The Romantic Mom.com: Amongst the Dandelions:
Quasimodo manages to be both extremely sweet and extremely threatening at the same time.
http://13thewicked13.deviantart.com/art/Quasimodo-s-Rose-123367845
Oh, I KNEW, I knew it. I knew it before she could speak...She's the one! At least the one for me.
Now, did she learn those faces from someone else? Or, is that her innate way to channel and bring Quasimodo to life to scare the less-than-worthy people away??
We Tender & Brave-hearted ones must do this sometimes you know.
The name Quasimodo has become synonymous with "a courageous heart beneath a grotesque exterior."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre-Dame
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
House Passes International Learn to Fly Day Resolution
AS a child loved to be in speeding fast cars, then experienced motorcycles, and a bit of how-to on auto racing. Then small planes. No pilots license yet. Do most appreciate being in helicopter flight now. What will come next? With helicopters, even the finest ones, Sikorsky questioned lack of advances on them, before he passed. I have to find that article again. After he died I cut it out of a paper, perhaps, NY Times as I recall. Just not finding it online.
Am sure other air vehicles are around, just not so much for public.
More advanced flight, available to main-stream, seems to be happening in Zero-gravity and such.
I LOVE THIS Piece below!
Had been going to local FBO's in S Florida for visits before this. I was happy to see this in May 2010 C.E.
"Whereas every one of these individuals had to learn to fly before they could achieve their greatness"
My sentiments precisely, in yoga, breath, dance, and life.--DD
EAA News - House Passes International Learn to Fly Day Resolution
House Passes International Learn to Fly Day Resolution
May13, 2010 —The U.S. House of Representatives passed via voice vote Wednesday the “International Learn to Fly Day” resolution (H. Res. 1284) in which the House “(1) supports the goals and ideals of International Learn to Fly Day; and (2) recognizes the contributions of flight instructors, flight schools, aviation groups, and industry in promoting and teaching the nation’s next generation of pilots.” The bill was introduced by Rep. Allen Boyd (D-Fla.) and sponsored by Rep. Vern Ehlers (R-Mich.), who serve as co-chairmen of the House General Aviation Caucus, which includes 116 members.House Calendar No. 193
111th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. RES. 1284
[Report No. 111-477]
Resolution
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
RESOLUTION
‘Supporting the goals and ideals of International Learn to Fly Day, and for other purposes.’
Whereas, since the birth of flight, aviation has had a tremendous impact on the imagination, innovation, and economy of the United States;
Whereas many of the Nation’s heroes have been pilots, including the Wright brothers, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Charles `Chuck’ Yeager, the Nation’s astronauts and military aviators, and the flight crew of U.S. Airways Flight 1549, among others;
Whereas every one of these individuals had to learn to fly before they could achieve their greatness;
Whereas there are approximately 600,000 pilots and approximately 230,000 commercial and general aviation airplanes in the United States;
Whereas flight brings joy, inspiration, and a sense of accomplishment to those who fly for recreation, pleasure, and work;
Whereas flight allows the movement of people and commodities across the Nation and around the world quickly and efficiently; and
Whereas the third Saturday in May is an appropriate day to observe International Learn to Fly Day: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved,
That the House of Representatives—
(1) supports the goals and ideals of International Learn to Fly Day; and
(2) recognizes the contributions of flight instructors, flight schools, aviation groups, and industry in promoting and teaching the Nation’s next generation of pilots.
http://www.eaa.org/news/2010/2010-05-13_resolution.asp
Thursday, May 17, 2012
"What's important is the invisible stuff"-David Williams
David.Swenson.03.Advanced.A.and.B. Series
David Swenson, David Williams and some respected USA practitioners who held space for Ashtanga Yoga in our time, in USA.
- I wish I had already lived my life in Southern CA & Encinitas CA!
- Better I had understood my own soul calling when it had me headed to California, USA.
- And the times I did visit, oh, had I obeyed heart & soul to set up home & a base there!
I was a tiny girl, when my maternal Grandpa, my friend, passed away. I was rather bereft, did not know what happened, as I recall. He was gone, I was whisked somewhere. Maybe just to the quarters of my parents, or to be with my dear lady, Auntie Lois. I understood vaguely, that my brave-hearted, lovely grandma went to see my Uncle Jeno, her brother, the singer, Hungarian troubador, actor, writer in S. California. California to me, was not even given a name then. It was a place, never explained to me, that my Grandma returned from, more beautiful than ever. A living room, where my Grandpa & I once visited with suitcases filled with beautiful clothing for my Grandma, and honey in a little bear jar, for my gift.
As well as other earth-sky-sea-places I am guided to be now... going to, visiting, living in, being in California is important to me! It has to be as easy & dear as ever though.
http://youtu.be/RaZFO1a1Sks
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Atlantis Paradise Princess
Found this few years back. Still like the juxtaposition of this home video & song.
The fair and sweet princess, fully present and unaware of her greatness.
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Oh My God, Jesus came back to give us recipes! SUPER GREEN SMOOTHIE RECIPE! ~ ~ Raw Living Food Recipe
I Knew that Dan McDonald was going to be a hit soon as I saw him few years back.
Timely & seems to be an authentic character.
Also Lou Corona is one sharp fellow. Look forward to meeting him sometime.--DD
Timely & seems to be an authentic character.
Also Lou Corona is one sharp fellow. Look forward to meeting him sometime.--DD
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Decomposition of the Flesh Atoned for the Sins of the Dead Person
Now, I may change my mind back to my EASIER pollyanna, rose-colored glasses, over-the-whole-thing, ways.
For now though...am sensing many, many walking dead!
Am again, now, almost as sensitively aware of these creatures, in the supra-sensitive ways I was in my youth and much of my life.
These perception & emitting faculties, these abilities were muted for a while. I had tried to make this so, in a good way.
I perhaps, experimented with the ways of the world: it was /is easier to overlook certain things.
Many things.It is more my nature to be quietly FIERCELY, loving, accepting, kind, easy and comfortable.
But comfort of this sort gives way to a living death.
The dear-seeming zombies, as self-appointed sheriff's of the state & state religions, the Rx pharmaceuticalized, psychologized, proudly-hypnotized, do prey upon this layer of of life blood and energy that they can sap from certain vulnerable- looking naive creatures.
Now, even the US systems-educated youth traipse along and mix easily among angry, feisty, lumbering dinosaurs. All rather unpleasant smelling entities. They sing pretty, look pretty, sometimes smell pretty, yet, they are not. And that is why they try so hard. And, even the ones who catch on and decide to not try...well...NO.
They rise up like scary winged-crones, with pretty faces, if one dare to shake the politicly correct fabric of the local culture.
They are proudly vulturous toward anyone who eschews the state-learned, psycho-social judeo-christian-muslim-hindu syncretized T.V and school-learned truth.
They may prettily parade around as yogis, and free-birds, but, they are attached, quite attached to the god-corpse.
Especially in South Florida USA, people abound who are walking dead.
There are pacemakers and other life-extending devices embedded in people who are actually DEAD.
Yet, to give many of these souls, if you believe such entity exists, or their life energy any reason to stay in the body longer, is not, so far proving to bring any perceptibly finer creatures.
They lumber, roar and fill the atmosphere with foul emmisions, sounds, airs and more.
As I walk among people, and live among people, I am reminded again of the saying:
often quoted as "Let the dead bury their own."
This came to me a strong and deep truth some years back.
Again it comes today:
I, perhaps, have more I can or should express of my experiences and perceptions of this state.
Or not.
Craving mountains, and fresh air...so,
perhaps, best that I simply live quietly alone.
Live within as much humor, liberty, Truth, Beauty, Love, as possible,
and let the dead bury their own.
Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
http://www.ldolphin.org/deaddead.html
The concept of gathering the bones of one�s ancestors is deeply embedded in the Hebrew Scriptures and reflected in Israelite burial practices (Gen. 49:29; Judges 2:10; 16:31; I Kings 11:21, 43, etc.). However, by New Testament times, the concept had taken on a new meaning. According to the Rabbinic sources, the decomposition of the flesh atoned for the sins of the dead person (a kind of purgatory) and the final stage of this process was gathering the bones and placing them in an ossuary (Meyers 1971: 80-85). Jesus confronts this contrary theology.
http://www.ldolphin.org/deaddead.html
For now though...am sensing many, many walking dead!
Am again, now, almost as sensitively aware of these creatures, in the supra-sensitive ways I was in my youth and much of my life.
These perception & emitting faculties, these abilities were muted for a while. I had tried to make this so, in a good way.
I perhaps, experimented with the ways of the world: it was /is easier to overlook certain things.
Many things.It is more my nature to be quietly FIERCELY, loving, accepting, kind, easy and comfortable.
But comfort of this sort gives way to a living death.
The dear-seeming zombies, as self-appointed sheriff's of the state & state religions, the Rx pharmaceuticalized, psychologized, proudly-hypnotized, do prey upon this layer of of life blood and energy that they can sap from certain vulnerable- looking naive creatures.
Now, even the US systems-educated youth traipse along and mix easily among angry, feisty, lumbering dinosaurs. All rather unpleasant smelling entities. They sing pretty, look pretty, sometimes smell pretty, yet, they are not. And that is why they try so hard. And, even the ones who catch on and decide to not try...well...NO.
They rise up like scary winged-crones, with pretty faces, if one dare to shake the politicly correct fabric of the local culture.
They are proudly vulturous toward anyone who eschews the state-learned, psycho-social judeo-christian-muslim-hindu syncretized T.V and school-learned truth.
They may prettily parade around as yogis, and free-birds, but, they are attached, quite attached to the god-corpse.
Especially in South Florida USA, people abound who are walking dead.
There are pacemakers and other life-extending devices embedded in people who are actually DEAD.
Yet, to give many of these souls, if you believe such entity exists, or their life energy any reason to stay in the body longer, is not, so far proving to bring any perceptibly finer creatures.
They lumber, roar and fill the atmosphere with foul emmisions, sounds, airs and more.
As I walk among people, and live among people, I am reminded again of the saying:
often quoted as "Let the dead bury their own."
This came to me a strong and deep truth some years back.
Again it comes today:
I, perhaps, have more I can or should express of my experiences and perceptions of this state.
Or not.
Craving mountains, and fresh air...so,
perhaps, best that I simply live quietly alone.
Live within as much humor, liberty, Truth, Beauty, Love, as possible,
and let the dead bury their own.
Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
http://www.ldolphin.org/deaddead.html
An Interpretation Based on First-Century Jewish Burial Practices
McCane suggests an interpretation that is consistent with first-century Jewish burial practices (1990:40-41). After a body was placed in a burial cave, it was left to decompose. The family mourned for seven days. This initial mourning period was followed by a less intense 30-day period of mourning, called shloshim. However, the entire mourning period was not fully over until the flesh of the deceased had decomposed, usually about a year later. The Jerusalem Talmud states: When the flesh had wasted away, the bones were collected and placed in chests (ossuaries). On that day (the son) mourned, but the following day he was glad, because his forebears rested from judgment (Moed Qatan 1:5).
The final act of mourning, the gathering of the bones into a bone box called an ossuary, was called �ossilegium,� or �secondary burial.� It is this act, I believe, that is in view in our Lord�s response. [For a good discussion of secondary burials, see Meyers 1971; Rahmani 1981. On ossuaries, see Rahmani 1982b]. The disciples� request and Jesus� response makes good sense in light of the Jewish custom of secondary burial. When the disciples requested time to bury their fathers they were actually asking for time to finish the rite of secondary burial. Their father had died, been placed in the family burial cave, and the sons had sat shiv�ah and most likely shloshim. They had requested anywhere from a few weeks to up to 11 months to finish the ritual of ossilegium before they returned to Jesus.
Jesus� sharp answer also fits well with secondary burial. The fathers had been buried in the family burial caves and their bodies were slowly decomposing. In the tombs, along with the fathers, were other family members who had died, some awaiting secondary burial, others already placed in ossuaries. When Jesus stated: �Let the dead bury their own dead,� He was referring to two different kinds of dead in the tomb: the bones of the deceased which had already been neatly placed in ossuaries and the fathers who had yet to be reburied. The phrase �own dead� indicates that the fathers were included among the dead.
.....
The concept of gathering the bones of one�s ancestors is deeply embedded in the Hebrew Scriptures and reflected in Israelite burial practices (Gen. 49:29; Judges 2:10; 16:31; I Kings 11:21, 43, etc.). However, by New Testament times, the concept had taken on a new meaning. According to the Rabbinic sources, the decomposition of the flesh atoned for the sins of the dead person (a kind of purgatory) and the final stage of this process was gathering the bones and placing them in an ossuary (Meyers 1971: 80-85). Jesus confronts this contrary theology.
http://www.ldolphin.org/deaddead.html
Music for Beauty
In case you read my last blog first.--DD
Music for beauty.
Piano and Violin Duet - Rain - Brian Crain
Friday, May 11, 2012
1839 and before
Many, many young and old practitioners seem not to be aware of this or if they have an inkling, seem not to care.
So many rich and interesting stories to correlate.
The lawyers who are western educated and holy men abound...
Let's next see what came before 1893...
Monday, May 7, 2012
Friday, May 4, 2012
Some people use Yoga Practice! - Centre for Yoga Studies
Some people use Yoga Practice…… - Centre for Yoga Studies
“Some people use Yoga Practice (or even training for a career as a Yoga Teacher) to move away from something undesirable for, or in their lives (abhāva). Others use Yoga to move towards something desirable (bhāva) for, or in their lives.
Either can be positive, however good to be clear about our motives, especially if our relationship with that which we wanted to move way from, or move towards, changes along the way."
“Some people use Yoga Practice (or even training for a career as a Yoga Teacher) to move away from something undesirable for, or in their lives (abhāva). Others use Yoga to move towards something desirable (bhāva) for, or in their lives.
Either can be positive, however good to be clear about our motives, especially if our relationship with that which we wanted to move way from, or move towards, changes along the way."
Some people use Yoga Practice! - Centre for Yoga Studies
Some people use Yoga Practice…… - Centre for Yoga Studies
“Some people use Yoga Practice (or even training for a career as a Yoga Teacher) to move away from something undesirable for, or in their lives (abhāva). Others use Yoga to move towards something desirable (bhāva) for, or in their lives.
Either can be positive, however good to be clear about our motives, especially if our relationship with that which we wanted to move way from, or move towards, changes along the way."
“Some people use Yoga Practice (or even training for a career as a Yoga Teacher) to move away from something undesirable for, or in their lives (abhāva). Others use Yoga to move towards something desirable (bhāva) for, or in their lives.
Either can be positive, however good to be clear about our motives, especially if our relationship with that which we wanted to move way from, or move towards, changes along the way."
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Thursday, April 19, 2012
What is the heart & circulatory system?
As I have explored, and allowed for life, I have encountered time and again stops, walls. These were attended to sometimes by simply letting the wall be. I could be found sitting there for a bit, then moving through, over, around. These walls that seemed to be there were not really so solid. They were addressed by lesser known or less mainstream theories, and persons.
See:
http://www.rsarchive.org/RelArtic/Marinelli/
Excerpt of link:
"Introduction
The fact that the heart by itself is incapable of sustaining the circulation of the blood was known to physicians of antiquity. They looked for auxiliary forces of blood movement in various types of `etherisation' and `pneumatisation' or ensoulement of the blood on its passage through the heart and lungs. With the dawn of modern science and over the past three hundred years, such concepts became untenable. The mechanistic concept of the heart as a hydraulic pump prevailed and became firmly established around the middle of the nineteenth century.
The heart, an organ weighing about three hundred grams, is supposed to `pump' some eight thousand liters of blood per day at rest and much more during activity, without fatigue. In terms of mechanical work this represents the lifting of approximately 100 pounds one mile high! In terms of capillary flow, the heart is performing an even more prodigious task of `forcing' the blood with a viscosity five times greater than that of water through millions of capillaries with diameters often smaller than the red blood cells themselves! Clearly, such claims go beyond reason and imagination. Due to the complexity of the variables involved, it has been impossible to calculate the true peripheral resistance even of a single organ, let alone of the entire peripheral circulation. Also, the concept of a centralized pressure source (the heart) generating excessive pressure at its source, so that sufficient pressure remains at the remote capillaries, is not an elegant one..."
http://www.rsarchive.org/RelArtic/Marinelli
The fact that the heart by itself is incapable of sustaining the circulation of the blood was known to physicians of antiquity. They looked for auxiliary forces of blood movement in various types of `etherisation' and `pneumatisation' or ensoulement of the blood on its passage through the heart and lungs. With the dawn of modern science and over the past three hundred years, such concepts became untenable. The mechanistic concept of the heart as a hydraulic pump prevailed and became firmly established around the middle of the nineteenth century.
The heart, an organ weighing about three hundred grams, is supposed to `pump' some eight thousand liters of blood per day at rest and much more during activity, without fatigue. In terms of mechanical work this represents the lifting of approximately 100 pounds one mile high! In terms of capillary flow, the heart is performing an even more prodigious task of `forcing' the blood with a viscosity five times greater than that of water through millions of capillaries with diameters often smaller than the red blood cells themselves! Clearly, such claims go beyond reason and imagination. Due to the complexity of the variables involved, it has been impossible to calculate the true peripheral resistance even of a single organ, let alone of the entire peripheral circulation. Also, the concept of a centralized pressure source (the heart) generating excessive pressure at its source, so that sufficient pressure remains at the remote capillaries, is not an elegant one..."
http://www.rsarchive.org/RelArtic/Marinelli
http://youtu.be/H4FM6yEbHLI
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Poignant Truth ~ The 5th Element - Leeloo
A poignant truth in:
" The 5th Element"
young man: "What's she doing?"
elder man: "Learning our history, the last 5000 years that she's missed...
She's been asleep for quite a while you know."
young man: "Father, I know she's been through a lot, we don't have much time."
elder man: "Yes, you're right."
[draft]
Upon entry into the worldly path and awakening, take care for the beasties you will encounter during your entry and journey as this creature who has few or no facades.
Certain beasties, mal-entities whole incarnated souls, or those partially hitching a ride in-corp-orated in hu-man form, will, unbeknownst to themselves sometimes, want a taste of this essence they cannot name. The quintessence.
Some beasties are socially clawing, and will be quite amiable, friendly, and then turn snarly, even grubby, when they face a stronger light, and life-force being emitted from this nakedly-awake creature shining into their eyes or personal field.
Some energy-quelling & consuming-beasties, operating through socially appropriate acts of love, proper politics, holy religion, or good-works, will aim to take, harm, control, reject, or kill the fresh, natural and brightly-lit ones, for it is unknown and alien to their intelligence, their very makeup.
It looks like a delicious snack that they may capture and groom, digest for their own use. And, if they cannot do any of these actions, or perceive that the new one is out-shining their own light, or may become stronger, they will name it, something evil or wrong. They will mark it.
And an individual or previously loosely related group of parasitic decay thriving amoebas, all operating at a similar frequency & density will then energetically bond and stealthily stalk and find ways to have the awakening or awakened one die.
There are the life forms with eyes to see, yet even these may simply keep wide berth, avoid, even look away, pretending that the one among them is dead, all the while watching out of the corner of their eyes, and continuing to stalk.
And, in their own survival mode, they become very protective of, and sure of, the necessity of the structures and games they have built.
An awakened one, or awakening one among them, will even have pressure put upon it to self-destruct.
Status quo, and appearances, and the "show" are important to the beasties. Leave them to the carne-val.
Step back into the finer, steady, and radiant path.
DD
http://ddyoga.blogspot.com/2012/08/shes-awake-fifth-element-leeloo.html Thursday, April 12, 2012
Elders of mine
DD & Uncle Richie.
(talk about a pale child)
Somehow between my grandpa, my uncles and other elders in my childhood, I learned that elder men-people spoke to me as an equal, and treated me kindly & decently.
We in turn, expressed, each in our own ways, respect & affection for them. And still do.
Uncle Dick, DD and Uncle Richie
I have considered this:
I had six matriarchal uncles, my mothers 3 brothers, and her sisters 3 husbands. Each Uncle served in US military. I have now 1 cousin, and second cousin who served. My sister married US veteran. In my experience with each, a mutual respect exists.
The Women of Parkour - Video Library - The New York Times
The Women of Parkour - Video Library - The New York Times
Loving action, dance, tennis, gymnastics, outdoors... For sure would have been part of my practice had I seen as a child.
Loving action, dance, tennis, gymnastics, outdoors... For sure would have been part of my practice had I seen as a child.
When her work is done, she forgets it. That is why it lasts forever. Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching
Care about people's approval
and you will be their prisoner.
Their wisdom was unfathomable.
There is no way to describe it;
all we can describe is their appearance.
They were careful
as someone crossing an iced-over stream.
Alert as a warrior in enemy territory.
Courteous as a guest.
Fluid as melting ice.
Shapable as a block of wood.
Receptive as a valley.
Clear as a glass of water.
Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?
The Master doesn't seek fulfillment.
Not seeking, not expecting,
she is present, and can welcome all things.
Care about people's approval
and you will be their prisoner.
15
The ancient Masters were profound and subtle.Their wisdom was unfathomable.
There is no way to describe it;
all we can describe is their appearance.
They were careful
as someone crossing an iced-over stream.
Alert as a warrior in enemy territory.
Courteous as a guest.
Fluid as melting ice.
Shapable as a block of wood.
Receptive as a valley.
Clear as a glass of water.
Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?
The Master doesn't seek fulfillment.
Not seeking, not expecting,
she is present, and can welcome all things.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Story that is coming back to me>
There was a time I wore a big old men's wristwatch. It was modern and way too big, like a bangle on my wrist. I wore it just because it was, I don't know...
It was big, I liked the look...I did not like caring about time...I was back in school and the watch reminded me of time...and of a person...
Then I came across a story by Salinger:
And a character Esme.
I think this is the whole text online:
saving it to read:
http://www.gradesaver.com/nine-stories/study-guide/section4/
ABSTRACT: An American soldier stationed in Devon in April, 1944, meets a precocious 13 year old girl, named Esme, and her brother, Charles, 5. They have a brief, entrancing conversation. Esme asks the American, who tells her he is a writer, to write a story for her about squalor. He promises that he will. Then comes the squalid part. The scene shifts to Bavaria several weeks after V-E Day. The soldier, now referred to as Sergeant X, is suffering from battle fatigue - shaking hands, facial tick, etc. His table is covered with unopened packages, and letters. One of them accidentally comes to the foreground and he opens it - it is a letter from Esme with a few words from Charles.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1950/04/08/1950_04_08_028_TNY_CARDS_000223104#ixzz1rfIocreF
Reader’s Guide – “For Esme – With Love and Squalor” | salingerincontext.org
It was big, I liked the look...I did not like caring about time...I was back in school and the watch reminded me of time...and of a person...
Then I came across a story by Salinger:
And a character Esme.
I think this is the whole text online:
saving it to read:
http://www.gradesaver.com/nine-stories/study-guide/section4/
ABSTRACT: An American soldier stationed in Devon in April, 1944, meets a precocious 13 year old girl, named Esme, and her brother, Charles, 5. They have a brief, entrancing conversation. Esme asks the American, who tells her he is a writer, to write a story for her about squalor. He promises that he will. Then comes the squalid part. The scene shifts to Bavaria several weeks after V-E Day. The soldier, now referred to as Sergeant X, is suffering from battle fatigue - shaking hands, facial tick, etc. His table is covered with unopened packages, and letters. One of them accidentally comes to the foreground and he opens it - it is a letter from Esme with a few words from Charles.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1950/04/08/1950_04_08_028_TNY_CARDS_000223104#ixzz1rfIocreF
Reader’s Guide – “For Esme – With Love and Squalor” | salingerincontext.org
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