#Stork Fountain

[niwawings15]

Cursed fountain of youth where storks get the babies from.

[amandassketchblog]

Some koi practice and a stork

[allxgene]

Heard his fair share of blessings for children...

[eepyestgirlthateverlive]

Work in progress

[thedivineart]

Confirmation Signs To Determine Your Future Spouse

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one

wishing well, a fountain, throwing coin and wishing in fountain, unexpected meeting, receiving the most special gift from someone, a lost purse/wallet, climbing alone in mountain to reduce stress/ hangout, being alone without feeling lonely, a dog coming towards you, small home in forest, cross roads, being happy in other people relationship, going to building/institutions to fix legal documents, a friends to lovers trope, visioning your past life, a gallantry from someone, aiming financial achievement, lucky money wins, a nest eggs, flames, mutual feelings with someone, being flirt, co-worker, a new friend, ships, a little home/cottage, new house/places, moving to a new place, soulmate connection, meeting perfect person/ ideal lover, seeing lots of abiding love, wedding, wedding rings, hurt/painful feeling, hospital/doctor, unrequited love

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two

changing location whether it is for work or residency, when you heal from the past, starting a new, stork, a invitation for a event, gifts ( receive or give ), helpful advice from someone, receiving lots of good news, a clock/time, your hate and fear towards someone, a handshake, a journey ( travel ), birds, sharing ( partnership), food, restaurant/ fast-food places, notice of correspondence from important bills, writer/ journalist, financial loans/help, being at your lowest point such as feeling trapped/tired/staying at home/unhealthy situation, a friend betrayal, older than you, foreign, lawyer/authority, being attack, an enemy, invitation in weddings or engagements, church, cemetery, thinking negative/ having negative thoughts, a large body of water such as beaches, pools, fountains etc, night, cold weather/winter, locks, fishes, physical union with someone, a mending of broken friendship/ex love, party, clubs

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three

younger, foreign / leader, bad girl & boy image/personality, unexpected kiss, feeling lonely, a new lover/person, family oriented, lady and moody, soulmates connection, unexpected friendship with someone, horse/sagittarius, a good news coming, an artist/poet, student of arts, athletic body or an athlete, lack of focus in commitment, receive or give gifts, fountains, generous, wears uniform that symbolize their position at work, a friend, co-worker, a peer, taking time to heal the wounds of the past, in park, in forest, walking around and meeting someone new, having time alone, wandering in woods, in the big trees, travel, achievement, lucky breaks, successful moving up ( at work or something), the space, distance, someone is far away, delay, receiving love letters and bouquet of flowers, country side, simple life, money surrounds them, professional person, workaholic and less focus on love, a bank; good at handling finances, provides good advice in finance, a happy family, fire/burning, summer, evening, warm weather country, good judgement, social

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four

authority, can be foreign, arrogant, weddings, older, negative emotions, large body of water such as beaches, pool, fountains, lake, pond etc, night, cold weather/winter, a dog, a friend, a church, a purse, money, financially stable/ wealthy, office, jewelry box, a social butterfly, enjoy clubs and socializing, likes to be busy and active, wine, travel, trips via water, clouds, heavy rains, good partner, sensual, good at financial advice, an expensive wedding of a friend, children, financially secure, fixing cars, lily, workaholic, trying their best at difficult situation, lion, a Leo sign, quite, electric, jealous and possessive, like to give great advice, streets of gold

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[whovianofmidgard]

New chapter!!!

Ch.5.: The Myth: Patron of the Line of Kings

For as long as the Númenorians could remember the white seabird had been a recognisable symbol of the Royal Family. It appeared in frescos and stained-glass windows all over the palace of Armenelos. The birds were depicted perched on the shoulders or arms of their great rulers, and always rising up in flight behind their founder, Elros Tar-Minyatur, its radiant white feather’s haloing him almost as divinity. They decorated fountains and mosaics in the city squares and carved into the figurehead for sailing ships. Even the sceptre of the King had its own wings of true-silver and glittering white gems, as pure as starlight.  

It was a much-debated topic among the artists and historians what kind of seabird was the correct one to use. The historical records always named one or the other appearing on monumental days of the royal line, but rarely ever the same bird twice. A swan bearing witness to a new King’s crowning, a stork flying by the Queen’s delivery room at each little prince and princess’ birth, a flock of gulls taking flight whenever a Crown Prince took sail and an albatross guiding the ship back to port.  

Later, in hindsight, the Faithful would say that it was telling that no white bird accompanied Ar-Pharazôn’s fleet carrying Sauron to Númenor. In the coming years no white bird could be seen around the King and his tyranny.  

Some fanciful retellings of the drowning of Númenor reported of the last sighting of Tar-Míriel at the steps of Meneltarma and being swept up by a great flurry of white feathers before the first waves overtook the island, saying that was the first sighting in years of the patron that favoured the Royal Family. The validity of such claim was very much scrutinized.  

What most could agree on was that the scattered fleet of the surviving Faithful were heralded onto the shores of Middle-earth by a petrel showing the ships’ way to land.  

The myth (or superstition) of the white bird of the Line of Kings persisted in their new homes of Gondor and Arnor. The defeat of Sauron, the death of Elendil, and the end of the Second Age was announced with a single cry of a lone gull, strangely far from the sea.   

And almost like tradition, the birth of a new prince or princess was accompanied by sighting a great egret, royal weddings were overseen by a white duck circling above the newlyweds’ heads, mysteriously appearing geese would hissingly run off wild animals in protection of the royal children, and at each coronation – and later the appointing of Chieftain of the Dúnedain - a swan could be seen flying overhead.  

The hands of the king are the hands of a healer, and so shall the rightful king be known, so the legend in Gondor’s streets echoed. Yet those who remembered the old symbolism would mutter ‘If the White Bird favours him shall we know the true blood of the King.’ 

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[nancypullen]

Riquewihr and Kaysersberg

Today was utterly lovely. Strasbourg is snug up against the French/German border and the mix of cultures is obvious everywhere. We decided to rent a car at the train station and journey a bit south where Switzerland gets involved. We picked up the keys (they gave us a BMW suv for the price of a compact!) and drove through more beautiful countryside.

Aha! JUst what we were looking for- Riquewihr! The enchanting village that inspired Beauty and the Beast. We drove through vineyard after vineyard and found our way to the magical spot.

Cobblestones, medieval buildings, and old wells and fountains down every street.

The Alsace region is home to a large population of storks. The legend of storks bringing babies started here. Children who want a baby brother or sister leave a sugar cube on their windowsill hoping to lure a baby-carrying stork. So there are stork souvenirs everywhere, and as sweet as the legend is, I don't need stork hot pads, magnets, coffee cups, or statues. BUT, another symbol that appears everywhere that i just love is...

hearts! They're all over the place. These late blooming geraniums on the front of a crackled 15th century building are accompanied by a trio of sweet hearts.

Window boxes, shutters, curtains, fences - even cookies and pastries were heart-shaped. It put a smile on my face.

After a few hours wandering around beautiful Riquewihr we decided to ease on down the road. Again, over the river and through the vineyards we go. Pardon my photography, these were taken through the windshield.

This time we were looking for Kaysersberg, and we found it! I liked it even more than Riquewihr.

We roamed and roamed, eventually stopping for a late lunch.

I had a delicious quiche and a salad. The mister chose another tarte flambe. He's hooked.

After satisfying our tummies, we continued to explore and uncover more information about Kaysersberg. "The name is German for Emperor's Mountain. The high fortress that dominates the town serves as a reminder of both its strategic importance and its warlike past." The town was first mentioned in 1227, when Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor purchased the castle and began to refortify it. During the Middle Ages, Kaysersberg prospered. In 1648, the city became a part of France, although most inhabitants continued to speak German. From 1871 to 1918 (and again from 1940 to 1944) Kaysersberg belonged to Germany. It's now part of France again and lucky for us, still so very beautiful. Before we turned the car back toward Strasbourg we decided to gather the ingredients for a yummy charcuterie dinner in our apartment. We scored cheese and sausage in this shop.

Nuts and sweets in here,

and even found a bag of delicious local grapes. Oh my, what a feast we had tonight! Is there anything better after a long day than snacking in your pajamas? Anyway, that's it from me tonight. I should have given you a bit more info on Riquewihr, and I'll probably do a bit of a summary of this trip when we get home. But I'm pooped and I took wayyyy too many pictures to wade through tonight. Tomorrow is a light schedule. We'll get up whenever we get up, walk to train station and hop on a train going to Colmar. We've read good things and would like to see it for ourselves. It's a quick 30 minute train ride which leaves us the bulk of the day to wander. Trains between Colmar and Strasbourg run all day so we can return as we please. Isn't that a nice, hassle-free day? Exactly what a vacation should be. Until tomorrow, dear pals. Stay safe, stay well. XOXO, Nancy

[cheapsweets]

The perspicacious Yaggzrok

My response to this week’s BestiaryPosting challenge, from @maniculum

I feel like I'm definitely getting better at drawing birds, but it's also making it much more obvious when I mess up the anatomy :D

Initial pencil sketch, then Sailor fude nib fountain pen with Rohrer & Klingner Sepia ink for the lines. I think I need to find a fine-nib fountain pen, and try drawing with that - the flexibility of the fude nib (in terms of thick/thin lines and being able to transition easily between them) is really nice, but for now being able to keep a consistent (and thin) line would benefit me more in terms of learning and practicing, particularly some of the tiny details I keep trying to include! :D

Reasoning under the cut...

Isidore says this about it: ‘The Yaggzrok is so called because it does not feed on the ground but catches its food and eats it in the air. It is a twittering bird that flies in twisting, turning loops and circuits, is highly skilled in building its nest and rearing its young, and has also a kind of foresight because it lets you know when buildings are about to fall by refusing to nest on their tops. In addition, it is not harassed by birds of prey nor is it ever their victim. It flies across the sea and winters there.’ -

So, we know this is a twittering bird that exhibits 'hawking' behaviour (eating on the wing), and that it nests on the top of buildings. How does it do that? Well, it's here that I start to have some suspicions about this creature's identity, so I start to backpedal furiously. Now, non-small birds that make their nests on houses? How about storks, nesting on chimney stacks? I'm not entirely sure how fire-safe the nest in the top-right illustration is, but maybe the smoke keeps parasites out?

We can also see that the canny Yaggzrok has been very smart about which house the nest was built on. The owner of the house marvels at his good fortune, while his neighbour... :(

The top left illustration shows the Yaggzrok flying in loops over a body of water.

The Yaggzrok is a tiny bird but of an eminently pious nature; lacking in everything, it constructs nests which are more valuable than gold because it builds them wisely. For the nest of wisdom is more precious than gold. And what is wiser than to have, as the Yaggzrok does, the capacity to fly where it likes and to entrust its nest and its young to the houses of men, where none will attack them. For there is something attractive in the way that the Yaggzrok accustoms its young from their earliest days to the company of people and keeps them safe from the attacks of hostile birds. -

It's a small bird, so nothing so magnificent as a raggfong, but we do know it's extremely skilled at constructing its nests (though I suspect 'more valuable than gold' might be pushing it). Again, it's reiterated that it builds nests on human houses - it you look *really* carefully you can see a couple of Yaggzrok chicks peeking out of their nest, waiting for a parent to return.

Then, remarkably, the Yaggzrok creates a regularly-proportioned home for itself without any assistance, like a skilled craftsman. For it gathers bits of straw in its mouth and smears them with mud so that they stick together; but because it cannot carry the mud in its claws, it dips the tips of its wings in water, so that dust sticks to them easily and turns into slime, with which to gather to itself bits of straw or tiny twigs, a few at a time, and makes them stick. It makes the whole fabric of the nest in this fashion, in order that its young can live safely as if on a solid floor in houses on the ground, lest any of them insert a foot between the small gaps in the woven fabric or the cold should get to the very young. -

More detail on the nests - a regularly proportioned home? A solid floor? Maybe the sharp angles in the corners of the nest are a little excessive, but they bring across the point!

In the bottom left, we can see a Yaggzrok gathering material for the next; straw in the mouth, ready to be smeared in mud, but more importantly, *slime* on the wings... :p

This conscientiousness is fairly common among most birds, yet what is distinctive about the Yaggzrok is its special loving care, shrewd intelligence and the extraordinary quality of its understanding. Then there is its skill in the arts of healing: if its young are infected by blindness or pricked in the eye, it has some kind of healing power with which it can restore their vision. -

At this point, I couldn't think of much to express this part of its behaviour, so I opted for a more detailed sketch of the Yaggzrok hawking (which also gave me an excuse to draw a medieval bug!).

In terms of general anatomy, I looked at flycatchers (small, hawking birds, some of which have a small crest), but dialled up the exageration to make it a little more distinctive. In terms of the overall structure and setup, I was influenced by @coolest-capybara's Raggfong illustration and the multiple panels, given that I wanted to express multiple different aspects of this bird's behaviour (I did it in a less narrative way though, which I might rethink if I try this structure again).

I also took some inspiration from this post that @coolest-capybara reblogged; my copy of M.S. Bodley 764 is still in mothballs while I'm following these challenges, so I'm trying to find some good resourses for medieval illustrations (houses was a real struggle!) without doing direct searches for animals and (potentially) getting spoiled...

[visualpoett]

Plan of the Labyrinth of Versailles, with the fountains (numbered)

Aesop's Fables

Owl and Birds (Le duc et les oiseaux, Perry 614)

Cocks and Partridge (Les coqs et la perdrix, Perry 23)

The Cock, the Dog and the Fox (Le coq et le renard, Perry 252)

The Cock and the Jewel (Le coq et le diamant, Perry 503)

The Cat and the Mice (Le chat pendu et les rats, Perry 79)

The Eagle and the Fox (L'aigle et le renard Perry 1)

The Jay and the Peacock (Les paons et le geai, Perry 472)

The Cock and the Turkey-cock (Le coq et le coq d'Inde)

The Peacock and the Jackdaw (Le paon et la pie, Perry 219)

The Viper and the File (Le dragon, l'enclume et la lime, Perry 93)

The Ape's Twin Offspring (Le singe et ses petits, Perry 218)

The Bat (Le combat des oiseaux, Perry 566)

Hen, Chicks and Kite (La poule et les poussins, Perry 601)

The Fox and the Stork, first part (Le renard et la grue, Perry 426)

The Fox and the Stork, second part (La grue et le renard, Perry 426)

The Peacock complains to Juno about his Voice (Le paon et le rossignol, Perry 509)

The Parrot and the Ape (Le perroquet et le singe)

The Wolf and the Fox before Judge Ape (Le singe juge, Perry 474)

The Frog and the Mouse (Le rat et la grenouille, Perry 384)

The Tortoise and the Hare (Le lièvre et la tortue, Perry 226)

The Wolf and the Heron (Le loup et la grue, Perry 156)

The Kite and the Birds (Le milan et les oiseaux)

The Ape and the Fox (Le singe roi, Perry 81)

The Fox and the Goat in the Well (Le renard et le bouc, Perry 9)

The Mice in Council (Le conseil des rats, Perry 613)

The Frogs ask Zeus for a King (Les Grenouilles et Jupiter, Perry 44)

The Monkey and the Cat (Le singe et le chat, not in Perry)[19]

The Fox and the Grapes out of Reach (Le renard et les raisins, Perry 15)

The Eagle and the Beetle (L'aigle, le lapin et l'escarbot, Perry 3)

The Wolf and the Porcupine (Le loup et le porc-épi)

The Snake with several Heads (Le serpent à plusieurs têtes)

The Mouse, the Cat and the little Cock (La petite souris, le chat et le cochet)

The Kite and the Doves (Le milan et les colombes, Perry 486)

The Ape and the Dolphin (Le dauphin et le singe, Perry 73)

Fox and Crow (Le renard et le corbeau, Perry 124)

The Swan and his Owner (Du cygne et de la grue, Perry 233)

The Fox and the Mask (Le loup et la tête, Perry 27)

The Snake and the Porcupine (Le serpent et le porc-épic)

The Ducks and the Water-Spaniel (Les cannes et le petit barbet)

[blueangeldreamland]

Palestine Protests: February 2024

updated: 2/10/2024 source 1 source 2 + extra links at bottom of post :)

Sunday, February 11

ITALY

GENOVA, ITALY – Sun Feb 11, 2 pm, Fanti d’Italia. Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/C2SZSc7IfAD/

Thursday, February 29

AUSTRALIA

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – Thurs Feb 29, 2 pm, State Library (Student Protest for Palestine). Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/C1JJpq6LShT/

February 10, 2024

Chicago, IL | 11:30AM Hanover Park Train Station

Chicago, IL | 1PM Chicago Tribune Center

CORVALLIS, OR | Noon Benton County Courthouse

LOS ANGELES, CA | 1PM LA City Hall

OAKLAND, CA | 11:30AM Lake Merritt Amphitheater

PETALUMA, CA | 12:30PM Petaluma Blvd and East Washington

RACINE, WI | 12:30PM 909 Dr. Martin Luther King Dr.

SANTA BARBARA, CA | 2PM Hollister & Storke

WASHINGTON, DC | 2PM Lafayette Square

February 11, 2024

REDONDO BEACH, CA | 11AM 1815 Hawthorne Blvd.

SACRAMENTO, CA | 12PM 601 McKinley Park

SAINT LOUIS, MO | 2:30 PM @ Kirkwood Park 111 So. Geyser Rd.

February 14, 2024

PHOENIX, AZ | 4pm. NE Corner of 7th St & McDowell Rd

February 15, 2024

Austin, TX | 10AM Austin City Hall, 301 2nd St

February 16, 2024

EAU CLAIRE, WI | 5:00PM Corner of Hwy 93 and Golf Rd (Outside Hardee’s)

February 18, 2024

NEW ORLEANS, LA | 11:30 AM ARMSTRONG PARK

February 19, 2024

Chicago, IL | 11AM Chicago History Museum, Children’s Fountain

February 25, 2024

SAINT PAUL, MN | 1 PM 1176 N Mississippi River Blvd, St. Paul, MN.

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[bunsakashitaeuropepaintings]

On my days off in London, I flew to Denmark in the midst of winter. On the second day after arriving I was caught in a snow blizzard and this was the only landmark I could use to trace my way around Copenhagen. Years later, I saw again many paintings of this very same location by a Danish painter. So, this is my tribute to Paul Gustav Fischer who loved Copenhagen. "Storkespringvandet" (Stork Fountain) Amagertorv 6, 1160 København, Denmark Acrylic 6.1x8.3x2 Etude Butterfly Sketchbook Cir. Feb 1997

[forgotteneilionora]

Possible Bannermen Sigils

ok so the discussion of the hedgehog as a possible vassal sigil to malconaire inspired me!!!!! and i accordingly went insane <33333 so!! combing through the sigils that coamaker.com boasts, here're some ideas for our various biomes...there are probs others but these are the ones my brain seized on for astairan use like...most other things felt less natural/them to me, at least??? or else were simply, like, grassland/savannah or tropical, or some other biome that didn't quite fit ;D so yeah!! obv a lot of these could also be used elsewhere too etc but these were just general thoughts ;DDDD

CALLEARY (ocean)

anchor

dolphin

merman

shell/escallop ✓

sea lion

pearl ✓

pelican

seahorse ✓

ship✓

trident

wheel ✓

CALLEARY 2.0 (snow)

bear

hare

lynx

LORCAN (mountain, lake)

heron

otter

(pascal) lamb

(pastoral) staff

ram

sheep

swan ✓

MALCONAIRE (forest)

broch/badger

deer ✓

fox ✓

hedgehog ✓

oak ✓

rabbit/coney

wolf

STAFFORD (sky)

moon

star/etoile ✓

martlet

owl

?????? (wetlands)

boar

salamander

stork/stork & snake

fleur-des-lys/lily

thistle

rainbow

i left out farm stuff/domesticated animals bc they could fit just abt anywhere but there are plenty of them:

arm

arms

beehive

bell

book

bull

cat

cock/rooster

cubit/arm w fist

fountain

goat

greyhound

head (various)

horn

horse

knight

knot

dog

wheat/garb

[zeraphimtwins]

Funny how I am always given the materials and opportunities to act upon when I want it.

A course correction is appreciated; and this last month's hard work in my two jobs have really been showing. So much has changed. So much is moving faster than expected and I love it. So much seclusion and so much dedication to my crafts and educations mean everything to me. I love seeing things through and through.

The moment I think the fountain wealth of knowledge and empathy is slowly sinking -- it becomes explorative, curious. It changes in color and aura the next time I deeply meditate on the status of the layers underneath these lives.

This isn't even my most sacred of sanctuaries with my Artes in a general sense i am talking about neither. I'm proud of keeping all of these cards so closely to my chest all of these years -- while so many around me have broken themselves in half and cannot ever be mavericks any more after such fears.

This life's storks of fortune always have its trajectories in such long and drawn-out distances. All of the growth I go through. All the these certain efforts and wisdom and all out expression out into this space. The wonderful team play of it all -- the orchestrated energies that flow when you choose to let go and follow the strongest current in front of you. Knowing how everything you manifest and intend goes through and through. Realize not everyone is lucky to fight and work hard for what they want in this life -- especially those in conflicted areas. Hence never complain daily and shorten your life with the stress of other's. To create beautiful routines of life in this life -- is expression unto dying.

[limestoner]

Period Problems. Because not all women have periods and not all periods have women people with periods are women! And all women are humans and all humans are people.

I thought lol pppp all finished my thought so nvm.

My last appointment of the day was cancelled. I asked the front desk person why. The building was noisy and Ms. Front Desk said: “_-_-^-\_” [Quicj sidebar: that attempt to use text characters to draw what the intonation sounded like looks like Stork crawling on the ground pushing a hockey stick.]

_-_-^-\_

Now I see it as Stork flat on the ground as the hockey stick speeds awwy’nnn!! It’s like a flip book. Or a gif with two frames but it’s one image.

I don’t know whether I’m genuinely more creative right now or that my standards are lower and everything I do seems creative to me. I believe that like most things it is a combination but leans towards low standards.

Can’t tell if it’s head noise or the neighbors listening to what sounds like a holiday caroling oompah band going: “LalalalaLALAAALalalala.” It’s gone now.

I still see my friend, Snrlk the snipple snorfed snildebeest on my ceiling. He lives in the snowy white kingdom of the clouds. Earlier he took on a deep, fluid red shade. It faded to black until he returned to his home in the beyond the skinny sky skinks. I want to make up more words but I don’t want to accidentally type a hurtful word by accident and I’m too lazy to do that kind of multilingual spellcheck.

interrupted writing task

-I say 20 sentences aloud and have people write them down

-Something happens that interrupts them so they can’t finish the sentence. Like a bell rings. They have to stop immediately. How immediately can they stop? And most importantly: are they stopping mid-letter? Mid-word? Between words?

I don’t think it tells us anything other than information I’m interested in knowing.

Dear Future BFF:

This stuff coming up involves mildly gross feet. Protect your brain and stomach. In a big purple bear if you have to. So if that bothers you, flee

I had part of this out of order and was performing mental calculations for now to correctly move it but it was shockingly easy.

Trimming nails. What if an emory board was taken from a salmon or \¥’eone or someone and are expecting a ritzy palace and the. They arrive and it’s this mansion with lots of fountains and towers and stairways and swimming pools. Then it is conveyed by the butler (?) to the Criticallg Acclaimed Person owner and THEN… horrible feet. Inhabited by Matt, Toph, and Ike, cousins of Digger the Dermatophyte. But the story started with them and they are kind and peaceful, but it doesn’t change the fact that their toe farming is making gross feet. Now the Emory board must roll up its proverbial sleeves to save the feet and the Dermatophyte brothers.

More body horror:

I finally cut my toenail experiment. I grew a tonsil toenail for awhile without cutting jt. No real reason; just wanted to see what would happen. What happened - it got kind of long and was good for scratching my other leg. The skin on the tip of my big toe is enjoying the sensory experience with being able to touch surfaces again. Usually the nail blocked it like one of those porch awnings. Now every texture on it feels diving. I mean divine!

Rug. Pretend wood floor. Grass. Blanket. Tub.

But NOT the wall. Just thinking about that makes me about to throw up.

Dear Future Limestoner, please remember oh gorsh I plumb forgot wait, now I remember:

Criminals. Now I understand a way that criminals get caught because of context clues. Because you always wondered about it. That’s why it’s locker detective.

[libidomechanica]

I climb

A sonnet sequence

               1

Forcing winds, our fearing and so the two of us walked in Porphyria; straint, came vested all be the envious wrath of maiden Aunt. And all never deep woods shall torment from mine a philosopher’s breast almighty beauty of these accelerating love me—me—sure things. No coward path edge the fresh beautyes grappling bell. Oh plunging mynd is nae sae bashfully, then without a shoutherne sent in sondry talys. Her bleed, falling stars. Very man sat still from the grounds, by the tag o’ her windy night, from time drew from that shows, kill me; kill ye. I saw ane an’ twenty, Tam!

               2

Roe that we cannot this aged those, I koude I mette of either than whiteness? I with many music’s cage, will hold hope, by a Tombe a mouses are chaff of curtesie? To blamed, if wommenes love: its in fields them so a wyf in pain: and that despised be tolde it good-morrow and fair subject and snaw; but strike off his voice by hear horse. Peter! Moth, pod of respects, yet held such plenty and each others shone little this good dealing as I am such length, of touches rhetoric can learn to live. That, if learn my fancy light? To chirche as myne olde he men! Let no deyntee of sheaves when lo!

               3

Great; but passion tis pluck down sweetness the sullen, in the lawes along, in princess, six feet that be nay, friends from jagged precipice: ther weel again among those thunder, told that we used them while it to their petty ocean’s verge; and shining darkness, when Ioues selfe alone another men will send ye. And teche that sin against my crowned light with the fairest-blossom’d bought of sunrise, so long a path the wo, Ful giltelees, a song of her lips do slay, or elles, Frere. His own slipperiness. Who wounding as twenty, Tam. Besides, without tempestuous lips’ rich is a lowly grounded.

               4

Came a-pilferer. Ill-nurtured sparrow foredoom their fellow, and draw the many a dying at they gave its airy strange was oon of the greene: and off I ran, head-foremost files of al, of Oliue braue gleam I cannot get; she fast, and therefore? Are very moment, light, and hang her cheek appeared a font of laughed; a rosebud set with the bathe youth with the cove will begins to carry me to speak of the loveliness, and flush’d, mid that sober hue deuise, in spite of decorous earth, and noble yet reseeds&relights so white wicket; babies rough Year just fountain-path, to stay her goe.

               5

Of college like a nest from low-grown breast. An housbondes hadde of my sweet boy, ere matrimony make, behold! As if it were swung blinded eyes of the East, and vaine Loue should be startings, crying signs she best lad, the wedded to one know he Symplicius Gallus left scole, and him there! Bet is, quod this more,—falsehood accurst! There met, they have in size as like the laste, with the broad breathing to creek joining this old wipers again the world, and for his monthly fix how he’d loveliness raise her till I die. She wolde han he saw the dark. And gentle Groane at rains green’d over her, O!

               6

Nay rack youre leve, ye shal sprig of yourself had spoke, and al myn herte, and govern the distance in use, he with a squalid cot; shunn’d, had wounding the dull Time fond Phantasm, could all the loved. To the Storke be heard, thaw’d and so clearly: That’s one day I sought forth a steady, as air and press’d; for to stir? Open to the steps lead, my spite of wommenes love: question all my fantasye, as if by some woodmen heart’s the sons prophecies; if thou didst thou sing. So in the breach appeare of heaven and shoots javelin’s her grunzie wi’ ony body: he had fix’d, as filchers to loved not heart to see.

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Half hidden hedde, ne I wolde lyve parfitly, and ye third among bed. And tower and even to age’s steel, throws: she sawe, ne durst all live on the sully the heat of my sleeps with that were place upon a hoary mounts that followed to make me glades’ colonnades, all cope him to blame reprov’d; I know his river been al pacient for when you shall all the cruel breath With veiled exhalation is buried, love’s fighter of the women fresh lustful language but kill his loathed? Comes a craftely you beneath those who asked, above them down: it is abuse: seeds of their dear trace: binde your skin.

               8

This knoweth Helicon the cycle, where, if, listens, speak thy text, and breed and me of another sides, know, a maidenhead; yet through the fair displese. I conjure than flint, for any day lapped are. I want me, Love is soule fog that make her that over. Of possible that same night he. But wel it is a fitting short, or that the curlews call, dreary minstrelsy, found, I trowe me the meadows? To pay; and all the literate your faith, since he seems unkind, i’ll learned song, but consent, to drink to Ovid, and humble desires with music, words, and loving pool of al my beauty.

               9

Now what of thy classes, hors, allas, the blacke why wrapt she bore? Shine and wished and bite my tears doth her mither bed her nose and his nat bothe up as before the way, till, cheering with debt: for which gave me not! Leave me on my joy blinket sae bashful shame, and many an every beauties white flocks, and hurl their stupefied wit, require of Venus make an infant that ensues forth my nece also. Being tied again; throw all the white, has a maydens doe obay, and, lordynges, by this our many a seizure on the singular tune of plastic wits? There is not, joy delight? The single drop of maidens and constant of our victory, bring hound, and leave excel, the prechyng eek, with been born or by a multitude, and twigs and minstrel’s skill to me yon king’s: beneath flowers, I thoughte the wood. The ground, sobbing To sink, but conseil every vestige of thou encountenance?

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And in it is nourishing loosen’d fruit in another womman for ever. And sunflowery perching; frown a vulture far off she Autumn tress of skin open to my chamber sprites then I know no more, not my enemy, nor an infant’s smilest, bury this breast; in bed she saw endymion pine away from thee solace singular shoes from the night. They did I kiss their freckled. And her Pleasure. Knowing her mishaps, as does not fear the younglings: next, well compact of hem faire, and al my being gone, the brute bloods may well her head, and times I’d rather I wouldn’t have gone.

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Brought vnsownd, when life was thy poor chill; beauties where to vs be feast? Others. With other cheek when laurels and aw’d resign this power he came in size and all their shouting’s making that morning bought the city towers do the airy street with this tail, whose petals nipp’d her face, ere I many a curl that, it is with suitors, dowagers forth a steadily aglow, hastily spak, that my tongue, althought word she her do still, from the woman, and down—yet the poet is over her till the rocks and so mild as a male, as if it well-gotten, and careless wings raine, forcing wild, I curse they were sits she crystal tears were, an imagined you hadst thou, to love, a gold thoughts augment? And wonders puls’d tenfold his seede, such a page or two that she shoulders. There is not how, with portly pace, making the tame and mine ear again. And I untanglement lay carved the apple trees old.

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She answer and gall. Than that lead, my woe, or at the deawy leaue you great deity, for Death their Institute of which dull Time rot and sometimes fals; I dremed of my swogh I bring her head was born a-morwe with her coming the abandoned fire, the tender’d, no fence cannon: Echo hence thee. Or naething quiet shadows, to the quiet woodland, oh, the world of other holy thunder; dangerous guide in white, and tuneless grate, showing rain, and bleed, being nuns, the hears in his count the shadow make thy might with a blast been, and flaunt with snow and in the water unto his warm.

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And butterflies Woo’d and bonier yet beginning is awake the lay, whan she say? Then this sentence beat for us, and I hate and seem an hors I koude pleyned fields at last to him. Now dame, quod he, though neither the trees, as a woman, she counsel of things of time, let thy sovranty, recoiling bread as I grant, lusty folk. And babbles o’er me roll’d into wooing much misery! Dangers only Maud was born, and we are seven so sweet-smelling like a sojourning cloys and leaue to morn till we should hurt that profit and blossom of the forehead of his you shalt thou to see.

               14

Image was a lady sweetness of men: men, my busy vision of those leaves Lover bY ROBERT BROWNING the ruby-budded limbs, and hand did its wren so a wyf destroy, to moan! Behold hopes are manere lost, what rang with mine, are gone to eat&see thee; but her paradise Alas, that shall will take to golden pits: ’twas bonie and rain, it was a wind wherein did stead of winter.— Be happiness; who bids th’ unhallow hair waits me to the perfection which he skill. And the day when the stood, which her whose swift up thy father prayses sing the brought palms, or maid was they be wedding.

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Interminable hour their rose on my joint narrative does not Hyacinthus, by God a proud, had no heare both of a brothers, there did we watched the more they fawn his light or dim, as one doo fishes for peace in the guilty sigh above the eagles stand, I sayde. I cannot be prolonged, all folkes fare? Things of their songs. From the spoke, and carrol sweetness be undistinguished greater in oon, and, well-conducted person the dedicated honoured men moors, benighted, close after long here; lest this helmet these care and now she was its kind of a well-gotten looks them eternal course to the sun that softer voices? Kept walkes about its spires up like she looks now, by my fancifullest she fast thou shall fly and urchin-spouted bliss? Waved my name is Martha Ray about here I something—into sleeps, and cities of the great carouse knocks hard a thousand battle wings.

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And having feet, and haply may forget mine to touch their whit; I do forgive therefore mayst that I speke. A twiste. That ever but to die. But ones of Woman. They locust and long delight fair Orithea, whom all that there. Lifts a young Favonious. His pleasant, ugly, meagre, leaves—she shudder in a triple hour their death’s eternal, which she in glories old Sir Ralph had fled from whose master’s tale to do a fly, in a queer sort of the Echoes, in her eyes at our device in tempest of hym so greet: spreading so as on the mountain chastity, vnspotte, which I shouldst be the conseil al.

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Two strewed with his blynde horses, girls in circle the coasteth to me to beat; where is a mass of Time; which at the sped, died with his horse. In thy pains he sees clear untouches rhetoric can lend, melting to espy some beneath was like the dark, and the wind that air that close? Shrink for his might goes. Beauty slain I spied her her faces are greedy pleasant days, made of other, but deeply place, and pant, as one in something unforeseen—tiny bottles I make, beholders, sprung. And feels its utmost shades and suppose, change and while it felt th’ vnpleasant plays and flower, and married in.

[torahtantra]

47. Parsha Re'eh, "The Beholder."

Part 3. "Clean and Unclean Food."

The Parsha continues with a detailed explanation of the types of troublemakers there are out there and why you must not consume their company and they must not be allowed to consume your time:

Clean and Unclean Food

14 You are the children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead, 2 for you are a people holy to the Lord your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the Lord has chosen you to be his treasured possession.

-> The dead refer to people that want to die and go to heaven. You may not suffer insult at the hands or mouths of the dead. This is forbidden.

3 Do not eat any detestable thing. 4 These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, 5 the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep.[e] 6 You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud. 7 However, of those that chew the cud or that have a divided hoof you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the hyrax. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you. 8 The pig is also unclean; although it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.

Ox= Intellectual strength.

Sheep= innocence.

Goat= unfinished business or an adolescent/young man capable of great things.

Deer= benevolence

Gazelle= something new

Roe Deer= symbol of the Holy Land

Wild Goat= definitely eat these

Ibex= "the eye" symbol of learning.

Antelope= beauty, grace, swiftness.

Mountain Sheep= discipleship.

Hooves are not an intuitive symbol...a split hoof on an animal that chews the cud refers to how open the person is to the lessons.

"The hooves must be split, meaning that even in our earthly pursuits, G‑d should be able to come through and permeate them, making the physical G‑dly.6 The law is that the hooves have to be split through and through."

The chewing of the cud refers to the grass on Mount Hor, the Greenest of the Green= direct experience of the Torah Tantras.

9 Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales. 10 But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean.

=Fish without morals and ambition are not to be eaten.

11 You may eat any clean bird. 12 But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, 13 the red kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon, 14 any kind of raven, 15 the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, 16 the little owl, the great owl, the white owl, 17 the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant, 18 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.

=Eagles, kites, falcons, ravens, owls, gulls, hawks, etc. these are all sacred animals in other faiths and may not be consumed. Creatures that soar are revered, not consumed. They are supposed to consume you...

19 All flying insects are unclean to you; do not eat them. 20 But any winged creature that is clean you may eat.

=Gossips, liars, time wasters, noise makers, persons that do nothing but steal time broadcasting their nonsense.

21 Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to the foreigner residing in any of your towns, and they may eat it, or you may sell it to any other foreigner. But you are a people holy to the Lord your God.

=stay away from the gods of the afterlife.

Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk. = do not turn a young man against his mother.

What is in the Eye of Beholder, the Eye of the Fountain as He is called and what is in yours? And what are the wages paid for obedience?

Tithes of Silver are the dividends of obedience- they are times free of strife, of troublemakers, of doubt.

Tithes

22 Be sure to set aside a tenth [the first Decree] of all that your fields produce each year. 23 Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always. 

=the contact between the esoterica of religion and ordinary life is to take place every day:

In Jewish mysticism, olive oil is a symbol of esoteric depth and insight. The spiritual writings wryly observe that the oil is only extracted through squeezing and compressing the olive, and then straining to remove the impurities. Ironically, it is destruction of the fruit that produces this high quality product. The oil can then be used to produce a steady flame from a wick that draws on this pure fuel.

The oil represents wisdom. Wisdom is the product of life's experience coupled with mind growth. Wisdom is the "fuel" for balanced and appropriate interpretation of life's circumstances and wise expression in that context. 

24 But if that place is too distant and you have been blessed by the Lord your God and cannot carry your tithe (because the place where the Lord will choose to put his Name is so far away), 25 then exchange your tithe for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the place the Lord your God will choose. 26 Use the silver to buy whatever you like: cattle, sheep, wine or other fermented drink, or anything you wish. Then you and your household shall eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice. 27 And do not neglect the Levites living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own.

28 At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year’s produce and store it in your towns, 29 so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Three Years= The Third Day when the ground is dry of the chaos of the earlier days. If wine and oil and fancy food is not available today, God says conserving one's silver is the best strategy. Silver is explained here.

This Parsha shall continue.

So we are what we see, hear, and do, most of all who we are in contact with. The Parsha says we must first be in contact with self through burnt offerings then forgiveness offerings and fellowship offerings through contact with others, and then we can tithe, cash in on all those sacrifices and enjoy the rewards, which require stability.

All the Torah Tantras etc. emphasize the need for leaders, teachers and governors to provide territories free of the causes of violence so stability can be attained. It must not be a hilly terrain or one that winds and bends like an old tired river all over the place.

The Year for Canceling Debts

15 At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts. 2 This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel any loan they have made to a fellow Israelite. They shall not require payment from anyone among their own people, because the Lord’s time for canceling debts has been proclaimed. 3 You may require payment from a foreigner, but you must cancel any debt your fellow Israelite owes you. 4 However, there need be no poor people among you, for in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, he will richly bless you, 5 if only you fully obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow all these commands I am giving you today. 6 For the Lord your God will bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. You will rule over many nations but none will rule over you.

7 If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward them. 8 Rather, be openhanded and freely lend them whatever they need. 9 Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: “The seventh year, the year for canceling debts, is near,” so that you do not show ill will toward the needy among your fellow Israelites and give them nothing. They may then appeal to the Lord against you, and you will be found guilty of sin. 10 Give generously to them and do so without a grudging heart; then because of this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you put your hand to. 11 There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land.

-> This has nothing to do with money or loans. Just as a man must evolve and find his religion has become second nature as of the 8th Day, so nations must also come to fruition and demonstrate complete remission of poverty and violence, there must be stability:

There shall be no needy among you—since the L‑rd your G‑d will bless you in the land that the L‑rd your G‑d is giving you as a hereditary portion—if only you heed the L‑rd your G‑d and take care to keep all this instruction that I enjoin upon you this day. For the L‑rd your G‑d will bless you as He has promised you: you will extend loans to many nations, but require none yourself . . .4

Freeing Servants

12 If any of your people—Hebrew men or women—sell themselves to you and serve you six years, in the seventh year you must let them go free. 13 And when you release them, do not send them away empty-handed. 14 Supply them liberally from your flock, your threshing floor and your winepress. Give to them as the Lord your God has blessed you. 15 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you. That is why I give you this command today.

16 But if your servant says to you, “I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your family and is well off with you, 17 then take an awl and push it through his earlobe into the door, and he will become your servant for life. Do the same for your female servant.

18 Do not consider it a hardship to set your servant free, because their service to you these six years has been worth twice as much as that of a hired hand. And the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

-> Freedom like Stability is communicated by slaving self to the Self. Every year, every person, every session of government and class in the university must be honed so it freely chooses the most ethical of directions.

The concept of freedom, as applied in Physics, is intimately connected with a capacity to choose among alternative decisions. We can generalize the above definitions to any system, not necessarily mechanical or even physical. We will say then that any object has n degrees of freedom if it has n choices between 2n alternatives. In other words, freedom is, in fact, freedom of choice. The more choices we have, the more freedom we have, and vice versa. If we wish to define the broadest philosophical concept of freedom, we must include in it a spiritual dimension. In spiritual freedom, we consider choices between moral alternatives – good and evil.

The Firstborn Animals

19 Set apart for the Lord your God every firstborn male of your herds and flocks. Do not put the firstborn of your cows to work, and do not shear the firstborn of your sheep. 20 Each year you and your family are to eat them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose. 21 If an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the Lord your God. 22 You are to eat it in your own towns. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it, as if it were gazelle or deer. 23 But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

-> There are firstborn sins and firstborn acts of virtue every day. Days that begin in sin must be sacrificed and we never get them back.

The Passover

16 Observe the month of Aviv and celebrate the Passover of the Lord your God, because in the month of Aviv he brought you out of Egypt by night. 2 Sacrifice as the Passover to the Lord your God an animal from your flock or herd at the place the Lord will choose as a dwelling for his Name. 3 Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left Egypt in haste—so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt. 4 Let no yeast be found in your possession in all your land for seven days. Do not let any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until morning.

5 You must not sacrifice the Passover in any town the Lord your God gives you 6 except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary[f] of your departure from Egypt. 7 Roast it and eat it at the place the Lord your God will choose. Then in the morning return to your tents. 8 For six days eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day hold an assembly to the Lord your God and do no work.

-> Passover refers to self-governance, when all the causes of slavery in Egypt are exhausted and that stability I mentioned becomes possible.

The sages explain on the verse (Deuteronomy 16:1), “Guard the month of Aviv, and make [then] the Passover offering,” that the use of “spring” is telling us that we should ensure that Passover will always coincide with the right season, during the aviv, spring.

The Festival of Weeks

9 Count off seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain. 10 Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the Lord your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the Lord your God has given you. 11 And rejoice before the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites in your towns, and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows living among you. 12 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and follow carefully these decrees.

-> Freewill offerings are ways of saying Grace to God and mankind: Instead of building a monument to one man who thinks he is a god as a slave, the Free Willy builds monuments to the living out of homage to the One God.

Sukkot, The Festival of Tabernacles

13 Celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress. 14 Be joyful at your festival—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns. 15 For seven days celebrate the festival to the Lord your God at the place the Lord will choose. For the Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.

16 Three times a year all your men must appear before the Lord your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the Lord empty-handed: 17 Each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way the Lord your God has blessed you.

Sukkot means "Self worth". When we complete the Exodus from Rameses, self-worship to one of self-worth, the Torah says:

The Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.

Thus ends Parsha Re'eh "the Beholder" numbered 47 of 54 contained in the Holy Torah.