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Archive for July, 2005

My Granddaughter. (I'm In NYC.)

Friday, July 8th, 2005

The big news is that I’m a grandfather!

Here she is dressed up to head home from the maternity ward! Isn’t she cute?

I love her. It’s such a tender feeling to hold the baby. Pure light and love.

Women are like those Russian dolls, with always another one inside. It’s great to see life renewing itself.

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We’re in Manhattan once again.

Brain-eating Mr. Softee trucks abound.

A taxi-motor caught fire. It’s great when you see the taxis and bike messengers fighting; they’re like natural enemies, like giant squid vs. sperm whales.

As usual there’s amazing dancers at the 34th St. subway station.

But mainly I’m thinking about my granddaughter!

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Flag on the Fourth

Monday, July 4th, 2005

We have a flag we put out on holidays, and there it was, up at dawn. A gentle symbol here in the leafy village of Los Perros.

Long may it wave! It's “our” flag too.

Quote from my 2002 journals, in Paris: I keep working on this new mental exercise of becoming coherent, of being in a mixed state, of existing in multiple parallel universes, and that feels very good. Walking in the Latin Quarter, looking at some smoke from a chimney against the sky, not naming it, just seeing it, letting its motions move within my mind, I realize I’m no different than a computer screen showing a two-dimensional cellular automaton, with the smoke like a touch-cursor dragged across my brain. I am entangled with the smoke. I am coherent, but my coherence includes the smoke, I have joined the system, merged it into me. Like the old koan, Q: I see a flag is blowing in wind: is the flag moving or is the wind moving? A: My mind is moving. Finally I get it, a nice moment of aha, a satori in Paris.

In pyjamas, reflected in a hubcap that Rudy Jr. found.

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