Other Implies Another

A week since I've posted.
I've been other in one way, other in another way.
Good Orderly Direction. Abject chaos.

Helping others' creativity pushing me toward clarity regarding my own and its importance.

A day in the ER.

A party.
Hikes on the beach--
In order to spill from fill, must be empty first.
I emptied my pockets, feeling myself bound to the ground by the bones of the earth.
See how many of them are somewhat heart-shaped? See how many contain holes?

And au randonee on snowshoes around here on higher ground, the bones of winter. A baby moose, perhaps.

Meanwhile, this isn't supposed to be a good photo, but there were two moose, not just this one, outside the library this morning--smart moose to come down to sea level where things are threatening to grow.

I'm still having periodic dry heaves from the castor oil I made myself drink for some supposed food indiscretion three days ago. Up-thrusting energy like new plants--if I go abstract enough I can make it positive. Except that...hmhm...

I translated a hundred dictionary entries today all having to do with the concept of  "otherness." (And a bonus dozen over lunch to do with "heaps.") "Other" is different is more is less is parts of a whole is past is future is alien is heretical, abnormal, bad-tasting, somewhere else, special, foreign, hostile, divergent from the norm, less, less...

How much needs to be stripped away for radiance to enter, for light to shine through?
Breakfast in treatment last year: two packets instant oatmeal, with a whole bunch of other stuff (soy yogurt, nuts, shredded coconut, soy milk, fruit juice, raisins), and a cup of coconut cream. And more coconut cream if didn't finish all within 30 minutes.
Pumpkin is so good with oatmeal. With half a packet of instant oatmeal and maybe some coconut cream.
Pumpkin is so good with two tablespoons of instant oatmeal and a teaspoon of psyllium, and lots of liquid and maybe some coconut cream. With one tablespoon of oatmeal and half the amount of pumpkin. Etc.
A teaspoon of psyllium is so good with the pumpkin spices, lots of liquid and really some of that coconut cream.
One is one and all alone and ever more shall be so.
Other begat one.

Open my lips to speak praise--it's not what goes in but what comes out that matters.
See the luminosity through those rocks and bones.