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| -rw-r--r-- | moss.txt | 2 | ||||
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| -rw-r--r-- | published/2015-12-18_tools.txt (renamed from published/tools.txt) | 0 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | published/2016-09-15_autumn-bus-update.txt (renamed from published/autumn-bus-update.txt) | 0 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | published/2016-09-19_cloudland-canyon.txt (renamed from published/cloudland-canyon.txt) | 0 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | published/2016-09-22_equinox.txt | 25 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | unused/patterns.txt (renamed from luxagraf-patterns.txt) | 0 |
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@@ -13,19 +13,3 @@ post on living outside, tiny homes mean you're outside more. public spaces are m --- -Create list of rule post ala: -http://thoughtcatalog.com/ryan-holiday/2015/09/minor-rules-to-follow-to-change-your-life/ - -some rules: - -- walk -- take the stairs -- Use a fan before you use an A/C. -- When you go into a story to get something specific, ask where it is. Seriously, don't waste your time looking for it. -- State of the art is in the eye of the beholder. -- In less than optimum circumstances, the most useful tool is creativity -- "New" rarely means "improved" -- Innovation alone will not replace beauty. -- Always open/hold the door for other people. - ---- diff --git a/bus-todo.txt b/bus-todo.txt index 2ddcda2..8a77a43 100644 --- a/bus-todo.txt +++ b/bus-todo.txt @@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ water tank $650 1 more birch panel $27 insulation for cockpit ?? mattress ~$150 -mattress pad ? -sheets ? floor $500 total: ~$1800 @@ -23,7 +21,6 @@ finish the bus interior: sand install * kitchen - wall by couch install stove cut wood to match old install @@ -33,13 +30,11 @@ finish the bus interior: kid's bedroom buy mattress repaint in glossier finish - buy and install fan on dresser + buy fan for dresser Table area install recovered seats - install table rail cut new table top - paint and install window trim bathroom re-install water lines @@ -53,9 +48,6 @@ Cockpit sand and repaint dash buy and install light -pantry - shelves of some kind? - floor buy and install install 1/4 round trim @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Ten years ago tonight I was sitting at an Iraqi restaurant in Paris, eating the second of what I would still rank as one of the top five meals of my life. The next morning I was due to get on a plain at Charles De Gaulle and disappear into the Indian subcontinent. I recorded nothing of the day in my journal, there is an entry on this site but I haven't reread it because I have realized, then years later, it doesn't matter. That was the beginning of the journey, that meal is where, for me anyway, a trajectory began that is still taking shape, there was something in that meal, something about eating such amazing food from a country that the country I came from was about to actively invade and attempt to destroy, eating that meal that night was not an awakening so much as a realization that it is possible to avoid the politic of the world, to side step the divisions created by the power brokers and connect at human beings do, as they always have, by eating together, by talking, by drinking, by walking together down the street, by being human, because life is joy and wonder and love and food and drink and walking. Everything else is just the static background noise of existence. +Eleven years ago tonight I was sitting at an Iraqi restaurant in Paris, eating the second of what I would still rank as one of the top five meals of my life. The next morning I was due to get on a plain at Charles De Gaulle and disappear into the Indian subcontinent. I recorded nothing of the day in my journal, there is an entry on this site but I haven't reread it because I have realized, then years later, it doesn't matter. That was the beginning of the journey, that meal is where, for me anyway, a trajectory began that is still taking shape, there was something in that meal, something about eating such amazing food from a country that the country I came from was about to actively invade and attempt to destroy, eating that meal that night was not an awakening so much as a realization that it is possible to avoid the politic of the world, to side step the divisions created by the power brokers and connect at human beings do, as they always have, by eating together, by talking, by drinking, by walking together down the street, by being human, because life is joy and wonder and love and food and drink and walking. Everything else is just the static background noise of existence. All the beliefs, all that religions all the politics, all the attempts to divide are doomed to fail because they fly in the face of the fundamental truth that everyone knows, no matter how hard we sometimes seek to avoid it -- existence is incalculably immense, the universe goes on forever and we are so small in it as to hardly be of it and yet here we are. Able to look around, to appreciate the lap of the sea on the shore, the clatter of palm fonds, the whistle of wind in pines, the soft rain, the driving storm, the inhospitable mountains that welcome us home anyway. I don't know why we're here and neither do you, let's have a meal, maybe a drink if you like and we'll be friends. diff --git a/published/ice-storm.txt b/published/2015-02-26_ice-storm.txt index 82c13dc..82c13dc 100644 --- a/published/ice-storm.txt +++ b/published/2015-02-26_ice-storm.txt diff --git a/published/tools.txt b/published/2015-12-18_tools.txt index 9d915cd..9d915cd 100644 --- a/published/tools.txt +++ b/published/2015-12-18_tools.txt diff --git a/published/autumn-bus-update.txt b/published/2016-09-15_autumn-bus-update.txt index 0284a16..0284a16 100644 --- a/published/autumn-bus-update.txt +++ b/published/2016-09-15_autumn-bus-update.txt diff --git a/published/cloudland-canyon.txt b/published/2016-09-19_cloudland-canyon.txt index bd0b4ff..bd0b4ff 100644 --- a/published/cloudland-canyon.txt +++ b/published/2016-09-19_cloudland-canyon.txt diff --git a/published/2016-09-22_equinox.txt b/published/2016-09-22_equinox.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7dca287 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/2016-09-22_equinox.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +<img src="images/2016/equinox-01b.jpg" class="picwide" /> + +One of our motivations for living in the bus is to spend more time outside -- outside in general, but even moreso, outside in nature. To become more aware of the rhythms and patterns of life that haven't had human will imposed on them. To be aware of the cycles around us. + +<img src="images/2016/equinox-02.jpg" class="picwide" /> + +Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould writes about time having two components, time's arrow and time's cycle. + +Time's arrow is linear time, what we would call history, a way of looking at the past as a series of non-repeating events. Time's cycle on the other hand is circular time, "fundamental states... immanent in time, always present and never changing", as he puts it in <cite>Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle</cite> + +Time's arrow is all around us every day, it is the proverbial water to a fish, we exist so immersed in a world that views time as an arrow that we don't even realize that's something we think, however, subconsciously. + +<img src="images/2016/equinox-03.jpg" class="picfull" /> + +Time's cycle though, that doesn't get much press in our world. If you want the space to exist in time's cycle for a while you'll have to carve it yourself. I'm convinced this is why our forefathers recognized and celebrated time's cycle where they saw it. It's easy to live in time's arrow, but it's only at certain points on the arrow can you see the cycle happening as well. This why there have always been harvest festivals, planting festivals, hunting festivals, lunar festivals, seasonal festivals and so on. Nearly every culture prior to ours had them, and in more of the world than not, they're still celebrated today. + +I have a thing for solar cycles I guess. I was born a few hours before the winter solstice. My wife and I were married on the summer solstice. My son was born a few hours before the winter solstice. None of that was planned. It's all synchronicity. Coincidence some would say. That's the word for the the curious cycle-denying component of our culture. Not only do we ignore the cycle, we seem to want to deny it entirely. + +Alternately, you could contemplate the possibility that synchronicities like that are not coincidence. That they have pattern to them, that the pattern might mean something or have something to say to you, even if it only turns out to be, "hey I exist too". + +<img src="images/2016/equinox-04.jpg" class="picwide" /> + +Another pattern I've noticed in my existence so far is that whenever there's a proposed dualism there's also a third possibility half-hidden in the combination of the two. Time's looping arrow that repeats though cycles but is a bit different each time. + +There's an equinox every autumn, but it looks a bit different each time. diff --git a/luxagraf-patterns.txt b/unused/patterns.txt index 3506b73..3506b73 100644 --- a/luxagraf-patterns.txt +++ b/unused/patterns.txt |