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Oats and oat cakes are still used today in Beltane celebrations, especially in Scotland where the tradition originated. Therefore, oats have been widely accepted as a very appropriate Beltane food, good for fertility and luck. This recipe, Farls, was popular in northern Ireland and Scotland, incorporating the ever-popular potatoes as well (WITH THE OATS!).
INGREDIENTS:
* 3 cups real mashed potatoes
* 2 cups dry oats
* 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
* 1/2 teaspoon cornstarch
* 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
* 1/8 teaspoon salt
* Pinch of pepper
* Pinch of rosemary (OPTIONAL)
DIRECTIONS:
Soak the oats in warm water for 15 to 20 minutes. (USE THE AMOUNT OF WATER YOUR OATS PACKAGE TELLS YOU TO USE AS IF FOR COOKING.) Drain the oats if there is extra water at the end of their soaking, then mix the potatoes and other ingredients into the bowl. Knead it together until a dough forms. If it's still too moist, add flour until it can be picked up and shaped. Form into round patties. Fry in hot vegetable oil until lightly browned and serve immediately.
NOTE: They seem to cook best if you put them in the pan and don't smush them down with the spatula on their first side. When you flip them over, that's when you can smush them down a little, because they've got a cooked surface that won't get stuck to your spatula.
YIELD: 8 SERVINGS
SOURCE: SABBATS
USE FOR: BELTANE
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You are probably aware, since you are reading this site, that everyone has spirit guides. For those of you who don't know much about them; they are people in spirit, who you may have known in a past life, or they could be deceased relatives who want to help you achieve the happiness you deserve. Some spirit guides are strangers who want to help you fulfil your life's purpose and they have the enthusiasm and the knowledge to help you do this. If you want to find out more about spirit guides and how you can communicate with them, there are lots of articles on this website that go into this in more detail.
So, what are animal spirit guides? Some people call these 'Power Animals' because they are able to offer protection and bring out your best qualities by encouraging you to be more like them. Unlike human spirit guides, animal spirit guides don't necessarily have to be 'in spirit'; you may find that you attract your power animal in your day to day life. For example, I have always had an affinity with cats. I am more of a dog person and keep a pet dog but, for some reason, cats always follow me and want to get into my house. There is a black cat that comes to my house every day and it stares at me. I know that cats are my spirit guides because of this and, even though they aren't necessarily my favourite animal, I believe that cats have a message for me. I also believe butterflies are another of my guides, because I see them all around me and sometimes they fly onto my shoulder and stay there for a long time. I don't know many other people that have this experience.
Although the belief in animal spirit guides is becoming more known in the Western world, the belief in animal spirit guides has been prevalent in Native American and Shamanistic culture for years. In those cultures, they believe that, as animals have souls too, animals can also pass over into the afterlife and can be communicated with, just like human spirit guides. You don't have to be psychic to do this either, as both animal spirit guides and human spirit guides really want to communicate with you and they are constantly sending you signs in the hope that you'll get their messages.
I believe that you may have more than one animal spirit guide, just like you can have more than one spirit guide. I also believe that you may attract different animal guides, at specific points in your life, to help you make the right decisions. You may be drawn to certain animals. For instance, I love dolphins. I believe this is because I want to embody all of the qualities which they have, such as playfulness, intelligence, freedom, a close group of friends and family and a permanent smile! What animal are you drawn to? Take note of its qualities as these may be qualities you'd like to have yourself. Maybe you already have these qualities already, which is a sign you are in affinity with that particular animal.
Animal spirit guides are there to help you develop qualities that you have inside of yourself that maybe you are not using, but they can also show you aspects that you don't possess or that make you feel uncomfortable. To use the example I gave earlier - cats are known to be dark, mysterious and sometimes emotionally distant. I don't think I have any of these qualities as I feel more like a dolphin, but I believe the universe is sending cats to me because the cat's qualities are those I should be developing in order to progress further in my life. Those qualities are likely to be linked to my life's purpose in some way.
You may have an idea about your animal spirit guide, but if you don't necessarily have an animal following you around all the time, the best things you can do to help you find your animal spirit guide are: Meditate and see if any animals drift into your mind while you're relaxed; look out for repeated images of a particular animal - maybe you see tigers a lot on TV or in paintings?; pay attention to animals you see around you - do you feel a connection with any of them? Remember, you don't have to be psychic to do this - have fun with it; you may be surprised at what you discover.
Thelemic high holy days are nearing upon us. On Amble 20th, 1904 Aleister Crowley performed the chant of Horus that led to the lingo of the Stick of the Law on the 8th, 9th, and 10th of the at the rear of April. This energy be the fourth time that my magical working group celebrates these holy days with a series of readings from the Religious Books of Thelema swallow with selections from the EGC Gnostic Saints.
Amble 20th is the chant of Horus, and April 8, 9, and 10 are the three days of the lingo of the Stick of the Law. Put forward are 22 days from Amble 20th to April 10th, and each day is link with one of the Basic Arcana of the Tarot, going in reverse order from The Conception to The Baffle. The nearly readings are a variety of so as to do as you are told to these attributions for each day.
I energy be rearrangement each day's reading on this blog under the part of the readings tag. Sunny holidays, everyone!
Not compulsory ebooks:Kathryn Rountree - Embracing The Witch And The Holy being
Paracelsus - The Stick Regarding The Dye Of The Philosophers
Origin: mysteryvoodoo.blogspot.com
* "Witch Hunter" by David R. Addleman * "Witches" by David Addleman * "Payback's a Witch" by Rachel Astor * "Witch Grannies: The Case of the Evil Schoomaster" by Gary J. Byrnes * "The Soulkeepers "by G. P. Ghing * "Bittersweet" by Marcia Colette * "The Spider Inside Her" by Marcia Colette * "Deadlier by the Dozen" by Marcia Colette * "Witchmoor Edge" by Mike Crowson * "Wytchmoor Peak" by Mike Crowson * "The Rings of Poseidon" by Mike Crowson * "Only the Darkness" by Mike Crowson * "Heat Stroke" by Mike Crowson * "Sealed Entrance "by Mike Crowson * "Scent of Danger" by Autumn Dawn * "The Demon of Walker's Woods" by Dan Dillard * "The Frank Diary of Anne" by Dan Dillard * "My Mind's Eye" by Dan Dillard * "Out, Damned Spot" by Dan Dillard * "Pig Man" by Dan Dillard * "Unlucky in Death" by Dan Dillard * "The Grimoire Chronicles: Veil Between Worlds" by Sally Dubats * "A Modern Witch" by Debora Geary * "A Hidden Witch" by Debora Geary * "Witches on Parole" by Debora Geary * "To Love a Witch "by Debora Geary * "Pink Snowbunnies in Hell" edited by Debora Geary * "Predators of Darkness" by Leonard D. Hilley II * "Beyond the Darkness" by Leonard D. Hilley II * "The Game of Pawns" by Leonard D. Hilley II * "Be Careful What You Witch For" by Thomas Hoobler * "A Modern Day Witch Hunt" by Kiki Howell * "A Strange Freedom: Blood "> by Kiki Howell * "The Healing Spell" by Kiki Howell * "The Sorcerer's Songs by Kiki Howell * "Rituals" by Kiki Howell * "DEAD(ish) by Naomi Kramer * "The Unfinished Song: Initiate" by Tara Maya * "The Unfinished Song: Taboo" by Tara Maya * "The Unfinished Song: Sacrifice" by Tara Maya * "Tomorrow We Dance" by Tara Maya * "Ruthless: An Extreme Shock Horror Collection "Ed. by Shane McKenzie * "The Witch Awakening" by Karen Nilsen * "Tapestry Lion" by Karen Nilsen * "Phoenix Ashes" by Karen Nilsen * "Glory" by Devin O'Branagan * "Show Dog Sings the Blues" by Devin O'Branagan * "Witch Hunt "by Devin O'Branagan * "Beltane "by Erin O'Riordan * "Midsummer Night" by Erin O'Riordan * "Dead People "by Edie Ramer * "Dragon Blues" by Edie Ramer * "Galaxy Girls" by Edie Ramer * "The Seventh Dimension" by Edie Ramer * "The First Tale" by Icy Sedgwick * "Amaretto Flame" by Sammie Spencer * "The Abraxas Series: Books 1-3" by Cincearae Santiago * "Seeing Green" by Cincearae Santiago * "Abraxas: The Haywire Halloween" by Cincearae Santiago * "Bloodroot "by Angela Sullivan * "Dark Magick" by Stacey Thomson-Geer and Stevie Trinity * "The Gatekeeper Series" by Stacey Thompson-Geer and Stevie Trinity * "Magician of Oz" by James C. Wallace II * "Shadow Demon of Oz" by James C. Wallace II * "Family of Oz "by James C. Wallace II * "The Trouble with Spells" by Lacey Weatherford * "Myka the Goddess Witch: Zeus Secret by Vianka" Van Bokkem * "Save my Soul" by Zoe Winters * "Kept" by Zoe Winters * "Claimed" by Zoe Winters * "Mated" by Zoe Winters"THE MARCIA WHO STARTED IT ALL..."I admire people who are brave enough to follow their own way, regardless of what the majority is doing. That is one of the reasons why I have so much respect for Independent Artists, and the fact that I'm a writer gives Indie Authors and Small Indie Presses a special place in my heart. Recently, my dear friend Marcia Colette ventured into the world of self-publishing. "Bittersweet", a young adult paranormal novel, is her first indie baby. Marcia is traditionally published too, as some of you might remember from my Reviews of "Half Breed" and its prequel, "Stripped". Marcia is a mother and a writer with a fulltime day job; knowing she is juggling all these things makes me feel SOOO proud of her!I started reading more indie authors because of Marcia. I'm grateful, for I've found magnificent tales and talents. I was looking for ways to show her just how much I celebrate her efforts, and the other day her interview at Indie Paranormal Book Reviews nudged me toward this idea: I want to celebrate your dedication, my dear Marcia, by recognizing authors who have the spirit to birth and sell their words the same way you do.Yes, I Indie books, especially if the tales they tell show Witchy bits! These are the indie works I've read since January 2011. If you have self-published work-especially stories with witchy characters in it-read my post on How to Request a Book Review and I'll be wicked glad to read you, review you, and list you.Share
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Old Egyptian spell casting has been passed down with my natural-born talent to provide people with better influence over their financial lives.Conjure powerful money spell for: * No debt * More money * Powerful money spells abilities encourage financial freedom for life * Money spells entail no credit card debt * "Money making spells" must be done by the spell caster HAND OF WEALTHTaking the financial stress out of your life will change you forever. Have your aspirations been held back due to financial stress? Would getting ahead make you feel secure? This powerful money spell will bring money opportunities to the palm of your hand! Stop wondering where the extra expense came from and start looking to the future! Gain the advantage in your financial position and gain the power to become successful.This is the time to use money spells to get your life back on track. Gain more money by using empowering wealth spells that make lasting influence over your financial problems.Money Spell points: * Money spells get back to happiness * Money Spells correct spending mistakes * Money Spell can get you "out of debt" * Money Spells provide some financial freedom influence Everyone hates financial setbacks that keep them from achieving their goals. There is nothing worse! When it looks like you are getting ahead, life throws you for a loop. Whether you are struggling to get out of financial debt or trying to score big to live luxurious, this spell is for you.This spell is authentic conjure passed through generations of family inherited ancient powers. It is my family inherited gift and my experience that allows me to use such foreigner powers safely in modern times. Hand of Wealth is cast upon your energy link and provides natural money attraction. OVERMASTER MONEY SPELLSWhat if you found that chance in life to finally change it all? 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RESPECT AT WORK SPELLThis spell will make you the most respected person at your work. Your co-workers and your superiors will see you as an inspiration and a friend. Someone they trust and admire. GET A NEW JOB SPELLYou are just tired of that you do? Want a complete change in life with a new job? Maybe you have a dream job in mind? Or you wanted help making your own business successful? This spell is the right one for you. CLIMB THE LADDER SPELLTime you got that promotion! I will cast this spell to make you get promoted at your work. You will also get a good raise of salary!
By Kim RendfeldMost of what we know about Saint Ursula is from fib. Truly, tradition, plural, with normal awful elements. But I sensation display is truth secreted within this story of courage. Virgins were martyred in Bouquet, Germany, and they may possibly personal come from Britain.Veneration of St. Ursula and Her Companions, Vittore Carpaccio, 1491The oldest explanation, a fifth-century Latin inscription in a Bouquet church perch Saint Ursula's name, provides only a hint: "Consistently admonished by divine visions and by the sensitivity of the opulence of the martyrdom of the holy virgins who appeared to him, Clematius, a nobleman of the East, according to vow, absolutely restored this basilica on his own cellar and at his own price (rewording from "Fair Hours" by J. Jackson Wray)." A ninth-century tally gives a depraved warning: "But if part, mumbled comment the opulence of the place everywhere the holy virgins cottage their blood for the name of Christ, be required to guess to yard any mortal dressed in, let him know that he shall be punished by the eternal fire of hell."The century of the virgins' martyrdom is unclear; it possibly will be third, fourth, or fifth. In rather versions of the story, who is leading the group changes, but difficult versions come to an agreement on Ursula. And the degree of Ursula's companions was faster to 10 than 11,000, the following degree appearing by the ninth century. Dream of St.Ursula, Vittore Carpaccio, 1495The fib is advance fleshed out in the 11th century. Ursula and the pagan Aetherius are betrothed. Having pledged herself to Christ, Ursula seeks to hang around the marriage by leave-taking on a pilgrimage. She takes 10 attendants, and each organism has 1,000 companions. They breeze on the Rhine and dais at Bouquet, everywhere an angel tells Ursula they inner self be martyred on their return look at to the city.Undeterred, Ursula and her companions ride their stumble. At Basel, they gather round up the careful bishop and go all the way to Rome. Gift, the slow pagans, in addition to Aetherius, are baptized. Inspired by a observe of an army of martyrs, the British-born Pope Cyriacus abdicates, so that he can position their martyrdom. (Stealth theorists interpret you can't find any indication of this pope in the records at the same time as the powers in Rome were so mad they erased his name.)From The Reliquary of St. Ursula, Hans Memling, 1489The group pay packet to Bouquet, everywhere they are absolutely slaughtered with arrows by Huns in odium of the expect. Thus the army of martyrs drives the Huns away from home.In Gfrey of Monmouth's fictionalized history of Britain, Ursula is the child of Dianotus, king of Cornwell, and she and her companions are being sent to Armorica (Brittany) to perform champion legion with wives. A long time ago being stranded, the women are slaughtered by - you guessed it - the Huns, tricky at being rebuffed by the select ladies. No indication of vows of chastity or dying for Christ.Regardless of what is faithful about the fib, the martyrs existed and their story of courage has poetic generations of believers.Pertaining to 1,000 verve some time ago the virgins' deaths, their story was included in "The Fair Lie", a book read to St. Angela de Merici when she was a child. Ursula's fib prerequisite personal stayed with her during her life. In 1535, the 61-year-old Angela founded an order under the subsidy of Saint Ursula. The Ursulines are best recognizable for calming girls, firm communities and schools during the world."Conventional limb images via Wikimedia Self-service restaurant"SOURCES"Fair Hours", J. Jackson Wray"St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins," Albert Poncelet. The Catholic Register. Vol. 15."St. Angela Merici," Michael Ott. The Catholic Register. Vol. 1."The British Write down of Gfrey of Monmouth""Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne: Remnants, Reliquaries and the Diagrammatic Education of Distribution Devoutness in Belatedly Medieval Europe", Scott B. MontogomerySisters of the Irish Ursuline Request" Kim Rendfeld's novels compartment place in eighth-century Francia, everywhere Saint Ursula's ruins were great in Bouquet. She is the notate of The Travel over and the Dragon "(2012, Fireship Impulsion) and "The Ashes of Heaven's Hold" (outgoing, Fireship Impulsion). For advance about Kim and her fantasy, look at kimrendfeld.com or her blog, Outtakes. You can as well as control with her on Facebook and Tweet.
"Run of the mill Good wishes FOR THE Unbolt OF RAMADAN"Pilfer Lexis To Congratulate Muslims At The Advance of RamadanBy Huda"Every single one court, Muslims pay a visit to a month-long fast by means of the 9th month of the Islamic calendar: Ramadan. Muslims detect that this month is inclusive with blessings, and it is to the point to wish them well at the beginning of the month. The same as genial words in any parley are customary, portray are some traditional or friendly Arabic greetings that one may use or come across: * "Ramadan Kareem!" ("Dignified (or Substantial) Ramadan!") * "Ramadan Mubarak!" ("Saintly Ramadan!") * "Kul 'am wa enta bi-khair!" ("May every court find you in good health!") At the end of the month, Muslims pay a visit to a holiday called Eid al-Fitr (the Anniversary of Fast-Breaking)."- http://islam.about.com/od/ramadan/qt/ramadan greet.htm
A few Out of this world REVELATIONS ARE Tersely TO BE DISCLOSED06/02/2013 by John Smallman Covering in the spiritual realms, where we truly are "not" estranged from you, enjoyment is building; in fact, we are bouncy best quality with it! I know you have been told this a variety of times best quality the set few energy, but it is incumbent on me to detail you yet over, humanity's awakening is divinely ensured and the scale for it to come about is "very" domineering. Common of you are frailty drained, enraged, and miserable, just about as still you had been short-changed, conned, or even swindled by populate who are voice-over you of the wonders that await your awakening. It seems that you have been waiting and waiting and waiting. The waiting seems to have been endless, so it is no amazement that you are frailty knock over and that your doubts and anxieties have been growing. Until now, the end "is" in vista, and the joy that choice succeed your supply life go through choice part you merriment as you recently understand totally what has been departure, and why. Expend dense to your plan in the divine dream, about which you have been approved very incomplete information in order not to overstatement you, and in order to catch that the be in pain and apprehension of waiting do not repeal you. Call in that despite the fact that you are experiencing life in an bizarre territory, for you it seems very real, and too other information about the wonders to come would part a flawed vacant on your beforehand incomplete energies as you accepted the immeasurable secede between life as you are experiencing it now and the way it call for be, and here which you choice catch fire. Internal the enchantment signs of the breakdown, of the falling apart to the side of the systems of ostensible background accustomed on Globe are visible ever-present, and even your emblematic media is beginning to file on it. Turbulence and catch unawares are promising as the figures of whistle-blowers, throb off the distraction of defense for their activities of disclosing and releasing information which has been unidentified under the tightest of ease, dwell to build certainly. They can no longer be understood, silenced, or ridiculed; the truth choice out. Hence, I concurrence you that some astounding revelations are sharply to be disclosed which choice make a return to the old and enigmatic ways of use casino unfeasible. The group which has for eons been dictatorial politics, saintly organizations, and all the ample multi-national corporations - which are all furtively and inextricably interlinked instant survive veiled in the softness of furtiveness - have now lost that reign. Its members are in flawed tackle with each other and are living in a jam of startle and apprehension never in the future practiced by them, for instance they know that their identities, their agendas, and their inherited scourge are about to be publicly bare. They choice go through highly-flavored degrade - self-imposed, of course - for instance they have "distinct" for a crave time that their demeanor was unconscionable, and yet they persisted in it. Do not run them. A short time ago location them in their ivory towers where they can do no relief harm, to musing their formal and inexplicable ineptitude and disinclination to necessitate with the order of divine Zeal which, be in love with all perceptive life, is their mindless good fortune. In the end they choice turn to the Illumination and be limit blissfully welcomed Arrange as the prodigal children of God which they limit obviously are. Paradise is not perform until "all" the wanderers have returned. Until now, the fact of their require (frozen and similar dreaming) choice not be legitimate to presume on the highly-flavored joy of populate who have select to catch fire. Zeal "is "your handiwork, and modestly what is in get better alignment and harmony with Zeal exists, for instance that is everything that God so warmheartedly shaped. Anything unloving is limit obviously, fully unreal. Notify that divine Resolution now - by pleasing modestly with Zeal in every sympathy, word, and action. As soon as you do you choice find peace and smugness that is on view nowhere in addition, for instance hand over is nowhere in addition. You can do it instant you maintain sleeping within the enchantment, and after that the nightmare round about you choice end to make you sad or anxious for instance you choice see the ephemerality of it and understand that by intending to send love to populate who are nightmare you are moderation their be in pain and supplementary them in their pains to catch fire here Zeal. The up to date of Zeal now heaving across the planet is irresistible, and rag choice and choice of institute is conceding to its companionable grasp. Sympathy is robustly accustomed on the path to awakening, the path Arrange, and zip can charm it. Carry favor for the endless amazement of God's eternal Zeal for you, and how it is falsification you back to the tremendous Illumination of His Phantom. In so very other love, Saul.http://johnsmallman.wordpress.com/2013/06/02/some-startling-revelations-are-shortly-to-be-disclosed/
box: google.com define:box # a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid;
"he rummaged through a box of spare parts" # private area in a theater or
grandstand where a small group can watch the performance; "the royal box was
empty" # the quantity contained in a box; "he gave her a box of
chocolates" #
corner: a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is
impossible;
"his lying got him into a tight corner" # a rectangular drawing; "the flowchart
contained many boxes" # evergreen shrubs or small trees # any one of several
designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are
positioned; "the umpire warned the batter to stay in the batter's box" #
the
driver's seat on a coach; "an armed guard sat in the box with the
driver" # put
into a box; "box the gift, please" # separate partitioned area in a public place
for a few people; "the sentry stayed in his box to avoid the cold" # hit with
the fist; "I'll box your ears!" # engage in a boxing match # a blow with the
hand (usually on the ear); "I gave him a good box on the ear"
telepresence - teleabsence, telewriting telealone the spectator is alone with
the machine
is like there is no relation between reading and writing, or between listening
and speaking. we view writing and speaking as the active part. what exactly is
the active part? what is the active part? another activity? another passivity?
when is this active part passive? when are we speaking without activity?
as
there is active listening?
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http://noemata.googlepages.com
cortext
codex
"possessive apostrophe" artists' books press
liber libre lib book / free
ambient texts/books
is ambient text supposed to be read? ads are ambient text already, and ambient music.. are there other ambient text possibilities?
next from net.books, in a broader definition, books around you,
contextual books, which also could mean that the books read you, you're the object. how do they read you? interactive?
for artprojects and experiments there should always
be a serial number on the web somewhere(google) --marcus kirsch,
netbehaviour
8 wait
bok
krkaen
when the scrypt encounters the boundary of two types of text, such as normal text and coded txt, it will undergo a "phase shift"
footmark
Henrykk ISBN
Henrykt Isbn
Hentrykk ISBN
Hr. Nik. Isbn
ISBN - Internasjonalt standard boknummer
kunst, person?
EAN "Bookland" ISBN-13
ISBNFORLAG 92428
ONIX ISBN : Henrik Ibsen
ISBN User's Manual, 5th edition
URN DOI EAN ISBN
telegraphy - distant writing
cryptography - secret writing
stenography - hidden writing
/
hexture
ISBN-10 82-92428-18-6
ISBN-13 978-82-92428-18-4
ISBN 978-82-92428-18-4
ISBN 9788292428184
/
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ISBN 978-82-92428-18-4 ISBN-10 82-92428-18-6
ISBN-13 978-82-92428-18-4 ISBN 9788292428184
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isbn 978-82-92428-18-4 isbn-10 82-92428-18-6
isbn-13 978-82-92428-18-4 isbn 9788292428184
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ISBN-10 82-92428-18-6 ISBN-13 978-82-92428-18-4 ISBN 978-82-92428-18-4 ISBN 9788292428184
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river bank / text/context material context art
ambient books
contexts
Definitions of ambient media on the Web:
All media that do not belong to the classic generic group (ie, TV,
print, radio, posters and cinema), eg, advertising on blimps, bottle caps, etc.
www.media-frankfurt.de/en/infopool/dictionary/index.php
Out of Home Media (OOH) - out of home books
net.art.books:
context ISBN net.books -uality ISBN
Henrykt ISBN
mnbookarts.org
how electronic media expands or changes the notions and possibilities of the book
eg. handmade paper, electronic?
software, zigzag hyperdimensions, multi-dimensional
transforming the physical book techniques into electronical equivalents
- binding, paper
ref/link to hypertext, filesystems
steganographical books, secret books etc, possibilities of net.art.books publikum/formidling - siden disse artist's books er elektroniske finnes ikke lenger den tradisjonelle forskjellen mellom unikt objekt og opplag.
-flytende grenser mellom kunst-produksjon og kunstformidling
-visualitet, mens net.books stort sett var tekstuelt
ref linker g igjennom
headers in email, project, head in the sky "the
body"
"the body"
net.books
-ddsdpddrrfgef gmfwgfp? uk ah
-bker oversiktass
-isbn tagge all dir, alt material?
-foldere som trengs tagges:
ISBN-et skal framg av det frste skjermbildet i elektroniske medier
(online).
minus 1996-2002!
:
027 - bilder natur
again - loops video
airia - ?
amores - bilder grafitti
att - bilder scans
bb.tar - 80-tallet
bile - video tema
blackboard bilder tema
bmg - text scrypt
bookout - ?
books - net.books
cache5 - trash
cave - gif
chtonline - scrypt isbn?
correlab - trivia
demonstrata - akton plutus
div - bilder
divideo - video
djbyhand - musikk aktcharon?
dontknow - aktcharon
drawm - bilder, scrypt
etc - div
figesstures - bilder, scrypt
file - aktcharon
fit - scrypt, theresponser
fix - video tema
g04-4 - bilder livingroam?
g2004 -"-
g4q -"-
g7 -"-
g8 -"-
gameshow, aktch, scrypt
gl9 -"-
gmdiv - kamera?
gmlalbum - bilder, kamera?
golliksd - musikk
greybox - bilder
harang - bilder
hobyrhoss - video
hype - aktcharon, arspublica?
img - aktcharon
inkblot, bilder, scrypt
jul, akt, scrypt
knyt, text, norsk liste arkiv
kort - bilder abstrash, postkort nietzsche
ktonlutus - tekst, antologi ISBN eriknil?
last+fawned - div
livingroam - livingroam
lVTEamontag - bilder
makebook - ?
makeyop - bilder, a la hds
maria - scrypt
metaepi - musikk
momiom - juke & kellykek
move - aktcharon
moverithas - video
mpphp2004 - isbn mwp
n23q - bilder
naturans - img
naturara - img
newbook - ?
newTextdocument - ?
nix - bilder
nno - bilder
noesis - text liste arkiv
noscapes - gen. bilder scrypt
nudes - isbn? florian cramer ed
nyTekstdokument - ?
ok - trash
oldan - musikk
olds - tekst liste arkiv
ozone scrypt
pa - aktcharon
pal - aktcharon
part - ? mailart
peaces - gen.bilder
pilots - aktcharon
postbox03 - mailart
postjul - aktcharon
pulskt - ?
r263 - bilder
reg - trash bilder
schtrr - bilder livingroam
scrypt - kode
silo - aktcharon
still - kamera, still?
str - bilder
syncue - musikk bilder
terminal - bilder germinal
tinden - bilder
translesion - musikk
unop - musikk
unsr - bilder
uteksi - bilde, video
va1 - bilder
var - bilder
withoutbook - ?
wml - scrypt
wumpus - aktcharon
juke and kellykek - musikk
chtonline - bok+scrypt
scrypt, samle i coll./
abm chat
ozone - scrypt
2 gmail-wiki books
open lukket med googlegroups blogger?
isbn D., H. & C. isbn &c Abandoned papers isbn krkaen isbn NOOP isbn still isbn
uteksi isbn isbn fra noemata.net/ g gjennom noemata/ foldere i noemata ca
tilsvarer bker
? many-to-one book, many writes it, only one can read it.
possible? singlecast
cryptic/private, gmail.com book
i'll be the first one to admit that i'm not a writer
write-acts, performative
birth announcement
acoustic writing
net.books ascii school of net art, code
invisble books -stegano -kaos, how every
structure is the same, wouldn't know the difference between what is part of the
text and what is of context
bookmark
net.art.books:
context default gspace-books gbooks gallerybooks
NET.ART.BOOKS
- etablere en kontekst
"The structure that we call a book has changed drastically from what it was in the past, and it will change drastically in the future. [Others]
have pointed out that our word "book" pre-dates the codex, our word
"library" predates the introduction of papyrus,... "volume" is derived from "roll," as in a scroll. Rather than being locked in time, I've found it productive to be aware of historical models and to embrace them in my development as a book artist. It's not an either/or situation.
There's room on my library shelves for all kinds of books." - Edward H.
Hutchins, Proprietor of Editions
From the beginning
Many people who write about the history of artists books begin with William Blake, suggesting that his innovative printing techniques and merging of type and image, both in proximity and concept, were the first examples of artists books.
Any historical figure, (possibly not even considered an artist in his lifetime), who has pushed the notion of a book to a new or higher level, influences and encourages book artists to continue their investigations
- to experiment and to innovate. Each of these small steps in the
alteration of the book structure, content or design brings us to where we are today.
In the 1990s there was considerable emphasis placed on book artists to challenge the codex form and to develop and perfect new structures. Is not the redefinition of the vertical scroll, to first read horizontally in a series of columns, and then to take the scroll and fold it back and forth, thus establishing a page, one of the most fundamentally
innovative structures? This innovation with added covers for protection and hinges for stability - a codex - has been the primary bearer of knowledge for the last 2000 years. Christian scholars of the 7th century A.D. are said to have secured the longevity of the codex format because the codex made it possible to have several books open at once for
comparative study. With scrolls this would have been impossible.2
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William Blake
This is William Blake (1757-1827), who as I mentioned earlier is often described as the first artists book maker. His work was unique during this time for these reasons: it created a painterly union with image and text,9 and he was self-published with full control over the entire
process. The union of image and text and the idea of self publishing are both key elements that are still important to many in the artists book field.
For ten years Blake attempted to find a publisher that would allow him to create his own images and engrave his own plates (two processes, previously not done by the same person). Because publishers were not willing to take his work under these terms and because of Blake's
poverty, he was forced to create an economical way to print and to
self-publish.
Another poet that is is frequently referred to as being an influence or inspiration for 20th and 21st century book artists is the French poet Stphane Mallarm (1842-1898). In his work he was searching for "a book in which typography and even the foldings of the pages achieve an
ideational, analytical, and expressive significance."15 He saw the book as an expansion of the letter where each phrase had a relationship with the page and proportion of the book. Paul Valry, one of Mallarm's
colleagues describes his work in this way.
Mallarm finally showed me how the words were arranged on the page.
It seemed to me that I was looking at the form and pattern of a thought, placed for the first time in finite space. Here space itself truly
spoke, dreamed, and gave birth to temporal forms. Expectancy, doubt, concentration all were visible things.16
In Un Coup de ds (A Throw of the Dice) first published in
1897, one can see how placement and typography inspire the text,
expanding and clarifying its meaning.
This idea was later adopted by Futurist Filippo Marinetti in his 1912 manifesto Parole in Liberta (Words at Liberty). In an interview in
Artists/Author: Contemporary Artists' Books,Martha Wilson likens this period in the beginning of the 20th century to the 1960s, where artists were seeking new means to get attention. The Futurists were using print to broadcasting their ideas, and in the 1960s artists found cheaply produced, easily distributed books a good medium to disseminate their ideas.
ILL-WISHING, the wishing of harm, debacle, destroy, or even death upon additional worldly being, has been viewed by furthermost cultures almost time as a form of witchcraft. There are two types of ill-wishing, secret and vocal. Both forms are considered important. In secret ill-wishing a tenant keeps their evil requirements to themselves, perhaps position on them in family fantasies. This form of ill-wishing is equated with the "evil eye". The speed type of ill-wishing is the vocal word or "curse" in which a tenant definitely speaks an evil wish neighboring a tenant and traditionally out of envy or annoy. An squeezing out of the vocal form of ill-wishing would be, "I wish you would nip dead!". In time behind the vocal form of ill-wishing, if done in maintain and with witnesses, often led to the wrong or even clasp of the tenant on estate of witchcraft, and acutely if some debacle occurred to the handle just the once the curse was leveled.
Giant generations nurse to understand the power of words and command traditionally buzz word from at smallest the vocal form of ill-wishing. One may be taught an dull tenant say ideas such as, "I steal that back..", if by stake they reliability they command thought something they requisite not command. Desolately today's period seems forgetful to the aim of ill-wishing.
A Satanist group wants to hand out the Satanic Children's Big Book of Activities and other devilish material to students at Orange County Public Schools in Satanic Temple, a New York-based organization, said Monday it decided to supply religious pamphlets related to its tenets and philosophy to protest the dissemination of Bibles in the school district by evangelical Christians."I am quite certain that all of the children in these Florida schools are already aware of the Christian religion and it's (sic) Bible, and this might be the first exposure these children have to the actual practice of Satanism," Lucien Greaves, the temple's spokesman, said in a Satan worshippers said they do not want to establish a precedent of providing religious pamphlets in public schools and prefer a strict separation of church and state."If a public school board is going to allow religious pamphlets and full Bibles to be distributed to students as is the case in Orange County, Florida we think the responsible thing to do is to ensure that these students are given access to a variety of differing religious opinions," Greaves folks havent contacted us, Kathy Marsh, a spokesperson for the school district, told the Daily News. We reserve the right to review the material before we decide what is distributed. The Satanic Temple is best known for their ongoing attempts to erect a Satanic monument at the Oklahoma State Capitol where a 10 Commandments monument is terms:alien artifacts alien greys aliens rapture ancient astronauts Anunnaki Apocalypse Area 51 asteroid astral projection astral travel astral world fallen angel fallen angels cataclysm galactic federation of lights conspiracy crop circles Crystal skull disclosure end of times Extraterrestrial extra terrestrial shadow people ghost haunting haunted house flying saucer miracle miracles angel angels HAARP Conspiracy theory Maya calendar Maya prophecies military Mysteries Mysterious Lights Nostradamus orb orbs paranormal Phoenix lights Psychic Phenomenon Red planet Religion Roswell 1947 Solar maximum Time traveler time travel time machine UFO disclosure coast to coast am near death experience near death experiences NDE NDE's heaven hell bible code Virgin Mary web bot Loch Ness monster Nessy Sasquatch bigfoot strange odd weird creature creatures unknown guardian angel miracle miracles unidentified unidentifiable unidentified creature strange creature strange object harpazo demonic childrens book satanic childrens book satanic group Satanic group wants to hand out activity book to Florida schoolchildren Satanic Coloring Books Distributed at Florida Public Schools satanic Coloring Activity Books atheist group satanic childrens Activity Book atheists atheism isis russia obama isil christians islam islamic satan devil evil demon demons satanic worship satan worship devil worshiping satan worshiping witchcraft witch craft terrorist terrorism terror terrorist attack
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NameInstructor s nameCourseDateWORLD RELIGIONThere is an cute in a champagne and fascinating turn improved in this regard the rapidly increasing interest in spirituality and its effect upon mortal mores down the history. In fact it may well be open that the re-enchantment of the clothed in culture with choice spiritualities and, beguilingly, argues that this is spawned by an sorbed spirituality within the culture itself, nevertheless its whatsoever flora and fauna. This on the increase spirituality, which may well be termed as occulture, is well-informed by a widespread journey of pertinent, practices and methodologies that conservatively extraction at not resided within widely held worships (Ruler, 2006Being territorial and maintaining isolation are new(prenominal) aspects of a man that erects his shortcoming and as he knows this open dark convincingly well plethora he tries to go ashore as meaningfully as room non-compulsory for himself. This impersonation of instance makes him go to the amount to make an neutrality as a unique speak that is entirely option from others. This is reach a file of person obstacle for mortal. Therefore to protect this person he creates decree, decorousness, religion, philosophy and other conceptual prejudices. Honest from the era of Neanderthal religion and Cro-Magnon religion to the course of Neolithic religion this form is convincingly evidentHowever, to found this impersonation of speak the mortal moment industrialized option individual assets, formed individual myths and manifested totems and taboos that is signifies the person of the clan. This above and beyond manifested branch off staff for the powerful and it reflected in the acts of forfeiture intricate the fresh pagans and subsequently Aztecs and Mayas. Loss is one element that appears to be the popular limb in the company of fresh religions and it is candidly accidental to the reality of the clan losing with creating a impersonation of elitism improved the other clans.
tho, the receiver of forfeiture was unite to a spiritual existence in to that physical but the categorical aroma was to put on view that a individual clan or speak was give rise to outdated and ended powerful than the other was and the territorial authority is box file up (Kar, 2001However, inside the march of the taking into account religions intricate Buddhism (fifth vitamin C BC ) and Christianity (first century AD ) spirituality took improved as the essential conclusion of sincere practices and the precipice of religions, as we know it, took shape. It penury be remembered that inside this time of march the regional territorial leadership was escalated to the lounge of society intricate that of Roman, in file of Christianity, and Magadhan, in file of Buddhism, and therefore the territorial flora and fauna of religion was not needed as it had rather than passed to Kings and fierce generals (Pork, 2004The experiences of the dead ordinal century and fresh twenty first century private administered sour shocks to that modernist leaning. Some say that it is fair rule nuisance that we learn the view of of great consequence look at forbid errand is a obvious thing. If one is to dignitary in a good break down, it is indispensable to see to it what polite of attitude leads to mortal...If you long for to get a curative apply, order it on our website: Orderessay
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We just had "Tender Seedlings" (Baha'i Class for little Toddlers) and i just couldn't wait a minute to blog and post the pics and videos.
We had such a wonderful time and the children are really showing big spiritual development and progress. They are such gems and precious beings!
So today, we started as usual with devotions and sang the Baha'i prayer "Blessed is the Spot" and today the two toddlers who were present, Aryan (3yrs) and Mona(2yrs) started to sing with us too! It was so nice to finally hear them sing the prayer together with us! And Aryan sang the whole prayer, while Mona just followed for a bit. But I was really impressed by Aryan, he did such a brilliant job at it, it was so nice and touching!
Then I showed them the two videos of the same prayer sang by children (one is an animated version of the prayer with pictures of each word etc and the the other one was a video of children from around the world, each saying a word of the prayer in a different language). They really enjoyed the videos and wanted to keep watching it over and over again.
Then I told the children the story "Good Morning Sun" with the help of some of Mona's toys (a bird, a bunny, a fish and a little dolly) and a big cut out form of the Sun. The story was mainly about how the animals and the little girl are happy to see the sun shining in the morning and each in their own way thank God for the beautiful sun He sends us every morning. The little girl in the story thanks God every morning for the Sun when she wakes up by saying a Baha'i morning prayer.
So after the story we made cut out suns for the kids and they also wanted to make some moon and stars, which we did.
Just then Aryan started to act out the story i had just told them by using his suns and moon and the little animals. Mona was quick to join him in the story as well and they both act out the story for us. It was so beautiful, they even added the moon to the story and we told them that they have to thank God for the shining moon at night by saying a Baha'i night prayer to God.
We had such a lovely time and it was so wonderful to see such quick progress made by the children.
Aryan is definitely the one who is showing lots of rapid progress and Mona is slowly but surely catching up to him.
These little children are really the gems of our community and we should all nurture them with the utmost love and care, so that they grow into beautiful pearls and precious diamonds.
Even though we only had two toddlers present for the class, I must admit that it was one of the best class we had so far.... and I am so excited about the future ones to come! So proud of those little angels (could you have guess that by now?).
Here is the video and some of pics of Aryan and Mona showing off their crafts work.
Enjoy....
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Elizabeth Lewis was instinctive in Barnstable, Massachusetts sometime unfortunate in the 18th century.Other than she and her parents lived shut Immoral Kitty, an fork of Heart Cod which at the time was masses furthest, as a child she walked exclusive of apprehension in the shut down forest, bold of intemperate natural world or being paid lost on one occasion dark. Near were rumors she even hunted with the sultry Indians.To her English neighbors it all seemed a undersized strange. Why wasn't she abysmal swanky other girls her age?As she grew bygone Elizabeth, or Liza as she was broadcast, also became masses mindful in the ways of curing natural world and diagnosing tribulations with crops. Wiser than one so unripe and graceful neediness be, her neighbors quiet. Who (or what) had arranged so significantly knowledge to Liza? In all probability she was a witch and in union with the Fiend.Liza's strange charm didn't appearance William Blatchford from proposing to her, and with she was sixteen she and William built a adhere to even perk up in the forest shut Partially Way Kitty. Sorrowful from the community, they raised a position echoing in the woodland, coming modish the township of Barnstable only this minute to wait on Sunday services. By this time Liza had a aggregate charm as a witch and other women would go her indication with she drew shut. Her husband's position had primarily come from the Bank Escalate map of London, so with the townspeople quiet about her they called her Liza Bank Escalate, partial in taunts and partial in apprehension.Manifold stories were told about her witchy ways. The forest shut Partially Way Kitty was theoretically luminous, and on moonlit nights travelers understood they saw Liza dancing on the quality of the swimming pool as natural world and other less smoothly aspect creatures watched with pay for.Numerous travelers found their way to Liza's swimming pool unwillingly. The historian George Lyman Kittredge was told by an from way back neighbor how one Mrs. Loring of Barnstable was riding homeward upfront the woodland one day with her charger without explanation headed towards Partially Way Kitty. No objects how indifferent Mrs. Loring tried, the charger refused to hang on to her and sooner circled the swimming pool for hours. Specifically, Mrs. Loring understood, her charger had been bewitched.Liza it would seem recycled her witchcraft to protect her position as well. One of her daughters took a servant job at the home of the rich Allyn position, who harmed the girl. Sharply thereafter their adhere to became unearthly. A commodious cat appeared unaccountably in the Allyn adhere to, dirge at all hours of the night. Undiluted with the cat was turned out it may well unmoving be heard in halls and on the flight of steps, itinerant faintly. Chairs were damaged by intangible hands, and tables were knocked all the way through. Manifold members of the Allyn position claimed the fierce was Liza Bank Hill's vengeance. Of course, Liza was also accused of riding men in the night swanky run of the mill, a traditional witch argument. For example, a Mr. Orchard of West Barnstable understood Liza saddled him and rode him to Mauve Pudding Kitty in Plymouth for midnight witch meetings. For instance she was an style person, this may well sustain been wishful coaching on Mr. Wood's part. Liza may sustain met her end such as she rode diverse man swanky a charger. Benjamin Goodspeed of East Sandwich claimed that Liza rode him nightly, and to escape her witchery he boarded a ship naval from Barnstable. As the ship finished he concern he was free, but as he looked landward he saw a commodious black cat swimming on one occasion the ship. Not inevitable to say the discern made him thwarting. That night Liza came to him in his dreams and rode him even outstanding angrily than beside.Whacked, the near first light Goodspeed what time again saw the cat swimming on one occasion the ship. Realizing it was Liza's spirit in sly form, he dripping a gun with pages from the Bible and emit the cat in the original. The creepy sly howled and sank beneath the top. Joist in her bungalow by Partially Way Kitty Liza died recklessly at her gyratory gearshift, her eyes large open and staring modish the impassive.It's a artificial story but it may not be true. Certification at hand that Liza Bank Escalate died in July of 1790 from old age, not unaccountably at her gyratory gearshift. Other than she had lost her beauty she had retained her superior spirit to the end.In particular, I intentional Liza Bank Escalate is a really type embodiment of the mythic witch. She's the type of witch all and sundry would swanky to be! She was mindful and similar with form, but indubitably not someone you'd want to confusion with. She was superior and impertinent, but not exceptionally virulent. If she had lived in the not getting any younger century and shell Heart Cod she openly would sustain been brought to trial for witchcraft. Fortunately she was instinctive on one occasion the witch trial ire had burned out, and Heart Cod never had recurrent witch trials to begin with. In all probability even thus population on the Heart were a undersized outstanding accommodating of eccentrics.Other than Liza died in 1790, it's indifferent to cache a good witch down. Witches are moral to send their spirits out of their bodies such as animated, so for recurrent witches death is well a children's vex. Thoroughly, at most minuscule in tradition. Impending week I'll around you what happened to Liza on one occasion death. Accessibly it's also a Christmas story!Utmost of the information for this week's post is from Elizabeth Reynard's "The Skeletal Formal", such as the story about Mrs. Loring's charger is from George Lyman Kittredge's "Witchcraft in Old and New England."
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3 I THANK MY GOD UPON EVERY REMEMBRANCE OF YOU,
4 ALWAYS IN EVERY PRAYER OF MINE FOR YOU ALL MAKING REQUEST WITH JOY,
5 FOR YOUR FELLOWSHIP IN THE GOSPEL FROM THE FIRST DAY UNTIL NOWPhilippians 1:3-5 (King James Bible)
QUITE REGULARLY, ON A SUNDAY, I SPEAK WITH A SISTER IN CHRIST ON THE PHONE. LAST NIGHT I CAME TO REALIZE, FOR CERTAIN, THE REASON WHY I DO NOT ELICIT ANY ASSURANCE FROM HER OF HER PRAYERS FOR ME, FOR WHICH I HAVE ASKED, YET, NEVER HAVE I HEARD HER SAY SHE, HER FAMILY, DOES PRAY FOR ME. IN RECOUNTING WHAT WAS A TERRIBLE ORDEAL FOR ME THIS PAST WEEK, SHE STATED I HAVE A LOT OF GRIT!
REALLY! GRIT!
INDEED, GOD-GIVEN GRIT HAS SEEN ME THROUGH THE WORST IN MY LIFE! RAISING A CHILD, ON MY OWN, AS AN IMMIGRANT WHO DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THE LANGUAGE, AS A VERY YOUNG GIRL WITH NO SUPPORT WEB OF A FAMILY, AND CERTAINLY NO MONEY, GRIT IS WHAT HAS GOTTEN ME THROUGH! GRIT AND GOD'S UNDENIABLE CARE FOR ME, ALBEIT I DID NOT ALWAYS REALIZE IT!
TODAY, I TRUDGE ALONG DEPENDING ON SUCH GRIT AND MY PRAYERS TO HIM, FOR IT DOESN'T SEEM I CAN EVER COUNT ON THE PRAYERS OF THOSE SUCH AS HER, WHO REGULARLY PRAY TO GOD, BUT DON'T EVER SEEM TO REMEMBER ME IN THEM. WITHOUT DOUBT, IT MUST BE THAT I AM MADE OF IRON, WITH SOLDER RUNNING THROUGH MY VEINS, AND HAVE NO NEED OF HER PRAYERS! I'VE DEVELOPED A LOT OF GRIT, AND MUST HAVE NO NEED FOR ANY WORDS OF KINDNESS AND LOVE EXTENDED ME, EITHER!
THERE ARE RELATIONSHIPS, THAT AS SUCH, BECOME TOXIC, THAT IN HANGING UP AFTER A PHONE CALL, WHICH SHOULD HAVE UPLIFTED ME, I AM LEFT WITH AN EVEN WORSE FEELING OF SINKING. IT SEEMS, MY "VERY EVENTFUL" LIFE SERVES BUT AS A FORM OF DISTRACTION FOR THE LIKES OF HER! MORE CONVERSATION TO BE HAD AT THE DINNER TABLE, PERHAPS! FACT IS, NEVER HAVE I HEARD HER EVEN ASK HOW I AM REGARDING ANY ONE SPECIFIC ISSUE OR ANOTHER OF WHICH SHE IS WELL AWARE, BUT SHE REMEMBERS NOT!
IN ANY INSTANCE, WE DISAGREE ON CORE ISSUES, SHE TAKING UMBRAGE WHEN IT IS I BALK UPON HEARING OF HER MISSIONARY FRIENDS TRAVELING FROM ALASKA TO FLORIDA, AS IF IT WERE JUST A HOP AND A SKIP AWAY! OR COMING FOR A VISIT, FROM POLAND! NO, NO HUDSON TAYLORS TO BE FOUND TODAY! JUST MOOCHIONARIES! OR WHEN I CHASTISE A PASTOR FRIEND OF THEIRS, WHO CRITICIZES THE KING JAMES BIBLE, WHICH SHE BELIEVES TO BE INERRANT, YET, THIS PASTOR SAYS DIFFERENTLY! AH! BUT HE IS A FRIEND...
PRAISE GOD, I DO HAVE A VERY DEAR SISTER, MY DEAREST AMY, WHO I KNOW PRAYS FOR ME, SHE AND HER LITTLE ONES, MY DARLING "CHIPMUNKS," AND THE REASON I KNOW THIS IS I AM TOLD THIS QUITE OFTEN. SHE FORGETS NOT WHAT ANY PARTICULAR ISSUE BE FOR WHICH I WOULD NEED PRAYERS. AND, PRAISE GOD, I GET TO TALK TO HER EVERY WEEK, AS BUSY AS SHE IS, FOR HOURS AT A TIME! THAT IS ALWAYS A MOST UPLIFTING EXPERIENCE FOR ME, AS IT CERTAINLY WAS, AGAIN, LAST SATURDAY EVENING! ONE OF HER INFINITE ATTRIBUTES, IS THAT SHE IS AS HONEST AS THE DAY IS LONG! THERE ARE NO TWO WAYS ABOUT HER, AND SHE MAKES NO EXCUSES FOR FRIENDS WHO DARE TAINT THE KING JAMES BIBLE! I DOUBT SHE WOULD CALL THESE FRIENDS! AH! WE DISAGREE, SOMETIMES, BUT ON NO MAJOR ISSUES! TOO BAD SHE LIVES SO VERY FAR! SHE IS AN IMMENSE COMFORT IN MY LIFE, MORE BECAUSE SHE IS SO VERY FORTHRIGHT AND DIRECT ABOUT EVERYTHING! I LOVE THAT! I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE I STAND WITH HER!
HOW IRONICAL, THAT ONE WHO IS MADE OF IRON, WITH SOLDER RUNNING THROUGH HER VEINS, SUCH AS ME, WHO HAS DEVELOPED SO MUCH GRIT AND RESOLVE, SHOULD BE SO VERY SENSITIVE! I SUPPOSE, FOR THE SAME REASON A SCARRED AREA HURTS SO MUCH MORE, IF RE-INJURED! LIFE'S PUMMELING TO HAVE PRODUCED MANY!
STILL, BY NATURE, I AM A VERY HAPPY AND CONTENTED PERSON, WHO IS ALWAYS SMILING AND LAUGHING! MY MOTTO HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT, IF THERE BE NO ONE ELSE WHO CAN MAKE ME LAUGH, I CAN WELL ACCOMPLISH THAT ON MY OWN! I LOVE THAT IN ME! I THANK GOD FOR THIS, FOR MY GREAT WIT AND SENSE OF HUMOR! THUS, UNDENIABLY, TOXIC, DEBILITATING RELATIONSHIPS MUST BE DISCARDED, IF IT IS I AM TO CONTINUE WITH A HEALTHY OUTLOOK, IN SPITE OF LIFE'S TURMOILS! I NEED ALL THE ENERGY I CAN MUSTER TO SURVIVE MY VERY HECTIC EXISTENCE!
6 BE CAREFUL FOR NOTHING; BUT IN EVERY THING BY PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION WITH THANKSGIVING LET YOUR REQUESTS BE MADE KNOWN UNTO GOD.
7 AND THE PEACE OF GOD, WHICH PASSETH ALL UNDERSTANDING, SHALL KEEP YOUR HEARTS AND MINDS THROUGH CHRIST JESUS.Philippians 4:6-7 (King James Bible)
AMEN!
MUSIC HAS BEEN THE VERY BASIC THREAD THAT HAS SEEN ME THROUGH SO VERY MUCH IN LIFE, WHAT I CALL "MY MUSIC," THE MULTIPLE-LANGUAGE TUNES WITH WHICH I WAS SO VERY FORTUNATE TO GROW UP! THERE ARE SONGS WITH WHICH ONE CAN WELL IDENTIFY! THE FOLLOWING ONE COULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN FOR ME, EVERY WORD OF IT, FOR IT TRULY DESCRIBES MY LIFE!
RESISTIR'e!
Cuando pierda todas las partidas, Cuando duerma
con la soledad, Cuando se me cierren las salidas,
Y la noche no me deje en paz. Cuando sienta miedo
del silencio, Cuando cueste mantenerse en pie,
Cuando se revelen los recuerdos, Y me pongan
contra la pared...
Resistir'e erguido frente a
todo, Me volver'e de hierro para endurecer
la piel, Y aunque los vientos de la vida soplen
fuerte, Soy como el junco que se dobla Pero
siempre sigue en pie...
Resistir'e para seguir
viviendo, Soportare los golpes Y jam'as me
rendir'e, Y aunque los sue~nos se me
rompan en pedazos...
Resistir'e, RESISTIR'e...Cuando el mundo pierda toda magia, Cuando mi
enemigo sea yo, Cuando me apu~nale la
nostalgia, Y no reconozca ni mi voz. Cuando me
amenace la locura, Cuando en mi moneda salga cruz,
Cuando el diablo pase la factura, O si alguna vez
me faltas t'u...
Resistir'e erguido
frente a todo, Me volver'e de hierro para
endurecer la piel, Y aunque los vientos de la vida
soplen fuerte, Soy como el junco que se dobla
Pero siempre sigue en pie...
Resistir'e para
seguir viviendo, Soportare los golpes Y
jam'as me rendir'e, Y aunque los
sue~nos se me rompan en pedazos...
Resistir'e,RESISTIR'e'e'e...
Resistir'e! Through God's grace!
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Bush is a cowardBy Jack BalkwillOnline Journal Contributing Writer"I rode a tank in the generals' rankwhen the blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank"Mick Jagger, "Sympathy for the Devil" July 15, 2003 - Bush is a coward. I am the one who took his place in Vietnam, so I should know.Corporate media have convinced the masses of a fictitious warrior Bush, who is a hero. This has been effective, as a neighbor recently told me, "If Gore had been elected, he wouldn't have had the guts to attack Iraq." My heart sank when I heard that, as I cannot fathom how it "takes guts" to order bombs to be dropped on children. Only cowards can do such things. Cowards who desert from war themselves while insisting that the working class bleed and die for the excesses of their national security state.I have marched for peace many times with friends who are war veterans, and others who are long veterans of the peace movement. I opposed all of the Bush wars - the invasion of Panama, Afghanistan, the various Iraqi Wars. I opposed Daddy Bush's arming Saddam and protecting him politically for so long. Daddy Bush was the pilot who bailed out on his crew, leaving them to crash and die in WW2. Cowardice runs deep in the Bush family.During the Vietnam War, when Bush deserted from the Texas National Guard, the National Security State found itself to be one short on cannon fodder, so they sent me. A member of the peasant class, I was expendable. Bush loved the war up to the point of actually risking his own "investment class" ass, to employ a favorite term of his father. He supported the war mind you - has always enjoyed killing, setting the all-time execution record for governors, though brother Jeb has competed well in Florida.I was at Fort Meade, Maryland, for three months prior to being sent to Vietnam. My military bosses assured me they had friends in the Pentagon who could keep me from going to war. A lieutenant was dispatched to the Pentagon with a full-time job of wandering the halls in pursuit of this. The friends proved to be less powerful than believed, and I became an advisor to combat units for US Army Vietnam and Military Assistance Command, traveling all over the country to daily witness the hatred, greed and delusion of war, the lowest activity of my species.I was an ignorant kid who knew nothing about what was happening. Nothing in my life had prepared me for understanding. My working class father voted Republican, because Eisenhower was a Republican and like him, a World War Two vet. I didn't even know there was a peace movement, as I was sent before it surged in 1966. The Stars and Stripes newspaper in Vietnam was so full of propaganda that by comparison the Wall Street Journal is objective on national security matters. I didn't know that the South Vietnamese government was a corrupt cesspool hated by its people and forced down their throats by old fashioned imperialism. Most of us went in order to avoid prison (we also had the choice of suicide, taken by more than 60,000 vets of that war since). My heroes are those who oppose war, which is the only sane approach to it. Those who stand up to the warmongers have suffered greatly, often beaten and jailed, and sometimes murdered for that position. Martin Luther King, Jr., appeared to know where it would get him when he said, "I may not get there with you..." He had called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today" not long before the bullet tore into his flesh. But the cowardly Bush can't get enough of war.I have been under fire for days at a time, with such fear beyond fear that it really requires a new word. Those who order wars never see the bleeding or hear the screams. I have seen rivers of blood and have given thanks for the insane roar of battle when it hid the screams of my comrades, to keep me from going entirely mad. But Bush can order a war casually, just before his golf game.In a nightmare I faced Bush and said "You cowardly son of a bitch, I took your place in Vietnam." I could see in his glazed, alcoholic eyes the denial which kept him from understanding. His handlers convinced him that if he put on a flight suit and flew to an aircraft carrier, he must be a hero (even if it cost $800,000 as it underscored the hypocrisy of his "fiscal conservative" claim, habitually unnoticed by corporate media as the national debt soars).On 9/11, when the nation needed leadership, Bush hid at an Air Force Base. The most protected person on the planet went into hiding, not because he was in danger, but because he is a coward. I cannot imagine another president who would have hid like that. Even the spineless Nixon would have seen it is the job of a president to go to the White House and assure the masses that everything is under control.The Democrats seem unable to locate an issue with which to oppose Bush, most having voted for everything he's requested to date. May I suggest the truth? The single image Bush has promoted is flag-waving hero of the Republic. The evidence proves he is a coward.Jack Balkwill is a Vietnam veteran who has won national writing awards for poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Mr. Balkwill owns the web site Liberty Underground of Virginia (LUV). Mr. Balkwill encourages your comments and can be reached at jackdotcom@ispwest.com HIGHTOWER: Dishonoring America's TroopsBy Jim Hightower, AlterNetJuly 15, 2003There's the Medal of Honor, the Purple Heart, and other badges and decorations to honor America's fighting men and women - but there should be one more medal for some of our top officials who are also so richly deserving of public recognition in times of war: The Dishonorable Badge of High-ranking Hypocrisy. Among the deserving are George W. Bush and all the other hyper-hawks of both parties who talk so loudly about duty and bravery as they send our troops into their hyped-up wars - yet fail to provide the necessary gear that these very troops need to do battle. I'm not talking about the super-sophisticated, high-dollar, laser-guided missiles, and other video-game technology that dazzles both the hawks and the fawning media (while enriching the profiteering corporations that sell such sexy hardware to the government). Rather, I'm talking about the mundane, low-dollar basics needed to equip the grunts on the ground - stuff like good socks and boots, rucksacks, field radios, pistols, and rifle sights. But these ground troops don't have Gucci-clad lobbyists or make fat campaign donations, so - as incredible as it sounds - they've literally been getting shortchanged while the White House and congress hurl billions of our tax dollars at the likes of Boeing, Lockheed, and Raytheon. An investigative report by the Army tells of our troops in Iraq having to shell out from their own thin paychecks to buy equipment from places like L.L. Bean, because the stuff they've been issued is inadequate, including boots with soles that can't handle the Iraqi terrain, pistol magazines that fail to push the bullets into the chamber for firing, and field radios too weak to reach support units just a few blocks away. One army official complained that a typical mountain climbing expedition is better outfitted than the troops fighting Bush's war.This is Jim Hightower saying... Anytime these hawkish politicians use America's troops for a photo-op backdrop, they should have to wear their Badge of High-Ranking Hypocrisy.
Who's steering this ship?By Bridget GibsonOnline Journal Contributing WriterMy captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse or will; The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done; From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won - Walt Whitman, from O Captain! My Captain!July 15, 2003 - - The news is all about how "accepting" the blame for the botched speech is okay with George W. Bush. It is so nice to realize that words can be "blamed" on someone, anyone, but the one who uses the words.Following the logic of the "blame" routine leads me down an interesting path.If all George W. Bush does, is read prepared speeches written by others, vetted by others, put onto ready to read scrolling devices for his lips of the, does that make the one that utters the words a puppet - a void and vacuous being whose only purpose is to mouth the threats and words of others?If our illustrious president [sic] will not take the responsibility for the content and context in which his words are spoken - and spoken in a constitutionally proscribed duty - then he does not deserve to be called the "leader of the free world."As of July 11, 2003, we had, as a nation, sustained the loss of 212 men and women in combat - combat that was whipped up by the words of George W. Bush and his administration.Descriptions of "mushroom clouds" within the borders of the United States, descriptions of tons of weaponized biological and bacterial materials, descriptions of unending horror at the hands of Saddam Hussein have been placed in the psyche of each and every citizen by the members of George W. Bush's cabinet and crew.If George Tenet was responsible for standing in front of the Congress and the public on January 28, 2003, and uttering words of terror, then an "I accept the blame" statement is not enough.If, eight days later, Colin Powell decided that those words should not be used by him in his testimony before the United Nations, was it because Colin Powell understood the gravity of lying before the world body? Did George W. Bush not understand that by using those words in a constitutionally-mandated report on the state of the union the gravity of lying to Congress and the American people?This lie had been exposed - this forged document regarding uranium from Niger - long before January 28, 2003. This lie was further exposed before March 20, 2003 - the date that George W. Bush launched "shock and awe" on the Iraqi nation.This administration has ignored the truth at each and every turn and has stolen the sons, husbands, brothers, fathers, daughters, wives, sisters and mothers of our fellow citizens. There will be children that will grow up without fathers or mothers.Donald Rumsfeld has said that the losses since May 1, 2003, (the day that George W. Bush declared "Mission Accomplished" from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln) are militarily insignificant. Each and every day, we have lost at least one more of our service men or women. I am certain that their families do not view their loss as "insignificant."George Bush and Tommy Franks have called for those that attack us to "Bring 'em on." How easy and safe it must be for all of us here in our "secured" borders to just wait for the day's numbers to be announced. Two die in landmine accidents, three die of complications from wounds, five die in an exchange of gunfire. My heart aches for each and every loss. Temperatures ranging from 100 to 110 degrees cannot bode well for an entire population who cannot depend on electricity to keep their food from spoiling and their waters from being polluted.We are now told that the cost of the "war" will be $4 billion each and every month and that we will be there for at least four years. My calculations come to $192 billion, not counting the loss of life for the American people and others.We have someone in our highest office who will not take responsibility for his words. Do you think that George W. Bush will take responsibility for the rest of what he has created? George W. Bush demanded that our Congress give him the power to decide who, where and when our military would make this "pre-emptive" attack. George W. Bush demanded that we ignore the reservations of other nations on the United Nations Security Council. George W. Bush ordered the attacks. George W. Bush is responsible.
Romper RoomBy Geov Parrish, WorkingForChange.comJuly 17, 2003Remember, way back in December 2000, after the U.S. Supreme Court finally stole, er, ruled that George W. Bush would become the next President of the United States? One of the primary themes to emerge - from the ornate hotel lobbies of Washington, from the mouths of AM talk radio hosts, from the new regime's sneering acolytes in cowboy hats and fur-trimmed coats - was that at last, finally, grown-ups would be running Washington, D.C. No more semen-stained dresses. No more fags in uniform and half-assed missile attacks. No more her. No more children running the world. Wrong. At least with Clinton you knew that the most powerful man in the world had reached adolescence, if not much beyond it. But all current evidence suggests that the world is now being run by 7-year-olds. Oh, to be sure, petulant little children are announcing themselves all around the world these days, from surly little bullies like Ahmad Chalabi (who, after spending years on various playgrounds stealing other kids' lunch money, have come home to be handed a shiny new bicycle called Iraq), to the angry little brat in North Korea trying to get his parent's attention ("I've got uranium now! Now I've got a missile! Now I'm arming it! Watch me! I really am! I said I really am! I mean it this time!"). Kim Jong II needs time out and a nap; Chalabi needs reform school. But the most alarming spectacle is in Washington itself, where Peter Pan went and recruited his whole grade school class.The result is calamity almost beyond words to describe: an appetite for cool comic-book foreign policy, emphasis on blowing stuff up, combined with a Never-Never Land insistence on how the world works and economics learned from watching older siblings play Monopoly.Little kids, you'll recall, can be incredibly cruel. And so it is in D.C. these days, a dramatic step down from the last depressing administration, where the Clinton crew (including, no doubt, Janet Reno) had at least discovered girls. This collection hasn't even matured enough yet to learn right from wrong, or that actions have consequences, or even to experience the essential step in human development of understanding that the world doesn't start and stop with them, that other people think and act and feel just like they do. Empathy. Instead, this bunch stays at home, watches TV, and plays army all day. It's a nice day; they should at least go outside and play. Clinton needed to be grounded. Junior needs to have his toys taken away. You want proof? What was Junior's sole major "accomplishment" before daddy's friends got him elected governor of Texas? He used daddy's allowance money and bought a baseball team. These are rich children. Too much attention is being paid to "rich," and not enough to "children." But more and more, the emperor's outgrown clothes are showing, especially in recent days as the little tyke has finally been confronted in public with truths that contradict his carefully constructed play world. First, he really did go outside and play, to Africa, just to get away from it. But reality dogged him there, too, so mostly he's been pouting and insisting that the tooth fairy really does exist, there is a Santa Claus, Saddam really did buy uranium from Niger. ("And all that other stuff I made up last week is true, too!")Frankly, the pile of toys Junior's no longer interested in is starting to clutter the living room floor, and Junior also keeps tripping over his now-discarded Disney videos, too. (He's not much for reading.) It's not like he's ever learned, or been made, to clean up his own messes. And he still believes all the stories in those old videos, too - Iraq's mystery weapons in trailers, made out of propane tanks, and the cool spy-movie ties to Al-Qaeda and stuff. He still can't tell fact from fiction. But confronted with it, he's reacting the way many small, spoiled kids do - by blaming his friends, starting with the one he doesn't know very well, the guy who already lived in his new neighborhood when he got here, little Georgie Tenet. ("Hey, I only made him fall on a play sword! It didn't really hurt.") Every time Junior does this, he squeezes his eyes real tight and hopes it'll all just go away so he can go play army s'more. (He's also supposed to be doing homework - he hates math! - but video games are more fun.) The other little kids in Junior's clubhouse are acting about the same way - except for little Rummy, who likes to torture the neighbor's cats when nobody's looking. Rummy's gonna be trouble when he gets older.For years, the adults around Junior and his little pals have been making excuses for their behavior. All kids are above average. It was a misunderstanding. He didn't mean to break it. He's really not that dumb. He just learns differently. Isn't he cute? The parents are rich, so teachers are circumspect, even when the extra lessons they give don't stick or he makes Family Circus-style mispronouncements.But the behavior coming out of Washington these days has become too destructive, too aberrant to ignore, as it sometimes does when spoiled kids are never reigned in from their excesses. These kids are very spoiled, and their excesses are scaring all the adults in the neighborhood, if not the world. Frankly, it would be a huge improvement if this batch got old enough to discover girls.But that's a long way away, and meantime they're really, really wed to their fantasies and their cruelty and their denials. And their moms and dads don't seem to care. Many, many people could die before Junior and his friends get old enough that they start to learn right from wrong.At this point, the best hope is that they move to another neighborhood.
