5 days of Fire Medicine.
“I want to connect the earth to the Universe”
“I am exploring connection to an unseen power.”
“his legacy is written in fire.”
Oh Sky,
i bet you didn’t even know how wonderous so much adornment could feel….
and how much you’ve deserve such a being.
vs. the ones who have filled you with the so very un-beautiful things… the violent and destructive things
It makes sense that you’d settle
for and be content with still ness. and nothingness… over more of the same.
Madam Sky…you have and always will endure.
and through it all…you continue to show up giving birth the sun daily to light up this world… even in your own darkness you are the keeper and giver of light.
and then here comes this guy—this Man! … setting you afire in all the most wonderful of ways.
the love and ecstasy you must feel.
If the expansive sky could ever fall in love with the human being… of course it would be him.
who made it his goal to build a ladder connecting he to you…and you both to the heavens above.
… and when the finale booms…
I ‘m certain you cry in quiet streaks of smoke and still ness.
returning you back to the mundane.
to your sky full of alone ness.
to maintain and hold up all that you do.
Saturday. Sunday. Monday. Tuesday .Wednesday.
5 days of explosive
luminous.
beauty.
Cai Guo-Qiang, when your art is done—
I hope you take care of her please. i hope you stay with her in the silence until the debris —of explosives and heart shards have landed…
that you drive away slowly.
Oh to be the human being that the sky has opened her heart to.
when Chinese alchemists were developing elixir of immortality,
one recipe caused an explosion.
They named their discovery “fire medicine,”
the Chinese word for gunpowder.
From the very beginning, gunpowder has been about accidents,
loss of control and destruction.
But it's also been about the healing power and unseen energies.
I dreamed of becoming an artist when I was little, but like my father,
who was an avid painter himself, I was cautious and timid.
Caution is a fine quality in life, but not so in art.
Once upon a time
in a haystack of despair
Happiness sometimes hard 2 find (Yeah)
Africa divided
Hijack N the air
It's enuff 2 make U wanna lose ur mind
But i say...
It's only mountains
& the sea
Love will conquer
If U just believe
Oh yeah
It's only mountains
& the sea
If I ruled the world…
There was an ice cream shop my mom would take me to when i was little. Called the Pink Dipper, I think. The walls were pink. And all along the walls were shelves with toys. porcelain masks. and clowns. Very fine things. such beautiful things. And along with each self was a sign that read “YOU BREAK IT, YOU BUY IT! ” and I would get the stern talk an eye glare from my mom at the doorway “…..DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING!” To this day I don’ t recall the ice cream or it’s taste. I don’t even recall the items and what they were. I just know that they were bright and beautiful. And that I was restricted from them. from having. from touching. from engaging with the fine things… restricted from beauty.
seem to me that there should be a law added to docket. May no human ever be restricted from having. touching. or relishing in BEAUTY. It may in fact be the very thing we need next to food and water.
I wish i could parachute it down in neatly wrapped satchels for the entire world.
and maybe with a note! that says… “If you break it… THAT’S OKAY! ! …just remake it… into some thing new and beautiful too.” like the Japanese potters repairing brokenness with gold.
and why don’t we hear more about you more Bill?
JOY.
Joy, joy, joy, joy!
Whoa, yeah
Unspeakable speakable
The meaning's unreachable
I'll go where he leads me to
More synonyms, I'm gon need a few
Lately I've had a hard time ain't been satisfied when I testify
Wanna make sure I'm sharp when I make the point of you
When them blessings come through, I'm clear then
And even more clear when you do it again
They must understand the point of you
The last word doesn't come from the doctor
Who's the world that the doctor comes out of
Just keep praying beyond the last hour
Now you witness the procedure of power
Mumbling to myself, must think I'm crazy
But I'm humbling myself, and I'm giving praise
Fumbling God in myself, they don't know what I'm saying
If you're crumbling and need help, I know who can raise you
Unspeakable speakable
The meaning's unreachable
I'll go where he leads me to
More synonyms, I'm gon need a few
Lately I've had a hard time ain't been satisfied when I testify
Wanna make sure I'm sharp when I make the point of you
When them blessings come through, I'm clear then
And even more clear when you do it again
They must understand the point of you
Said I couldn't change that
That's another life
But I scrubbed like Ajax
I stayed on my grind
I was way way back now I'm front of line
Was I s'posed to say that?
Ain't tryin' to undermine
Mumbling to myself, must think I'm crazy
But I'm humbling myself, and I'm giving praise
Fumbling God in myself, they don't know what I'm saying
If you're crumbling and need help, I know who can raise you
Unspeakable speakable
The meaning's unreachable
I'll go where he leads me to
More synonyms, I'm gon need a few
Lately I've had a hard time ain't been satisfied when I testify
Wanna make sure I'm sharp when I make the point of you
When them blessings come through, I'm clear then
And even more clear when you do it again
They must understand the point of you
Dark situations can make them much brighter, yeah yeah
If your spirits way down He can make them much lighter, yeah
You're just taking off you can go higher
Now let the joyful water fill your eyes up
Lately I've had a hard time ain't been satisfied when I testify
Wanna make sure I'm sharp when I make the point of you
When them blessings come through, I'm clear then
And even more clear when you do it again
They must understand the point of you
Joy, joy, joy, joy!
Joy Joy, joy
I've got (JOY!)
Wonderful (JOY!)
Great joy (JOY!)
Powerful (JOY!)
I'm talking 'bout (JOY!)
In the morning I got joy (JOY!)
In the noon day I got joy (JOY!)
And late in the midnight hour (JOY!)
I got joy
When them blessings come through (When them blessings come through)
When them blessings come through (When them blessings come through)
When them blessings come through (When them blessings come through)
Yeah
(JOY!)
This joy that I have (JOY!)
World didn't give it, and the world (JOY!)
Can't take it away, I got it (JOY!)
I got it, I got it (JOY!)
In my walk, (JOY!)
In my talk, (JOY!)
In my home, (JOY!)
(JOY!)
(JOY!)
(JOY!)
(JOY!)
(JOY!)
If you want it you can have it (JOY!)
If you need it you can have it (JOY!)
Love, peace, joy, joy (JOY!)
When them blessings come through (When them blessings come through)
When them blessings come through (When them blessings come through)
When them blessings come through (When them blessings come through)
God gave you (JOY!)
(JOY!)
Thank God for joy, (JOY!)
Thank you God for your joy, (JOY!)
Power, peace, (JOY!)
Joy (JOY!)
(JOY!)
Joy
~Voices of Fire.
The Sweetness of the Southern tongue…
Morning walk.
Young brother on his way to school…
“ Sweet heart, your book bag is open.”
“ oh, thank you.”
“have a good day, honey.”
And maybe for the first time, I heard the words that have been spoon fed to my spirit my whole life.
Sugar. (Shuga.)
Honey…
Sugah pie…
Pumpkin ( my mother’s persona'l nick name for me.
Sweetie….
Sweetie Pie…
Shuga plum…
honey pie...
shuga baby…
Sweet Heart….
The tongue. The ears.
the spirit.
The Medicine.
Inescapable Sweetness.
Must be something to it.
On Protecting the Imagination…
Emails. Texts. IG. Wasapp. and all of the ways of continuous accessibility….. ….Blocks Accessibility. 🌌
There is a word called... Programmed.
it means….
to be provided with
coded instructions for the automatic performance of a task.
presence is not needed.
mine. yours. nor theirs.
mechanical.
coding.
ensures
the arranged automation moves according to plan.
dafuck.
(Whats that you always say mr.fuller sir? ? If I don’t understand wha??? im not confused. )
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Will cyborg circuits be made from melanin?
Posted on March 26, 2019 by Frontiers Science Communications in Engineering, Featured News, Robotics and AI // 2 Comments
Scientists have achieved a billion-fold increase in the electrical conductivity of melanin, that could unleash its potential in safe, sustainable bioelectronics; Frontiers in Chemistry
Despite extensive research on the structure of melanin, nobody has yet managed to harness its potential in implantable electronics.
Scientists have achieved a billion-fold increase in the electrical conductivity of melanin, that could unleash its potential in safe, sustainable bioelectronics
— by Matthew Prior, Frontiers science writer
The dark brown melanin pigment, eumelanin, colors hair and eyes, and protects our skin from sun damage. It has also long been known to conduct electricity, but too little for any useful application – until now.
Digestion and Memory
I’m aware of the fact that when the stomach is digesting
the body pulls all of the energy needed from else.where (?) to ensure this can happen.
Explanations of the “itis” so to say.
something similar happens with traumas.
the spirit and body (they are quilted) pull all of the energy needed from else.where (??) to digest.
to keep itself moving.
releasing.
shitting.
flushing.
washing.
standing.
I can tell you the colors of my shirt on the day my dads cousin came to visit us when i was 2.
I can tell you the phone number of my 5th grade crush.
I can tell you of the day I learned what the word “fiesty” meant when Ms. rosemary called my house and described me as it! (i’ve never feared a bully)
I can tell you where My grandmother would (try to ) hide her sewing scissor from us.
and the songs the soldiers would chant on the field…
but… i realize.
when grapefruits and oranges began to grow on frontal lobes and soil less stems….
(not my own. but closest we gonna get to it. )
the economizing of energy and blood flow began.
dem yesterday things was no longer needed.
only dese today things.
and tomorrow??? …… ohucanforgetaboutit.
orange diamonds. with black script . detour.
.
spirit chews the cud too.
memory.
u on da bench.
NOW —
it’s u up ta bat.
u outer eyes wondering?
that’s it. mystery solved?
it’s only the NOW.
what about dem inner eyes ???
yep….
they seein’
only the saaaaame thing.
the blank canvas of potentiality called. NOW.
(queen jujewel gets it! lol i laughin’!)
a galaxy far far within
people always trying to find the world i’m in.
people always trying to find the world i’m in.
people always trying to find the world i’m in…..
Daydreaming
It is by far my favorite means of travel…
“its not down on any map; true places never are” ~ Herman Melville
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’
doesn’t make any sense.” ~ Rumi
There is a word called... "wicked"
awaiting serious critical analysis.
with far too many euphemisms standing in its place.
True conversations have yet to begin.
“The Sugar House”
“I have heard a great deal said about hell, and wicked places, but I don’t think there is any worse hell than that Sugar House. ” ~James Matthews
Talk to me Quilters...
tell me of your art. I think you may know the secrets of this delicate relationship between the spirit realm… and this one of ours… perhaps you even hold the pattern. on waxed sheets of folded sepia.
my mind’s eyes cant stop seeing the grand underpinnings of it all.
star shine pulled through needle eye.
thimbles and pricks.
Soul Grown Deep.
https://www.soulsgrowndeep.org/gees-bend-quiltmakers