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How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
— Emily Dickinson
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Jackson Hole ???? Brings back memories ⛷🏂
Let us never forget the TRUE reason for the season. #WarOnSolstice
Mr Shojiro with his abacus for math calculations. Hand-colored photo, 1870,s, Japan, by photographer Felice Beato
“Armour Study” by Astri-Lohne: http://bit.ly/2FZi3Vu
“The ability to observe is like a muscle, and needs to be trained often to keep itself...
[I love Alter’s translations and commentary & own several of his previous books. His treatment of Genesis and the David saga are standouts. But this is a BFD! I was gifted $50 on Amazon by my eldest daughter. This is how I’ll spend it (‘cause I otherwise couldn’t afford it). Oh, & BTW, I’m a polytheistic atheist, far from a Bible thumper.]
Everything we sense in our external and internal worlds has a distinct subjective quality. A blasting outburst of rage feels different than a lover’s tender kiss on the cheek. Even routine acts such as reading a book or trying to recall a childhood friend’s name feel remarkably different. These and countless other feelings fill the wavelengths of our consciousness and drive our daily pursuits, helping us to navigate the world. We seek things that make us feel delight and enjoyment, and steer clear of things that cause stress or suffering, unless we expect pleasure to follow the pain. It is puzzling, however, how these external and internal pieces of information are organised into inner, subjective states. There is a strong intuition that our conscious self resides inside the body, specifically in our head. This might be because several of our sensory organs – eyes, ears, nose, taste buds – are located in the head. The psychologists Christina Starmans, now at the University of Toronto, and Paul Bloom at Yale University in Connecticut found that, when prompted, both adults and children locate a human’s self inside the head, but when shown pictures of aliens whose eyes are elsewhere, such as on the stomach, people mostly point toward the eyes rather than the eyeless head as the location of the self. Body and mind are not separable. Rather, they operate in tandem, providing the building blocks of our mental lives. For example, even mild bodily infections make us feel confused and fatigued, whereas a good, exhausting bout of exercise can lift our mood and make us feel, at times, euphoric.
Warrior effigy
Maya
Late Classic Period, A.D. 600–750
Object Place: Campeche, Mexico, Jaina Island area
Jaine-style figurine rendering a standing male warrior. He holds a rectangular shield decorated on front and rear faces with orange and white slip paint and “Maya Blue” post-fire pigment. A double row of plaque-like elements and six bead-like adornments outline three sides of the shield, which imply it was made of a flexible material folded in half lengthwise. The warrior wears a plain loincloth and hip skirt and a wide mesh or rope-like belt from which hang large Oliva shells. He is adorned with a round bead necklace and large earflares, likely representing jadeite jewelry, and an elaborate headdress composed of twisted ropes, painted cloth, and two circular feather panaches. Curvilinear designs decorate his face, representing either scarification or face paint, and he has a small goatee. His right arm is broken off at the elbow. Orange slip paint embellishes his legs and left hand, and post-fire “Maya Blue” pigment also colors his arm band and the cloth of his headdess.
This warrior wears an elaborate headdress, and the jadeite earflares and bead necklace imply elite status. His facial hair and body paint or tattoos convey power and prestige. The amazingly stable pigment known as Maya Blue adorns the warrior’s headdress and shield.
I am beginning to think boston dynamics is just fucking around at this point.
…and now I want a fic with Tony making robo-reindeer as a fun gift for Loki (because if you like someone enough you will build them robots, right?) who will proceed to enchant it into an eldritch magic robo-reindeer that will probably creep down people’s ventilation systems when bored and eat all their cookies.
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the holly and the ivy
now both are full well grown
of all the trees that are in the wood
the holly bears the crownO the rising of the sun, and the running of the deer…
(The Holly and the Ivy, Loreena Mckennitt)
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