Looking Up:


The virtue tragedy teaches, if it teaches anything, is compassion.

Leo Kottke

Leo Kottke, that humble portal to an altered state. Here are some links to his music:

Julie’s House
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwWBC_ZlLeE

Hear the Wind Howl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5Ee6YFuKuA&feature=related


To keep my body’s compass true, it helps to work out all of the kinks I can. Fingers, toes. Hips and shoulders. Neck and knees. Wrists and ankles. Spine. Open up the chest and abdomen. Information can flow in uninhibited by stiffness, ego, and self-defeating baggage. What feels like gyroscopic energy within can spin freely. Once the body is loosened up, I don’t understand what pulls it forward, but it feels like a magnet or vacuum. It feels good, a little uncivilized, and sometimes happy. Like blooming toward sunlight, or trotting like a hungry puma toward prey. I don’t know the name for all this, just sharing what I experience. The drizzle this morning only enhanced a sense of expansive well-being.