Recently, the awesome folks over at the Tattooed Buddha offered me an opportunity to review a book called The Dharma of Poetry by John Brehm. The subject matter of this book is something very personal for me and so I leapt at the chance to write a review.
This certainly isn't the first time I've written for the Tattooed Buddha, but it was still an absolute joy to do so again.
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A couple weeks ago I posted an audio version of poem I wrote called "Abide". Someone of you seemed to like it. I really enjoy spoken word poetry and listening to poetry readings, so I thought I'd try another. Hope you like it!
I dig my heels deep and hard into the pulse and pace of a pulmonary valve bursting wide
I was born with the restless heart rate of a runner
I was born running
This pavement hears my pleas
It bears the full weight of all my angst and agony without relenting
It reaches up and pulls me into peace
An embrace as solid as the concrete that calls me home to someplace unknown
I was born running
I dig my heels hard and deep into the pulse that runs in search of poetry and my pace quickens into a prayer
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I can be a lot. Perhaps, I crave a kind of simple living because I've subconsciously convinced myself that if I can just minimiz the things I possess then maybe I can minimize the things that possess me. Yet, I've found that no matter how bare my cupboard is made to be, internally I'm still a cluster-fuck of complexity and disarray that not even Marie Kondo can tidy up and clear away.
I harbor a quiet intensity. I can have an overwhelmingly large and looming energy. It be more than some can handle, and more than most would want to. I can be isolated, solemn, severe, distant, and closed-off. I'm slow to warm and difficult to connect with. I'm ferociously passionate in my involvement with the things I care about, and I throw myself fully and fervently into them. And in most of my relationships I have either been too much or not enough.
I'm brutally aware of my foibles and I continue to do the work of trying to smooth-out, or at least dull-down, the serrated edges of myself. Yes, I can be better. Yes, I can do better. But, my efforts to improve will also require a degree of acceptance. There are parts of myself in need of repair, but some of these places of damage and discontent are also places of depth and divinity. There are shattered places in who I am that, in the light of awareness and acceptance, are also the consecrated ground of hallowed shrines. In these places the shards of past failures become holy objects, the remnants of who I havr been are sacred relics. As Cheryl Strayed explains, this is "the temple I built in my obliterated place."
The solemnity of my cold and quiet distance may create the appearance of someone disassociative, but come closer and you'll discover that this analytical silence provides me with a keen ability to listen, closely and deeply. My brokenness may mean that my heart is cracked , but that also means that is is wide and ever-open. The weight of my concern is heavy and burdensome indeed, but within the burden is the breadth and depth of an expanding empathy. The pitch of the black that envelops me is uncomfortable and consuming. There are few who are willing to peer into the darkness with an un-averted gaze. Many recoil from the mystery and ambiguity of the dark, but, as John O' Donohue says, "There is an inner depth and texture to the darkness that we never notice until we have to negotiate the absence of light." O' Donohue writes that "Something within us knows the darkness more deeply than it knows the light." I'm beginning to understand that my darkness is not a curse. The black bile coursing through my veins is neither a disease, nor a sickness requiring a cure, it is my greatest strength. this darkness is my gift, my gift to the world.
For some, and in some ways, I will always be too much. For other people, and in other places, i will simply never be enough. This kind of acceptance takes time. It requires frailty and fragility. I take deep breaths that test the capacity of my lungs. I breathe out long and hard, making a wish that the sheer force of the exhalation will blow out the candles of my burning worries and fears. This kind of acceptance is often awkward and clumsy, but it helps me to connect with what Neil Gaiman might call a "crooked hopefulness, a "crooked hopefulness" that knows that the crooked place in me naturally bend toward mercy and compassion.
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My friend Daniel Midson Short, whom I had the great pleasure of interviewing on my podcast a year or so ago, left a comment on something I posted recently.
He told me that my persistent creativity was inspiring.
I don't know if it's a matter of persistence or inspiration so much as it is a matter of desperation and survival.
I make things because I must.
I make things because if I stop moving and if I stop making things I'll die.
I make things because I cannot find hope, and making things is the means by which I admit that I cannot find it.
I make things in the abundant lack of hope because if I cannot find hope perhaps I can make it. And if I can make hope then perhaps I can enough to give to others, and perhaps I can even make enough to have a little left over for myself.
Perhaps hope is something that has always been made. Perhaps whenever we find hope it is because it was first made by a maker of things, who in the sheer agony of her hopelessness and despair managed to make some hope. And rather than keep it for herself, she chose instead to hide it in the world, in the hopes that perhaps, in case of emergency, the hands of those who are not as skilled or adept at making hope would find it and then they would have it.
Perhaps makers have always first and foremost been makers of hope. I don't know for sure, but I hope so, and so I make things....
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Last week I wrote and posted a poem inspired by a friend's sermon. I thought it might be fun or at least interesting to record a video of the poem being read as a spoken word piece. My initial intention was just to post the video on my social media accounts, but then I thought it couldn't hurt to make the audio available as a kind of podcast episode. So here it is, hope you like it.
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In the previous podcast episode I talked about a book I had been sent to review called Learning to Be by Juanita Campbell Rasmus. I'm still reading my way through the book, and struggling to do so honestly. But, I wanted to share a few more thoughts that have occurred to me during the process of working on it.
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I've made two previous attempts at a book review. I think I faltered in both attempts because I'm not sure that I ever offered a real "review" of either book. I shared some thoughts. I pointed out a few things I liked about each of the books, and highlighted some things that I didn't, but nothing that I feel qualifies as an explicit review. I think what I actually did was share my experience of reading the book as I was reading it. At the time that seemed like a defect in my approach, a glitch in my process, it maybe it’s not a fault at all. Maybe it’s really a feature.
I received another book to review from Speakeasy called Learning to Be: Finding Your Center After the Bottom Falls Out by Juanita Campbell Rasmus. I won’t lie, so far, I’m unimpressed. I’m a few chapters in and I have been largely unmoved. But, I’m refraining from falling into the trap of frivolously referring to the book as “bad” because who knows what part of myself I’ll meet along the way of reading it. I suppose we’ll find out together.
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The waiting hours speak. They always speak, but they speak slowly and harder than any other because they have something to say, something to teach, something to impart. It just takes a long time to say it. And so we wait...
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James Victore writes that "Dragons are real". They are ever-present and always at the ready. "[E]very morning" we will find them curled "around [our] shoulders...quietly" snarling "into [our] ears". They can never be permanently slain, never completely defeated, never banished once and for all, but they can be faced, confronted, and overcome through the ritual of daily work and practice...
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Austin Kleon explains that, for him, “Everything got better…when [he] made peace with the fact that it might not ever get easier”. Even as I type out his words I can feel myself struggling to accept their veracity. I am so not as peace with the thought of perpetual difficulty, and maybe that’s the problem.
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I certainly couldn't be classified as an optimistic person. Some days I'm not even sure I could be classed as a particularly "hopeful" person. My melancholic tendencies certainly propel me towards pessimism. There are a lot of things I don't believe in any more. There's quite a bit I've lost faith in. Years ago I let go of my belief in God. Some days I struggle to have faith in humanity. I'm not even sure that I still believe in "Love". But, I think in my own way I do still believe in hope, or maybe more specifically the resiliency of hope.
Austin Kleon writes that "hope is not about knowing how things will turn out - it is moving forward in the face of uncertainty. It's a way of dealing with uncertainty." " To have hope," Kleon goes on to say, " you must acknowledge that you don't know everything and you don't know what's going to happen".
Maybe the best we can do is get out of bed everyday and try to have hope. Maybe getting out of bed everyday is the highest form of hope, maybe that one brave act is the work that helps to create the conditions for the survival of hope. Maybe that minuscule bit of resilience is enough for hope to find a way to thrive.
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Bob Clubbs
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Madeleine L' Engle says that "An artist at work is in a condition of complete and total faith" - a faith that some minute piece of the manifold mystery will become material for a moment. A faith that some small substance of the things hoped for will become manifest albeit in an ephemeral way. A faith that we will uncover the evidence of things unseen, the evidence of the possible, and that the possibility will claim meaning.
We are full of secrets. We contain a multitude of mysteries. We are breathing inkblots, walking Rorschach tests. Perhaps, its in experiencing the weight of our own untold secrets that we are driven to create and compelled to keep creating.
Maybe art, itself, is an external attempt to touch our deepest secrets, the secrets buried so deeply that we don't even know that they're there. And maybe, these are the secrets fighting the hardest to be unearthed.
We stand poised upon the precipice of a sacred unknowing. We don't know what comes next for us as a culture, as a society, we don't know what our civilization will become, but we know that there are glimmers of hope in the kitchen, and maybe that's the secret sauce.
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Maybe I'm just getting to that age where conversations about the weather is a thing that happens now. Maybe the weather is as good a metaphor for life as any other. Perhaps then every conversation is about the weather is an implicit conversation about living and being alive. Perhaps what we really talk about when we talk about the weather is how we are handling the way life is at this moment right now...
If you want to look further into some of the writes and thinkers I mention, check the links below:
The War of Art by Stephen Pressfield
The Practical Meditation Journal by James Martin
Grace Eventually by Anne Lamott
Brilliant Ideas: Artist Grayson Perry
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This episode is kind of a hodge podge of ideas and reflections. I talk about some recent art work I've done and some feedback I've got from that's given me some food for thought. And so I thought I'd offer you some of these random thoughts on art, poetry, and everything in between. I hope you like it.
I reference a lot of books in this episode and quite a few artists. Here's some relevant links if you want to delve deeper:
Art as Experience by John Dewey
The Sacredness of Questioning Everything by David Dark
Artist Liu Wei
Walking on Water by Madeleine L' Engle
The Lotus and the Rose by Matthew Fox and Lama Tsomo
Artist John T. Unger
The Roman Empire and the New Testament by Warren Carter
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In many ways, it feels like I've been starting my life all over again. It's a strange and conflicted experience, and its given me a lot to think about and ponder, perhaps too much in fact. One of the thin, in particular, that's been heavy on my mind is the idea of "home" and the sense of "belonging". These are things that I think I've constantly struggled with, and that struggle continues no more than ever. Luckily, I've been reading a book by Irish poet and philosopher John O' Donohue called Eternal Echoes: Celtics Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong. It's been incredibly helpful and insightful so let's talk about it.
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In the previous episode we talked a bit about why I haven't put out any new podcast episodes, videos, blogs, etc. for the past 6 months. In other words, we talked a lot about what I haven't been doing. But, we didn't talk about what I HAVE been doing, what I have been making and creating. So, this week I wanted to discuss what my work creative work is; a kind of return to my first creative loves - art and poetry. I talk about what that looks like, how it plays out, what it means for me, and what I'm learning from it.
Also, I mention an article I wrote for The Unusual Buddha, if you want to check it out you can find it here: https://theunusualbuddha.com/2020/05/07/defy-the-monster/
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After an almost six month hiatus from releasing a podcast episode, I'm back. In this episode I talk a little bit about where I've been, what's been going on, and why there hasn't been any podcast episodes for the past SIX MONTHS. I share about some personal difficulties I've been having and some hardships I'm still reeling from and going through. I also get into why I decided to finally make another episode.
And, because I'm a book junkie I bring up a wonderful book I've been reading by John O'Donohue called Eternal Echoes . A few passages reminded me of the last podcast episode I released called "The Insight of the Other" which was based on a blog post I wrote called " I am Grateful for the Insight of the Other".
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I am a person guilty of harboring a multitude of character flaws but, if there is one thing I am especially guilty of it is being an ungrateful @$$hole. I am a naturally “Glass half-empty” kind of guy but, I still have so much to be thankful for. Last month I decided to make it a point to create spaces and opportunities to be more purposefully and intentionally grateful.
In his book Against Happiness, Eric G. Wilson writes that
“When a person views the world only through his own experience, he divorces himself from the polarized flow of existence, that persistent dialogue between self and other, familiar and unfamiliar.”
I am grateful for Eric Wilson’s writing. I’m grateful for what I’ve learned from it. Grateful that he was actually willing to be a guest on my podcast. And, I am so grateful for what I learned from the insights garnered from our conversation together.
When we fail to engage with the perspective of another, when we neglect the opportunity to see the world from an alternate view, we fail to see the fullness of the human experience, the fullness of the world, the fullness of “Being” itself.
Every one of us are on our own specific journey. Everyone knows something individually that we collectively don’t. Everyone has experienced something that I haven’t. Anytime we get to bridge the gap between ourselves and another person, it can only be fruitful, it can only be enlightening, it can only be insightful.
We live in an amazing time. The opportunities for connection and communication have never been more abundant, more alive, more vibrant, and more readily available. Kwame Anthony Appiah writes that “the worldwide web of information…means not only that we can affect lives everywhere but that we can learn about life anywhere”. Tim Harford explains that “the modern world gives us more opportunities than ever to forge relationships with people who do not look, act, or think the same way that we do.”
Every encounter with another person is an opportunity to get an insight that we didn’t have before, to get access to knowledge we wouldn’t have come across any other way.
Jean-Paul Sartre says “The Other holds a secret – the secret of what I am”.
The insight of the Other is insight into ourselves. Revealed in the portrait of the Other is a picture of who we are. To gaze into the eyes of the Other is to glimpse into the reality of Being. To begin to understand the Other is to begin to understand everything.
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I didn't start making videos because I wanted to be a film maker. I never wanted to be a videographer or a cinematographer. As much as I love the art form, as creatively invigorating as it is to film and edit, it's not my primary aspiration. It's not my passion. And yet, I've found myself becoming increasingly obsessed with camera angles, camera settings, lenses, aperture, frame rates, lighting, audio, mic placement, B-roll, cinematic sequences, setting, background, etc, etc, etc. In other words, I've become overwhelmingly obsessed with the production, the "quality".
I've also been unhealthily obsessed with "the numbers"; the subscriber count, the views, the listens, the plays, the likes, the shares, the comments, and the things. We all know the numbers shouldn't matter. We've all either said ourselves or heard other creatives say "don't create for the numbers", "the numbers don't matter" but, saying it and believing it are two different things. Implicitly, in the back of nearly every creators mind, the numbers matter. A lot of us, especially me, will attach our value as a creator, the value of what we create to those numbers. We will interpret those numbers as a numeric representation of how much our work matters, and we start judging the quality of our work based on those numbers. At least, that's what's happened for me.
I think I lost my connection to an even more important question, "why did I start?" "What did I start doing this for?" It's so easy to get lost in the minutia of techniques and all the things that touch the thing you're doing but, what's the core of what you're doing? What's the heart beat of why you do what you do? If you lose touch with the thing that made you want to start doing what you're doing then you've lost the whole drive, you've lost the whole aspiration, the whole motivation, the whole operative significance of the thing.
I started doing this because I'm in love with ideas. I'm in love with the kind of ideas that James Victore might call "Dangerous Ideas". Oscar Wilde said that " An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all". That is my core. It's gotten buried in the process but, its still there, and I'm trying to find my way back to it.
How do I get back? I don't know. I don't have it all figured out yet. But, this is an attempt to get back to the dangerous ideas, and maybe that's a dangerous idea in itself. I hope that it is. I don't know what comes next, but i never have. All I can tell you is that I'm still in the process. If you're still here then, we're in the process together.
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In this episode I interview writer, speaker, and Digital Marketing Expert Daniel Midson-Short. We talk about his journey into marketing, his trek from Australia to the Unites States, and his leap into starting his own agency. Through the process of this conversation we discuss the nuances of marketing and sales, the role of storytelling, and the necessity of integrity and authenticity. We dive deep into the experience of failure "when things don't go well", and we even get into his creative process.
I hope you like it!
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