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Experimental Theater Gone Awry: The Fringe Festival
- 5 years ago

Each year at the end of summer there is a theater fesitval called 'The Fringe Festival'. The peformances are hit or miss.... mostly "miss", unless you can rely on a few trusted sources. For example, I saw a very good play on Saturday night, and a hilarious drag queen performance last Thursday. But in the past, I've been subjected to a few torturous performaces... and last night was one of those nights. (Intro note: The creator/actor of the performance had recently served a prison sentenc…
Re-Plugged, For Now
- August 30, 2007 - 6 comments

Hi all! I've just returned from a long Internet community and photography hiatus. For awhile I was feeling really burnt out on all of it, plus, the "hobby" part of my brain had been focused elsewhere: on reading, and on yoga. I love yoga! But that's another story. Last week I visited my parents in Cape Cod, MA, and then went onto camping in New Hampshire. I managed to take a few good photos. Last night I was very excited to sit down and edit them... but after about an hour I got tired…
Every Human Group is a Society of Island Universes
- August 9, 2007 - 5 comments

Hello, everyone; anyone who is reading. I have been offline mostly in the past few weeks. This was not a conscious decision; rather it seems a deep part of me has craved the distance. The summer is at harvest, in its most lush state, and I can't seem to pull myself out of it. Perhaps winter is a better season for being "plugged in". I hope all of you are fairing well in your own island universes. We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumsta…
Strange Space
- July 25, 2007 - 14 comments

For the past year or so, I have been meditating daily for about 45 minutes. At first I didn't read up on the subject, I didn't follow any particular guidelines or disciplines. I just knew I wanted to calm my head; to find a quiet refuge; to find comfort in solitude. Over time, I got really good at moving into this "no space" -- the state of mind that enables me to "just be" in the moment, without worrying about what I should be doing instead, without obsessing over my various personal issues,…
Poems
- July 16, 2007 - 10 comments

I haven't written much poetry in my life, nor do I read it very much. Actually, Flickr is my main source of poetry. Since I've started creating images, my interest in writing poetry has increased. I find the two processes very similar. I take an isolated concept (or two, or three) and create imagery and metaphor in order to communicate the idea. Plus, I am no longer able to complete whole stories, it seems. It has been very disheartening to be so disconnected from writing But poems, l…
An Excerpt of a Sufi Parable
- July 10, 2007 - 3 comments

I am reading 'The Way of Silence and the Talking Cure', by Claudio Naranjo. This book explores the psycho-spiritual dynamics of the mind, discusses ways to incorporate meditation into modern psychology, summarizes almost all of the world religions, and more. At one point, it referenced the following parable, which is about using intuition and intelligence to understand the design of our minds. ~ "Unjustly imprisoned, a tinsmith was allowed to receive a rug woven by his wife. He prostr…
A Work in Progress
- July 6, 2007 - 2 comments

I haven't been shooting photos or manipulating images much these days. It is summer after all. For the most part I'm having a great time running around with my friends. But every now and then, my free-spirit lifestyle causes feelings of guilt and anxiety to creep in... the voices in my head shout, "You are idling your life away, you frivolous, frivolous girl!" To quell those demons, I tend to take on small projects. For example, this collage. I like it, but I would like to take it a bit…
The Perils of Self-Portraiture and Pet Ownership (or, The Clod)
- June 27, 2007 - 6 comments

Last night I decided to take self-portraits, which is something I haven't done in some time. I haven't felt the urge. Since I began this strange hobby (perhaps exploration is a better word), I've noticed that my urge to do it usually corresponds with a low mood. For reasons too complex to articulate today, it's been a good way to push me out of that low state. So, last night, I had the urge. My mood was decent, but mostly I was driven by the idea that I should do this at least every few m…
Day Two at Ipernity
- June 26, 2007 - 1 comment

Okay, this might be a problem. My company had blocked access to Flickr, so I was able to curb my addiction. However, it has not yet caught on to Ipernity, and already I find myself fiddling with my settings, surfing other people's streams -- is that what we call it here? -- and wondering what I should post. Should I upload music? How about videos? The possibilities! But what about my job? Might the Internet be the catalyst for the collapse of Western civilization? I seem to know an awf…
just what the world needs... more ramblings from me...
- June 25, 2007 - 3 comments

Before I found Flickr, I used to keep a blog. I enjoyed posting to it every day. For the most part, I used it as an online journal. I had 4 or 5 "friends" -- other bloggers I kept up with regularly. It was also a good way to keep up my writing skills. However, before the blog, I wrote short stories. I wrote them rather frequently. My mind was once very fertile in that way. But I became frustrated by the whole process -- frustrated that I would likely never make a living as a ficiton wr…

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