"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
vacation mode is ON
"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Idyllic Summer Sunset
Summer Sun
Great is the sun, and wide he goes
Through empty heaven with repose;
And in the blue and glowing days
More thick than rain he showers his rays.
Though closer still the blinds we pull
To keep the shady parlour cool,
Yet he will find a chink or two
To slip his golden fingers through.
The dusty attic spider-clad
He, through the keyhole, maketh glad;
And through the broken edge of tiles
Into the laddered hay-loft smiles.
Meantime his golden face around
He bares to all the garden ground,
And sheds a warm and glittering look
Among the ivy's inmost nook.
Above the hills, along the blue,
Round the bright air with footing true,
To please the child, to paint the rose,
The gardener of the World, he goes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler
Friday, June 19, 2009
Lake Fog or the abstract of tranquility!
After a long day of yarring about New Eden,
it’s nice to dock up,
get out of the pod,
sit down in your nice comfy chair
and
settle in with a good book.
"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler
Friday, June 12, 2009
iMoon or eye moon?
The big sister in the sky is watching you... Some Photoshop fun with an old image of the cresent moon.
"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Street Artist an Athenian Mariachi
Amemonos
Buscaba mi alma con afán tu alma,
Buscaba yo la vírgen que a mi frente
Tocara con sus labios dulcemente
En el febril insomnio de mi amor.
Buscaba yo la mujer pálida y bella,
Que en sueños me visita desde niño,
Para partir con ella mi cariño,
Para partir con ella mi dolor.
Como en la sacra soledad del templo
Sin ver a Dios se siente su presencia
Yo presentí en el mundo tu existencia
Y como a Dios sin verte te adoré.
Amémonos mi bien en este mundo
Donde lágrimas tantas se derraman;
Las que vierten, quizas los que se aman
Tienen un no se qué de bendición.
Amar es empapar el pensamiento
En la fragancia del edén perdido;
Amar, amar es llevar herido
Con un dardo celeste el corazón;
Es tocar los dinteles de la gloria,
Es ver tus ojos, es escuchar tu acento,
Es en el alma llevar el firmamento
Y es morir a tus pies de adoración.
"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Breathe
It has been a cool spring here in Toronto, with plenty of rain, and some amazing foggy days and nights. This one was last Thursday, and I found myself at a hydroelectric corridor.
Your underwater breath by Joe Landwehr
The knowledge I am seeking
cannot be found in books,
cannot be written,
cannot be thought
without turning thought inside out
to reveal the gossamer thread of its underpinning –
nothing but air.
Air.
So where shall I find such knowledge?
You find it in the water, I know.
Can I find it there, too?
I wonder.
I want to say
“take this body I won’t need it”
but who am I fooling?
In these cells
is wisdom
or at least
something ancient,
tried and true
and without it where would I be?
Dead.
Instead,
perhaps I should ignite it
with your help
and see what I can see
in the blaze of its demolition.
The knowledge I am seeking
has been here forever,
but invisible to those who seek it.
Seek it I shall not.
Feel it in your underwater breath
blowing through my heart
I shall.
"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Street Artist - Knee-Deep in June
Tell you what I like the best --
'Long about knee-deep in June,
'Bout the time strawberries melts
On the vine, -- some afternoon
Like to jes' git out and rest,
And not work at nothin' else!
Orchard's where I'd ruther be --
Needn't fence it in fer me! --
Jes' the whole sky overhead,
And the whole airth underneath --
Sort o' so's a man kin breathe
Like he ort, and kind o' has
Elbow-room to keerlessly
Sprawl out len'thways on the grass
Where the shadders thick and soft
As the kivvers on the bed
Mother fixes in the loft
Allus, when they's company!
Jes' a-sort o' lazin there -
S'lazy, 'at you peek and peer
Through the wavin' leaves above,
Like a feller 'ats in love
And don't know it, ner don't keer!
Ever'thing you hear and see
Got some sort o' interest -
Maybe find a bluebird's nest
Tucked up there conveenently
Fer the boy 'at's ap' to be
Up some other apple tree!
Watch the swallers skootin' past
Bout as peert as you could ast;
Er the Bob-white raise and whiz
Where some other's whistle is.
Ketch a shadder down below,
And look up to find the crow --
Er a hawk, - away up there,
'Pearantly froze in the air! --
Hear the old hen squawk, and squat
Over ever' chick she's got,
Suddent-like! - and she knows where
That-air hawk is, well as you! --
You jes' bet yer life she do! --
Eyes a-glitterin' like glass,
Waitin' till he makes a pass!
Pee-wees wingin', to express
My opinion, 's second-class,
Yit you'll hear 'em more er less;
Sapsucks gittin' down to biz,
Weedin' out the lonesomeness;
Mr. Bluejay, full o' sass,
In them baseball clothes o' his,
Sportin' round the orchad jes'
Like he owned the premises!
Sun out in the fields kin sizz,
But flat on yer back, I guess,
In the shade's where glory is!
That's jes' what I'd like to do
Stiddy fer a year er two!
Plague! Ef they ain't somepin' in
Work 'at kind o' goes ag'in'
My convictions! - 'long about
Here in June especially! --
Under some ole apple tree,
Jes' a-restin through and through,
I could git along without
Nothin' else at all to do
Only jes' a-wishin' you
Wuz a-gittin' there like me,
And June wuz eternity!
Lay out there and try to see
Jes' how lazy you kin be! --
Tumble round and souse yer head
In the clover-bloom, er pull
Yer straw hat acrost yer eyes
And peek through it at the skies,
Thinkin' of old chums 'ats dead,
Maybe, smilin' back at you
In betwixt the beautiful
Clouds o'gold and white and blue! --
Month a man kin railly love --
June, you know, I'm talkin' of!
March ain't never nothin' new! --
April's altogether too
Brash fer me! and May -- I jes'
'Bominate its promises, --
Little hints o' sunshine and
Green around the timber-land --
A few blossoms, and a few
Chip-birds, and a sprout er two, --
Drap asleep, and it turns in
Fore daylight and snows ag'in! --
But when June comes - Clear my th'oat
With wild honey! -- Rench my hair
In the dew! And hold my coat!
Whoop out loud! And th'ow my hat! --
June wants me, and I'm to spare!
Spread them shadders anywhere,
I'll get down and waller there,
And obleeged to you at that!
James Whitcomb Riley
"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Friendship
What's friendship? The hangover's faction,
The gratis talk of outrage,
Exchange by vanity, inaction,
Or bitter shame of patronage.
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Obama STS-125 Atlantis Solar Transit
In this tightly cropped image, the NASA space shuttle Atlantis is seen in silhouette during solar transit, Tuesday, May 12, 2009, from Florida. This image was made before Atlantis and the crew of STS-125 had grappled the Hubble Space Telescope. Photo Credit: (NASA/Thierry Legault)
"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler
the fade justice
no comment!
"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Are You Fake-ing orgasm !!
Women imitate orgasm to please men, men simulate in bed to please themselves
Things are not that complex in the wildlife. Driven by its mating instincts, a male animal will mount a female mammal with a clear-cut intention of generating offspring. The female of a species will feel no orgasm whatsoever – the anthropoids and pigs being the only exception to the rule.
The task of procreation is easily consummated after a series of productive movements. The male will get its satisfaction in the process.
Once the job is done, the male will get back to pasture. It is understood the animals have no reasons to feign anything. On the contrary, humans tend to take advantage by fooling their neighbors because humans are arguably the “peak of evolution.” Humans can fool one another anywhere they happen to be at the given moment. The bed is one of several locations frequently used for the purpose of deception.
Women keep pulling the wool over men’s eyes.
We still live in the good old patriarchal society no matter what we think of it or how civilized it may look to us. Ladies, you say you want the right to vote? Please take it. Do you want to climb up the ranks as fast as men do? You are free to give it a try. Does the service take your fancy? Okay, go and enlist if you believe you are up the job. However, giving birth to children has been, is and will be a woman’s key job. Therefore, dear ladies, please bear in mind that sexual intercourse is something you cannot avert. Whether you get any “heavenly pleasure” out of lovemaking is an issue of secondary importance. Needless to say, taking pleasure in sex is better than having sex without any pleasurable sensations. At times women can pretend getting pleasure out of sex even if they feel nothing in the process.
Several reasons behind the inability of women to achieve orgasm
Want of skill
We are talking about a lack of experience on the part of one or both partners involved in sexual activity. You know, it takes two to tango. So it is either he who cannot bring her to the “top,” or it is she who cannot play along. The problem usually solves itself as partners grow older and a more mature in terms of issues related to sex. Until that happens, a girl will roll her eyes, she will moan while tossing about the bed “just like in a movie.” And she will certainly say “yes” when he asks her: “Honey, did you cum?”
Sexual incompatibility
Sexual incompatibility happens here and there ever and anon. It is nothing to worry about if partners have just started sleeping with each other and their phase of searching for mutual sexual preferences is still on. By faking orgasm a woman can show her love and affection to her partner. But things grow more complex if the incompatibility of calibers, shall we put it mildly, comes into play. A woman will disguise her real pain as orgasmic moans of wild passion if her partner’s penis is far too large for her to handle. She is likely to pretend having a “journey to the Moon and back” just to make him come as soon as possible. On the other hand, a man whose love muscle is rather small simply cannot bring his partner to orgasm if the couple practices a missionary position. Yet smallness is not a good reason for hurting a good man’s feelings.
Health problems
Health problems preventing women from getting the joy of sex are aplenty. Anything can turn a pleasurable experience into a torture. A case of cystitis is one of the most frequent examples.
Orgasm is an issue for which a woman cannot care less if she feels a sharp pain or intense burning in her vagina during penetration. Dysmenorrhoea or painful menstruation can also make a mockery of pleasure when it comes to sex in disregard of hygienic preconceptions.
Mood swings
Woman is human too. She can feel lousy too due to a wide variety of reasons including a broken fingernail or an oaf who stepped on her foot in a crammed bus. The right mood for a woman in search of orgasm is of key importance because female orgasm is more psychological and less physiological in nature by comparison to the male one.
Job to do
Have you ever thought about the way porn movies are shot? We are not talking about homemade videos “for your eyes only,” when you try to do some sex acrobatics for the benefit of your video camera positioned on a night table. We mean pornographic motion pictures made for commercial purposes. Well, here is a couple of things for your information. In fact, all those movies, be it a short video or a full-length film, are made in accordance with the standard rules of filmmaking i.e. numerous takes, various positions, close-ups and backgrounds are subject to change in line with a plot while cameramen, stagehands and sound engineers run around in an endless flurry of activity. In other words, what kind of orgasm are we talking at the end of an 8-hour shift on the set full of light and strangers bound by their contractual obligations?
Men cannot be trusted
According to statistics, from 20 to 25% of men have feigned orgasm at least once in their life. How on earth can it happen? Nice and easy, in the dark, under the blanket, and with your condom on. “Keep the lights off, will you? I gotta take a shower but I’ll be back in a minute…” You can get away with it even if you deal with an experienced woman provided that you are a good actor. Your acting does the trick especially at the beginning of a relationship Taosists, the followers of Taosism, a philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu, are reportedly capable of ejaculating into their own bladders. They somehow manage to direct the flow of semen inward so nothing pours out outward. The technique is very good for energy conservation yet highly detrimental for male health. What if a Taosist should feel like having children? Redirecting semen would be a tough job to do.
Several reasons behind the inability of men to achieve orgasm
Lack of experience
Inexperience is likely to bring about a lack of orgasm in both partners if a boy has sex for the first time with a girl who knows next to nothing about sexual techniques. Both of them will be the casualties of the same misfortune, so to speak.
Lack of desire
Not unlike woman, man can be very sensitive and vulnerable. It is very unlikely that he will be able to think about football and come to orgasm while making love to a woman he does not fancy. That is why “madams” normally show off their girls in a brothel or at the roadside. No man will sleep with a woman who is ugly as sin. Well, maybe some fellow will – provided he is fresh from prison after serving his 15-year term.
Job-related stress
Contrary to a popular belief, men do not feel the hots at all times. All of us live in a stressful world that knows no repose. Sometimes there is no way a man can stop thinking of his urgent work problems after one hell of a day in the office. “Nothing personal, I’ve got more important things on my mind at the moment.”
Health problems
Some men cannot achieve orgasm because they have too much of a drink. It could be worse. It is actually much worse since half of Russian men above 40 have problems with their prostates due to a number of reasons including hypodynamia, STDs, drunkenness, and irregular sex life. In short, men themselves are to blame.
In conclusion
There is one more reason why a woman can fake orgasm. She wants her partner to get off and feel like a full-blown man, not like some freak of nature. Conception is still possible no matter if a woman fakes it or not, provided that her reproductive organs are in order. After all, all living creatures are programmed to procreate. On the other hand, a man feigns orgasm for entirely egotistic purposes. He is either keen to look good in the eyes of his lady or he wants her to leave him alone.
"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Atlantis the lost land
'In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous',
Aristotle, Part of animals.Atlantida presents an imaginary journey through the seven islands experienced as an interchange between image and sound charting a conversational movements of colour, light, texture through the natural world.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Atlantis (in Greek, Ἀτλαντίς, "daughter of Atlas") is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias.
In Plato's account, Atlantis was a naval power lying "in front of the Pillars of Hercules" that conquered many parts of Western Europe and Africa 9,000 years before the time of Solon, or approximately 9600 BC. After a failed attempt to invade Athens, Atlantis sank into the ocean "in a single day and night of misfortune".
Scholars dispute whether and how much Plato's story or account was inspired by older traditions. Some scholars argue Plato drew upon memories of past events such as the Thera eruption or the Trojan War, while others insist that he took inspiration from contemporary events like the destruction of Helike in 373 BC or the failed Athenian invasion of Sicily in 415–413 BC.
The possible existence of a genuine Atlantis was actively discussed throughout classical antiquity, but it was usually rejected and occasionally parodied by later authors. As Alan Cameron states: "It is only in modern times that people have taken the Atlantis story seriously; no one did so in antiquity". While little known during the Middle Ages, the story of Atlantis was rediscovered by Humanists in the Early Modern period. Plato's description inspired the utopian works of several Renaissance writers, like Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis". Atlantis inspires today's literature, from science fiction to comic books to films, its name having become a byword for any and all supposed advanced prehistoric lost civilizations.
"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Yellow Flower and a bee
Believe me when I say,
I love the humble bee!
From dawn to dusk,
Making honey for my tea.
Believe me when I say,
I fear the daring bee.
With flashing blade
He defends his home
From miscreants like me!
Believe me when I say
I pity the poor bee
Worked dawn to dusk
No time to play,
Now that is not for me!
"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν."
"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler
I love the humble bee!
From dawn to dusk,
Making honey for my tea.
Believe me when I say,
I fear the daring bee.
With flashing blade
He defends his home
From miscreants like me!
Believe me when I say
I pity the poor bee
Worked dawn to dusk
No time to play,
Now that is not for me!
"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler
Monday, May 4, 2009
Forget-me-not, a "freemason symbol"
In the years between WW1 and WW2 the blue forget-me-not was a standard symbol used by most charitable organizations in Germany, with a very clear meaning: "Do not forget the poor and the destitute". It was first
introduced in German Masonry in 1926, well before the Nazi era, at the annual Communication of the Grand Lodge "Zur Sonne", in Bremen, where it was distributed to all the participants. That was a terrible time in
Germany, economically speaking, further aggravated in 1929 following that year's "Great Depression". That economic situation, by the way, contributed a lot to Hitler's accession to power. Very many people depended on charity, some of which was Masonic. Distributing the forget-me-not at the Grand Lodge Communication was meant to remind German Brethren of the charitable activities of the Grand Lodge.
In 1936 (Hitler was already in control since 1933) the "Winterhilfswerk" (a non- Masonic winter charity drive) held a collection and used and distributed the same symbol, again with its obvious charitable connotation. Some of the Masons who remembered the 1926 Communication --and the forget-me-not-- possibly also wore it later as a sign of recognition. We have no evidence of that and its general signification still was charity, but not specifically Masonic charity. Moreover it rapidly became quite impossible to risk wearing anything but Nazi pins. So there were probably only a very few Brethren wearing the forget-me-not, and probably only for a
brief time, until wearing any non-Nazi pins became suspect. There is absolutely no record of the pin, or the flower, ever having been worn during the war (that is after 1939), even less in concentration camps, as the legend also goes.
In 1948 Bro. Theodor Vogel, Master of the Lodge "Zum weißen Gold am Kornberg", in Selb (then in Western-occupied Germany), remembered the 1926 and 1936 pin, had a few hundred made and started handing it out as a Masonic symbol wherever he went. When Brother Vogel was later elected GM of the Grand Lodge AFuAM of Germany and visited a Grand Masters' conference in Washington, DC, he distributed it there too, and this was the way it first came to the USA.
Its sudden popularity caused many manufacturers, some Masonic, some not, to pounce upon the occasion and sell the pin all over the world, with a variety of rather contrived and imaginative notes of explanation. The pin is nowadays quite well-known, as are the legends written about its origin, purpose and use... Which does not deter after all from the new message it carries today, through its authors' imagination if not through rigorous historical record...
And since we are mentioning the forget-me-not, it is any of about 50-odd species of the genus Myosotis, family Boraginaceae, carrying clusters of blue flowers and native to temperate Europe, Asia and North America.
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"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler
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