Before Sunrise

Such a great exploration and conversation on the meaning and value of romantic love

Genius

“Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered at will– a childhood now equipped for self-expression.”

— Baudelaire

Animal Totem

Our relationship to animals is indelible. Our instincts correlate to symbolic and literal animal figures. They become symbols of the soul and can communicate aspects of our psyches, shepherding our paths. 

We have related to animals in various capacities. We eat, feed, adopt, herd, hunt, train, breed, nurture, play, use, think, and grow with them. And they can also link us intimately with purpose, meaning and identity as individuals and as a collective.

My college mascot was a lion and I too am astrologically a leo. This regal creature as appeared in dreams and holds a big symbolic component of my paternity. The bear, likewise, is the emblem of my home state and has also appeared in dreams as a soul totem connecting me to the maternal. My relationship to these mammals connects me to my instinctual nature, loyal, protective, and relational.

How do you link to the wisdom of animals, both literal and figurative, in your life? 

Encuentro con Uke

Inspired by dear old friends, UKE, a beautiful couple from Spain making sparse melodic music.

In Tune

“When you are in tune with the unknown, the known is peaceful.”

— Yogi tea. Never know where wisdom will find you.

Twin Peaks

Twin Peaks on netflix, a dangerous hook. Peering into a darker world

Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. El Ingenioso Don Quixote de la Mancha.

I want to honor the indelable Don Quixote de la Mancha. Who inspires me to dream the impossible dream. Let the locura de amor, lunacy of love, have us live life passionately, knowing our crazy, as we fight our “dragons” for the honor of our beloved.

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, the perfect pairing.

(illustrated by Jules David, 1922. Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University.)

Varo

Remedios Vario. Painter. Surrealist.

“The Calling,” Oil on canvas, 1961.