...i imagine i am simone de beauvoir... in a cafe... in astoria... reflecting on this experience of existence in a city... a hub of migration... cultural collision... explosion into new being...
...that's what cities like nyc are... a big bang... as black and white as we like to view america... the bronx... the boro that birthed hip hop was a cosmopolitan complex of puerto rican... black american... jamaican... italian... greek... irish... many occupying poverty... and none an island unto themselves... this birthed graffiti, breakdance, freestyle... etc...
...big bangs... it's easier to think from ego... from founder complex... i came up with this... but truth is no one person is an island... these dots before my name came from skats in nusrat fateh ali khan songs... where he gets lost in the language of ALLAH and realizes that there are no words to contain Divinity... these dots come from the words of the recitation (al Qur'an)... which says: ALLAH has no beginning nor end... so no i didn't just come up with it in a vacuum... although a younger me would beat my chest about fathering a style... being the first... others my sons... others imitating... me borrowing this from the rebel not revolutionary culture of chest beating hip hop... components of which get glossed over in academic romanticisms that fail to mention the capitalism gone wild thread that runs through part of it...
...so no... not the first... no there were others... there is a dialogue...
...what do i need to burn...?... what am i not Being that Being would leave me in the place of Truth...?...
...to reach your dreams you have to become who you haven't been... so what would it mean to Be the person who reaches this?...
...dream - village ashram dynamic generations old world culture... humble new world culture... respect... respectful... honoring of elders... elder led... youthful... children running around... something like the 12 tribes... but grounded in yoga... in yuj... grounded in family... building family... building familialness... in sharing space... laughter... meditation... yoga... prayer... Work... dinners... commitment...
...Be... the kind of person who does this starts holding ceremony for communal movement... discipline... shared... sacred... like shivananda... but with a family component... with a village layer... who grows so deep in his craft that he is in a space of sharing... how?...
...summer solstice question... what do i need to burn?... what will replace it...?... at the number 9...
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