* vulnerability

there's a dance between self-disclosure & vulnerability, as humans seek to know and to be known. with a pet, the dance is more one-sided: we know them, but they don't know us.

as we give more and more and more and More and MORE (did he say 'more'?) of our information to family, friends, machines and algorithms, we expose ourselves: our weaknesses.

there's power in knowledge & intelligence. 
be careful, aware.

it may also help to become less attached to things like reputation, perceived status and even identity. as a present-centered consciousness, we don't (really) know anything outside of the ever-present Now.  

there's a connection (in vulnerability). it is mutually seductive. 

be careful, aware.

b123 (4.18-1.2025): when dreams come (ARE) true

 

when dreams come are true [i]
by drea m. baby
 
when dreams are true (in-Joy-ment)
when dreams are true (it’s fun!)
when dreams are true (it’s any-thing!)
when dreams are true (we, One)
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dreams are better in the phase prior to ‘coming’ true.  it’s the anticipation, the contrast of maybe/maybe not.  

  since actually attaining the dream is anti-climactic, consider delay-ing the ultimate climax.  this is the process of Be-ing present with the future.
   keep open the possibilities.  cultivate the maybes.  live the dream before it is time to wake-up in the experience. 
   then, when the dream does come true…  don’t project.  don’t think.  don’t anticipate.  Be present, and Be the present.  wallow in the sea of joy.  let it embrace you, surround you, enter you… and support you.
 

allow the dream to Be you. 

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[i] martino, j. (4.18-1.2025). when dreams come are true. book 123: i don’t even care. © 2024 by j. martino.

-artwork by the world-re-Now-ned artist dustin robertson.  i named the piece "the dream" but he may have another name, idea, title, impression, or inclination.

-below is another one of robertson's master-pieces, which i call "space-ship of Love."  it adorns my living room art gallery.  next to it is my own interpretation of "a trace of Heaven."

b106 (1/7/2022): i think i got the covid from the cat

i think i got the covid from the cat [1]
by notta b. igtruck
 
fluffy claims that spike is just a (w)ussy
john just wants to know just where it’s at
maybe it’s just oral present-ation
i think i just got covid from the cat
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[1] martino, j. (1.7-2.22). i think i got the covid from the cat. book 106: back (and forth). © 2021 by joal martino.

*(w) was not the letter used in the original thoem.