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#SundayFunday - Lyrics

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I have always loved this song. It's meaning relates to every feeling that I feel when I am with Him. This is to me the meaning of deep love between two souls.

That Arizona sky burnin' in your eyes

You look at me and, babe, I wanna catch on fire

It's buried in my soul like California gold

You found the light in me that I couldn't find

So when I'm all choked up

But I can't find the words

Every time we say goodbye

Baby, it hurts

When the sun goes down

And the band won't play

I'll always remember us this way

Lovers in the night

Poets tryin' to write

We don't know how to rhyme

But, damn, we try

But all I really know

You're where I wanna go

The part of me that's you will never die

So when I'm all choked up

And I can't find the words

Every time we say goodbye

Baby, it hurts

When the sun goes down

And the band won't play

I'll always remember us this way

Oh, yeah

I don't wanna be just a memory, baby, yeah

Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo

Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo

Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo

So when I'm all choked up

And I can't find the words

Every time we say goodbye

Baby, it hurts

When the sun goes down

And the band won't play

I'll always remember us this way, way, yeah

When you look at me

And the whole world fades

I'll always remember us this way

This is installment number 2 of the Billy Joel collection. It's amazing how Billy captured every day scenarios that anyone can relate to.

This song is dedicated to everyone that is being told what is best for them or that they are doing something wrong.

It's important to have strong convictions and stay true to yourself. While it's great to receive advice from others, ultimately it's up to you to make your own decisions in order to achieve true happiness. Failure to do so can lead to feelings of regret, which can be a burden to bear on your own. It's crucial to follow your dreams and pursue your passions in life, as this is the surest way to live a fulfilling and satisfying life.

♫♫Tunes♫♫

Photo taken at The Dealership

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Lyrics

Got a call from an old friend we used to be real close

Said he couldn't go on the American way

Closed the shop, sold a house, bought a ticket to the west coast

Now he gives them a stand-up routine in L.A.

I don't need you to worry for me 'cause I'm alright

I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home

I don't care what you say anymore this is my life

Go ahead with your own life leave me alone

I never said you had to offer me a second chance

(I never said you had to)

I never said I was a victim of circumstance

(I never said)

I still belong (still belong)

Don't get me wrong (don't get me wrong)

You can speak your mind but not on my time

They will tell you you can't sleep alone in a strange place

Then they'll tell you you can't sleep with somebody else

Oh, but sooner or later you sleep in your own space

Either way it's okay, you wake up with yourself

I don't need you to worry for me 'cause I'm alright

I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home

I don't care what you say anymore this is my life

Go ahead with your own life leave me alone

I never said you had to offer me a second chance

(I never said you had to)

I never said I was a victim of circumstance

(Gf circumstance)

I still belong (still belong)

Don't get me wrong (don't get me wrong)

You can speak your mind but not on my time

I don't care what you say anymore this is my life

Go ahead with your own life leave me alone

Master Fox perched on a tree ! Or the impostor syndrome

LE CORBEAU ET LE RENARD

Maître Corbeau, sur un arbre perché,

Tenait en son bec un fromage.

Maître Renard, par l'odeur alléché,

Lui tint à peu près ce langage :

Et bonjour, Monsieur du Corbeau,

Que vous êtes joli ! que vous me semblez beau !

Sans mentir, si votre ramage

Se rapporte à votre plumage,

Vous êtes le Phénix des hôtes de ces bois.

À ces mots le Corbeau ne se sent pas de joie,

Et pour montrer sa belle voix,

Il ouvre un large bec, laisse tomber sa proie.

Le Renard s'en saisit, et dit : Mon bon Monsieur,

Apprenez que tout flatteur

Vit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute.

Cette leçon vaut bien un fromage sans doute.

Le Corbeau honteux et confus

Jura, mais un peu tard, qu'on ne l'y prendrait plus

Jean de la Fontaine

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THE FOX AND THE CROW

Master Crow, perched on a tree,

Holding in its beak a cheese.

Master Fox, enticed by the smell,

He spoke to him more or less in this language:

And hello, Mr. Raven,

How pretty you are! you seem to me beautiful !

Without lying, if your prattling

Relates to your plumage,

You are the Phoenix of the hosts of these woods.

At these words the Raven feels no joy,

And to show his beautiful voice,

He opens his beak wide, lets his prey fall.

The Fox seizes it, and says: My good sir,

Learn that every flatterer

Lives at the expense of the listener.

This lesson is well worth a cheese no doubt.

The Ashamed and Confused Raven

Swore, but a little late, that we wouldn't take it anymore

Jean de la Fontaine

Wicked is always relatable.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ~Erica Jong, How to Save Your Own Life, 1977

Well done is better than well said. ~Benjamin Franklin

Note to self: finding a cool quote and writing it in your journal is not a substitute for Getting. It. Done. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com

(haha - can sure relate to that last one)

Space relating

Natural habitat

Perceptual field

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relating to the universe or cosmos, especially as distinct from the earth.

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It was hard to decide whether to laugh or feel sad for this fish while capturing this shot... poor guy's world was flipped upside down- literally and figuratively...

Can you relate? Tell me how?

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The Swiss Way relates the history of Switzerland surrounded by a scenic landscape. The trail was constructed as a joint project of the cantons on the occasion of the 700th anniversary celebrations of the Confederation (1291-1991). It begins on the Rütli Meadow, where the Confederation was founded, and ends in Brunnen in the Swiss Expatriates Square (Platz der Auslandschweizer).

This piece of national architecture of 19th Century relates to south of Polavshchyna and that as of nowadays has disappeared. It was built in 70th of 19th Century.

The house from Revasivka village has never been reconstructed since it had been built. Its window frames were re-made in the mid-50th of 20th Century. The walls are decorated with clay of different color; inside there is a carved cupboard, painted trunk and national pictures in interior.

The house from Revazivka village was discovered in 1976 by an architect Lukianchuk V.D. and restored in the Museum in 1977-1978.

Few words about Revazivka village, as it were never mentioned in modern sources. In the middle of 19th Century, this village was called Novakivka and belonged to Ploshchanska volost of Poltava povit in Poltava hubernia.

It was a village of a proprietor, with 179 souls in 18 yards. Officially, Revazivka is called sloboda. There were 219 inhabitants in 44 homesteads.

Nowadays, the village of Revazivka has joined to Grekopavlivka village. It now relates to Stovbynska village council in Novosanzharskyi district of Poltavska Region.

The house is of two rooms (a home, a mudroom), of combined structure. A two-room house could be met only in poor villages belonging to proprietors. A three-room house was more traditional for Poltava area.

The house is built on piles. Above the windows, piles are covered with shingles. A longitudinal ceiling beam and upper parts of piles have tips on sidewall adjacent to the stove, so forming reasonable overlap of the roof. A lumber lay on tips to support auxiliary beams of the roof. Ceiling comprises ceiling beam and slyzhni. The slyzhni are surfaced by caber, and then covered with clay.

The four-slope roof of the house is low, supported by rafters and covered with cane sheaves, as there were a lot of cane in the waterlog river valley near Revazivka.

Combines, log and framework structure of a national dwelling on south Poltavshchyna was typical of this region, poor in building wood.

Especially interesting was filling of this house’s framework walls: there were twiggen with mullein. This grass grew high near Revazivka, and had strong stems. The local say: “Even shipworms never eat mullein”.

This is a house of two rooms (a home and a mudroom) with framework and log walls. Under the windows, walls are framework: horizontal hlytsi are nailed to vertical piles, with osier between them. Above the windows, planks of three parts are fixed to piles. A longitudinal ceiling beam is fixed thereto and two transverse ones (one in the home, another – in the mudroom). The longitudinal beam and tops of planks have overlaps on sidewall, adjacent to the stove, so forming reasonable overlap of the roof. Inside and outside, the house is clayed and whitewashed, except for back wall, only clayed. The house stays now on concrete basement.

Area – 53.92 square meters (5.15 x 10.47).

Хата з с. Ревазівка, Новосанжарського р-ну, Полтавської обл.

Пам′ятка традиційного народного будівництва XIX століття в південній Полтавщині, яких на даний момент в регіоні не існує. Побудована в 70 – ті роки ХІХ століття.

Хата з с. Ревазівка від її існування не перебудовувалася. У середині 50-х років ХХ століття перероблені віконні рами. Підводка стін кольоровими глинами, різьблений мисник, мальована скриня, народний живопис в інтер’єрі.

Хата с. Ревазівка виявлена в 1976 році архітектором Лук′янчуком В.Д. і реставрована в Музеї у 1977 – 1978 роках.

Коротко про село Ревазівку, оскільки в сучасних джерелах воно не згадується. Поселення Ревазівка в середині XIX століття називалося Новаківка і належало до Площанської волості Полтавського повіту Полтавської губернії.

Було воно поміщицьким селом і проживало там 179 душ у 18 дворах. Старожили розповідають, що Ревазівкою володів пан Ревазов. У 1926 році Ревазівка офіційно зветься слободою, з числом мешканців – 219, які проживали у 44 господарствах.

Зараз село Ревазівка з’єднане з селом Грекопавлівкою і належить до Стовбинської сільради Новосанжарського району Полтавської обл..

Хата дводільна /хата, сіни/, комбінованої конструкції. Дводільні хати траплялися тут тільки в бідних поміщицьких селах. Традиційно на Полтавщині було тридільне житло.

Хата збудована на сохах. На сохи, вище вікон покладено ощіп. Подовжній сволок та верхні вівнця ощіпу мають з покутнього причілку випуски, утворюючи значний винос даху. На випуски укладено брус, на який спираються наріжники даху. Основу хатньої стелі утворюють сволок і слижні. По слижнях укладено щільно жердини, а зверху шар м’ятої глини.

Чотирисхилий дах хати невисокий, на кроквах. Покриття з очерету, техніка – «парки». Очерету біля Ревазівки росло багато на заболоченій річковій долині.

Комбінована зрубно – каркасна конструкція народного житла південної Полтавщини була характерною для цього регіону, бідного на будівельний ліс.

Особливо цікавим було заповнення каркасу стін даної хати с. Ревазівка: стіни були заплетені коров’яком. Коров′як поблизу Ревазівки ріс високий, з міцним стеблом. «Коров′яка і шашель не бере».

Дводільне житло (хата, сіни). Стіни каркасно – зрубні. До вікон стіни каркасні: до вертикальних сох прибито горизонтальні глиці, між якими всторч заплетена лоза. На сохи, вище вікон, покладео ощіп з трьох вінців. В ощіп врубано подовжній сволок та два поперечні (один у хаті і один у сінях). Подовжній сволок та верхні вінця ощіпу мають випуски з покутнього причілку, утворюючи значний винос даху. Хата ззовні і всередині обмащена і побілена крім задньої, порудованої стіни. Хата встановлена на бетонний фундамент.

Площа - 53,92 м2 (5.15 х 10.47).

that relate to my experiences :-)

Alan Siegel

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It relates to 18th Century. As of the time of transfer to the museum, the house was the oldest in the village and belonged to Oros family. The house has two premises: house and mudroom. It is one of the most ancient types of house planning in Zakarpattia. Walls of the house are constructed with wide oak cut blocks. Its high four-sloping roof is covered with straw.

This house is the oldest Zakarpattia house in our museum. It displays specific features of national building in valley of Tereblia-river and the middle reaches of Tysa River. The house’s area is 35.4 square meters.

Look at the exterior of the hut:

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Характерною ознакою житла лемків (етнографічної групи українського народу), як і бойків, були білий та синій кольори.

Хата із с. Теребля, Тячівського району Закарпатської області

Датується XVIII ст. На час перенесення до музею хата була найстарішою в селі і належала родині Оросів. Хата дводільна: хата, сіни – є одним із давніх варіантів планування житла на Закарпатті. Стіни хати складені з широких дубових колених брусів. Високий чотирисхилий дах вкритий соломою.

Це найстаріша хата Закарпаття в експозиції нашого музею. Вона розкриває особливості народного будівництва у долині ріки Теребля та середньої течії р. Тиси. Площа хати — 35, 4 кв.м.

Merci d'avoir suivi , annoté,et ou commenté cette visite de Beauval.

Initialement j'avais prévu de vous relater un de mes voyages en afrique(inédits sur Flickr) mais venant de terminer une longue suite animalière,j'ai opté pour l'Asie , avec la poursuite d'un voyage à Bali déjà sur Flickr , en commençant par

Java- Est et ses volcans .

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Let's go for a new trip

Thank you for following, annotating, and or commenting this visit to Beauval.

Initially I had planned to tell you about one of my trips to Africa (unpublished on Flickr) but having just finished a long wildlife suite, I opted for Asia, with the continuation of a trip to Bali already on Flickr, starting with

East Java and its volcanoes.

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Vamos a un nuevo viaje

Gracias por seguir, anotar y o comentar esta visita a Beauval.

Inicialmente tenía previsto contaros uno de mis viajes a África (inédito en Flickr), pero como acabo de terminar una larga suite de fauna y flora, he optado por Asia, con la continuación de un viaje a Bali que ya está en Flickr, empezando por

Java Oriental y sus volcanes.

I really relate to Mina's expression here these days.

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Shot @ Subway in Palakkarai , Trichy , Tamil Nadu , India.

Shot in natural light.

I tried to relate the bicycle in the mural / wall art on the left to the bicycle on the right.

Also a boy in the mural looking at the stairs , to the stairs which is on the right.

A photographer is always the second person in the picture. :)

I cant relate Nirvana lyrics to this photo, but L521 heads back to Appleton Yard with these purple flowers in full bloom

Humans are predators and our primordial instinct is to lock in on our subject. Food, friend, or foe, with pinpoint accuracy. Draw your attention to the airplane above. Tracking it smoothly across the sky is one of the most complicated neurological functions our brain does.

Zebras have found a way to disrupt that with their stripes. After all its a matter of milliseconds of life and death in their world.

Centering is one of the established compositional styles I favor when setting up a shot. It immediately draws the viewer's attention.

I ask you to look at my previous photo and see how I set it up. Now it is quite obvious. With a digital camera it's is easy, but that shot was with an analog camera with an offset viewfinder. Nonetheless it worked.

Spoiler alert: but as photographers our main concern is not with the center of the image, but our attention is how the scene relates to the four corners and frame.

Three things relating in light,

shadow, shape, pattern and color are assembled here for Macro Mondays theme "Perfect Together

Image spans 2.25 in on the long edge.

a nice surprise to see these breeding at minsmere British records almost certainly relate to escapes but the species is gradually becoming more established in Britain and has bred on several occasions.

Two lovers stand in the surf, locked in a kiss that looks poetic… until you remember the water is cold, the sand is uneven, and someone definitely stepped on something squishy.

This black‑and‑white capture turns a classic romantic moment into a slice of real‑world chaos, the kind of beach date where passion meets poor planning. It’s tender, messy, and painfully relatable, wrapped in a snarky wink at how love actually feels outside the movies.

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adjective

1.

of, relating to, a conventional and tedious job

2.

of, reflecting, or exhibiting a lack of willingness to work beyond the required amount of time or with more than minimal effort

What a way to make a livin'....

Now press "L" and get back to work!

Talking can help you think differently about diabetes. Relating to other people with diabetes could bring positive changes and help you work through daily challenges, like diet and exercising.

If you have pre-diabetes or diabetes, self-testing your blood sugar (blood glucose) can be an important tool in managing your diabetes and preventing complications. I had pre-diabetes last year; talking and asking helped me a lot. For those that never saw a lancet before, here a little info about them.

"Lancets are small needle-like medical supplies. With a lancet, you can make a tiny prick in your skin to obtain a few drops of blood for testing in a diabetic monitor. Lancing devices are used with lancets. Most have a spring action that allows the lancet to move quickly enough to pierce the skin."

Macro Mondays "Medical"

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This is my dad's Underwood typewriter. More than 70 years old. At that time, word processing was NOT the same. This model has a Spanish keyboard ("MAYUSCULAS" is "capital letters"). Young people can probably not relate to this... Editing was also a different thing. I remember cutting correct paragraphs and gluing them to a paper and hand writing corrections so everything could be re-done, retyping all text...

The house relates to the middle 19th Century; its last owner was Kuryk Mykola Vasylovych. The house comprises of three parts – a house, a mudroom and a small house. Its external walls aren’t covered, only strips are painted around its windows and doors. Such strips are specific for houses from Vyzhytskyj and Putylivskyj districts of Chernivtsi Region. Art painting and strips are very distinct decorations for houses of lowland Bukovyna. The house’s joyful interior is created by grapes depicted on the stove, around windows and on pokut (the sacred place of a traditional home). The most widespread patterns in Korytne village are grapes, arrow-wood leaves, hops and crosses on bases.

The house is built of smereka and poplar wood, its area equals to 58.8 square meters.

Хата із села Коритне Вижницького району Чернівецької області

Датується серединою ХІХ ст. Останній власник - Курик Микола Васильович. Складається із трьох частин - хати, сіней і хатчини. Зовні хата не мащена, тільки підведені смуги коло вікон та дверей. Така підводка характерна тільки для хат з Вижницького та Путильського районів Чернівецької області. Характерною декоративною оздобою для хат підгірської Буковини є розпис і підводка. Святковий інтер’єр у великій хаті створює розпис у виноград на печі, коло вікон на покуті. Найбільш поширений розпис у с.Коритному – «виноград», «калиновий лист», «хмелик» та «хрести на постаменті».

Хата з Буковини. Складена вона з кругляка смереки і тополі в прості замки з торцями. До верхів зрубу торці подовжуються і переходять ніби в кронштейни. Дах чотирисхилий, покритий соломою.

Площа споруди – 58,8 кв.м.

"I, I keep a record of the wreckage in my life

I gotta recognize the weapon in my mind

They talk shit, but I love it every time

And I realize"

Those of us who love music can relate it with our lives most of the time, even people who simply "like" music can...This song means so much to me at this moment, so I decided to do something fun..its not creative in my own way...but I loved creating them...enjoy.....

The series will run over the next week or so....hugs...

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Every week at school we get a board assignment. Basically we come up with a photograph relating to the theme given for that week, we print a 8x10 of it, put it up in the school, and the staff have green dots they put next to the photos they like for the week. At the end of the year the photographer with the most green dots gets some sort of prize. This weeks theme is Season Change. I actually really like how it turned out. Wish me luck for those green dots ;)

the exit sign also relates to life and i cant help but to include this great song with words that relate to anyone, any religion, everyone, every religion. and if it doesn't, it should.

i think its from the Adi Granth where Baba Farids poems were included. that is what i love about Sikhism, it is written by many saints from several religions. so much for one dominant religion over others! the Sikhs honor all religions that relate to God.

the MUSIC: Farid Baba

Trying to relate this quote (Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 7/7/22) to the prediction that up to 10 million UK citizens will be pushed into poverty over the coming winter. The position is a quite uncomfortable one. Fuji X-Pro1.

...::: NIve - Till you say i go :::...

Till you say i go

Say whatever’s on your mind

I’ll never let your heart just sink

Drown in colors that aren’t blue

And say, whatever makes you cry

I’ll never let your tears make a river

I’ll just linger by your side

When the night just feels too long

When the night just feels so cold

I will stay, wait a million years

I will stay, till you say I go

Dance under these shining stars

I’ll sing you a song, a lullaby

Gently whisper in your ears

And come let me guide you home

Wandering love just hold my hand

I will walk with you till the end

When the night just feels too long

I’ll stay till you say I go

We can all relate to this!

I assume a lot of people who see this photo will relate to the circumstances in which it was taken - getting intel about a very interesting train, hopping on an overnight train journey in a normal coach for over 600km, going to the desired spot and finding out the train had already passed it. By sheer coincidence we managed to change course and chase it to a different spot.

Here a loaded sand train from Kotlarnia can be seen upon leaving the post EW (near the Rybnik power plant) while heading towards the station in Leszczyny. Machines on duty that day were 21D-008 (ex-TEM2-093) and 21D-006 (ex-TEM2-277). In Leszczyny, the train enters the public PKP railway network, and it will continue from there onwards to Katowice Murcki. The sand from the Kotlarnia mine will be used for construction works on the railway line, which suffered a slump due to the ongoing coal mining in the region. Such places, where terrain is visibly shifted or slumped are commonplace in Silesia and the railway needs to account for that by regularly maintaining embankments on the railroads. Such sand transports, leading out of Kotlarnia only happen less than 10 times a year and I have been lucky enough to have photographed a lot of them in 2024. Those pictures, along with their stories, you can see in our TEM2 album.

This post is a good occasion to talk about more developements in the Kotlarnia sand mine. The production there is still being scaled down and an end is innevitable. The quarry does no more night shifts (the pictured train has been loaded the day before and waited for the crew on the morning of 18.07.2025). Additionally, KPK has started selling a large chunk of its rolling stock (either for scrap or further reusing), and it seems like their main souce of income nowadays is lending TEM2 locomotives to various private carriers, who seek heavy diesel locomotives, which are now in high demand.

Photo by Piotrek/Toprus

Relating to

Derived from

Living matter

This was incredibly fun - fun company, and fun to make. I've never photographed a furry or a furry-adjacent avatar, so this was new. And it was equally fun to make the acquaintance of someone who was largely a mystery to me until then, only to realize it was simply easy. As easy as this came together.

Autumn, I owe you a debt of gratitude for the authenticity to come just as you are, as you feel, and as the creature you relate to most. I am genuinely glad you felt comfortable to come and bring your own flavor and a bit of a challenge. You bring so much into the world around you, and you brought so much into my world by entering it as well. So thank you always for your support, for the challenge, for your time, and for your patience as well.

don't relate to you

I don't relate to you, no

'Cause I'd never treat me this shitty

You made me hate this city

And I don't talk shit about you on the internet

Never told anyone anything bad

'Cause that shit's embarrassing, you were my everything

And all that you did was make me fucking sad

So don't waste the time I don't have

And don't try to make me feel bad

I could talk about every time that you showed up on time

But I'd have an empty line 'cause you never did

Never paid any mind to my mother or friends

So I shut 'em all out for you 'cause I was a kid

"It don't get no better

My tongue writing you letters

Feeling you get wetter

We'll be making love until the morning after

And I can feel your tide slowly rising

As I'm sipping from your water fountain

We gon' flood the bed, take it to the ground

While I'm in your ocean baby, hold my head down.

I wanna drown in it, drown in it..Yeah, baby.

Drown in it, drown in it..Just take me under.

Drown in it, drown in it...Under your waters, girl.

Drown in it, drown in it. I won't ever come up, oh." - Chris Brown ♫

Some people believe that there is no such thing as “true love” they believe that love is nothing but an illusion designed by social expectations. These people believe that love ultimately turns into pain and despair. This idea in some ways is true. Love is not eternal it will come to an end one way or another, but the aspect that separates true love from illusion, is the way love ends. “True Love” is much too powerful to be destroyed by Human imperfection; it may only be destroyed by a force equal to the power of love. Diotima believed that “Love is wanting to posses the good forever” In other words love is the desire to be immortal and the only way that we are able to obtain immortality is through reproduction, and since the act of reproduction is a form of sexual love, then sexual love is in fact a vital part of “True love”. Sexual love is not eternal. This lust for pleasure will soon fade, but the part of love that is immortal, is a plutonic love. You can relate this theory to the birth of love that Diotima talks about. She says that love was born by a mortal mother and immortal father. The mother represents the sexual love, the lust for pleasure. The father represents the plutonic love that is immortal. Plutonic love is defined as a true friendship, the purest of all relationships. A true plutonic love will never die; it transcends time, space, and even death.

-Unknown

sagittal - Relating to or denoting the suture on top of the skull which runs between the parietal bones in a front to back direction.

Kudos to the birders who figure out who these drifters are and then take the trouble to help other birders find them.

This guy was way off his patch.

"While today’s vagrant might be tomorrow’s model citizen, destined to become a colonizer and perhaps an established resident, as Grinnell (1922) asserted, most vagrants might be viewed as “failed colonization attempts”. Newton (2008: 267–299) summarized quite well the various explanations of the causes of vagrancy put forward over the past century or so. They include: normal dispersal over long distances, population growth or expansion, drift by winds, migration overshoots, deviant directional tendencies (right time but wrong direction), mirror-image migration, and reversed direction migration. While all explanations probably play a role and explain the occurrence of some vagrant individuals, we address the latter three explanations as they likely involve the vast majority of landbirds. The mirror-image misorientation theory, originally developed by DeSante (1973), and described by Diamond (1982), proposed that vagrants are misoriented by confusion of right and left in relating an inherited migration direction to a compass reference direction. Mirror-image misorientation theory accounts for observations made by DeSante (1983a) that in certain situations large-angle misorientations seem more frequent than small or intermediate deviations from the normal migration course (Alerstam, 1990). Misorientation by the wind has long been suggested as a cause of accidentals (Austin, 1971), but Thorup et al. (2012) found differently, as the authors used radio telemetry to track individual migratory flights of several species of songbirds from the Faroe Islands, approximately halfway between Norway and Iceland, far west of their normal migration route. Birds with expected easterly and south-easterly migration direction departed westward out over the Atlantic Ocean, indicating that these birds are actively flying in the “wrong” direction and that their occurrence is not caused by wind drift. However, on Attu Island, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, Hameed et al. (2009) found statistical evidence that the occurrence of spring Asian vagrants on this North Pacific island were correlated with storm winds from the west."

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6305120/

The Barge and Bottle, is in Sleaford, Lincs. It relates to the River slea, which runs through the market town.

1

: of, relating to, or suitable for the country : RURAL

rustic rolling farmland

2

a

: made of the rough limbs of trees

rustic furniture

b

: finished by rusticating

a rustic joint in masonry

3

a

: characteristic of or resembling country people

b

: lacking in social graces or polish

4

: appropriate to the country (as in plainness or sturdiness)

heavy rustic boots

Wow...how I relate to this passage:

Through spiritual exchanges with Tibetan Buddhists during his retreat in Darjeeling, near the majestic mountain of Kanchenjunga, Merton saw that there was “another side of the mountain.” 103 For him, the mountain was a symbol of that which he had sought on his pilgrimage to Asia. He realized that “God speaks, and God is to be heard, not only on Sinai, not only in my own heart, but in the voice of the stranger” on the other side of the mountain.

-Thomas Merton’s encounter with Buddhism and beyond: his interreligious dialogue, inter-monastic exchanges, and their legacy / Jaechan Anselmo Park, OSB.

“The full beauty of the mountain is not seen until you too consent to the impossible paradox: it is and is not. When nothing more needs to be said, the smoke of ideas clears, the mountain is SEEN.”

-Thomas Merton, AJ, 156–157 (Asian Journal)