Americana Sunrise.

Americana / Sela Bay.    Polaroid 420,  Land Camera.

 

 

Andrew Tipton

Rebelious October

Talk to me.   Tell me everything.  There is nothing I do not care to know.
You drive me crazy.  good ways. Sideways.  
I ask..   I am asking. 
|  I do not see a straight line. leading anywhere.
And part of me wants to make sure that the world knows,  ,
I see that there can't be anything but what has already been waiting.   In the depths..  ocean blue. 
can you find the source of rain.  but it falls,
Even. When we can't grasp ourselves. Yet, here we are.
 I admire the ones who take care to live recklessly.
  I admire the thirsty, the screamers, the dis-conventionalists.  I adore the epic silences that follow. flickers of wisdom and tiredness.
we are each born screaming... And gradually fall silent.   Asleep in our armchairs,
   I see no reason to admire practicality.   I have the urge often times to sail in to the ocean and not to look behind me..   but I know I would.    And I wonder if sometimes to be whatever it is that the world needs,  perhaps you must become something you do not yet believe in. yet yourself, 
 Begin and find him walking beside you. Already.



Andrew Tipton

Sail the caribbean

This is a track from Jesse Cook's newest album.. "The Blue
Sessions"

I am fascinated by the feeling of this. Not just the song, (which is my favorite
by the way) but the resonating shift

in his music.. you can literally hear the change - its not a gentle step in a
new direction.. its a leap somewhere into an unknown darkness.


My first time listening, I was entranced by the black moodiness.. its so
out-of-character for Jesse.. and that feels wildly good to me.



So much of my thought recently has been focused on returning to a
sense of impractical choice. I find that there is such a quick
response in myself to step away from bravery..  an almost automatic behavior to hide behind
the practicality

of a decision - (not many people in this culture will call you out on
adhering to a practical lifestyle).   There is a great deal of security making
choices that have little risk.    It
becomes our habit, I think, to turn away from our fantastic and adventurous
mind.. 

But this is such an uninspiring way of living! When we always choose the
practical route.. we quietly shut away the marvelous side of being alive.  We may live safely, and we may die
comfortably, but there will not be a story worth sharing in the end...   when our time is finished, the world will never
have felt our presence, never known that we ever came or went.    


 



I am beginning to admire the impractical choices of others.. the ones based
on something deeper and more passionate than predictable and rational decision
making.     These
are the ones to watch – these are the people that are excited to be here.   



 



This album.. Blue Sessions, is a punch in the face of practicality.   Jesse Cook let go of the musician he is known
to be.. he is challenging the roots of practical expectation.    I am excited to see that!   I am excited to feel that same urge inside my
own bones.   



 



 



 



Andrew Tipton

May Your Limits Be Unknown

We try to make ourselves.. to keep ourselves something tangible, and coherent, and lasting.. but it is the definition of self that confines self.

We are convinced that we must cling to what we have built around ourselves. The stories must last! I AM! We scream that mantra. but we are not our stories. We have no claim on our trophies or our failures. We are not yesterday.. anymore than yesterday is today. We are the now. We are the moment that is happening. We are the day in hand, the certainty of hope, the racing heart.

I have a failing will to be anything that I have ever been. I am curious and terrified to discover what person lies beyond my expectations.

We are not confined to live as we have ever lived. To think as we have ever thought, or to speak any word that has ever left our lips before.

Today. We are new.

May your limits be unknown.

-Andrew Tipton

The Self

"When i am very still, I can feel my heart" - J Maxine

Winding Streets

 

Artists Street in New Orleans..     Lead this way to play music for a few strangers..  wellness ensued. 

 

 

 

Andrew Tipton

permeability of truth

we are born into this planet's culture..
 born into a culture that has already established laws, and walls, functional codes of living...  a culture that already has definitions of truth, and "invented" methods of living.     As we grow up, our SELF is filtered through these methods of living - methods whose permanence and establishment preceded us.

We accept life as we see it...  because that is how we have always "seen" it.    Since we did not witness the origin of many ideas,  we do not see them as permeable..  instead, we accept them as fixed, eternal, "truths"..

I think there is a struggle to adapt ourselves to the culture that birthed us..   pressing against our minds and our imaginations in an attempt to "function properly".  
Since we have been born into a world that already has answers..    we assume that we do not get to invent answers anymore..  at least not fundamental ones.     That leaves us in a broken state of being.    

It is time to reconsider ourselves as the authors of our culture.   We do not have to mindlessly accept the principals of previous generations!     This is not a call for rebelliousness,  this is a lament for "awareness", for the pursuit of evolution and clarity.   Life is motion.. all of life..    we cannot assume that simply because principals have been in place for many years, that those principals cannot be challenged, changed, or improved.   We do not have to fear attempting to shape our environment..  rather than ourselves.    Our culture is malleable.  

I have seen faults and severe problems with certain methods of my culture..   the impoverishment of relationships, our lacking perception of well being..  etc.  
But, I believe a person must believe in the permeability of truth before they can reclaim their power of creation.    I am just beginning to comprehend that power...  to believe that I can change fundamentals of my culture,  and the culture of the future.  


Andrew Tipton