Do you feel an intense need to know everything that’s happening, no matter how negative, so you’re not out of the loop?
Masuo Ikeda, Sky Wall, 1968
atleast in memory, iam looking out the window, watching the world pass by. happy i can be permanently atpeace in their mind’s eye.
I am not the person who comes back im the person who disappears forever as if I never existed
The city is very efficient at chewing things up and picking meat off the bones.
kind of weird how parts of your soul are left in various locations without any warning… like yes i’m always at the top of that hill, sitting at the bus stop, in the cool light of the Japanese restaurant, standing at the pier etc etc
Some stars from my journals
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Sacsayhuaman, Cuzco, Peru by ©Francis Novak
Sade: Love Deluxe (1992)
New York
Do NOT come looking for me. We do not attend the same functions.
I’m around all the time and you don’t even mourn me. I lived a life of silent contemplation. There’s a voice calling me to take vows.
I have responsibilities like self torment and isolation
Don Nace
Liz Toohey-Wiese, 2024.
"A sign installed in the largest wildfire burn I’ve ever seen, along the BC/YK border. Borrowing the aesthetics of BC Recreation Site signs, once again pointing to the overlaps of outdoor recreation, resource extraction, and the consequences of the climate crisis. Most recreation sites in BC exist along previously built logging and mining roads.
“Forced into a great and difficult transformation” was a line I heard in a lecture on Buddhist philosophy I was listening to on my drive up north. But it became another mantra I thought about while living in a place that’s been utterly transformed by resource extraction over the past century, and as I thought about the burnt landscapes I drove through."
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