Interfacion

Interfacion:  my term for the act of interfacing with other(s) cultures, people groups, ideas, resources, and art.  There is such energy, renewal and possibility kindled in this type of life-chapter.  I learn much about myself as I mingle & coexist with others:  I am always amazed at how alike we are.  We spend our young lives in the company of the familiar and the familial, unaware of the canvas upon which we paint the "bigger picture" of our lives.  As I travel, ever farther from the familiar, I am constantly reminded that, though we may appear to be different, with a minimal effort, the surface tension is removed and what is left is organic humanity.  Alike in so many ways, yet manifesting these likenesses in an ever-changing parade of uniquity.

Have I travelled here before, or is this the outward manifestation of a dream that has been mine for ages?  The journey seems a common one for many who dare to travel, but the player does not "tip his hand" until the last moment, bringing a needed sense of adventure.  The shopping malls are filled with the same people:  clerks and customers fighting over the same cash: each feeling satisfied when the exchanges are made.  Food derived from the same soil and sea bring a sense of nationality to an otherwise necessary, at times mundane ritual, repeated several times each day.

Particularly pleasurable is the flood of ideas that offer themselves as banter for discussion among the pantheon of possibilities within the cerebral corridors of my mind.  I take as my chief souvenir from this beautiful reality, a sense that somehow we are all a part of the same dream.  I hope that as we interact, each of us will be filled with a sense of wonder and joy in the progress that "We" have made in the world.  I pray that you will continue to teach me that "I" am part of a reality where we each proffer solutions to the problems we devise.  I come away convinced that "love is all we really need".

August 2008

Searching...__

Can we Find a place--

A special place of Freedom?
Free from Fear--
Without remorse
__judgment broken?

Oh that the fate of maN
commands my intention;
I wander, from
obtuse to acute
And find meaning where
I land.

How can I keep a
fragile sanity
when the gates of man's
Hellbent demise
Unleash their ravenous fury
To imprison my
Creativity?

No longer in temporal
Realms--my life moves
Ever nearer the reality
of the oft-veiled Spiritual.

Oh Love---the
Great, Universal Power,
Give me courage to
stand for
All that I feel.

And watch over the
Hearts and Dreams
of those who live in
my Soul.

Heal the broken-ness that
is

ever-present
Amid our human conditions;

That life now can
Re-unite with the Eternal
Perspective.

I Am as You intended.
Perfect me
in the Purity of my Purpose
(not the power of my person),

And give me leave to
Dream in the Eternal
City, as part of the
Universal Consciousness.