Keith “Maggie” Brown

  • 58. Dave

    Originally posted on 23thorns: The Japanese are sending a man into space. There’s nothing unusual about this; he’s just going up to man the international space station for a while. What is unusual is that they are sending a robot… Continue reading

  • Assumption

    Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading

  • THEOTOKOS
  • midnight epiphany

    Originally posted on ∙ tenderheartmusings ∙: walking the path beneath incandescent moonlight as we share similar madness, clarity pours from another realm the words that make us ceaselessly fill the space between us bathed 
in the light emanating from our beings, absorbed in… Continue reading

  • Fantasia for Baroque Lute – Akira Ifukabe

    Please enjoy listening to this beautiful piece that my good brother Dusan B. left sitting around on his Facebook page. Below the embedded video is some info about Ifukabe-san. Enjoy! …Akira Ifukube was born on May 31, 1914 in Kushiro on the… Continue reading

    Fantasia for Baroque Lute – Akira Ifukabe
  • City of New Orleans – Neslon / Guthrie / West

    As my buddy-friend-guy, Christopher, points out, this is ironically enough a train wreck. Don’t get me wrong… I actually dig it. But the singing styles of the three involved are so different… Nelson always sings a bit ahead of the… Continue reading

    City of New Orleans – Neslon / Guthrie / West
  • Night Life – B. B. King / Willie Nelson

    First up, B. B. sings his version of Willie Nelson’s Night LIfe… Then Willie joins B. B. to do it up together… Continue reading

    Night Life – B. B. King / Willie Nelson
  • Kinetic Topography with Stephen Fry

    Great discussion by Stephen Fry that is augmented by Matthew Rogers great moving word visuals. Using the wonderful words of acclaimed writer, actor and allround know it all (I mean that in the best of ways) Stephen Fry I have… Continue reading

  • Daodejing 37

    #37* The Great Way (DAO): Never doing (WU WEI) but always doing all. If kings can follow this, the 10,000 things will grow and develop spontaneously. During the course of growth and development, whenever arises a desire to do… I… Continue reading

    Daodejing 37
  • Pǔ or the uncarved block

    Very often, translators render the Chinese word Pǔ into English as “the uncarved block.” The term refers to a state of pure possibility (what the Greeks mean by DYNAMIS). This describes the original condition of the mind before the happening of… Continue reading

    Pǔ or the uncarved block
  • 111 Years of the US Surveillance State

    Harvard historian Murray Levin argued that this mood of fear and near-panic that possessed the popular imagination throughout the early Cold War years was not so much a spontaneous reaction as the result of an orchestrated campaign on the part… Continue reading

    111 Years of the US Surveillance State
  • Conversations with a Devotee – Kafka

    Conversations with a Devotee by Franz Kafka There was a time when I went every day into a church, since a girl I was in love with knelt there in prayer for half an hour in the evening and I… Continue reading

    Conversations with a Devotee – Kafka
  • summer

    Originally posted on Malin Amalie: Beautiful images! Malin Amalie View original post Continue reading

  • Daodejing 36

    #36* To shrink it, expand it. To weaken it, strengthen it. To demote it, promote it. To take it, give it. Call this subtle brilliance: Bending and weakness overcomes rigidity and strength. *Translation by LU Wenlong & Keith Wayne Brown,… Continue reading

    Daodejing 36
  • Animal Spirits: The Bee | Through the Peacock’s Eyes

    Another timely consideration of a spiritum animalem from Julianne Victoria at Through the Peacock’s Eyes The term “busy bee” is no accident. Bees symbolize industriousness, concentration, activity, busy-ness, group communication, and family and social networks. They tell us very busy times… Continue reading

  • The Metallic Spirit of a Tea Scholar –Gongfu Girl

    One thing that I find interesting about nearly all of the portrayals I’ve seen of Lu Yu, the 8th century Chinese writer of the Cha Jing (茶經, “Classic of Tea”), is that they are so consistent in style. He is… Continue reading

    The Metallic Spirit of a Tea Scholar –Gongfu Girl
  • “Seek out historic …

    “Seek out historic distractions–purposeful conspiracy and habitual con-spiring (breathing a common air)–by which those who would claim to hold power try to keep empowered. Power belongs to no person. It already flows from the Way and always returns to the… Continue reading

    “Seek out historic …