How It Is

Child's Play, El/2010

How do I make it stop?

Press START.

But I want to stop it.

Then press START.

You mean I need to press START to stop?

Yes.

But that's insane!

Yes.

Variations

To Glenn Gould
El/2010

Watching Youtube vids of Glenn Gould and

Remembering the voices from my childhood saying

His name with the deepest reverence and respect.

A genius they said.  

Our country is so very proud of him

A great Canadian

Indeed.

He was himself in spite of everything, 

Most present when he played

Most real, most transcendent also

A privilege to see him play at home
In black and white with his dog, 
His sudden jump up off the bench, still humming

A lively hum at the window, quick turn about again

The tie of his robe hanging half off he leaps

Back to the bench where the most beautiful sounds 

Explode from his fingertips

Like they simply must be heard, must be made real

Must be expressed by this man and in this way

Thank you, Mr Gould 

for your variations

El...2010




Glenn Gould at home, playing Bach

Spring Muses

Spring Muses

El/2010

Web Light

We communicate via streaming pulses of light 

Thoughts and visions criss-cross timezones and borders

Have meaning, content, tenderness, humour, and

While never touching touch our deepest, truest selves

That beingness unique to each expresses and is understood

And is affected by the knowing of the other

What does this say about what is Me?

A body is surely irrelevant here, but thoughts?

Those are free to come and go
As will permits and soul decrees --

Such amazing times are these!

Communities of souls rise like waves in the sea

Products of passing collective interest they rise and fall 

Never the same, always new

The flowing of infinite vibrating awareness

And Shiva dances!

El...2010