a day in the life of piano monkey

*from flowmarket, designed by danish designer mad hagstrom at dansk design center;  http://www.theflowmarket.com/site.php with less than a week to christmas, there are some funny parallels i have been observing here in britain-canada-united states.  it's this thing called 'need to shop.'  i like buying things, especially if i have been looking for them with great sense of futility.  discovering amazon.com was something of a wonder and some sort of sign from god, because i would know that now, the world's merchants are on tip of my fingers!  with my first pay cheque from lincoln, i bought a tivoli raio, henry kloss model two, yes, from amazon, because there was a nil chance that i would find a tivoli dealer in the local area. the month after that, with my second pay cheque, i bought the subwooper for it.  and yep, ive been rugging them around home to home, as i traveled quite a bit since then. they have been the heart of my little dorm room, they have been...

we are the children of this very night wind that carries the ancient light of icy stars the keepers of time and stories who are still expanding beyond the scope of human intelligence we are the children of the grey blue rockies that holds millenias worth of secrets and stories the nurturer of the first spring shoots and smallest ferns of thousand years we are the fragile bits of vulnerable life on this earth simple offspring of dualities and oppositions our hands cold and empty eyes eager to see into the open with no other weapon than a hope we look far and wide, the open vast grandness filling up, filling up our empty bellies and weak hearts. children, vulnerable but decorated dearly with love of present, gracefully diving into the open future, i salute you, a fellow dear friend, into the new day, with courage love understanding