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Eric Lovald ~ watercourse press
These are voyages of the stream ship Grebe, launched on wondrous adventures of exploration, drifting over curved horizons of spacetime…
...images are Salish Sea views, enjoyed around Blaine WA and the San Juan Is.
heading out on a starboard tack
Balanced reason recognizes how the difference between natural concentration and forced centralization is one of approach.
Through studying the motion of events without attempting to unduly influence their outcome it is possible to see attributes inside a process, gathering an objective impression of their farreaching effects.
This is establishing valid generalities, as opposed to falling for easy generalizations.
If one is hastily grouping things in clumps that seem of similar class by appearance, they are prone to arranging exterior definitions while completely missing intrinsic properties.
Selfinflicted mental myopia is a worse form of blindness than loss of eyesight, making it the more damaging disability.
Achieving outward change can commence only when people begin changing their inner ways of perception.
Limekiln Pt San Juan Is
moonrise over Lopez Pass
Frost Is in Lopez Sound
Vitality in democratic countries can only be preserved when people exercise their continued participation in furthering progress toward needed reforms.
This is not a oneoff action, but ongoing civic duty ensuring the compliance of oligarchs to follow the people’s will.
Slashing programs that aid the underadvantaged while doling out automatic exemptions from social responsibility for owners of enormous wealth, is slanted policy that is immoral and repugnant.
In place of granting subsidies in the form of guaranteed revenue loopholes for tycoons and corporations, tie their tax rate directly to a proportionate incentive to actually hire and train additional staff from ranks of the chronically unemployed, making it worth their while to do so.
As exploitative interests keep getting bigger while remaining off limits to active inclusion of the general population, the more compensation to society they owe for destructive biproducts of their indulgent excess.
If they substantially increase their contribution to supporting a healthy workforce, it benefits the larger national interest and pays back some of their longstanding debt to humanity.
Brigantine Bay ~ Decatur Is
sunset at Barlow Bay ~ Lopez Is
Cape St Mary ~ Lopez Is
In its evolution from peaceful republic to warseeking empire, a nation becomes obsessed with staged rituals dividing rightfacing parties from the leftward oriented.
Distracted by marching orders of politicians to parade either in a clockwise motion or to the counter, people are no longer able to make up their own minds but only answer to slogans of programmed indoctrination.
These old ideological duels to the death between black and white, liberal or conservative, are obsolete histrionics, superseded by a need to innovate original approaches to solving persistent global problems.
Waldron and Skipjack Is.
When way of approach is clarified and able to expand, practicing a discerning respect for existent balance is encouraged to become productive. If it is stifled or confined, harmful meddling with natural forces ensues, resulting in environmental degradation. Genuinely attending to vital details is the reverse of fussing over petty ornaments. Prolonged artificial finessing of settings and situations grates against ways of nature with an arrogant friction. This will ultimately provoke outbreaks of hostilities, resorting to violence while negating peaceful conversation.
pioneer schoolhouse on San Juan Is
Blaine fishing pier
making heavy weather
darkening at Pt Doughty, Orcas Is
back to Patos
sunset over Lopez Pass
Human nature is neither originally virtuous nor guilty of absolute evil. There are various streams of ‘better than’ and not so good’ intermingling throughout all endeavors.
Falling to the bad is simply forgetting, scapegoating some fantasized embodiment of evil in somebody else rather than remembering to work on one’s own quality of character.
A perceived constancy in values with capacity to overcome any weakness of fate can only be discovered through sincere practice of intelligent selfdiscipline, the one antidote to unwitting slips back into ignorance.
mist shrouded Cone Is
Numerous territorial empires have risen over the centuries only to fall from consequences of excess exploitation, the result of inflicting their brand of insidious tyranny on loyal subjects.
Now we have the domineering concept of commercial supremacy with its cutthroat market strategy, making unreasonable demands on more emotionally balanced perspectives capable of independent thinking. Worse than dictatorial, this nonstop ad campaign pushing authoritarian conformity to a distorted agenda of the corporate state targets healthy individuals for corrupting, ultimately breaking down natural morale.
Boulder islet before Lopez Is
Echo Bay Sunset (Sucia Is)
an early Spring in Blaine WA
Maybe the real value in meditation is more pragmatic than esoteric. With use it becomes a practical tool for balancing aspects of lifestyle through emptying out ill effects of unnecessary excess. Pausing to simply exhale and listen along the march of breaths reaching toward their goal, one can experience a subtle resonance within natural restbeats of daily activity.
Futile attempts at solidifying space are counterresilient to maintaining progress, unable to meet challenges of swiftly evolving circumstance with flexible strength. Stiff insistence on preimposed assumptions of some disembodied absolute will inevitably
lose the flow of continued observation. This tends to trip up personal advancement by enforcing unhealthy reliance on external abstracts, missing the greater interrelatedness of things.
Matter and energy are intertwined. Healing is engaging motion able to bridge artificial blockages obstructing occurrences of advantageous awareness. Perhaps what meditating in various forms active and passive allows, is a chance to revisit the many instances of spontaneous exchange that fill everyday life, linked through diverse sensations of ‘taking in’ and ‘letting go’.
tulip light
Whether one’s own background is more multiethnic in origins or less broad in viewpoint, we all are now operating within the context of worldwide socioeconomic trends which have diverse cultural roots.
Our productive and communicative efforts increasingly rely on custom blending various geopolitical perspectives and their products of imagination, simultaneously based in several different traditions.
former cannery across channel on Semiahmoo Spit
Castle Is. protecting Lopez
snowpeddling
Artists as independent entrepreneurs who make the crafting of original concepts their business play an important role as productive community members.
Their kind of contribution to advancing progress for the whole population is particularly valuable, though often unrecognized.
It opens opportunities for others to work with, which lead toward discovering further innovation of improvements possible in the context of shared culture.
Individuals brave with truthfilled vision care to live a more rugged existence away from all the pampered complacency and creature comforts dependent on overly domesticated social habit, for the sake of realizing potential in their creative originality.
In every generation they are the ones responsible for actually conceiving and reinventing products of imagination which continue to inspire the older civilization they sprouted from as offspring.
Imaginative experimentation carried on at the fringes of society has always been vital to its continued development and creativity.
California Creek emptying into Drayton Hbr
winter haven
intertidal tableaux
Part of being civil includes the responsibility of actually making sense.
To neglect selfdiscipline in orienting one’s personal life while passionately asserting a lot of blithering nonsense, blundering through politics as if rationality was an extraneous afterthought, just doesn’t cut it and people instinctively get this.
With all their spoiled whining about refusing to fund functions of modern society, cutting unemployment compensation and ending survival benefits for victims of predatory capitalism, the real ‘takers’ in this country are commercial gamers of the system who are only in it to swipe a fast buck from the common trust.
Instead of making any substantial contribution to the public good they have exploited, these industrial subsidy and chronic taxloophole abusers are dependent on ritually protected companysized forms of being on the public dole as recipients of corporate welfare.
some early spring color
Without serious campaign finance reform, a cozy arrangement between political parties and money moguls will increasingly dilute the people’s power of preference in elections by overriding less affluent voices of democracy.
Industrial scale influencepeddling needs to be carefully controlled or it will grow stronger at elbowing aside human concerns as it pushes to dominate all decision making.
Occupants of civilized nations have basic rights that cannot be abridged without downgrading claims by any regime to being institutionally advanced.
More than just exploitable consumers, modern citizens are stakeholders in the entire system driving a country’s culture and economy. They deserve to be treated respectfully by its leaders and laws, not merely taken for granted.
An amassed power of domineering persuasionpacts to throw the outcome of electoral issues through exerting extreme tactics of paid advertising, must be intently regulated before it succeeds in displacing the democratic process.
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Physically moving around in one's immediate environment makes them aware of an ethical need for interacting well, both with local neighbors and fellow travelers from afar. If you walk through the day's open possibilities in a peaceful frame of mind, a welcoming mood extends forth toward others which can smooth turbulent obstacles to better communication. Practicing an ongoing economy of peace surpasses any short term profit of aggression.
Mt Baker, The Sisters, and seagulls
wifi picnic behind library
Neglecting to facilitate public WiFi everywhere enabling everyone regardless of income to participate in our combined socioeconomy, vested politicocommercial interests are unwittingly creating hotspot congregation zones of widespread uprising around cafes and libraries.
Disgruntled media refugees gather on the town common as they always have when excluded from private clubs, plotting their revenge for being systematically undervalued and ignored.
across the great water
sunset over Semiahmoo Bay
cherry blossom time in Blaine
...as ripples of light play upon deepshadowed pools,
mind drifts upon waves of sense impression, dancing across
shimmering seas, swimming through multiple dimensions
of universal illumination which in turn
stimulate further inspirations...
~ Eric Lovald (navigator)
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more in part 2: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yQo4yIJBztOE5YvS_FWOB8Q5rLDJPCIDS3r4rIBQzc/edit