"And Thou Art" .. we are One with all things, or so it feels in certain moments. I found an interesting fellow, Dr. Alesha Sivartha (1834-1915). He was a writer and an illustrator of life, I was looking at his drawings and his words. He seemed to have that zeal for life itself, in understanding it, in feeling it.

Sometimes you have people life Dr. Sivartha or Leonardo da Vinci and sometimes you have people smoking on a street corner asking for nickels and dimes, dodging the blue and red lights. You have genius and you have survival. You have knowledge and you have addiction. You have mind expansion and mind deflation. You have close-friends and you have stranger-friends, whom you see every 20 years or so, like a shooting star.

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