Jesus for Johnston

Yesterday morning I received a call from the notorious Mr Jenkins, the 'Rubbish Warrior'. There's an election looming an Tevor is fully engaged in campaign mode!

His persona this year: Jesus for Johnston!

He asked me to help him get some props for the campaign, but I flatly refused. "I want nothing to do with your mad attempts to hijack the democratic system! Besides I work for a church! Do you think Jesus would approve of you doing this?"

"Yes" he said then he proceeded to describe an interview inwhich he discussed his policy platform. 
The question he was asked was "How are you going to reduce the cost of living for Territorians?"

His answer was convincing and articulate. He simply repeated some basic instruction that Jesus had left his disciples a couple of thousand years ago which completely contradict the current capitalist attitude of smash and grab when it comes to our common welfare and the management of resources.  

Sneak peak at Trevors policy platform:

"campaign slogan is JESUS FOR JOHNSTON The two planks of the campaign are LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YUR HEART MIND AND SOUL  and THE SECOMD IS LIKE IT   LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR

as you love yourself ie do unto others as they do unto you  on that hangs all the law and the prophets THATS  HOW I LIVE LITERALLY I LIVE WITHUT MONEY AND TRUST IN JESUS CHRIST OYU CAN DO IT TOO Thats hoe id reduce the real cost of living for the ggod burgers of johston LIVE WITHIN YUR MEANS AND BE SATISFIED WITH WHAT YU HAVE With food and clothing let us be content GIVE AND YOU WILL BE TAKEN CARE OF YOUR CUP IL BE OVERFLOWING UP TO THE BRIM AND OVERHEAD GOD BLESS 111How good is that amen..."

I thought about it and agreed. I doubt that Jesus would mind his theatrical political performance if that is the message he chooses to take to the poles.

I saw Trevor on the side of the road this morning, in full swing, electioneering.

Stay tuned for more political updates and results.

Spaciousness

I can sit on a rock at the most popular recreational area in Darwin and have the place to myself. Sitting beside a bird with a neck like a snake that no one even sees.

Being comfortably invisible alone and encompassed by earth and sky and sea. The bird preens unaffected by my presence. 

Speck on a rock

I go to this rock between the jetty and the pool as often as I can. Take off the shoes (thongs) walk across the soft clay stone, observe the level of the water, sometimes high tide, sometimes low, feel the breeze. Be still. Today I lay flat on my back and focussed on the waning moon and watched the clouds drift across the sky. It almost appeared as though the moon was moving away in the opposite direction. I had a real sense of being a tiny organism, a speck on the surface of a globe spinning through space... what was I thinking or worried about before that moment? Can't remember, don't care.

Bringing home the honey

From a single ivory flower on the smallest battered bush on a salt swept rock, one stingless bee finds bounty for the hive.

And on another flower on some other bush, another bee struggles and finds what it seeks.

No matter how unlikely, or how slight the chance, life persists where unity exists

Interplay of Sun & Moon & Earth

We were talking for ages about balance and extremes, the topic constant contortions between the madness and the sane. And thimble of darkness that infiltrates the light and bright specks of something that interrupts the night.

The cliche symbology we tattoo on upon skin. The hardness of the Yang, softened by the Yin. Did you consider it spins? A centrifugal power that contains us all within!

And the places where our feet fall and the people that we meet. 

The wild delightful places that appear just off the street.

To stand in the vortex between this place and that, and To be without breathing a mind sharp as a tack.

To watch the Sun rising while the moon is in sight, and in turn as we're spinning she retreats from the light. 

The power emitted in the spinning of orbs, and a life so committed to the life that it knows. To stand on the shore as the tide draws in and know that now is only time there has been.

About the bass

Sound! birds, wind, frogs, clap sticks... Music!

The vibrations that pass through my ear canal and are somehow assimilated into separate causes, meaning, messages of warning, danger, safety, diversity, spaciousness, populated by innumerable other entities, each with its own frequency, rhythm volume... All conducted through my nervous system and processed in my brain in fractions of a second. 
Identified, sorted in terms of significance, prioritized and delivered to the decision making department.

Last Friday I got a new set of ear bud headphones. The sound quality totally blitzed my old set.

It's so weird, I don't know if other people have this reaction. When I had the volume up on a couple of songs the tone and depth of the BASS brought such a feeling of elation my heart sunk and lifted with the tones, skipping past the logic center, fast tracked to the heart! It brought tears to my eyes.

I was cycling along the coast and I just felt so overwhelmed with the beauty that I started to quiver and tears welled up in my eyes.

I threw my arms up in the air and let out a howl and kept riding. Drifting, gliding... On two wheels but somehow in the air, my blood pulsing, skin electric, enveloped by the humid morning air... mind tripping, heart skipping wheels spinning, horizon drawing me near to a place beyond the clouds, gravity failing to hold me and the beat driving me on from my head to my toes tears falling behind my magic carpet on two wheels... Smile stretching, eyes reaching every soul I passed. Bass divining spirit through layers of reason.

To have my hearing is a blessing. Making gratitude my foundation and embrace the bass.