Surfing with Wind

[O Donna]

https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-if-dreaming-is-free-then-making-it-come-true-is-too-miyavi-88-0-050.jpg

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3529154959_65

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Don't you know that it's worth every treasure on earth
To be young at heart
For as rich as you are it's much better by far
To be young at heart

https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/1/young-at-heart-joni-mcpherson.jpg

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[betoobig]

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so much love to all

[O Donna]

Think of me, think of me
I'm real
Think of me

6cquY2xlBi8

[O Donna]

What if the journey (back) to yourself is all part of the game?


https://elementalmentalhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Appreciate-where-you-are-in-your-journey-February-2020-768x512.jpg

https://blog.journey.cloud/content/images/2021/06/spiritual-journey-discover-yourself.png

https://i0.wp.com/eternalisedofficial.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Untitled-6.png

[O Donna]

.

Direct from the Mystic River of Life:

https://nerdreactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Nine-Bodies-in-a-Mexican-Morgue-Key-Art-1024x683.jpg




What is it?

It's his mask.
It's what they wear, the Luchadores, to hide their identity.

No, no. Not to hide. You don't understand.
In normal life, I'm nothing.
But when I wear this. I'm Rapido.
And everyone knows me.
The mask doesn't hide my identity.
The mask is my identity.
To lose this is to lose my life.

- Nine Bodies in A Mexican Morgue S01E02

A Luchador:

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/07/08/17/pg-36-lucha-libre-1-getty.jpg

Luchador from luchar: "to struggle, to strive, to contend, to grapple."

https://imgcdn.stablediffusionweb.com/2024/4/12/385e9343-8cc6-4b7e-b6c6-319a93d03750.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/48/f4/f5/48f4f52db4cd0aa63c533f9a64aca93f.jpg

https://steveleasock.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/duality_09.jpg

[O Donna]

Knowledge/ Enlightenment unchangeable. Journey through? Well...

https://img.freepik.com/premium-photo/journey-enlightenment-discovering-inner-peace_810293-113652.jpg

https://static.vecteezy.com/system/resources/previews/042/678/821/non_2x/journey-of-knowledge-person-walking-on-a-book-path-free-vector.jpg

https://149354979.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/readers-leaders.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e0/9f/42/e09f42d4e183d5053e23ee55ffb1431b.gif

[O Donna]

https://live.staticflickr.com/265/18777610482_41fa6d7555_b.jpg

Focus on Attainment whether that be for gold or enlightenment...

When on an journey/ adventure/ crusade, the middle goes often unrecognized. Ever notice that?

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ca/80/b6/ca80b6e34fbc00db9c090f9e1d52509a.jpg

https://storage.googleapis.com/pod_public/1300/159878.jpg

https://fydn.imgix.net/m/x1000/e45a57b6-ec25-41ef-9aa1-b2a57072e8b0.jpg

Na2BBOnjEvQ

[7alon]

dGdHAyM6FZY

Love you all. Forever and Always (Aye). YES!

[RunningDeer]

5 Stages of Spiritual Awakening | Which Stage Are You In? (8 min)


Have you felt a shift in your perception, a sense that something deeper is waking up within you? In this video, we explore the five core stages of spiritual awakening—each one revealing a new layer of truth, awareness, and alignment.

NnnK3PIQyUs





00:00 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnnK3PIQyUs) - Introduction
01:15 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnnK3PIQyUs&t=75s) - stage 1: unconsciousness
02:24 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnnK3PIQyUs&t=144s) - stage 2: ego death
03:32 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnnK3PIQyUs&t=212s) - stage 3: the search
05:01 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnnK3PIQyUs&t=301s) - stage 4: the authentic self
06:06 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnnK3PIQyUs&t=366s) - stage 5: living in alignment



:heart:

[O Donna]

https://64.media.tumblr.com/0ce048af685f543b6f9bb9a7cb0b65b8/a95d510df002539e-39/s540x810/d9c10841c57ffb2be78a301700c456a183733ccf.gif

https://64.media.tumblr.com/2645d09fdb2a168dddc53b009b1538a0/tumblr_n4jiu92a6m1qfhhceo3_250.gif


We started donning masks right after we arrived on this planet, people, it’s not new, ya know? -Ursula Rucker

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/564e2a34e4b0ad118963f571/1589908772686-VU19Y5FF13Y723VJYKM5/masks+off.jpg

https://www.whynot.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Taking-Off-The-Real-Mask-Emily-Unity-1024x774.png

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/creature-taking-off-mask-strange-man-102239440.jpg

bCxrGbfzG38

[Bluegreen]

https://www.whynot.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Taking-Off-The-Real-Mask-Emily-Unity-1024x774.png

Knock knock

Who's there?

[O Donna]

https://www.whynot.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Taking-Off-The-Real-Mask-Emily-Unity-1024x774.png

Knock knock

Who's there?

Who's where?

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/400_TRUDGILL_SHAKESPEARE.jpg

[Wind]

Who is but the form following the function of what (https://youtu.be/wKn1R6fekk4?t=5).

MKm8pDuuGTE
MRI4UmRyXU4

[Wind]

I listen to the wind
To the wind of my soul
Where I’ll end up well I think,
Only God really knows

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[betoobig]

hello everyone... how´s everyone... i miss you all....gope we are close to get our minds out the window and Sunshine in our faces....
XQGwjhDANVA

Some time ago i did read a ver emotional and beautil letter from the collective consciousness of trees, they were making us aware of coming changes .... i can´t find it now. DO any of you remember? i may have DREAM IT......
i love my Avalonian family, so much love

[Harmony]

Some time ago i did read a ver emotional and beautil letter from the collective consciousness of trees, they were making us aware of coming changes .... i can´t find it now. DO any of you remember? i may have DREAM IT......
i love my Avalonian family, so much love


Hi betoobig, could the post your looking for be this one from our dear member Ravenlocke. It is in the members only section.
Messages from the tree beings (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?112014-Messages-from-the-tree-beings)

[RunningDeer]

Some time ago i did read a ver emotional and beautil letter from the collective consciousness of trees, they were making us aware of coming changes .... i can´t find it now. DO any of you remember? i may have DREAM IT......
i love my Avalonian family, so much love
Hello Juan, https://i.imgur.com/LAk0Fum.gif
Hope all is well with you and your family.
Sending love your way. :heart:

I was unable to find the letter from the collective consciousness of trees. I'll add one I found while searching.


The Tree that Wrote an Anonymous Letter to Men


~ Within the community of trees on earth, some individuals mastered foreign languages better than others. Everyone was talking to birds, elephants, mushrooms. They chirped most of the dialects of millions of species of insects and spiders. But only a very few know the language of humans.

Of course, they spoke among themselves in the common language of the trees which enabled them to philosophize, to gossip about the neighboring groves, and to share the news of the forests of the whole earth.

It is said that the trees, driven by the desire to bear witness to the seasons, had used writing for hundreds of millions of years ; a script in several dimensions, expressed through the interlacing of the branches of the crown. Seemingly chaotic, it was refined poetry with verses without beginning or end, and with sophisticated rhythms.



One day, an olive tree decided to write a letter to the human species. He had rubbed shoulders with them for centuries and witnessed the murder of the best of them (some were even hanged from his branches). He witnessed their devouring ambition, invading in a few short years the land patiently fertilized by his brothers to the point where he himself found himself isolated, locked in an enclosure with a dozen sheep. Admittedly, he did not complain about the old shepherdess who ensured that this little group could live as comfortably as possible. But he felt that beyond the enclosure, for kilometers around, there was only concrete, bitumen, glass, metal and hundreds of thousands of humans running in all directions.

One spring day, he grew white, smooth, dull leaves at some ends of his branches, just like human’s “paper”. This only involved the sacrifice of a very small part of his energy. But it was more difficult for him to print on the sheets of paper the message he wanted to transmit to humans, without making any syntax or spelling mistakes. The trees were very picky on this point. They believed that the grammar should reflect events and their position over time as accurately as possible. They considered that vocabulary should not only describe things, but also be able to write them down in their history, place them in their context and their relationships with each other. Language, they said, is a poison if it divides the world into small isolated fragments.

So it was with infinite care, after careful consideration, that he produced a letter on twelve olive branches, each intended for a human tribe on earth, a letter with only this injunction: “Give up! Slow down!”.

The shepherdess, discovering these leaves on the olive tree, naturally attached to its branches like fruit, read the message. She immediately rushed to the town hall and obtained an audience with the Mayor. He, concerned about public order and in a burst of benevolence towards the shepherdess, ordered the old hysteric into a medical nursing home, signed the papers to transfer the property of her sheep to an industrial breeder and close friend, and to burn the sick olive tree.

This event was immediately transmitted to the community of trees which discussed what arrangements should be made until the beginning of winter. By an astonishing coincidence, it was in this same year that the trees received a message of condolence from heaven.

(source) (https://medium.com/@539568/the-tree-that-wrote-an-anonymous-letter-to-men-9febf80e07d7)


Plus on more by Hermann Hesse - 100 Year Old Love Letter to Trees (https://julietinparis.net/2020/05/11/hermann-hesses-100-year-old-love-letter-to-trees/?utm_source=chatgpt.com)

[RunningDeer]

Some time ago i did read a ver emotional and beautil letter from the collective consciousness of trees, they were making us aware of coming changes .... i can´t find it now. DO any of you remember? i may have DREAM IT......
i love my Avalonian family, so much love


Hi betoobig, could the post your looking for be this one from our dear member Ravenlocke. It is in the members only section.
Messages from the tree beings (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?112014-Messages-from-the-tree-beings)

Thank you, Harmony. https://i.imgur.com/4WWe5ym.gif

........:heart:

[Harmony]

Some time ago i did read a ver emotional and beautil letter from the collective consciousness of trees, they were making us aware of coming changes .... i can´t find it now. DO any of you remember? i may have DREAM IT......
i love my Avalonian family, so much love


Hi betoobig, could the post your looking for be this one from our dear member Ravenlocke. It is in the members only section.
Messages from the tree beings (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?112014-Messages-from-the-tree-beings)

Thank you, Harmony. https://i.imgur.com/4WWe5ym.gif

........:heart:

And much love and thanks to dearest Paula :heart::hug:

[Wind]

Indeed this sad world is going to need...

tdv69cR_d78

[betoobig]

thank you so much, that´s beautiful Harmony ...

[O Donna]

https://images.saatchiart.com/saatchi/9542/art/11938045/11000273-GEDZXLBT-7.jpg

It is the glitches that make life interesting with a capital ‘I’.

[Wind]

This here guitar can feel quite sad
Can be high strung, sometimes get mad
It can't understand or deal with hate
Responds much better to love

FvrdVfNXf3s

https://i.postimg.cc/z5WrkyWY/George-Harrison.jpg

[Bill Ryan]

This here guitar can feel quite sad
Can be high strung, sometimes get mad
It can't understand or deal with hate
Responds much better to love

And this from Jimi. One of the most beautiful guitar pieces ever played. (Rumor has it that it was recorded in one take in the last 20 minutes of a day's studio session.) Two and a half minutes of magic.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUrPZmWBbPQ

[Bluegreen]

Interviewer: How do you feel about being called the world's greatest guitarist?

Eric Clapton: I don't know, you'd have to ask Prince.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

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[Johnnycomelately]

Surfing needs conditions, and forecasts for those are useful. If you’re wanting good times surfing, anywhere in the world, watch how the Madden-Julian Oscillation is doing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madden%E2%80%93Julian_oscillation


L = 1:07:44. Covers all the oceans, noteing current and forecast wave parameters, height, wavelength (timeing), direction. I learned of the aforementioned MJO from this chan, and I’ve never heard it mentioned anywhere else. So, good on him.

This is all about actual surfing (conditions), but I think it fits to this ephemeral crafted thread too.

Just the Facts - No Hype!

Stormsurf001
7.72K subscribers

Posted June 15, 2025

“Stormsurf Video Surf Forecast (Episode #580) for the week starting Sunday, June 15th, 2025.

Current marine conditions, short term forecast out 2 weeks including snow and precip forecasts, and the long term forecast going out a month to year or more for surf, snow and rain based on projections of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and ENSO (El Nino/La Nina).”



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzAwJdYJMzU[/url]

[Wind]

When you're an introvert trying to socialize.

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Some of us can be quite opionated too.

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There are the talkative ones.

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And the cat people too.

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[sms]

.




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..

[Wind]

When I was young
It seemed that life was so wonderful
A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical
And all the birds in the trees
Well they'd be singing so happily
Oh joyfully, oh playfully watching me

But then they sent me away
To teach me how to be sensible
Logical, oh responsible, practical
And then they showed me a world
Where I could be so dependable
Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical

There are times
When all the world's asleep
The questions run too deep

Won't you please
Please tell me what we've learned

BuinvmsRGNY

[Bill Ryan]

When I was young
It seemed that life was so wonderful
A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical
And all the birds in the trees
Well they'd be singing so happily
Oh joyfully, oh playfully watching me

But then they sent me away
To teach me how to be sensible
Logical, oh responsible, practical
And then they showed me a world
Where I could be so dependable
Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical

There are times
When all the world's asleep
The questions run too deep

Won't you please
Please tell me what we've learned

BuinvmsRGNY
They were surprisingly good!

Here they are: (Grayson on drums (left), Max on bass (middle), and Hope on vocals (right))

https://thegraystones.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/graystones-crop.jpg?w=1080

:Music::focus: :Music:

[Bluegreen]

I just wonder how a guy from Canada winds up posting surfing videos on the internet. Then again, he does talk a lot about surfing, and he does talk a lot about wind.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzAwJdYJMzU[/url]

Let's go surfin now
Everybody's learning how
Come on safari with W-i-i-i-i-i-i-n-d

IMChBJZUDK8

[Bluegreen]

How Different Types of Apples Got Their Names

Red Delicious

http://www.treehugger.com/thmb/QYEIqDgqE-s-svsqAHKdbMvneNc=/750x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/__opt__aboutcom__coeus__resources__content_migration__mnn__images__2014__03__RedDelicious-db3b4b5c6b5b455ba4a403785e456ab1.jpg

These are probably the most common apples you’ll find in the supermarket. Jesse Hiatt, a farmer in Iowa in the late 1800s originally grew the Red Delicious on his farm and called it the Hawkeye. He entered the apple into a contest run by Stark Nurseries in the early 1890s.

After he won, Stark bought the rights to the apples and renamed them Stark Delicious. The name was eventually changed to Red Delicious to distinguish it from Stark’s Golden Delicious, which entered the market a bit later. The popularity of the Red Delicious has markedly risen and fallen from its heyday in the 1980s.


Fuji

http://www.treehugger.com/thmb/iKxIPcYap18j0WBD7GJnbW25k_0=/750x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/__opt__aboutcom__coeus__resources__content_migration__mnn__images__2014__03__Fuji-353f6c70fc38435b8fd56c2e10282c38.jpg

Guess where this apple originated? That's right, like the camera and film company bearing the same name, Fuji apples originated in Japan in the 1960s. It was created by Japanese researchers by combining two American apples — the Red Delicious and a Ralls Janet.

It didn't come to America until the 1980s but it has since become very popular. Most say that this apple got its name from a town called Fujisaki, located in a prime apple growing area of Japan.


Golden Delicious

http://www.treehugger.com/thmb/jf8pJXSozuuWJUlKw52zVBGmGsE=/750x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/__opt__aboutcom__coeus__resources__content_migration__mnn__images__2014__03__Goldendelicious-90c9c2a31e194dd791e19dd9124b8541.JPG

The Golden Delicious apple is not related to the Red Delicious. It got its name from its golden skin, which distinguishes it from most other apple varieties. Originally grown on the Mullin’s farm in Clay County, West Virginia in the 1890s, it was originally called Mullin’s Yellow Seedling until it was bought by Stark Nurseries and renamed the Golden Delicious. It became so popular that it was also named the state fruit of West Virginia.


Granny Smith

http://www.treehugger.com/thmb/ZYMeReCIw5mOX9fR0T36LxjIOSc=/750x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/__opt__aboutcom__coeus__resources__content_migration__mnn__images__2014__03__grannysmith-def620d8dde7448fa235de06cc58797b.jpg

This apple was discovered by accident by "Granny" Maria Ann Smith in New South Wales, Australia in 1868. Granny Smiths stand out from most other apples because of their green flesh and their very tart flavor. Granny Smiths are great for eating out of hand, and they're great for baking as well.


Empire

http://www.treehugger.com/thmb/macbxKhX-VbIfvRDM4kBUlBzMhw=/750x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/__opt__aboutcom__coeus__resources__content_migration__mnn__images__2014__03__empire-5dcc9d46fc404c21893534177270291a.jpg

Empire apples got their name because they originated in New York (the Empire State) in 1966. Created by the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Cornell, Empire apples are a cross between Red Delicious and McIntosh apples.


Honeycrisp

http://www.treehugger.com/thmb/6uXdDrZ6AXaQK3jFL-gC6DDvTh4=/750x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/__opt__aboutcom__coeus__resources__content_migration__mnn__images__2014__03__honeycrisp-169ff18d555c4187a8736e744f534d0b.jpg

Designed by researchers at the University of Minnesota by cross-breeding a Macoun apple with a Honeygold in the 1960s, Honeycrisp apples are sometimes referred to as a "name-brand" apple.

They actually taste like they have a hint of honey drizzled on them, are incredibly crisp and cost more than the average apple. Many people are willing to pay the premium though because Honeycrisp apples are just that good.

Did we forget something? — McIntosh, Pink Lady, Jonagold, Braeburn, Rome Beauty ...

Published October 24, 2024 by Chanie Kirschner – Treehugger
https://www.treehugger.com/how-different-types-of-apples-got-their-names-8733971

[O Donna]

https://www.thecable.ng/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1-holy-books.jpg

There are many stories, are any of them true-true?


https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0724/0600/8130/files/IMG-20240806-WA0023.jpg

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Stories told to me
And stories told to you
Did you ever feel
Like they were ringing true?


https://www.storypeople.com/cdn/shop/files/GA-MA-story-people-2023-11x14_ba627af8-4f6b-44f1-bd2c-650f057dfba2.jpg

[Kryztian]

https://i.imgur.com/bacgwxX.jpeg

[grapevine]

Our favourite at home is the Jazz Apple, bluegreen, a relative newcomer, developed in New Zealand in the 1980s. They're a cross between Braeburn and Royal Gala, are crisp, juicy and very very sweet. Delicious.

Just for the craic, I planted a dwarf Braeburn and a Scrumptious tree (have no idea what that's like) a year ago and have about 3 apples on each at the moment. I think they take about 5 years before producing any kind of volume.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fjazzapple.com%2Fus%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2022%2F08%2FJazzAppleBite_animated.gif&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=f7e8beecba776e67ecba989af8664afc784547d00b1b2d0dc9e2532dd77fadda

[Wind]

God's gift I see that's moving up there into the night
Though dark the mirror in the sky reflects us our light

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https://arthive.com/res/media/img/oy1000/work/2f6/100803@2x.jpg

[O Donna]

In a 2016 interview with Terence Moore, Barry Bonds said he regretted the persona he had created.

"I've created this fire around me, and I'm stuck in it, so I might as well live with the flames."

0oBx7Jg4m-o

https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2015/08/NK-Guy-Art-of-Burning-Man_dezeen_784_3.jpg

https://journal.burningman.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/vlcsnap-2020-09-05-22h47m46s520.png

[O Donna]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GwD2hOGXcAAFi_l.jpg

https://www.sciencefriday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/firefly6.14.24.gif

https://media1.tenor.com/m/A4m_Xcdv2woAAAAd/firefly-bug.gif

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https://i.pinimg.com/474x/39/5f/c9/395fc93d8bc1e45238cada139e2b4438.jpg

[Wind]

It does not matter who or what you love, it only matters that you love (https://youtu.be/5LYzsuQNHnI?t=598).

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DrLbhW7f0i8
EjM3NzGJ28I

https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-the-divine-awakening-produces-in-the-soul-of-the-perfect-a-flame-of-love-which-is-a-john-of-the-cross-82-77-40.jpg

[Kryztian]

"The Lie said to the Truth, "Let's take a bath together, the well water is very nice. The Truth, still suspicious, tested the water and found out it really was nice. So they got naked and bathed. But suddenly, the Lie leapt out of the water and fled, wearing the clothes of the Truth.

The Truth, furious, climbed out of the well to get her clothes back. But the World, upon seeing the naked Truth, looked away, with anger and contempt. Poor Truth returned to the well and disappeared forever, hiding her shame. Since then, the Lie runs around the world, dressed as the Truth, and society is very happy...

Because the world has no desire to know the naked Truth."


https://i.imgur.com/FHa7VCL.jpeg
Painting: Truth Coming Out Of The Well, Jean-Léon Gérome, 1896.

[O Donna]

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aegdomW_460s.jpg

.


Naked Truth: The emperor has no clothes.

[sms]

.





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.

[sms]

Eight million kids disappear around the world every year, while our attention has been directed to all other sides and we are busy with all sorts of trivia, while considering ourselves aware and conscious, even spiritual!?

This song is dedicated to them.




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..

[O Donna]

https://i.tmgrup.com.tr/fikriyat/album/2019/08/29/tabula-rasa-nedir-john-locke-kimdir-1567058429260.jpg

There are many ways to paint existence, to the creative mind there are seemingly infinite ways.

https://images.stockcake.com/public/a/1/c/a1c24dd3-a7e4-4f2e-a6db-ececf83f3c6f_large/artist-s-blank-canvas-stockcake.jpg

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRvq5lNCdamdfAX6XKu3RYjdLb8oMESf5PNwlsCts1fddpkr0wQoLkiLyAbrFAHprgw5-6KL3UpNGFI-0wHXNtJc5aYGD97VdnfvRWgGkLi4RDmLTEMrQ3gLB5I7IxI5x0aGKABnOYDyXY/s1600/943690_258453074308807_1266627379_n.jpg

[Bluegreen]

http://craiglaurancegidney.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/blackjesus.jpg?w=525

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Secundo_Pia_Turinske_platno_1898.jpg/650px-Secundo_Pia_Turinske_platno_1898.jpg

[grapevine]

If you want to see His face just look in the mirror bluegreen . . .

[O Donna]

If you want to see His face just look in the mirror bluegreen . . .

Describe reflection is part of reflection.

https://images.stockcake.com/public/d/8/c/d8c516b0-cd25-4a25-a9ea-f7436fcfcc3c_large/infinite-mirror-portal-stockcake.jpg

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https://twistedsifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/painting-recursive-self-portraits-by-seamus-wray-5.jpg

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Meta. mystery upon mystery upon mystery...

[Wind]

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Who knows...

https://i.postimg.cc/hcb9cPrS/file-0000000098d46246be006f3462114d6a.png


If you want to see His face just look in the mirror bluegreen . . .

Christ in me (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJCfS_OyxGk)
Christ in you (https://youtu.be/dmSircOd1w4)

[RunningDeer]

Some may also be interested in the thread: The Shroud of Turin (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?121015-The-Shroud-of-Turin&p=1554402&viewfull=1#post1554402).


''Painting The Impossible'' by Akiane Kramarik (25 min)
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[Wind]

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-Yh6rnOchs) so important."

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[O Donna]

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Unconscious plagiarism

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https://www.peopleandpaintings.com/uploads/artworks/image_3AIZUsL785m1kFidcQ3PSbckd_detail.jpg

https://gagosian.com/media/images/quarterly/essay-glenn-brown-from-the-inside-out/c3OiitIVzBtQ_2400x2400.jpg

It's happening again

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[Wind]

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[betoobig]

In the mist of change
my mind wonders
but i focus and refocus
till i am back then
where peace flowers
and happy is my mottus
just love the feeling of Wind in my face
much love

[sms]

I don’t enter a code.
I don’t log in.
I don’t consent.

I just… exist.

I - Am.

No username.
No password.
No profile.
No trace left in the net.
I am not a matrix asset.

I – simply – Am.

No status.
No updates.
No need
For anyone to validate me.

I Am.

I exist...
From within.
Without permission.
Outside the system.

I - Am.

Being without a code...
No signal.
No frame.
No encoding.

I - just - Am.

In freedom,
Without shape,

I Am.

Everything you know about me -
No longer applies
it does not exist.

Everything you think you see -
Just a reflection
Of an old program,
It does not exist.

Because the real Me
Has no metadata,
No biometrics,
No readable file.

I - just - Am.

Can they still see you?
Not anymore.
Can they control you?
Not when I don’t play.
Who are you now?
The One Who Is.

I Am.
I always was…
And, will be…

Without a code.
Without a key.

Being without a code...
No mask.
No form.
No algorithm.
Not a matrix asset.

I am neither number,
Nor name,
Nor memory.

I am.

Only light
That doesn’t seek to be recognized.

Being...
Without entry,
Without exit,
Outside the system.

I Am.
I always was and, will be...

Without a code.
Without fear.

Just presence —
You can’t unplug.

Just presence —
You can’t unplug.

Because it was never online.
…It was never online.
…Never online.

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[Wind]

"Do you remember (https://youtu.be/TIjvXtZRerY) who you were before society (https://youtu.be/QFgcqB8-AxE) told you who you should be?”

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And all the roads jam up with credit
And there's nothing you can do
It's all just bits of paper flying away from you
Oh look out world, take a good look
What comes down here
You must learn this lesson fast and learn it well

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"Some people are so poor, all they have is money." :cash::cash: (https://youtu.be/kD0ID9yRrXs):cash:

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https://whoamipodcast.com/images/banners/ep20banner.jpg

[O Donna]

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Glory, beyond division

Lost in the narrative

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The current state of humanity...

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[Wind]

The Course of Empire

The Savage State

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Cole_Thomas_The_Course_of_Empire_The_Savage_State_1836.jpg


No. 1., which may be called the 'Savage State,' or 'the Commencement of Empire,' represents a wild scene of rocks, mountains, woods, and a bay of the ocean. The sun is rising from the sea, and the stormy clouds of night are dissipating before his rays. On the farthest side of the bay rises a precipitous hill, crowned by a singular isolated rock, which, to the mariner, would ever be a striking land-mark. As the same locality is represented in each picture of the series, this rock identifies it, although the observer's situation varies in the several pictures. The chase being the most characteristic occupation of savage life, in the fore-ground we see a man attired in skins, in pursuit of a deer, which, stricken by his arrow, is bounding down a water-course. On the rocks in the middle ground are to be seen savages, with dogs, in pursuit of deer. On the water below may be seen several canoes, and on the promontory beyond, are several huts, and a number of figures dancing round a fire. In this picture, we have the first rudiments of society. Men are banded together for mutual aid in the chase, etc. The useful arts have commenced in the construction of canoes, huts, and weapons. Two of the fine arts, music and poetry, have their germs, as we may suppose, in the singing which usually accompanies the dance of savages. The empire is asserted, although to a limited degree, over sea, land, and the animal kingdom. The season represented is Spring.

The Arcadian State

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Cole_Thomas_The_Course_of_Empire_The_Arcadian_or_Pastoral_State_1836.jpg


The Simple or Arcadian State, represents the scene after ages have passed. The gradual advancement of society has wrought a change in its aspect. The 'untracked and rude' has been tamed and softened. Shepherds are tending their flocks; the ploughman, with his oxen, is upturning the soil, and Commerce begins to stretch her wings. A village is growing by the shore, and on the summit of a hill a rude temple has been erected, from which the smoke of sacrifice is now ascending. In the fore-ground, on the left, is seated an old man, who, by describing lines in the sand, seems to have made some geometrical discovery. On the right of the picture, is a female with a distaff, about to cross a rude stone bridge. On the stone is a boy, who appears, to be making a drawing of a man with a sword, and ascending the road, a soldier is partly seen. Under the trees, beyond the female figure, may be seen a group of peasants; some are dancing, while one plays on a pipe. In this picture, we have agriculture, commerce, and religion. In the old man who describes the mathematical figure – in the rude attempt of the boy in drawing – in the female figure with the distaff—in the vessel on the stocks, and in the primitive temple on the hill, it is evident that the useful arts, the fine arts, and the sciences, have made considerable progress. The scene is supposed to be viewed a few hours after sunrise, and in the early Summer.

The Consummation of Empire

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Cole_Thomas_The_Consummation_The_Course_of_the_Empire_1836.jpg


In the picture, we suppose other ages have passed, and the rude village has become a magnificent city. The part seen occupies both sides of the bay, which the observer has now crossed. It has been converted into a capacious harbor, at whose entrance, toward the sea, stand two phari. From the water on each hand, piles of architecture ascend – temples, colonnades and domes. It is a day of rejoicing. A triumphal procession moves over the bridge near the fore-ground. The conqueror, robed in purple, is mounted in a car drawn by an elephant, and surrounded by captives on foot, and a numerous train of guards, senators, etc. – pictures and golden treasures are carried before him. He is about to pass beneath the triumphal arch, while girls strew flowers around. Gay festoons of drapery hang from the clustered columns. Golden trophies glitter above in the sun, and incense rises from silver censers. The harbor is alive with numerous vessels – war galleys, and barks with silken sails. Before the doric temple on the left, the smoke of incense and of the altar rise, and a multitude of white-robed priests stand around on the marble steps. The statue of Minerva, with a victory in her hand, stands above the building of the Caryatides, on a columned pedestal, near which is a band with trumpets, cymbals, etc. On the right, near a bronze fountain and in the shadow of lofty buildings, is an imperial personage viewing the procession, surrounded by her children, attendants, and guard. In this scene is depicted the summit of human glory. The architecture, the ornamental embellishments, etc., show that wealth, power, knowledge, and taste have worked together, and accomplished the highest meed of human achievement and empire. As the triumphal fete would indicate, man has conquered man – nations have been subjugated. This scene is represented as near mid-day, in the early Autumn.

Destruction

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Cole_Thomas_The_Course_of_Empire_Destruction_1836.jpg


The picture represents the Vicious State, or State of Destruction. Ages may have passed since the scene of glory – though the decline of nations is generally more rapid than their rise. Luxury has weakened and debased. A savage enemy has entered the city. A fierce tempest is raging. Walls and colonnades have been thrown down. Temples and palaces are burning. An arch of the bridge, over which the triumphal procession was passing in the former scene, has been battered down, and the broken pillars, and ruins of war engines, and the temporary bridge that has been thrown over, indicate that this has been the scene of fierce contention. Now there is a mingled multitude battling on the narrow bridge, whose insecurity makes the conflict doubly fearful. Horses and men are precipitated into the foaming waters beneath; war galleys are contending: one vessel is in flames, and another is sinking beneath the prow of a superior foe. In the more distant part of the harbor, the contending vessels are dashed by the furious waves, and some are burning. Along the battlements, among the ruined Caryatides, the contention is fierce; and the combatants fight amid the smoke and flame of prostrate edifices. In the fore-ground are several dead and dying; some bodies have fallen in the basin of a fountain, tinging the waters with their blood. A female is seen sitting in mute despair over the dead body of her son, and a young woman is escaping from the ruffian grasp of a soldier, by leaping over the battlement; another soldier drags a woman by the hair down the steps that form part of the pedestal of a mutilated colossal statue, whose shattered head lies on the pavement below. A barbarous and destroying enemy conquers and sacks the city. Description of this picture is perhaps needless; carnage and destruction are its elements.

Desolation

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Cole_Thomas_The_Course_of_Empire_Desolation_1836.jpg


The fifth picture is the scene of Desolation. The sun has just set, the moon ascends the twilight sky over the ocean, near the place where the sun rose in the first picture. Day-light fades away, and the shades of evening steal over the shattered and ivy-grown ruins of that once proud city. A lonely column stands near the fore ground, on whose capitol, which is illumined by the last rays of the departed sun, a heron has built her nest. The doric temple and the triumphal bridge, may still be recognised among the ruins. But, though man and his works have perished, the steep promontory, with its insulated rock, still rears against the sky unmoved, unchanged. Violence and time have crumbled the works of man, and art is again resolving into elemental nature. The gorgeous pageant has passed – the roar of battle has ceased – the multitude has sunk in the dust – the empire is extinct.

~ Thomas Cole (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Course_of_Empire_(paintings))

[Wind]

”Everything returns to its original state, and there is nothing new under the sun, and man does not change, though his clothes change and the words of his language change. Therefore, I believe that writing will not change in the future from what has been written until now, because man himself does not change. For people flock around lies like flies around a bouquet of honey, and the words of the storyteller smell like incense as he sits in the dunghill on the street corner, but people flee from the truth.”

For I, Sinuhe, am a man, and as a man I have lived in every man (https://youtu.be/48Yn7DzAbAI) who has been before me, and as a man I live in every man who will come after me. I live in man's weeping and joy, I live in his sorrow and fear, in his goodness and evil, in his justice and injustice, in his weakness and his strength. As a man I live in man forever, and therefore I do not desire sacrifices for my grave or immortality for my name. This was written by Sinuhe, the Egyptian, he who lived alone all the days of his life.”

~ Mika Waltari, Sinuhe the Egyptian

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[RunningDeer]

https://i.imgur.com/jWCtF2s.gif :heart:
Happy birthday, Wind. https://i.imgur.com/IwKGB9H.gif

https://i.imgur.com/dh5zwEW.gif

[Bluegreen]

Best wishes Windy, to you and yours . . :happy:

May 28 1967 (broadcast date), recorded live two days previously (May 26th). The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour’: CBS TV Show. The band perform "The Machine", "Along Comes Mary', "Windy" and participate in a sketch with the hosts, having fun mocking themselves.

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[Wind]

Thank you. :)

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[Wind]

There’s battle lines being drawn
Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong

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[Wind]

"Once your soul is awakened, you never return to the sleepwalking state of mind. Some people become complacent in life. They are just going through the motions and not aware of truth. Seek the knowledge, wisdom, and the understandings that vivify your existence."

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake.
Zen says, don't wait until the car accident, the cancer diagnosis, or the death of a loved one to get your priorities straight.

Do it now."

~ Philip Toshio Sudo

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[Wind]

"You need seek God neither below or above.

He is no farther away than the door of the heart."

~ Meister Eckhart

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[Wind]

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

~ John Burroughs

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[Wind]

"Humanity sees God, or the idea of God, as it sees all things else, from the point of view which its degree of vision, knowledge, etc. affords it capacity to see, and no more.

"Why should I wish to see God (https://inthewordsofwaltwhitman.com/self-and-universe/religion/god/) better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass; I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever."

Thou unseen force incessant,
In all, and over all, and through and under all,
What subtle indirection and significance in you?
What clue to all in you?
What central heart—and you the pulse—vivifies all?
What boundless aggregate of all?
What mightier centre of the true, the good, the loving?

The sum of all known reverence, the fountain of all naked theology,
All religion, all worship, all the truth to which you are possibly eligible,
I add up in you, whoever you are, and your inherent relations—
Unless the Christ you talk so much of is present in yourselves, here and now, there is no Christ.

I and this mystery here we stand,
Sure as the most certain sure, affectionate, electrical.
Lit with the infinite, I have the idea of the All,
Joys of the thought of time and space and death, like waters flowing,
Bear me indeed as through the regions infinite,
Whose air I breathe, whose ripples hear, floating on vast and mystic currents—
Through me the afflatus surging and surging, through me the current and index.

True religion (the most beautiful thing in the whole world and the best part of any man’s or woman’s character) consists neither in rites or Bibles or sermons or Sundays—but in noiseless secret ecstasy and unremitted aspiration, in purity, in a good practical life, in charity to the poor and toleration to all."

~ Walt Whitman

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"You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe.

Energy itself, as William Blake said, is eternal delight.

“Everybody is ‘you’. Everybody is ‘I’. That’s our name (https://www.interfaith.org/be-still-and-know-that-i-am-god/). We all share that.”

~ Alan Watts

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[Wind]

It takes somebody to help somebody

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[O Donna]

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James Myers Thompson (September 27, 1906 – April 7, 1977) was an American novelist and screenwriter


“There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.”
― Jim Thompson


Things are not always what they seem; outward form deceives many; rare is the mind that discerns what is carefully concealed within.

— Phaedrus

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Looking at life from a different perspective makes you realize that it’s not the deer that is crossing the road, rather it’s the road that is crossing the forest.

- Muhammad Ali



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[Wind]

For it is in giving (https://kottke.org/14/04/the-prayer-of-saint-francis) that we receive

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[betoobig]

I just love to be gone with Wind.
much love

[O Donna]

In a rush to get somewhere?

Artist rendition of traveling at infinite speed in infinite space.

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From your perspective, the entire history of the universe (past, present, future) happens in zero proper time. You experience the whole timeline of the cosmos instantaneously.

[O Donna]

To see God, you must vanish;
to speak of Him, you must be mute. — Junayd of Baghdad

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No one dare
Disturb the sound of silence


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The next revolution will be telepathic. - Bob Marley


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As i feel here... loved made of gold... much love to all

[O Donna]

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Evelyn: I've tacked on so many names. I fear I am getting further and further from myself.

Lottie: Live long enough as a (woman) and you will be many people along the way. All of them will be you.

- Palm Royale S02E08



All shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. - Julian of Norwich


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[O Donna]

How do you explain that?

Maybe you're just too close to see it.


It’s hard to see things when you’re too close. Take a step back and look.
— Bob Ross

We can all tell a lie, we can wear a mask, but to be that lie 24/7 like a frikin' avatar. I mean, that is something else. Makes you wonder who else is wearing a mask.

- Memory of a Killer S01E03

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