christian science healing

it was in july when my friend, sarah came from new york for her annual c.s. association in san luis opisbo. we had a fantastic time in ventura for her first visit and s.l.o. that weekend for our fourth vacation weekend together. then sunday morning when we woke at 5am i seemed to have the symptoms for pink eye. having to deal with this last summer i knew immediately what i had to do…start praying. i knew that this color in my eye was no part of me. i, as god’s perfect child am complete, whole. there is no-thing that could be added to me or taken away. i gave this discomfort absolutely NO power. i turned to god in my thought and knew that this could not be happening to me.

after sending sarah on her way home, i went back the hotel room. i almost started to read the christian science text book; science and health with key to the scriptures, yet i didn’t. i simply laid my head on the pillow, closed my eyes and said the lord’s prayer to myself. knowing that i will be well, because there is nothing else for me to be.

when i woke again a few hours later, all the symptoms had fallen away. no more watery pink eye, just as if it were never there earlier. i enjoyed swimming in the pool, relaxing in the hot tub and soaking up some sun before i was on my way home. oh my goodness. words hardly express the amount of gratitude i had for this healing. i am so very thankful for all that i have learned in my life while leaning on the truths and principles of this religion.

artist statement for roadtrip 1o1

While traveling through CA via Highway 1o1 different scenes inspire me to exit the fwy and stop to take a moment to explore what could possibly make a great photograph, two if I am lucky. By constantly shooting wherever I go, my photography mimics the changing of time. I photograph architecture in nature and portray each location using my vintage medium format camera which produces the square prints. My camera sees oxymorons to focus on; light vs. shadows, design vs. shapes, saturated color vs. lack of color. Certain antiquities of forgotten structures interest me so that they cannot be unnoticed. By capturing these frames, I am grabbing a bit of time for myself and others to look back to in the future.
I thank you for your curiosity and encourage you to stop and take a moment to explore these images…as soon as they are up that is : P

315 take 2

its 420am and you have left me no choice but to just be myself. I cannot be anything besides this. I and me exist separately. If I am the material interpretation of the spiritual God than only the Great God and the true I may exist together. Bumps, bruises, aches and pains do not and cannot be called “mine”, if God Herself is not capable of having such things. Sleep is a human necessity, organization is my necessity in order to keep sane in this world. Someone once said cleanliness is next to Godliness. Do I agree? Well, I agree to some degree.  Honor, strength, courage, humility, truth __ these such attributes are next to Godliness. To hold these and other qualities of God we must possess the ability to see higher than what we’re expected to see. Look deeper into the meaning of your daily activities, think more thoroughly when driving in your car, acknowledge the small blessings instead of wishing for more. The best thing that God has given us is the Divine Love and security we need to move forward, progressively.

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rough start to 315

yesterday morning i didn’t plan on participating in this project. had no idea it was for the month of august when, gwen told me about it last semester. receiving her email made me happy to be part of something different, that i had not been included in.

the hour came and went. my alarm was too quiet for my body to want to respond. 130am was my bed time after watching punch drunk love. strange, colorful, sad, yet sincere are what i would describe it to be. this 315 project is weird, creative, hopefully enlightening! bob dylan is singing in my head….i could offer you a warm embrace to make you feel my love. i want to feel love, from dylan, from my family. of which i need to call and or send those cards. i do miss them, yet am so relieved to be home…to be in my home, sleep in my comfy bed and be surrounded by my world. when i wake up i’ll continue to clean house and declutter more. when i awake tomorrow, hopefully i’ll write a poem….not a to do list.

are you ready for this 08 3:15 experiment?

This is the crazy poetry writing experiment I’ve been doing since 2001 where poets all over the world get up and write at 3:15am half awake and half asleep…

For more info, check out recent posts on my blog: http://artpredator.wordpress.com

To register, go to 315experiment.com

WARNING: This Experiment is not for the sane nor the weak.

Here are the rules:

1) Set your alarm for 3:15 AM THIS THURSDAY, JULY 31 (because Aug 1st begins that midnight).

2) Write every morning during the entire month of August (you can do it!). Any form, any length, any style…

3) Choose your notebook and pen wisely. INK will stain your sheets if you fall back asleep. Small notebooks are hard to write
in if you are 1/2 asleep.

4) The idea is to ride that 1/2 sleeping, 1/2 waking state as long as it takes to write your poem. We recommend you stay in bed and use minimal lighting (if at all). Falling back asleep again is simply an occupational hazard. We forgive you. (We don’t recommend that you make yourself a cup of coffee and go to your computer… it defeats the whole purpose of the experiment.)

5) Some people don’t read any of their poems until the end of the month. Most don’t type them up until after the experiment is over. This part is totally up to you.

6) At the end of August, log onto the website (315experiment.com) and post all your poems. DO NOT EDIT YOUR WORK!!!! We want the raw stuff, baby. We want your 3:15 mind!

7) IF you ever forget your ID or password, e-mail webmonkey Tod McCoy for it. todmccoy@gmail.com with the SUBJECT LINE: “NEED 3:15 ACCOUNT INFO”

PLEASE ADD dreamworld@315experiment.com to your list of friends so that we don’t get stuck in your junk mail when we send out group e-mails. We promise not to spam you if you be our friend.

9) Be REALLY nice to your lover for the entire month.

10) Have fun out there!

Sincerely,
The 3:15 Cognizantion

the ongoing to do list

photography:

start cultivating the “shared show” with evan, britany and megan.

pick up from action photo tomorrow X

edit reception shots tomorrow

meet art with bruce X

make tangerine (2) videos. me and britany.

look in guest book. get inspired!…more

put together a portfolio of:

18 shots OF cars and contact street roder about photo entries.

18 hwy 1o1 medium format shots for next portfolio to print this semester

create artist statement: 1o1 and cars

collect a 2008 photo album for fam

erase unnecessary photos from computer

research and buy a new computer

college:

fill out application for class replacement.

email steve about directed studies

pay for registered classes

add directed studies to curriculum via hendricks approval.

contact pam about purchasing persistence of life. 275$

email shirley: peristence and s.f. panoramic already!! ask her if she ever uses other photos for her paintings or just her own. add flower shots to email

health:

ride bike to class

hike in carpinteria

random:

write at 3:15 am every day in august!!!!!!!! use word press as notebook

cut off toe ring :(after 10 years of wearing it) ?

assemble and certify compost bins

these days

i’m reading this poem. i’d like to memorize this one because it’s just so damn powerful to say.

Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

evening post; what makes me smile these days

shooting pool with my brotherand playing well or not. practice makes perfect, yay.

miniature golf with my neice and sleeping nephew. she’s good at all sports.

when the clock reads 12.34

brownies

other people smiling at me : D

Theo Jansen

- The Kinetic Sculptor is absolutely, rediculusly outstanding! check out his sculpture animals. like many, including myself you’ll be blown away with his “living” inventions.

http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/07/09/theo-jansen-the-kinetic-sculptor