Self-portrait with a picture of Katie on the Wall (Approximately 1979)
“No one can tell what goes on in between
the person you were and the person you become.
No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell.
There are no maps of the change.
You just come out the other side.
Or you don’t.”
— Stephen King; The Stand
Photo-Artistry Self-portrait by kenne
Why?
Trying to understand why
Only to be shattered
By the emotions of others.
Still, I will stubbornly
Continue seeking answers
By connecting the dots —
Dots that blow in the wind
Like the tumbleweeds
No longer grounded
Fueling fires of fear
Widening the desert
Of intellectual ignorance.
— kenne
Digital Art by kenne
place to start
Poolside, January 15th — Computer Art by kenne
Poolside
— kenne
Self-Portrait
The more I learn about myself
the less I know about others.
I feel good about who I am,
questioning the good of others.
I may understand my behavior,
wondering about that of others.
This may change with a renewal
of dialogue among humans.
I accept who I have become,
I accept the responsibility for me.
I accept my humanness, but
not the organization of society.
To live in the actual world,
we develop an ability to cope.
By coping, I first came to know,
before I came to know-nothingness,
thus having an opposite for interaction,
allowing me to continue to search
sometimes not putting forth enough effort,
causing anxiety, guilt, and despair.
I am able to know by being in the moment,
I am able to know-nothingness by becoming.
The more I am able to know-nothingness
the more I am able to achieve enlightenment
by living life according to my possibilities
as I am able to actualize them.
— kenne
“What?” — Image by a Fellow Traveler
Self Portrait by kenne
Why!
Trying to understand why
Only to be shattered
By the emotions of others.
Still, I will stubbornly
Continue seeking answers
By connecting dots —
Dots that blow in the wind
Like the tumbleweeds
No longer grounded
Fueling fires of fear
Widening the desert
Of intellectual ignorance.
— kenne
Self Portrait — Computer Painting by kenne
In his book, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics, Richard Rohr writes about third-eye seeing, which allows for a co-equal footing of the first eye (the physical sense of sight) and the second eye (the eye of thinking, reasoning and reflecting). The Mystics build upon the first two eyes by affirming their fundamental connection in such a way to avoid the simplistic symmetry of dualities. The resulting connection is what Rohr calls, “presence.”
“It is experienced as a moment of deep inner connection,
and it always pulls you, intensely satisfied,
into the naked and undefended now,
which can involve both profound joy
and profound sadness at the very same time,” Rohr writes.
By abandoning all false dichotomies, the captured moment can be viewed in the presence, which I have referred to as “the now” in earlier postings. The further we travel inward the more everything appears to merge into an inexpressible, but nevertheless real, sense of oneness with the world around us.
— kenne
