Babelon Pages

Redirecting you to Cafe Now. As stated above in the description of this blog and in a previous post, As Is, this blog was partly inspired by a tool created and highly recommended by writer/artist Julia Cameron. The idea is to write three long hand pages every morning. Immediately upon rising. To do so before the all too powerful editor wakes fully and starts trying to direct and control all of...

There is much to be written and said about the power of fear. It's been written before. It's being written now. It will, undoubtedly, be written about in the future--though the way our current history will be told is somewhat up to us. Yes, you and I, the regular folk. Do we want this as our epitaph: Those with the darkest imaginations have now become the most powerful. Have we allowed those...

And then our family goes to our not-so-secret swimming hole on the Scott River this weekend and I find myself forced to contemplate more fully the idea of peacefully coexisting, not just on a beautiful green and blue ball floating in space, but on an island in the middle of the river probably no bigger than my front porch. And my front porch isn't very big. Apparently it's easier for me to...

Maybe it was just midnight mind talking. You know, that tendency to get all worried, scared, panicky, stressed about things in the middle of the dark and silent night that wouldn't ordinarily bother you in the light of day? Or at least not as much. I woke--around 1:30--got up for a glass of water, went back to bed and was unable to get back to sleep for more than an hour. Laid there...

Yikes. What was I thinking linking my babbling pages to the bio paragraph of the article I submitted to Common Dreams day before yesterday? Maybe I didn't really think the article would get published so I didn't agonize over it like I usually do? Or that this is the only blog I'm actually writing in at the moment and since I'd mentioned blogging in the article, it was only fair to link to...

Yeah, I know...the idea is to write daily. And here it is three days since a post. Was up late Thursday night/early Friday morning all excited about audioblogging and blogging in general. Tried to learn the code for inserting tags. Want to learn how to do general tags but the only code I remotely understand at the moment is how to insert technorati tags. Isn't there an easier, user friendly,...

I woke in the middle of the night last night--around 1:30--used the toilet, went back to bed and was unable to get back to sleep for more than an hour. Laid there worrying, of all things, about my blogging. Even considered getting up and coming here to delete them all. Why? Several reasons. Maybe I should be more private. More off "the grid." Less involved with the "vast machine." Maybe...