Saturday, January 18, 2014

Must Be The Wine...Ya Think?


It both pains and amuses me
to watch how un-scientifically
both those peddling arch-fundamentalist Christianity
and those some arch-material a-theist evolutionary theory
compete, thumbs in ass and feet in mouth, in mutual myopic stupidity –
as if God had no imagination for developments of ages,
nor patience for anything longer than six “days,“
as if concrete scientific search and discovery and analysis
had no place next to awed wonder at the timed beauty of the
odd One-der and exquisite in-telligence behind
the Creation and ceaseless re-creation of our universe as it
manifests before our reluctant eyes.
As if Einstein didn't know what he was talking about when he'd
said as much.

Friend, let's be honest, let's trash all the books
and the sermons and the lectures,
let's get wildly uncomfortably curious again, as once
we were as children:
take those five senses which some say are all we have,
to research and to prove “whether or not“ God exists – be
really scientific now,
and do as I did as a child – and still do: don't stay on the surface
and call it done, go deep! deep into each sense,

and find that sixth sense which accompanies the five – it's
on the breath behind each, and you have to think now
with your heart! See with your heart,
listen with your heart, smell, taste, feel with your heart –
and let no emotional religion nor materialist doubt interfere with
what God has placed you here to do, letting Him know Himself through you.

Science and research ideologue of today:
do you really think God would not plan evolution?
Bible-Theme-Park entrepreneur and mediaeval ideologue of today:
do you really think (?) that God would not plan evolution?

Idiots all, in both camps, competing for the Clown's own Crown!
Well this idiot, pained and amused by you all, just
celebrated Shabbos-Kiddush.
The wine was very good, sweet, lieblich in German; singing
its blessing a declaration of Love, sovereign mad and mysterious:
in its first taste of the week rests all of Creation with all its
evolving dimensions, myriad millenia of change and comings
and goings and return, resting on the solid ground of this kitchen in
Berlin-Wedding, here and now, as in eternity.

Monday, January 6, 2014

Birthday Greetings to my Beloved Granddaughter


A Father in Berlin Reads to His West Coast Granddaughter,
Levi River Winter Cervantes, on the Occasion of Her Second Birthday:
Jan. 16, 2014
http://youtu.be/KwF11a84_VI



... and a few more for her:
Vids etc. to and for Levi:









O My Mind! Be Like This Body


The year is new,
my ignorant habits rather old.
How my debts and deficits loom,
my incapacities mock me, my
incompetence, shortcomings, my
haste, my lethargy, my impatience, my
careless, reckless inconsiderations!
My little cruelties, liberties, the hurts and
injuries inflicted by my thoughtlessness.

I'm haunted by the petty past, disturbed
by the unlikely future, confronted daily by both.
Will creditors come knocking? there's a hole in my stocking.
Not even a good depression provides any refuge.

Existential angst and indecision, banal
and deadening in its itchy grip –
broken promises, broken trusts . . . and
Beloved Rumi says to come anyway, just come!

O my mind! be like this body:
humble, hale and hardy, robust and
full of the Lord's Name.

O my mind! contemplate this deeply,
with feeling, and with interest and passion:
sing it aloud, speak it over again,
whisper it in a murmur, breathe it,
let it ride on the breath resonating
day in and day out, all through the night
and into dawn.

Let it soothe your panic, buck you up –
the Lord's Name isn't some dried crust of the walking dead –
know it to be fresh and living! let it sweeten your tongue,
sweeten your atmosphere, guide your perspective!

It's a very refined and delicate undertaking, you see,
like guiding a silk thread through a fine needle's eye – to
sew the foundation seaming the gap in the sack
of potatoes you are hauling to feed all the neighbors.