Peeling off Layers

this place has been my sanctuary for many years now .... benedictine abbey church ... acceptance .... dogs allowed in - quietly accompanying their nuns ..... and I am allowed in too .... liturgy has words that are living ...... backed up by creativity .................. in acknowledgment that creativity comes from God ...God IS creativity .....
.. freedom from fear is here, freedom from prejudice ...... no ...these things cannot be faked ......

... so it's Christmas again ... I haven't been writing to this blog much this year .... all my efforts go to Red Bubble ... oh well ... my images too are quite unorganised in regard to documentation ..no matter how much I might try I never manage to document all ...and recently I deleted majority of my important files with works documented ... - thinking that I have it backed up ... unfortunate .... anyway .. just to know that I have to keep starting over and over again ... fall pick myself up ... and fall again ..and pick myself up ..and fall again .... so ...................

.. the God of small things ...........
this is a book which I want to read cover to cover .. non stop ....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundhati_Roy ... something about the writer ...

.... I started reading yesterday ..... and it seems that this time I will be able to continue .... how interesting that Skvorecky actually himself mentions this unbearable sentimentality in regards to all things that meant so much in the past .... I used to cry as soon as I got to some passage in any book about Czech and how screwed up things used to be ... or as soon as I've heard some songs or music ... or any other quite unexpected trigger would do ..... I am better now I think ...... I must have 'matured' or something ... now that's a joke ....
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... at the beginning of last week I met with Jan to collect my share of our picture books ..... and now starts the work of trying to distribute them ... reading it to my little kids class had a very excited response ...so it seems it all works well .... all the time which went into making sure that pictures have a good flow seem to have paid off .... there is the engaging start continuing to culminating large view of Nog the dog being pleased with himself for a job well done ... till final 'surprise' of sheep being 'naked like' - shorn ...

... amazing experience of meeting with friends from cyberspace in a real life ..... and personal discovery of the Geographical Positioning System could not happen in more suitable time ..... time happens I say .... having time for each other and discovering deeper connections should not come as a surprise since that is something consistent with what we believe in ..... on the way back home after the exhibition sleepover a very narrow escape from being hit by a car from behind .... they were sure after me but did not get me this time - I thought ........

.... it's my Birthday tomorrow ..... have learned that it is better to give thanks for all that has been ...... rather than fret about what lays in the future ....... found some old photos and scanned them ..... each time I look at them ...seeing them after years ... I see something new in them what I did not know before ..... time changes my perception of things ..... my brother has his birthday one day before me .....

... in the western tradition we were taught many things about the nature of negativity and the nature of sin, but we were never told that one of the greatest sins is the *unlived life*. We are sent into the world to live to the full everything that awakens within us and everything that comes towards us. It is a lonely experience to be at the deathbed of someone who is full of regret; to hear him say how he would love another year to do the things his heart has always dreamed of but believed he could never do until he retired. He had always postponed the dream of his heart.

... lately I am out of a lot of usual engagement ..... because of my injured finger ... I do spend a lot of time doing physio exercises instead ... it can be quite frustrating to see so little progress .... but I am told that I am doing just fine with this type of injury ....
... here ...
..I feel like typing something from my favourite book again ...