tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-311558152024-03-07T11:14:43.521-08:00Mostly Poetry-- life exists -- and identity -- the powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verseHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687291606249050356noreply@blogger.comBlogger900125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31155815.post-54699892086897184982021-12-07T18:24:00.006-08:002021-12-07T18:55:31.481-08:00Cancun for Amy<p> Amy, we've been to 3 Mayan sites near Cancun - each of them quite different. I think this is the best place for me to share images and pictures with you. Unfortunately, it's an old blog template and the space for photos is narrow and cuts them off or forces me to minimize them. Maybe you can click on the pictures to enlarge(?).</p><p><b>CHICHEN ITZA</b></p><p>The first time we were in Cancun (2007) we went to Chichen Itza ("chee-chin eetz-uh"). It is a site that has been restored and is being significantly maintained. I remember it being the largest of the sites we saw, but then again it's been 14 years ago, so maybe my memory is fuzzy! We had a guide, and we learned a lot. A year before we got there people were still allowed to go up the steps of the Great Pyramid, but that is no longer allowed, unfortunately. It is a Unesco World Heritage Site, and, as well as the Great Pyramid it also has a temple complex, a "sports arena," a large cenote, and other features. I don't have as many pictures of Chichen Itza as of the other two sites, as I don't think we had a digital camera in 2007, so these are scans of photos.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUyXyit3ncIIRV0kNjoDrpxOn0c3YgXYUNGf2rKZA3uVB11mr5fA5KG0yHBz2KEX1L59nNIgryziZJWrX5heLfgkUXaV6eikO_ODCYVd-yH8a0tFaGqmWaPPeoYx5tuCx4nXvlHQ/s1536/Chichen_Itza_1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1536" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUyXyit3ncIIRV0kNjoDrpxOn0c3YgXYUNGf2rKZA3uVB11mr5fA5KG0yHBz2KEX1L59nNIgryziZJWrX5heLfgkUXaV6eikO_ODCYVd-yH8a0tFaGqmWaPPeoYx5tuCx4nXvlHQ/w400-h266/Chichen_Itza_1.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Hb-QtAIGeI1UHTu9YLLWeh_HzG6a85d07BznW0u70vX2LzDHXZieg3wvXJjc7kkMp6Hsf9eF6fUDnhIKPmRfbiYhjBIutyQY-vDJiOolaSjBe92su46VE_ehjEYBQumKKuf1Cg/s1600/Chichen_Itza_2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1062" data-original-width="1600" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Hb-QtAIGeI1UHTu9YLLWeh_HzG6a85d07BznW0u70vX2LzDHXZieg3wvXJjc7kkMp6Hsf9eF6fUDnhIKPmRfbiYhjBIutyQY-vDJiOolaSjBe92su46VE_ehjEYBQumKKuf1Cg/w400-h265/Chichen_Itza_2.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>TULUM</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We've been to Tulum twice -- once in 2012 and once in 2017. When I picture Mayan ruins I picture them surrounded with jungle. Tulum, however, is on the coast, overlooking azure-blue waters. It is gorgeous, but I have to admit being disappointed at how many people were swimming below the ruins, which made it hard to get the beautiful photos I wanted. We didn't have a guide either time for this one.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoivEgi0yAtrxMz9AEUfocvpbDzKkR4yjx9S-mCi-6KyGRw7ceCENrqboH5lopyDhc6bqz54BU4jDHxb3KdUKhaBydMDHcRLiASLduIKqefdtfl1KHTWewBhss5ZK1xSntmGi76A/s2048/Tulum_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoivEgi0yAtrxMz9AEUfocvpbDzKkR4yjx9S-mCi-6KyGRw7ceCENrqboH5lopyDhc6bqz54BU4jDHxb3KdUKhaBydMDHcRLiASLduIKqefdtfl1KHTWewBhss5ZK1xSntmGi76A/w400-h266/Tulum_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7yIPrwoZe9j0GAYoqtW97JuzDkffT9BGYox5LB0_3jLmXtMQGg7mVTJg8yl8MD2-dldv72d3Gu20U2rR-2px535sRk3XxW9O_9hk0m-b1a6rJa3xPW5bhaViYG26MnMhc1DT5Hw/s2048/Tulum_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7yIPrwoZe9j0GAYoqtW97JuzDkffT9BGYox5LB0_3jLmXtMQGg7mVTJg8yl8MD2-dldv72d3Gu20U2rR-2px535sRk3XxW9O_9hk0m-b1a6rJa3xPW5bhaViYG26MnMhc1DT5Hw/w400-h266/Tulum_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9j53TaqniXYJ19QJGLjiNQXFHurq2DxJ-VkHPe5ZtjsomMq40gB_X5AHcI6PLS1c-ejGAkkYLFJOv1n6ZYARhdLAVh43XWz0x2ba20dP1wPVcLwQt8gdHIOcVNe9MZ8_KBC2Mnw/s2048/Tulum_3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9j53TaqniXYJ19QJGLjiNQXFHurq2DxJ-VkHPe5ZtjsomMq40gB_X5AHcI6PLS1c-ejGAkkYLFJOv1n6ZYARhdLAVh43XWz0x2ba20dP1wPVcLwQt8gdHIOcVNe9MZ8_KBC2Mnw/w400-h266/Tulum_3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDNE0FiakugIEA8tEUajZqLjGA2k3MkxkTnh3UP530Eb9iKfbyWarzdO0JE-7SHuXHdQ4hNayHuNYivGu4T563R9OQSnkTcBTLji3mM4j9DCnHabJmNRdeyXAvrS3OM9CnnAircg/s2048/Tulum_4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDNE0FiakugIEA8tEUajZqLjGA2k3MkxkTnh3UP530Eb9iKfbyWarzdO0JE-7SHuXHdQ4hNayHuNYivGu4T563R9OQSnkTcBTLji3mM4j9DCnHabJmNRdeyXAvrS3OM9CnnAircg/w400-h266/Tulum_4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx6eMReTcHwjnF-MnJH0Gyh0q-06s0vg9EFrQQfJrVokxjRrqGUmNfVrQxyT_jHYWuQ8n2IUGREz6zFI6wTLCyWlUJOoVhxnm1eqT-zinyMj5-lWIpXqmWobb_rnORy_CWOltw1g/s2048/Tulum_5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx6eMReTcHwjnF-MnJH0Gyh0q-06s0vg9EFrQQfJrVokxjRrqGUmNfVrQxyT_jHYWuQ8n2IUGREz6zFI6wTLCyWlUJOoVhxnm1eqT-zinyMj5-lWIpXqmWobb_rnORy_CWOltw1g/w400-h266/Tulum_5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><b>COBA</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Coba is not just surrounded by jungle, it is IN the jungle. This was the only site at which we could climb to the top of a pyramid, which was AMAZING - really hard, but really amazing! The top of the pyramid is high above the jungle canopy, so it was absolutely a bird's-eye view of the jungle. This was 2012, and I'm not sure if rules or regulations have changes since then. This site was the most rugged and least restored, which was also kind of cool to see -- seems more "natural" somehow.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIcbXsNqT9q7AsEsNZR-kudDsFyH5Hoa0hKBDYkWjLd283NMBWfxjCUINBNo86pXjKBgVfMm39M69pg7d7F8R9_GNQ-FIDBQ7CsZFBo_AqhsfwH6Q0Gxgmmnrf9yyLPbU1vTBIDQ/s640/Coba_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIcbXsNqT9q7AsEsNZR-kudDsFyH5Hoa0hKBDYkWjLd283NMBWfxjCUINBNo86pXjKBgVfMm39M69pg7d7F8R9_GNQ-FIDBQ7CsZFBo_AqhsfwH6Q0Gxgmmnrf9yyLPbU1vTBIDQ/w400-h300/Coba_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoIPZEcWp5LF_0SGk8yyYSAECHqUED3pypu_Jl0g5J8KehFQLBPGyWV7mhyphenhyphenQMc4fMpks_vMxeZ83kP21qlyN5wjwgHyeQejb_RSC-FBaX9yvFlFHVlGxDUsQfyBhw712jSJ2wtzA/s960/Coba_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoIPZEcWp5LF_0SGk8yyYSAECHqUED3pypu_Jl0g5J8KehFQLBPGyWV7mhyphenhyphenQMc4fMpks_vMxeZ83kP21qlyN5wjwgHyeQejb_RSC-FBaX9yvFlFHVlGxDUsQfyBhw712jSJ2wtzA/w400-h300/Coba_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicIPzDkUqduwFDzOjbvahxdW_WBEJCY96NluaPYqP3RO6WY-5svjfeWsAz3mx2E-fSNOF_k6Fm1MeB49IH1vfSYq4qrJJjU0zE2uV-86l91cEeVynv4KGWCDTaHMH2211EYwvBBQ/s960/Coba_5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicIPzDkUqduwFDzOjbvahxdW_WBEJCY96NluaPYqP3RO6WY-5svjfeWsAz3mx2E-fSNOF_k6Fm1MeB49IH1vfSYq4qrJJjU0zE2uV-86l91cEeVynv4KGWCDTaHMH2211EYwvBBQ/w300-h400/Coba_5.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNOYOJnVBNyAaszJfLpe7khm9yhVhjnfbrcvgsEzRZjcwEgZqolKiXxs3wlqIZ_MZ6hUfwzEVFUs6-1WMLH8Y5m-6Xu0uLsy-iVTF2tHoWWgFx_v_7N71fEEAtPQ6Jrev0vkY-wQ/s960/Coba_4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNOYOJnVBNyAaszJfLpe7khm9yhVhjnfbrcvgsEzRZjcwEgZqolKiXxs3wlqIZ_MZ6hUfwzEVFUs6-1WMLH8Y5m-6Xu0uLsy-iVTF2tHoWWgFx_v_7N71fEEAtPQ6Jrev0vkY-wQ/w400-h300/Coba_4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIzncP_mS5Wp_GPldtR2PUIuTo_yLmLJi87UBjDS-sCGEwt3A_-VRsEn2oOQJ1rW_zC17wwusqJn4drJFy7I2ZEnzwGBv0Mohg5USsyl4d6Spr0t-zlNmO3D7va3pJTq937zY0Pw/s960/Coba_3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIzncP_mS5Wp_GPldtR2PUIuTo_yLmLJi87UBjDS-sCGEwt3A_-VRsEn2oOQJ1rW_zC17wwusqJn4drJFy7I2ZEnzwGBv0Mohg5USsyl4d6Spr0t-zlNmO3D7va3pJTq937zY0Pw/w400-h300/Coba_3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Anyway, whether you choose to check out Mayan ruins or not, I hope you will have an absolutely SPECTACULAR time in Cancun! Here's one of my favorite photos of David from our journeys there. He loves to sail!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSZAhbBp9a7kgL6NqJ6F26z4ahJGsEcip_LcCJgYQqHeOJVIXZ1tOwObYyLdS-ymGfXWGQTiWmSI2ihtpW8KuGScOvcRYLU8WLWm4jIQrs_TJS2kFx7d3AfOZpwyYG3K-O88XLRg/s400/David_sailing_2007.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="400" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSZAhbBp9a7kgL6NqJ6F26z4ahJGsEcip_LcCJgYQqHeOJVIXZ1tOwObYyLdS-ymGfXWGQTiWmSI2ihtpW8KuGScOvcRYLU8WLWm4jIQrs_TJS2kFx7d3AfOZpwyYG3K-O88XLRg/w400-h268/David_sailing_2007.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687291606249050356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31155815.post-87336514274450416982021-08-27T11:52:00.003-07:002021-08-27T11:52:39.985-07:00Staggering Onward Rejoicing<p> A friend send this on this morning, thinking I was already familiar with. Yet, though Auden is one of my favorites, I had never read his poem Atlantis. What a delightful gift!</p><p><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">ATLANTIS</span></p><p><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Being set on the idea<br /></span><span style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Of getting to Atlantis,<br /></span><span style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">You have discovered of course<br /></span><span style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Only the Ship of Fools is<br /></span><span style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Making the voyage this year,<br /></span><span style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">As gales of abnormal force<br /></span><span style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Are predicted, and that you<br /></span><span style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Must therefore be ready to<br /></span><span style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Behave absurdly enough<br /></span><span style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">To pass for one of The Boys,<br /></span><span style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">At least appearing to love<br /></span><span style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Hard liquor, horseplay and noise.<br /></span></p><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Should storms, as may well happen,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Drive you to anchor a week</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">In some old harbour-city</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Of Ionia, then speak</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">With her witty scholars, men</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Who have proved there cannot be</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Such a place as Atlantis:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Learn their logic, but notice</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">How its subtlety betrays</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Their enormous simple grief;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Thus they shall teach you the ways</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">To doubt that you may believe.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">If, later, you run aground</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Among the headlands of Thrace,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Where with torches all night long</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">A naked barbaric race</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Leaps frenziedly to the sound</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Of conch and dissonant gong:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">On that stony savage shore</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Strip off your clothes and dance, for</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Unless you are capable</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Of forgetting completely</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">About Atlantis, you will</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Never finish your journey.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Again, should you come to gay</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Carthage or Corinth, take part</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">In their endless gaiety;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">And if in some bar a tart,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">As she strokes your hair, should say</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">"This is Atlantis, dearie,"</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Listen with attentiveness</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">To her life-story: unless</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">You become acquainted now</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">With each refuge that tries to</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Counterfeit Atlantis, how</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Will you recognise the true?</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Assuming you beach at last</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Near Atlantis, and begin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">That terrible trek inland</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Through squalid woods and frozen</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Thundras where all are soon lost;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">If, forsaken then, you stand,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Dismissal everywhere,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Stone and now, silence and air,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">O remember the great dead</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">And honour the fate you are,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Travelling and tormented,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Dialectic and bizarre.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Stagger onward rejoicing;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">And even then if, perhaps</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Having actually got</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">To the last col, you collapse</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">With all Atlantis shining</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Below you yet you cannot</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Descend, you should still be proud</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Even to have been allowed</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Just to peep at Atlantis</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">In a poetic vision:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Give thanks and lie down in peace,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Having seen your salvation.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">All the little household gods</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Have started crying, but say</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Good-bye now, and put to sea.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Farewell, my dear, farewell: may</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Hermes, master of the roads,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">And the four dwarf Kabiri,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Protect and serve you always;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">And may the Ancient of Days</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Provide for all you must do</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">His invisible guidance,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Lifting up, dear, upon you</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">The light of His countenance.</span>Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687291606249050356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31155815.post-38186631249397374892021-08-12T11:47:00.001-07:002021-08-27T11:48:45.918-07:00L'Chaim 2021<p> I grabbed this post from my travel blog, because this is how I spent August 12 (L'Chaim) this year, and what a delightful and life-affirming experience it was!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitZ3-zk2gICZSLw2hNWRbgMR0W11RgKBCZdLmpRotzJk8zGYLdStUBTIKKPSvG7XfeCHH8epGsKfCTy3yxRDOAgpdHpmZdVQMaJt7tkohOtj1C6GTYkym0hYcFMV0P7LSWcMRb/s3872/DSC09858.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2576" data-original-width="3872" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitZ3-zk2gICZSLw2hNWRbgMR0W11RgKBCZdLmpRotzJk8zGYLdStUBTIKKPSvG7XfeCHH8epGsKfCTy3yxRDOAgpdHpmZdVQMaJt7tkohOtj1C6GTYkym0hYcFMV0P7LSWcMRb/w640-h426/DSC09858.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>Today was a slower day - or at least it was supposed to be - which was rather a relief! I needed some time to process all I had seen and done and learned. We had a booking into Rosslyn Chapel at noon for an hour and a half time slot; a noon booking also meant a nice leisurely morning! I don't know if they've always done bookings or if this is new with the pandemic and with trying to keep the numbers low. Rosslyn Chapel didn't used to be as popular as it is now, but with the advent of Dan Brown's best-selling book <i>The Da Vinci Code</i>, published 18 years ago - and the movie which came out 15 years ago - Rosslyn Chapel has become a massively popular site. Many places suffer when they end up getting this sort of popularity, but Rosslyn Chapel, which was in great need of repair, really benefited from that huge boost in popularity. Even without the mystery and intrigue of Dan Brown's fictionalized version, this place is glorious completely on its own merits. The unique yellow-pink stone of which is it built is beyond beautiful. The stonework both inside and outside is captivating, to say the least.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFZ8YqwL525Zola8mwjy7ajgABiCgSXYhCCiDmmgZy6dJ8clfL4FLsZ7kUc42nV6fSI2hyCwTBcyWt3jmsy5Z5B7_SHRO8OTumKypcUqdpIOfQhkuq9T01lb1zTriKTijHpDWW/s3872/DSC09859.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2576" data-original-width="3872" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFZ8YqwL525Zola8mwjy7ajgABiCgSXYhCCiDmmgZy6dJ8clfL4FLsZ7kUc42nV6fSI2hyCwTBcyWt3jmsy5Z5B7_SHRO8OTumKypcUqdpIOfQhkuq9T01lb1zTriKTijHpDWW/w640-h426/DSC09859.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZHCD-5mBlN0JRiIiK9qbOoR_jEcIQF-ZvtoDIGOBNuPSTd9D_bqnUBlpF4fZ-59JUcrboc3ISj9aojLMlbqTJlPWlIn9od_6fzohgVAQqCDCPAq0KHtQlYOqeMaJKAqXcow-k/s3872/DSC09860.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2576" data-original-width="3872" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZHCD-5mBlN0JRiIiK9qbOoR_jEcIQF-ZvtoDIGOBNuPSTd9D_bqnUBlpF4fZ-59JUcrboc3ISj9aojLMlbqTJlPWlIn9od_6fzohgVAQqCDCPAq0KHtQlYOqeMaJKAqXcow-k/w640-h426/DSC09860.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>I had thought (from what I'd read online before going) that the hour and a half time period was the amount of time we got INSIDE the chapel and that then we could have as much time as we wanted to wander around outside. Therefore, I spent all my time in the chapel and then tried to get a few outdoor shots. Boy, was I wrong! I don't know it you can see her on the far right in the picture below, but the poor chapel employee was trying to get all of us out of the grounds so that they could prepare for the next group. I "just" wanted one good picture of the whole outside, and these two girls seemed to want to take selfies at each and every buttress and window and fence post . . . so I was hanging back waiting for them to be done with their selfies so I could get this ONE shot, but, of course the guide was just as frustrated with me as with them. "Won't you please cooperate? We need to prepare the space for the next group of guests." So I snapped this shot with the two (three) ladies in it and went on my way, feeling kind of bad. Because of COVID, they do wipe down all the pews after one group has left, and they carry out other cleaning procedures, and if folks are still hanging around then we could re-enter and contaminate things, so I do get it. I just wish I had known in advance that the hour and a half was for the whole experience inside and out and not just the inside (where you can't take pictures).<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqdJWZvVWN0kel9VlxMGxPIX72b2o_-fSV-2tCU0mT8tluYyt9ebPVRWeFnA_50sT32beXmGfKdHq-7NGwJ8FicK5ToYYh5oSNttzaYOTGyodJIIFqzG8-bzeQDgEpVzmKuywR/s3872/DSC09861.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2576" data-original-width="3872" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqdJWZvVWN0kel9VlxMGxPIX72b2o_-fSV-2tCU0mT8tluYyt9ebPVRWeFnA_50sT32beXmGfKdHq-7NGwJ8FicK5ToYYh5oSNttzaYOTGyodJIIFqzG8-bzeQDgEpVzmKuywR/w640-h426/DSC09861.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>Toby and I spent some time in the bookstore and made some purchases and picked up a snack at the café.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtnK-F8ebyTbST-S1Sdw0H1sJqVvEL09sIeBvyQplpNlcJZc7b_n8BzRHEbqp18Db6EKQhlVRi6ZgGFu24RzPkXM0H_9Gz9nhizp6G0VBi479j4jgdW9MrYeYokdVlCCAvHZSm/s3872/DSC09866.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2576" data-original-width="3872" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtnK-F8ebyTbST-S1Sdw0H1sJqVvEL09sIeBvyQplpNlcJZc7b_n8BzRHEbqp18Db6EKQhlVRi6ZgGFu24RzPkXM0H_9Gz9nhizp6G0VBi479j4jgdW9MrYeYokdVlCCAvHZSm/w640-h426/DSC09866.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhugBkbO1K2iNmG2SgVkxG1pqUvciuJ-Kr8XwB6RWO2z0PAcopKrvdSyfHSZH4usmk-HIi8ZwZ_IUlV5lYQBNxq4DOCydnESJMd3c-9LkdVEoOIHXYqLAfVsO0bmj7k4npHfV5s/s3872/DSC09867.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3872" data-original-width="2576" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhugBkbO1K2iNmG2SgVkxG1pqUvciuJ-Kr8XwB6RWO2z0PAcopKrvdSyfHSZH4usmk-HIi8ZwZ_IUlV5lYQBNxq4DOCydnESJMd3c-9LkdVEoOIHXYqLAfVsO0bmj7k4npHfV5s/w426-h640/DSC09867.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_BUAAV0aRw1OWDf8-tr_U1Xo8YbKOzKcslqP66uPV_FGRutHRC2PsRkDCDAdHAhFBRMEINmXSf62KhD5B4FDqoy6IddXWdOpWDSl913bz7NwTLFkpaWiy4Wt2pL4c5KzME0MB/s3872/DSC09868.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3872" data-original-width="2576" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_BUAAV0aRw1OWDf8-tr_U1Xo8YbKOzKcslqP66uPV_FGRutHRC2PsRkDCDAdHAhFBRMEINmXSf62KhD5B4FDqoy6IddXWdOpWDSl913bz7NwTLFkpaWiy4Wt2pL4c5KzME0MB/w426-h640/DSC09868.JPG" width="426" /></a></div>I didn't realize that this was a FAMOUS cat that I was taking pictures of. I later learned that this is Rosslyn's "William the Cat." Apparently he's one of a generation of Williams, and there is a book "written by" him, which you can purchase in the bookstore (or an Amazon for that matter), and you can get stuffed animal copies of him to take home. I had just thought it was a friendly cat curled up elegantly in the sun. He was quite friendly -- obviously very used to people.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlj6XrcqmjNfhZQNyS0Rz6R3D1HCeiuRbOYLk9pmEMDvAv7_8EMYMIsL1A8LNAfTLZSMpOTVgwoAIqBghPLdTIb91aUZ1zsUpMmKIBAoL4w332s8SdzUjl5R161Q60_x6TULWO/s3872/DSC09865.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2576" data-original-width="3872" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlj6XrcqmjNfhZQNyS0Rz6R3D1HCeiuRbOYLk9pmEMDvAv7_8EMYMIsL1A8LNAfTLZSMpOTVgwoAIqBghPLdTIb91aUZ1zsUpMmKIBAoL4w332s8SdzUjl5R161Q60_x6TULWO/w640-h426/DSC09865.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>As we (reluctantly) left, I notice this cool green door just next to the visitor's center:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr1GKXKASEujAZPEmTjDVTWwy8vb74gWo0oN-DTWkpid80Jw64zf-ADlY6je_harz644KhV9SlisjWO1Yjrtjjz9izzZPCzuctxv60u07zEcFD5_OwdGj1FvHOjv9xwYJiADzS/s3872/DSC09869.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2576" data-original-width="3872" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr1GKXKASEujAZPEmTjDVTWwy8vb74gWo0oN-DTWkpid80Jw64zf-ADlY6je_harz644KhV9SlisjWO1Yjrtjjz9izzZPCzuctxv60u07zEcFD5_OwdGj1FvHOjv9xwYJiADzS/w640-h426/DSC09869.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw9eiTnRDPLDQz_S20Wv3wsVhKBRnqrInR70gZePgvp5716cLZbd-_shV2PfNK51wyFjvFgFPwGS55t-7eco6VWWV-73_h1OpxTsG0qIYgaALAW9JCRR0ExukOYtEdezkioRk1/s3872/DSC09870.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2576" data-original-width="3872" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw9eiTnRDPLDQz_S20Wv3wsVhKBRnqrInR70gZePgvp5716cLZbd-_shV2PfNK51wyFjvFgFPwGS55t-7eco6VWWV-73_h1OpxTsG0qIYgaALAW9JCRR0ExukOYtEdezkioRk1/w640-h426/DSC09870.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBb7qca1Tyqs7ugV76jU2-XeuLl9Gj69npnZHKjv5lYTZ-uABtxmnU1KJFuVfNz6Uii6Rc2_V2iByfOoMcU3kxq4JhlJaiBXQa3H9bBjutJoGV1ZZSyTaY5EWrNQ9dWprb6U1C/s3872/DSC09874.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2576" data-original-width="3872" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBb7qca1Tyqs7ugV76jU2-XeuLl9Gj69npnZHKjv5lYTZ-uABtxmnU1KJFuVfNz6Uii6Rc2_V2iByfOoMcU3kxq4JhlJaiBXQa3H9bBjutJoGV1ZZSyTaY5EWrNQ9dWprb6U1C/w640-h426/DSC09874.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>And thus I took my leave of this most magical of places.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqYd7-jfB2MV6XhzUjHhFgKwaw6V08Z9j1JKPy9R363kaOJ5DnPvqwMBzLVR_OzWwgcoIeyo2-3FV0PMQcd9qrwVTPdAuO4bRMUOB7eH2Sm4ZKVUFY7wM9J8LFiBPm-Xox_yNa/s3872/DSC09873.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2576" data-original-width="3872" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqYd7-jfB2MV6XhzUjHhFgKwaw6V08Z9j1JKPy9R363kaOJ5DnPvqwMBzLVR_OzWwgcoIeyo2-3FV0PMQcd9qrwVTPdAuO4bRMUOB7eH2Sm4ZKVUFY7wM9J8LFiBPm-Xox_yNa/w640-h426/DSC09873.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>The idea now was that I would have my first free afternoon/evening in 6 or 7 days and that I would be able to use it to reflect on all I'd experienced and to journal and to catch up on blogging and on Facebook, and perhaps to work on setting up my websites for my classes for the fall semester or send out "welcome" emails to my students -- and maybe even take a nap -- just some much-needed down time, just resting or doing some desk-work after a week of go-go-go!<div><br /></div><div>And that's what I really, truly meant to do<div><div><br /></div><div>BUT I was IN Edinburgh! I can't sit in a room and work on a computer when all this glory that is generally impossibly far away from me was right there at my doorstep, and so back out the door I went for a walk in this glorious place!</div><div><br /></div><div>As I walked out the door I remembered that there was something I had wanted to be sure to see but hadn't made a point of finding yet. It was just a little thing but a very beautiful thing that I'd seen pictures of on the internet over the years. (I've actually kind of "spoiled" it already by jumping the gun and posting pictures of it on my "Placeholder / Overview" post, and there will be a few other repeats as well, alas, but here goes.)</div><div><br /></div><div>I headed back out past my helpful landmark:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXsZ3I2HOOd8fXOwBv6L815XsHnErFnBacpEQxUyAgd9t1Hlk0BuC1BCTY-8h2V6ckWpxgEcctU-yF0NJ8aFpoOFm5EGPsEYrWvT6Fb-prB1BR_b7lGzE91xm4mfhFSoPVGRfX/s3872/DSC09879.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3872" data-original-width="2576" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXsZ3I2HOOd8fXOwBv6L815XsHnErFnBacpEQxUyAgd9t1Hlk0BuC1BCTY-8h2V6ckWpxgEcctU-yF0NJ8aFpoOFm5EGPsEYrWvT6Fb-prB1BR_b7lGzE91xm4mfhFSoPVGRfX/w426-h640/DSC09879.JPG" width="426" /></a></div>Back onto Circus Lane:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKE29yR7_kXar1Lx4DR5Ucwc1x5lSKAKdjUz3C2ka19arayesCc_TDxGE1_AfMNVudz0eY73vEZJjrQtxwOjDussUY7_3VDGZS68Jxd5smr-Mm-V8v1Y2KIZVOqnOnTfiH5uPe/s3872/DSC09964.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2576" data-original-width="3872" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKE29yR7_kXar1Lx4DR5Ucwc1x5lSKAKdjUz3C2ka19arayesCc_TDxGE1_AfMNVudz0eY73vEZJjrQtxwOjDussUY7_3VDGZS68Jxd5smr-Mm-V8v1Y2KIZVOqnOnTfiH5uPe/w640-h426/DSC09964.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div>A black door, and a blue bench - </div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheR06SsD2rn-1Ef4msjPQY_XMehH0q5wjRd5v32FGT-9_5EiU4ZYaOksthpha9_5eY8wXLrxdJffq18K6n-cZczYnLMpTOJGDvZFf9O0JdT0OwIhnLOvz2eDopyLYlWQyVZBxO/s3872/DSC09880.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2576" data-original-width="3872" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheR06SsD2rn-1Ef4msjPQY_XMehH0q5wjRd5v32FGT-9_5EiU4ZYaOksthpha9_5eY8wXLrxdJffq18K6n-cZczYnLMpTOJGDvZFf9O0JdT0OwIhnLOvz2eDopyLYlWQyVZBxO/w640-h426/DSC09880.JPG" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1IcKQtQLLT3SH-8BwvqA7rurQDyO0gZ-T-tQADEBdh-UgZ1NFOvP5DFaEGS-E-HAXSMAG6m8vThhR_ljS8lop2E8uZzimTi4XgwDAPcn1nOeW1-TQuCeTJWbSAh-85FPRaMII/s3872/DSC00020.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2576" data-original-width="3872" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1IcKQtQLLT3SH-8BwvqA7rurQDyO0gZ-T-tQADEBdh-UgZ1NFOvP5DFaEGS-E-HAXSMAG6m8vThhR_ljS8lop2E8uZzimTi4XgwDAPcn1nOeW1-TQuCeTJWbSAh-85FPRaMII/w640-h426/DSC00020.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhziYTVVd6hLBflTzyH8UcWlqLDKMvT_Uf-o0sUGG8xJZ67d1vNt5tDlembD4K6J-IQQPdNY0t-d5cs7szBtR3FXqdFDq2r3CiDtDVR3CMT6y4LlsywRC05RsNhQurLoifm_3l/s3872/DSC00124.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2576" data-original-width="3872" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhziYTVVd6hLBflTzyH8UcWlqLDKMvT_Uf-o0sUGG8xJZ67d1vNt5tDlembD4K6J-IQQPdNY0t-d5cs7szBtR3FXqdFDq2r3CiDtDVR3CMT6y4LlsywRC05RsNhQurLoifm_3l/w640-h426/DSC00124.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div>On toward The Bailie:</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjerfllLIJaynwp4MFcAf831Qxi4AEnHQ5Nw79KQRBpRoqtRzqeFHaeJ29eutU5lPIcKp0jYjKIiiQ5xJvfhDvdqsfts2ZdChqXaylJiZWO-NxcN5fQqJqyYImu6CPCSBMRftYY/s3872/DSC00121.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3872" data-original-width="2576" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjerfllLIJaynwp4MFcAf831Qxi4AEnHQ5Nw79KQRBpRoqtRzqeFHaeJ29eutU5lPIcKp0jYjKIiiQ5xJvfhDvdqsfts2ZdChqXaylJiZWO-NxcN5fQqJqyYImu6CPCSBMRftYY/w426-h640/DSC00121.JPG" width="426" /></a></div>And, wait, can it be?! What do I see behind that blue building on the corner? Might those be flowers?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Bb-lmkmkU8O6Cu6FEnisjIquFglN-Fk2D09L-_Ql3gLjg4eDVxbvtx_eniYkM1_rJkEYuzJKzv4-02hgaN6Uy_xve3sEd1tUGPMvoQR6gzVqEpZxgXxTA__wGN0TxFzm7orX/s3872/DSC09882.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2576" data-original-width="3872" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Bb-lmkmkU8O6Cu6FEnisjIquFglN-Fk2D09L-_Ql3gLjg4eDVxbvtx_eniYkM1_rJkEYuzJKzv4-02hgaN6Uy_xve3sEd1tUGPMvoQR6gzVqEpZxgXxTA__wGN0TxFzm7orX/w640-h426/DSC09882.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>YES!!! It's the "Stockbridge Flower House!" I walked this close to it so many times and didn't notice that it was there!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5eU7WKtzEbyvMXGf52Sh3769HGVooFMScr3_Mg-q4IvmVArkCXNSaJxNNG5ZiBpWMIHOyfPS0gyfFGEDopwqaEXpALNnp-8g_16OU2hWL4RranjOySnS7rcN7yoL3y7SQjmFW/s3872/DSC09959.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2576" data-original-width="3872" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5eU7WKtzEbyvMXGf52Sh3769HGVooFMScr3_Mg-q4IvmVArkCXNSaJxNNG5ZiBpWMIHOyfPS0gyfFGEDopwqaEXpALNnp-8g_16OU2hWL4RranjOySnS7rcN7yoL3y7SQjmFW/w640-h426/DSC09959.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm23adPtAIDaPmOP7mwNbm3c0Te8kLlBbtrYOEihnyHqJZfV1iJu0t30q5mIT1nR13A1iXjpE1Er3aQwjYBaxroZR2TFyqBN76YrcQmbtjD3KcMZ-WdQ0GKsnC7Y59plVybO03/s3872/DSC09887.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3872" data-original-width="2576" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm23adPtAIDaPmOP7mwNbm3c0Te8kLlBbtrYOEihnyHqJZfV1iJu0t30q5mIT1nR13A1iXjpE1Er3aQwjYBaxroZR2TFyqBN76YrcQmbtjD3KcMZ-WdQ0GKsnC7Y59plVybO03/w426-h640/DSC09887.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaSvE8SsEwjHfu9Ffr9aAPxOt01BOI9BCT2uwvGQDVCxeDi8xhOROn77mpkbaKcukCBOkTfkO66B5lBInvsZtKINJo2lMjwk7Me7eaqsJ4T9OLIlebUAjAMrj-usEA2wEezmn3/s3872/DSC09885.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2576" data-original-width="3872" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaSvE8SsEwjHfu9Ffr9aAPxOt01BOI9BCT2uwvGQDVCxeDi8xhOROn77mpkbaKcukCBOkTfkO66B5lBInvsZtKINJo2lMjwk7Me7eaqsJ4T9OLIlebUAjAMrj-usEA2wEezmn3/w640-h426/DSC09885.JPG" width="640" /></a><span style="text-align: left;"> Yea! I found it! From there on to the heart of Stockbridge and over to the Water of Leith Walkway again. There were three or four days where I walked down Circus Lane and into Stockbridge and along the Water of Leith. 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It is becoming a lost art here in the US, so it brings joy to my soul to know it still lives in Europe! (And this has been the case whether I've been in Scotland, England, France or Germany, almost every time I am in a church or cathedral, someone is practicing the organ. 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This Pizza Express has quite the presence!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip8BjPDFMJfJxxyiOkutz6c3oMUbpkN5Jhkg5gtNl24LT8GHTn1oceeKnlNUEuTFqDUBMv8SSK-BnFezXYQzUwBOlIsQCKuU0ueBZohm2uG1ynu4xOthHTpHVOXaENkH48C-Q9/s3872/DSC09947.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3872" data-original-width="2576" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip8BjPDFMJfJxxyiOkutz6c3oMUbpkN5Jhkg5gtNl24LT8GHTn1oceeKnlNUEuTFqDUBMv8SSK-BnFezXYQzUwBOlIsQCKuU0ueBZohm2uG1ynu4xOthHTpHVOXaENkH48C-Q9/w426-h640/DSC09947.JPG" width="426" /></a></div>And quite the views -<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrTSlvroXKjkOMzPoxZbmEmS7PBWgQvoaXif4lZYMz697wjeI-jX7Ws-tXeWUQB9yOBdYGm5eXs3LWs4WrpaO4xH-4VTxzIZwZxJix-Swrzqa44v8q1rjUBx3OWnXfwfWhcor9/s3872/DSC09953.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2576" data-original-width="3872" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrTSlvroXKjkOMzPoxZbmEmS7PBWgQvoaXif4lZYMz697wjeI-jX7Ws-tXeWUQB9yOBdYGm5eXs3LWs4WrpaO4xH-4VTxzIZwZxJix-Swrzqa44v8q1rjUBx3OWnXfwfWhcor9/w640-h426/DSC09953.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg93806e3vtiPdYDMB0HWkF9YQ7w8h9crJK0dlIDAoOvrvZ2PBVYQlIywGNVh6xLyHKnPgPeaKHFf3KzQXVPDp1ipaWoEmOcjMwZ3y7tBRLe0_Fv9pqv895puyCWfuUQyQbocH_/s3872/DSC09950.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2576" data-original-width="3872" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg93806e3vtiPdYDMB0HWkF9YQ7w8h9crJK0dlIDAoOvrvZ2PBVYQlIywGNVh6xLyHKnPgPeaKHFf3KzQXVPDp1ipaWoEmOcjMwZ3y7tBRLe0_Fv9pqv895puyCWfuUQyQbocH_/w640-h426/DSC09950.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>And you can't go wrong with pasta!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVYK6oDkj8cZMnR21rrBhUj2Y_rPra9m_kHOdHQVnwGS6DzzWnMlalsJ5qQQJYcLZXY-8vBkm-8Pbah4n3xUNK9ovro9iXuuiDt8LO82gorok_lr-Z8qygqMWETo5My6vdYvB_/s3872/DSC09951.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2576" data-original-width="3872" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVYK6oDkj8cZMnR21rrBhUj2Y_rPra9m_kHOdHQVnwGS6DzzWnMlalsJ5qQQJYcLZXY-8vBkm-8Pbah4n3xUNK9ovro9iXuuiDt8LO82gorok_lr-Z8qygqMWETo5My6vdYvB_/w640-h426/DSC09951.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div>Just think of all I would have missed out on if I'd napped or journaled or updated websites! I'm here, and I'm going to focus on HERE!!</div>Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687291606249050356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31155815.post-14312977989456398542021-08-07T17:37:00.001-07:002021-08-07T17:37:00.290-07:00The Most Deadly Poison<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A lie hidden in truth is like a glass of pure water with 1 drop of arsenic in it.</span></p>Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687291606249050356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31155815.post-19441446179294605452021-07-28T16:42:00.001-07:002021-07-28T16:42:14.461-07:00Presentiment<p>I am still as an autumn tree<br />In which there is no wind,<br />No breath of movement -- yet<br />There on a top branch,<br />For no cause I can see,<br />A single leaf oscillates<br />Violently.</p><p>To what thin melody<br />Does it dance?<br />What lost note vibrates<br />In me?<br />From the past or the future?<br />Memory<br />Or Presentiment?</p><p style="text-align: right;">~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh</p>Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687291606249050356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31155815.post-27536345329101306952021-06-07T10:48:00.004-07:002021-06-07T10:49:17.465-07:00God's Thoughts<p><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> "<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Those laws [of nature] are within the grasp of the human mind; God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own image so that we could share in his own thoughts."</span></span></b></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Also given as:</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b>"I am merely thinking God's thoughts after Him."</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">~ Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)</span></p>Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687291606249050356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31155815.post-89314164736532498002021-04-02T11:38:00.003-07:002021-04-02T11:38:59.544-07:00Good Friday<p><span style="color: #000099; font-family: arial;">IV.</span></p><pre style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
The wounded surgeon plies the steel
That questions the distempered part;
Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
The sharp compassion of the healer's art
Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.
Our only health is the disease
If we obey the dying nurse
Whose constant care is not to please
But to remind of our, and Adam's curse,
And that, to be restored, our sickness must grow worse.
The whole earth is our hospital
Endowed by the ruined millionaire,
Wherein, if we do well, we shall
Die of the absolute paternal care
That will not leave us, but prevents us everywhere.
The chill ascends from feet to knees,
The fever sings in mental wires.
If to be warmed, then I must freeze
And quake in frigid purgatorial fires
Of which the flame is roses, and the smoke is briars.
The dripping blood our only drink,
The bloody flesh our only food:
In spite of which we like to think
That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood—
Again, <b>in spite of that, we call this Friday good</b>.</span></pre><pre style="color: #000099; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: arial;">~T. S. Eliot</span></pre><pre style="color: #000099; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: arial;">(From East Coker of the Four Quartets)</span></pre>Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687291606249050356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31155815.post-34633105983793898262021-01-29T20:14:00.007-08:002021-01-29T20:14:56.738-08:00Dappled Things<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 20px; text-indent: -1em;">Glory be to God for dappled things –</span></p><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"> For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;<br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"> For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;<br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;<br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"> Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;<br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"> And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.<br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">All things counter, original, spare, strange;<br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"> Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)<br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"> With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;<br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:<br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"> Praise him.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-align: right; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">~ Gerard Manley Hopkins</div>Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687291606249050356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31155815.post-77692175813815488062021-01-29T20:14:00.000-08:002021-01-29T20:14:00.972-08:00L'Chaim 20<p> Gifts of the years - generation to generation -</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnWH9npFmxUDkoiogtInIXvwTybSmwq4y47JFultpstwZJIASsIxychzbvLsHc_Q8cnnHBV5jUB_LdkTniEOFt7YF_8BtoIcLRpdzRcLPhlz52HNXRtBAgTk2vaD7gLBGdYnO69w/s2016/115997665_10158655335583874_4292851716658765350_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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<b>The steadfast love of God endures all the day.</b><br />
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<b>Your tongue plots destruction,</b><br />
<b>like a sharp razor,</b><br />
<b>you worker of deceit.</b><br />
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<b>You love evil more than good,</b><br />
<b>and lying more than speaking what is right.</b><br />
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<b>You love all words that devour,</b><br />
<b>Oh deceitful tongue.</b><br />
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<i>from Psalm 52</i></div>
Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687291606249050356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31155815.post-48820438847626147772020-05-06T16:33:00.001-07:002020-05-06T16:33:31.510-07:00Sleep Serene<b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;">Autumn Journal<br /><br />[Part XXIV]</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;">Sleep serene, avoid the backward</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;">Glance; go forward, dreams, and do not halt</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;">(Behind you in the desert stands a token</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;">Of doubt — a pillar of salt).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;">Sleep, the past, and wake, the future,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;">And walk out promptly through the open door;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;">But you, my coward doubts, may go on sleeping,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;">You need not wake again — not any more.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;">The New Year comes with bombs, it is too late</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;">To dose the dead with honourable intentions:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;">If you have honour to spare, employ it on the living;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;">The dead are dead as Nineteen-Thirty-Eight.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;">Sleep to the noise of running water</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;">To-morrow to be crossed, however deep;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;">This is no river of the dead or Lethe,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;">To-night we sleep</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;">On the banks of Rubicon — the die is cast;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;">There will be time to audit</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;">The accounts later, there will be sunlight later</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;">And the equation will come out at last.</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;">~ Louis MacNeice</span></div>
Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687291606249050356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31155815.post-33020509297788566142020-01-30T20:45:00.001-08:002020-01-30T20:45:15.938-08:00Devoured in Peace<b>TRUE ENCOUNTER</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Wolf!" cried my cunning heart</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">At every sheep it spied,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">And roused the countryside.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">"Wolf! Wolf!"—and up would start</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Good neighbours, bringing spade</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">And pitchfork to my aid.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">At length my cry was known:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Therein lay my release.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">I met the wolf alone</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">And was devoured in peace.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">~ Edna St. Vincent Millay</span></div>
Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687291606249050356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31155815.post-54619019657654078902019-09-19T18:41:00.004-07:002019-09-19T18:43:36.356-07:00Chalcedony on Sard<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> <b>THE CAMEO</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Forever over now, forever, forever gone</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">That day. Clear and diminished like a scene</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Carven in Cameo, the lighthouse, and the cove between</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">The sandy cliffs, and the boat drawn up on the beach;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">And the long skirt of a lady innocent and young,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Her hand resting on her bosom, her head hung;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">And the figure of a man in earnest speech.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Clear and diminished like a scene cut in cameo</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">The lighthouse, and the boat on the beach, and the two shapes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Of the woman and the man; lost like the lost day</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Are the words that passed, and the pain,-discarded, cut away</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">From the stone, as from the memory the heat of the tears escapes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">From the action of the waves and from the action of sorrow forever secure,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">White against a ruddy cliff you stand, chalcedony on sard.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 16px;">~Edna St. Vincent Millay</span></div>
Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687291606249050356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31155815.post-69346682404843434162019-08-12T23:05:00.000-07:002019-08-12T23:05:49.610-07:00All My DaysAll the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.<br />
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Psalm 139:16</div>
Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687291606249050356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31155815.post-42992258484964891482019-08-07T07:39:00.000-07:002019-08-07T07:39:04.679-07:00Let Their Intrigues Be Their Downfall<div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;">
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<b><u>From Psalm 5 - Regarding Liars</u></b></div>
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<span class="text Ps-5-3" id="en-NIV-13977" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">In the morning,<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13977E" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13977E" title="See cross-reference E">E</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> <span class="small-caps" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, you hear my voice;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-5-3" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">in the morning I lay my requests before you</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-5-3" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">and wait expectantly.<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13977F" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13977F" title="See cross-reference F">F</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Ps-5-4" id="en-NIV-13978" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span>For you are not a God who is pleased with wickedness;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-5-4" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">with you, evil people<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13978G" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13978G" title="See cross-reference G">G</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> are not welcome.</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Ps-5-5" id="en-NIV-13979" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span>The arrogant<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13979H" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13979H" title="See cross-reference H">H</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> cannot stand<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13979I" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13979I" title="See cross-reference I">I</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-5-5" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">in your presence.</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Ps-5-5" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">You hate<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13979J" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13979J" title="See cross-reference J">J</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> all who do wrong;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="text Ps-5-6" id="en-NIV-13980" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><i><b>you destroy those who tell lies.<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13980K" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13980K" title="See cross-reference K">K</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></b></i></span></span><i><b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Ps-5-6" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">The bloodthirsty and deceitful</span></b></i><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"><i><b> </b></i></span><span class="text Ps-5-6" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><i><b>you, <span class="small-caps" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, detest</b></i>.</span></span></div>
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<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Ps-5-9" id="en-NIV-13983" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span>Not a word from their mouth can be trusted;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-5-9" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">their heart is filled with malice.</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><b><i><span class="text Ps-5-9" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Their throat is an open grave;<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13983Q" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13983Q" title="See cross-reference Q">Q</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></i></b><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"><b><i> </i></b></span><span class="text Ps-5-9" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><i>with their tongues they tell lies.</i></b><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13983R" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13983R" title="See cross-reference R">R</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Ps-5-10" id="en-NIV-13984" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span>Declare them guilty, O God!</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-5-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><i>Let their intrigues be their downfall.</i></b></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Ps-5-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Banish them for their many sins,<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13984S" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13984S" title="See cross-reference S">S</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-5-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">for they have rebelled<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13984T" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13984T" title="See cross-reference T">T</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> against you.</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Ps-5-11" id="en-NIV-13985" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><br />But let all who take refuge in you be glad;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-5-11" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">let them ever sing for joy.<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13985U" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13985U" title="See cross-reference U">U</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Ps-5-11" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Spread your protection over them,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-5-11" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">that those who love your name<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13985V" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13985V" title="See cross-reference V">V</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> may rejoice in you.<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-13985W" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-13985W" title="See cross-reference W">W</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; 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Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687291606249050356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31155815.post-26073266246161432242019-04-20T18:19:00.001-07:002019-04-20T18:19:03.113-07:00Elk River Falls<br />
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<span style="font-family: Gadugi, sans-serif;">is where Elk
River falls</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Gadugi",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">from a rocky
and considerable height,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Gadugi",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">turning pale
with trepidation at the lip<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Gadugi",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(it seems
from where I stood below)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Gadugi",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">before it is
unbuckled from itself<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Gadugi",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">and
plummets, shredded, through the air<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Gadugi",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">into the
shadows of a frigid pool,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Gadugi",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">so calm
around the edges, a place<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Gadugi",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">for water to
recover from the shock<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Gadugi",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">of falling
apart and coming back together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Gadugi",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">before it
picks up its song again,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Gadugi",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">goes sliding
around the massive rocks <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Gadugi",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">and past
some islands overgrown with weeds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Gadugi",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">then
flattens out and slips around a bend<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Gadugi",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">and
continues on its winding course<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Gadugi",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">according to
the camper’s guide,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Gadugi",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">then joins
the Clearwater at its northern fork,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Gadugi",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">which in
time must find the sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Gadugi",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">where this
and every other stream<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Gadugi",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">mistakes the
monster for itself,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Gadugi",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">sings its
name one final time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Gadugi",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">then feels
the sudden sting of salt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: right;">
Billy Collins</div>
Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687291606249050356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31155815.post-14209614359514907162019-04-01T18:29:00.000-07:002019-04-01T18:37:13.720-07:00Edinburgh CastleWell, this blog is "<b><u>MOSTLY</u></b> Poetry," but it is not "ALL Poetry," and this post will not be poetry! Three years ago when I was on a sabbatical relating to math history, I planned a stop in Edinburgh. I had no idea how much I would come to love that city. I live in California in the good old USA, but Edinburgh has become my home away from home and perhaps even my heart's home!<br />
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I have rarely had opportunity to travel abroad in my life, but I have a chance to do so next month, and while I could have chosen any destination in the world I am going back to Edinburgh! </div>
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This post is partly in excited anticipation of that, but also is intended to share with a travel-loving friend of mine some of my pictures of Edinburgh Castle, a place I cannot wait to revisit.</div>
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<b><u>PART 1</u>: some views OF the castle from outside of it:</b></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQeIXgq900236NB4x27DxfhrBpC4Q8DMKCoVgHMfXly_zU4M5FHSyvleMUBuIlQWgeDupKX23fe4Nr_pnL8FdoIvdK0rETzpGQHQ-xIBYulyvh8I7Ug8VvJmsD_ggBt42_lromXA/s1600/183.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1065" data-original-width="1600" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQeIXgq900236NB4x27DxfhrBpC4Q8DMKCoVgHMfXly_zU4M5FHSyvleMUBuIlQWgeDupKX23fe4Nr_pnL8FdoIvdK0rETzpGQHQ-xIBYulyvh8I7Ug8VvJmsD_ggBt42_lromXA/s400/183.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The front of the castle as you come up the Royal Mile (i.e. the High Street)</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-yFUiZM4uRC3jLUWD_DMtmU7dL_TsLJwYU-PR4UF15VMMaNYi5SGXyJb4Vk3mHdV2Rgpj4sMYGFLDTHdy3Jfh0xQ4S4g-XYwq1i3_RookFCEfIGlKJ_lSgxDR5JJfD2C1b_ZceQ/s1600/DSC02678.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1065" data-original-width="1600" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-yFUiZM4uRC3jLUWD_DMtmU7dL_TsLJwYU-PR4UF15VMMaNYi5SGXyJb4Vk3mHdV2Rgpj4sMYGFLDTHdy3Jfh0xQ4S4g-XYwq1i3_RookFCEfIGlKJ_lSgxDR5JJfD2C1b_ZceQ/s400/DSC02678.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Castle and Esplanade (which is where the Military Tattoo takes place)</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV_jGrDtuwAsrt0YNk2ggO23yo8f5LTEz2av2Yy0HHcBp6kkd9qXiIG_tb7EO8pnSK9GVielXA9Lmrw0tjs2l0MFv4SSHkObxn1XkDym2NF5MfTdvS_FHR26PBXqcvKbVI-yGbyQ/s1600/507.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1065" data-original-width="1600" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV_jGrDtuwAsrt0YNk2ggO23yo8f5LTEz2av2Yy0HHcBp6kkd9qXiIG_tb7EO8pnSK9GVielXA9Lmrw0tjs2l0MFv4SSHkObxn1XkDym2NF5MfTdvS_FHR26PBXqcvKbVI-yGbyQ/s400/507.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from the southeast</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgNB7T3s1ctWcRnb5122OsM-1faool0Fz2JItAaaNnDFdbNLtRCpX3q1RHUscxX3yGvixQDvyWfAw6arc-n024EIOQD66NFNYzGlSry3o0MpGGH-TosgvXj4B90kLzjcPQ2Vlyow/s1600/510.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1065" data-original-width="1600" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgNB7T3s1ctWcRnb5122OsM-1faool0Fz2JItAaaNnDFdbNLtRCpX3q1RHUscxX3yGvixQDvyWfAw6arc-n024EIOQD66NFNYzGlSry3o0MpGGH-TosgvXj4B90kLzjcPQ2Vlyow/s400/510.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from the southeast</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT2TfwYFTCTGX1T7w7jTghyphenhyphen2ykf6ddgAQDcy4oRrTch2pJWkpuk6RqRoel7C2nkOlIzQGsgrQSeAYlYygCxnG28Ye0oXuxNbmsnXl0Ffba_5S03KK44ohkx7-7tSWIfoL0J0TkZw/s1600/DSC01717.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1065" data-original-width="1600" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT2TfwYFTCTGX1T7w7jTghyphenhyphen2ykf6ddgAQDcy4oRrTch2pJWkpuk6RqRoel7C2nkOlIzQGsgrQSeAYlYygCxnG28Ye0oXuxNbmsnXl0Ffba_5S03KK44ohkx7-7tSWIfoL0J0TkZw/s400/DSC01717.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from the north (across Princes Street Gardens)</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6XwlN2zQErtg8Xgwy2FCHjK2WblWNIxbN-BISdgCHSYi06FJyaLmzs1b85xiys0eVresOYZYbtWgNZJ_LpKJ3kVf9Sn4pGoZm3BHn5WsvoKTNPB_JwfBhzkbKE9sWxJ1iTLTGAA/s1600/513.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1065" data-original-width="1600" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6XwlN2zQErtg8Xgwy2FCHjK2WblWNIxbN-BISdgCHSYi06FJyaLmzs1b85xiys0eVresOYZYbtWgNZJ_LpKJ3kVf9Sn4pGoZm3BHn5WsvoKTNPB_JwfBhzkbKE9sWxJ1iTLTGAA/s400/513.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from the west</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZc3RV8ywNWiJFou_iQqX_95mYxyEDWLWp4CyKbKKTVJUn1oU-qVqnDrAj7Zxpw9W8aM-_6I6jXbD2iSIx1rWTZDCInxrjjNRvtustLdRpENJb-nY7Wv869IuZdJ6kzCYf_e8p_w/s1600/531.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1065" data-original-width="1600" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZc3RV8ywNWiJFou_iQqX_95mYxyEDWLWp4CyKbKKTVJUn1oU-qVqnDrAj7Zxpw9W8aM-_6I6jXbD2iSIx1rWTZDCInxrjjNRvtustLdRpENJb-nY7Wv869IuZdJ6kzCYf_e8p_w/s400/531.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from the northwest (from the entry to St. Cuthbert's Church - where Napier was elder)</td></tr>
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<b><u>PART 2</u>: some views FROM the castle:</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking back down at St. Curthbert's Church where Napier was elder (St. John's JUST beyond)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View east - Firth of Forth, Scott Monument, Royal Scottish Academy, Balmoral Hotel, Firth of Forth, Waverley Station, Calton Hill</td></tr>
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<b><u>PART 3</u>: some views INSIDE the castle:</b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The one o'clock gun</td></tr>
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Jacqueline, I can't help but think of you with this. The castle has been (at times) and continues to be a place to station military personnel. Many military personnel have dogs, and there is a cemetery in the castle grounds for the dogs of soldiers!</div>
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I took all of the pictures above, but the pictures below are some that I found by looking at Google Images. When the military tattoo (which I'm sure is amazing!) takes place, stands such as those seen below are built, so you cannot even see the castle as you approach it from the Royal Mile. I'm not sure it you can enter the castle or not during these times. I have always avoided Edinburgh during these times.</div>
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As I can see from pictures others have posted, the military tattoo must be AMAZING to witness. I don't know how hard it is to get tickets to this event, but it remains my choice to visit Edinburgh at the lesser crowded times.</div>
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Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687291606249050356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31155815.post-18895575066728652952019-03-31T20:53:00.000-07:002019-03-31T20:53:11.604-07:00Mathematicians Dream and Wonder<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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by Ocean Trimboli</div>
Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687291606249050356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31155815.post-73169261444194944062019-03-30T09:32:00.002-07:002019-03-30T09:32:43.471-07:00Touchstone<br />
How foolish we men,<br />
who presume to be<br />
masters of our destiny.<br />
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For can we order the sun to set,<br />
or call forth life,<br />
or hold back death?<br />
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The touchstone of our life is One<br />
who conquered death,<br />
and rules the sun.<br />
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Helena Klein Nibbelink</div>
Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687291606249050356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31155815.post-41985004413681289392019-03-28T19:59:00.003-07:002019-03-30T09:31:03.093-07:00Love (III)<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span aria-describedby="annotation-1-text" class="annotation" id="annotation-1" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 250ms cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="-1">Love bade me welcome. Yet my soul drew back</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Guilty of dust and sin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow <span aria-describedby="annotation-2-text" class="annotation" id="annotation-2" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: 250ms cubic-bezier(0.215 , 0.61 , 0.355 , 1) 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="-1">slack</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> From my first entrance in,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span aria-describedby="annotation-3-text" class="annotation" id="annotation-3" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: 250ms cubic-bezier(0.215 , 0.61 , 0.355 , 1) 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="-1">If I lacked any thing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A guest, I answered, worthy to be here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Love said, You shall be he.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I the <span aria-describedby="annotation-1-text" class="annotation" id="annotation-5" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: 250ms cubic-bezier(0.215 , 0.61 , 0.355 , 1) 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="-1">unkind</span>, ungrateful? <span aria-describedby="annotation-6-text" class="annotation" id="annotation-6" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: 250ms cubic-bezier(0.215 , 0.61 , 0.355 , 1) 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="-1">Ah my dear</span>,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Love took my hand, and smiling did reply,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Who made the eyes but I?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Truth Lord, but I have <span aria-describedby="annotation-4-text" class="annotation" id="annotation-4" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: 250ms cubic-bezier(0.215 , 0.61 , 0.355 , 1) 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="-1">marred</span> them: let my shame</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Go where it doth deserve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And know you not, says Love, who bore the blame?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> My dear, then <span aria-describedby="annotation-7-text" class="annotation" id="annotation-7" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: 250ms cubic-bezier(0.215 , 0.61 , 0.355 , 1) 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="-1">I will serve</span>.</span></div>
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<span aria-describedby="annotation-8-text" class="annotation" id="annotation-8" style="border: 0px; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: 250ms cubic-bezier(0.215 , 0.61 , 0.355 , 1) 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="-1">You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span aria-describedby="annotation-9-text" class="annotation" id="annotation-9" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: 250ms cubic-bezier(0.215 , 0.61 , 0.355 , 1) 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="-1">So I did sit and eat.</span></span><br />
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Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687291606249050356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31155815.post-88651993093194987132019-03-04T21:38:00.002-08:002019-03-04T21:39:01.892-08:00The ReturnEarth does not understand her child,<br />
Who from the loud gregarious town<br />
Returns, depleted and defiled,<br />
To the still woods, to fling him down.<br />
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Earth cannot count the sons she bore:<br />
The wounded lynx, the wounded man<br />
Come trailing blood unto her door;<br />
She shelters both as best she can.<br />
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But she is early up and out,<br />
To trim the year or strip its bones;<br />
She has no time to stand about<br />
Talking of him in undertones<br />
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Who has no aim but to forget<br />
Be left in peace, be lying thus<br />
For days, for years, for centuries yet,<br />
Unshaven and anonymous;<br />
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Who, marked for failure, dulled by grief,<br />
Has traded in his wife and friend<br />
For this warm ledge, this alder leaf:<br />
Comfort that does not comprehend.<br />
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One day you finally knew<br />what you had to do, and began,<br />though the voices around you<span class="yiv4369386526gmail-text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br />kept shouting<br />their bad advice --<br />though the whole house<br />began to tremble<br />and you felt the old tug<br />at your ankles.<br />"Mend my life!"<br />each voice cried.<br />But you didn't stop.<br />You knew what you had to do,<br />though the wind pried<br />with its stiff fingers<br />at the very foundations,<br />though their melancholy<br />was terrible.<br />It was already late<br />enough, and a wild night,<br />and the road full of fallen<br />branches and stones.<br />But little by little,<br />as you left their voices behind,<br />the stars began to burn<br />through the sheets of clouds,<br />and there was a new voice<br />which you slowly<br />recognized as your own,<br />that kept you company<br />as you strode deeper and deeper<br />into the world,<br />determined to do<br />the only thing you could do --<br />determined to save<br />the only life you could save.</span></div>
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