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Limbic Resonance Amanda Sage
urban bodhisativa
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This gave me chills~ here’s hoping 2012 is kinder.
Most Powerful Photos of 2011
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Being in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s strong Chinese ethnic culture and impending Chinese New Year was a clear reminder that not only the Mayans and the Hopi knew that 2012 would be a momentous year for movin’ & shakin’. January 23 marks the Year of the Black Water Dragon. The Dragon, being the most auspicious of all the Chinese zodiac, is a symbol of great power. The Dragon’s earthly reign assumes the planet’s rages will continue. It is to be a year characterized by the continuation of the revolutionary spirit already seen in the past two years, in matters both social and political. However the Water element (associated with the color black in the Five Element System) promises to cool down matters, in hopes that these actions are not as violent as the year before. The Dragon’s ambition aqueously mellowed allows that passion to be channeled into great creativity.
Unlike the Western linear notions of time, the cosmologies of the Mayans, Hopi, and Chinese view time as cyclical, so as opposed to marking the end of the world, this Year of the Black Water Dragon is the end of an era~ leading way to the beginning of a new one…
So may this Dragon Year bless you with joy & prosperity, health & wealth, and enlightenment & insight into these catalyctic times.
MANIFEST DESTINY
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moleskine musings: thai skin
december 24, 2011 somewhere over the north pacific:
i live somewhat of a double life…
it surprises even me how seamlessly i seem to slide out of one skin and into the next:
thai/american
new yorker one moment, bangkoker next.
the chaos, absurdity, exoticism, respect & reverence, and paradox that this country, no, this city, embodies, i become. or perhaps always have been.
the cultural duality in both my nature & nurture has always been a real sense of pride…
and yes, confusion. as if the usual angsty artsy teenage identity crisis wasn’t enough.
(okay, so maybe it extended a bit more than just those years)
am i the intersection of two sets in a venn diagram? an amalgamation? a pie chart, divvied up by mannerisms? blood? time? national pride?
such attempted mental acrobatics have only served to induce headaches and hangovers.
it took a quarter century to simply embrace my blessing of biculturalism, that it is the foundation for not what i have been but who i am now.
and more importantly, the foundation for a beautiful and constantly evolving relationship i have with this magnificent country…
oh, it’s so good to be going back…
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I was elated to find that High Times Magazine turned my words & one of my photos from OWS into a gorgeous spread in the newest issue. Unfortunately, the credit was given to someone else other than myself… Regardless, it is quite the shining moment for this foto~phile here.
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The time is with the month of Winter Solstice
When the change is due to come.
Thunder in the other course of heaven.
Things cannot be destroyed once and for all.
Change returns success
Going and coming without error.
Action brings good fortune.
Sunset, sunrise.
Theme: Linear by Peter Vidani
