Monday, December 31, 2012

No Judgement



It was not a mistake to shut down the old blog.  I had to.  But it is a shame.  The goddamned thing was big-ish.  Nobody is showing up to this one.  Perhaps it is because I don't put up many nudes.  Q always said that was why people came.  Maybe he was right.  Here's a nude, but I don' think it is going to draw that crowd.  I'm certain there is a target audience for it, though.

I've just finished dinner with my mother and the cat.  We ate and told tales and remembered things differently.  She stayed for a long time and it was all pleasant.  Perhaps we'll do a cruise together this year since she is so into going places now.  I said Alaska.  She seemed to like that.  We could eat elk and wrestle Kodiak bears.  It might be fun.

She told me that one of my hillbilly cousins raises fighting cocks.  Holy shit, I said, let's go up and visit.  There is a story for telling.  She, however, was not so keen on the idea.  She went to one with my father when they first got married, she said.  It was awful.  And when the rooster was ready to die, the handler put his moth to its butt hole and blew in it.  I shook my head violently and said, no, no, they don't.  They blow into their mouths.  They did that, too, she said, they'd take the entire head and put it in their mouths, but they'd blow into their butt holes, too.  What in the hell could that do, I asked?  I don't know, she said, but that is what they did.  I told her that when it looked like she was going, I'd hire someone to blow up her butt to bring her back around.  She didn't think much of the idea.

There is much life all around, but most of it is hidden.  I want to get out and see more of it than I do.

I was listening to Country Club College Radio today on my way to they gym, and they were playing some pretty cool Indian music.  Then a voice came on and began to lecture.  "Judgement is the enemy of creativity," said a man with a heavy Indian accent.  "Tell yourself, 'Today will be a day without judgement.'  When you judge, you put someone in the wrong.  It is the cheapest form of self-defense.  We judge to be right.'"

Man, I got into that.  Experience things without judgement.  That is the way to creativity.

O.K.  That is my message of the day.  I wish you all--all ten of you--a happy Sunday and a better Monday.  Namaste.

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Once again, this piece of shit new Blogger won't let me embed a YouTube video.  Or maybe it is YouTube.  I'm sick of it.  You will have to click on the link if you want to hear.  


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3 comments:

  1. i love the photo. it's more art less fashion. is that judgement? fuck. what a bad way to start here this morning...

    and the stories of your mother (even if they are a certain percentage fiction) they read so well and funny. wrestle kodiak bears made me grin.

    it's also fun to read you whine about "no one coming" -- then again it always makes me feel kinda bad about myself cause I still come and obviously everything being all about me -- I'm not enough. :P



    my friend asked me to go to India with her in March and then to Turkey. her cousin runs an orphanage in some far flung place in India. and he is arranging another trip -- she has been twice already. i want to go but i don't know if i can swing that and paris again in one year -- but then again it's only fucking money and who cares much about that right? spend it wisely and all -- duuno travel seems to be about the wisest way to waste it. we'll see.

    we'll see.

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  2. This is my new top favorite!
    Incredibly beautiful photo.
    Again: the eyes of this lady....!
    Think I'm falling in love with her...
    My second love then, after the incredible photographer.
    :-P
    See you!
    XXX

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  3. L, It is a classification unless you value one above the other. Wait. . . do you mean you love this photo more than the others because. . . judgment! You've put me in the wrong for the others that I have done. You are trying to shape me. . . Go to India and learn non-judgement. Paris will reinforce. India will challenge. And when you come back, you can judge in a different way :)

    I don't mean "no one" as in nobody. I meant only the people I told about the site come, no one "else." You are indeed someone.

    N, Thank you and good. There will be many more to come. Selah.

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