Give Up and Be Still

Those who know don’t talk. Those who talk don’t know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can’t be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures. The Daily Tao Share on FacebookTweet Read More

Walmart Special

See the full image here: walmart1.jpg A friend sent me a link to a page on the Walmart website; a product page for the movie “Planet of the Apes”. Why he sent it to me had to do with the “Similar Items” to the right of the product. The “Similar Items” include “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge” and “Martin Luther King: I Have A Dream/MLK Assassination”. Read More Share on FacebookTweet Read More

Love Is…and Isn’t…

I sit back and listen to my favorite ladies whisper and sing – Nora, Sarah, Joss, Natasha, Nina, Billie and Ella… We all want love. We all make art about love. And it eludes us as we seek it, like mercury in your hand. Love is and isn’t the beginning and the end of all things. Love inside your core, your heart, that’s special, private and real. Love as the pull of desire, external and needy, is commonplace, is desperation... Read More

I Was Put In the Darkness To Make Light

I had a vision. Me, floating towards a great darkness, a calming sea of deep indigo night. I am smiling, peaceful, brimming with happiness. I reach the center of this emptiness and sit, cross legged, on the air. I close my eyes, grin wide and hold out my hands, moving them gracefully, while arcs of light dance between them and reach up into my mind, and into my heart. Finally, the light bursts and spills out in patterns and designs unnamable but... Read More

Intentions for 2006

What do I really want my life to be like? My life should be an artful fantasy, a work epic, a love story of the world and of the man I choose to marry and have kids with. I want to marry someone I can build a life with, not someone I sorta see every night. Someone who is not judgemental of my past, who would actually care less and who celebrates me as who I am now. Someone who understands the journey is not always simple, or even humane. Read... Read More

Wild is Free

“He’ll often drop in. Only you mustn’t press him. He’s wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.” Tumnus The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe The holidays were quiet and gentle this year. A much-needed break and time alone to reflect, dream, wish, and sleep. Read More Share on FacebookTweet Read More

Holiday Magic

I’m sending my holiday greetings and wishes out to everyone. For all you new video iPod users, this a good video to download and show off on your new gear.  Peace and much love…Melissa Share on FacebookTweet Read More

Copious Magazine Interview

Winter 2005 interview with Copious Magazine: Q: Tell us about your artistic aesthetic. I am a visualist, VJ, filmmaker, photographer, writer and painter. Every piece starts with the impetus to create a visual representation of something that I am currently obsessed with. How does color move? What happens when light intersects with smoke and sound waves? How are we destroying and healing ourselves with images? Which images move products and which images... Read More

Peace 2005

She who is centered in the Tao can go where she wishes, without danger. She perceives the universal harmony, even amid great pain, because she has found peace in her heart. Music or the smell of good cooking may make people stop and enjoy. But words that point to the Tao seem monotonous and without flavor. When you look for it, there is nothing to see. When you listen for it, there is nothing to hear. When you use it, it is inexhaustible. - The... Read More

Smokifantastic

Smokifantastic She’s a seer, healer, artist and performer. And a very dear friend. Her site was finally launched this week. Please click here to enjoy the unique world of Smokifantastic. :) melissa Share on FacebookTweet Read More

Raising the Questions

Do you want to improve the world? I don’t think it can be done. The world is sacred. It can’t be improved. If you tamper with it, you’ll ruin it. If you treat it like an object, you’ll lose it. There is a time for being ahead, a time for being behind; a time for being in motion, a time for being at rest; a time for being vigorous, a time for being exhausted; a time for being safe, a time for being in danger. The Master sees... Read More

Kundalini Uprising

What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? What is a bad man but a good man’s job? If you don’t understand this, you will get lost, however intelligent you are. It is the great secret. - Excerpt from The Daily Tao Community – I didn’t understand. Connectedness – the invisible strings that hold us loosely together. Responsibility – where does mine start? Trust – learning not to ask so many questions. I’ve... Read More