nature does not lie

 Everything produces waste = All products of change

All metabolism is based upon the conversion of elements obtained from outside of the body

Breath and breathing have associations with soul and spirit

Crap and crapping have different associations and meanings

Painting portraits of viruses trying to imagine an existence without respiration or organs

A cunning container of code for replication of a large number of cunning code containers

Immobile inert particle essence of the previous generation from a different time and place

Activated by the living waters of another host cell

Moving with meaning

Springing into action

Purpose in replication

Opportunity generates generations

What changes with all the changing going on?

All organisms reproduce at a rate well beyond the ability of the environment to sustain them all.

Earth message over eons biological evolution is rude and real relationship with ALL life and death.

 

  

pattern framing transplanting meaning

change in surrounding conditions stimulate interior reordering 

moving parameters refocus information contained within waiting

reanimation is continuous and commonplace with compositions of spirits, bodies and others 

structurally related predispositions for responding behaviors and orientations undiscovered

context communicating subjective differentiation projective anticipation of participation

situational switches recombination sequences initiated upstream utilized by host machinery

predictive properties part of the personhood of all things great and small moving thru time

physical and non-physical-visible and invisible-intentional and unintentional- conductors are we

unorthodox communication language magic

magical alphabets sacred incantations uncommon pronunciations weird sounds many voices

the vibration beneath the tone is the message from the breath returning to the world.

the sound is no longer possessed in potential by someone or thing but set free and made observable.

what is observed is determined by the qualities of the observer to feel the wave move through them.

special delivery

sounds

natural thought interrupters

a signal intensity ritual journey daydream buzzkill override attention grabber incoming information alert.

energy conductivity pathway 

The new Governor declared a state of emergency for Ulster County New York - radial ice up to half an inch thick accumulating on all surfaces.

The Tree's limbs are bowed down and curled over as if punched in the stomach covered in heavy ice with evenly spaced icicles hanging from the smallest twig tips

One small branch is outside my window bent and dangling to touch and rest upon the insulated electric line twisted around the high-tension steel cable connecting power from the road to my home.

Dazzling beautiful in the bright clear light of day refracting reflecting magnifying twinkling chandelier plumb bobs Fresnel lenses 

Bending light from bending branch amplified and directed to me personally with specific meaning and unconventional intensity delivery from the sun to my eyes and into my mind

hard to imagine how that mature limb of the old sugar maple could possibly be bent to the extreme it was by a natural phenomenon

easy to imagine how the load would break the limb and could pull the power line off the house dropping between the generator and the twin propane tanks that fuel it at the original entrance roadside of my old home.

I was powerless to do anything to protect my space, my border, my boundry- less than twenty feet up and out of my old front door.

hard not to stare at it in a strange, concentrated worry.

The image of the unfinished watercolor above is on the same size paper block mentioned in an earlier blog post titled age.

Icosahedral capsid is the second I have done in a similar spirit to the two other series on eight by ten inch one-hundred-and-forty-pound cold press cotton.

the first painting was finished before the storm, this was done just after the powerline was safe.

considering the self-assembly of protomers into aggregate forms called capsomeres

 considering the solar activity causing a geomagnetic storm affecting the temperature of the atmosphere one hundred and thirty miles up causing it to be denser than expected creating fifty% more drag on the satellites launched into orbit the day before

cytoplasmic streaming? The Waters of Life!

 steam the same distance away as me and most of the stuff here within that old front door 

came up from the city

 for more than twenty years 

but distance of space between things is measured not horizontally

but vertically

 challenging the trajectory and acceleration in the outer envelope of our collectively perceived boundry our body Earth something can happen in minutes, the Sun and Earth are that intimately linked- the distance doesn't matter

Essentially the polymorphous container holds within it the encoded adaptive information of responses to changing environmental conditions as experienced in past generations.

check the return address on our individuated protein envelopes see what I'm talking about

boundary between inside and out

 What information gets passed back and forth and what meaning is found

 within the

minds and actions of the things I share this world with?

Significant improbable overflow of natural and artificial threshold markers clay pot ash circle

alignments temporal and spiritual safety cone borrowed and placed after the driveway was re-done a few years ago the crushed stone hauled up the mountain by truck dumped and leveled with the hope that the concealed drain would lure the emergent mountain spring flow away from my home and out to the road preventing the seasonal manifestation of a growing moving ice sheet sliding down over the stairs to deck and door.

Singular access to interior

    territorial enclosure stone wall ditch and road the not dead but dying in the middle 

Dynamic equilibrium moving critical balance horizontal enter- exit to my place periphery of my zone of control the extent of my private space beyond which the perturbations of outside nonlocal stimulation is internalized and adjusted for accommodating adaptive change and anticipating future opportunity limits

directive dualistic determine door decision

discovery             -                    distraction

desire                  -                    disgust

retroactive attention causal extra sensory sensitivity extending and judging the novelty outside perceptual field and before individual memory recall passively triggered acquired nonexperiential wisdom 

all things are responsive to environmental change

Life has this as a common inherited quality

variations of the theme over time branching developing learning

making the most from what is available

The image at the top of this blog post taken with my wife's phone this Boxing Day just passed.

One of a number of moving images of the twisting mink that would not transfer to this place.

The short video from my wife's phone appears in an untitled post from a location between that above 

and The Brighid shrine and pole idol at the brook that runs through this special place I was brought to.

The Idol was carved years before I dared envision this place of my dreams

This goddess was new to me - as was sharing polytheist pagan worship as public expression

A beginning relationship

A bringing relationship

A building relationship

A benevolent relationship

A persona introduced to me by people in person

Awareness of a presence that is transpersonal nonhuman identity associated with special things, places, activities and times.

Part of a family that is part of a larger community of other beings that people believe exist here and now as well as there and then or the legendary mythic there and then is somehow interconnected with contemporary exchange of blessing and recipricosity between multiple beings in multiple worlds.

 

I carved the idol in Jersey City from the impression I had received from the subject after a number of years of formal study and worship in ADF.

Not My first representation of the Goddess Brighid~~~~~

most challenging to have a static object embody the character of such a responsive dynamic essence.

ADF was off to a wise start in not claiming ownership of Brighid or any other gods and goddesses as unique to their religion.

A religion that doesn't boast about exclusive original arrangements with the best is hard to find.

Allowing Me to discover what a Goddess or God is for myself.

I was influenced by other people in and out of ADF and the practice of the offering to a spirit of inspiration-Brighid after the gatekeeper-Manannan

I believe the flow of water thinly meandering over the porous stone in the sun light is an energetic exchange between worlds that can be fully sensed.

It can be smelled from a distance, as well as heard and seen. Touch and taste are particularly stimulated

sensitivities to temperature and texture.

Life connection complexity generator++++

Water empowered to carry particles of matter dissolved salts and gasses churned through glacial till at just the right angle and speed are a naturally occurring biological accelerator and accumulator in infancy.

with this sense we find the human idea of " fresh " as in the springtime or spring water.

The Brighid Idol is upstream of the Manannan shrine at the end of my property both established immediately after offerings and omens of acceptance over twenty years ago.

The two Gods are guides that brought me to where I am. providing the framework of understanding necessary for my discovery of world view and personal space along with spiritual growth. 

Borders are limits between spaces contained in subjects or objects, often this is found in the responses of one thing to another, commonly two previously undiscovered things are the root cause of a known emergent phenomenon. Reactive Perseptive fields outside and inside of bodies polarized front to end.

Gentle regular well-meaning appreciation and respect are part of devotional ritual practice

People sharing that with people is the current proceeding...

 taking up where others have left off.

It is not a big deal as much as a habit of observation

you don't have to get carried away with it,

you just have to carry it on at a personal pace

regular low intensity attention affection stimulation

inside and out ~ up and down ~ back and forth ~side to side

lots of little circles

It's the thought that counts

 People witness the call to enter sacred space with the declaration of the intention of honoring the many beings, gods and not gods that bless our world and our lives.

The first sacrifice is offered to our most common and ancient relationships of the living and dead that make up what we know and have yet to discover about the vastly huge and immensely complex truth!

EARTH

Mother of being

Lands of All Living

Generator of generations

All the way back

The one and only Original

The Real Deal

The Whole Thing

without idealization, without romanticization,

without interpretation, without exaggeration,

without expectation of special favor, without exploitation of practice 

without fear of penalty, without obligation

offer of our selves this freely given gift to the Great Giver

a tiny bit from a tiny bit part of bigger things of bigger things

genuine authentic appreciation for a nurturing benevolent current that runs through the ages and things of this Living and Dying Place shared as a growing body shared as it is by all generously as particular participants in planetary personhood recognized here and now

Our Ritual in your name 

with our breath

with our sound 

with our words

in our voice

we pray

Earth Mother                                           Accept Our Sacrifice!

age

 A watercolor of a Copepod on the same size paper block as the Gods and Goddesses series I have painted- accumulating into the yet to be born -Perrin's incomplete guide to Gods and not gods-

of which, The Cailleach appears on the cover of ADF's publication OAK LEAVES currently. 

I have had my work on the cover before, but this is a return to the series that was featured on ADF's publication The Druid's Progress report number eight fall 1991ce Cernunnos and again with report number nine spring 1992ce Lugh.

the series, sold as individually crafted cards in a limited micro community is mostly work before associations with Priest, Clergy, Reverend and the general public. The Cailleach was painted mid-nineties.

The Copepod was painted after Priest, Clergy, Reverend. Somewhere about a decade into the next century that I find myself in now.

Becoming part of a series of common Aquatic Macro Invertebrates it had a lot in common with my previous series on that size watercolor block.

Attempting to appreciate and differentiate members of a community of different beings that exist in our reality largely unseen.

Putting down on paper what I am inspired to look for in study and observation as an imperfect reference of appearance and disappearance over time and place.

My attempt to get to know the subject in the shaping of a representational image that is an exploratory and enthusiastic characterization -as a memory aid and facilitator of understanding.

Excitement in identification and recognition- I was possessed by the subject and the need to paint it for myself.

magic revelation of different scales and time uniquely shaped pieces that fit together in a larger puzzle 

containers

Oar Foot

Individually lateral symmetry mobility up front with one eye

buoyant boundary of bug beginnings

giant of the microscopic world and smallest surviving paired paddle swimmers of the planktonic world

independent autonomous agency exhibited by numbers of individual movement decisions in the lives of millions of beings of common propulsion method and sensitivity for surroundings

 hungry self-directed bodies in the billions over the millennia

collective clusters communities' coastal continuity

largest single animal biomass on earth

possibly the most continuous eating, breathing, crapping contributer to the carbon cycle

moving molting masses of transparent jittery specks ravenously consuming all the phytoplankton found

first foragers first harvesters first meat first meal, first to find and first to flee

significant persistent common animal present planet population pointer

Prehistoric macroscopic prototype crustacean still dominating the wet domain

Ancient fertile awareness existing unseen within the waters

something simple that is so prolific when active extending the range of habitat beyond the limits of its potential support but leaving behind a dormant and resilient next generation to awaken and spawn in a new age.

I think Oak Leaves may have another cover with a watercolor of a goddess from the old series from the same size paper block painted before Priest, Clergy, Reverend coming out this Spring.

looking forward to it

light energy is formative and directional

 

The suns light has shown upon the living films and concentrations of the giant spheres surface of this body of matter for eons.

The properties of matter, solid, liquid, gas remain the same over time along with gravity as the compositional diversification driven by the chemical conversion of energy of a specific slice of the spectrum of cosmic radiation   - green life is a generator and capacitor in the primordial mud of then and now.

With the respiration of green life is the creation of free oxygen on the Planet.

This reactive gas dissolved in solution distributed thermodynamically across the surface area of the liquid surface before the crust accumulated from deposits to create the continent to be.

the sea and sky were first in existence before the land emerged as a solid form, what we think of as earth

what we think of as stone 

what we think of as mineral

what we think is solid

what we think of as habitat and home for life being the offspring of lights penetration through a revolving liquid lens.

life planktonic

Animals that need to sense food develop light sensitivity organs that are responsive to a wider and faster discernment of available ambient light as well as a nervous system to interpret and react to a visual field.

Eyes develop with animal anatomical complexity in a recognizable head that is sensitively responding to what it is seeing, particularly other things with eyes.

Eyes are organ of awareness the physical development and shaping are a product of the qualities of light itself instructing generational life how to specialize and optimize.

Leaves develop with vegetable anatomical complexity as a recognizable outgrowth that is responding to the directive influence of changing light, particularly seeking and anticipating future light.

Leaves are an organ of respiration and photosynthesis with great variation as to form and shape specializing in surface area transforming light and water into life to be connected and cycled within the structure of the body in a relatively fixed position to light outside.

Green life is able to develop physically and structurally in the stability of the shallows of the last super continent to break up

Life Pangaea

Life was adapting to a radically new environmental condition outside of liquid surroundings.

Drying out was the lesson taught to life allready familiar with death

Trunk and branch, limb and root holding precious fluids within non buoyant bodies

 feeling gravity            feeling verticality     feeling less density and pressure

Feeling greater fluctuation in temperature place energy exposure to solar radiation and gas exchange

Animals and plants get thirsty and breathe easy in a whole new way on this planet in direct connection to the precise angle of the suns passage in the daytime sky.

receiving signals from our local star tuned into its frequency turned on by its intention we respond.

we are nurtured intimately by a vastly distant brilliantly radiant body that shines through empty cold darkness to animate and inspire!