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Celadon 4, 2020 Print on pigmented jesmonite 216 x 203 x 4 in. (548.6 x 515.6 x 10.2 cm.)
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Oliver Osborne More Birth More Education More Leisure More Death Peles Empire, Berlin
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Speaking of the gala, what are your thoughts on Ilan Peled 2016 Masculinites and Third Gender, where he claims that gala were related to Inanna? Personally I feel like the argument that they are members of her clergy specifically is a stretch, since it is also mentioned that they were linked to Ea and also Ninazu (in the same text that linked Kalu to Inanna/Ishtar, the kalamahu was of Ninazu) although there are texts that do seem to suggest some kind of connection to Ishtar?
Mixed feelings on his work; he's far from the worst the field has to offer, the "non-hegemonic masculinity" interpretation is interesting, and I appreciate consisteintly pushing back against dubious takes linking whatever possible with Cybele, Attis and galli (Frazerian!), but he falls into many of the pitfalls other authors I've mentioned in the recent Inanna article point out in Assyriological treatments of gender, like assuming that every figure whose gender is uncertain is bound to be AMAB or seeking sexual undertones in performances which appear to lack it (though not always, and he in fact rightfully chastised Marten Stol in a review - p. 359 - for similar ventures). I am also not sure why he persistently argues that we can presume members of discussed professions had no children (he sees the inability to have children as some grand unifying feature of gala, kurgarru, assinnu, pilipili and others) when we actually tend to know nothing about their family life, with the eception of the gala, who did not seem to differ in that regard from "regular" priests. Personally I see no point in engaging with most studies which treat the gala as innately Inanna-related for the simple reason this is empirically not true. More under the cut; I went through some of this material before already.
The screencap is from Paul Delnero's How To Do Things With Tears. Ritual Lamenting in Ancient Mesopotamia (p. 110); the cited study is Musiker und ihr vokales Repertoire: Untersuchungen zu Inhalt und Organisation von Musikerberufen und Liedgattungen in altbabylonischer Zeit by Dahlia Shehata. I should note Shehata argues for some sort of innate connection for regular gala, which is odd, since she admits herself it is not evident in the ceremonies they took part in (p. 89) and that the list of attested head gala makes it impossible to link them with a single deity (p. 64). The evidence mustered to prove the connection is limited to two literary texts (Inanna's Descent and an Emesal text which has Enki create the first gala to perform a soothing song for Inanna; in both cases you can make an equally strong if not stronger case for an Enki connection, especially since we know in the first millennium BCE the arts of the gala were regarded as a creation of Ea like these of other classes of clergy) and a proverb which doesn't even mention Inanna but merely a city gate named after her; she even brings up a literary text where the gala is seemingly acting in association with Utu (p. 91), which somehow doesn't get the same preferential treatment. This is not exactly a criticism of the monograph as a whole, and in fact I recommend it (note most of it is about regular musicians, though - not gala, let alone their gender). The gala section ends with a much appreciated conclusion that the range of their religious activity was much greater than often assumed and it has a fair share of interesting proposals, like interpreting the gala as countertenor (apparently proposed earlier by Farouk al-Rawi already, but new to me), or a new interpretation of proverbs which according to Shehata essentially poke fun at gala as cowardly megalomaniacs whose economic position is secure thanks to their religious duties; in other words, fairly standard negative portrayal of clergy across time and space. I also think stressing that there is no reason to doubt at least some gala had biological children is more than fair; we do have cases where members of a specific group could only adopt - for example naditu - but this is always made explicit in primary sources. I have two other issues doesn't pertain to the gala, also: I am not sure where does Shehata's idea the pilipili is the Sumerian translation of assinnu come from - I am fairly sure they are discussed separately most of the time, and the standard Akkadian translation of pilipili is simply pilipilu. Also, we can't even be sure pilipili's gender (let alone anything else about them) was the same as that of the assinnu. The other issue is that the Ninshubur coverage is.... puzzling at best.
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If I had an opportunity to talk about my versions, alternate universes, and re-writes of my little pony a new generation, it would take actual HOURS.
I have so much lore. SO. MUCH. FUCKING. LORE.
Welp this is what I get for getting hyperfixated for 2 years before I watched other things
Half of my lore about g5 was made with my bestfriend during middleschool lunch, making our own ocs and all that jazz. Then I stole their ocs
I have a hazbin hotel au, a owl house au, an empires smp au, a rebellion au, a swap au, a genderbend au, an au where things were slightly different. NOBODY ELSE CARES ABOUT IT ANYMORE PLEASE BRING BACK THE MLP G4 AND G5 FANDOM I AM BEGGINF PLEA AS S PELE PELEAAAAS GFHFH FHDHWIWR J8G74TZGWY39YECTGDVLHUXRUTSDST524WTHDJFN C,/77%0]&,@%#=7
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Avalon
We are back in Bucharest and meeting up with the Avalon Cruise which is the main focus of this trip.
We move from our small hotel in the heart of the old town to a large upscale hotel north of there.
I take advantage os the new location to check out the local sights.
The Athenaeum is right across the street. It's the main concert hall in town.
Across the street from that is the old royal palace. It's now a series of museums. I bought a ticket to the Historical Museum thinking this was the historical art museum, but it was the reception rooms of the palace.
I have little interest in royal buildings anymore. They aren't interesting, just showy. So I spent a few minutes walking through the rooms and headed back to the ticket office to buy a ticket to the historical art museum.
Romania has an odd history, at least to me. It dates back to the Roman conquest and earlier, but then it goes silent for about a thousand years when it was on the edges of the Ottoman and Hungarian empires and a road for all the Asian nomads on their way to Europe.
So the historical art all started about 1300 through 1700's. It was all religious Icons and such. I find a little of that interesting, but after a while it's just more of the same.
So that didn't take long either.
In the evening we met the group for the cruise and got the bad news. The water levels in the Danube are low and the boat can't get to our scheduled embarkation point. So we will be in hotels for an extra night and travel upstream by bus to meet the ship.
It was noted that Upstream of Bucharest the Danube in also too low and some of those cruises are now entirely bus trips. So it could be worse. But the continual changing of hotels is hard for Cathie and we chose the river cruise to avoid that.
I also find the bus trips annoying. First taking photos from the bus is terrible. You get shot windows of good shots and have the reflections in the windows. They never seem to stop for photos.
Secondly is the fact that you hear the continual chatter all around you. The complaints about taxes and regulations, how much money young people want to make. I listed to one group complaining about people wanting $15 and hour to work in coffee shops and restaurants. So I wondered how that related to the $2 an hour I made in college part-time and summer jobs. It turns out that $2 an hour in 1970 is equal to about $15 an hour today. Huh!
Our bus went to Transylvania. Our first stop was Peles Castle. This is the castle built by King Carol I, who the Romanians recruited from Germany to be their first king in the 1860's.
He spent his own money to build a very ornate very Bavarian Castle, making sure to buy the most expensive materials.
Well, it is substantial work, but it doesn't do anything for me. He made sure to use foreign craftsmen for all the work, apparently having no confidence in the abilities of the people of the country of which he was now king.
Then we drove through the Carpathian Mountains, which a more interesting than you can really tell from a bus. Arriving in Brasov for the night. Brasov is the second largest city in Romania.
It's an interesting town, surrounded by mountains on all sides. Under the communists, it was a factory town building tractors and such in huge factories. All of that fell apart after the fall of the communist regime. But the old factories are being demolished and the areas redeveloped. The city has a 100% electric transit system, has rebuilt the roads with modern roundabouts and such.
The old town in the center is also nice with a collection of building in various styles.
There are pedestrian streets with lots of shops, cafes, and restaurants and all in all a pleasant place.
Transylvania was settled in large part by German immigrants brought in by the Hungarian Kings who ruled at the time. So this area is Lutheran rather than the Orthodox on the west side of the mountains. Brasov has a large gothic cathedral that was originally Catholic but became Lutheran in the reformation.
The Germans were brought in to build fortified towns to protect the area from Ottoman incursions from the east.
We visited the town of Prejmer, with the old fortified center still preserved.
It was a walled citadel surrounding a church. On the inside of the walls were several stories of rooms, one for each family in town, where they could stay during a siege.
The church itself would constitute a final refuge if the fortifications were breached.
The wall had a roofed gallery around the top with arrow slots and such every few feet. I had never seen a fortification with this design. But most assume that soldiers are defending a castle. Here the citizens are defending their town and it looks like there was room for every man in town to participate in the defense.
Our last stop in Transylvania was Bran Castle, of course. It's the most popular tourist site in Romania. Of course the stories associated with the castle are almost all wrong.
It was not Vlad Dracula's castle. He only spent two nights there, and that was as a prisoner. His domain was on the other side of the mountains.
It is a pretty simply decorated castle, as its main purpose was defense.
Luckily Avalon paid for a private tour after closing time. So the huge crowds that are normally there were gone and it was just our small group.
There were lots of steep narrow stairs, so it was a good thing that Cathie decided to skip this tour.
But it does have great views of the fall colors in the surrounding mountains.
We have traveled back to Bucharest for one night and tomorrow we drive for several hours in hopes of finding our riverboat where the water is still deep enough,
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Jessica Biel for Empire Magazine - August 2007
AS ANY HOLLYWOOD-FLAVOURED LIFE COACH WOULD TELL YOU IT’S IMPORTANT TO HAVE A PERSONAL GOAL THUS, RARELY DO FIND A HOT YOUNG ACTRESS WHO ISN'T ON THE PATH TO ATTAIN HER AMBITIOUS BUT PERFECTLY ATTAINABLE GOAL. THE THING ABOUT JESSICA BIEL, SO HEALTHY-LOOKING YOU WONDER she can cure all known ailments with a touch of her silky hand, is that she has already reached her goal. Or rather, scored it. "The usual thing was, put me in front of goal and I'm hopeless," says the right-s midfielder-turned-actress who's having one of those real moments at the moment. ' team-mates were like, •No don't give her the ball!' And my then boyfriend was -I mean, he never came - and I came running up the right side and hit it, I mean perfectly.
The ball left her foot on a perfect parabola and everything went slo-mo. She did just bend it like Beckham; this had the graceful arc of Pele in '70, Maradona in '06, Lineker in '90 (although she wasn't goal-hanging), and it nestled on a postage seam in the top left-hand corner of the net. "It was an awesome, awesome goal," she grins. You do know it won't get any better than that? I know, I know, but what can you do?" she shrugs. "And that boyfriend ended up being a total idiot anyway. Ugh, I wasted my big goal on you..." Quite what that now-very-much-ex-boyfriend was thinking is impassible to gran a former girlfriend who is not only lighting up Hollywood like a very sexy-shaped G light, but also boasts the polished skills born of years of playing soccer for her local team. Anyway, Biel has moved on and moved up. She's become the current "it” girl, across magazine covers, but is determined to be seen as more than a pretty face. "I don't feel afraid of putting myself out there," she asserts. "I think at this point in my career it's necessary. I don't want to just keep doing things I've done before, to take any risks. I'm always craving something a little dirtier."
The Biel spiel is already well-honed- the 25 year-old from Boulder, Colorado, the bit between her pearly teeth, ready, willing and highly likely to take it to the next How she has sprinted up the touchline of fame: modelling to television drama (7th to Freddie Prinze Jr. romantic comedy (Summer Catch) to scream queen (The Texa Saw Massacre remake) to vampire-hunting (Blade Trinity) to the period drama eve loved (The Illusionist) and girlfriend of... Oh, don't go there. We (the press) have been informed (by the publicist) politely (but firmly) that an questions will not be tolerated - the response will be immediate termination. It is whether this means the interview or your life. Still, it remains the elephant in the te-so to speak; Biel's personal life has become the talk of the town. So let's get this out.
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Holidays 12.31
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Check the Smoke Alarms Day
Cowbellion de Rakin Revel (Alabama)
Customs Officers’ Day (Kyrgyzstan)
Falls Festival Starts (Byron Bay; Australia)
Genf Restoration (Restoration of the Republic Geneva; Switzerland)
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International Solidarity Day (Azerbaijan)
Leap Second Time Adjustment Day
Lightbulb Day
Make Up Your Mind Day
Namahage (Japan)
National Andrea Day
National Heroes Day (East Timor)
Oga no Namahage (Oga City, Japan)
The Old Life Festival (Elder Scrolls)
One Voice Day
Pal-O-Ween (from “Kevin Can F**k Himself”) [Every 31st]
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Silvesterklause (Switzerland)
Solidarity Day of the World (Azerbaijan)
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Auld Year's Night (Scotland)
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Baharu (a.k.a. Baru; Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore)
Bisperas ng Bagong Taon (Philippines)
Brew Year's Eve
Calennig (Wales)
Ditch the Resolutions Day
Feast of Father Time
Festival of the Dead (Positivist)
Festival of Yemya (Yoruba/Santeria)
Fire and Ice New Year’s Eve Celebration (Anchorage, Alaska)
First Footing
First Night
Fravartigan (Parsi Zoroastrian)
Freedom’s Eve
Gamlarskvold (Iceland)
Harvest Day (Benin)
Hogmanay (Scotland)
Joya no Kane (Japan)
Kanun Novogo Goda (Russia)
Karma (African Americans, African Diaspora)
Losar (Ladakh, India) >li>Loosing (a.k.a. Nansoong; Sikkim, India)
Malam Tahun
Namahge (Demon Festival; Japan)
Noche de Pedimento (Wishing Night; Mexico)
Noche Vieja (Mexico)
Nochevieja or Fin de Año (Spain)
No Resolution Day
Novy God Eve (Russia)
Oíche Chinn Bliana (a.k.a. Oíche na Coda Móire or Oíche Chaille; Ireland)
Okera Matsuri (Sacred fire Rite; Kyoto, Japan)
Old Year’s Night (England)
Ōmisoka (Prepare and Welcome New Year’s God Toshigami; Japan)
Oud en Nieuw or Oudejaarsavond (Netherlands)
Pele ga Ngwaga o Mosha (Botswana)
Ritual for Iemanja (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Samoan Fire Dance (Samoa)
Silvester
Sint Sylvester Vooravond (a.k.a. Oudjaar; Belgium)
Stonehenge Fireball Festival (UK)
Swinging the Fireballs (Stonehaven, Scotland)
Szilveszter (Hungary)
Tar Barrel Burning (Allendale, England)
The Night of Big Portion (Ireland)
Vigilia di Capodanno (a.k.a. Notte di San Silvestro; Italy)
Watch Night (Christian)
World Peace Meditation Day
Yang Yi (Uzbekistan)
5th & Last Tuesday in December
No Interruptions Day [Last Workday of the Year]
Taco Tuesday [Every Tuesday]
Target Tuesday [Every Tuesday]
Tater Tot Tuesday [Every Tuesday]
Teriyaki Tuesday [Last Tuesday of Each Month]
Transformation Tuesday [Last Tuesday of Each Month]
Trivia Tuesday [Every Tuesday]
Two For Tuesday [Every Tuesday]
Weekly Holidays beginning December 31 (Last Week of the Year)
None Known
Festivals Beginning December 31, 2024
AdAmAn Club Pikes Peak Fireworks (Pikes Peak, Colorado)
Burlington New Year's Eve Celebration (Burlington, Vermont)
CelebrateSA: NYE Countdown (San Antonio, Texas)
CherryT Ball Drop (Traverse City, Michigan)
Davao City Torotot Festival (Davao City, Philippines) [thru 1.1]
The Drop in Motor City (Detroit, Michigan)
Dropping of the Conch Shell (Key West, Florida)
Dropping of the Edelweiss & New Year's Eve Event (Helen, Georgia)
Eastport Sardine and Maple Leaf Drop (Eastport, Maine)
First Night Boston (Boston, Massachusetts)
First Night Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
First Night Ocean City (Ocean City, New Jersey)
First Night Portsmouth (Portsmouth, New Hampshire)
First Night Talbot Crab Drop (Easton, Maryland)
Flora-Bama New Year's Eve Bash (Orange Beach, Alabama)
Freedom Time (Perth, Western Australia)
Fresh Start (San Francisco, California) [thru 1.1]
The Great Pinecone Drop (Flagstaff, Arizona)
Idaho Potato Drop (Boise, Idaho)
Krumpe's Donut Drop (Hagerstown, Maryland)
Las Cruces Chile Drop (Las Cruces, New Mexico)
Last Night on the Town (Virginia Beach, Virginia)
Little Apple New Year's Eve (Manhattan, Kansas)
Midnight New Year’s Eve Countdown (Waikiki, Hawaii)
Minneapolis New Year's Eve (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Missoula On Main and Beyond (Missoula, Montana)
Mobile New Year's MoonPie Drop (Mobile, Alabama)
New Year's Eve Anchor Drop (Pascagoula, Mississippi)
New Year's Eve Ball Drop & Fireworks Show (Gatlinburg, Tennessee)
New Year's Eve Beach Ball Drop (Panama City Beach, Florida)
New Years' Eve Celebration (Simi Valley, California)
New Year’s Eve Celebration and Fireworks (Anchorage, Alaska)
New Year's Celebration at Half-Mile Farm (Highlands, North Carolina)
New Year’s Eve Duck Drop & Fireworks (Havre de Grace, Maryland)
New Year’s Eve Fireworks Spectacular (Omaha, Nebraska)
New Year's Eve Hershey Kiss Drop (Hershey, Pennsylvania)
New Year's Eve in Denver (Denver, Colorado)
New Year's Eve in Jackson Square (New Orleans, Louisiana)
New Year's Eve in New Brunswick (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
New Year's Eve Grape Drop (Temecula, California)
New Year's Eve Midnight Muskrat Dive (Princess Anne, Maryland)
New Year's Eve Orange Drop (Orlando, Florida)
New Year's Eve Pickle Drop (Mt. Olive, North Carolina)
New Year's Eve Shamrock Drop (Dublin, Georgia)
New Year’s Eve Shrimp Drop (Fernandina Beach, Florida)
New Year's Fest (Kalamazoo, Michigan)
NYE Live! St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri)
Price Tower Olive Drop (Bartlesville, Oklahoma)
Rockport New Year’s Eve (Rockport, Massachusetts)
Sarasota New Year's Eve Pineapple Drop (Sarasota, Florida)
Sartori Big Cheese Drop (Plymouth, Wisconsin)
Savannah's Waterfront New Year's Eve (Savannah, Georgia)
Shad Drop (Grifton, North Carolina)
Tallapossa Possum Drop (Tallapoosa, Georgia)
Times Square New Year's Eve (New York, New York)
Walleye Madness at Midnight (Port Clinton, Ohio)
Westport New Year's Eve Fireworks Show (Westport, Washington)
Feast Days
Apodosis of Christmas (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Archangel Gabriel (Coptic Church)
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Artology)
Columba (Christian; Saint)
Connie Willis (Writerism)
Fairy Eve’s Year’s News (Shamanism)
Feast of Sharaf (Honor; Baha’i)
Feast of the Holy Family (Christian)
Festival of the Dead (Complimentary Day; Positivist)
First Foot Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Giovanni Boldini (Artology)
Henri Matisse (Artology)
Het Pint (Celtic Book of Days)
Hogmanay (Pagan; Scotland)
Hogmanay / Hug Many Day (Pastafarian)
Isabel & The Shark (Muppetism)
Julie Doucet (Artology)
Junot Díaz (Writerism)
Kwanzaa, Day 6: Kuumba (Creativity)
Look Good Until You Die Day (Church of the SubGenius)
Lucifer Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Max Pechstein (Artology)
Melania the Younger (Christian; Saint)
ND Stevenson (Artology)
Nicholas Sparks (Writerism)
Seventh Day of Christmas
Siné (Artology)
Steve Rude(Artology)
Sylvester I, Pope (Catholic Church)
Tess Jaray (Artology)
Twelve Holy Days #6 (Virgo, the intestinal tract; Esoteric Christianity)
Twelvetide, Day #7; Silvester (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]
Zoticus of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)
Hebrew Calendar Holidays [Begins at Sundown Day Before]
Hanukkah, Day #7 (a.k.a. Chanukah; Judaism) [thru Jan. 2nd] (Light 7 Candles at Dusk) [30 Kislev-1 Tevet]
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day of Sekhmet (Egyptian Warrior Goddess)
Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]
Unlucky Day (Worldwide)
Premieres
The Bear That Wasn’t (MGM Cartoon; 1967)
The Birds and Other Stories, by Daphne du Maurier (Short Stories; 1952)
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (Film; 1969)
Cool For Cats (BBC Musical Variety TV Show; 1956)
Destination Tokyo (Film; 1943)
Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve (TV Special; 1972)
Divorce Court (TV Series; 1957)
The Dot and the Line (MGM Cartoon; 1965)
Duel in the Sun (Film; 1946)
The Dunderheads or Feeling Zero (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 243; 1963)
Forrest Gump, by Winston Groom (Novel; 1986)
The Fraudulent Volcano (Animated TV Show;Jonny Quest #16; 1964)
The Knight and Knave of Swords, by Fritz Leiber (Short Stories; 1988) [Fafhrd and Gray Mouser #7]
Love To Love You Baby, by Donna Summer (Song; 1975)
The Marry-G-Round (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1943)
The Mice Will Play (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)
A Most Violent Year (Film; 2014)
New Years’ Rockin’ Eve (New Year’s Eve TV Special; 1972)
One Froggy Evening (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)
The Paradine Case (Film; 1947)
Perfume, by Patrick Süskind (Novel; 1985)
Pirates of Penzance, by Gilbert & Sullivan (Comic Opera; 1879)
Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates (Novel; 1961)
Symphony in Spinach (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1948)
Three to Go or Crash on Delivery (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 244; 1963)
Two Doors Down (Scottish TV Series; 2013)
Today’s Name Days
Melanie, Silvester (Austria)
Donata, Silvestar, Silvija (Croatia)
Silvestr (Czech Republic)
Sylvester (Denmark)
Silvar, Silver, Silvester, Silvo (Estonia)
Silvo, Sylvester (Finland)
Colombe, Sylvestre (France)
Melanie, Silvester (Germany)
Melany (Greece)
Szilveszter (Hungary)
Paolina, Silvestro (Italy)
Kalvis, Silvestrs (Latvia)
Gedgantas, Melanija, Mingailė, Silvestras (Lithuania)
Sylfest, Sylvi, Sylvia (Norway)
Korneliusz, Mariusz, Melania, Sebastian, Sylwester, Tworzysław (Poland)
Melania (Romania)
Silvester (Slovakia)
Melania, Silvestre (Spain)
Sylvester (Sweden)
Melania (Ukraine)
Malone, Melania, Melanie, Melany, Silas, Silvester, Sylvester (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 366 of 2024; 0 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 2 of Week 1 of 2025
Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 10 of 28]
Chinese: Month 12 (Ding-Chou), Day 1 (Ji-Si)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 30 Kislev 5785
Islamic: 29 Jumada II 1446
J Cal: 6 Fest; Leapday [6 of 6]
Julian: 18 December 2024
Moon: 1%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: Festival of Holy Women (Complementary Day)
Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 9 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 11 of 90)
Week: Last Week of December
Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 10 of 30)
Calendar Changes
冰月 [Bīngyuè] (Chinese Lunisolar Calendar) [Month 12 of 12] (Ice Month) [Ox Month]
Festival of Holy Women [Complimentary Extra Day, Leap Years Only; Month 0 of 13; Positivist]
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Peles Empire (collaborative Duo, Katharina Stöver and Barbara Wolff)
CLEOPATRE 10, 2019 Paint and print on pigmented jesmonite 27 1/2 × 19 3/10 × 1 1/4 in | 69.9 × 49 × 3.2 cm
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/peles-empire-cleopatre-10
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Peles Empire
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Há quem diga que as memórias são os rascunhos de nossa alma, não totalmente precisas, mas imensamente verdadeiras em sua essência. Elas são como pinceladas pessoais em uma tela imensa, repletas de cores, sombras e nuances que só nós podemos compreender plenamente. Cada fragmento de lembrança atua como um fragmento de vidro em um vasto vitral de emoções, experiências, dores e alegrias que, juntas, contam a história de quem somos.
Foi em uma dessas tardes, cujo calor fazia o ar tremular levemente, criando uma atmosfera de sonho, que se gravou em mim a memória mais antiga que carrego.
Lembro-me de ter despertado de um sono profundo, minha consciência emergindo lentamente da névoa que separa os sonhos da realidade. Embora arriscado estimar, acredito que eu estava na casa dos três anos de idade.
O corredor escuro de onde saí me levou a um lugar banhado por uma luz dourada tão intensa que parecia tocar a alma. A luz vinha de uma janela alta e ampla, cujos vidros filtravam os raios do sol de fim de tarde, pintando de amarelo tudo o que tocava no interior da sala.
Havia um berço, de madeira envernizada e com grades delicadamente trabalhadas, posicionado sob essa janela. Meu irmão, então um bebê de pouco mais que um ano mais novo que eu, com cabelos tão finos que brilhavam sob a luz solar, dormia um sono tranquilo. Parecia um anjo, com o rosto sereno e os lábios entreabertos em um suspiro suave. Raios de sol dançavam ao redor dele, criando padrões de luz e sombra que se moviam lentamente, como se acariciassem sua pele delicada.
Movido por um impulso que até hoje não consigo explicar, aproximei-me do berço. Com a agilidade de uma criança, usei os móveis próximos para escalar até o berço, meus pés afundando no edredom macio que forrava o fundo. Deitei-me ao lado do meu irmão, observando aqueles traços pequeninos e perfeitos. Talvez tenha sido aquele momento, observando-o naquela luz mágica, que compreendi o que significava ter um irmão.
A tarde avançou, o calor diminuiu, e eu adormeci. Os detalhes do que aconteceu depois se perderam no tempo, mas essa memória permanece v��vida: uma tarde quente, um corredor que desembocava em uma sala iluminada por uma luz dourada, um berço sob a janela, e a sensação reconfortante de não estar mais sozinho. Essa é, sem dúvida, a minha memória mais antiga, um tesouro guardado no coração da minha infância.
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Johnny Cash - Hurt
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Letra de Hurt (versão de Johnny Cash).
I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything
What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here
What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way
Hurts
Por: Fred Borges
Não há como negar, a dor nos traz amadurecimento, nos atrai rugas e rusgas, deixa cicatrizes, nos congela a alma e depois derretemos e passamos rapidamente a recolher nosso amalgama que foi expelido pelo nosso vulcão e temos que correr contra o tempo, caso contrário petrificados ficamos e aí será tarde demais...tarde para qualquer coisa...acho que por isso Hemingway escolheu o velho e o mar, a velhisse traz a experiência mas também trazem as dores, os vícios, os desamores, e nada material faz sentido sem o amor, sem a dor, sem o mar de um anzol que penetra na pele e você tem que arrancá-lo, o sangue é derramado, corremos para estancá-lo, caso contrário nos esvaimos, desvaimos,nos esvaziamos, e o vazio nos deprime, nos angustia, nos torna amargo, o amálgama se encontra com o mar, o vapor sublime sublima é a ação, vazio é necessário mas o mar nos renova, nos salga, salga a alma,nos densifica,nos aprofunda, nos rejuvenesce como a Santiago. Redenção acontece, milagres acontecem, mas acontecem todos os dias, nós que não prestamos atenção...estúpido é o homem que faz do extraordinário, o ordinário, do natural, o comum e do comum o normal, normaliza tudo ao seu redor, faz da vida uma planície sem montanhas, um mar sem ondas, sem curvas,sem peixes e ondas e peixes tem muito a nos ensinar, ao velho, ao jovem, o mar!
“ ‘A sua escolha inicial [do peixe-espada] fora se esconder nas água escuras e profundas, para além de todos os laços, armadilhas e traições. A minha escolha fora procurá-lo onde jamais alguém ousara ir.’ Sim, onde jamais alguém ousara ir. E agora estavam ligados um ao outro e assim se encontravam desde o meio-dia. E não havia ninguém para ajudar nem a um nem a outro.” (p. 44 do livro: O velho e o mar de Ernest Hemingway)
Portanto, estejamos amarrados no nosso cais, nada mais...quando houverem crises...crises emocionais...por mais racionais que sejamos...precisamos de amarração...nem sempre teremos o amar em ação...portanto amarração!E tudo dói! Crescer dói...amar dói...solidão dói...machuca,"IT HURTS"!
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