cash flowing with the Tao

You might characterize many of my activities this year as belonging to the Putting My Affairs In Order category. Gathering all the various threads that I've spun out and doing as much cutting and weaving and trimming and stitching as is necessary to make something wearable, so to speak (I like me them metaphors...). One sub-category of that has been, inevitably, Money. It shares much in common with most of the other branches in that there has been more going out than has been coming in. So it goes. One possibly ironic but definitely odd and maybe even cool result of this is that I've somehow taken to carrying around all of my pertinent bills inside of my copy of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. I suspect that layer upon layer of meaning are carried within that simple fact. It just happened to be what I was reading when I decided to get serious about all this thread-weaving clothes-making nonsense

I find it somewhat amusing. :)

On a musical note (har har), give Bat For Lashes a listen. Their album Fur And Gold has been getting some serious airtime for me. A little bit of a Tori Amos meets Bjork feel to them, although that might be misleading (or off-putting). Just trust me, and give them a listen. :)

In movies, I just recently watched Shortbus. I will say nothing here about it, except that I am deliberating putting it on my Movie Everyone Should Watch list. It's a simple, small movie about people in the city (NYC in this one, as is often the case) trying to figure themselves out. Sounds boring and formulaic, but it is very, very moving, sometimes in surprising ways. I found myself laughing out loud, then moments later tearing up. That thin, diaphanous line between laughter and tears has seldom been so elegantly captured for me as it is in this movie. For that alone, it is worth the watch. if you've seen it, or watch it soon, let me know. I'd love your thoughts and feelings on it. (important note - you will discover as you look this movie up, it is completely uncensored. Com-Plete-Ly...not for the faint-of-heart or the closed-of-mind) (non-important note - though I said that I wouldn't say anything about it to start this paragraph, I went ahead and said something about it...this happens with me from time to time...and from 'time to time', I mean 'twice a day'...)