Fiery Red, Native Indian Wisdoms

Red in Darkness

As you may know or not know, Monday was a day of hell at work, not so much the people or the work but just the hassle of the production issue we had and that I had to deal with. It is a long story, but to make it brief it was a very frustrating day for me yesterday. I got home, did some work on the computer as usual. I was so involved what I was doing that I completely forgot to watch Heros.
I wanted to paint what I was feeling and my sister mentioned the color red and that hit the spot. That is how I felt.. trapped in Red in darkness, hence the painting above.

Now this brings me to another thought or inspiration that we tend to forget. The native indians had so much wisdom and their rituals actually meant something. All of their ritual were tied to mother earth or your soul and spirits.

I found this somewhere on the internet

Love and the cycle of life were sacred matters to the Native American. Knowledge about his world was passed to an Indian child by his parents and tribal elders, but his true wisdom came from visions, dreams and the whispers he heard from every living thing and element with which he came in contact during his life. His heart and ear were always listening for the soft voice of the wind in the pine, the mournful song of the coyote or the gentle laughter that danced on the ripples in the brook. He heard words in the soft breathing of his newborn child, the stirrings of his sleeping wife, and the wrinkles in the faces of his grandparents. Everything spoke to him and he held great respect for all life. Here are a few of my favorite words of wisdom and love.

I know that I have been blogging more on philosophy and inspiration, but isn't that an adventure in itself? Are we not in an adventure in finding ourselves?
I promise I will be blogging more on my future adventure, training, coaching..and some interesting certification that I am planning to acquire.

Take care
Shine bright lights!!
Danny

I have an eye on you.

Noting that the eyes have long been described as mirrors of the soul, it is one aspect of a person that most people tend to shy away from. It is, no punt intended, overlooked in a person.

When you truly know someone, it is the eyes that tells you volumes about that person. More then words can tell. It is the first thing that I notice in a person.

(the eye is actually my cousin's Bibiana's eye, that I took awhile ago)

This brings me to today's Wisdom card:

Use Life:
You can never know how life began or from where it originated. But you have the right and responsibility to choose how you will use this life and what purpose you will use it for.

"Let your light shine"
Danny

Dreams and Wisdom

Today wisdom card tells me:
You are what you choose: Never forget that you have the power to choose anything. Recover that power then nothing in this world can torment you. all you have to do is live according to your choices. You are what you choose.





This is a drawing I made awhile ago. One of the strangest thing I dream about these red ape like being that are so menacing that they can eat brick from the building. I woke up one day and went out and saw hundreds of these apes like creation eating all the building. They were red in color. I don't know what it means, but I also did not feel any emotions about it. It was one of most interesting dreams I have had.

What is your strangest dreams?

Don't be Trapped in the body

Today my wisdom cards says
Don't be trapped in the body: You are trapped in your body when you are ignorant of the soul.
Your body becomes a tool fo infinite creation only when you become aware of the existence of the soul.

Oil on Canvas - 1990

Sedona Marathon Stats

Ok,
I finally got some stats on the Sedona Marathon I ran 2 saturdays ago. My first trail marathon and my 14th marathon

Enjoy

Elevation Profile...woooooo

Summary

Map of the Route

My new inspiration for Art is here.

Creative arises from an empty mind: You can encounter the source of life within when you have an empty mind. When you encounter that source all limits created by the false self vanish, and infinite creativity springs forth.
This is according to my wisdom cards and how I feel today. Today I got to tap into my creative side for the first time in a very long time. I wanted to get back in touch with my creativity. It has been trapped for quite awhile. Life, technology and personal issued trapped my Creative juices. But now, I feel I am able escape it and and can get back in touch with that creativity that i was so hungry for.
Here are my lastest new painting that I have done this year.

Hope you enjoy it and would be interested to see what you think of it.

Cool Water

Gray Day

Warm comfort

Great Blog

Hi all,
I just wanted to point out a blog that I think is great. She is such a great writer. I met her at the Sedona Marathon and now has started her own blog. She described the marathon perfectly... so check it out.

http://goldenrulesofslm.blogspot.com/

Take care and happy valentines day

Each & every marathon is a journey and an adventure. Seek it and you will find it

Sedona Trail marathon... how lonely

As I start the first mile and laboring with each breath I take, I gained an appreciation for high elevation running. Let me say, this was only 4500 ft of elevation. What am I going to do when or if I run the Leadville Trail marathon in Colorado. I know I will have to find a place in Chicago to do some altitude training.
Here is how it went.
Overall, this was a fun marathon for me. I had the attitude to begin with that this was not going to be a PR for me. I wanted the freedom to run without thinking about time or pace. Since this was my first trail marathon and my 3rd marathon in a row in 3 months, I decided to go with the 1 mile run and 1 min walk method. This method worked out well for me considering that it was at a higher elevation and very hilly. Lots of long ups and long declines. I did not get acclimated to the running until maybe mile 8 or so. This was about the time that we hit the trail from the street.

Just like any other marathons, I had my ups and my downs. The constant downhills did quite a number on both of my knees that by mile 24 they were in soo much pain. Otherwise, nothing else hurt at all. The new compression sock that I wore worked out perfectly and would recommend it highly...more on that later.

During the marathon I met some incredible people. The marathon in total had about 1500 particpant which out of those only about 200 did the marathon the rest did the half. So the it was lonely, not too much spectators on a trail marathon for sure. I think they organized it very well and had an aid station just about every mile marker.
I met John, an incredible guy who is now my inspiration. He has ran 274 marathon and have ran 184 consective marathons. Not sure if he said 1 each month or how. But he gave me some great tips on running an ultra also. I also met Meg who was there with her husband both have ran several ultras and gave me the inside scoop. John has his own website : http://www.squawpeak50.com/oasis2.htm

John and me with my new compression socks

In the end, I managed to finish at 4:45 with a smile on my face. The race was excellent and beauty around me was amazing.

More later....

For Pictures from Sedona here it is
http://picasaweb.google.com/runandcycle/SedonaMarathonTrip2009#

What? I leave today? Sedona update

Well, to my surprise, as I was at work, I went to united.com to do the easy checkin and found out my flight left at noon 2/5.  Holy.....I thought I had the flight for Friday 2/6.  So, I rushed and tried to figure out how to get the flight for that night.  I was lucky to get a flight leaving that night at 5:55 pm.  I have never done such a thing.  

Well, its friday and woke up with a sinus headache.  I had a terribe sleep and just dont feel up to it.  Hopefully this is just today.  Looking at the weather.. looks like showers for tomorrow's marathon.  Oh Great... another wet one... it hardly rains in Sedona but it looks like rain tomorrow.   

More updates later

TNT Winter Team Video

Hello all, I finally finished the video for my City Winter team. To put it all together required some thought. I am hoping the music fits.

Enjoy


Sorry, I had to delete the video to a heavy load on the bandwidth.. I am going to have to reduce the size... stay tune...

In the meantime you can find the video on my Facebook.

Danny