Abstract Truth

https://youtu.be/OzlN0Guvous?list=RDOzlN0Guvous
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along The Watchtower

I was born in St. Louis, Missouri on Friday at 5am, September 21st, 1951. My first day on the planet was the international day of peace. I’ve been workin’ on that. My Dad was a preacher, parapsychologist, journalist, editor and sometimes educator. His mom, my Nana, was a doll doctor and loved to go fishing. She kept a flower garden in the back yard. Her fishing poles and tackle boxes filled parts of the cellar stairs and in that basement was her doll workshop: with hundreds of dolls parts and pieces… and thousands of waiting eyes…

Nana’s Grandmother, Elizabeth White-Brown, was North Dakota Sioux (Santee). Nana used to tell our fortunes with playing cards on the dining room table. She also kept a parakeet by the kitchen window… Bompa (Grandpa) was an auto mechanic. He smoked non-filter Pall Malls and drank whiskey. When none of the women, including Nana (Velzora Laura Brown-Flanagan), were looking, Bompa would wink at me and reach for a quart bottle of whiskey in a wooden box next to his easy chair. Martin James Flanagan II, died at 67 of cirrhosis of  the liver and emphysema. He carried brass knuckles in his back pocket.  (My older sister never knew about the whiskey bottle.)

https://thepeaceresource.com/202/10/11/knowledge-speaks-but-wisdom-listens-jimi/

Mom was a prolific reader and very bright. She worked in a home for orphans while completing her college degree at night school. Her dad was a machinist who built and repaired his home. Bill Wilson served in the Merchant Marines and collected lion sculptures. His first wife read a great deal, but died young. His second wife was an artist. Grandpa tended a garden running block to block, with a garage, a garden shack full of wonderful things and a swing in-between.  Grandpa Bill told me wonderful stories…

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. ”
~Jimi Hendrix (James Marshall Hendrix, originally John Allen Hendrix)

My mom, Lois Jean Wilson-Flanagan and my dad, Rev. James Martin Flanagan… were the first in their families to complete college. They made certain I learned to read real early…

Both Mom and Dad were educators. Jim taught community college, ministered with small congregations, edited a religious magazine and was on the board of The Exit, a coffeehouse on Gaslight Square. Lois remained a prolific reader for most of her life and a wonderful resource. She was a substitute secondary-school teacher. Lois was one of the smartest people I have known.

… “The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
~Vladimir Nabokov

My parents and grandparents taught me about freedom, integrity, courage, imagination, creativity, compassion and planting seeds.
I was loved.

https://youtu.be/6jlLBs6YawM?list=RD6jlLBs6YawM
Blind Faith ~ Can’t Find My Way Home ~

I learned there’s more than one way home.

“… One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.”
― James Baldwin

Mom and Dads’ lives and roles, as parents, teachers, and human beings…were about reading, creative synthesis, hard work, grace, intelligence, literacy, pride, courage, kindness, creativity, compassion, imagination, good hearts and joy.

https://youtu.be/EQgxK44PcWg?list=RDEQgxK44PcWg&t=79
Indigenous- Hear My Train a Comin’ / Voodoo Chile

I cannot accept blind-faith contradictions, but understand the overwhelming power of faith. Life is difficult and complex: humans can endure, survive and prevail.  Sometimes people can embrace sorrow until it blossoms into joy.

https://youtu.be/cOZ5VcQIiFc?list=RDcOZ5VcQIiFc
Blind Faith Sea of joy. at London’s Hyde Park, 1969
Laguna Pueblo Reservation, Casa Blanca , New Mexico

In considering Abrahamic traditions, deism, atheism, agnosticism. existentialism and living life on Mother Earth…    I’ve found the isms overrated. Regarding philosophy and religion, I’m a gardener who enjoys blues, reading, writing and planting seeds.
I think, therefore I am.

https://youtu.be/k-zaI8lLrQA?list=RDk-zaI8lLrQA
The Blues And The Abstract Truth

The blessings we bestow upon one another: nods, winks, hugs and kind words are more important than prayer and more essential than worship.

https://youtu.be/-aRnzKDiIS0?list=RD-aRnzKDiIS0
Hubert Sumlin – Sometimes I’m Right

In our human condition, the rest is commentary, art, science or fiction…

“The religion of the future will be cosmic religion.
It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.”
~ Albert Einstein

https://youtu.be/NMEkqwfa2WY?list=RD_XDuujK2vd0
More Than One Way Home · Keb’ Mo’ Just Like You

“Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death–ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.”
― James Baldwin

Human beings can love with courage in peace and live with justice, truth, lies, science, fiction, mystery, quantum reality and joy. People perceive more than five senses. Our realities remain subjective. Everyone can find their own way, because there’s more than one way home.  Blessings for healing…

https://youtu.be/N6vo9WChDgI?list=RDN6vo9WChDgI
The Healer

checkout this cool tool developed by John Tinker… 
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/Tinker

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