Thanks for joining me for another installment of my Just Because Club memory adventure! I do not know exactly just how this “Captured Moments” activity has jostled and messed with my brain just yet. Of course, as the activity deepens, my flow of memories throughout the day has increased and grown far more compelling and vivid. It feels like an orchestra of pressures moving in my body, like old crisp, yellowed, crumpled letters, lost in the mail for years, getting delivered in a huge pile overflowing out of the mailbox all over the street. Or, in the case of memories, overflowing out of my brain and mouth.
Insights have also flowed today, some specific information came to me in regard to the physical mechanics of chakras. Mainly, I understood how they both mediate and act as conduits between mental and physical aspects of experience. That concept will come up again in the future. Please comment if you have insight to offer on the matter.
Tonight, the exercise asked me to add another component to the Stack of Captured Moment Cards. So, That is what I shall do. As I do so, I will, again, share with you 5 more of these cards at random. Thanks again for stopping by. It will be interesting to see the autobiographical portrait the random sample cards Paint of me in sum. Check the beginning of this particular experiment at: Captured Moments.
Ok, so I drew the cards for tonight. The exercise suggested that I add a visual detail to every one of the 200 cards. Whoa. It floored me again. Considering the visual elements of the memories made other parts of the setting in which the memory took place come alive, and grow more vivid. I could see clear images of the face of my mother, my sister, and detailed aspects of rooms, parks, waterfalls, rivers, and other settings. Sometimes details that “had nothing to do with the memory” pop out more vividly than the original thought of the memory.
Weird. But, one of the cornerstones of this blog, and Escape Plans Unlimited, always insists that if you find something interesting, go out and experience it for yourself. This adventure exists for you to experience it, not just to watch on TV and cream about it. So come up with some ways to challenge yourself, and have some fun!
Ok, the 5 cards for tonight, with visual details added: (You have to ask, did I randomly pick these, or have I censored myself? Ask, and ye shall receive.)
1. Bob Apel and I playing guitar the 1st time. We played Metallica. His basement at Princeton near highway in 1993 or so. empowered, excited, friendly. our guitars in hand, I can see his room and his house on his street.
2. Accidentally saying, “I love you,” to my old friend Blake H. At my house on Jackson St. Blake left through back door. embarassed, holding handle of metal screen door. I see Blake, walking away, short black hair, through the window in the back of the house. We had a compaq early form of the portable, suitcase size, on the table there.
3. Nudie Rock, outside Eugene, OR. meeting Richard there in 2000. He said trippy things and did naked yoga. I was reading, “The War At Home” by Brian Glick. paranoid, intrigued. rocks under me, hot sun on face. I see naked Richard, his white hair, and the McKenzie River flowing past.
4. Puking in Tumble’s bathtub. We drank flaming nazi’s at the Country Bar on Lyndale that night (or was it Nicollet) It was winter, with snow outside, I puked for a long time in his bathroom. ill and teary and sad, woeful, lamenting. body keeled over in bathtub, I see the tub.
5. Dude puching me in the head in Princeton through my open car window. I had Shauna (blonde girl) with me in the car. I had broken a glass in the parking lot and dude came over and hit me. angry, embarassed. his fist hit the left side of my face. I see the parking lot, and the girl’s blonde hair, and my car from the inside.
Ok, there you have it. See all of y’all tomorrow!
Love, wildness, chaos….
-GTD
