Blog nature suits. Earned living, pension due film industry's intellectual property laws; continues rankle fundamental sensibility: share. Fully understand/sorry decipher http://swettlodge.blogspot.com/, like three blind folk/elephant: some get this, others that; nary soul, all. This scribe, current trend - no literate left behind - panders not. Swett Lodge experience: want something, life truly worthwhile; gotta work ass off for it.
Microcosm NYC's Central Park, Swett Lodge's Martin Luther King Park center nine square blocks 'tween busy arteries/semi-industrial area; everyone lives on park - then some - neighbor. Exclusive! Course, all desire stop/chat, walking the dog - miracle anything gets done!
Journey leisure fosters ruminative, imaginative speculation: Swett Lodgic gone wild! No concern
which envelope; want flexible: push. Reason 'nuff travel>reason 'nuff substance consumption hiatus: yup, month's span (mostly) no alcohol/smoke. NYC shopper's, diner's, businessman's paradise; cool clear, sweet Adirondack water flows every park corner fountain: give me world class people watch. Manhattan - once 'Big Gritty', could now term 'The One Per Cent Solution', maybe 'Yuppie Zoo' - scoured clean enough barefoot navigate Central Park, even once bombed out Harlem - locale daughter's apartment.
Initially perplexed, finally figure: yeah, bright lights, huge bustle, millions yellow - even cops
sweet! - cabs; not once entire visit anyone rude, short/ill tempered, mean - city's soul's gone missing!
(Dusk's neon shards descend dark on Times Square.)
What's up with that? (rhetorical) ... ka-ching. Current masses opiate, affluence; god, oil.
Fine visit both amazing daughters; reminds old Sesame Street song, 'one these things just like the others...': pod peas us three, down to kvetching foibles. Oy vey! Amazing our aspects offspring manifest: second daughter Khalsa (pure) Sikh - India's religion (~ 1500 CE) born expound equality - devout; while elder - wealthy's chef - my proclivity commoner identify, general block headedness
frustrates, opts estrangement after couple days. May international travel, graduation, wedding month; last minute hotel rooms scarce - especially inexpensive hostels - prompts homeless simulation (cook's tour?).
Cake piece: almost no - meet one verified homeless; await phone charge only known park electric outlet, cord timed Harlem street lamp jury wired; twenty year falsely imprisoned in/out
hospitals/shelters, clean godly man concurs change time upon us - competition, astonishing - gotta be outside! - weather.
Daytime relate north center park's well groomed ball field, dog walkers encircled; thousands - race one day - blazing, fit - never seen so many dedicate hard bodies, even LA - cyclists, runners outer
ring encircle, clean water multi-facility rec center midst hundreds squashers, hand/base ballers; nap, wash, exercise, villain chillin'. Night; rest, crawl, jam, repeat 'til dawn. Dine al fresco Harlem's inexpensive (79 cent/pound collards) grocery - Fine Fare - fare.
Course never's perfect (god's imprimatur): chew granola, break third of four lobes off rear most upper - fortunate childhood dentist excellent practitioner, amalgam core holds, protects nerve, emergency care unnecessary though crown time looms - molar; bust well abused spectacles, almost derail NYC - as lost contact lenses derailed 38 year past OR trek - sojourn; decide not driving, probably Swett craft repair; carry on.
Harlem Meer waterside magic jam, slack (banjo - lower pitch than standard tuning, same chords as
USA's only native instrument {'jo} nod) tuned - travel tunes - mandolin, like O'Keefe painting
negative, snow white egret sails by; bring little blues Harlem home, appreciative mother/infant hour or so attent. East coast journey - clear, hot day - Newark airport depart en route Boston>Chicago Jet Blue connection, fly directly over Central Park, LadyChef's apartment, rec center's ball fields stand out: emotional goodbye.
Miss highly volatile/changeable times surround us? Must be dead! Scientists postulate black hole center galaxy; many concurrent universes, variable distinct physical laws. 'Tis said, human brain may not register black hole passage. Approach fourth twenty six thousand year (100K years!)
Mayan long count calendar node. Already establish some huge event spur stone age cultures consistent focus thousands years efforts - while current 'advanced' culture barely able consistent one day, next - mark. Discipline familiar?
Remembered - black/worm (string) hole slip? - node, flood; previous fire, cyclonic - cardinal sign - upheavals? Perhaps initial black/worm hole passage, carried through time - Big Bang? - blender. Long count node ahead, maybe slip through spirit/black hole blender to unacquainted physical law
governed universe. Mix master like, some chunks make it, some don't.
Or one further: each bunch similar mores relegate new 'universe'; opportunity duke it out, their own turf - such event would fulfill logical resource conservation, growing physics understanding. Good fun imagine every one per center, for instance - a la 'Canticle For Lebowitz', 'Perelandra' - transported discrete world their ethics governed, manage brave new world. Let games begin!
Alternatively some think (resonates visceral) change may involve tectonic plate/pole shift, possible result: large portions east seaboard, west coast, Mississippi river valley inundation. Answers question why 80% earth's life oceanic: intelligent species understand periodic upheavals affect not, certainly behoove land life attent periodic - long count calendar - shifts. Heart hints else, hope enscription adequate dissipate manifestation energy, tribulations pass not; mien mayn't represent: DO love folk, all natures!
Dad's cancer passing in my fifth earth year, spiritual journey initiates. Besides engender organization - if church's God allows beloved pa's death, what good is it? - distrust; jaundice normal teenage fooferall. Ten plus years later personal unsuccessful worldly success decisions; young family responsible; sense spirit, home realm; commit follow call; study fine art. Accidental pilgrim, spirit guides four corners power region. Slip/slide worldly; LA, desert/'Course In Miracles' revivify
precocious quest. Since, travels unpreconceived spirit pilgrimages pull: hugely uncommon thunder deluge conjunct empathetic tears sorrow, thousands lives spent construct Rome's Vatican; Chiang Mai
- Thai's principle spiritual destination - blind first choice out country tour from Bangkok; dawn, ancestral
host revelation Olympic peninsula's Hurricane Ridge. Recent Central Park 'tour' evenings relate - street found broken umbrella/parts refurbish 'rain shelter' - tony 69th Street/Central Park West neighborhood; NYC final night learn Dakota - locale John Lennon, preceding generation's potent guide, endured/enjoyed last years forty (!) year manifestation - few blocks away; smallest park entrance, street/madding park crowds obscure, surely JL haunt: understand six day vigil's Lennon
tribute/homage/elegy. Many (awakeningasone.com) believe current cascading changes/Mayan calendar node mark man's spiritual evolution homeward. At Swett Lodge recognize worldly concerns continue/thankfully/rapidly fall away.
Siri Chand Kaur Khalsa - 'reflects god's light as moon reflects sun's' - Sikh physician
friend converse 'bout transitional times during MSN graduation visit, mentions caterpillar/butterfly mutation: some cells become butterfly, remainder transformation nourish mush. Don't wanna be nourish mush when caterpillar slips down Alice's rabbit hole? Best attend what y'am, remember flex. Find - Gnostics anyone? - yourself, what you must adhere. Earth's good people go on 'bout daily biz, most unaware: perhaps best. No worries/fear, all play: them that needs can use plenty nourishment, gate's ope score. See ya on t'other side???
Unlikely encounter thought line elsewhere. Now understand fiction's utility: screwball ideas acceptable; incontrovertible; question not sanity. Swett Lodge on the edge: our gift to you. Enjoy!
Desire not alienate/offend: expression/thought freedom so valiantly/vitally championed by so many through millennia, feel comment compelled. Certainly no biblical scholar here - and no doubt determined/artful interpreter able construe textual support any doctrine (how flexible, human mind!) - don't believe Bible asserts anywhere Christ>god one, ONLY path. Luther underwent great hardship/peril over throw Catholicism 500 years ago, enable direct man>god path. Seems prosthelytizing Christians all to willingly Christ>god mandatory path supplant pope>god path. Swett Lodgic view: god/ma nature - fellow (Swett Lodge) rejuvenater, intuit erratic weather self heals - one/same; all are god's children. Duality (black/white, life/death, sickness/health, matter/spirit, good/evil, heaven/hell, you/me, us/them) our world's divisive nature. God's: unity. Fret not, do what compels (convenient: allows my belief anything not intended help one another through these perilous times at best inappropriate, at worst plain wrong); THE good news: ultimately every last one (devouts, murderers, lovers, rapists, gays, thieves, bankers, bakers, sailors. tinkers, doctors, politicians, lawyers, housewives, saints) will know god's home's love, peace, life, grace, abundance; no silly - impossible - separateness thought withstanding. Freedom.
Sooo .... sprinkles awaken 6.30 am, preminisce torrential down pour few hours later. Enjoy, after shop, from Trader Joe's lobby, head library/internet, unsuccessful search night's lodging; on hunch phone internet spec provider, eyeglassdirect.com - that's right: pluggin' 'em - at Flatbush end Brooklyn subway line, 'can repair, bring 'em out'. 45 minute ride massage eye sockets, inner upper
fully Swett Lodge dust encrusted tear ducts - four each eye, you know - realize cause recent tension retention, curmudgeonliness: each mote remove, jollier. Sweet!
Brooklyn/Flatbush dirty/gritty - wouldn't barefoot here save my life - earth salt inhabitants. In Manhattan do anything - bank, buy, parking meter, cab, etc. - credit card. Flatbush stores all have ATMs, accept no credit. Kind Trinidadian - right eTc? - directs. Expect arrive spec lab find dozens crafting, locate shop, discover three person outfit. Corpulent owner prioritizes repair, all while berates long standing co-workers, ex-worker - now at lab due his recommendation - 'bout tardy lab; few hundred not multi-million - he's got my repeat biz - dollar orders, disgruntled clients. Avers sends lab 15K monthly: great internet biz. Talk 'bout incompetence, spurs his comment FB IPO largest in history though company actually makes no product. Posit greed causes underpaid, ergo sloppy workers, concurs. Notice FB founder married weekend following IPO? Bet - gave 'em quite wedding present, did we not? - no accident!
Most convincing evidence unity - not duality - home: love each daughter, every ounce heart. Elder's - LadyChef - wealth exposure's given her cavalier financial attitude - money's almost play thing. Uber talented, master all attempted, know she works long, hard earn; hasn't yet cause - though seems she's getting there - understand rest - 95% - salt - like Flatbushians - struggle, bleed every dime - money's no toy/joke - won't take much more squeeze, shatter prior. Flatbush condition compared Manhattan's, long, stinky, crowded sub ride home - currently Central Park - emphasizes: folks, must change - easy or hard. Homeward, blow right past little used, half green globe lamp marked, subway station.
Thank you, spirit pilgrim's gatekeeper - strong heart, bandolier - Skye-o; look for gran. Accidental Central Park mock homeless/spa week tremendous, cathartic, cleansing, heart opening. Few relaxed, balmy, sunny days precede few damp; outside entire time: dawn Betheseda Terrace/Flatbush sub ride deep muscle
work, substance abstinence, sleep deprivation clears Swett Lodge body detritus, mind. Can cry again, perhaps one day, laugh as well. Inequality compels consume organism survival essentials; sustainable, doable improvement focus - make world better place.
Way's clear, spirit time's upon us. Lawn's no one green blade; ocean not wave; cloud sole droplet; tree, leaf; bloom, petal. Guide us home.
Imagine.
As you were.
Peace.
