Detail of recycled table with hand-made tiles, Sunrise, by Tammy Vitale. See more of her art at Tam’s Originals

Ever want to just browse interesting web posts but don’t want to do the work of finding the interesting ones?  Here’s some of the articles I’ve kept over the past week for your browsing entertainment.

First is a brag post (and it’s interesting too).  Here is theowlmag.com featuring my god(dess)son, Jeff Ray who is very active in his community, San Francisco, and its music scene.  He’s a member of Radius, described asa band that is "a unique version of folk" often called "folktronica" and founder of Mission Creek Music Festival to be held 5/14 – 5/21 this year.  And he’s a great guy to boot – no prejudice there.  His mom and I have been friends for 56 years.

Here’s a blog, The Prophet diaries, that I found while researching whatever led me to self-actualization (which is the particular post I kept).  Iforget what I was after that day, but liked this enough to hang on to it.  The tag line is:  "Sitting peacefully doing nothing Spring comes and the grass grows all by itself."  This is great news.  If I sit and peacefully blog my life will come along all by itself.  I include in that life abundance (perhaps I was chasing strategies for abundance  – that sounds about right.)  Along with these peaceful messages comes a funny link to another site of the blogster’s…I’ll let you peruse it yourself.   Disclaimer:  if you’re a conservative you may not find it quite as funny as I did.

Making art is important.  There are places art can go that are non-verbal.  Symbols are some of our strongest communications and that’s what art is – it bypasses all the wordsmith’s in your head (do you every argue with yourself in your head, complete with different voices and completely different views?  or is it just me?).  Here’s an article. Releasing pain through art that shows the importance of making art for all of us.  Perhaps we aren’t all victims, but surely we have energy that would better express itself in creating rather  than in the anger of destruction.  It’s also a good article for women with children who find themselves in an abusive situation.  Your choices are affecting others than you.  I can speak as a survivor of spousal abuse (that was a different lifetime but some things you don’t forget).

Olga Kharif writing for Business Week, notes that "’Blooks’ Are in Bloom" and I kept that one because of yet another webosphere word:  blooks.  Is anyone keeping a log of these words?  It’s about turning blogs into books.  Something I’m actually working out, over a very extended period of time, on my other blog.  The book is something along the lines of Claiming the Wylde Divine and it is based on 10 Rules for Living Wylde which form chapters.  I’m doing free writing over there (not daily – I write about other things to) which I will eventually  coalese and see what I have.  It’s the easiest way to combine connection, journaling and getting it down before it escapes that I’ve found to date.

I’m going to close with a link to Grace Cavalieri’s readings of poetry by various poets.  A poet and playwrite herself  ( she has "won the Allen Ginsberg Award for poetry, the Pen-Syndicated Fiction Award for short story, the Bordighera Poetry Award, and a Paterson Prize for Poetry. She holds the Silver Medal from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Awards are also from The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, The National Endowment for the Arts, The National Commission on Working Women, and The American Association of University Women" to name just a few of her honors), Grace’s readings are a treat and unlike most other singsong lesser experienced poet readers.  It is more like listening to a story teller.  Take a moment.  Go listen.

Finally – I hope all these links work!  Sometimes I think it’s more magic than technology…

Thought for the day: 

Rule #10 for Living Wylde:  Celebrate your divinity