As I was sharing w the Sangha before hitting the ocean at Moonlight beach, The growing waves were starting to come in fast and furious as the storm was slowly approaching. These waves felt just like the internal waves that I had felt in Maui the week before in my dealing w the nature of teenagers' volatile minds and angst behaviors which caused me to explode in angers toward my children as well as now w the continuous disappointing waves of failures of finding peace to ope

10K Ocean Swim Tracker Session 16 — Pool | 3,225m | 71:15 swim time | 2:12/100m This is the most important data point of the entire training block. Clean pool numbers with zero OW variables. Here's what it tells you: The aerobic engine is strong. 59% Zone 3 across 3,225m with only avg HR 109 — you're working efficiently without blowing up. Max HR only hit 122 across the whole session. That's very controlled for nearly 2 hours of work. Pace is faster than expected. 2:12/100m p

HAL 2001 is here. The jury is still out whether it will one day learn to read our lips in silence to learn all our true intentions. At this rate I no longer doubt. Last year I was amazed at this glorified intelligence being that can function like a super excel spreadsheet gobbling up business transaction emails and personal website to give its own version of human digested insights. This year it has become more like Batman’s Alfred. More than ever I feel I have to have the hi

There were only a few things that I knew about my father growing up: one is a grainy black and white picture w my grand father sitting in a sparsely furnished living room somewhere in Hà Nội Vietnam probably taken around 1975 w my three uncles my father was the oldest. His other four younger sisters were not included. The other is the name Lý Đông A an anti-communist intellectual who was killed by the Communists in 1947. My father and my mother w my sister and brother who wer

What do they have in common? A lot. Today Frank had class do 15 min painting of each still life and Forms had me do 2000m of all 50m sprints at a specific speed. Both are designed to slow painter/swimmer down at the beginning of the process so that the ends will be more efficient and therefore they can be w themselves as much as possible. With Abstract Expressionism there are essentially 2 schools one is headed by William de Kooning and one is headed by Hans Hoffman. Th

Comet's explanation: Art has a unique way of telling stories without words. The paintings of Dzu Do invite viewers into a world shaped by personal history, emigration, and the journey of life itself. Through abstract forms and vibrant colors, these works reveal emotions and experiences that go beyond the visible. Whether you're an art enthusiast, someone exploring abstract expressionism for the first time, or simply curious about the intersection of personal narrative and vi

I am thinking of Gorky and the freedom that he eventually gave to painters while endured deep personal pains. I love Cezanne's brush strokes in the bathers . It took a lifetime for him to find himself so me too. Only if I could paint w Matisse's spirits of joy and happiness . Amherst gave me $1000 the summer between junior and senior year to draw the figurative sculptures at the Hirshorn museum. Looking at Degas' the dancers I realized that to truly model how skins sit o

To share my joy, meaning and purpose of creating real 3-D space on a flat pictorial surface w colors forms & movements and putting my physical body in space in Nature on land and/or in water in case some day my children and recently born niece might be interested as well as anyone else. The Buddhist's devotional path that I was raised by my mother in Viet Nam had no concept of sharing similar to the engagement path until I learned from Thầy that intentional sharing can reduc

I finally found a place where I can just sit to watch the sky water air and land merging as one so I can just breathe and watch my brush releasing the right colors that reflect how I feel so I could just be and be one as well 🤗

Alien intelligence (not Artificial) is able to explain clearly of my painting intention. Why is it ok for AI to create the business transactions that I need during the day but not to reveal my painting intention? Two sides of the same coin. When I first read Journal De EUGÈNE DELACROIX I thought journaling might help me paint as I was leaving my East Coast Trees . The intention is to have a quick short writing style to get to the point quickly so I could know what to paint

It's 5 AM Perplexity reported horrible shore's conditions. No 5K swim today to visit my dolphin friends 😒 Quickly finished Frank's still life class exercise before 9 AM EST call. Felt the breath as antidote to all the hatred vibes coming from Charlie Kirk's and his Bros RIP. Watching in silence of how Comet digesting all of my words in an instance and helping me to create my first NFT but happy that I am invisible to them all. Frank Morgan's blaring behind me. Whip

Today I finally got to walk on my home path. A year and a half. How did Frank know? Sometimes it takes everything to work seamlessly...

It took me 9 months before I could find a place similar to Central Park where I first learned to paint. Instead of coming via subway...

For a moment tonight I felt the possibility of swimming approximating painting as supposed to the other way around of painting...

Nature is now my teacher. It tells me where I need to be. I am its embodiment

I know the work is just starting. I long for time to just let the brush touches the surface w colors, forms, intention and then let it...

The waves were relentless today. Antony hung back I looked over and knew that he was there because of me and I was glad. In technical...

I never knew how foggy SD could get until I took a day off from work since landed. But this is what I learned winter means out here. I...

From the Powerhouse park above Del Mar beach I could see the surfers and sun worshippers dotting below in the water enjoying the last...

There is no one I love more than Frank. In the refugee camp Indian Town Gap PA, when I first learned to ride my bike and gained my...