some regional musings on the New Mexico landscape - the people - the heart scroll down for more Bosque at the Rio Grande, Corrales NM, Fall 2012 “We are the land dancing.” all images on this website are copyrighted by Lloyd Brown, 2011.  Do not copy without permission "In physics there is the problem of describing processes in the quantum world because they are not static objects with unchanging properties like rocks.  [Another  physicist] offers a simple solution: tell a story.  With it's connections and relationships between events; these are the important aspects.   What caused an event and why?  This involves the flow of information between events.  A given event is typically the result of several influences, not just one.  A process IS like a story.  The world is a history of processes." ~ Phillip Duran, Rio Rancho NM, writer, teacher and physicist “Whatever things are cause-produced, the Tathagata has told their cause; and what their cessation is, thus the great ascetic teaches.” “According to this law, nothing has independent, permanent, or absolute existence. Everything is part of a limitless web of interconnections and undergoes a continual process of transformation. Every appearance arises from complex causes and conditions, and in turn combines with others to produce countless effects. By interrupting the causal chain at certain key points, the course of existence can be altered and effects prevented by eliminating their causes.” ~ from Buddhadharma, a quarterly Buddhist magazine here. “We expect that meaning is going to change through our learning as we go along and therefore purpose changes naturally. The word "dialogue" has many meanings and we are giving it a particular meaning. In this Dialogue we are not trying to make our points prevail or, if we are, we need to look at that. Our challenge is to see when each of us is trying to prevail, because if anybody prevails it means the dialogue has failed. Or, if we simply agree, the dialogue may also have failed because this means that we haven't gone deeply enough into the process or into the consciousness behind it. What begins to transform culture into something quite different is that ultimately the frustration or anger or rage or hatred that arises can lead to a crisis in which these feelings are transformed giving rise to impersonal fellowship - to thinking together and participating as if we were one body - by establishing a common consciousness. The group then becomes a kind of instrument of consciousness which can function differently.” physicist David Bohm on Dialogue, here.  “Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night..”  ~Rilke  ~ Joseph Rael