January 2012
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March 2011
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“I was carried away with delight, a week ago, at an encampment of Gypsies who had...”
– Gustave Flaubert, letter to George Sand, 1867
February 2011
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January 2011
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December 2010
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The Electronical Rattle Bag: This is what... →
jhnbrssndn:
A shocking day, alright.
A day on which an unelected government, acting as a proxy for international finance capital, began its dismembering of Higher Education; on which the State set hundreds of riot cops and mounted police on students, trade unionists and schoolchildren; and…
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Adventures in Hemp Milk (or 'How to Avoid Being...
I don’t get on fantastically with dairy products. Not an allergy or even really an intolerance, so much as a generally-feeling-better if I avoid them in large doses. Especially milk. Goats’ milk is better (and I love the taste - it reminds me of childhood, which isn’t to say that I was suckled by goats) but for quite a while I’ve just drunk soya milk. Recently, though,...
October 2010
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“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the...”
– Howard Zinn via Chris Corrigan’s blog: http://chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot
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“Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and...”
– Benoit Mandelbrot (1924-2010)
from The Fractal Geometry of Nature
RIP
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“The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at...”
– Love After Love
Derek Walcott
(This is the first poem that came to mind to share on National Poetry Day 2010)
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September 2010
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“How should I not be glad to contemplate
the clouds clearing beyond the dormer...”
– Everything is Going to Be All Right
Derek Mahon
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Les Machines de l'île :: Nantes →
Giant puppets from the Royal de Luxe team. Got to be worth a look if you’re near Nantes this year!
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“We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have...”
– Joseph Campbell - The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)
This is one of my favourite Joseph Campbell quotes of all time. It also kicks off The Power of Myth, if I remember rightly, but I could be wrong. I always come back full circle to Joseph Campbell in the end.
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“We’re in a freefall into future. We don’t know where we’re...”
– Joseph Campbell - Sukhavati (2007)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell
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“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”
– Joseph Campbell
(via t-h-t)
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My current theme tune while I write a piece for...
“I forget.
I remember and forget
and remember again.
One day,
When all the...”
– Milk and Stars
New poetry post on the Coyopa site, written at the Westcountry Storytelling Festival at the end of August 2010, Embercombe, Devon.
If you like it, please do leave word at the Coyopa site!
July 2010
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June 2010
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May 2010
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parkstepp asked: Your writing is the air that breathes through me ,when I work in my yard...wonderful insights....true feelings..nice to follow your site...Peace,,--Stephen
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lunajune asked: :) are you enjoying your spring?
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“At the still point of the turning world.
Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither...”
– ~ T.S. Eliot ~ (from ‘Burnt Norton’)
March 2010
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“God speaks to each of us before we are,
Before he’s formed us then, in...”
– God Speaks to Each of Us - Rainer Maria Rilke
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“The Mad Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow (Possibly by Ben Jonson).
From Oberon...”
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Oberon, Titania and Puck by William Blake, c.1785
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“Coyote and Ground Squirrel do not break the compact they have with each other...”
– (from The Etiquette of Freedom by Gary Snyder - in The Practice of the Wild, a truly inspiring collection of his writings on wildness, freedom, goodness and grace. North Point Press, 1990. Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004)
February 2010
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listening to "Richie Havens - Going Back To My... →
Richie Havens – Going Back To My Roots #timetodanceyoumightdietomorrow
listening to "Dotshop - The Bulgarian Voices... →
And when all else fails, or long before: go back to the roots. The Bulgarian Voices/Angelite featuring Huun-Huur-Tu - Legend #ancestors
listening to "The Doors - Waiting For The Sun" →
The Doors – Waiting For The Sun. Still waiting. Always.
listening to "Santana - Soul Sacrifice (Woodstock... →
Nothing if not #twance - Santana at Woodstock: Soul Sacrifice - right link this time…
listening to "Soul Sacrifice (Santana Tribute) -... →
nothing if not #twance - Santana at Woodstock: Soul Sacrifice…
listening to "Brian Eno - The Big Ship" →
listening to "John Lennon-Watching the Wheels" →
And this is my Saturday. Letting go and letting go and letting go.
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“I know the voice of depression
Still calls to you.
I know those habits that...”
– ~Hafiz~
Cast All Your Votes For Dancing
(from I Heard God Laughing - Renderings of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky)
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“Suibhne:
There was a time when I deemed more melodious
than the quiet...”
– From the Buile Suibhne [Sweeney’s Frenzy] (author unknown, first manuscript 1670, but story dates to at least 13th century)
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“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for...”
– Dalai Lama (via g-funk/bohemea) (via gypsyanatomy) (via thehermitage)
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“I don’t know.
One day to the next, like a weathervane.
Today, I think...”
–
Weathervane
Yes, the morning sun was that good. And yesterday I was looking at photographs of the cottage in Summer, remembering that the trees won’t always be black and bare… Who knows where I’ll be by then.
Posted at create.coyopa.net
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Riddle me this...
Just in case you’re lost, mad or curious enough to want to ask me anything, there’s a link on my page now to do just that… If I know the answer, I’ll do my best to tell you…
“Try to imagine Pegasus mating with a unicorn and the creature that they birth. I...”
– U.S. snowboarder Graham Watanabe on what performing in the Olympics means to him (via pilnick) (via seashelllz) (via clothedinsky)
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“Today, the earth began exhaling.
All Winter, it held its breath,
Kept its...”
– The Wild Breath
I wrote this over the last few days, after a single moment out in the woods here. It happened there, simply and amazingly, the moment of turning. Or at least my awareness of it: the knowledge that somehow, in some sense, Winter was over. Glory be!
If you like it, follow the link...
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Love Knows Love →
Love knows love and meets with joy Its face in the beloved heart. Come in, it says. Sit down and rest! You must be tired, but tell me! Tell me! Where have you been, all this time? What life are you wearing these days? What dance, what wounds, what joys?
Hold me. Say nothing. Just hold me. The road is too strange and beautiful for words. Hold me. The silence itself is a wonderful terror to...
January 2010
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Poetry Flash: Gary Snyder & Peter Coyote →
Dudes at play with conversation
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