...Tinsel the precincts of the winter sun.
What loftier organ than these pipes of beech,
Pillars resounding with the jackdaws' speech,
And poplars swayed with light like shaken bells?
Wings that could be hands, but are not...
Cries that might be pleas yet cannot
Question or disinvent the stalker's gun,
Be your own hammerbeam angels of the air...
Carol for the Birds
Anne Stevenson
Verse Daily
from the author of Seabiscuit:
"...When I opened my eyes on the morning of the fourth day, I had a black feeling. I couldn't get up.
For as long as two months at a time, I couldn't get down the stairs. Bathing became nearly impossible. Once a week or so, I sat on the edge of the tub and rubbed a washcloth over myself. The smallest exertion plunged me into a 'crash.' First, my legs would weaken and I'd lose the strength to stand. Then I wouldn't be able to sit up. My arms would go next, and I'd he unable to lift them. I couldn't roll over. Soon, I would lose the strength to speak. Only my eyes were capable of movement. At the bottom of each breath, I would wonder if I'd be able to draw the next one..."
Laura Hillenbrand's riveting account of years of frustration and illness with the misdiagnosed and little-understood myalgic encephalomyelitis at the M.E. sitelink from the Bookslut
Daniela Mercury Brazilian chanteuse
"The Ainu People" introduces supernatural abilities ueinkar (clairvoyance or second sight) and tus (phychomancy) of some Ainu people. The book reports on an ikoinkar who had the abilities of tus and ueinkar as well as her skilled midwifery, from interviews and recorded information. The midwifery basically using her fingers and foot (arbitrarily selected) was equivalent, or even superior to present obstetric treatment in hospitals in that, at the very beginning of a baby's life, she tried to find abnormality in the baby's backbone and, if she found it, fixed the trouble on the spot. She told the sex of unborn baby with 100% of accuracy by examination touch or her ueinkar.
Ikoinkar
Ainu Kotan
Stone barn on steep cliffs of Streymoy island, Faroe Islands
the caption says Ainu and fish but it looks like a carved fish, and from the man's face I'd say he did the carving.
Old man in the streets of Kyoto
Frantisek Staud
...On a street in Vienna, there were four
bakers making a precarious existence. There wasn't
enough demand for four bakers on that street. The first
baker pondered this as the sun went down. When the sun
came up, he had a sign in his window: the best baked
goods in Vienna. Soon he was doing a bit more business
than the others. The second baker thought and thought.
The next morning there was a bigger sign in his
window: the best baked goods in Austria. The third guy
said: these two guys are eating my lunch. His was a bigger
sign. It said: best baked goods in Europe. His business
picked up. The fourth guy made a really big sign: "best
baked goods on this street...
Miriam Goodman
Frigate: The Transverse Review of Books
Ainu elder
Hokkaido (violet province top of map)
Japanese Old Photographs in Bakamatsu-Meiji Period
Nagasaki University
The Candid Revelation:
Lawrence's Aesthetics
Lawrence is one of our true prophets, not only in his "madness for the unknown" and in his explicit warning—
The Hostile Sun
Joyce Carol Oates on the poetry of D.H. Lawrence
at Celestial Timepiece
Untitled (not self-portrait)
Mehrdad Oskouei
Photographers
at Kargah, an Iranian artists' site
Jerome Klapka Jerome was born into this unorthodox, highly-religious family on 2nd May 1859. He had three exotically-named older siblings: his two sisters Paulina Deodata and Blandina Dominica, and a brother, Milton Melancthon, who was born in 1855 and died of the croup aged six.
Jerome Jerome père boasted the unusual middle name of Clapp (in fact he dropped 'Jerome' and was known to his congregation as 'Parson Clapp'). It might be thought that 'Klapka' was derived from that, but no. General George Klapka, the young hero of the 1849 Hungarian War of Independence, had left his country for Britain and was commissioned to write his autobiography. Needing somewhere quiet, he had accepted the invitation of Rev. Jerome to stay and become a family friend. JKJ was named en hommage. To avoid confusion between the two Jerome Jeromes, however, JKJ was known in the family as 'Luther'.
Jerome K. Jerome Societylink from plep
time permitting a Larkins' bit forthcomes
H. E. Bates
and more H. E. Bates
{it seems the Larkins were abducted into the cinematic at some point, thereby clogging the google results. more later.}
Cool blossom murmur angel sound
shall sing across America
sent puddle clock giggle
her full love bring every river
voice tiny roaring through lunch
Eagle's Winglink thru :::wood s lot:::
Saraswati
Flying Squirrel
Ardhanarishvara
from the somewhat scammy and unprovenanced Exotic India 'One Stop Shop for Indian Arts'
also:
Sahasrara Chakra
Shennong, the Chinese Deity of Medicine
Still Life
Carlo Traversi
Bay City
Kevin Cappis
Kandinsky style
angel estevez
White Lobby
Daffydd Morgan
Nursery
Karin Eszterhas
dementia praecox
Conny Jonsson
{this sentence:
"Flora Macdonald var enligt legenderna en okomplicerad ung hoglandsflicka"
without translation leads me to the conclusion that hogland(umlaut 'o') means highland. hog=high. which leads me to the imagined early roots of high with the 'gh' glotally aspirated. which leads me to the poetic truth of the word for high, among a race of walking people, which we once were, before this dark cowardly infirm age, the truth being the wheezing sound of a poet having climbed a long steep hill.}
Cabaret de La Fin Du Mond
Abel Truchet
Greggie Fine Art
