PLAY ATTENTION.

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Martin Law <martin.rainbowmaker@gmail.com> wrote:

3.30 a.m.~ i was well on my way to bed,
hot water bottle and all,  when suddenly,
a three page article began taking form
in consciousness.

So i gave it full attention, and
wrote it all down as well as i was able,
and then it was 5.30 a.m.

So i went to bed and slept seven hours.
It went like this....

PLAY ATTENTION.

I've been sitting, walking, and lying down,
and wondering what i'm going to write about next.
More to the point, i'm looking out (or in) for other ways
of saying what self evidently wants to be said.

Not necessarily a wider range of interdependent topics,
so much as, distilling the irreducible essence,
making it as concise and clearly accessible as i can,
in unpretentious poetic prose.

By that, i mean not in dry discursive logic language,
(which is all prevalent and boring enough as it is).
But with loving attention to the beauty and flow,
as well as the feeling and juxtaposition of every word.

I'm doing this, not for any personal motive, other than
shared creative artistic evolution, and i don't get paid for it
and don't need or want to be anyway.

For simplicity's sake, you could distil it down to BEAUTY.
As i've mentioned before, if it's about beauty,
as well as, discerned truth and sincerity,
you're on the right path and can't go wrong.

I note that i've been immersed in this process here
for more than a year continuously, along with
simultaneously doing the same with painting and music.
Consciously weaving and evolving it together as one flow.

I can't help but wonder how any of it is received.
Even though it is being viewed in more than 25 countries.
Out of almost 5657 views i've had barely more than
three "WOW" responses over the course of a year,
and that from friends, mostly local, who've known me for years.

Though that's pretty thin on the ground, considering,
what does it take to cause a ripple in a world that's in crisis?

I generate and radiate continuous positive creative energy
which is readily viewable for a month if you know where i am.
I wonder, does it then go into relative oblivion, subject only
to anyone's curiosity or lack of, to follow it down the mouse hole.

THEREFORE, and hence the title: 'PLAY ATTENTION.',
i am prompted to draw, or direct attention to the fact that,
there is far more than one year's creative output right here,
even if at a glance it may not be immediately apparent,
it is only a click of a mouse away.

In this regard, i wholeheartedly recommend not just 'glancing'.
But follow the mouse down the mouse hole.
After all, a mouse is all CURIOSITY,
and i can assure that it won't lead to any trap.
Are you a man or a mouse?

Well you may be a woman, in which case
you may, or may not, have more natural access to,
and CURIOUS trust in, following intuition.
Not that i'm an advocate of monopoly of any kind.

All this preamble is simply to point out,
that there is a menu on the right of the screen.

If you 'take the time', ( and i've gone to great lengths to make clear,
that 'time' is not always the best excuse, being in a certain sense illusory.)
By that i mean, there is only NOW, and so far as we can see
there are no 'other NOWS' no matter how many times you call them 'thens',
it doesn't make them present, so they're never here.

If you simply scroll down, to   'blog archive'. (BLOG ARCHIVE)
in the fifth black box down on the right,
and work backward by clicking  >2012  (Remember, the year
the world didn't end again).  There's a hundred articles there,
morphing and mutating month by month.

They are all written in the present (in case you're stuck for a present).
Along with  an even greater amount of diverse artwork.
So they are no less relevant and vibrantly alive
than what is on the screen right now.

In fact, some avenues off the mouse hole
lead back a long way in what you call time.
Even as far as the 1940's where all this grew out of.

It's as intimate and personal, spontaneous and colourful
as the play of my attention follows and describes.

Interspersed of course, with various random tangents,
and interpersonal communications, all as if,
tributaries following and flowing together
to form a river and even eventually the sea.

But this 'time' thing, haven't i shared enough about that?
Well, perhaps not.  It seems, the closer you get
to conveying something via language,
the fewer the people who can intuit what you're saying.

I seem to recall, there is one such good article here about time.
If you can take time to search diligently.  'It's about time.'   ( ha !)

I'm well aware everybody is far too 'busy'.
Doing what?  If you've got time to talk you've got time to read.
If you've got time to waste on trivia,
you've got plenty of time to read what's worth reading.

But i have to say, you'll have to slow down, otherwise
 the essence of what you read is just a blur,
and be a total waste of the time you didn't take.
This may sound trivial but i guarantee you, these are real words.

Could you read a whole book and spot a typographical error?
That's part of what i'm hinting at.  I mean,
you have to SEE the words, or how can you feel them?
Any more than you can soak up a scene from a fast car.

But there, i've taken up enough of your time already.
You'll have no space left for a future.  Forget it.  There isn't one.

I could have simply said: " Do please click 'BLOG ARCHIVE'."

But don't be in a hurry to get to somewhere else.
I'll let you into a secret, there IS nowhere else,
other than where you are.
If you don't believe me, go there and see for yourself. ~

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rainbowmaker

art :  Swirled Flower, martin law, 2005
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