Surfing with Wind

[O Donna]

Wholly Whole



Who’s talking? Who’s meditating? Who’s who?

A twist of the Bateman meme “Why so serious?” Why so…………..



Exchange:: Illusion

“If I give you a penny, then you’re a penny richer and I’m a penny poorer, but if I give you an idea, then you will have a new idea but I’ll have it too.”
— Eric Schmidt

Thanks for nothing! (Existential joke)

[Bluegreen]

Lead the way Avalon

Posted by mojo (here)

Think about it, there must be higher love
Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above
Without it, life is a wasted time
Look inside your heart, Ill look inside mine
Things look so bad everywhere
In this whole world, what is fair?
We walk blind and we try to see
Falling behind in what could be

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XqeMDAv_i6k

[Wind]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XCfuQE4YNPo

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=auD_FLvfm_g

[O Donna]

Posted by Bluegreen (here)
Lead the way Avalon

Posted by mojo (here)

Think about it, there must be higher love
Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above
Without it, life is a wasted time
Look inside your heart, Ill look inside mine
Things look so bad everywhere
In this whole world, what is fair?
We walk blind and we try to see
Falling behind in what could be

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XqeMDAv_i6k

Without higher love, we may never know the experience of humanities “dragged through the mud”. Higher love contrasts the drag as a ‘run’ through chaos.

You're going to drag my name through the mud? I was born of legends and raised by wolves, come get you some. Do not ever forget where you came from. - Nicole Lyons

In a sense, there is no other way to meet. Paths do not cross anywhere but the chaos realm.





Why would I jump out of a perfectly good airplane?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HwrmILnrzbk

Chris Nielsen : [to Ian] If I was going through fu*king HELL, I'd only want one person in the whole goddamn world by my side.

Chris Nielsen : Where is God in all of this?
Albert : Oh, He's up there. Somewhere... shouting down that He loves us. Wondering why we can't hear Him. You think?

At the end, Albert sneaks in an epiphany for those who like catching those sort of things…

[O Donna]

Same knotty day, with a twist



Riddle: What question can someone ask all day long, always get completely different answers, and yet all the answers could be correct?
Answer: "What time is it?"

The very moment written, the very same moment read: Now!

[william r sanford72]

April 1...Spring has Arrived!

Spaghetti-Harvest in Ticino

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU

[O Donna]

Spring!

Thaw.....

Flow....

Fox, Wolf, Coyote on the Run

Let's Do This!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=W-n0ynbUUUM

I don't wanna know your name
'Cause you don't look the same
The way you did before

Fire and ice
Fire Water - Spirit




Underestimating the fool, time immemorial.

[william r sanford72]

The FOOL...

Quicksilver Messenger Service-

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=D1WnBy4z5Jc

[Wind]

Posted by william r sanford72 (here)
April 1...Spring has Arrived!

Spring, my favorite season besides summer. Although here spring comes in May.

I love pasta and Italian food too... Just good enough reason to reincarnate I suppose.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qVUo16lwIKg

Life... Quite the miracle. Enjoy the show and the dance.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fy1T5JbsdnA

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cKkDMiGUbUw

[O Donna]

Light of life is closer than we think

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ajgeaOt_HTQ

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7k_zYnlqsUo

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KIYiGA_rIls

[Johnnycomelately]

About the Sun, from the daughter of the man who plays piano to elephants. #humansaremagicaltoo.

"The Sun" original semi-rap song by Emilie (8-years-old)

Paul Barton
668K subscribers

705 views Apr 6, 2023
“During our break in Hua Hin (Thailand) Emilie improvised a short song with her ukulele watching the sunrise over the sea. When we got home Emilie made the song longer with a rap beat in mind. We had fun recording the tracks and mixing them together in this video as part of Emilie's homeschool music projects.

"The Sun"

Oh dear sun
The way you rise and set
Upon the sea
Beyond the town

My dear sun
A star that gave reality to life
How you glow
I'll never know
The miracle of life
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Watching the sunrise over the sea
Is the perfect way to start a brand new day
A hundred billion stars in the milky way
Without your light and heat life would just go away

The earth rotates from night to day
You hide your light but don't go away
'cos when I wake up you light the sky
You're there again but I don't know why

There is no bottom, there is no top
In infinite space you spin and never stop
You burn and send your heat our way
Which makes life possible each new day
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

The sun (ukulele solo)
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Oh dear sun
The way you rise and set
Upon the sea
Beyond the town

Watching the sunrise over the sea
Is the perfect way to start a brand new day
A hundred billion stars in the milky way
Without your light and heat, life would just go away

The earth rotates from night to day
You hide your light but don't go away
'cos when I wake up you light the sky
You're there again but I don't know why

There is no bottom, there is no top
In infinite space you spin and never stop
You burn and send your heat our way
Which makes life possible each new day

Oh dear sun
The way you rise and set
Upon the sea
Beyond the town

My dear sun
A star that gave reality to life
How you glow
I'll never know
The miracle of life

The sun”

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ESW9mckohUM

[Johnnycomelately]

Here’s a story that touched me when I read it some years ago, and again today reading the (a) reprint. I settled on this thread for a place to post it, because of the introspective soul-searching wrench of it, and the way the wording lit me.

https://www.climbing.com/people/john...pianouser=true

It’s about events around the final jump of the (or a?) father of BASE jumping. Since the intro to the article says that the story appeared in a fiction publication, I went looking at that aspect. The Wiki backs up the author’s claim that the production was supported by David Frost, but doesn’t name him, — John Long, — but I feel yes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Boenish

I only pasted the first bit, and a near-end para, out of respect to the form of Surfing. I created an account there to get access for copying, after I read the whole text in a more laborious way. Worth it, IMO, if anyone wants to look. John Long is, tho focused on climbing, to me profound.

Ripcord: A Story of Fame, Love, and Tragedy

The void swallowed him alive, his streaking form more easily imagined than described. The air froze in my chest.

FEBRUARY 7, 2023 (edit: first published 2013)
JOHN LONG

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app.
This feature first appeared in ASCENT 2013. This updated version has been excerpted from Rogue’s Atlas: 66 Flash Fiction Stories. Author John Long, Stonemaster, has written over 40 books, with nearly three million copies in print.



Yosemite Valley. Dawn. Mike Lechlinski and I are just stirring in our hammocks, lashed high on the granite face of El Capitan, when a whooshing sound shatters the silence. Louder, closer, building to a roar. Rockfall. Heading right for us: we’re dead. I instinctively brace for impact as two BASE jumpers streak over our heads at 120 miles per hour. It seems impossible that two falling bodies can make such terrifying, ear-splitting racket, like God is ripping the sky in half with his bare hands. We scream, craning our heads from our hammocks, our eyes following the jumpers plunging into the void. Their arms dovetail back as they track away from the cliff. The pop of their chutes fires up the wall like shotgun blasts. They swoop over treetops and land 50 feet into the meadow as a beater station wagon screeches to a stop on the loop road. The jumpers bundle their canopies, jog over, and dive into the beater, which quickly drives off. This last bit looks sped up, like a Roadrunner cartoon. If the rangers catch them in the act, they’re going to jail. We howl because we’re still there, still alive.

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The film about Carl Boenish, called Sunshine Superman, earned critical acclaim. Producers felt robbed that it didn’t earn the Academy Award for live-action documentary. The director invited me to a private screening shortly after the premiere, thick with industry people, but I left early. It took me three times to finally watch it through.
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[Wind]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BY_HilE1UcE

"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated... As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all... No man is an island, entire of itself.. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

"God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice."

"Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes."

"Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity."

"I shall not live 'till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die."

"If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been."

"In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me."

"Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book."

"I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
In whining Poetry."

~ John Donne

[Wind]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fmf6c5NQr9U

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CD6YReZaBIA

Art by Akiane

[Johnnycomelately]

Hope this brightens you folks’ hearts, as it does mine.

I found her on Dan Gryder’s chan (Probable Cause), water skiing along with him.

She is a model of resilience, good humour, and promise, dealing with no use of legs.

Sydney Fowler.

Time stamps are, intro (her to cam) to abt 6 min, then a well produced intra-vid full of fun and friends until ~10.15, then her great personal present story (and family-cameo mom) conclusion to the 13:52 end.

Strong hearts, I love ‘em! ♥️👻🥰

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QiVJgLJsqbE

[O Donna]

Here to report thought stream wading:

Experience

Experience or as I’d like to say, peer out



When see, seen
Same, same
No more, no less

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=k5myuLXSl-Y

What can this strange device be?
(What can this strange experience be?)
When I touch it, it gives forth a sound
It's got wires that vibrate and give music
What can this thing be that I found?

[O Donna]

Flux capacitor otherwise known as infinite form.





Allows time travel (you’re doing it now), not necessarily the Hollywood version.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sEj8lUx0gwY

Dog gone and did it this time……

[O Donna]

From Ant to Zebra, all illusionist. How do I know? Well, if not, the sentence becomes full of holes. “From ___ to ___, ……” (see?)





Stump full of holes in which people leave coins for luck.


Trivial:: Trypophobia, fear of holes.

Just an FYI....... the shocks are shot




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Trust me, I’m not sketchy!

Etch-A-Sketch’s public birth, July 12, 1960 by the Ohio Toy Company. However, it was invented in the late 1950s by André Cassagnes. Cassagnes, an electrician born in France, would name his toy the “L’Écran Magique” – or “The Magic Screen.”



This is not an Etch-A-Sketch (In the spirit of Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte)

[Wind]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=F_MIw4KG7Qk

[O Donna]

Cone of silence

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=g1eUIK9CihA

Peace beyond understanding (cone/ coil)

Embellishing the cone with a little Jackie DeShannon::

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YUaxVQPohlU

Lord, we don't need another mountain
There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb
There are oceans and rivers enough to cross
Enough to last 'til the end of time
What the world needs now is love, sweet love

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NTxxEdBIL6Y

And the world will be a better place
And the world will be a better place
For you and me
You just wait and see