SOULFCKERY

Stories. Tall tales. Some swearing and a bit of inspiration

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My future's so bright... #shadesfordays #highfive #ineverlosecheapshades #gottawearmyshades #mort https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxfo2PcjH9c/?igshid=hxiyfkebf811

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Cats in outer space

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Howlin at the moon

Some thoughts going around my head at this time of the piscean full moon… 1. The things you’d like to attain or achieve in life are different from the kind of person you are or want to be 2. Imagine yourself without your job/career, money, computer, cellphone, photos or home. Imagine all your data based information was erased. Who are you without these things? 3. Remove your title of mother/ father/ brother/ sister/ daughter/ son/ boss/ worker/ teacher/ student etc - who are you without these titles? 4. If the last 2 questions scare the fuck out of you, or make you angry or frustrated or confused, there is work to be done.

Sounds like a sales pitch, right? Ha! I wish I had the thing to sell you to give you the answers but I don’t. I’ll tell you who does though: you. And it’s absolutely normal to not have these answers, regardless of where you are in life - but it’s important to at least start asking the questions and investigating ways of getting to the answers. Sometimes this involves adopting a spiritual practice, other times a more ‘pragmatic’ approach, reading, researching, feeling, listening, yoga, sports, health, prayer, travel, courses, art…I don’t know where you will find your answers, but find them. They are the only truth you’ll find in this life.

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I'd like to think that god's the kinda guy that giggles when I pray "yo, please help me to not fuck up today"

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Do the hard things

Sometimes you have to just fucking do the hard things Get up and exercise, even though your body aches, your mind hurts and your heart hates the way it lives and beats despite being broken Sometimes you have to just fucking do the hard things Get out of that relationship that saves your body, but not your soul, from feeling lonely and unloved Sometimes you just have to fucking do the hard things Acknowledge that you messed up, that you were too self absorbed, complacent or self pitying to be better and braver, acknowledge it, learn the lesson, and then figure out how to move forward from there. Sometimes it's hard. Fucking hard to leave a person/ friend/ laziness/ a job/ a habit/ a city/ a comfort zone, but when you do, when you just fucking do it...you take a step into your power and expand yourself a million times to be more of that badass ball of amazingness that is inside all of us. Do the hard things. You're worth it!

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Krishna. Always the ladies man!

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Cute!

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Energy flows where thoughts go

Facebook seems to have become a breeding ground for anger and hatred lately. I remember the days when the status prompt wanted you to share how you were feeling or doing or what was happening in your life, and for the most part, people felt an obligation or were polite and considerate enough to post mostly good things. The warm fuzzy feel good stuff. Statuses were succinct and personalized. One or two sentences. Neat. Not requiring too much engagement. Nowadays, the bloggers and the tech guys have made it far too easy to press 'share on Facebook/ Twitter/ whatever' button at the bottom of a slew of political, racist, violent or irrational news reports, opinions, and generally bad vibes which do nothing but rile everyone up. This is particularly dangerous in a society that has not yet learnt to wield or tame their emotions. We are not equipped enough for compassion, understanding, forgiveness. We see images of dog fighting, we react by swearing and cursing and calling the perpetrators all sorts of disgusting names...instead of doing something civilized like doing a bit of research about that particular article, finding out if it's actually valid, looking at the socio economic climate of the area, looking at culture, value systems, questioning our own value systems etc. and then looking at ways to fix what we perceive to be the problem i.e. violence against animals. No, we're far too rooted in our moral high ground and our desire to exalt ourselves by publicly displaying our offense to even consider doing anything positive like volunteering at a dog shelter, or neutering our animals. Is our rage and ugly words on Facebook going to solve anything? How are you making an already toxic situation less toxic? Do you even want to? Of course you want to...but by cursing and getting mad? In the dog fighting example I've given, I will refer to the Hindu/ yogic concept of Ahimsa. Ahimsa means 'non violence' and is one of the basic rules for living. In fact, the yogis put it above all else. We interpret ahimsa very fundamentally as not killing each other or animals, we say no to domestic violence, child abuse etc etc...but this is merely scratching the surface of the true challenge of ahimsa. Ahimsa, more importantly, includes violence in thoughts, in words, in everyday deeds against ourselves and against each other. This includes not feeling worthy, thinking we've failed at something, wishing our ex boyfriend harm etc. Cursing the dog fighters and wishing ill on them compounds the amount of violence related to that scenario. It takes far more emotional strength and wisdom to understand your reaction, and then refrain from dumping yet another steamy turd on the already large and offensive pile of angry words. It would be far more heroic and rewarding to try to understand the situation fully, and find other ways of reducing violence towards animals if in fact there is nothing you can do to resolve that particular incident on Facebook. Raise awareness for adopting abandoned animals? Adopt an abandoned animal? Try put an end to abusive breeding? You may even decide to go vegan! This would be far more productive than swearing like a loon on Facebook. By refraining from hateful words, I am by no means saying that you should condone violence. That's just dumb. What I am saying is that you cannot fix violence with violence, or hate with hate. Be mindful of your words and your thoughts - they can get pretty violent and often disguise themselves as noble and valiant! Energy flows where thought goes... Make sure yours are always good and wholesome and lead to warm fuzzy feelings!

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"That far off feeling, that up close kind of ache" - Monsters of Folk. Hits me in he guts every time! I will be returning back to South Africa in 3 weeks time, after what seems like forever. It feels a little like the last scene of X Men where Wolverine has to silently live with the experience of knowing another parallel universe. I guess our entire lives are like this. Our secret internal universe that nobody really knows about. I've changed. I can feel it. I can see it. And what should feel familiar will be strange. My strategy is to keep doing the things that I love doing while traveling...coffee shops and writing, and this will connect me to my universal happy place.

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I'm homesick for the first time in months.

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Play something good

I often wonder if bands and artists like Frank Zappa, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, The Who and the rest of that seasoned ilk are actually still producing relevant work, or if, somewhere along the line, the venom of fame became the lifeblood of their art? Or if they are in fact just puppets to their labels' purse strings? Take any Uncut magazine published over the last 2 years and you're bound to find tour dates, remasters, remixes, reunion tours, solo works, collaborations or even (cring) new albums from these legends. Short of tangible offerings, articles about them are still being written, photographs published, previous works referred to. Don't get me wrong, they certainly deserve their due, but I can't help but wonder where the artist ends and the money/ fame monger starts? Aging should either be graceful and dignified, acknowledging your life's artistic achievements, or wild and outlandish, innovative and unapologetically anarchistic. Perhaps I've set the bar too high, but there are very few older artists that still pique my interest; Tom Waits, Yoko Ono, Nick Cave - are but a few. There's just something so sexy about their evolving understanding of the world and their ability to interpret it in new ways. These other bands though, the ones which keep making it into the media, are nothing short of beige. Middle of the road. Meh. I come across so many of my peers who spew that annoying adage "they just don't make good music anymore". Seriously??? Any music enthusiast needs only hop onto Spotify, Pandora, or get out of their worn leather armchair and watch some gigs, to know that music evolves daily and there is some phenomenal, seminal, sublime music being produced every second. Remember when publications like NME and Kerrang touted only emerging bands? When Nirvana was becoming the new voice of teenage angst? When music meant something more than album sales and reunion tours?? What ever happened to that? I'll admit, I'm not an avid consumer of music mags anymore, I just cannot stomach another Neil Young memoir, or the sad apologetic eyes of Pete Townshend. And perhaps I've got it all wrong, I just think that very much like news media, music media, too, has been hijacked by capitalism and a sense of beige.

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South Carolina

I found us a piece of land in a forest in South Carolina Suki and Baby-cat will love it And we can have one of those pretentious ribbon tying wedding ceremonies out back near the woodpile. In winter I’ll watch you through the window as you chop wood for the fire And at night we’ll drink red wine and laugh about something silly that the dog did

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Talking about social justice is a deeply uncomfortable conversation. In order for there to be justice for all, we have to hold every single person in our hearts—not just the oppressed, but the oppressor. Until we do that, things can’t change because we get stuck in separation and blame. Yoga is all about union. If we’re truly interested in union we must be interested in social justice; otherwise we’re in complete denial.

Hala Khouri @halakhouri #yogaphilosophy #internalrevolution

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I love you and you are amazing!

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Memoirs of Perth

I’m trapped in a reality warp where a cup of coffee costs the same as a night in a 3 star Delhi hotel.

Let me lament with a haiku. I find the Japanese penchant for simplicity particularly apt:

A naive budget Went searching for connection I’m alone and broke