SPUR Magazine

The Art of PR (public relations)

2009-05-05T08:19:00.000-07:00

Beauty

2009-01-09T18:27:00.000-08:00

Beholding beauty
Somebody famous once said “beauty is just a fleeting moment”
but I would whole heartedly disagree.
Beauty is not something that changes it is always present waiting to be discovered in the moments between actions or to be recognized in the movement of an eye lash that reveals the miracle which is unfolding all around us.

Words can unleash a flood of beauty. Values are the measure, the instrument with which we evaluate the things our brain absorbs.
Who’s the master of these values? How did we attach opinion to it?
Beauty is always undergoing an evolution. Every time period invented different standards and used the gullibility of our brain to manipulate us to conform our judgment about beauty.
This denigrates and desecrates “Beauty” to a mere measure of levels according to an indoctrinated populous. If we adhere to this pattern we miss out on the power of “Beauty” to uplift our experience of life.
The nucleus of beauty is that it is in one place but that it is also everywhere.
What I am saying is “it exists all around us but is only detected when we freeze our conditioning and allow ourselves to be aware of the moment, the right now.”
Everything else is just a memory that is replayed like an old record.

We are seeing beings but all information we receive through our eye balls is just information of light frequencies. Only our preformed, based on previous encounters, concepts and ideas decide how we catalog something and then the emotion sets in following on account of that reviewed information.
We assume we experience things anew every time but what we really do is letting all new information run through a preconditioned filter that informs what we think about a given situation.
Everything happens so fast that our conscious mind is not truly aware of the preparation done in the subconscious.
You see beauty is in the eye of the beholder because what you behold decides how you perceive it, view it.
I hear complains that the world has become an ugly place but it has not become anything.
“The World” just is.
You can read in records for example by the Greek thinker Hiseth that the world is rotten and on the brink of destruction and this is from 2700 years ago.
We also have become entangled to fixated on things that don’t comply with our artificial standards, pre-occupied is the word.
We can stand in a field of lovely flowers and our mind is focused on an inner political battle about who is more righteous then the other.
I just say one thing “beauty is the house love lives in” that means that it is not a place but it is a state of mind.
You don’t need to wear pink glasses or to be naïve, not even innocent to recognize the beauty all around you.
The shadow is always there next to us and if we always stare at it that’s all we are going to see.

Beauty is right there staring back at us constantly because actually that’s what we are.
You are beauty manifested in physical form.
We just forgot about it. Don’t wait until beauty finds you but be it and see it.
Beauty is when you allow yourself to feel, to align with the inanimate and the animate to be grateful for its very existence.
When that happens a flood of loving desire unleashes an equilibrium induced by substances released by the body which alter your brain chemistry and let you experience a heightened sense of belonging and appreciation. The wonder is unfolding and revealing itself to open your heart and connect you with the source of beauty.
We are the authors of beauty. We write the script and we play in it.
If we don’t write in beautiful moments why do we expect them to show up?
Beauty is not like a fast driving car that comes out of nowhere and hits us like road kill. We actually have to slow down, approach it and declare it.
Now isn’t that beautifully said!
My conclusion is that beauty is everywhere unless we avoid seeing it and labeling it differently.
So where ever you are and who ever your are know that you are beautiful.
By Richard Schemmerer copyright 2008

"Politics & Other Misdemeanors"

2008-12-31T15:11:00.000-08:00

Politics & Other Misdemeanors
Awaken land awaken people awaken souls
To the politics of life
With its ever present challenges
To live our best at any given moment
To step up to higher planes of consciousness
For the good of a society in need of guidance and vision

We hold up the potential of each individual
We believe in the possibility of unlimited creative power
So that we are able to manifest a desirable outcome
Which benefits the greater good of all
Our hearts are connected by the love we share
We give freely of a love that has no price tag
No need to beg for it or to barter with it

There is joy if we see it
There is laughter if we express it
There is abundance if we give it
There is harmony if we let go
Of the politics of small mindedness & other misdemeanors
Which control our patterns and interactions

We step out of addictive behaviors
To release any imagined codependency
Or limitations we accepted by popular belief
Committed to change and growth
We challenge the status quo
To improve relations on all levels of existence

Life is given to us to be the best we can be
Nothing has been promised
But everything is possible
As we dwell as we all are
Divine by human nature

PDX SPUR Magazine: "Angels of America"

2008-12-24T09:16:00.000-08:00

Poetry in Motion
by Richard Schemmerer

Banned by bad circumstantial posture
Angels of America

Born chockfull with sun
Lordly endowed in a male sense
The first smell of erection
Dampened by the girl's chatter
Prematurely banned from
The table of the lamb
And this is my body
And I ate from yours
I couldn't get enough of the pinball wizard

Grew too fast, too weird
Mother knew my jack-off lies
Daddy had no such son
"Men fuck women"
That's what he said
Everything besides missionary
Is perverted, got it?

They send me to the priest
The cute one
We both burned up a fire
His body was so holy
My desire unleashed
In a heavenly hell

I repent nothing
I am not afraid
Of the dogma of sin
The garden of pleasure
Is right where I am
The Promised Land is far off
To the right wing of God

My heart is unspoiled
By self pity or shame
Life is too exciting
To be wasted by guilt
I don't judge
The ones who judge me
The Holy Book sets me free

I have no complaints
For the beaten image
They handed me at birth
God makes no mistakes
So how could I change it
Even if it would make
Daddy proud and
Free Mama from the blame
The boot fits the prince
Destiny kills parental illusions

My morals in an imperfect time
Are singled out for persecution
Don't throw the stone
With the shallow mind of hate
My right is not for you to judge
The stares of disgust
Give cold sores to my heart
My soul rests with God
Nobody has the right
To take that apart

PDX SpURMagazine: "The Nines"

2008-12-23T10:13:00.002-08:00

525 SW Morrison · Portland, Oregon 97204
Phone: (877) 229-9995 info@thenines.com

While staying at the Nines you can rent the movie "The Nines"
with Ryan Reynolds, Hope Davis, Melissa McCarthy who are playing multiple roles in the three scenarios directed by John August.

"The Nines" the newest PDX Hotel/glitzy meets Urban lives up the gay standard of indulging all the senses.
It proofs that decadence can be modern and somewhat affordable.

The Nines Hotel is well located in Downtown Portland on the 8th floor of the Macy’s building and offers great views of the happenings at Pioneer Square.
You can shop and party all at the same time like take your cocktail from the bar over to Macy's.
Just kidding but you can have your personal shopper bring you the latest fashion to your hotel room and you can wear it for the night and return it the next day all included in the service of The Nines.
No, that's a lie but never say never like in 007. Talking double 0 he certainly would stay at The Nines. I can see him laid out in one of the velvety suites with a female opponent doing it. Sorry I am getting carried away thinking about the Nines.

When you come out of the elevator you enter into a contemporary museum like feel.
Vibrant color schemes crave for your attention.
Wallpapers beg to be touched and the silky drapes cry out to be caressed.
A spectacular atrium lifts the spirits. It's contemporary with a slice of cosmopolitan flair just like I prefer my lovers.I know to much info.

Giant glass works frame your vision and blow our mind. Lots of locally created Art spikes the interest and lets the focus shift like an organza gown.

Pieces by Sean Healy, Ellen Georges, Brendan Clenagen, Hap Tivey, Philip Iosca, Matt McCormick, Yoshi Katai, Storm Tharp, Melody Owens make this a rich moonstruck experience.
In the center you find "The Urban Farmer". It is a contemporary steakhouse and a perfect set-up for a date night.

The hotel is rich in stimulation and invites the instincts to expose their romantic side.
I you don't get laid in that place call Oprah because you desperately need a makeover.

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2008-09-20T16:05:00.001-07:00

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