"The further one goes, the less one knows."
-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"The further one goes, the less one knows."
-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Hat? Shirt? Patch?
Fragmented Promises
Make your own magic. Live your own life. Spread hope and happiness. Avoid strife.
Monomania: exaggerated or obsessive enthusiasm for or preoccupation with one thing.
Life...
I was rehired to Starbucks on Tuesday.
This store is just a cafe without a drive thru which is nice, but I'm still looking to work for a local shop of some sort.
I'm not a fan of working for Starbucks but the I do like my current coworkers and the work is easy. Thank you Tracy.
Also I've been working on and off the last few months at going through old notebooks and gathering stuff to compile a new book and/or books.
Not sure what angle I'm going for just yet, but it's all simmering in the brain box over and over and over again.
I saw the most fiery flower yesterday.
This last weekend I started cleaning up my backyard which is like a time capsule of weeds and stuff of my landlords that has just been left to the elements. It's a new adventure every time I go exploring.
I found a bunch of square tiles I've been painting. I think once I get a healthy stash of them I'll sell them for $20 each. In the mean time I'm just going to keep gifting them to people because that's just as fun.
So yeah life is alright. I'm making money ever so slowly again. Things are going to be fine. Money is just another exchange of energy. She should not be feared.
Until another time.
Be Free Fellow Earthlings. Be Free!
Hello Sleepwalkers! Planet Earth is a big place. Live. Lust. Learn.
Sleepwalking isn't about sleeping your life away, it's about using the magic of dreaming while you're awake.
Back to the Middle
Yesterday I sat in the yard and played with paints and pastels. This is the result. I call them: "The Three Ninjas".
Life is what you make it, make it awesome.
Be Free Fellow Earthlings! Be Free!
Accordion Chisel Jaw
It's that time again. The roses of Portland, Oregon are beginning to bloom again and they are every color you can imagine and more.
Finished Ghost Duuuuuddleee!
What's the point? Why do I post a picture of doodles every morning when I have shirts to sell? Do you even sell shirts? Who am I talking to? What the hell is Sleepwalking anyway?
Hmmm..... well it's been a while since I rambled hard.
1: I do sell shirts. I wish I had all the money to do this as a full scale, full time job business, but that ain't how I do. I make up as I go, I make use of what I have, I make it what I want it to be.
2: By my definition to Sleepwalk is to: "Live. Dream. Get lost in between.". In other words things are NOT how they be. They are what you make them to be. We all have magic to make our own realities, but only some of us really tap into that energy.
3: I post drawings because that's how this clothing line started. Drawings in a notebook when I feel overwhelmed by feelings I cannot put into writings. They are all part of the same world I run to in my head. They are all "Alfreds" and they all live in a place I think I call "Corduroy Cove".
4: I do not sleep a lot. 3 hours here. 4 hours there. I find magic by in peoploids. In animals. In conversation. In books. In rambles. In drawing.
5: The idea of Sleepwalking Collective is to inspire others to do the same. I don't care if you draw, write, sing, play guitar, but get lost in whatever the doing you do. If one person listens, if 10 listen then cool. Mostly it's for me.
6: Sleepwalking Collective is a clothing line: Yes. I want it to be greater. I want it to be a movement of art. I want it to be more than just me, but these things must happen organically. There will be more items available. I don't try too hard to front I'm more than I am. I just had to start somewhere that was comfortable for me. Some months I make no money, others $50, mostly somewhere in between.
I am already exactly who I've always thought I would be. The rest happens when you take time to just let things be. Sometimes I post absurd stuff. Sometimes it's heart felt thoughts.
7: I want to do a many of things. I got many more books I want to write: kid's books, graphic novel/poetry epics, and many many more. I want to make music again. I want to perform music again. It all can't happen overnight. Shit.. It took me how long to even start a clothing line and write a book.
Time is a joke.
She creates knots and expectation. Just because some tweeny pop star took over the world overnight doesn't mean you have to. I mean look at the old man who wrote Game of Thrones. Homeboy hasn't even finished writing those books yet.
LASTLY... Sleepwalking is a Revolution. I don't expect you to believe me. It's a shift in consciousness, but it has to start within.
I don't do time, but something happened at the beginning of 2014. The beginning of the end of the corporate machine.
Those machines didn't rise to power in the blink of an eye. They didn't do it alone. I can't do this alone.
The shift won't happen overnight, but I predict it will by the end of my life and I expect to live between 85 and 100. So we have at least 58 years worth of work to do.
I'm only trying to creep into you're thinking patterns. You can call it absurd or just words. I've already said a whole lotta lot of brain thoughts and my attention span is that of a fly.
Enough of my ramblings. Be Free Fellow Earthlings. Be Free!
Men weren't meant to live in boxes. Go outside, go for walks, and don't forget to sing while you're working. That's all I've got for today. Be Free Earthlings. Sleepwalk with me.
How's life? Magical.
I gotta lotta words dwelling in my head, but right now I just gotta let it all simmer.
To be continued at later moment. Be free fellow Earthlings. Be Free!