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Thoughts of New Hope, PA in the last few days. It’s very quickly become one of my favourite places that I’ve ever visited. Images taken on April 4th, 2010.

05 February 2010 @ 08:33 pm:

I am not going to feel sorry for myself anymore simply because my task appears so difficult. Difficulty is always an opportunity to grow. You get from life exactly what you give out. I am just going to use this opportunity to grow and to become better and to feel [...]

Here are some videos about a public meditation event I attended in NYC in March. It was such an intense experience! We met at the Port Authority station (seriously, of all places!). Probably the worst environment in which to meditate but hey, I guess that was the point.

It made me aware of all the [...]

20th April 2010:
I’m trying to make sense of my experiences in New York City and of how my life has changed and progressed in general since the last major turning point I experienced in 2007.
I constantly feel friction between these 3 perspectives of reality:
- the world I experienced as a child
- the world I’ve been [...]

April 19th / 21st, 2010:
Written somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, between Guam and Manila:

It’s funny how I lived a life barely accounting for love. Love is the surprise element which brings current plans crashing down and gives birth to new ideas which bear absolutely no relation to previous ways of thinking. It’s nonlinear and non-rational [...]

April 10, 2010:
Today the universe led me to a man called Perry.

Perry, Joel and Jerry all play in a band called The Three Neighbours in Jersey City, NJ. They play a fusion of African & jazz music, all improvised.
I felt really drawn to Perry from the first moment I saw him. I had no idea [...]

March 12, 2010:
Sitting in a cafe in Chelsea today, Procol Harem’s ‘Whiter Shade of Pale’ came on and I thought of ‘Life Lessons’ from New York Stories. I like to think of  New York Stories as one of the films that led me here. I first saw it when I was about 8 on late-night [...]

Places like NYC and LA seem like places people go to to create themselves. That’s something I’ve always wanted to do since I was a child. I know that what I’ve been given is just raw material and my task is to make something out of it. What exactly this ’something’ is is entirely another [...]

About a year later I am in Webster Hall, alone, watching A Place To Bury Strangers. This is the first band I see alone in New York City.
The stage itself, when you’re walking in, is magic. It’s like you’re watching some kind of ritual take place, participating.
When the band first comes on they play ‘To [...]

23 January 2010 @ 06:31 am:
Just before I left for the US I wrote down a list of things that I wanted to focus on and experience in life. I look at this from time to time because it’s so easy to get sidetracked, afraid and disoriented here.
Some people would call this a difficult situation. [...]