Answering the question “What is yoga?” is
A) a good place to begin
B) an easy place to begin
C) a research project
D) all of the above

I guess this project is my yoga journal. Wake Up Writing

Well I did:

I’ve acquired the means of production. Let’s produce.

Love,
Billy

Platzangsi …

I think that’s the name of the company. I might be styling those this winter.

Basic Psyhic Development
by John Frieddlander & Gloria Hemsher
Wieser Books

Chakra Balancing: a Guide to Healing and Awakening your Energy Body by Anodea Judith
Sounds True

…and the most interesting:
The Diamond Approach: An Introduction to the Teachings of A. H. Almaas by John Davis
Shambala

Where are you?

Drop me a line pls, I started to worry whats going on with you!

Olga

—– Original Message —-
From: Billy Blackwell II
To: Olga
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 3:48:22 PM
Subject: Slowing down and catching up

I may have found my next home here in Berlin. There is a community of
expatriates, artist, hustlers and free-thinkers with whom I really
identify.

Last night I was up late setting up this small studio in my tiny room
at the little apartment where I’m staying, playing guitar and
checking the sound. I started to get frustrated with my lack of
skill, so about 3 a.m. I left. I went to a part of Berlin called
Kreutzberg, walked into a nightclub and danced until 7:30 am.
This is more my kind of lifestyle.

I actually found a dual master’s degree program over here, taught an
accredited America university, where I can get my master’s degree in
international relations and human relations in less than 24 months.
It’s cheap to live here too, which is very very good. Remember that
last check you sent me. I called the agency. It’s the last check that
I’m getting. When I found out, it kind of cleared things up for me. I
wasn’t sure if I was going to live in America or Europe or both
somehow. Now I can only really afford to live well here. I’ll
probably be coming back sooner than I expected, but I’ll be spending
most of my time preparing to move over back to Berlin.

How’s everything there? Is the new job still good? Is your husband
still being difficult? How are Fela and Sunny? I hope they are
OK.Tell them, I miss you all very much, and I’ll see you very soon.

Love…

Some guy on the U6 drew a picture of me while I was reading a book on the train. Pretty cool, huh?

I am forming a personal relationship with the cycle of time as each page reminds me of a day I’ve been through. As I turn the page on the new day. The random data of the day shapes up into the day’s strengths and weaknesses, the advise, the meditation. It’s been fun to meet people who are born on the days that I’m familiar with and see if their personality matches the traits in the book. It’s been interesting seeing new days pop up that I didn’t remember and wonder what I was doing. I’m starting to remember the names of each day and the days are starting to take on a character of their own.

Today is May 22 The Day of The Serial Epic. Today Richard Wagner was born. Wagner, the book tells me, was a 19th Century German opera composer, poet, essayist, multimedia artist, and the first conductor to conduct all of Beethoven’s symphonies. Many of the other people born on this day – Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Abdul Baha, etc… – have similarly impressive curricula vitae.

Those born on this day…

have the energy required for epic feats. They are magnetically drawn toward serial creations and forms of entertainment in which they can exercise their talents again and again with development and variation. The excess of their lives does not necessarily lie in the amount of material wealth they pile up nor the number of friends they acquire, but in the production of work. May 22 people most often repetitively create within a model or construct, and their projects are rarely isolated or one of a kind. Those born on this day are also collectors – whether of lists, facts, numbers, birthdays or objects, and can often be found categorizing, naming and typing. They can even collect people, in the sense of friends and acquaintances.

The meditation for the Day of the Serial Epic is…

Alone among the animals, man loves noise

The weakness of the day are tendencies to be…

1. obsessive
2. compulsive
3. unrealistic

I often cover these so that I don’t obsess on them.

The strengths of the day are tendencies to be…

1. persistent
2. energetic
3. productive

I try to focus on these and look for example in the day when I can describe myself or my life circumstances in these terms.

The advise for the day is…

Work on emotional self-control. Learn the value of maintenance and don’t overlook the details. Lessen demands on your partner; examine your own faults. Don’t take on woo much and finish what you start.

Like Brahma, every morning I open my eyes is the birthing of a day with new potential, a new chance at life. I see each birthday as a manifestation of time in the Kosmic consciousness. Everyday is more content for the story of our lives. As I’ve developed I learned there are many different ways ones can tell a story and owning one’s story is to a certain extent the ownership of one’s own life in the egoic sense. But there is so much more than the egoic making of sense of our life and our story. No matter how rational (or relational) I try to be, in the end, most of what happens in a day is just random data, grist for the dream mill to sort through as my head hits the pillow. I have trouble saying whether the events of a day are good or bad. Getting me to were I want to go or not. I try to use this book as a bit of guidance to hedge my trial and error wandering through life. I seek out wisdom in books as I collect wisdom from what the events of life have to offer me on a daily basis. Each birthday page gives character to the space of time that I hold in my awareness from my awakening each morning to my laying down each night.