-- August 18, 1988, I won't live here!
-- October 20, 1988, I settled in Nelson.
Ageless feelings hold me tight.
Why am i confused tonight?
The phone
sits still,
i think of you.
Silent echoes
ring me through.
Tonight.
-- January 7, 1989
Obsequious boy delivering briefcases.
Loomis in the backalley.
Darkwoods Forestry Van
with cutout cardboard figure.
Driving.
-- January 24, 1989
Romantic fools laugh and cry.
The others know not why.
-- February 8, 1989
Five hours a moment.
Eyes sparkle forever.
Our bodies dance.
I
dream of you.
-- March 8, 1989
Consuming we are consumed.
Letting go we gain.
Non-attached we merge.
Complexity entangles.
Simplicity frees.
-- March 10, 1989
All over the Earth
the Tribes rise up
for the final battle.
Nonviolence,
the creative power of love,
transforms
the armed
impotence of hate.
All over the Earth
the Tribes rise up.
The final battle has begun.
-- June 5, 1989,
-- June 6, 1989
It is often lamanted that TV is the great manipulator of the emotions. No doubt it is; it speaks the language of image. Our culture is so imbalanced that no doubt it is quite effective. We are so uncognizant of the language of image, our subconscious, our right brain, that the TV reaches right in and manipulates, imposes, implants, rather than dialoguing. It is our ignore-ance of symbolic image that turns potential communication into message implantation.
And the messages beaming to us are predominantly sick. They are based on the anti-ethos of buy, consume, rape, rather than live, dialogue, grow.
The medium does indeed mold the message. The strength of the image media, TV, video, photo, art, is in communicating with our image-i-native aspects; predominately our subconscious selves that deal in image, symbolism and emotion. Our efforts are misdirected when we try to aim images at the left brain; the linear, rational, ponderous self. For that we have the word-- spoken and written.
The language of image, of symbol, is not to be pooh-poohed, for it is a basic core of who we are. It has been with us longer than languages of words. Image should be respected, understood and used to communicate. Our culture is guilty of ignoring this, our first language.
As harbringers of a new culture that enlivens we must embrace image, our mother tongue. We must use it fluently, both within ourselves and in communicating with others.
One of our goals should be the democratization of the means of image sharing. While the video camera and the computer make this possible, the highways of communication- airwaves and print are still hijacked by corporate money.
-- June 30, 1989
Pretty coloured clouds.
Smokestacks galore.
-- July 21, 1989
-- July 24, 1989
Words are plodding, Reality fleeting. A moment flies past.
life upon life
time after time
eon and eon
eternal
words
aflame
-- September 24, 1989
I walk on further and see others no longer loving, but now raping the berries with buckets and ladders. Gone the lover's kiss, the perfumed brush hello/goodbye, oh my!
All the life in this one small field is overwhelming and yet it remains unseen. Imagining it lifeless and without value it soon disappears under the deadening sound of "human progress".
I bow to the grass and am instantly surrounded by insects, spiders, crawling over, flying by, leaving me in their wake.
-- September 24, 1989
In our space-age world of instant communication and tabulation there is no need for representational democracy. As always, the community is open to direct democracy. But now so is the city, province, state or multinational.
Do away with the annual tree-gobbling habit of telephone books, and give everyone a clever computer terminal. Not only are up-to-the-minute phone listings available, but so is electronic mail and conferencing, debate and voting.
-- October 1, 1989
It seems we have moved into a post-literate society.
After several thousand years of the literate period, after only a few where literacy was widespread, we return to our tribal voice and image world of the millenia.
-- June 4, 1990
-- June 27, 1990
-- July 15, 1990, A new birth.