ByGiora Carmi
The way the roots develop Is by inclusion of the earth That is around them The earth drinks the thoughts of the sky And if you look at How the earth is speaking body language You’ll see That the intensity of your pain Is gone Your fields are organized and loved Your heart is green….
ByGiora Carmi
The little kid Is walking an ancient path The rocks become brittle And turn into sand The little hill Loves to feel his feet on its back The little hill and he Are good, loving, friends Sometimes it rains And memories of old friend river Turn to memories of old friend mud But he walks…
ByGiora Carmi
1. The Green 2. The Habits and the Flow 3. The Human Condition But he is overwhelmed and afloat The river flows rigorously by him And everywhere else He remembers the river from a dream The browns are curious, supportive and showing the way Just as the lines of his drawings are And…
ByGiora Carmi
From here down it is earth But earth does not exist From here up it is heaven But heaven does not exist So what does? The immediate experience here now And what does it say? The light has given birth To the soft flesh The soft flesh has separated And parts play with parts Imagining…
ByGiora Carmi
In this upside down world Where shame is king And the beauty of the evening moon Breaks your heart Isn’t it natural That we choose to make art? There is a mountain range up in the sky And there is a mountain range down We are just waiting for the bird To sit on a…
ByGiora Carmi
I came to my desk at around 5AM again. I made the drawing that you see here. I wrote what parts of the drawing conveyed to me. I scrambled the sentences and rewrote them in a new order. I read. It did not make much sense to me, so I left it on the desk,…
ByGiora Carmi
I haven’t written for the blog for a while. I kept drawing every day and reading my drawings. Sometimes I drew more times than in other days. Basically these are all processes that you have seen me doing before. Discovering blockages and dissolving them, expressing experiences of expanded states, asking intuition and getting answers. Doing…
ByGiora Carmi
This entry has nothing to do with the usual direction that this blog takes. It has to do with my support of a friend, Tamara Suttle, who has a blog that supports therapists in private practice with ideas of how to make it work. She has asked me to write a short entry to her…
ByGiora Carmi
When you are in a conflict Between doing this or that In your view The light is outside of you But the truth is that the light Is in you You are the light And the conflict Is a beautiful thing Happening inside of you. The mistake that we make Is identifying with…
ByGiora Carmi
This entry is long. It described one more of those processes in which I discover an issue that is central and comes up again and again. I release the issue or dissolve it thoroughly by doing a process that you have seen before and today I call it a visual meditation. Imagine yourself meditating. In…
ByGiora Carmi
The nerves, as they heal slowly, going from closer to the spine toward the edges of the body, have come to the skin. Now I experience 24 hours of relentless pain every day. Every touching of the feet is like putting a match there. Some of my friends and family, who do not see it…
ByGiora Carmi
There is an eye Everything grows around it Real or unreal We are always on the back of ancients Good or bad If you want to live forever Do nothing Settle in the eye. Every time I sit down to draw and write it surprises me. I never know what will come out in the…