Something Something Sandwich

We are There.

Our life is in boxes and we have spent the past couple of days between homes. Telepathic messages were sent amidst housepaintingcleaningpackinglugging.

Yesterday , for lunch I had a Ham and Tomato on Ciabatta. Denise had a Reuben on Rye.

We Require Stories

native seed....

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(telepathically)

Poems by Steven Shearer

3 of 12 shown here

2009(?)

graphite on paper

The Message

The Killing Machine

The Killing Machine by Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller

(as installed at the Freedom Tower, downtown Miami, FL, late 2007)

"Our most profound conception must remain subjective and ambiguous"

"I am for an art in which what you see is the just the beginning of an endless chain of allusion."

from the lecture "Illusions and Allusions" by Jules Kirschenbaum (thanks Joe. a good read.)

The Things People Do or My Western Guilt (Mystical Truths by way of Repetition)

human-isms

(shot today while driving through Big Cypress Nat'l Preserve)

a new take-on.

"But most days, if you're aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently at this fat, dead-eyed, over-made-up lady who just screamed at her kid in the checkout line. Maybe she's not usually like this. Maybe she's been up three straight nights holding the hand of a husband who is dying of bone cancer. Or maybe this very lady is the low-wage clerk at the motor vehicle department, who just yesterday helped your spouse resolve a horrific, infuriating, red-tape problem through some small act of bureaucratic kindness. Of course, none of this is likely, but it's also not impossible. It just depends what you want to consider. If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won't consider possibilities that aren't annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.

Not that that mystical stuff is necessarily true. The only thing that's capital-T

True is that you get to decide how you're gonna try to see it."

David Foster Wallace, Commencement Speech at Kenyon University, May 2005

JM