I have started a new blog at www.wastelandhere.com to provide a separate space for random, non-sensical thoughts and ramblings about this world we live within and the universal planes we emerge from.

New images added for Alaska 2007, Alaska 2010, Colorado 2009, and various locations in Northern MN.

We spent the evening at the Historic Mounds Theatre ( http://www.moundstheatre.org/ ) as part of “Pieces” by Incision.  Broken into chapters, words and narration by Hanakia Zedek ( http://www.hanakiazedek.org/ ) music and video provided a dramatic soundscape and landscape for what hides and feeds within.

From the copy for the event:

Incision

PIECES

It’s About the Fragmentation of the Human Psyche from a Monster From Within Perspective

PIECES is a collaboration between Hanakia Zedek, Sal aka TheDarkCloak, and Steve Larson. PIECES is an intricate and fierce soundscape and soundtrack written around the dramatic writings and readings of Hanakia Zedek (In the intro “The Wake” is written by TheDarkCloak and “The Call” is written by Mia Jessica).

The Theatre becomes the fragile fragmentation of the disastrous human mind and the participants become part of the experience.

The Historic Mounds Theatre is the perfect setting and Halloween the perfect time of year for the salute to “The Monster Within” genre and beyond.

So come, sit back, and brace for impact! You’ll be taken for a ride through the human mind…so hang tight… embrace the monster within – s’gonna be a bumpy ride!

The Menu/The Album “PIECES” Presented by INCISION

The Intro: The Wake, True Me, The Call

PIECES

Now Awaken My Children
The Abyss
Centipede
Who is The Monster
Death to The Gods
Silver Death

Hanakia Zedek: Dramatic Narration, Percussion, Synth
Sal aka TheDarkCloak: Synth, Bass, Guitar, Vocal Characterizations
Steve Larson: Synth, Guitar, Bass, Vocal Characterizations
Special Appearance By Jeffrey Furchner

Thursday, October 27 · 7:30pm – 10:30pm

Location
The Historic Mounds Theatre
1029 Hudson Road
Saint Paul, MN 55106

I am writing this from Ashford, WA while sipping on coffee and admiring tall mountain peaks with low grey clouds. Already the armor built to withstand the city of industry is gone.

Welcome to the new blog for William Ricci and Proven Life.  As time, life, and everything moves forward, it is important to take stock of my surroundings, my place in this world, and my purpose.

If that is true, I would like to give thanks: to the universe for allowing me to be here and write, to the previous lives providing experience and never-ending energy, to my family, brother and parents, to Patricia for belief, and uncompromising love.

If we wake tomorrow in the same shell, there is work to be done.

Judgment Day should be a time of reflection, and judging how we are toward each other, the community, ourselves within the community, and judging our self within.

What can we do to be a better person? What can we do to bridge so many gaps and chasms separating us from each other, and further isolating people physically, emotionally, and intellectually?

Through pen I hope to bridge the spiritual gap regardless of one’s belief in how we got here, what exists out there. Spending time worrying about the things we cannot see, the things beyond, take away from now, from what is here, what is within. We each have our own field with things growing and obstructing views over the plains into the sunrise and sunset. Now is the time to cultivate this field. Cut away the layers suffocating the being within, the weeds, and obstacles blocking the path, that you chose time ago, and are now ready to walk upon.

There is definite turmoil in this world as things fight for power and fight back against what oppresses. The world, the community, is seeking to rebalance and find some type of peace, a coexistence that stops the ripples across the matrix. Nature, the environment we walk within because she allows us to, seeks a balance where we respect what she is, what her role is. We seek balance to define what our role is and find a purpose, to make something of the life and time given to us now.

Whatever you want to call the event that triggers a pause, a moment of reflection (Judgment Day, the shift, 2012), it is important to know that what we need is within, that each of us has our own unique power and instincts, and it is an extension of the universe, that space we float within and without, travelling from dark corners across light-years over all time. The energy we possess that causes each cell to vibrate, never dies, and can never be distinguished. It will re-disburse to another time to reemerge as another being whatever you choose that to be. It is your choice.

I will end this with a quote from the poet and essayist John Haines (“Fables and Distances”), who passed away earlier this year:

“We speak of nature, of the natural world, as if that were something distinct from ourselves and the social world we appear to have made, seldom noticing that we are in nature and never out of it…”

Since the passing of John Haines, I have turned to my other inspiration in D. Nurkse – Burnt Island and The Border Kingdon.