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At the wedding...
9/26/2008
Me-- wondering how to post something interesting on Stumbleupon. Honest, the dinner plates on the tray are not mine! Funny, but no one asked me to hear their confession... :)
To be serious for a moment... I am not a priest, minister, rabbi, or man (person)"of the cloth", in any sense. I respect all manner of beliefs so long as their espousal and practice brings no harm to any human being. I don't believe that there is some formula that will bring peace to this heart of mine or to any other human heart. Late in my life I found peace when I began to help others. This I mostly do when I teach (I hope!) children in NYC public schools. I feel lucky to have an awareness of some kind that has led me to believe, but not to know, that I am part of something called "being." I believe, though I do not know, that we are all part of this "being". I have been blessed in this life, and hope that when I falter some one will always remind me to count my blessings. Just being able to share these thoughts with you here is a blessing, a miracle if you will.
There is also something about human language that others much much much much smarter than me have stated or theorized. I am especially thinking about Ludwig Wittgenstein, my favorite philosopher of all, about whom I hope sometime to post what I have tried to understand. Understanding completely the meaning of another human being is impossible because no two people in the world use the same language. I believe (I am not certain that I am representing him in a way that he would find acceptable... in this way I "justify" my claim below that I will be silent about him) that Wittgenstein's meaning was somehow embodied in this latter idea. He used the term, "language games". Reading his writings and comments about philosophy and other things seem to me to be to like reading poetry. In the only major work that he published during his lifetime, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, (His other major work, Philosophical Investigations, along with his other works and his notebooks and transcriptions of his lectures were edited and translated where necessary, and published after his death), centered on the nature of philosophical propositions. Wittgenstein's final statement in his Tractatus was, "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." I believe that I cannot speak about Wittgenstein and I hopefully will be silent except for certain intriguing biographical aspects of his life that I have read. kfs.org/~jonathan/witt/ten.html [kfs.org/~jonathan/witt/ten.html]
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Coffee for Mister Mondrian: Photo by Photographer...
Rated • 2 reviews • photography • photo.net
One lump or two? 
"Coffee for Mister Mondrian" by Floriana Barbu
Love this!
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"Un Paseo Por Las Nubes"
by Saul Santos Diaz
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Indonesias Toraja - Dolls - Los Angeles Times
Rated • 1 review • photography • latimes.com
From the page: "At Suaya cliff on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, life-size wooden dolls, representing dead Torajan royals entombed there, look down on family members who regularly deliver offerings such as cigarettes, palm wine and bottled water."
(Paul Watson / Los Angeles Times)
See Los Angeles Times article: latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-deathtribe14-2008aug14 [latimes.com] ,0,7032068.story
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Indonesias Toraja - Girl - Los Angeles Times
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Beauty "The funeral of Augustina Tambing brought thousands of relatives together over three days, including this girl, one of 20 grandchildren who helped greet mourners."(Paul Watson / Los Angeles Times)
There is a very interesting article,"The Torajans of Sulawesi live to die", by Paul Watson, published by The Los Angeles Times, regarding the funeral practices of the Toraja people of Indonesia.
From the page:
"After decades of planning for their funerals, the dead wait months, even years, for their last rites while relatives negotiate arrangements for the perfect send-off."
By Paul Watson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 14, 2008
BUNTU KALANDO, INDONESIA -- The last king of Toraja was 93 when he took his final breath in July 2003. Five years later, he's still part of the family, quietly residing in a small room in his former palace, shaded by two red parasols decorated with colored beads and gold fringe.
By Torajan tradition, he isn't really dead. He's just sick. The late monarch won't be gone for good until he has been laid to rest with traditional rites featuring the slaughter of scores of water buffaloes, at least one of them a rare spotted specimen.
The unhurried passage from this world to the next isn't reserved for former rulers. It is central to the culture of Torajans, an ethnic group in southern Sulawesi island whose customs are a hybrid of ancient tribal traditions and Protestant Christianity."
Click on this link for the remainder of the article:
latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-deathtribe14-2008aug14 [latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-deathtribe14-2008aug14] ,0,7032068.story
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Total eclipse of the sun | Science |...
Rated • 1 review • astronomy, photography • guardian.co.uk
Solar Eclipse
"The poetry of the earth is never dead."-- John Keats
Jiayuguan, China: Visitors to the Jiayuguan Fort on the Great Wall of China
watch the eclipse Photograph: David Gray /Reuters
There are rare events that occasionally bring some sense of perspective that elude any measurement. An eclipse of the sun occurred today. I am happy for those who were able to witness the night in the day. The total solar eclipse began in Canada, and this totality was seen there and eventually over Siberia and finally in northern China.
There is a great video here with NASA footage, timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4443396.ece [timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4443396.ece] , as well as an article, "Solar eclipse awes spectators across the globe". I was moved when, in the video, you could hear the sounds of the people cheering until that moment of blackness when there was applause. timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4443396.ece [timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4443396.ece]
From the article: "The eclipse began in arctic Canada, when the moon first came between the earth and the sun. The shadow then passed across northern Greenland to Russia, where soon after 1000 GMT yesterday darkness descended on the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. Birds fell silent and the temperature dropped suddenly. An eerie wind blew through the assembled throng (I love this--Dr.M)."
Here is the link for NASA's comprehensive coverage of the August 1st solar eclipse nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/eclipse/index.html [nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/eclipse/index.html]
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Wedding Kiss by ~ForcedReaction on deviantART
Rated • 1 review • photography • deviantart.com
Kissing is good for you!
"Wedding Kiss"
by ~ForcedReaction
on deviantART
"We've Only Just Begun"
We've only just begun to live,
White lace and promises
A kiss for luck and we're on our way.
And yes, We've just begun.
Before the rising sun we fly,
So many roads to choose
We start our walking and learn to run.
And yes, We've just begun.
Sharing horizons that are new to us,
Watching the signs along the way,
Talking it over just the two of us,
Working together day to day
Together.
And when the evening comes we smile,
So much of life ahead
We'll find a place where there's room to grow,
And yes, We've just begun.--Paul Williams and Roger Nichols
--Recorded by The Carpenters
