Dawn of me...

Waking up at 5AM from a foggy dream with absolute clarity and insight into my life and the world around me. There's nothing quite like that feeling - the closest thing I know to actual enlightenment. It's as if some pure aspect or essence of being comes out of its shell revealing its radiant core and finally making sense of life and how to live it. Of course after solving the problems of the cosmos and the self, I fell back into a deep sleep only to wake three hours later to the hurried commotion of the morning and the comparatively bland feeling of total psychic normalcy. The essence was back in its shell.

(sculpture by Hiroyuki Hamada)