a myna, but only glimpses of a light brown frame. I counted, how many different calls before a repeat - 10! Unlike any bird - there is no call and response. Independent and free, it seemed that she was the only one. For a year i tried to get a view. Then, one day, tap-tap ---tap -tap on a back window. What the - i wondered. Lifting the curtain, it was hard to believe, the jazz bird - and -her fluttering daughter. Looking -saying look- showing her pride, hopping from branch to branch. The baffled...wonderment - why is she here -does she want food. I left some - she did not eat. Again the next couple days, the tapping and looking.  She must hear music coming from here all the time, and feels a kindred spirit. What kind of bird is this. I went to another island and was told - maybe a Japanese thrush. Looking it up, i see a resemblance to the female, missing the yellow beak and i didn't see the spots. The variations could be because these islands, which are the farthest from any continental land mass, have the most(or nearly most) endemic species. Listening to their songs, there is some connection. I was too busy looking in her eyes, when she came today (or her daughter), to check her markings. I heard them both a while ago. I had saved this post with only the title for a while. Reminder - write this down - she said.
 Like the magic of spirit through nature - that surrounds us all - and one of the most creative singers in the world. Signs that your difficult time will pass. Once - on a walk 3 mi. away, coming up the hill, one followed. I whistled out something and she followed, singing,  for a while till she came to the tree right across and i came closer - a sensitive soul. A terribly wonderful world...

Duality - Illusion and /or nature of the world?

After discussing the primary and original duality(eternal self/temporary life), let's look at how it seems to permeate everything. Of course, the eternal soul is accepted in different ways and also not at all. The illusory nature of life allows a multitude of conceptions and duality guarantees opposite positions. Hot/cold -North/south etc. By land or country you can often observe the different groups fighting from north and south(or east-west). I guess things tend to attract and repel to perpetuate the desire for conflict and and the "law" of cause and effect. the soul histories we've shared have conditioned us, and the animal nature continues the stories. I've always thought that the purpose of conflict(and hunger) is to keep all moving. Much can be learned, especially when the traveller grows weary of it and seeks a new deeper way of consciousness. The old ways change slowly. The key is to consciously work toward and expect an enlightened way of life, where duality is eclipsed by unity...

Siddartha and the pond / solitude

Even though I've lived in mostly rural areas most of my life, and feel somewhat oblivious (day by day) to overpopulation(my illusion), the pond reminds me of the importance of creating a more balanced environment. Having gone many times without seeing anyone in a day, maybe you can understand. Of course, with the web, we are, more than ever, living in a global village. Solitude can remind us of the peace within and that our choices determine our fate. And boundaries - you cannot be responsible for the world - only your part - tho you  can influence it to a large or small degree. Like Siddartha, who had not gone beyond the palace walls, I was not observing the pain and suffering that are part of life - especially when resources are limited. Not equating human and animal suffering, it was sort of horrifying at the pond yesterday. Observed were two smaller crayfish - fighting over the carcass of a larger one. Another instance of why to continue the work. Seemingly an endless task - healing the earth, we can start with ourselves, work without attachment, enjoy and explore the things we wish, and meditate on the oneness under a tree - or by a pond...

Ray Barreto & Tito Allen - Indestructible

Ray Barreto & Tito Allen - Indestructible

Sea Monsters of the North: Day 11-Skull Discovered at Last!

Sea Monsters of the North: Day 11-Skull Discovered at Last!

Motivators/ you are here/ travelling in a vehicle

Why we do what we do. Why all is as it is. Hunger/Creation/Desire...lower forms of Love... With only brief trips down to the pond the last couple days, i got a couple "snapshots." --- you know those views of events or expressions that seem to tell the "truth" or "story" about something or someone. One of them - i'll warn sensitive readers - (about the cray deaths in last post) may be disturbing. A big cray was atop another victim, apparently consuming the smaller creature. I assume this is because of the overpopulation of the pond, but it's not easy to see compassion in a crustacean. This gives more meaning to the pond work, but it's all a creative experiment - life is that is. I read - http://wikilivres.ca/wiki/An_Autobiography_or_The_Story_of_my_Experiments_with_Truth  - by Gandhi - at an early age. As he continued and put all of himself to his cause - even losing his body - that is why he is truly a "Great Soul" and his experiment was a glorious truth....If we can be totally honest - we can admit to not knowing ---- let's say - more than we actually do know about what life is. Maybe the opposite is one thinking they know so much of the "Truth" that they have a right to injure, destroy or despise others. Most just believe what they were told - and behave as others do from their area. Some will give their lives or take other's for "their beliefs". It seems almost borne out of social needs, retaining culture, and needing to have an answer for what happens in the afterlife. If we have the courage - we can follow our own path of the heart. Life unfolds in wonder... Any birth on this amazing planet will eventually result in a death. The earth is called a "middle planet." Some can be experiencing like a heaven and others like a hell. Most move thru all experiences learning/gaining or suffering/losing... If our identity is the observer (the one who is residing IN the body)
, much becomes clear, and everything is learning/growing/remembering/Being. ----Oh yeah, the other snapshot was the many flowers - recovering,opening, and reaching/looking to the sky...

Histories

Fairly normal pond runnings lately - well except for 3 (cray) possible homicides. All the remains were found at the same location, and in a similar condition. Forensics were not done. Although the next person that asks me what i do - i will say forensic botany. Or maybe risk management/damage control ( you know - if things don't work out at first). Anyway, new group of polliwogs - yesterday on one side - "both sides today"- Have moved 11 or so crays to the small tank with lavender colored lilies. Glad to have the golden horse come and visit and he could help take down the grass --- Thinking about the relatively small wolf spider in here -- after relocating a larger (4") friend or relative the other night. Gained more respect for them a couple months ago, after finding out they have some type of venom. That might explain a bite a few months ago, though the only other mean thing we have is centipedes, which is not bad for tropics. The boars have come right outside a couple nights before- sometime crunching passion fruits. So i procrastinated - the big one the other night waited above for hours- and this one was hanging around. I guess i talk to insects also 'cause i told the other one that i understand why you like to hide in here. A while back, on a bright day  - while sitting outside - a wolf spider came floating down from the trees. As he hit the ground, he took off like a jet. Remembering the little wasp with the orange thorax - dragging dead w spiders, their relationship was known to me. Since i have lived rurally for so long, you know how you get used to things, which Aldous Huxley said was 50% of the philosophy of life. I looked at the But if a human or culture retains useless or harmful habits, one must reason and practice letting go what does not serve the good of all - including the fear of a little spider.

Feeding Fish

Only thing i had was some thick oats. Fish enjoyed it much as it sank below and methodically in rhythm. Put more this morning. Had spontaneous ritual of spreading food - in a circle of the pond. Lilly,fish,healing,,happy and optimistic...

Life in the Food Chain

Today - inoticed the small fish ripping and shaking while grazing the algae, the larger and faster dominating the others. Seeming to be aggression - trying to keep others away, it was like a tic - like odd movement. I could detect their anxiety. I cleared lilly pads away, so algae could grow. I've seen crays cut it down like a big mower,so even tho i'm still moving them,their numbers are still too high for the resource. i need to decide about feeding the diminishing fish, Saw a cray reaching out for them and the slower polliwogs don't have much a chance. We see in our histories - stories of competitive gods and their representatives. So, that legacy and has been the nature and it's template of this planet, at least predominately, for our long recent history. I pulled one of the lilies above the surface and gazed into the center. The lotus above seemed to have evolved to open - open -  open - stretching - baring it's heart to the sky - before letting the pink petals slowly let go and eventually tumble to into the water.

Creation Lotus

In a Vedic creation story, one of the aspects of MahaVishnu lies down (asleep?)in the the causal ocean, universes emanate like bubbles or seeds(science concurs with this bubble like description). While laying down - a lotus flower sprouts from the navel -and atop the local creator god Brahma appears. Today, the first thing i noticed, going down to the pond, was the 5 - 6 ft. - pink lotus. Glorious beauty i feel blessed to experience. (I don't know if there will income - or even if i will live here in a month or two - but i am now feeling the great wealth that is given.  I do know this comes from within - and - it IS always now). I think it could be the same, doing anything or being anywhere, whatever you put your heart and presence to. The ideas here are that i didn't go to the cray trap first - or look at the murky water and disappearing tadpoles. And if we are made in the image of the creator, we need to create. Noticing or looking for the things that are of beauty and meaning(everywhere) will empower you to work on solving/improving the problems of this temporary world. This touches on the subject of oneness - and - personal responsibility(difference). After creation in the Vedas, another aspect of the Source is said to enter the creations. Is this what is happening Now? Of course, this extremely complicated version of creation isn't possible to know for nearly all, and each group of humans who try to make their own version the "only way" do not succeed. It is the fruit of consciousness and goodness we express that is only important. Yet, we find ourselves in a world where some will steal or kill for their god and feel justified or even heroic. Our choices give us different "realities". The evolution of consciousness must take so long. (That is why Vedantists and geologists speak in millions of years or more). We didn't all come here from our last incarnation, and won't all go to the same place in our next. It is romantic to believe this planet will all enlighten in a brilliant flash(Very possible with a supernatural event). Yesterday i read " You are not in everything - Everything is in you". The oneness of Source that we share is optional to express(or hidden) here. Whether an energy or creator entering -will most likely be revealed. Most of us feel something is happening and details and interpretations differ, all of us are part of this planet---and---there's more than One who is sleeping/dreaming/creating?

There's been a lot of activity in our local pond - and - a lot of human (for lack of a better term for myself) / crustation interaction. But my thots today are to the human characteristics that would be valuable to recognize. Many of these posts may be ponderings and thoughts that either are remembered, continuings, or written elsewhere - of which i'm not sure where - am still working on transfering things to this new/old laptop. With our spirit/matter - body/soul dualities context - what is the balance of these dichotomies that we have seen in this recent short history. -

Tabla beat science - Big Brother

Tabla beat science - Big Brother

Not that i'm keeping track, but the first duality was said to be the presumption of another (eternal) self within a temporay encasing (the body). So let's say the second is having a love and regard for all life // living in a system that requires each to subsist ( and terminate the life) off the other. This is interesting to ponder...

Always lots of activity down by the pond, writer needs to remember those later - oh yeah - fiction - or - a cry for help - haha.. Wanted to talk about the difference in being one with nature - and one with all that is...-later- there's at least one more - if i remember. because the ecological changes are important - wanna talk about the pond - last post is - i don't know- somewhere(check drafts brainiac - hey - who said that). So - when i went down  usually midday - for vitamin d hormone - and some? meditation.Today, the most amazing things were: ok - in over 2 yrs living here, i had not seen or interacted with the cane toads, which proliferate extensively in this  couple mi/km area. Being used to them (stepped on one with bare feet-the other night- luckily my bare feet reacted  fast - 'dude you people are slow' Last mo - was on evening walk (meeting the wild boar story-sometime) --Going buy the pond i noticed a large amount of toads in the pond - splashing about - often on top of 2 o3 of each other. I stopped =- mesmerised- Being nonvoyueristic by nature - i felt - a little funny - and i guess this might of been the first time of speaking to them as a group - "I'm sorry - i've -i've never seen anything like this". Continuing while watching me wasn't one heroic one  hopped out and hopped over onto my sandal ed( we say slippered) foot and hopped on by into the bush. Ok ok - i get the message- Today - after moving one the crayfish from the trap. Oh yeah sorry-yesterday - to prove they eat anything - i put - we say hitchhikers - little seeds that stick on your body and things from the jungle - put them at the water's edge -a younger cray was devouring them -thought it might have been a carcass -saw the first time last week - cept when i killed one a few weeks ago. -(write later with lost lake - 'specially the emancipation of the caged bait frogs episode).  So crays are voracious - and i can't judge them  for that. - Finally - Today while laying - one toad did a couple hops out of pond and is 1 ft away looking at me. Unfortunately, memory took me to the last time of daytime meeting at the pond. I spoke, making visualized pictures in case he didn't understand english and did understand telepathy, a field that needs study. "Please don't jump on any part of my body. Hi. i just live up the hill and just getting sun. Nice to meet you." "And i'll talk about you and people will hear about you, as a small tear came. He jumped when i put the water on the edge - so he could know - why do animals need to be territorial(aren't most and along with tribalism - our greatest conflicts?). These toads are so mellow, just sitting there as the car comes - maybe living a parallel life- but they are superbadass - like they used come out inthe bee swarm when the hive moved in my old bass drum out back. They like to eat them - they have to evolve to get the nectar from the flower.?- hive living? last week one jumped out of the planter/trap. Later - when moving the cray - i looked - like a horror movie - the cray had no claws. aaaaahh! What kind have mad scientist have i become. After a while today, i thought about that guy that jumped out today( maybe he was wondering about claws) - the tears came again - and a huge smile...

African brazil

African brazil

Rio 1: Samba at the Dawn of Modern Brazil

Rio 1: Samba at the Dawn of Modern Brazil

I Feel It (Captain Planet Remix)

I Feel It (Captain Planet Remix)

Ojos De Brujo - Ventilaor R-80 (Makala Remix)

Ojos De Brujo - Ventilaor R-80 (Makala Remix)