The Mansion of Self

ViewAroomThat dream of the room. The room that becomes a house and the house becomes filled with rooms. The rooms unknown that hold many surprises and other pathways, doors, and tunnels. The attic filled with jewels. The dungeon below that you dare not enter yet moves with you, no matter the places you leave. Always there, always below. Except when it is above. Some rooms breathe and you can hear the in-and-out pranayama of the thing itself. Or is it the whole house? The house which has now become a mansion. It possesses you, that dream. It moves with you in madness and complete possession. It fills you with the transcendence of a miracle that gives you the life beyond. It takes you flying beside yourself, past yourself, this dream that is beyond words where you are baptized by the Light that has come alive, has re-imagined itself there. And you know the truth of the words “In my Father’s House there are many mansions.” And it is not that Father you know, but the Father that is Self, the self contained beyond itself and transmuted into the Universe.

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The Library

Isn’t there something magical about photos of books and home libraries? It’s especially wonderful when the books have their very own room. Yes, “A Room of One’s Own”—for books. But then, it’s always books, books, books…Living there within the scent and tenor of the things themselves.

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When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard…

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posted by Slice of Life on Facebook

…Bloomed. And so they did. Lilacs bloomed throughout the town, that same hometown. They grew in alleys and at the edges of yards, in the cemetery, and here and there. Then there was a here and there, when the town was less mannered. Before things got organized and groomed. On the way home from school I would pick the lilacs off the bushes, enough to make a bouquet for my mother. And it was all right.

 

Once Upon A Time

BobGoodPhtoStudBurnsParkAnother photo of my hometown, Burns Park in La Crosse, Wisconsin. At least that’s what it’s called now. I didn’t know that it had a name when we hung out there as high school kids. I doubt that today the kids can get by with the things we did there. No—no drugs. My time was that before the drug scene. Bob Good Photography Studio posted this on Facebook for us. The colors are so rare, so intense, it is as if they have been imagined.

Grading Parenthood

I kept this cartoon posted by Purple Cover because it reminded me so much of myself and my son. Quite a few years back I took my son in with me on a Saturday to the biology lab. I had just a few things to catch up on and he was too young to stay home alone. At that time the lab was full of all manner of creepy crawly creatures. I told him he could pick out anything he wanted to take home if he was good while I worked. I got my work done & he had been very good, walking around, checking everything out, exclaiming and laughing out loud if something delighted him.

“So,” I said, after giving serious praise, “what would you like to take home?”

He pointed to the bloodsuckers. Of course we couldn’t, of course I had to say no. I explained that he couldn’t keep them on him in order for them to stay alive (his plan). He refused to take anything else. It was something that sucked blood—preferably his—or nothing. *Fail*

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