... of the seven deadly sins, the eighth and most horrid is emotional blackmail ... whilst for this blogger, the only sacred thing is life itself
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
cormorant fishing in guilin ... andy beales, andrew morris, etc
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/05/end-of-the-line-the-last-cormorant-fishermen-of-guilin-in-pictur/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormorant_fishing
Thursday, April 11, 2019
robert byron and the road to oxiana
my good friend linda crabb has been reading it and i asked if it was good ... i don't think she knew the words to tell me how good, and how much fun !
download the book ...
https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20161131
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byron
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/31/100-best-nonfiction-books-the-road-to-oxiana-robert-byron-travel-afghanistan-persia
download the book ...
https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20161131
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byron
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/31/100-best-nonfiction-books-the-road-to-oxiana-robert-byron-travel-afghanistan-persia
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
tanis in north dakota ... knowing how to look and where to look ... evidence of the devastation caused by the Chicxulub meteor
https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/03/29/66-million-year-old-deathbed-linked-to-dinosaur-killing-meteor/
http://www.geologyin.com/2019/04/66-million-year-old-deathbed-linked-to.html
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-fossils-north-dakota-dinosaur-killing-asteroid-impact
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Creek_Formation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
nick brandt
Saturday, March 23, 2019
Matsuo BashÅ ... poet of the little moments
“Since the crescent moon, I have been waiting for tonight.”
i have a lot of sympathy for basho ... my own memories seem to be like shards and fragments of larger stories ... too large for me to re-assemble
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsuo_Bash%C5%8D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episodic_memory
a leek grower travels from wales to japan ...
http://www.tyn-yr-helyg.com/perch/resources/misc/negi-daikon-kyuri-basho.pdf
The morning glories
bloom, securing the gate
in the old fence
later ... found a little film ... perplexing ...
http://movingpoems.com/2013/06/from-the-travelogue-of-weather-beaten-bones-by-matsuo-basho/?fbclid=IwAR1wYC3FEYsGHbLzeTGwkbahFTM-Okrksh_ckmb73lTst_XL8YWMwSaOzzA
and a film that looks at basho as a monk-philosopher ...
https://youtu.be/90-2Dg2CJdw
the above animation was introduced by this blog ...
https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/the-great-eastern-philosophers-matsuo-basho/
a good list of study resources ...
http://betweenwit-wonder.blogspot.com/2014/06/basho-trans-1.html
another useful introduction with some of basho's paintings...
https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/the-great-eastern-philosophers-matsuo-basho/
i have a lot of sympathy for basho ... my own memories seem to be like shards and fragments of larger stories ... too large for me to re-assemble
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsuo_Bash%C5%8D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episodic_memory
a leek grower travels from wales to japan ...
http://www.tyn-yr-helyg.com/perch/resources/misc/negi-daikon-kyuri-basho.pdf
The morning glories
bloom, securing the gate
in the old fence
later ... found a little film ... perplexing ...
http://movingpoems.com/2013/06/from-the-travelogue-of-weather-beaten-bones-by-matsuo-basho/?fbclid=IwAR1wYC3FEYsGHbLzeTGwkbahFTM-Okrksh_ckmb73lTst_XL8YWMwSaOzzA
and a film that looks at basho as a monk-philosopher ...
https://youtu.be/90-2Dg2CJdw
the above animation was introduced by this blog ...
https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/the-great-eastern-philosophers-matsuo-basho/
a good list of study resources ...
http://betweenwit-wonder.blogspot.com/2014/06/basho-trans-1.html
another useful introduction with some of basho's paintings...
https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/the-great-eastern-philosophers-matsuo-basho/
Monday, March 18, 2019
orazio and artemisia gentileschi, father and daughter, via the exemplary "spencer alley" blog
father ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orazio_Gentileschi
http://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2019/03/orazio-gentileschi-1563-1639-paintings_94.html
http://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2019/03/orazio-gentileschi-1563-1639-paintings_17.html
http://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2019/03/orazio-gentileschi-1563-1639-paintings.html
daughter ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_Gentileschi
http://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2019/03/artemisia-gentileschi-1593-1654-rome.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orazio_Gentileschi
http://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2019/03/orazio-gentileschi-1563-1639-paintings_94.html
http://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2019/03/orazio-gentileschi-1563-1639-paintings_17.html
http://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2019/03/orazio-gentileschi-1563-1639-paintings.html
daughter ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_Gentileschi
http://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2019/03/artemisia-gentileschi-1593-1654-rome.html
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