12.21.2011

rain 雨

已經下了一個月的雨了。。。
already a whole month of continual rain... 

感恩朋友!!!
thanks for friends!!! 

12.17.2011

有緣

i met tara and ah ge by chance on my fourth day back in taiwan, and it changed the entire landscape of my journey
(感恩, 阿格拍照!)

12.16.2011

tw ceramics- 2- 台灣陶藝

right after glazing my second batch of ceramic babies, and before firing them up in the blazing kiln! 
sometimes, we learn or think too much... I prefer my first batch 
my third batch is a mystery batch that I will finish during my final weeks of Taiwan; they will be fired while I am in India! 

12.13.2011

get up and WALK

Forget everything that you think you know about yourself. Forget
everything that you think you know about the world. Strip yourself
naked, down to your very bare skin, bones, blood, and flesh. Stand
empty with your bare feet upon the full Earth. Feel your heartbeat.
Feel the Earth's heartbeat. This is your home. This is your body. The
Earth is your home. The Earth is your body. Give thanks. Feel the
silence of all the dirt, all the plants, all the stars, sun, moon,
animals, wind, and stones. They are awaiting your truth. Shout your
name into the depths of the deepest canyons, cavernous mawing mouths
of endless stone welcoming your freed voice and bared flesh. Shout,
and feel the echoes! Climb atop endless ancient massive stones, and
feel the wild wind ripping away all your masks of lies, self-doubt,
and societal uglification. Feel the absolute, rawly painful, and
infinitely beautiful truth of your very self. Gaze upwards at night,
and raise your arms upward to touch all the zillions of stars,
planets, Milky Way, and galaxies uncountable. Inhale all the magic of
the Universe into your stomach, core of your body being. Exhale all of
your pain. Exhale all of your thoughts. Exhale all that is not you
back out into the ether, to be transformed by the heat of the day's
sun back into the beautiful nothingness of all the everythingness.
Compose poetry to the browns, golds, greens, and reds of the
desertscape as you stride, kilometer after kilometer, through the
maddening silence of your own breath echoing through the stones and
austere cacti begging for hugs. Touch something more ancient, real,
and utterly magnificent than anything you have ever experienced in
your life. Become truly ALIVE. Jump, dance, frolic, play, be. Lie on
rocks with eyes closed, staring through hooded eyelids at the sun, and
into yourself. Feel your truth. Get up, and walk your beauty into this
world. Get up, get up, get up, and walk.

12.05.2011

with love

matriarch

mama's first time back in tw in 5 years, and jiling's first time back since 1995
matriarchs: 55, 77, and 78 years old, all scorpio/saggitarius cusp women

12.03.2011

cks with mama

everyday is a good day for headstands and cartwheels... and observing similar yet different visions, bodies, and beings of the same love-blood

matriarch

i am training with the best!

55

she says, "you are like the mom, and i am like the daughter!"