My dear Colin Wilson, a brilliant surveyor of human possibility, often speaks of the exhilarating ‘hawk’s eye view’ which liberates us to our purposeful strengths. For myself, I have settled upon the Lapidary View. I like to treat everything as if it were a jewel. Or rather more shockedly, sudden, surprised – everything as geode.

                                                         americanheirlooms

The first time I saw a geode, I fainted. The idea that in that apparently dreary rock gleamed this staggering dazzle of crystals like a cave a wizard must live in goaded my heart and brain to permanent agog. I knew at once that the geode was one of these ravishing runes the multiverse loves to spring on you. “Dja get it? Did you get it?” Well, it’d be tough to miss the delectable pagan message of the burning geode. “Everything is jeweled inside, dumbbell, if you crack it open and notice.”    more »

I craft shamanic journeys & power stories with you that are far more direct, personal, & vivid than anything you’ve experienced before. I'm not interested in peak experiences, but in a peak life.   more »

We folk of good will won the election. So the second of the 77 qualities of swift gladness is cavort. Oh we must cavort.

                                                              colorawards  gerard kingma

One dictionary has it as prance ostentatiously. Oh yes, we must prance ostentatiously and boisterously. Ebullient are we.    more »

Whew. Frajous joy & brillig too.

rock with brains .. lewis lankford photo

Herein phoning-for-MoveOn tidbits.    more »

Beseechment for November 8. Please let me wake up in lollipop land.

                                       wayne thiebaud

There is a unicorn where where she walks music plays in the air and where her hoof falls the grasses are not bruised.    more »