D.J. Coffman - Sequential Artist, Thinker

Many of my friends are calling me a hippy. I don’t actually mind that. I’ve actually spent a lot of time this year thinking and acting politcally, but open minded. I don’t really like to be labeled anything under a “party”, I just go with my common sense. Beyond hearing what people or candidates say, I go with my GUT. I’ve fine tuned this weird super power to know when someone is bullshitting me, and when they are, I cut them loose or set them straight. If your mission or purpose is a noble one, I’m with you, and I’ll go with you to the very end. That thinking has made this an incredibly strange year for me. You can fill in the blanks for the bullshitters I’ve cut loose, and abandoned my corporate ties. they’re not worth linking to or even mentioning beyond that.

So beyond everything else I’ve been doing, I’ve quietly taken over the role of, well, “webmaster” I guess, for my new good friends, handling a bunch of small things that make their lives a WEE bit easier. I’m using my creativity and skills to try to make stories that matter. My work is now on their merchandise they sell at shows, and featured in their latest video. If I take a second to sit back and think, it’s a bit mind blowing. It’s mind blowing for the regular reasons, but also for the totally surreal chain of events that have happened to me privately (and not so privately) this year.

It’s left me in a very contemplative mood that something BIGGER is going on, and the universe, (or god?) has taken me like a piece on a chessboard and put me in place where I needed to be, or where I’d be of best use for the greater good. If that kinda thinking makes me a hippy, well then so fucking be it! But I have to tell you, oh strangers and close family and friends who read this blog, that for the first time in a long long time, I feel a sense of peace inside. I’m not calculating any next move, I’m not swimming against a current. I just let go, and let the universe do it’s thing here. Maybe it’s “The Secret” or the Law of Attraction. Whatever it is, I’m well better off.

In doing my homework this morning, I’m reading through a new article about the Flobots on Westword.com, “Flobots Rise and Shine” , and laughing about some of the types of events I’ve witnessed. How they unload their bus with, what the article describes “Tetris-geek efficiency”- In fact, that was one of the first physical things I witnessed that impressed me for some reason. The grassroots of it all, that I had written about before here. So I’m reading as the article progresses to detail how they go about their lives on the road, coordinate new ideas, and then my name gets brought up in the article around page 5. Which, again, sitting and thinking about it for a minute… mind blowing.

Anyways, I suppose if you want a glimpse at some of the BIGGER things I’m working on, that article might give you a good sense of what it is. I’ve been sure to casually mention it to them, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence…. any of this. I also don’t think it’s a coincidence that the DNC is taking place in their hometown of Denver. I don’t know what any of it means, but I know, I’m 1000% sure, it’s not a coincidence. (For various untold reasons.)

I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

I use to think sometimes that life might be like pieces of a puzzle falling into place, out of place sometimes. My wife and I would laugh when we’d buy something from a thrift store, some lamp we had no place for… but then a year later it had found it’s place like it had been there forever. We get things now that we’ll know what to do with later, like little “rusty signs” guiding a way.

But now I feel it’s more like a chessboard.