Honeymoon Island March 10, 2017

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Safety Harbor and Philippe Point March 9, 2017

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St. Pete March 8, 2017

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being conscious

Being conscious of being conscious

Mindful that I am alive

Looking out and taking it in

Sensing vision is constructed by my brain.

The neural network schema organizing the retinal signals

Images assembled from fragments and memory

Dancing into self-referential awareness

Like knowing you are in a dream.

Not the disembodied mind of Descartes

Except for the recursive abstraction of thought

As a metaphor for the metaphysical function of the brain

How language shapes possibility.

To be free of troubled thoughts

To be able to breathe in and out quietly

Letting go with the flow of inner peace

Let these moments come often.

Leisure time free from want or anxiety

Allows me this personal contemplation

Something few people have in their lives

Something everyone deserves.

Being one of so many millions young and old

Contending with the challenges of this historical period

Each of us immersed in our daily lives

The turbulence of the times animates everything.

Being aware of what other people are doing

Living together depending on each other

All these people do a lot of talking

Passing information around.

If you have ever been at a mass demonstration

You have felt the collective transformation

When thousands of voices speak in unison

Expressing a single shared common purpose.

From a day without immigrants

To a day without women

To a day without work or school

Events are building towards a general strike.