Until excavations began, a complex on this scale was not thought possible for a community so ancient. from a book ad at cryptogon

"Like a shadow gliding along beneath one's feet, the posthumous & bereaved life. Silent speech can ring deafening in the ears."
Joyce Carol Oates ‏@

Slingerland hated the railroad, and he could not see as Neale did, or any of the engineers or builders. This old trapper had the vision of the Indian -- that far-seeing eye cleared by distance and silence, and the force of the great, lonely hills. Progress was great, but nature unspoiled was greater. If a race could not breed all stronger men, through its great movements, it might better not breed any, for the bad over-multiplied the good, and so their needs magnified into greed. Slingerland saw many shiningbands of steel across the plains and mountains, many stations and hamlets and cities, a growing and marvelous prosperity from timber, mines, farms, and in the distant end -- a gutted West.

Zane Grey @today in literature

What "particle" means, in Higgs boson "particle", is "little tiny thing". Not "grain of sand".

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Happy Birthday April!

refuse to relinquish the love

Happy Birthday April!
Yes!

rivers and crocodiles

M-
It's not that I exactly forgot, but when it mattered yes, I did, unmistakably, unforgivably, but overall, no, I didn't forget, I remembered, the day before, and during, and after for a few days up to and including today ten days later. But not when it mattered most I guess, when for those few moments I was here, or rather "here".
At that time I forgot.
I have no excuse.
My shield is battered, but still with me.
So it's different than it looks, but then everything is, isn't it?
Was.
We sat on the porch and watched our hands,
deal the day away.
You and me.
Then.
Now.
Happy birthday, in the name of the pumpkin Buddha.
Then, now.
Whoever you were, whoever you are.
Wherever you are.

"...progress can only come through trying and failing and failing better"
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"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

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my blue mute form...

Courtney Queeney/Poetry Daily

April

Here's a picture of a cow and a graveyard.

Here's a tiny bedroom in a little house. A tiny bedroom filled with brand new clothes and the only place to sleep in it a nest on the top bunk of a bunkbed set whose lower berth is piled to the top with dresses with the price tags still on them.

Here's me and you out back waving at your mom in the sky as she goes flying by.

I've been going around singing Chuck Berry's "Maybelline" in my head ever since last Tuesday the 6th of April. Wishing I could get to an online computer and frustrated because I couldn't.

Because I wanted to say here

Happy Birthday

To You

Mark Wood's photos are consistently improving

the saddler of Bawtry

Arthur, Arthur!

The Wolves of Illinois

"Check out the wolves," he said (the minutes ticking)

(the minutes nuzzling each other's flanks)

(the minutes shining in the furthest portion of the field...

Lucia Perillo/Poetry Daily

Galileo's finger

the point:

In Skywatchers, Shamans and Kings, American astronomer Edwin Krupp states that the centre in all cosmologies marked the place ‘where creation began, where order and life first emerged.’
This explains why many world centres are often referred to as ‘the navel of the Earth, the point at which creation began,’ says Mircea Eliade.
Stones or other objects such as golden rods in Cuzco, the ancient Inca capital, or meteorites in the ancient Egyptian city of Heliopolis (now an outer suburb of modern Cairo) marked many of these so-called ‘centres’ of the world.
The ancient Greek name for these marker stones is especially revealing, for omphalos means ‘navel’. Given this link with creation, it would be interesting to discover how many of these centres have an association either directly or indirectly with the stars of the Pleiades. The omphalos at Delphi may be one of these.

Munya Andrews
Seven Sisters of The Pleiades