Rumi

The Flaming Lips at SXSW

The Flaming Lips performing the entire album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots live. Yes!

Happy Earth Day 2013

Self is Only an Idea

Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, New Mexico

"Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It's a dream already ended. There's nothing to be afraid of and nothing to be glad about. I know this from staring at mountains months on end. They never show any expression, they are like empty space. Do you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble away? Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space, which is the one universal essence of mind, the vast awakenerhood, empty and awake, will never crumble away because it was never born.”   - Jack Kerouac

Grand Canyon, April 2011

"The heaven and the earth and all in between, thinkest thou I made them in jest?" -The Quran

The Grand Canyon, April 2011

Her Morning Elegance

Her Morning Elegance /Oren Lavie from O L on Vimeo.

Around the House this Lazy Saturday Morning

Photos of things around the house this morning, as they were. 

Budding Tree

One of my Paintings

Old Window Frame

Red Chile Pods from Hatch, NM

Oliver's Face

Christmas Corks

Lightning Bark

Updated Book List

For those who care... ha!

1.  Wind, Sand & Stars, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
2. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
3. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway*
4. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway*
5. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien*
6. Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer
7. The Nigger of the 'Narcissus': A Tale of the Sea, Joseph Conrad
8. Afterwards, You're a Genius, Chip Brown
9. Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order, George Johnson
10. The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields and What's Behind It All, Bernard Haisch
11. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Barbara Kingsolver
12. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
13. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez*
14. The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis
15. Tortilla Flat, John Steinbeck
16. The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene
17. Celebrity, Laphram's Quarterly Volume IV Number I
18. Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, Chuck Klosterman

Almost halfway done.  It's painful to not be able to start new books right now.   However, Nick and I are reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy out loud together, so I have some variety.

Hard Heart

"A hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head."

- C.S. Lewis