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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVgomldEyjMpTmyQdPdMv86Xnf8EEm0WUCoJwUkVUFEeHv76YwpRgjfHlSsSDBT1MYEC-HmfG4F0zYOpAdqPrznVGEZU91Lp10RG3FG3fu3yIVUrJXtcWqPJJDrJdSR5zN9NPdndmpImk/s400/bortman_06.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549890809885755570" border="0" /></a>bmuse27http://www.blogger.com/profile/06244570378631030424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837918783860684428.post-59569515260986103112010-12-12T12:03:00.000-08:002010-12-12T12:07:11.765-08:00Mandala 1<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgORJMGotXpzrP4XykUQQ35BhMHrtkTkoIxEDCiDCJSbqRmtpVEjh-QvWMVCwKC1EWBZ2vfTywXsoYhVXfUPYvUeeC1X4iYlRbPQA27hPo-0e5ofTYah6aW2dtn-W_QmtyRAibpc0a62_0/s1600/bortman_05.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgORJMGotXpzrP4XykUQQ35BhMHrtkTkoIxEDCiDCJSbqRmtpVEjh-QvWMVCwKC1EWBZ2vfTywXsoYhVXfUPYvUeeC1X4iYlRbPQA27hPo-0e5ofTYah6aW2dtn-W_QmtyRAibpc0a62_0/s400/bortman_05.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549889801940984994" border="0" /></a>bmuse27http://www.blogger.com/profile/06244570378631030424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837918783860684428.post-76391343472020466832010-12-12T11:00:00.000-08:002010-12-12T11:03:54.213-08:00Homage to "Blue Poles"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0xIuAlsRQTlwKGAuNWoLmWr8g1JOREN0kbkXX6S0FwdDHKhqd6musfu0Ce22w4LY29LbiGbsjG5ijnS-jvDDNIKZA0NdBn4BJebfKZRkZo0tbwhPOadFKjA1L8P9Y426XWAgBmELjc0c/s1600/bortman_04.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 286px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0xIuAlsRQTlwKGAuNWoLmWr8g1JOREN0kbkXX6S0FwdDHKhqd6musfu0Ce22w4LY29LbiGbsjG5ijnS-jvDDNIKZA0NdBn4BJebfKZRkZo0tbwhPOadFKjA1L8P9Y426XWAgBmELjc0c/s400/bortman_04.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549873277266987122" border="0" /></a>bmuse27http://www.blogger.com/profile/06244570378631030424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837918783860684428.post-42213233846328330552010-12-12T09:23:00.000-08:002010-12-12T10:01:38.314-08:00Wishing Tree<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJynuYzUz9QUYg4ZV-TbKg9kskMaxfXe2zXDkRqoLWWi2R7uYhmm1AnXktnSI8FJbTWTcA1ZNb8HJSbSNR7FJqtJwPsN5Jr9xXFSQbGicmKn_tRrVup5rZV9864u_g1DC7ndZeMxjyPaU/s1600/bortman_03.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 288px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJynuYzUz9QUYg4ZV-TbKg9kskMaxfXe2zXDkRqoLWWi2R7uYhmm1AnXktnSI8FJbTWTcA1ZNb8HJSbSNR7FJqtJwPsN5Jr9xXFSQbGicmKn_tRrVup5rZV9864u_g1DC7ndZeMxjyPaU/s400/bortman_03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549847990599094274" border="0" /></a>bmuse27http://www.blogger.com/profile/06244570378631030424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837918783860684428.post-1092960310839052722010-12-12T09:19:00.000-08:002010-12-12T09:22:40.537-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirc-Sd9UG9KkSqRFL0PsAabUDHjegDuN8y6HUcxX5e0KNBn6Ci3xugpb8UcMI3VqJP3RauU_VpzPH1XXXfkbl9NNrmyUkXeMDRYMg4sfIGV0F-WEQIRedR2XGakpJOOt6O7biLDOBvOtA/s1600/bortman_02.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirc-Sd9UG9KkSqRFL0PsAabUDHjegDuN8y6HUcxX5e0KNBn6Ci3xugpb8UcMI3VqJP3RauU_VpzPH1XXXfkbl9NNrmyUkXeMDRYMg4sfIGV0F-WEQIRedR2XGakpJOOt6O7biLDOBvOtA/s400/bortman_02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549846899284089714" border="0" /></a>bmuse27http://www.blogger.com/profile/06244570378631030424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837918783860684428.post-86348266321929042312010-12-12T08:23:00.000-08:002010-12-12T09:10:22.594-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVr__rZKihzlgNyZPsidedVgEOvdQPWIE0ZWLd5aKqFxwPz1RKgXWso1gOp3vFBX3iwsUugPVAbNAibTo2TjWBCh78fLbeRQsft-Nq-hSNiadKv0Vbzg7qktDiZX_Z7d8qnffmT2U7Cc8/s1600/bortman_01.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 288px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVr__rZKihzlgNyZPsidedVgEOvdQPWIE0ZWLd5aKqFxwPz1RKgXWso1gOp3vFBX3iwsUugPVAbNAibTo2TjWBCh78fLbeRQsft-Nq-hSNiadKv0Vbzg7qktDiZX_Z7d8qnffmT2U7Cc8/s400/bortman_01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549838238243449666" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgypEX1JD6GPN0bMGKsDV6vB4JwkG938eLePGgW45cfJTyHR0JK2N6M3Or6ktSKzmqTHWWOFlL0zvR39MoYd8DyzSeQ1uxIX4YzYYZ6zgj2MUboCE3Dmkt0gEOreUIMl8sqgc1zX_Zb1rs/s1600/bortman_01.jpg"><br /></a></div>bmuse27http://www.blogger.com/profile/06244570378631030424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837918783860684428.post-49706574062518174912009-04-11T19:59:00.001-07:002009-04-11T20:37:48.146-07:00Wishing vs Fate<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIk8MhM-oflk4_6Mln9h0ITqz6v5Nm12INFcBx88mCd3rf72NVwE5xI459kG70R2y5j8YDw-TmvU4Zv6_FzhADdjoD8I4cVDHujrxeFSgNT3RkJpJnt5d0w3a4i0Hu3wNzsl6Gd_-D4LQ/s1600-h/shoe_2"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIk8MhM-oflk4_6Mln9h0ITqz6v5Nm12INFcBx88mCd3rf72NVwE5xI459kG70R2y5j8YDw-TmvU4Zv6_FzhADdjoD8I4cVDHujrxeFSgNT3RkJpJnt5d0w3a4i0Hu3wNzsl6Gd_-D4LQ/s200/shoe_2" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323643596793958466" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">So it has been awhile since the last writing but man have things been crazy. So I am back in economic times where jobs are threatened left and right. People are talking when they will be laid off. There is discussion that this time is slower than the last crazy time or times as it were. I guess now it is death by a 1000 paper cuts and the dying are doing it slowly. We are working so much harder and instead of brooding on when we will get home to the kids or dog or life we are just happy that we are working.<br /><br />So here I sit, 11 pm at night on the balcony of the new digs which sits on the beach. I am loving the view, the sound of the waves and the feel of the ever present breeze. It reminds of my childhood since we were always at the Jersey Shore growing up. Whether we went on weekends, on nights to the boardwalk - Wildwood, Atlantic City, Ocean City, Stone Harbor, Cape May... it was always a part of growing up. When we vacationed in FL it was Orlando. The palm trees, the crazy large hotels with lights shining at night. The odd surrealness of it it. Well I am back there now in condo land. I have a 12th floor place and though I am renting, it is quite an interesting culture. I am not really around during the days to get to know the people that live here full time but I can say it is a priveledged if a slightly twisted lifestyle.<br /><br />I wonder if I deseve it. Not in a meloncholoy whiney way but in the old ancient tradition of sacrafice and universal balance. I am reading an interesting book called "The Wishing Year" and it is written by a practicing Zen Buddhist who dares to wish for a house, a man and peace in her soul. She gets caught up with an internal paradox by mixing the wish for material and selfish items with wishing for something spiritual. Is it bad to wish for more money? Is it bad to belive in fate? Can we make our fate by "putting it out there"? We all have met people who unabashidly believe that it is their right to wish for more money or a new man or something material.... how is it that some of us feel the need to balance, sacrafice and cringe at the thought while others believe they somehow deserve peace and happiness without sacrafice? I have always mixed asking for things with the list of the sacrafices I would make. As a little girl I would sit in bed at night and wish for things to be better at home and have a full on list of things that I held dear to myself as things for sacrafice.<br /><br />Ancient cultures sacraficed animals and humans for a good crop, a good hunt. They wished for fertility of their selves, their animals, their crops. It was all done for the balance. There is the concept that there would be rain dances before the rainy season - not during the drought times - but when they expected rains. The thought would be that they would do what they could as humans to make it happen. Give it the edge. But never without sacrafice. Is this an evolutionary pull? Something that we all hold deep in ourselves? Is it innate? Religious? Why some and not others? I don't know but I feel that when I am happy I wait for the shoe to drop. And if I thought about this in a new age kind of way, it would mean that I am inviting disaster to come forward. If maybe in a Jungian way it would be that I don't deserve success or happiness - and if you sprinkle Freud it would have something to do with parents and the ultimate rejection of the father. And though he did reject his children, I cannot logically blame him. But there is something that is not written but is felt that there has to be some balance. I know when I blurt out loud that I love a man, I inevitably lose him. Do I destroy it? Fear of success? Of course that is another blog - what is success.... and I have to say typing outside in the dark with this intense screen light is allowable for one blog only.<br /><br />I have no logical answer and I am trying very hard to beat the need to question whether I deserve this. I go back to the working my ass off to make millions for others... I go back to losing my time for my exercise, eating health and doing my art. Those things are precious to me. If I regain them, do I lose the ocean view? Or will things balance out. Maybe this is all about control and we all </span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8oVKDWobOt1JMaV9GrwgycUMWS8opfH7pFEttYYUSx6eN_G5gmBRC9Vye-jFIo3pfS68z82ibg6sqBe-BiQArZnjB4ItWX3ubHmJq-58r_gnqm9NBPfCJ5FxYLoHLvVBGZe4mTxKCdHs/s1600-h/shoe"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8oVKDWobOt1JMaV9GrwgycUMWS8opfH7pFEttYYUSx6eN_G5gmBRC9Vye-jFIo3pfS68z82ibg6sqBe-BiQArZnjB4ItWX3ubHmJq-58r_gnqm9NBPfCJ5FxYLoHLvVBGZe4mTxKCdHs/s200/shoe" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323641086050144946" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">know that is not a good way to live.<br /><br />So for now, I send my quiet thanks to the {fill in the blank here} and hope on some weird level that this is mine for now because I deserve it, I have paid the dues for it and I will experience the joy of it without the fear of the other shoe dropping. If that shoe does d</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">rop, at least I hope it is in the form of the lateste YSL platform architectural variety because I have to say, they fucking rock. And it my world has to be torn down (again, and again) then it better fucking be a damn good design.<br /></span></span>bmuse27http://www.blogger.com/profile/06244570378631030424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837918783860684428.post-2372294153076045842009-01-19T18:18:00.000-08:002010-12-12T09:16:13.426-08:00Fear & Anxiety<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2NxcNNIpr2Nv-kz4PGu3O5hzwPS3aOgfR37aYIuk-Faqu3Y9EhEljd7yNTiP4UdvrnViJ_X-g_TjxxUhGe823lgtNxg8Fyde4YduTz_0lT7pn_4xW-kzDUsGm3SUmDMFEOyVgZvzmarw/s1600-h/IMG_4312.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2NxcNNIpr2Nv-kz4PGu3O5hzwPS3aOgfR37aYIuk-Faqu3Y9EhEljd7yNTiP4UdvrnViJ_X-g_TjxxUhGe823lgtNxg8Fyde4YduTz_0lT7pn_4xW-kzDUsGm3SUmDMFEOyVgZvzmarw/s200/IMG_4312.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293198272601267666" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Came across an interesting theory posted by Kierkegaard in his journals called "The Concept of Anxiety" also known as "The Concept of Dread" depending on the translation. His journals were meant to be a way for him to write and test his ideas in a somewhat stream of conciousness. His works were referring to Christianity while he was running from Lutheran but they can be pulled into many directions in the spiritual sense.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">The main gist that struck me was his concept that we are born into an internal anxiety state (as opposed to an external or environmental anxiety) and that we inherently are spiritual and continually searching based on this idea of anxiety. Interesting that if one is able to recognize this or react to this (and we all know people who are not so it is not really universal but inherent) it would be the basis for our continual evolution in the concept of searching for something hire. His label was Christianity but it is not necessary to think in those terms. Allegorically he references the fall from Eden and the bite of the apple. That affected our society's quest to overcome inherent guilt and search for deeper meanings to assuage the guilt or internal anxiety. The idea of reacting to guilt from an internal point of view and having that as an instinct to delve into deeper thoughts is really interesting.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Now if you tie it to Buddhism where the first noble truth, dukkha, is that life as we know it ultimately leads to suffering. Buddhists also believe that this state of angst makes a person who they are and that the struggle or acknowledgment of this state leads them to meditation to overcome this state with their mind. After all, meditation leads to a state without anxiety or angst and is often used to ward this state off. So if the inherent human nature is a state of anxiety and the buddhist path is to use one's mind to overcome that in the meditative or alternate state, does that mean this is a way we are reincarnated into another self?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">There is a difference in personality types... one that accepts the idea for a quest for more, the answers to questions, etc and then the others that react to stimuli that they receive from the outside in. I cannot help but to notice that this later group of people also tend to be living in fear of new ideas, of pushing themselves to better their knowledge or even a fear of liberals (or event the New York Times). If this is the case and if the idea of reincarnation is used as a single trip in the human world, are we coming face to face with the evolution of the human spirit?</span><br /></span></span>bmuse27http://www.blogger.com/profile/06244570378631030424noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837918783860684428.post-64736863049281001052008-12-03T12:59:00.000-08:002008-12-03T13:03:31.584-08:00Almost<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_QUcP6D5zkYJhhAnPyX93cO-UWz9p_KK1-ykW6_bsPKKnA9ViayQNUcJq04O6Q83ChRLbhI6FN0wecu1DJpIdUdl4CC_2evw94NjBu-7D82fSgiHsldI_GruqTP3lr6cDVsG6H23CowE/s1600-h/odetta.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 196px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_QUcP6D5zkYJhhAnPyX93cO-UWz9p_KK1-ykW6_bsPKKnA9ViayQNUcJq04O6Q83ChRLbhI6FN0wecu1DJpIdUdl4CC_2evw94NjBu-7D82fSgiHsldI_GruqTP3lr6cDVsG6H23CowE/s200/odetta.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275671621796022354" border="0" /></a>Odetta died today. This is sad for many reasons... but the one that comes to the surface is that she did not get to sing at Obama's inaugural. She has spent her life within the Civil Rights Movement and it would have been a tribute to her efforts to experience this type of closure.<br /><br />A moment of silence for one of the greatest singers.<br /><br />“You’re walking down life’s road, society’s foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can’t get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life.”<br /><br />We are going to miss your soul.bmuse27http://www.blogger.com/profile/06244570378631030424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837918783860684428.post-33647838872199317002008-11-18T14:32:00.001-08:002008-11-18T14:39:23.230-08:00Charged Battery and HopeStill on <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">vaca</span> but wanted to share a story that has me in awe... and though it shouldn't, I am feeling very lucky right now... and I am not talking about driving these back roads in the mountains while the snow is coming down <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">horizontally</span>.<br /><br />I went into town today (West Jefferson, NC) cos Zoe was having anal gland (gross, but a necessity with labs) issues so I made an <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">appt</span> for that. I was driving around and got there early and they took her in pretty fast. From there I went to a pet store to get her a pressed rawhide and my battery died when I went to get back into the car. So here it is, snowing a little and it is about 29 degrees as a high... Anyway the pet store people let me use their phone and I called the Ford dealership. The guy that does their towing got there in less than 10 minutes and jumped the battery. He would not take any money even though I offered him $20.00 at least for a beer. Then he had me follow him to the dealership around the corner and made sure that someone was there to help. They had to have a battery sent in from somewhere close - <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">apparently</span> the Honda Element has a small battery cos a few people came over to look at it. It was funny to see these mechanics gather around this thing and talk about the size of this battery. All in total I was in there in less than 30 minutes and the charge was only $100.00 - that was with delivery, installing and the battery cost. I am <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">flabbergasted</span>!!! Needless to say I am very lucky this all happened down in town and not up here where it is pretty isolated. The battery was seriously dead. We were all joking that it was protesting the cold weather.<br /><br />There are still pockets of great people!! I just cannot say how lucky I felt that this happened when it did at the time and the fact that is has given me some serious happiness in people. Sounds bitter but I don't mean it to be. I can almost guarantee that this would not have happened in Fort Laud., FL and maybe not in Austin, TX either. So the sun shown today, the snow fell and swirled in the the wind and it ended up as a shining point in this trip.<br />Thanks guys! You Rock!bmuse27http://www.blogger.com/profile/06244570378631030424noreply@blogger.com1