(getting ready for its close-up) (fly-by July 14th…)
14*14*14
How shall we compost snark and flak into nutrient for the desirable – hence increasing dedication to Detective Fiction noire, as one great answer…
Let us be Terra-ists
as we navigate through Snark Week!
and Happy Birthday Dalai Lama! and GW Bush….
Mars trines Neptune: fairy-tale idealism, metaphoric agility, shape-shifting into animals is desirably available, as part of our ever-expanding
repertoire of responses…
Mars in Cancer, trine Neptune also be a fun feats, a proffering of profundity:
John Muir
John Muir:
“I only went out for a walk, and concluded to stay out until sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” and “When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”
Tecumtha
“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.”
Tecumtha (1768? – 5 October 1813) Native American leader, Shawnee mystic and warrior, usually known as Tecumseh
Good shape-shifting Neptune-Uranus imagery-strategy:
“A general uprising, as we see it, should be nebulous and elusive; its resistance should never materialize as a concrete body, otherwise the enemy can direct sufficient force at its core, crush it, and take many prisoners. When that happens, the people will lose heart and, believing that the issue has been decided and further efforts would be useless…. On the other hand, there must be some concentration at certain points: the fog must thicken and form a dark and menacing cloud out of which a bolt of lightning will may strike at any time. (Carl von Clausewitz, On War)
“There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say “It is yet more difficult than you thought.” This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.” — Wendell Berry
Steve Edmunds: “broken like a window, can’t hold back the rain/broken like the thundering wave, gonna rise and break again/broken like some ancient code/gonna speak the words that name the road/where the milk and honey flowed, no grave can e’er contain…”
“You will not be punished for your anger;
You will be punished BY your anger.”~G. Buddha
