I just put together my first video of my travel preparations using footage from my GoPro.
I haven’t tried editing video in years, so this was a fun learning experience, and hopefully a fun viewing experience for you!
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L.A. to Brazil… (on a bicycle??)
So you may have heard that I am about to leave on an adventure with my bicycle…
…and I’m headed to Brazil of all places…
If you’re wondering how in the hell I’m planning on doing it, just watch this video…
(I don’t know how helpful it will be in answering your questions, but at least we get to look at this cool map book together!) 😉
The place of not knowing
A cool thing happened to me the other day…
Although I am now living in Austin, I travel back to Vermont periodically to see friends and family and play shows, and this spring I found myself there, clearing out the attic where Addison and I had been storing lots of STUFF.
We brought some things back with us, and gave away the rest.
Back at our apartment here in sunny Austin, as I sorted through and organized said stuff, I discovered a withered old notebook that I had filled with scrawling more than 7 years ago.
I flipped through the pages to see if there was anything worth keeping…
And lo and behold, a gem of wisdom was revealed within!
Upon reading this passage that I must have copied down from the Wu Ji (The Empty Space of Wisdom), I find that the words resonate with me deeply, and I feel so grateful to my past self for writing it down.
Here’s what it says:
“Do not assume that you know all.
Notice nature and abide in the infinite.
Travel openly on uncharted paths.
Be all that you are but do not make a show of it.
Be contented and remain empty.
Learn to sustain the Beginner’s Mind.”
Pretty awesome, right??
Thanks for reading this post. Feel free to leave a comment (this lets me know if anyone’s reading these blogs and I’d also just love to hear your thoughts)!
Take care,
-Jahnavi of The Love Sprockets
The story behind Dark Angel
Have you ever “fallen in love”?
You know, when your hormones are so jacked you can’t see straight, and just the thought of the other person sends you into state of unencumbered bliss?
I’m guessing this has probably happened to you, even if you don’t want to admit it. 😉
What I always find interesting about falling in love and about human beings in general (‘interesting’ is a nice way of saying ‘really fucking annoying’) is that when something is happening to us that we perceive to be really good, we can’t help but dread the potential end of it.
As always, we fear death.
The death of relationships, the death of the life we know now.
Even when we can recognize how healthy and normal change is, we can’t help but fear it subconsciously.
Well, at least I do, anyways. 🙂
So during the last bout of falling in love I did (which was about three years ago, thank God), the song Dark Angel was born.
This song asks alot of questions…
But does not provide any answers.
Here’s how it goes:
Dark Angel
“I’ll be your innocence if you’ll be my sex appeal
Yes, I’ll be your innocence if you’ll be my sex appeal
You’ve got everything it takes to drive this situation wild
I saw you first, I saw you first
I saw you first and now you are mine
But I’m losing control of this situation all of the time
And are you the best thing that’s ever happened to me?
Are you the one to make my blind eyes see?
Or are you my dark angel of death?
Are you my terminal breath?
I’ll be your calling if you’ll be my answering
Yes I’ll be your calling if you’ll be my answering
You’ve got everything it takes to make a murderer of me
And are you the best thing that’s ever happened to me?
Are you the one to make my blind eyes see?
Or are you my dark angel of death?
Are you my terminal breath?
Are you the end of my fears?
Or are you a hurricane of tears?
Are you a hurricane of tears?
Or are you a hurricane….
of tears?”
Listen to Dark Angel by clicking here
Thanks for reading this blog!
I’ll be back next week… 😉
~Jahnavi