Saturday 20 March 2010

Enigma Cats and Cocos & Cakes

Well. More wet rain099oixede...sorry Hot Lips [Cat] jumped on to the keyboard. What is he trying to tell me? I type rain; he adds 099oixede. The secret formula? The Enigma Cat?

Just been reading about human communication with the non-human realm in 'The Spell of the Sensuous', by David Abram. He describes his experiences in Bali in which he felt an intense rapport with nature. Holed up in a cave by intense Monsoon rain he watches spiders spin there webs:

I sat stunned and mesmerised before this ever complexifying expanse of living patterns upon patterns, my gaze drawn like a breath into one group of converging lines, then breathed out into open space, then drawn into another convergence. ... My senses were entranced.

He learns to slow down and attend to the subtle currents of the natural world around him. The song of birds, for example, becomes no longer just a melodic background to human speech, but meaningful speech in its own right, responding to and commenting on events in the surrounding earth.

He ascribes our poor mental health in the West to our impoverished relationship to a natural world that is itself impoverished. I'm in complete agreement with that. In fact it is self evident. If it is not self evident to you, dear reader, his point is proven.


Mike Munroe [Artist, two stalls up from me] tells me he's just been offered the chance to visit an exotic location: Cocos Island off the Costa Rican coast. He is being sponsored to make an expedition there, keep a blog, do paintings and sketches, make photos of his stay, and look about for the possible location of 'historic items'.

The Island is reputed to be the location of various pirate hordes , sorry, hoards, i.e. Buried Treasure! It is also the real location behind various works of fiction: Jurassic Park and Robinson Crusoe to name but two.


The really nice cake stall was next to me today. It's heartening to have such good stuff on the market, made by the stallholder herself, Samantha Shepherd. Her business is called 'The little Miss Cake Co.' littlemisscakeco@google.com . Her cakes are excellent and she is a hard working, very pleasant young mother. Good luck for the future, Sam!

099oixede Clue to the treasure ? 'X ' marks the spot! ;)

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