SIDEWAYS EIGHT PROJECTS

~ view of the pyramid ~

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Sometimes we are given moments, and words to go along with those moments, that whet our soul’s appetite for what life can offer when we let it. I want to speak a poem that lives

inside your head for a while,

that makes it rain indoors and gives

you reason to leave with a smile.

But, before I can speak it,

I have to free it and write it,

I have to be it and decide with

all my marrow, all my blood,

all my heart and mind,

and all that other crud,

that this is worth everything

I fight with, everything I fight for,

my entire life lived, and I give it

even more.

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In this rodeo of life, in this trapped sense held beneath lasso, gathering dust and scars, we must take care of ourselves and each other. We must feed ourselves to health, and drink ourselves to freedom. We must absorb the healing that was meant for us, and let go of everything that wasn’t. We must sit and rest when overwhelmed, and move with economy when the time is right and necessary. Our involvement in life’s findings means that the interconnection between mind and body is undeniable. It is irrefutable. It is the path inward, outward, downward, and upward.

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Now Playing @goodluckmacbeth!

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Every 3rd Wednesday @spoken_views_reno has an Open Mic followed by a Poetry Slam competition at the Holland Project. The mic is still hot from last Wednesday.

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~ March For Our Lives ~

We march for our children.

We March for our schools.

We March to show greater love

for our kids than our guns.

We March to demonstrate we

need to take a hard look at rules,

for the sake

of our daughters and sons.

We March to speak and be heard,

we March to be active and seen.

Because, all over and around D.C.

they’re getting word,

we know TVs have this across their screen.

Loss turned into a movement.

Death sparked so many to fully live.

Our country needs much improvement.

This force will never give.

(Saturday, March 24th, 2018. Reno, Nevada.)

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~ Colossians 3:2 ~

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I seek you in the morning, well before the work day will start. When I have not yet given up on the day and its rich possibilities.

I seek you while sitting atop a stack of four pallets wearing a cardboard hat.

The pallets, not me.

I seek your goodness and your eyes. I seek that still small voice that whispers sweet everythings.

That intensely immense sense that we are not living up to what was intended.

And, of course, the personal conviction, not guilt, of my heart to do better.

I seek you in adventure, in synopsis of worldwide wars, in black men being shot twenty times while holding a cell phone in a yard. I seek you. For I know in the grand scheme of everything, I am nothing. But, I am somehow uniquely here ready to play. Ready to pray. Ready to battle if need be. Ready to be, breathe, and see for who ever needs me. Ready to seek. Ready to find. Ready to love. Ready to mind the fact that people continue to find ways to be wicked to each other, but that people also find beautiful ways to give praise, prove wrong the nay says, and surprise each other. Everyone dies my sisters and my brothers . So my cries to the skies shortly after I rise and have a warehouse throne pressed to my thighs, is that these eyes are ready to seek the way things ought to be because this; This. What we see. It didn’t have to be this way.

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~ Arrival ~

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We like to feel correct,

We enjoy feeling right,

We want to control and direct,

And subjugate others’ plight. We want to minimize faults of our own, and magnify those around us. Our egos won’t leave well enough alone, and pride continues to confound us. We want to feel we have pedalled long and hard enough, and that now it is our turn to coast. But, as they say, when the going gets tough, that is when we are needed most. We won’t arrive until we are finished. We do not learn all there is to know. Our job is not to make sure others are diminished. Our job is to continue to grow.

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In the heart of the weary wanderer lies a wounded child who is just trying to find his or her way home. The traveler is trusting intuition, signposts, and the light they are exposed to along the way. The rain is enough to soothe a neck. The sun is enough to warm a heart. The wind is enough to aid a stiff back. Although we help each other along the way, and strangers can be angels, this is a journey that is necessarily meant for each one to find.

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At the crossroads of duty and introspection there are signs which point the way to the house of the shaman. At the confluence of the seven major valleys one can see the mountainous range that gave birth to imagination. At the edge of memory and beneath the fold of substance is the horizon line. We light the way for travelers. We halt the way of the foolish. We give space it’s sacred status for the sake of reflection. We watch as the path transcends the map and becomes one with eternity.

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I believe in hustle over hype,

in praise over gripe,

in dedication over type,

and cold hard cash over swipe.

I believe in excellence over perfection,

free form over a set direction,

trusting your talent over micro inspection,

and true leadership over a rigged election.

I believe in heart and soul

over winning at any cost,

I believe that sometimes the goal

should be to get lost.

I believe that silence is golden

and that words matter.

I believe you’ve gotta know when to fold ’em,

and to block out senseless chatter.

I believe in red ice over yellow ice,

in integrity over shine,

I believe in naughty and nice,

and the indwelling divine.

I believe in practicing how you’ll play,

in speaking from the heart,

in truly seizing the day,

and truly playing your part.

I believe the only reward for good

hard work is being given more,

and that whenever I could, I should

hold open the door.

I believe in grit and grace,

in diversity and voice,

a sacred written space,

and always having a choice.