When I went to sleep, I closed my eyes with this last thought in my mind, that even when I remain unconscious in slumber the dance of life will still go on in the hushed arena of my sleeping body, keeping step with the stars.
–Rabindranath Tagore
MONDAY May 8th, 2023: Sold my internal combustion engine (37 HP, 417 lbs) to a middle-school teacher.
Now riding an electric Zero FX (46 HP, 289 lbs)!
You will see change taking place no matter where you look.
Think of it as a mind expanding message from the stars, maybe not the work of human beings.
Note: On the X platform you can change the playback speed from one quarter to twice as fast.
What else should our lives be but a series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.
David Malouf
History comes to us third-hand in book form; hung dry. Our personal history, on the other hand, is as real for our first-person memory as one can account.
More than iron, more than lead, more than gold I need electricity. I need it more than I need lamb or pork or lettuce or cucumber. I need it for my dreams.
The Policeman’s Beard by Racter, the first book ever written by a computer (1984)
It has always been the individual who calls the group to a larger vision, who insists on compassion and fair play. When the goal of the group ceases to be the individual, that group goes into decline.”
The Sun Magazine
Time is the essence, time is the season, time ain’t no reason, got no time to slow. Burn out the day, burn out the night, I can’t see no reason to put up a fight. I’m livin’ for givin’ the devil his due.”
Blue Ă–yster Cult
Abstraction indicates a departure from reality, existing along a continuum.
Total abstraction bears no trace of any reference to anything recognizable.
Figurative art and total abstraction are almost mutually exclusive. But figurative and realistic art often contain partial abstraction.