photos by Sam

I was in a library or a community center. A weekend program about Buddhism was in progress. I was very interested and wanted to choose a seminar to attend. I looked at a few flyers and then picked up a brochure. It was no ordinary brochure! It appeared to be handmade, mostly in colors of cream, light purple, light burgundy, with yellow or gold accents. The structure was complex, leaves with cut paper in fancy shapes sewn into the leaves with large decorative stitches of gold thread. The effect was like a book within a book. It was a remarkable object and I was thrilled to be able to handle it. There was text, but it did not appear to me in the dream.

“The first gardens for example were not created to be work or even to produce food. They were experiments in making. Love affairs with certain meaningful plants such as hemp or grapes or tobacco.”

from tombeau

It is difficult to work in my garden. No, impossible.

But I do have a love affair with certain meaningful plants.

Currently:

• Sage
• Golden Moon Maple
• Lady’s Mantle
• Monarda – readying to bloom
• nice greens coming up in the “kitchen garden”

tombeau

“How can people exist without making?”

chupacabra

I don’t go in for monsters or aliens, but I just love this word. I like it in Spanish and I like it in English (“goat sucker”).

Also cool:

ABE – Anomalous Biological Entities

and bunyip:

A bunyip is a legendary spirit or creature of the Australian Aborigine. Bunyips haunt rivers, swamps, creeks and billabongs. Their main goal in life is to cause nocturnal terror by eating people or animals in their vicinity. They are renowned for their terrifying bellowing cries in the night and have been known to frighten Aborigines to the point where they would not approach any water source where a bunyip might be waiting to devour them.

A town name I ran across in my reading today: Wednesbury

Phrase of the day: ashen sadhus (Mark Young)

I could use the domain name gemtactixxx as an alias, a shadow site.

I would think Max Ernst’s collage novels should be available online for study. Why can’t I find them?

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Things to eat: chocolate, dried mango chips, ginger, sun tea (4 green tea bags, 2 peppermint), leftover hummus platter, oatmeal with raspberries and a splash of soy milk

Things to recycle: cardboard, dry wall, junk mail, household garbage, wood (boring recycling today)

Things to bring home: dirt, lots of it

Visited the Max Ernst exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum. A paradox. I don’t like his art that much – echoes of Klee, Varo, Miro, Cornell, and other artists who sing those notes with clearer voice – but his TITLES!!! and such a blast of transformational artcourage and creative productivity in his life story.

Some titles:

• Loplop and the mouse’s horoscope
• Let us give thanks unto Satan and rejoice in the goodwill he has shown us
• The eye without eyes, the hundred-headless woman keeps her secret
• The Eternal Father vainly endeavours to separate light from darkness
• Spiritual repose
• Loplop and The Fair Gardener
• The Hundred-Headless Woman Loosens her Majestic Sleeve

WOW

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