Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Excel

Matsuura Aya

Excel
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Faith
信仰の中で最高 
Shinkō no naka de saikō
ps30

Why should I applaud?
How do I know you're not a fraud?

What if you were to draw a gun?
That wouldn't be very much fun.

If you were to shoot me in the head
I would very likely end up dead.

That would not be good for you my friend.
Your freedom would begin to end.

Your candor would start to sour
as you began to lose your power.

Everything would become a show
that your big butt refused to know.

Your optimism would be misguided
to undo consequence that the grave decided.

Speech transfers thought into verbal expression.
What happens to impulse control after violent aggression?

You don't want to find out.
It won't be a test that has legal clout.

I'm not saying you don't have the right to own a weapon as a possession.
The possession is for defense, not illegal progression.

You have the right to stand your ground.
The protection of self from lethal attack is profound.

Your point of view is a place in space. 
Defense is for spirit not for waste.

A monad is a point with no dimension, but time.
It has no extension or shape. It is totally sublime.

The point forms the basis for extension with shape.
Each form is a unit with uncounted points in the ghost for the frame.

Simple existence is formed with an amount.
The compound is mixed with parts too small to count.

Quality is needed to determine existence.
Difference contrasts the perception of the consistent.

When change happens there is a pause 
that shows the cognition of cause.

When political unity doesn't allow for existence to change, 
there is no recognition of difference in how things are arranged.

This is called oppression. It forms ground for contention.
More trouble is found in rebellion as a regression
or progression to an even greater state of oppression.

When difference is the only thing that is promoted 
unity is not recognized as a value to be connoted. 

Soul is the projection of monad into your body and mind.
The integration of energy with substance is what your life defines.

Self is conditioned by life as we know it.
The earth shapes environment in a way that shows it.

Evolution allows for manageable change
so the political and physical can adapt within range.

That which is human acknowledges individual being
as a part of the whole that contributes to seeing
and retrieving knowledge from our believing
for what salvation is achieving.

You are the projection of soul
as a part of the whole.

A train of thought uses words to convey an impression.
Speech is a way to express internal procession.

The first use of names served as notes for remembrance. 
It was a step beyond the acceptance of essence.

The same words signify what is thought, felt or believed
with respect for desire, fear, passion or disease. 

Rhetoric uses inequality to express a symbol of speech. 
The sign is extended for listeners to reach.

Language predicts the future in the creation of art.
The market for commerce gives incentive to start.

Science is knowledge for the instruction of self.
Words make will or purpose known with the intention to help.
Speech is for insight or delight in ourselves 
in the way that we play for pleasure as well.

There are two kinds of regulated thought.
Cause defines purpose in that which is sought.
Probability is imagined by what time has wrought.

Leibniz was born before the Peace of Westphalia. 
The peace was a contract that resolved religious regalia.
The nation state was allowed independence from empire.
The monarch would choose the particular hell fire. 

Protestant or Catholic was left to the choice
of the principle leader as the popular voice.

Sweden was active as a Protestant power.
The Thirty Years War contested the Roman Habsburg hour.
France was Catholic, but Habsburg sour.

The Eighty Years War was for Dutch independence
from Spain as the sovereign reach for ascendance.

Leibniz approached the problem of evil
as something that faith could transcend with the primevally legal.

He developed the monad established by Euclid
in a way that Democritus would not find putrid.

The relation of the unseeably small to the infinitely large
was promoted as the range for the political charge.

We live with certainty
between immeasurable uncertainties.

Mind is a spear for morality with law.
Scripture provides incentive to anticipate the correction of flaw.
Faith is the attitude to produce products with awe.

Voltaire lampooned Leibniz with satirical expression
in a way that contributed to political digression,
but his artistry found a place in irreverent contention.

One criticism takes form in the perpetual "underachiever.” 
The existence of evil counters the power of the omnipotent believer
that talks himself out of all work as an achiever.

Another is found in the "holiness” of the creator.
When nature destroys, it is read as power by the dictator.
People are expected to see the Creator as the instigator
to the detriment of the 'holiness' in the communication of the imitator.

The law against murder is for the right to life.
Defense is against the lethal and imminent threat by a gun or knife.

There is the right to stand your ground. 
This is for legislated law to expound.
A duty to retreat exists when it is the better option found. 
This allows the assailed to withdraw
to give law enforcement a call.

Prudence is presumption of the future
based on the judgment of what part of the past to suture.

History reviews by what courses and degrees
the state came to civil war in certainty
with the sight of ruin contrived for any other state
from an experience that was defined as fate
but wan't so necessary to define as great.

There is no other act of mind remembered
that can reach beyond the sense dismembered
without study and industry tendered.

Speech developed by the course of instruction
may be improved to lift humans above destruction.
That which is imagined is finite with respect for the vocation of station.
Infinite magnitude lies beyond the imagination,
but not our calculation.

The name God is not used to define divine being.
Deity cannot be controlled by a way of seeing.

Fluxion can be calculated to improve conceptual measure.
Calculus helps to see the pleasure of the immeasured treasure
of existence between the uncertainties in leisure.

No thing can be conceived outside of space.
It has to be seen as residing in some place
with a size and shape that can be divided into parts
by a measure that describes magnitude as an art.

Quality describes essential form
so a listener can imagine the object as a norm.

There are those who would deceive by description. 
The con artist depends upon the generation of fiction.

Words are used as the tool for trolls
as they seek to counterfeit or steal your 'gold.'

The invention of printing developed the genius of letters.
Language evolved for the better.

Red leader. Red leader. This is heroic purple. Over.
'He who excels' brought letters to the grey people for Homer.

Agenor was king of Phoenicia.
His son Cadmus took letters to Keisha
in Greece  by sea well before Caesar.

Letters formed the alphabet so people who never met
could say something in writing with meaning they could get.

Transcription was labor. It gained a transcriber favor.
Reproduction and distribution generated consensus to savor.
Market potential was grown 
by memory and the conjunction shown.

The world in time became the reach for mind.
The technology was quite a find.
The most profitable invention was speech.
Written or verbal it gave thought extension to reach
with names and connections to teach
mutual utility for each. 

The Word was the author of the reach for speech
to society with contracts and peace
with more organization than bears, wolves and geese.

Adam was the man that gave names to each.
Eve was the one who shared the reach.
Scripture was something profound to read.
Language gained names as the readership had need.

Perpetual ecstasy waited for the paper 
to fall to the floor as easily as sleeves slip down the arms of the heron player
with vapor beholding the eye as the throne of the pupil's pupil as the shaper of layers
as destitute as ashes from charcoal in the carbon of the grilled favor for labor.

A loud boom shook the room with the shake that loud sound makes
when impacted by the force of pressure moving outward to take
the chimney with the wind across the lake that makes fish feel like saints
that don't faint when the force crosses across  the water saving the shake of fish mates.

An empty cup of rest with relaxation sits as if an Eagle has landed 
upon the magic carpet beneath where my now housed homeless feet stand
before the plasma screen image lived as livid with desert sedition that can
linger like the Nile where the hawk head of Horus wears the man as a plan.

The immediacy of your ghost-presence startles me.
I see again how one impossibly hot and stifling early afternoon in July can be
a place near the far end of the lake where the shade hides our heads from the heat
and our bikes from the beat of the street as we cool our bones in the watery retreat.

Tell me you stones. Speak you past particles of a towering palace!
Say a word as the oracle for that beneath our feet in the street as the maker of callus
that forms the chalice of toe for the now forgotten groan from the base of body balance.

Cool clean water is the spirit of eternal Rome.
Who will whisper to me from what window in what home?

Will I see some sweet thing who'll kindle me now to quicken my heart?
I'm gazing at a church, palace, ruin, columns and a stone street for a drawn cart. 
I wonder as a wanderer looking to make sense of the journey from the start.

Soon it will happen. There will be one vast temple of love to receive the initiate.
Though you’re a whole world, the world isn't whole without the ability to hydrate.

When gods and goddesses loved in heroic ages, desire followed a look.
Joy followed desire. Talk came as from a book. Joy flowed like a brook. 

I was stolen from distant shores and beaten by misfortune.
“What did I do to be cast into chains by the god of fortune?"

Am I not part of his creation? Is my sin the color of my skin?
Am I not also created for happiness? I loved the one I could win.

She had all my tenderness. Her smile made my heart beat true.
I was to become a father to the fruit of our love's swoon.

Dear child, do you still live to console your mother
or did you perish without knowing touch from another?

My humble prayers are offered in church for you.
I pray that my love will guide your spirit to live true.

I saw you near the altar by chance.
Your beloved face turned to meet my glance.

Enchantment held fast my gaze in wonder.
Your smile spoke softly, like a quiet slumber.

I asked for words with immortal charm,
"Lull to a timely rest the works of war and harm.
Let them stop forever that children may grow to learn
the power that morality for public peace will earn.
Let each body be filled with energy from above.
Pour from those lips soft syllables distilled with love.

"Grant peace to our people, glorious lady,

in the heat of this season as troubled as a hungry baby.
Let the illustrious branch from this house of labor
not neglect the civic cause of our Savior."

Japanese Iris
kakitsubata


The royal color of the water iris
blooms with a summer bias.

Sweet Flag


Sweet Flag and Mugwort line the gardern path.
Red mulch gives the green contrast.

Cuckoo Call
Video Recording

The cuckoo had slipped her egg in the warbler's nest.
The warbler is raising the baby along with the rest.
The sunflower has risen to face the light.
The lily peeks above the deep grass along the side.
The Strawberry moon is due.
The berries looked close to ripe at the end of June.

Bonsai sculpting came from penzai in China.
Korea had a form to combat angina. ;)
The stately pine tree did not grow free.
It was shaped for art to increase beauty.

Rice Field



Aliens invaded the rice field 
to leave the green face of a gold child to yield.

Himeji Castle

Agnostic winds blow in July. 
I don't know from where. I don't know why.
The heat is hot.
The wind is not, 
but it doesn't blow as often as it ought.
Shade is favored for movement managed.
Relief from sun is a great advantage.

The Himeji Castle appears in sight
to be a palace of great delight.
The sakura trees surround the base.
The castle structure reaches up in space.

The labyrinthian approach from the Hishi Gate
leads along walled paths that run straight
through multiple gates and baileys to create
delay in access to the attacking force of gait. 

The great rock walls are on the hill.
The white heron walls rise higher still.
A smaller size floor reaches one flight higher.
The A frame roof curves like a flame of fire.
The spirit of the sky inquires, "What height does your reach desire?"
"Would you harvest gold from the blue in the curve of sky?
You'll be surprised at what you can do when you believe and try."

The main keep is a wooden structure.
It has six floors filled with the charm of Japanese culture.

She stood in the entrance to the lower floor.
We climbed a series of steep narrow stairs without doors.
They were as steep as the stairs in a ship off the shore.
The stairs were steady but the pitch required the use of handrails for sure.
Each room on the next floor was smaller than the one before.

We stood on the top floor in the shrine
and looked out in the direction of each side.
The maze provided places for soldiers to hide.

My companion looked at the land with the pride of a bride
married to the countryside. 

I will exalt in my Savior
because I savor 
salvation's flavor.

I cried for help without wealth.
I was restored to good health.

I was brought up from the dead.
I learned from what was said.

Sing with thanks for salvation.
Feel the value of exaltation.

Wrath lasts for a moment in time.
Providence rings the perpetual chime.

Tears cleanse the soul.
Joy lets the body extol as whole.

Your favor made me feel strong.
I felt that I could right every wrong.

All things were created to exist.
Generation makes the soul persist.

Construction is a goal that helps us
to avoid destruction as the security bus
for the bust 
of trust.

Faith inspires excellence in effort and achievement.
Wisdom loves knowledge, speech, kindness and productive disagreement.

Reconciliation is the goal to contrive
the best answer to secure the means to survive.

Nations need to work together
to form the bonds that will not sever.

You have turned struggle into a dance
that shows that grace works with chance.

Leadership finds a reasoned judgement
that balances security with risk in the budget.


30 Exaltabo te, Domine

1 I will exalt you, O Lord,
because you have lifted me up *
and have not let my enemies triumph over me.
2 O Lord my God, I cried out to you, *
and you restored me to health.
3 You brought me up, O Lord, from the dead; *
you restored my life as I was going down to the grave.
4 Sing to the Lord, you servants of his; *
give thanks for the remembrance of his holiness.
5 For his wrath endures but the twinkling of an eye, *
his favor for a lifetime.
6 Weeping may spend the night, *
but joy comes in the morning.
7 While I felt secure, I said,
"I shall never be disturbed. *
You, Lord, with your favor, made me as strong as
the mountains."
8 Then you hid your face, *
and I was filled with fear.
9 I cried to you, O Lord; *
I pleaded with the Lord, saying,
10 "What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the Pit? *
will the dust praise you or declare your faithfulness?
11 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me; *
O Lord, be my helper."
12 You have turned my wailing into dancing; *
you have put off my sack-cloth and clothed me with joy.
13 Therefore my heart sings to you without ceasing; *
O Lord my God, I will give you thanks for ever.


Wisdom 1:14
God created all things so they might exist.
The generative forces of the world are wholesome.
There is no destructive poison in them.
The dominion of Hades is not on earth.

2 Corinthians 8:7
Excel in everything--in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in kindness, in eagerness and in our love for you. Please excel in your generosity as well.

Mark 5:39
When he had entered, he said to them, 'Why do you make a commotion and weep? The child is not dead, but sleeping.'

7.1.18

Jupiter in Libra
This is a still a great month to observe Jupiter. The planet had come into opposition on May 8th. It will be visible in the southwest in the late evening   It is moving down the ecliptic and lies in Libra. It will only reach an elevations of ~20 degrees when crossing the meridian.

June 28 Full Moon
This full moon was known by early Native American tribes as the Full Strawberry Moon because it signaled the time of year to gather ripening fruit. It also coincides with the peak of the strawberry harvesting season. This moon has also been known as the Full Rose Moon and the Full Honey Moon.

Gottfried Leibniz 7.1.1649 Leipzig, Saxony
戈特弗里德莱布尼茨

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特  te    unusual              tokui      unique                ッ   t                       teu     트     the
弗  fu    not                     fu            fluor-                ト   to                      peu    프     the
里  li      home                ri             area                   フ  fu                      Li      리     lee
德  de   morality             no kanji                            リ   ri                      teu     트    the
莱  lai   fallow field        rai           mountain            ー  -                       la       라    la
布  bu   cloth                   nuno      cloth                  ト  to                       i         이    principle
尼  ni    ni                        ni             nun                    Ra                     peu     프   the
茨  ci     thatch                 ibara       thorn                イ  i                         ni       니   needle
                                                                                 プ  pu                     cheu   츠   tsu
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特 te, tokui, unusual

The foundation of the University of Leipzig in 1409 initiated the city's development into a center for German law and the publishing industry. The city moved toward being the location of the Reichsgericht (Imperial Court of Justice) and the German National Library (founded in 1912).

Peace of Westphalia
1648
Two Years Before the Birth of Leibniz

The Peace of Westphalia was a series of peace treaties signed between May and October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster. The peace enhanced the powers of the sovereign nation state instead of the Holy Roman Empire. It resolved much of Europe's Protestant and Catholic conflict.

The treaty ended the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) in the Holy Roman Empire. The Habsburgs and their Catholic allies were on one side. The Protestant powers were Sweden, Denmark, the Dutch Republic, the Holy Roman principalities and France. France was Catholic but anti-Habsburg.

The treaty also ended the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) between Spain and the Dutch Republic. Spain formally recognised the independence of the Dutch Republic. The Treaties of Westphalia brought to a close a tumultuous period of European history which saw many deaths.

Two battles took place in Breitenfeld during the Thirty Years War about 8 kilometres (5.0 miles) outside Leipzig city walls. The first Battle of Breitenfeld took place in 1631. The second occurred in 1642. Both battles resulted in victories for the Swedish-led side.

The Swedish empire was Protestant. It was engaged in boundary disputes with the Holy Roman Empire. This empire was being divided between Catholic and Protestant Princes.




Dan Akroyd 7.1.52  Ottawa, Canada
丹艾克罗伊德
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丹   Dan      red                       ni                red earth              ダ    Da              Daen    댄   Dan
艾   Ai          cut                      mogusa       moxa                    ン    n                Ah       아    ah
克   ke         restrain                ko               mark                     ア     A                i         이    i
罗   luo        catch                   no kanji                                   イ     i                 keu     크   greater
伊   yi           he, she               i                   elegance               ク    ku               lo       로   by
德   de         morality              no kanji                                    ロ    ro                i         이   i
                                                                                                 イ    i                 deu     드   de
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Ottawa's former industrial appearance was vastly altered by the 1950 Greber Plan. Prime Minister Mackenzie King hired French architect-planner Jacques Greber to design an urban plan for managing development in the National Capital Region to make it more aesthetically pleasing and more befitting as the location for Canada's political center.



Lea Seydoux 7.1.85  Paris, France
李啊写露
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写   Xie     write                 sha          copy                        Se     セ               Se  세   tax
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The Parisii, a sub-tribe of the Celtic Senones, inhabited the Paris area from around the middle of the 3rd century BCE. One of the area's major north–south trade routes crossed the Seine on the île de la Cité. This meeting place of land and water trade routes gradually became a town and an important trading center. The Parisii traded with many river towns.  Some came from as far away as the Iberian Peninsula. They minted their own coins for that purpose.

The Romans conquered the Paris Basin in 52 BCE. They began extending their settlement to the Left Bank in Paris after making the island a garrison camp. The Gallo-Roman town was originally called Lutetia (more fully, Lutetia Parisiorum, "Lutetia of the Parisii"). It became a prosperous city with a forum, baths, temples, theaters and an amphitheater.



Aya Matsuura 6.25.86 Hymeji, Japan
松浦亜弥

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"Baka Mitai" (Like a Fool)
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松   song      loose          Matsu     pine                    A      ア            Ma       마    yard
浦   pu          beach          ura         beach                  ya    ヤ            cheu     츠    tsu
亜   ya           Asia             A          Asia                    Ma  マ            u           우    right
弥   mi          fill                ya         increase              tsu   ツ            la          라   la
                                                                                  -       ー            A          아   ah
                                                                                  ra     ラ             ya        야   ya

Himeji has been the center of Harima Province since Nara period. Ikeda Terumasa received a fief at Harima Province and established the Himeji Domain after the Battle of Sekigahara. He expanded the Himeji Castle and its castle town.

One hundred and seven aircraft took off to bomb Himeji on July 3, 1945 at 4:23 PM (JST). Seven hundred and sixty seven tons of incendiary bombs were dropped on the city during the raid. Over sixty percent of the built up area for the city was destroyed. The famous Himeji Castle remained remarkably unscathed even though it had been hit by one firebomb. This resulted in many residents believing that the castle is divinely protected.

Himeji Castle

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The construct is a hilltop castle complex situated in the city of Himeji. It is located in the Hyōgo

Prefecture of Japan.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was a great unifier of Japan. He ordered the construction of the castle on the site of the existing fort in 1601. It was part of his strategy to build one castle per province.
Ieyasu’s peacekeeping plan was so successful that Himeji’s castle never saw battle.

The defense includes a combination of moats, baileys, towers and winding walled alleyways. There are 83 buildings in all. The fight scene in "You Only Live Twice" was filmed there.

The ninja were a spy caste that originated in the secretive mountain communities of Mie Prefecture. A group was resident in the grounds of Himeji.

Ninja were regarded as a lower caste of warrior. They were not considered worthy of a place in the castle itself. Their secretive nature kept them apart from the rest of the residents anyway. The spirit of concealment and stealth is evoked in the design of the castle itself nevertheless.

The fort is also known as White Heron Castle (Shirasagijo) due to its elegant, white appearance. It is widely considered to be Japan's most spectacular castle for its imposing size and beauty. It has well preserved and complex castle grounds. The castle is a national treasure and a world heritage site.

Unlike many other Japanese castles, it was never destroyed by war, earthquake or fire. It survives to this day as one of the country's twelve original castles. The structure recently underwent extensive renovation over several years. It was fully re-opened to the public in March 2015.

The fort lies at a strategic point along the western approach to the former capital city of Kyoto. The first fortifications built on the site were completed in the 1400's.

They were gradually enlarged over the centuries by the various clans who ruled over the region. The castle complex as it survives today is over 400 years old. It was completed in 1609. It is made up of over eighty buildings spread across multiple baileys which are connected by a series of gates and winding paths.

Visitors enter the main keep through an entrance in the lower floor of the building and climb upwards via a series of steep, narrow staircases. Each level gets progressively smaller as you ascend.

The floors are generally unfurnished and display just a few multilingual signs explaining architectural features such as portholes, rock chutes and concealed spaces as well as renovation efforts made over the years to preserve the structure.

The topmost floor houses a small shrine and lets visitors peer out in all directions, down over the castle roofs, at the maze-like defenses below and out across the city of Himeji. You can also admire an up close view of the fish-shaped roof ornaments that are believed to protect from fire.



Tomoko Kanazawa 7.2.95  Saitama, Japan
金澤朋子
Juice = Juice
"Don't Be Mean"


金   jin          golden               Kana     gold                To     ト                To  토  sat
澤   ze          fertile                 sawa    rice field           mo   モ                mo 모  cake
朋   peng     friend                 Tomo   friend                 ko    コ                ko   코  nose
子   zi            seed                    ko          child              Ka    カ               Ga   가  edge
                                                                                     na   ナ                  na   나  we
                                                                                     za    ザ                  ja    자  purple
                                                                                      wa  ワ                  wa   와  recess

The name "Saitama" originally comes from the Sakitama (埼玉郡) district of what is now the city of Gyōda in the northern part of what is now known as Saitama Prefecture. "Sakitama" has an ancient history and is mentioned in the famous 8th century poetry anthology Man'yōshū. The pronunciation has changed from Sakitama to Saitama over the years.

Monday, June 18, 2018

Give

Minka Kelly


Give
Thanks
ありがとう
Arigatō
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Why should I give thanks?
The world is full of tanks and pranks.

Temptation is a tricky bit.
Go too far and evil fits.

Evil is a problem as well.
It destroys the solemn self in hell.

Animal soul suffers constraint due to design.
Purpose is the royal incline. 

There is a measure to imitation by emulation.
The pleasure of human station is rationed
for health with stealth for demonstration.

I slipped off the bow of the boat in my youth.
The chilly sail that followed was a sleuth for truth.

The wealth of seeking gain for me
is guided by that which is naturally clean.

The hearth, the home and family
are seen as self that vary how I see.

These are worthy for defense
in terms of the immediacy of sense.  

Community, the state and the nation
are seen as self with respect for social station.

Politics is for the promotion of legal security.
National and social policy has to be balanced for maturity.

Otherwise arms are forced by hate
for a story embellished by increased spending as fate. 

The child raised with praise is expelled from the shore.
Long labors by air, sea and land would become the chore.
Before he was to win advance in the doubtful war 
in the realm of language reduced from so much more
to the not yet parsed, he was to build the store
for banished principles restored galore
to the augural rite to divine the adored.

Sure succession would be settled in his line
to determine economic success in time
for belief in healthy living for long life 
for the long glory of the majestic knife
to excise strife from spending on tripe.

I fell into a cement basement shell at night
when we had been told that playing there would not be right.

I was cut by a board on my shin. 
Stitches resulted in a scar that grins. 
I learned that my own safety wins
protection from harm in the reduction of sin.

The causes and the crimes of fate would relate
to what the people were told they hate.

What high-mindedness stoked the fan
for what offense a view of heaven began
to persecute so brave or just a man?

His anxious life was involved in endless cares
exposed to want for want and war as snares! 

Do heavenly minds show such resentment
or exercise spite in human predicament? 

Rome did not engage in war without reason
They had nearly been destroyed by Gauls in less than one season.

They had replaced the king with consul as the head of state.
Two consuls worked a year to make their bargaining great.

Alexander had made empire expand
to protect Greece from the Persian hand.
His generals divided the conquered lands.

The conquered were allowed to govern their own
but people grew tired of foreign control.

Carthage was a sister to the city of Tyre.
They made wheels for ease and speed in transportational fire.

The wheels added carts to the cavalry.
The wielding of weapons acquired another platform for industry.

Carthage was willing to take Rome by siege.
Unarmed trade would have made this an ease.

It was well known by that time
that Assyria had dispensed with Israel's tribes.

Babylon had taken the conquered captive. 
Persia had released those for whom there was no ransom.

Those who developed the strength for independence
had the imperial imperative for expansion to test.

Past the Tiber's mouth across the sea 
sat Carthage as a Tyrian colony.

The people were studious of their trade,
but stoutness for war was also made. 

Phoenician Trade 


There is a god in us who stirs what we kindle
in sowing the seed of inspiration for each symbol
to the special right to see the face of the divine as simple.

Hidden in a grove of trees masked from every sound but a trickle
lies the heart of home celebrated like a riddle.

That impulse was sown in the love by Juno more
than for her own Argos or the Samian shore.

Here stood her chariot. Here, if her heaven were kind, 
sat the seat of the awful empire she had designed.

She had heard an ancient rumor fly
long cited by the people of the sky
that times to come should see some hero from Troy
cause Carthage to be destroyed.

She thought the yoke of sovereign sway 
should lay on all the nations of the day. 

She could not forget the war she waged of late 
in using Greece to conquer the Trojan state. 

Meanwhile the smitten ocean moaned
from the tempest turbulent assault as it had grown.

The tumult vexed the deepest cave.
Neptune knew how to be brave.

He rose over the sea with his sovereign brow.
He saw how the escaping Trojan fleet had scattered bows.

Aeneas, the child as man, was overwhelmed with his men.
The mingling shock of wave and sky was Juno's vengeful strategem.

Her brother's royal glance did not fail to see
the violation of his authority.

He rebuked the wind. 
"This recklessness is a sin.

"You ride through heaven to stir these mountain waves.
It is against my will to save. Go away!" 

The storm was subdued swifter than his word.
As he began to speak, he was being heard.

The swelling of waves subsided as though they had rehearsed.
Light shown from heaven when the storm clouds dispersed. 
It was from this conquered state of storm that a hero emerged
to be tried by the trials of travel much like those Ulysses turned
but this Aeneas, the child of trials, would converge
on Rome with knowledge of the Phoenician birth
of Carthaginian mirth as born of the will to sacrifice the girth
of the male population in battle to control trade across the earth.

Rome destroyed Carthage in the Punic wars.
The fathers of the families who won were placed in a state to win more.

Republic was the form for the government that was in place,
but the victories were not achieved by political grace. 
They were won by battle to increase profit by trade.

Caesar and Pompei were locked in a race
for the general who could persuade the face
of the populace better than the Senate ways.

The Populares and the Optimates had inviable positions.
The force of forced inequalities insured violent conflict in the division of opinions.

Caesar won the battle and established hereditary succession.
The Senate disagreed to make the contention a contest for violent aggression.

Vespasian had the bible codified to make monotheism the religious form.
Roman government never allowed polytheism to transform.

When I had first learned to ski, I was challenged to go fast for fun.
I lost control, flipped and hit my head against a pipe. How dumb.

I had known better from prior lessons learned
but I let peer pressure overcome the caution I'd earned.

The Reformation used peer pressure as strength.
People were expected to reject human authority at length. 
The pope and the monarchy were to be seen as an unnecessary expense.

Luther and Henry VIII opposed the rejection of the aristocracy
but Calvin pressed hard to impose austerity through democracy.

Pope Gregory XIII had not renewed excommunication.
but Elizabeth I was presented with the large problem of insurrection.

If the Jesuits had never gone into England;
if the Pope and King of Spain had not sought to impose a catholic crown for the land;
if the Duke of Guise had not attempted to depose her majesty by his hand;
if Parsons and others beyond the sea had never been agents in the bloody band
with Throckmorton, Parry, Collen, York, Wil∣liams, Squire in their treacherous stand;
if they had not by their writings endeavored to defame their sovereign glands;
if they had not sought to have allured the hearts of Catholics from their allegiance grand; 
if they had not labored for the invasion of the islands by the Spanish fleet;
if the Spaniards were not known to be cruel in their proceedings;
if there there had been no speeches of racks and torture to cause pain with bleeding;
had the Puritans and Calvinists not been so aggressive for the popularity of austerity as greedy;
the state would have loved the divergence as a leaning. 
Imposition was not the goal for declaring the monarch as the Church leader.

Prayer was offered as an avenue to participation with petition for gleaning
the meaning for human being.

When the truck almost drove off the road into our teen age
I felt anger for the driver whether the threat was due to neglect or rage.

Driving was a responsibility that requires safety for self and others.
A truck was not a toy to employ towards the destruction of the druthers of teen wonders.

Memories flashed into mind out of many faces at the end of the day
away from the sidewalks where my shoe soles had traveled on the way
and the voices rose to form the afternoon roar as something to say
to hinder an old silence too familiar to play.

Parallel Bars 


When the farmer's son threw me around like a bale of hay
'Gymnastics will build your upper body strength' was what he chose to say.
I knew to take the advice at 'arms length' to show my resilience as pay.

I remember lean people in passing among you. 
There were throats in the clutch of a hope for rescue,
lips written over with striving on the gumshoe for the brand-new,
mouths that kiss only for love in the debut of beef stew,
records of great wishes kept as slept with to get through
that which was held long, prayed and toiled for with much to-do

Yes, wishes were written on your mouths and transcribed on your lips.
I read them when you passed by with a sea of soundless song in the swing of your hips.

When the burned grass of the drop zone showed the value of the 5 points of contact 
my feet screamed pain at the reduction to one point of bone spurring impact.

I was then given choice in military service.
I could have quit legally and retained dignity on the surface.

I chose surgery to remove the spurs leaving a marked reduction of my limp.
I served my time with the 82d Division as a partial gimp.

When the division almost went to Libya
it was related to events that took place in Lebanon and Syria.

We had been trained with the instruction of Chiron
to wait for the sound of the twenty four hour siren.

"Donne-moi voir de l'eau" 
Thoureau was the one who made the veto.

It's just as well.
War is hell.

Terrorism was a new thing in the American media.
It was paired with lack of term limits as the feed for the median Bohemian.

Thanks for the tree you put between me and the madness of the bullet.
That fluxion swayed seconds before the soundless raise of rifle and the finger pulled it.

When black ice took control of the pick up truck
I found the rock on the opposite side of 'this sucks.'
The praise of God included this as part of luck.
It could have been worse than the loss of the truck.

Black ice returned to move the moving van
in fishtails across the lanes of the highway span. 
The world looked silly all white from the side.
The wrecker put the van up right with my belongings scrambled inside.

There was nothing left to do, but drive on with the view
that the weather had improved.

Florida made for a different state of mind
than the one Montana had me find. 

The river rolls within us. 
The sea flows all around any fuss. 
The sea is the land's edge for sand, stone or moss. 
The water reaches the beaches where the toss
of wave hints of an earlier creation as boss.

The starfish, the sea turtle and the manatee
move in the pools of our ancient curiosity
with the more delicate algae and the sea anemone.

The brine tosses up our losses.
There lies the broken oar as half a cross.
The torn shirt, the rusted lobster pot
and the object from a foreign lot.

The sea has many voices. 
It has many powers and offers many choices.
The salt clings to the things which it adores.
The fog moves slowly across the water and over the shore.

The howl and the yelp are sounds from different voices
often heard together among the host of choices.
The creak is in the craft. The whine is in the rigging. 
The caress of wave swells to the menace of flipping
the tripping drops that crest the swollen spitting.

The distant note drifts as a warning 
of the approach of the headland that is forming 
dark shapes against the grey haze adorning
the space that the craft is aborting.

The tern sails and sings through the oppression 
of the silent fog as the rocking repetition 
of the tolling bell measures the swells in her mission.

The bell measures swells
rung by the unhurried tell
of time older than the tick that dwells
in the turn of the cogged gears in a clock shell. 

It is older than time counted by anxiety
lying awake, calculating the future of propriety,
trying to unweave, unwind or unravel impropriety in society
to piece together the past and the future with sobriety
between midnight and dawn, when the past was deceived by notoriety.

The future seems future-less before the morning watch
when time stops and is never ending along the notch
marked by the swell that is heard as though it was
from the beginning of cause
in the pause

between the clangs of the bell.

Constraint tells me what to do and how to sell
whatever gels as worthy for the cell
of a sale. 
I just need to choose a yogurt to feel hearty and hale.

I just need to know how to begin.
Rule constrains in order to win 
what is needed to live.

The heat has been so hot
there are times when I forget how to be thankful for what I've got.

The Hurricane has tested the building of strength and drainage.
The downward dip to the curve of the swale is like an inverted burial mound ridge.

Karl Marx followed Adam Smith in time.
He criticized that which Adam had defined as sublime.

Marxist analysis had this massive major flaw.
Political change was to be made with violence as the law.

The analysis has a value when detached from this.
It can be used to deter corporations from using government for personal bliss.

The state does not exist to make money easy with excessively limited public benefit.
It is an instrument to distribute the social contract in a way that suits the fit of it.

We are saying thank you over telephones, in doorways, in the backs of cars, in elevators,
remembering the forlorn torn from what had been born by the police at the door for the neighbor,
the eagle that soars and the beatings on stairs from traitors as waiters for the boring bore
as bourn past the saber of the tibor or tabor as the savior.


Law enforcement by government has to impose limitation on social relation otherwise.
Violence is only justified in defense against violent aggression as the crow flies.

Thanks for newness in old age.
Thanks for oldness for the new sage.

Thanks for health, the midday sun, the impalpable air,
for life with reduced strife and the increase in care;
for precious ever-lingering memory that bears
family and friends as the social element to be personally shared;
for all my days in debate for disagreement without violence;
for all that which is gained from learning in silence;
for gentle words, caresses, gifts from the foreign land of quiet;
for shelter, wine, meat and the appreciation of diet;
for beings, groups, love, deeds, words, books, colors and forms;
for all the brave strong men and women that work to make freedom the norm;
for the foreward spring as sprung in the cannoneers of song and thought as gold,
the great artillerists, the foremost leaders, the artists as captains of the soul,
for travelers out of myriads, to the long procession to the retrospective goal sown as known;
for distant, dim, unknown, young, old, countless and un-specified readers.
We never met and may never meet, yet our souls embrace that which is needed for believers.

I give thanks with gladness
and a soldier's well traveled sadness.

You are full of music, manhood, womanhood, childhood and infancy!
You are full of common employments, grain and trees.  

You are the voice of animals, the swift balance of fish,
the plip plop of rain drops and the motion of waves in sunshine kissed!       

You are the joy of my spirit un-caged! You strike from the lightning height!  
It is not enough to have this globe for a certain time. It's frightening.
I would have thousands of globes in a soul that is enlightening.

Face chance with the momentum of motivation.
Use anticipation to prepare for your participation in salvation.

Face chance with the spirit of strength
in your organization at length.

Say goodbye to every day before today.
You can shape your own outcomes by the way you play
and by what you say.

Watch chance to see how it changes
no matter what the range is.

The determination of merit in the establishment of status
is made by judgment with education and experience that matters.

Maturity is a location that respects the merit of experience.
Achievement is relative to the development of opposition to the imperious.

I will walk along the way ahead of the flux.
I will give thanks for the way I can shape my own luck.

I will tell people about what you have done.
I will rejoice in the success of what we have won.

I will be glad and rejoice in you from the start. 
I will give thanks for you with my whole heart.

9 Confitebor tibi

1 I will give thanks to you, O Lord, with my whole heart; *
I will tell of all your marvelous works.
2 I will be glad and rejoice in you; *
I will sing to your Name, O Most High.
3 When my enemies are driven back, *
they will stumble and perish at your presence.
4 For you have maintained my right and my cause; *
you sit upon your throne judging right.
5 You have rebuked the ungodly and destroyed the wicked; *
you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.
6 As for the enemy, they are finished, in perpetual ruin, *
their cities ploughed under, the memory of them perished;
7 But the Lord is enthroned for ever; *
he has set up his throne for judgment.
8 It is he who rules the world with righteousness; *
he judges the peoples with equity.
9 The Lord will be a refuge for the oppressed, *
a refuge in time of trouble.
10 Those who know your Name will put their trust in you, *
for you never forsake those who seek you, O Lord.
11 Sing praise to the Lord who dwells in Zion; *
proclaim to the peoples the things he has done.
12 The Avenger of blood will remember them; *
he will not forget the cry of the afflicted.
13 Have pity on me, O Lord; *
see the misery I suffer from those who hate me,
O you who lift me up from the gate of death;
14 So that I may tell of all your praises
and rejoice in your salvation *
in the gates of the city of Zion.
15 The ungodly have fallen into the pit they dug, *
and in the snare they set is their own foot caught.
16 The Lord is known by his acts of justice; *
the wicked are trapped in the works of their own hands.
17 The wicked shall be given over to the grave, *
and also all the people that forget God.
18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten, *
and the hope of the poor shall not perish for ever.
19 Rise up, O Lord, let not the ungodly have the upper hand; *
let them be judged before you.
20 Put fear upon them, O Lord; *
let the ungodly know they are but mortal.

1 Sam.17:37
David said, 'The LORD who saved me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will save me from the hand of this Philistine.' Saul said to David, 'Go. May the LORD be with you.'

2 Cor. 6:2
Now is the acceptable time. Now is the day of salvation.

Mark 4:39-40
He woke up and rebuked the wind. He said to the sea, 'Peace! Be still! Then the wind ceased. There was a dead calm. He said to them, 'Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?'

6.24.18

Sky
Venus and the Beehive Cluster
Summer Solstice June 21
Close approach of Moon and Jupiter
Waxing Gibbous
Moon close to crown of Scorpio

PM Jupiter, Moon, Saturn, Mars, AM Mercury, Venus
Mars in Capricorn

Mars was the god of war and also an agricultural guardian in the Roman religion. This was a combination characteristic of early Rome. Egypt was highly valued for the bread that was produced near the Nile. An army doesn't function if the soldiers aren't fed. He was second in importance only to Jupiter and he was the most prominent of the military gods in the religion of the Roman army.

Capricorn is a mythical sea-goat. The constellation was a symbol of the god Ea. The story about the god was shared to mark the winter solstice in the Early Bronze Age. The constellation is sometimes identified as Amalthea in Greek mythology. She was the goat that suckled the infant Zeus after his mother, Rhea, saved him from being devoured by his father, Cronos.
Saturn in Saggitarius

Cronus was the son of Uranus and Gaea in Greek mythology. He lead his brothers and sisters, the Titans in a revolt against their father. He won and became the king of the gods.

He married the Titan Rhea. She represents wealth and abundance. They had a total of six children. Cronus was tormented about how he had acquired the throne. He had a bad habit of eating his newborn children to prevent them from one day overthrowing him as king of the gods. Finally, Rhea tricked him at the birth of her last child, Zeus. She got him to swallow a rock instead. Zeus then beat his father with the help of his brothers and sisters. The Romans adopted Cronus as the god Saturn.

Sagittarius is associated with the centaur, Chiron. He was renowned for his instruction. He was an excellent archer, musician and physician. He tutored the likes of Achilles, Jason and Hercules.
Chiron was accidentally shot and wounded by Hercules. The arrow had been dipped in the poison of the Lernaean Hydra. The poison inflicted great suffering on Chiron. The suffering was so great that even the talented physician could not cure himself.

Chiron offered himself as a substitute for Prometheus. He was an immortal in agony. He was unable to find release from suffering in death. The gods had punished Prometheus for giving fire to man by chaining him to a rock. Each day a vulture would devour his liver. Each night it would grow back.
Jupiter had at the request of Hercules agreed to release Prometheus if a suitable substitute could be found. Chiron gave up his immortality and went to Tartarus in place of Prometheus. Jupiter placed him in the stars in recognition of his goodness.

The Cronia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronia

The Kronia was an Athenian festival held in honor of Cronus (Kronos) on the 12th day of Hekatombaion. This was the first month of the Attic calendar. It is roughly equivalent to the latter part of July and first part of August. The festival was also celebrated in parts of Ionia. The month was known as Kronion after the festival in these places.

The Roman playwright Accius says that to celebrate the Kronia, "In nearly all fields and towns they happily feast upon banquets, and everyone waits upon his own servants." Slaves and the free, rich and poor, all dined together. They played games such as dice (kyboi), knucklebones (astragaloi) and the board game pessoi. The freedom from work and social egalitarianism enjoyed on the day represented the conditions of the mythical Golden Age when Cronus still ruled the world.

Birthdays
Robert Parsons 6.24.1546 Nether Stowey, England
罗伯特帕森斯

罗   Luo    to catch             no kanji                          Ro    ロ                           Lo       로     to
伯   bo      uncle                  haku    uncle                 ba    バ                             beo    버    bur
特   te       unusual             toku    special                 -     ー                              teu     트    the
帕   Pa       headscarf         no kanji                          to     ト                             Pa       파    damage
森   sen     forest                mori    forest                   Pa    パ                            seun  슨    the
斯   si         this                     kou      such                 -       ー                            seu     스    the
                                                                                  So    ソ
                                                                                  n      ン
                                                                                  zu    ズ

Nether Stowey may have been a borough as early as 1157 or 1158 but by 1225 it is officially recorded as such. The economy of the medieval town was based on textiles and pottery, and it had both a weekly market and a yearly fair after 1304.




Robert Reich 6.24.46  Scranton, PA
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罗伯特丰富

罗   Luo        to catch           no kanji                              Ro    ロ              Lo       로    to
伯   bo          uncle               haku        uncle                   ba    バ               beo    버     bur
特   te           unusual           toku         special                 -     ー                teu     트     the
丰   Feng      plentiful          no kanji                               Ra  ラ
富   fu           wealthy           tomi        wealthy                i     イ
                                                                                         hi    ヒ

The great Railroad Strike instigated an organized action by railroad workers in Scranton in August 1877. The strike resulted in a multi-state action. It had started in WV, but workers in NY, MD, PA, IL and MO joined. This action attracted workers from the steel industry and mining as well.

Four rioters were killed during the strike after the mayor mustered a militia. Workers finally returned to their jobs. They were not able to gain the benefits that they demanded.

William Walker Scranton was from the most prominent family. He was then general manager of Lackawanna Iron and Coal. He founded Scranton Steel Company later.

The labor issues and growth of industry in Scranton contributed to Lackawanna County being established by the state legislature in 1878. Territory was taken from Luzerne County. Scranton was designated as the county seat. This strengthened its local government.




Minka Kelly 6.24.80 Los Angeles, CA
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敏卡凯利

敏   Min    keen                    bin              keenness           Mi    ミ          Min    민     num.
卡   ka       card                    no kanji                                n      ン           ka      카     car
凯   Kai     victory                no kanji                                ka    カ           Kel     켈     kell
利   li         gain                    ri                  benefit              Ke   ケ           li        리     lee
                                                                                           ri    リ

The area was occupied by the Hokan-speaking people of the Milling Stone Period by 3000 BCE.  They fished, hunted sea mammals and gathered wild seeds. They were later replaced by migrants fleeing drought in the Great Basin. These migrants spoke a Uto-Aztecan language called Tongva. The Tongva people called the Los Angeles region Yaa.



Solange Knowles 6.24.86  Houston, TX
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所以年龄知道了

所   Suo         location                toko          place                    So     ソ         Sol   솔  brush
以   yi             by                        i                beyond                 ra     ラ          lang  랑  trang
年   nian        age                        nen           year                      n       ン         Nu    누  tower
龄   ling         experience            no kanji                                ge    ゲ           ol      올  come
知   Zhi          know                    chi            wisdom                No    ノ
道   dao         way                       dou           way                      re     レ
了   le             finish                    ryou         complete

Houston is the most populous city in the state of Texas and the fourth-most populous city in the United States. There is a census-estimated 2017 population of 2.3 million within a land area of 600 square miles (1,555 km2). It is the largest city in the Southern United States. It is the seat for Harris County. It is located in Southeast Texas near the Gulf of Mexico.



Yuko Nakazawa 6.19.73  Kyoto, Japan
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中澤裕子

中    zhong     center                   Naka   inside            Yu     ゆ           Yu   유    existence
澤    ze           fertile                    zawa                         ko    こ            ko   코    nose
裕    yu           abundant              Yu     wealth             Na    な            Na  나   we
子    zi            seed                       ko     child               ka   か             ka   카    car
                                                                                     za    ざ             j a   자    rule 
                                                                                     wa   わ             wa   와   socket

Kyoto was removed from the list of targets for the atom bomb at the insistence of Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. The city was replaced by Nagasaki. The city was largely spared from conventional bombing as well, although small-scale air raids did result in casualties.

The Imperial City (Emeritus) of Kyoto is one of the few Japanese cities that still have an abundance of prewar buildings such as the traditional townhouses known as machiya. Modernization is breaking down the traditional Kyoto in favor of newer architecture such as the Kyōto Station complex.

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Cha Cha Chance with the momentum of Muteki (Invincibility)
Cha Cha Chance in that spirit Tsuchiki (Faith)
I will say goodbye to AH every day before today
Cha Cha Chance! No matter how it changes
Chacha Chance! Keep watching unchanged
I will walk along the path ahead of glitter
with the power of the people of the sun!
The total accounting circle is nanana nana (777)!?
This is still the mode for the code
Two moons are months warm enough. Anything will matter.
Chacha Chance! Catch strength through the Kiseki (Cornerstone)
Cha Cha Chance! I will dramatically change AH every day from today