"To master the world, one must first master oneself"

[kitsuneomega]

I am making a staff for my stature. It's still very rough and green. I tore up my hands in its bark, and my muscles practicing with it. It's slightly off balance, about 3 times as thick as a normal staff is, and twice as heavy. It fits me perfectly. It is elm wood, Russian elm, to be exact. Tough, stringy and hard, I know it will outlive me if I

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[mikha]

I can almost relate. Skating under a full sky at two or three in the morning, with a board that I have spent more time with than most, if not all, the friends I have. I have stickered up and fallen and even talked to it. I dread the day that I have to give this one up and get a new one, unlike your creation my really isn't permanent. Like us all it breaks in with use, yet too much use will wear it away. I wish I could feel what you felt, but I Feel completely different things. We are like brothers. more so, I suppose. or less so. Or anything. We feel alot the same, and very little the same. I watched the moon set...it was beautiful. I wish I had what you and rohein had... I just...hope and pray...

[kitsuneomega]

I don't think you can "almost" relate, I think you can relate totally. We both have certain things that send us into a sense of deep spiritualism. And while I make staves to last, they make break or leave me or no longer fit what I need also. The trick is to be willing to put your heart into each one, as if you were certain it was the right one, and be just as willing to let go if it isn't. I'd agree with us being brothers in spirit if not in flesh, and I wonder at the quirks of fate that tossed us in to contact with eachother. Moonset is beautiful, but always a little sad, to me. It's seeing the end. Watching moonrise is just as beautiful in its own way, and it doesn't have the slight twinge of sorrow. You will, I'm certain.

[marduk_wolf]

Horse-back archery has roughly the same feel to it. That connection the happens between you and your partner, the clarity it takes to nock the arrow and strike a target while tuning into the movements of the horse's body. It's really quite amazing how it feels.

[mikha]

the thing is, it probably feels nothign like that. And it is a shame. Just like skateboarding wouldn't feel like that at all. Not only is he creating, but he is using what he created to create even more. I create, I write poetry. And sometimes it inspires people, that is similiar. Or I take a tool, somethign already created, and use it to skate, creating moves, but the item itself wasn't created. I am focusing alot on creation because that is what makes this moment so special. And I am not saying that horse back archery isn't special, just that it seems disimilar.

[kitsuneomega]

As cliche as it sounds, all things are connected. What I do and you do and Marduk does all come from the same feeling. The details change, but details always change. That's fine. It really is the thought that counts.

[kitsuneomega]

Yeah, that point where time slows down and so many things become meaningless except what is. That second split with a razor of sensation until something connects and time begins flowing normally again. I've felt that too, but that's taking a small amount of time and stretching it out as much as you can (if I'm thinking about the same thing as you), where this was taking hours and hours and compressing them into one point of sensation.

[zebra_faraway]

No apologies to make neither. Let the breath of inspiration carry you, my friend.