PARCHMENT

2020, CHOICES, CROSSROADS, TOOLS

PARCHMENT, 2020 MAY 07

PARCHMENT

     ~the textures supporting what is written

Upon what grounds do you store your information?

From what conditions do you draw it?

How does a Life leave Its mark,

and how does Eternity record it?

Take pen to a cold-pressed heavy paper and feel how it slows, responding to the dappled surface as if waking the distant trees from which it was made. Apply this same pen to Parchment and the skin of the slain animal reveals its echo. A pencil to notebook paper; paint to a canvas; ink to glass; iron tools to a stone wall; chalk to a board; they each have their Song. They each have a weight and a gravitas, a Soi-Disant, or self-styled collective effect.

With which tools do you write your stories, and on which surfaces do you record them? What has formed the substrate onto which you express your self?

Think of the many texts produced over all of existence. The ideas meant for transient life have been compiled with grounds and tools meant to dissolve as time passes. That which stands Time's tests have been given more forethought, have been made with complex ritual, with sacrifice, and with tender and wise patience.

What do you create while here, embodied? What will you leave behind? And how will the Great All record your experiences? Is there a book labeled with your many names? In how many other stories are you cross-referenced?

You are here not by accident but by accord. Considered and planned, your Life has been the work of Masters, each contributing to how your Song begins in this incarnation . . . and how it might conclude. Between the end plates, you become your own composer, even if you have boarded the train at a set station, and end it at pre-planned other.

What thus far does your story tell? Are you brave and strong, a local hero? Are you the character who though given the opportunity to rise many times, has not? Are you the victim, or the debutante, or the evil stepmother, standing perpetually offsides and away from the traffic of others? How often do you shift roles? Who are you? Are you more a Verifier or a Vilifier?

To understand your dialogue, you must understand your character. You must understand your character's motivations. What does your character want? By what factors is he or she compelled? Which conditions work for this character's ideals, and which work against them?

Acknowledge the grounds and substance with which the character's Life is recorded. You write upon your tenets. Therefore, being poor in money does not mean you must record your Life on what is quickly destroyed by Time. Being rich in money does not mean you will record your Life on what is Everlasting.

Take a quick survey of your Life. What have you experienced something you would leave in a message for your grandchildren's grandchildren? How might you seek out more meaningful experiences, study them, apply them in your Life, and leave a record that will cause others to resonate?

Harmony. Discord. Illumination. Each day contains these things. Do not blather on to fill time. Let Time fill you. Let down the end-caps of your Life and stretch. See where Life is leading you. Make strong choices at each crossroads. And as the experiences become relevant, record your Illuminations to Light the way for others.

Be a Voyager

Go Walk About

Record Life as a proclaimed arbitrator 

of a singular Song,

needing no external permission

to play in Great All's symphony.

 Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archive: May 07, 2020

 

visuals by Walks With Fire