Sunday, 22 November 2009

  • sunny daze


    Yesterday i made the trek into the big city cuz it was my dad's birthday, and even tho it was spur of the moment, most of my family made it too. 
    I was happy to see them, and it made me happy that it made dad happy    :]

    On the way there i was totally enthralled by the play of light and tree shadows racing down the highway, mesmerizing, probably not the best thing when you're doing 85; a huge V of canadian geese; wondered why i hadn't seen any hawks, and right then saw a plane roll, then another, then it did a dive-bomb and my heart went to my stomach till he pulled it out level below the tree line.  If i hadn't been in the go very fast lane with the pack i just passed catching up to me, i would have pulled over to watch.  I missed my exit, cuz what, i wanted to experience big city congestion, no, i wanted to see a hawk and that's where she was perched placidly atop a light pole.

    The only bummers (besides the mia) were bart the fart, and betsy the wetsy -- dear S, glad the angels were with you most of the way home.  Your sense of humour is crazy and drove home (is where the heart is) the point of life, and even tripped dad out.  However, dang it, couldn't we just do without some memories?

    ♥ My Dad -- i come by my innocence, inner beauty, and heart of gold honestly.  You too B and mia J.  ♥

     

Saturday, 21 November 2009

  • to years


    how far have i come in two years?
    apparently not very

    pensive reflection
    and melancholy dream
    bittersweet octave
    kissed by the sun
    eclipsed by the moon
    and sung by the earth
    in honey and rime

    .

    oh man oh man
    I love the gleam in your eye
    your life force is
    energy manifest
    love your prickly cheeks and chin
    your long fingers strum string theory
    and vocal cords hum bass
    you know how 
    I love your exotic scent
    slim hips and tight
    butt most of all
    I love it when you sigh
    oh man oh man

    .

    aroused in the night
    by a secret tapped
    on my windowpane
    i went out to play
    in the rain
    but the wind
    blew me away

    .

    separate desperation
    emergent inclination
    runic incantation
    mystical incarnation
    heavenly declination
    inspired desorption

    .

    what is it

    do you ever get that feeling
    you don't really know what it is
    like something's about to happen
    you're kinda jumpy
    and feel like you should be preparing
    but how can you
    when you don't know for what
    so you try to align with the forces
    to be more than ready no matter what it is
    and you sense very deeply that you'll be happy
    if only it would begin


     

Friday, 20 November 2009

  • y o y


    take care over there
    you are seen as you stand
    all alone
    with a smile on your lips
    so quiet
    with a light in your eyes
    so silent
    you are almost not there
    under a pale rainbow
    beneath a grey sky

    take care over here
    you are heard as you sigh
    a susurrus
    in wind and wave
    an echo
    through the forest
    somehow
    you know
    it is not likely to be
    found
    if it does not exist

    take care my friend
    as you lie
    and speak the truth
    on a white blanket
    under a dark sky
    good and bad
    borne away
    on a coyote's cry
    as the gods tend
    to time and place
    it could be
    we are diffused
    forever everywhere


     

  • My ME


    No, neither Medical Examiner, nor Nature --

    In Sumerian mythology, a me is one of the decrees of the gods which encompass all the human conditions that make civilization, and show the relationship between humanity and the gods.  There are more than 100 mes, including art, music, scribeship, smith, basket weaver, builder, truth, wisdom, peace, terror, strife, fear and loathing in las vegas, just checking to see if anyone reads these.  Evils and sin were considered an integral part of humanity, a part of the inscrutable gods decree.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_(mythology)


    triad:  Anu - god of heaven  

    Enlil - god of the sky  

     Enki - god of water

     

    Uruk -- At its height c 2900 BC, Uruk probably had 50,000–80,000 residents living in 6 km^2 of walled area; the largest city in the world at the time.  The Arabic name of lower Mesopotamia, al'Irâq, is thought to be derived from the name Uruk, possibly via Middle Persian transmission.

    Cedar forest, the tallest (oldest?) cedar was cut to make the walls around Uruk. 
    ( Humbaba)

    Gilgamesh and Ishtar, a goddess scorned

    Father, let me have the Bull of Heaven
    To kill Gilgamesh and his city.
    For if you do not grant me the Bull of Heaven,
    I will pull down the Gates of Hell itself,
    Crush the doorposts and flatten the door,
    And I will let the dead leave
    And let the dead roam the earth
    And they shall eat the living.
    The dead will overwhelm all the living!


    A river named Perath  is one of the four rivers that flow from the Garden of Eden according to Genesis 2:14.  This Hebrew word, derived from either the word "stream" or "to break forth", has been translated as Euphrates.  It is the fourth river – after the Pishon, the Gihon, and the Tigris (Hebrew name is Hiddekel) – to form from the river flowing out of the garden.

    Muhammad said:  "The Hour will not come to pass before the river Euphrates dries up to unveil the mountain of gold, for which people will fight.
    :  "The Euphrates reveals the treasures within itself.  Whoever sees it should not take anything from it".

    The Fertile Crescent possessed the wild progenitors of the eight Neolithic founder crops important in early agriculture (i.e. wild progenitors to emmer wheat, einkorn, barley, flax, chick pea, pea, lentil, bitter vetch), and four of the five most important species of domesticated animals—cows, goats, sheep, and pigs—and the fifth species, the horse, lived nearby.

    http://llibra.xanga.com/694210321/gobekli-tepe/

    In the contemporary era, river waters remain a potential source of friction in the region.  The Jordan lies on the borders of Israel, the kingdom of Jordan and the areas administered by the Palestinian Authority.  Turkey and Syria each control about a quarter of the fuc of the Euphrates, on whose lower reaches Iraq is still heavily dependent.  I don't know what fuc is, but i do like how things (for lack of a better word) circle around, now, if i could just figure out why, nevamind, they just do.

     

Thursday, 19 November 2009

  • noon thirty

    in a smoke filled room
    well after midnight
    she wonders what love is
    like swirls of mist
    near the foggy dawn
    or elusive feelings
    watching them
    breathing in
    oh well she thinks
    she has seen pi in the sky
    and closes her eyes
    after a day staring
    at the sun too long
    nevermore
    all is afterimage
    illusion or vision
    a tear in the eye
    or a god-spark
    tearing the fabric of time
    into quarks
    a way
    to interact
    with fundamental forces
    the sum of the parts
    more or less
    up and down
    strange charm
    from bottom to top
    seeking what corresponds
    out of necessity
    the scarcity
    of most exotic conditions
    may be a manifestation
    defying the gravity
    of the situation
    in a lacy lattice of theory

     

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

  • imagine a real reel

    overcome by ennui


    in ancient communication
    we sit together alone
    under the dome of sky
    the sound of waves
    a mile away
    mermaidenly echoes 
    a strange situation
    silence
    speaks louder than words

     

    A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
      - Thomas Hardy

     

    Yesterday, someone's post began a google web-chain; i randomly read a review of a nearby trail which referred to it as a hobbit trail, they said it gave them an expectation to see a hobbit smoking a pipe seated on the bench at lost lake.  I knew where i wanted to be today.


    Just came out of a cedar bog, the cedars above border a white pines and oaks area, to the right is about a mile of forested dunes to The Lake, and what did i find, a hobbit home, complete with canopy. 


    The Exuberant Funeration

     

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

  • Quantum Man


     inspired by the question of what the wavefunction of a moving human would look like.


     

    Physicist/sculptor, Julian Voss-Andreae
    Angel of the West 2008 meets Vitruvian Man, c. 1490:
    http://julianvossandreae.com/index.html

     

  • ms fit


    perfect little
    whirlwinds
    swirl the way
    calling me
    out to play
    water sand
    dunes and trees
    so melancholy
    nothing matters
    still happy
    nothing does
    and the wind cried
    mae be


    the bad news is it's even necessary
    the good news is some people care

    my area has a history with the EPA
    $13 million recently to clean up Ruddiman Creek
    (mcgraft park area)
    June 2009 NOAA gave a $10 million grant
    to clean up industrial fill- nearly 800 acres
    or 10% of muskegon lake's shallow waters and wetlands -
    and lumber era debris, from ten areas on the south side of the lake
    it's estimated to take about a decade before the area is history with the EPA


    The Muskegon NOAA GLERL (great lakes environmental research laboratory) facility is housed in the former historic 1905 U.S. Life Saving Service station, renovated in 2005. The Life Saving Service, which was renamed the U.S. Coast Guard, has its Muskegon operations adjacent to the NOAA building. 

     

Monday, 16 November 2009

  • to be fazed fades in this phase of phrases


    Oxford Word of the Year 2009: Unfriend

    “In the online social networking context, its meaning is understood, so its adoption as a modern verb form makes this an interesting choice for Word of the Year.
    Most “un-” prefixed words are adjectives (unacceptable, unpleasant), and there are certainly some familiar “un-” verbs (uncap, unpack), but “unfriend” is different from the norm.
    It assumes a verb sense of “friend” that is really not used (at least not since maybe the 17th century!). Unfriend has real lex-appeal.” - Christine Lindberg, Senior Lexicographer for Oxford’s US dictionary program.

    other words considered:  http://blog.oup.com/2009/11/unfriend/

     

    Yay!  No more losing a quart of oil every five miles.  It wasn't the oil pan gasket, but some connector thingie, oh, the oil pressure switch, even the shop guys said they'd never seen one leak from the side it did, never mind the crushed funnel that made their wall.  So for about the same cost, or less than it could have been, that, the radiator return hose is fixed, and the passenger door now opens, which cost the most.  No more driving miss daisy.

     

    This Vonnegut quote is on my mind again and wants out:

    "There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind."

    Taken from God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater as part of a baptismal speech the protagonist says he's planning for his neighbors' twins:
    "Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind."   

    Kurt emphasizes what's most important in life to those starting their journey, and lets his frustration with all the people who obviously don't get it leak through just a little.

     

    3 days without a visit to the lake?  no way

     

     

     

    music
    The Best of Bach
    The Genius of Ray Charles
    Janis Joplin - Pearl
    Elvis Presley (that's the title, 1956)
    The Best of Van Morrison

     

  • fantasy

     Kierky and Nietzsche rock.  clips from a Slabovia children's tv program 
    caveat:  may not be suitable for some children and/or adults

    thx innerwebs, for combining my pruient interests with humour
    what a philosophy!

    remember, intercourse new and improved, now including a mind