dan abernathy - contributing to the chaos

thursday
04
24
09

Black Ice
I hit some black ice and slid right
into the side of my car.
I'm sure glad it was there to stop me.
- dba

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The State Capital in Denver, Colorado

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Me before leaping into the portal.
I'm gone for a few days to what might be the epicenter of chaos.
I'll return with news and photos, or not!

A Soul Mate
The lucky ones find their true soul mates at an early age. Others do not find them until they are a lot older, maybe almost a lifetime. Some may never find them as they have shut their eyes and stopped trying, giving in to just the way it is. The ones that have not found them are in for a wondrous experience, the ones that have found them should treasure what they have and realize they are blessed.
    A soul mate makes your energy flow and transform. The energy form both people flow together and make a true whole. When the half's join, when they come together they share a life purpose. It is no longer about me it is about us. They compete the circle. You compliment each other. You are a reflection of the things you need to learn; you find the missing pieces of you. You grow together and become so in tune that you make each other know yourselves better.
    Each of us has pluses and minuses in us, in our souls, in our personalities. It is positive energy and a negative energy. These are good and bad qualities. A soul mate compliments and balances the energy you have and what you are missing. You do this for each other.
    The voices are load; they are screaming at us to listen, to react and not let them pass by. You have to listen to your inner voice and not let your ego get into the way. Don't let it shout loader. External benefits have nothing to do with finding the true one. They are irrelevant. External attractiveness can blind and confuse, but it is just glitter and lights. There is nothing for the person, the soul; all they do is control and drain. They have no water to help nourish and grow as we push on, striving to reach the next level, together. - dba

sunday
04
19
09

Why is it so easy to get laid in the Bible belt?
- dba

More Chaos cards have been posted for your wonder!

Change
For some of us, the lucky ones, our lives are governed by change. New and different, we are the ones trying to thrive outside the box. Often times so far from their constraints there are few around us. Being here, living in the risk zone we do not feel crowded, there is less standing close and more room to breathe. We have an uncontrollable urge to leave normal, to seek change, we look for the edge, to search for the grail. Freedom to change, to live off the wall is inscribed in the bones of who we are. If we ignore this innate makeup and completely avoid risk, we will sabotage our greatest potential. - dba

thursday
04
16
09

Spelling
I find my spelling is better if I run
spell check before I start writing.
–dba

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Tommy, circa 1970 something, we were in our teens.

Tommy Did It
There is no way I can hear ZZ Top without tumbling back to the past. The wild days of my late teens, the days spent sitting between two 100-watt JBL speakers listing to LaGrange blast at the highest possible decimal. The music wrapped you in a cocoon while the base bounced off your body like the concussion of a bomb blast. The whole time you were riding this musical nuke, Tommy was blowing shotguns at you out of a sixteen inch brown pipe, while grinning a smile that only he could muster. Was it Tommy, or Francine, no I'm sure it was Tommy. I think?
- dba

Three days after I penned these words I was notified that Tommy had passed on. Tommy lived his life large and he knew where the edge was. He found it and went beyond its border. Here's to you my friend. I know you got that smile back on your face and jamming to the good ones. As sure as I'm writing this, Tommy came and said, "so long" as I was listening to LaGrange that day. He left this world the same day I went back and revisited our old times together. Tommy was a great friend from my past and he might be gone now, but we drank a toast to him and I know I'll see him on the other side.

tuesday
04
14
09

A walk purifying the soul, weather it is along a beach,
fallowing a stream, or in the midst of a forest should
be measured in footsteps, not time.
- dba

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A prehistoric splatter near capital hill.

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My near escape from giant crab, and I'm not itching!

Wonder
No mater what happens in life, or what restrictions are forced onto us. We must never loose our sense of wonder. Wonder will keep us looking and searching for the new. Wonder will keep us living and living will keep us swimming in the wonderfully ultimate world of wonder. - dba

sunday
04
12
09

You need to be surrounded by people who are as passionate and as dedicated as you.
Lauryn Hill

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More Chaos Cards. They are sweeping the nation…SOON!

The Road is my Whore
Moments before departure my mind is racing with noise and anticipation, because the lure of the road is so damn strong. Mozart, Disney's Fantasia, ZZ Top, Willy Nelson, Louie Armstrong and Nina Simone are all fighting for space to ride in my head. Then when I hit the high plateau my mind is clear. The lore of the open road explodes it becomes my mistress, my lover, my whore and I am lost to all reason. - dba

thursday
04
09
09

Faith means living with uncertainty
– feeling your way through life,
letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
Dan Millman

And yet another project to help bring chaos into the world, The Chaos Cards.
Wait till you see where this one goes.

Archive Photo: After a razor and a washing machine. From the early 90's.

Do I Call Myself a Fool,
I may never be truly happy. This may be my plague as I tromp through life. Should I settle for this and call it contentment, or should I strive to always be searching? It is change we live for, it is change we search for. Change keeps us stimulated it keeps us calm. Should I live close to, or with the earth, or do I call myself a fool for letting life fall here? Do I stand up and remind myself, shout and scold myself that it is the journey you seek, not the destination, or do I call my self a fool and sadly sit down? - dba

tuesday
04
07
09

Phoenician belief,
the time spent on the water is not
deducted from one's life.

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The Ranch Shrew
I once lived in an old house on a ranch way out in the country at the end of the road. Also living in the house was a little shrew. Every evening he would come out to feed. Often times we would even feed him. This shrew had a certain smugness about him, but he died in a mousetrap. I should have had him mounted by a taxidermist like Roy Rogers did to Trigger. Although I not sure what shelve I would have put him on. - dba

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20% off sale

04
05
09

If you walk through a rainbow
will you track magic into your house?
– dba

What I'm worried about is the life long conversations we have, will stop. – dba – 88

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I never knew what I wanted to be when I grew up. I still don't.
All my life I have just started doing things, living life,
some good some bad, but always refusing to grow up. - dba

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My Words

If I lost my words,
If I had nothing to say,
Would you stay?
Would you listen anyway?
- dba – 88

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Buck Frampton caught on film at a resent all night jam session. (Location is undisclosed.)

04
04
09

The trouble with resisting temptation is
it may never come your way again.
- Fred Ziglar

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Calming Down
At the end of the day when life is calming down I feel my life is so incomplete. Depression starts looming at the door, knocking hard to come in. Some nights it is all I can do to quit the banging and keep him out, to wage the war, to fight the battle and keep pushing him back. My army is strong, my victory complete and my medal is keeping the living alive in my heart and mind. -dba

04
03
09

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody elses's life with perfection.
– Bhagavad Gita

New Image from the 6X6.

Signs – Signs Everywhere a Sign
People say, "this is just coincidence," or "a spontaneous thought," but what it really is, is a sign. If we as the receiver pay attention and stop ignoring them, our lives will become better. When were getting the message that this is the way, then fallow the sign. When things are meant to be they are not difficult, they flow easy. When obstacles appear in our path take a step back and look at the bigger picture. We may be getting a message that something is not meant to be. Remember to, that when stepping back and looking be sure that the obstacles are not being thrown out of your own uncertainty. Life and happiness are simple; fallow them. I truly believe that spiritual guides give us signs. When we become in tune with, and listen to these quit leaders will greatly illuminate our travels through life. - dba

04
02
09

You should not use gossip for a source of information.
– dba

The Penn Street Perk. This is a coffee shop, in Denver, that I can sit in for hours and be totally lost and found at the same time. I contemplate, I write I watch I start the morning in a way that should be done and when my thoughts were collected, stored, or discarded I would walk away into a blissful day.

Let Me Tremble
Let me hold, see and feel all that is beautiful.
Let me know people are good and not only living for themselves.
Let me know, want and keep love and compassion.
Let me pass onto others a few moments of joy.
Let me give my children a road map to what is pure.
Let me help all that I meet tremble with life.
Let me live in this way, and I will tremble with life. - dba

If Jesus blesses a bar, does that make it ok to drink,
fall down and hurt the people that you are with?