From the Wild: Ikigai

6.25.2016

Ikigai

Ikigai is a Japanese word that translates roughly to "that which makes life worth living."
What is your Ikigai? Creating is one of mine. Collage is one of the ways I create. I like that it uses waste materials - images from magazines that would get recycled - art from found materials.

Collage from the Archives, ATCs
Artist Trading Card Size: 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"

"Your life is your life, know it while you have it." - Charles Bukowski

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I'm into all sorts of things:

"I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, but I give myself to it." - Ranier Maria Rilke

Abbreviations; Abstractions; Acoustic Ecology; Activism; Acupuncture; Adornment; Adventure; Aesthetics; Agape; Ahimsa; Aisthesis; the Akashic Records; Alchemy; Alternate Realities; Alternative Energy; Alternative History; Ancient Civilizations; Animism; Antiques; Aphorisms; Apiculture; Apophenia; Aptopadesha; Arborsculpture; Aromatherapy; Art; Artificial Intelligence; Astrology; Astrotheology; Auctions; Auras; Autodidacticism; the Avant Garde; Axioms; the Axis Mundi; Ayurveda; Balance; Basketmaking; Beachcombing; Beginner's Mind; Belief Systems; Bellydance; Bending the "Laws" of "Reality"; Bibliomancy; Biking; Billiards; Bilocation; Biodiversity; Biodynamic Agriculture; Biofeedback; Biognosis; Bioluminescence; Biomimicry; Biophilia; Bioregional Animism; Biosemiotics; Bird Language; Birdwatching; Blackholes; Bliss; Blogging; Board Games that use your mind; Body Art; Body Memory; Bondage; Bones; Bonsai; Books; Botany; Breathwork; Bridgework; Bushcraft; Bushido; Cacti and other Succulents; Calculated Risk-Taking; Camping; Cats; Cellular Memory; Challenges; Chanting; Chaos; Chaos Magick; Chemistry; Ch'i; Chinese Medicine; Christ Consciousness; Chronobiology; Clairvoyance; Classic Cars; Clockworks; Clotheslines; Clouds; Coherence; Collecting; Comedy; Community; Compersion; Complexity Theory; Conquering Ego; Conscious Relationships; Conversation that carries on into the wee hours of the night because it is so beguiling; Cooking; Cornerstones; Correspondance; Cosmology; Costume; Creating; Creative Visualization; Critical Pedagogy; Crop Circles; Cuddling; Cultural Configurations; Cricket Symphonies; Cymatics; Cryptology; Crystal Healing; Culture-jamming; Cyberprotesting; Cyberspace; Dancing; Dark Chocolate; Decision Theory; Decoration; Deep Ecology; De-Growth; Deja Vu; Delight; the Demiurge; Demolition Derbies; Dendrolatry; Design; Detournement; Dialectics; Dictionaries; Dim-Mak; Discordianism; Dishwashing Zen; Diversity; Divination; Divinization; Drala; Dreamtime; Drumming; Dumpster-Diving; Eclecticism; Eco-Consciousness; Eco-reclaimation; Ecstasy; Ecumenism; Edges; Efficiency; Ego Death; Embroidery; Emergence; Enantiodromia; Endurance; Engineering; Enigmas; Enlightenment; the Enneagram Personality Theory; Entelechy; Entheogens; Entrainment; Epistemology; Escape Artistry; Eschatology; Esoterica; ESP; Espalier; Ethics; Ethnobotany; Etymology; Eudaimonia; Excellence; Exegesis; Existentialism; Exploring; Extrasolar Planets; Extraterrestrials; Fanatical Cackling; Fauxvertising; Feng Shui; Field Guides; Fire; Flash Mobs; Flowers ("The earth laughs in flowers." - Emerson); Fluid Dynamics; Flux; Food Therapy; Footprints; Foraging; Forest Bathing; Form Constants; Fortitude; Fossils; Fractals; Free Expression; Free Will; Freedom; Freethinking; the Frequency Domain; Frontiers; Geneology; Geomancy; Gift Economies; Gnosis; the Golden Mean; Good Lovin'; Graffiti (not just tagging, but actual art found in the city, not in the woods); Growth; Guerrilla Ontology; Haiku; Healing; Hedge Laying; Heirloom Vegetables; Henna; Henosis; Herbal Medicine; Heresy; Hermeneutics; Hiking; Holography; Holophonic Sound; Homeodynamis; Homeopathy; Homesteading; Horticulture; Horticultural Therapy; Hot Springs; Hot Tubs; Hozho; Humor; Hypnagogia; I Ching; Imagination; Impeccability; Indigenous Knowledge; Indra's Net; Infinity; Information; Insects; Integrity; Intercultural Competence; Interstellar Space Travel; Interstitial Art; Intuition; Isomorphism; Kabuki; Kinbaku; Kinetic Sculpture; Kintsugi; Kirlian Photography; Koans; Kundalini; Kything; Laughter; Law/Politics; Learning; Lectio divina; Legomonism; Leylines; Liberation; Liberty; Libraries; Lightworkers; Limitless Possibility; Linguistics; Lists; Lithics; Logic; Logotherapy; Love; Lucid Dreaming; Lycanthropy; Lynchpins; the Macrocosm; Magic; Magpie Hyperacumulators; Mandalas; Maps; Market-Driven Conservation; Martial Arts; Massage; Mastery; Mathematics; Meditation; Megaliths; Merkavah; Metanoia (stimulating and supporting); Metaphor; Metaphysics; Meteor Showers; Microbiology; the Microcosmic Orbit; Microfinance; Mindfulness; Mind over Matter; Mirages; Mod Podge; Moire Patterns; Moksha; the Monad; Monkeywrenching; the Moon; Morality; Morphic Fields; Morphogenesis; Motorcycling; Multi-dimensionality; Museums; Music; Mysteries; Mysticism; the Nagual; Natural Wonders; Nei Dan; Neijia; Negative Capability; Neoism; Nests; Neurogenesis; Nierika; Niwaki; Nonlinear Dynamics; Nonlocality; Nonverbal Communication; the Noosphere; Numbers; Numinosum; Nutrition; the Ocean Tide; Oddities; the Omnijective; Ontology; Open Communication; Optical Illusions and Spectacles; Oracles; Order; Organic Gardening; Origami; the Ouroboros; Outsider Art; Pachamama; Panpsychism; Pantheism; Parables; Paradox; Parallel Universes; Paranormal Phenomenon; Pareidolia; Permaculture; Pharmacognosy; Philosophy (ie: Nietzche, Sartre); Phosphenes; Photography; Photosynthesis; Phytoremediation; Piezo-electricity; Pilgrimages; Placebos; Plant Spirit Healing; the Pleroma; Poetry; Poker; Polyamoury; Potlatch; Prajna; Prima materia; Primitive Skills; Prisms; Profundity; Prophesy; Psithurism; Psychogeography; Psychology (ie: Jung, Lorenz); Psychonavigation; Psychoneuroimmunology; Psychopomps; Public Domains; Pushing Limits; Pyrolatry; Qiqong; Quantum Gravity; Questioning my beliefs and habits ("Behind the facade of the familiar, strange things await us" - Hegel); Rapture; Ratbikes; Reading; Re-cycling; Reiki; Relationship Anarchy; Relics; Retrocognition; Retro-futurism; Revolution; Rhythm; Risks; Rites of Passage; Rock-Climbing; Rocks; Romanticism; Rorshach Inkblots; Rune-casting; Sacred Geometry; Sadhanas; Salad; Samadhi; Sanctification; Satori; Satsang; Science; Scientific Pantheism; Scrying; Sea Anemones; Seasons; Seeing; Self-Actualization; Seminal Experience; Semiotics; Sensory Deprivation; Sensuality; Sewing; Sex; Shamanry; Shape-Shifting; Shiatsu; Shibari; Shinrin-Yoku; Siddhis; Sidhes; Silence; Simpling; Singing Bowls; Skin-Walkers; Sleep Paralysis; Sleepers; Slow Food; Solar Energy; Solecisms; Solitude; Somatics; Sorcery; Soulmates; Soup; Spicy Food; Spider Webs; Spontaneous Order; Sound Healing; Standing Stones; Stargazing; Steampunk; Steel Drums; Strategy; the Subtle Body; Superfoods; Surrealism; Survivance; Sustainable Living; Sweat Lodge; Sweetness; Synasty; Synchromysticism; Synchronicity; Synergetics; Synesthesia; Systems Theory; Tantra; the Tao; Tea; Techno-utopianism; Telepathy; Terra Incognitas; Theophany; Theoria; Therianthropy; Theta Brainwaves; Think Tanks; Thought Experiments; Thresholds; Thrift Shops; Thunderstorms; Tonalism; Tools; Topiary; Topology; Tracking; Traditional Chinese Medicine; Trance; Trancendentalism; Traveling; Treehouses; Trees; Truth; Tulpas; the 23 Enigma; Uncontrollable Giggling; Unio mystica; the Unknown; Urban Agriculture; Urban Backpacking; Urban Reforestry; Utopia; Vedanta; Vibrations; Viriditas; Visionaries; Visualization; Vitalism; Vocabulary; Volcanoes; Wabi-sabi; Watching the Clouds roll by; Water; Wave Farms; Whimsy; Whirlwinds; Wikis; Wild Edibles; Wilderness; Wind; Windmills; Wit; Wrecking Balls; Writing; Wu Wei; Yantras; Yard Farming; Yardsales; Yoga; Zen; Zentai; Zzzzzzzzz

And what a person DOESN'T like can tell you as much about them as what they do; I DON'T LIKE: Big Agrobusiness; the American Medical Establishment; Capitalism; Censorship; Big Pharma; Cigarettes; Commodity Fetishism; Corporate Profiteering; Corruption; Cultural Hegemony; Cupidity; Cruelty; the Current Zeitgeist of the Common Man; Dishonesty; Ego-driven BS; Excess; Fascism; Fear-mongering; the Fundamentalist Christian Right; Global-Corporatism; Golf-Course Lawns; Greed; Hypocrisy; Indiscriminate Meat Eating; Injustice; Lack of Respect for the Environment; Lies; Light Pollution; Littering; Materialism; Mediocrity; Menticide; the Military Industrial Complex; Monocultures; Oppression; Overkill; Overpopulation; Noise Pollution; Parasites; Passive-Aggression; People who want to run my life (usually they can't even run their own); People who ride my ass when I’m on my Motorcycle (back the hell off!); the Plight of Aboriginal Peoples the World over; the Privatization of War; the Propaganda Machine otherwise known as our government; Racial and Sexual Apartheid; Religious Supremacism; Sell-Outs; the Sheep who drive huge gas-guzzling vehicles they don't need with American flags on them; Sloth; Stagnation; Suburbia; Suffering (“The man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.”
- Michel de Montaigne); Talking for the sake of talking; Unjust Laws; Unnecessary Drama; Waste; Xenophobia

Some things I'm interested in but haven't delved into YET: Aquaponics, Beer-brewing (I love Hefeweisen, Ales, Lambics), Canning, Capoeira, Caving, Cob, Dowsing, Firewalking, Flamenco and Salsa Dancing, Hang gliding, Holotropic Breathwork, Jin Shin Do, Orienteering, Stained-Glass, Time Travel, Welding

And lastly, I'm into teaching as a form of therapy "For in the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, we will only understand what we are taught." - Baba Dioum

Ubiquitious Mandatory Disclaimer:

The information contained in this blog is the sharing of my personal experiences and is for educational purposes only. The information provided is not intended to diagnose, treat, prevent, or cure any medical condition. Please seek a competent health care provider for your specific needs.

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All photos in this blog have been taken by me and are not to be used without permission. Please contact me if you want to use my writings or photos. I'm happy for you to use them, IF you notify me first, and will give you written permission. Thanks.

6.25.2016

Ikigai

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