A wraithful deity, Medusa = Yama

According to Tibetan Buddhism,
she was/is a wraitful deity, a reflection of my mind.

and

Desperation; Trust

Sunday in the Park - Move On - Theatre de Chatelet, 2013 (Sondheim)

G M H

The Windhover

BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

To Christ our Lord

I caught this morning morning's minion, king-

    dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding

    Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding

High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing

In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,

    As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding

    Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding

Stirred for a bird, – the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!

Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here

    Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion

Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!

     

   No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion

Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,

    Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/guide/182786

Ten things (+ one) I could do without (I do try hard to be tolerant)

1. Most popular music (country-western, rap (especially rap), rock, easy listening, soul)

2. Dogs

3. Starbuck's

4. Americanization of cultures, from  the Middle East to France to Asia and Africa, including narcissism and exhibitionism and measuring sucess by popularity (Twitter, and other "social" media) and money

5. American speech patterns, including clang of dipthongs & nasality, after Walt Whitman,...ebonics...Cantonese...Spanish.     (Thank God for French, RP, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin --oftentimes--, and other languages not customarily or usually shouted or screamed).

6. Loud conversation in public spaces

7. American television, cable or otherwise (related to #6)

8. Seahawks, Sonics, etc.  This amounts to being unpatriotic, I recognize.

9. Exaggerated or unfounded accusations of racism, or sly or not-so-sly appeals to liberal white guilt

10. Western-style consumerism, which I admittedly indulge in more often than I would like to admit

11. Meanness, cruelty, one-sidedness, and prejudice, e.g., The Stranger

Ten things left to do in life

(1) Visiter le musee d'Orsay pour voir le grand tableau de Gustave Courbet, "Le portrait de l'artiste dans son atelier" sans la foule si c'est possible.

(2) Voir de mes propres yeux et me mettre les pieds a Big Sur, tout en ne sachant pas conduire une voiture.  Respirer et sentir le cote Californien.

(3) Experience my cats, the life, moment to moment, of my cats.

(4) Re-reading Wuthering Heights.

(5) Seeing a production of "Long Day's Journey Into Night"

(6)

Mahler, Symphony No. 5, Adagietto (Bernstein)