Random impulse

Gyroscope Man

By: Angela Lewis

Cautious Corporates

Who cooperate carefully

Material making motion means

We all must work finitely

Wait! Watch out!

Stay in step

Remember the ways of normalcy

Whirling uncontrollably

Who am I. Who is he

We all smile plastically

Fear runs from running words

Potentially moving gyroscopically

In-finite he is

Running cyclically

Junkyard

"there's no such thing as a weird person, it's just that some require more understanding than others"
--Tom Robbins

junkyard

we're all human beings, so none of us are alien to anything human

Still I Rise -- Junkyard

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries. Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard 'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines Diggin' in my own back yard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise. Maya Angelou

Reading Response:

Chapter 2 from Writing Poetry

I enjoy formless writing. I'm not a big fan of expectation bubbles. I feel like i loose some of y drive and inspiration when i'm boxed in someone else's ideas of what i should write. IF there is any form, i like it to be a "broad" idea that is easy to expand on. But if someone else is telling me what to write, i feel like i get lost in what i feel they want me to write about.

Also, the suggestion that the book makes about asking questions was really helpful. Amy suggested having a two sided question and answer conversation with yourself. I think thats a great idea, and i'm guilty of doing that anyways lol. I enjoy starting with one idea and asking myself questions about the topic. If there is something i dont know and want to know i ask it. If there are other words, symbols or pairings that pop up, i add them.

Junkyard

1) "one has the moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. ... Any law that degrades human personality [and potentiality] is unjust.... any law that distorts the soul and damages the personity is unjust. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority."
-- MLK Letters from Birmingham Jail (i read MLK'S letters from Birmingham Jail for my 60s class for the first time. I got chills. Mr. King is so, so brilliant) :]

2) "the gyroscope is an excellent symbol for [the men of the 50s] since it stands for a completely mechanical center of stability. It is easty to see how a period of emptiness would have followed the break down of the period of the 'iron men'; take out the gyroscope and they are hollow"
-- Rollow May, Ph. D. - Man's Search for Himself

3) "Never were we more free than under the germans. We lost [everything and kept seeing] foul insipid image that our oppressors wanted us to believe was the way we really were. Because of all of this we were free. Since the Nazi poison was seeping into our every thoughts, each accurate thought was a victory.
--Sarte- by himself

4) Best mirriors of the culture of an era = Psychopathology, ART (paintings, movies, fashion, poets)
--rollo may

Random Impulse:

Like i said before, i'm in a 60s culture class with Dr. Aanstoos in the psychology department. While i was reading i came up with an idea: Each decade/era has it's own personalities. Each one has it's own imbalances and psychopathology.

SO, since i've been doing my own research on chakra meditation and imblances, i was thinking that maybe a good way to go about analyzing wide range psychopathology is seeing which chakra is out of balance for the society as a whole. Of course it will vary based on the differences between cultures and sub cultures, but i thought it was an interesting perspective. I also have a friend who had a similar idea: psychopathology based on the psychology of place. hmm just a though.

Notes so far about chakras and eras:
The 30s -- Under blanaced root chakra (due to the great depression), and i would like to think
that in most cases, americans had a blananced heart chakra because. The root chakra is about survival, and so if we dont have the basics, we group around for as much love as we can get.

The 50s -- Over balanced 1st (root) chakra and navel chakra
-- Underbalanced 2nd (sacral) chakra (especially for women), heart chakra, throat
perineal chakra, and crown chakra
The 60s -- Def an over balanced sacral chakra


I've also been looking at our generation and trying to figure out the personality of our generation. What are we rebelling against? What is our generation trying to get at as a whole? My professor said that he thinks that our generation's personality has a think sense of disempowerment. I think that's why there are so many other decades that have been popping up (especially in fasion). The hippie, the organization man, the 80s, and some people are even trying to bring back the 90s.

I dunno
just some thoughts. Just a bunch of jumble right now, but hopefully it'll be something cool later on in the semester lol :P

Random Impulse -- On obsessions

In class i brought up the fact that my creative process thrives on my obsessions. Some of the things that have been taking over my thought process lately include: revolutionaries (i'm in a 60s culture class), meditation, chakras.

Like we said in class, free writing is about a conscious flow. What i've found is that when i'm noticing things [during times where i'm trying to find some type of creative motivation or not] , i enjoy finding some type of common ground between different subjects. I'm a big fan of synchronicity and the whole "why cant we all just get long"... i guess it's the Hippie in me lol. I should have been born in the 60s.

People enjoy finding differences and creating some type of hierarchy. I guess since i'm a part of a psychology program that focuses on people's subjective experiences instead of mathmetizing everything and finding differences for the sole purpose of creating levels of superiority, i enjoy seeing what ways we are the same.

"Baby Poetry"

Mama plays with the buttons
on the box that does magic tricks

She feeds it batter
It sings three times
And spits out cake

Daddy plays with the dancing light
That lives in pac-man's mouth

When the sun disappears
the dancing light in pac-man's mouth

Makes little sweet pillows
turn brown

Junkyard

we're all guilty - camus

Random Impulse

You're suffering from the Hero Comples
Attempting to save one charity case at a time
but forgetting that you need to save yourself first

Random Impulse

is there anyone out there
whose actions aren't run by alterior motives

is there anyone out there who still appreciates honesty
who doesnt strain to exercise honest
despite the fact that we are Inherently Imperfect

is there anyone who is ruled by their honest word
if you are without honesty, then who are you?

people fade then disappear behind falsehood
is there anyone out there?

Junkyard

Idea stolen from hopi tribe

-The fourth world (the current world as we know it)
•current ways of being and thinking
•stubborn old habits

-The fifth world (the new way of life waiting to be birthed)
• personal growth
• New understanding
• fresh start

- Indigo star
• Sign of rebirth
• 7th Chakra is indigo

Junk yard

we all come here with seven eyes (chakras)

Junkyard Quote

"I Seem to be reminded everyday that the world has lost its mind"

Junkyard Quote

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Harvesting The Fire