riotheclown: clowning (butterfly)
I am very nervous about wasting time. Being busy is a way of disappearing. It was a way as a child to avoid too much scrutiny or being given something to do that I didn't want to do. I think that is why I sit zazen. For a half hour or so every day I don't have to question what I am doing. Sometimes I feel as if I will explode, right there on the zafu. It is an amusing thought. It never happens. So I have to just continue to sit.

I don't know what to do.

I suppose I am busy not knowing.

Okay then. Well I guess that's that.
riotheclown: clowning (pissoff)
-Art as transformation is not a new idea. (Everything important about art probably has been said before). But this is no reason not to say more about it, just as there is no reason not to draw a rock or tree because someone else – even you, yourself – has drawn it before. We continue to eat, we continue to make love, we continue to enjoy our children and walk in the woods, even though we have done these things countless times before. There are intrinsic rewards. They comprise what life is. They reveal us to who we are and why we are here at least as much and often much more than new experiences do.

The above is a quote from Ellen Dissanayake's essay, Orphans and a Dog: Art and Transformation.

I read it in a posting by Sub Rosa who is writing a lot really interesting stuff about art, beauty, and being human.
riotheclown: clowning (sorry)
Okay, so last post I put in a link to Carl Sagan's video where he sings Stephen Hawkings lyrics and nobody commented.

I really want people to enjoy this, this is better than the rare parrot humping the guys head!

Sheesh I hate being so limited!  If I had a bigger volcabulary of knowledge and stuff I would really make people laugh.

I would.

I joined aardvark a place where you post your area of knowledge and answer questions about it.  I put "stuff" as my area and I got my first inquiry.  It was:

"what do you think are the best things about guys who are about liking girls and the worst things? What do you think are the best things about girls who are about liking boys and the worst things?"

I actually had answers.

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