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Paint Your LifePosted by simon on February 10th, 2009

I don’t know what happened. I can’t sit down and pinpoint a single atomic moment. It was a process, imagine a set of watercolors being mixed by seismic activity. It would create a wonderfully bizarre melting of colors that you can’t begin to appreciate until you consider how it occurred. I’m finding that lately words lack the ability to describe the mixing of the watercolors in my life. There are so many aspects that are affected by this process it’s hard to isolate the affects on one another. Much less, how the watercolors were made from some plant dye and imported to my palette. How the paper was constructed and bleached. Then how all these elements were in the right place at the right time for the shifts in the earth’s crust to allow them to mix on a canvas making something randomly beautiful and perfect.

“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream”
-Vincent van Gogh

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The Best Kind of RamblingPosted by simon on February 4th, 2009

I enjoy running, not just because I’m out in the world and exercising but because it’s one of my favorite forms of meditation. I get to Breathe that breath of life and listen to music that speeds my thoughts. The problem becomes catching all the thoughts as I run for they come quickly and deeply.

Recently you could say there have been a number of new experiences in my life. Each of them unique and adding a new depth to this wondrous existence I have been granted. It’s odd but I feel without many of my own experiences and readings of recent years, they not would be as significant. I know this is cryptic but some experiences speak to a person on such deep levels that it’s really impossible to convey all that is being experienced as it would require too much knowledge of that person. I’m still uncovering who I am, what chance do you have? Though there are certain aspects of life that I find universal and I’ve boiled down to more general statements that hopefully will mean something to you.

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