David Given Schwarm

contemplation of one’s navel

I was permitted to hear an incredible music…I heard teh gestation of the new wrold…the sound of stars grinding and chafing, of fountains clotted with blazing gems…Music is planetary fire, and irreducible which is all sufficient; it is the slate-writing of the gods.

Close scrutiny is the governing principle of Minimalist art. Once you have seen the infinitely complex in the seemingly simple, you are far better equipped to observe the obviously complex.

I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep. … Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same…

Yesterday, my mom came over for diner & lisa made enchalladas. they were awesome. afterwards we had homemade cookies. a fantastic night of eating…

So predictable as to be the equivalent of silence

There is a concurancy in transactions that is notfully realized in the stateless inventorythat we do every afternoon before taking our children to t-ballor reading from a book There is a user within the design methodologywho does not complete the transactionbefore the abend or the core is created and replicatedand never fully diagnosed.

A poem that communicates something that’s already known to a reader is not really communicating anything

I started drinking this tea while reading the Oprah Book Club selection of the same name. The book was great – dark, cynical, big themed & simply written. The tea however is even better – it makes me get all philosophical. I spend time thinking about how I interacted with people – I think about…