…sometimes things do get done in the confusion of the esoteric tornado of emotional, psychological and all matters of the heart and mind…It has been a busy time while gearing up for who knows what…I have no complaints…it just seems that my ordinary life has been amped up a few octaves…here are some photos from the past week…LIFE IS GOOD…GRACIAS TO EXISTENCE!
…is he someone like me? No he is just the Lone Rider…rockin' and sockin' not just from Oklahoma…and he's not one of the boys…and he ain't Damien Hirst's yo yo out for a thrill or Jeff Koons' sugar coated popularity pill…he is not faster than a dentist drill or speedier than a pep pill….but he is the culmination of his whole life rolled into one and aspires to be as spiritual as a land slide in a black hole bringing color to a Universe shaded by a dark dream…is he between the seams or is that what it seems? do his teeth gleam behind the hidden facade? He never was… so he never will emerge…he will have to purge the surge of sometime self contempt in order to embrace the Light of True Vision…..I am betting on him…I can read the cards….
…..we are cooking on the windows for the Chapel of Jimmy Ray…all the top windows are in….the clear lower windows have been installed…now we are doing 6 panels of adorned windows for the three doors to the gallery….I have chosen a paisley design in honor of the Paisley Cowboy who once worked hand in hand with me going way back to Sausalito days…it feels so good to have these windows going in. I feel like we have gone over the hump despite the fact that Mercury is in retrograde…There are always lessons to be learned…..I got tired of telling people when they came on tours about my ideas for the windows. Now it is a reality….here are some photos….
…as they innocently passed through the streets of San Miguel de Allende which is in Mexico…and we all know that is not true…one hides easter eggs…and we are not hidden…we just adorn and ramp up the color to make up for all the men who choose to wear muted tones and blend into the sidewalks like repressed peacocks (no pun intended)…and while we are on the subject of Mexico…despite what one may read in the press…we find it safer here than in many neighborhoods and cities in the United States…and…there is no Tea party here….so make those travel plans and visit Mexico and come to San Miguel and visit Casa de Las Ranas (our home)…Just say yes to color!….and just say no to Fear! Here we are today at home after lunch in the colors of the rainbow which we embrace…..
…we started production yesterday for the windows in the Chapel of Jimmy Ray…first off I am doing a simple design for the upper windows….I am in love with them already…I have to get all the windows finished by May 15…wish us luck…I will keep you folks updated as the progress continues…ahh Life!
….tonight I watched a DVD…"The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg". I wept throughout. His personage…his vision…his depth…his rawness…his holy abandon…his wild deep quiet silent True Nature…has touched me deeply in this life…I can see so many occurences in my becoming that were the result of my admiration for him. In many ways, I am the man I am today because of his beingness…I went to New York to immulate him..I approached LSD in those early days as a sacrement that he defined…I would never have made it to India without hearing his chants on the harmonium so long ago at the New School in New York. The photo of me that accompanies this post was taken back in the 70's in Oklahoma where I had gone to heal aftera Hepatitus-A infection…35 years ago…Allen lived down the street from me in Manhattan before I returned to Oklahoma that summer and we were neighbors. During that healing process in Oklahoma, I wrote a long Spoken Word "Poem" called "Duel: White Chalk"…the inspiration for that log of words was pure Allen…I am so grateful to have crossed paths with him in this life…there is deep gratitude and affection in my heart for that Dear Soul named Allen…