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Diss Norfolk by Pianowerk

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Unclouded Innocence; by Candace Cherie

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Model: L. Flatt

Strawberry Hill by Pianowerk

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“And from the midst of cheerless gloom / I passed to bright unclouded day.” ―Emily Brontë by anokarina

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Heritage Hill Farm + King Valley Winery

City of London Walk 2015 by Pianowerk

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Westminster to Sloan Square by Pianowerk

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they tell me that he smiles on his children there/ and his smiles drive their sorrows all away/ and they tell me that no tears ever come again/ in that lovely land of unclouded day by daisy

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.Dan Wheldon.

June 22, 1978 - October 16, 2011

♡♡♡♡♡

Unclouded by Dominic Cristofor

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UK Hadleigh Suffolk 2014 by Pianowerk

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Church Windows by Pianowerk

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Westminster to Sloan Square by Pianowerk

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† by Savanah Jane

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Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is unclouded, your whole body is full of light. But when your eye is evil, your body is full of darkness.

So be careful that the light in you isn’t darkness.

For Chris by Squatbetty

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Found out a couple of days ago that my Flickr friend, Chris, had passed away. Such sad news.

We'd been friends on Flickr for nearly 6 years and even though we never met in real life, I knew other Flickr friends who had, and said what a lovely man he was. And as with several of my online friends, I felt like I knew him. He was always kind and supportive of my (and other people's) photos and he *always* gave me a heads up if he came across a Lewis Carroll-related photo, for my "Child of the Pure Unclouded Brow" group. Quite a few of the photos in there were thanks to Chris.

I wanted to take a photo in his memory but I've not been out with my camera for a few days and last night I was looking at his Flickr stream and through his favourites. He favourited a lot of beautiful photos and I felt honoured to see a few of mine in there. They seemed oddly out of place alongside some of the stunning shots but I was happy to see they were usually the pictures that I felt proud of.

Decided to cobble together some of my shots he'd faved, as a tribute and a thank you.

RIP Chris. I shall have a pint in your memory this weekend xxx

what a friend we have in ..... by Leonard J Matthews

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the Baptist Church at Sourthport making a clear claim they have a friend in heavenly places.

I wonder if on that Sunday the church sang the old Joseph Scriven and Charles Converse hymn "What a Friend we have in Jesus".

What a Friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear!

What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer!

O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear,

All because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.

Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere?

We should never be discouraged; take it to the Lord in prayer.

Can we find a friend so faithful who will all our sorrows share?

Jesus knows our every weakness; take it to the Lord in prayer.

Are we weak and heavy laden, cumbered with a load of care?

Precious Savior, still our refuge, take it to the Lord in prayer.

Do your friends despise, forsake you? Take it to the Lord in prayer!

In His arms He’ll take and shield you; you will find a solace there.

Blessed Savior, Thou hast promised Thou wilt all our burdens bear

May we ever, Lord, be bringing all to Thee in earnest prayer.

Soon in glory bright unclouded there will be no need for prayer

Rapture, praise and endless worship will be our sweet portion there.

Unclouded by Danny_Little

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Eclipse Colander Crescents by Brian

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The partial eclipse as viewed through the colander that I took to Mound Prairie SNA (aka Botanical Valhalla). The weather changed drastically for the better from the prediction a couple of days before the eclipse. Sunshine when the eclipse began, clouds creeping in during it, pretty much the last half covered. The view through eclipse glasses was clear and vividly memorable, but you’ll just have to take my word for that. Birds did start calling and flying about oddly, then silence set in, and the darkening while the unclouded part of the sky remained blue was eerie. The botanizing was pretty good, too. More photos later. :)

Mound Prairie Scientific and Natural Area, Houston County, Minnesota. August 21, 2017, eclipse day.

UK Hadleigh Suffolk 2014 by Pianowerk

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Norfolk by Pianowerk

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Move The Sun by Tobias Dahl

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"Once in a while it happens naturally – because it is your very nature to be free. So once in a while, in spite of you... seeing a sunset, suddenly you forget all your desires. You forget all lust, all hankering for pleasure. The sunset is so beautiful so overwhelming, that you forget the past and the future; only the present remains. You are so one with the moment, there is no observer and no observed. The observer becomes the observed. You are not separate from the sunset."

Osho

EMPTINESS

"For centuries emptiness has been condemned.

"Emptiness is beautiful.

"And the foolish people have been telling you. "The empty mind is the devil's workshop." The empty mind is God's workshop! The occupiedmind is the devil's workshop.

"But one has to be truly empty. Just being lazy does not mean that you are empty; not doing anything does not mean that you are empty. Thousands of thoughts are clamoring inside. You may be lazy on the outside, but inside much work is going on. Many walls are being created, new prisons are being prepared, so that when you get fed up with the old you can enter into the new. Old chains may break any time so you are creating new chains in case the old chains break; then you will feel very empty.

"Once in a while it happens naturally – because it is your very nature to be free. So once in a while, in spite of you... seeing a sunset, suddenly you forget all your desires. You forget all lust, all hankering for pleasure. The sunset is so beautiful so overwhelming, that you forget the past and the future; only the present remains. You are so one with the moment, there is no observer and no observed. The observer becomes the observed. You are not separate from the sunset.

"You are bridged; in such a communion you come into a clearing, and because of the clearing you feel joyous . But again you are back into the black hole for the simple reason that coming out into the clearing you need courage to remain in the empty sky.

"That's what I call sannyas.

"This courage I call sannyas – not escaping but coming into the clearing, seeing the sky unclouded, listening to the songs of the birds without distorting. And then again and again you are becoming more and more attuned with the emptiness and the joy of being empty. Slowly slowly, you see that emptiness is not just emptiness; it is fullness, but a fullness of which you have never been aware, a fullness of which you have never tasted.

"So in the beginning it looks empty; in the end it is full, totally full, overflowingly full. It is full of peace, it is full of silence, it is full of light."

Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol. 10, Talk #1

191/365 by star of the seaa

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Shadows envelop me in my sleep. The colors from the day turn to blacks and grays. One thing fades into another.

Thoughts ramble on, getting mixed with dreams. Tossing turning, tossing turning.

Sleeping with eyes unclouded by the sights of this dreadful world.

Sweet dreams take over my mind and I see the happiest days of my life. Smiles, laughter. Colors, bright and vibrant, everywhere. The feel of the sun on my skin and a cool breeze going through my hair.

Being twirled by your hand. Closing my eyes and feeling the music through the floorboards. Reverberating sounds that ring in my ears minutes after the music has stopped.

Your hands on my hips, swaying to the beat, arms in the air feeling the wet atmosphere above us. Rain dripping down everywhere.

Us drenched, dancing in the middle of the street. Beating, hearts, together.

All this in my mind's eye as I watch the shadows grow on my wall and turn into the monsters that I was scared of when I was little. Now they comfort me in my sleep.

Dark, shadows, growing. They wrap around me and I drift into the dark.

Me this morning as I was getting ready for school, half asleep and drowsy.

The Mody Dick Prints PUAM(3) by Regan Vercruysse

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THE MOBY DICK PRINTS 1989-93

Stella turned to the novel Moby-Dick (1851) after watching Beluga whales a the Coney island aquarium. Over a period of twelve years—in a project that rivaled its literary source in magnitude—he created 266 works titled after the 135 chapters of Melville’s masterpiece. The Moby Dick project encompassed Stella’s entire artistic practice, including painted reliefs, freestanding sculptures, and four series of mixed-media printers of every-increasing technical complexity, each with its own distinct qualities and spatial arrangements: The Waves, Moby Dick Engravings, Moby Dick Domes, and Moby Dick Deckle Edges. These discrete bodies of work provide touchstones for exploring Stella’s pursuit of an ongoing language of abstraction.

The Funeral, , 1991

From the series Moby Dick Engravings

Etching aquatint, relief, and Carborundum on handmade paper

Publisher: Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, New York

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover Massachusetts. Tyler Graphics Ltd. 1974-2001 Collection, given in honor of Frank Stella

The vast white headless phantom floats further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, what seem like square roods of shark and cubic roods of fowls, augment the murderous din. For hours and hours from the almost stationary ship that hideous sight is seen. Beneath the unclouded and mild azure sky, upon the fair face of the pleasant sea, wafted by the joyous breezes, that great mass of death floats on and on, till lost in infinite perspectives.

Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale, 1991

From the series Moby Dick Engravings

Etching aquatint, relief, and Carborundum on handmade paper

Publisher: Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, New York

Collection of Rysia de Ravel d’Esclapon, Princeton

Suddenly in the distance, they saw a great heap of tumultuous white water, and soon after news came from aloft that one or both the boats must be fast. An interval passed and the boats were in plain sight, in the act of being dragged right towards the ship by the towing whale. So close did the monster come to the hull, that at first it seemed as if he meant it malice; but suddenly going down in a maelstrom, within three rods and planks, he wholly disappeared from view, as if diving under the keel.

cat_0037 (unclouded eye) by Hide

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Church Windows by Pianowerk

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The second Cliff House by dougsf

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The second Cliff House. From Wikipedia, "The second Cliff House was built in 1863, and leased to Captain Junius G. Foster. It was a long trek from the city and hosted mostly horseback riders, small game hunters or picnickers on day outings. With the opening of the Point Lobos toll road a year later, the Cliff House became successful with the Carriage trade for Sunday travel. Later the builders of the toll road constructed a two mile speedway beside it where well-to-do San Franciscans raced their horses along the way. On weekends, there was little room at the Cliff House hitching racks for tethering the horses for the thousands of rigs. Soon, omnibus, railways and streetcar lines made it to near Lone Mountain where passengers transferred to stagecoach lines to the beach. The growth of Golden Gate Park attracted beach travelers, in search of meals and a look at the sea lions sunning themselves on Seal Rocks just off the cliffs, to visit the area."

Mark Twain wrote about his excursion to the Cliff House:

July 3, 1864

Early Rising, As Regards Excursions to the Cliff House

Early to bed, and early to rise,

Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

- Benjamin Franklin.

I don't see it.

- George Washington

Now both of these are high authorities - very high and respectable authorities - but I am with General Washington first, last, and all the time on this proposition.

Because I don't see it, either.

I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late - and the latter agrees with me best. As for a man's growing any wiser, or any richer, or any healthier, by getting up early, I know it is not so; because I have got up early in the station-house many and many a time, and got poorer and poorer for the next half a day, in consequence, instead of richer and richer. And sometimes, on the same terms, I have seen the sun rise four times a week up there at Virginia, and so far from my growing healthier on account of it, I got to looking blue, and pulpy, and swelled, like a drowned man, and my relations grew alarmed and thought they were going to lose me. They entirely despaired of my recovery, at one time, and began to grieve for me as one whose days were numbered - whose fate was sealed - who was soon to pass away from them forever, and from the glad sunshine, and the birds, and the odorous flowers, and murmuring brooks, and whispering winds, and all the cheerful scenes of life, and go down into the dark and silent tomb - and they went forth sorrowing, and jumped a lot in the graveyard, and made up their minds to grin and bear it with that fortitude which is the true Christian's brightest ornament.

You observe that I have put a stronger test on the matter than even Benjamin Franklin contemplated, and yet it would not work. Therefore, how is a man to grow healthier, and wealthier, and wiser by going to bed early and getting up early, when he fails to accomplish these things even when he does not go to bed at all? And as far as becoming wiser is concerned, you might put all the wisdom I acquired in these experiments in your eye, without obstructing your vision any to speak of.

As I said before, my voice is with George Washington's on this question.

Another philosopher encourages the world to get up at sunrise because "it is the early bird that catches the worm."

It is a seductive proposition, and well calculated to trap the unsuspecting. But its attractions are all wasted on me, because I have no use for the worm. If I had, I would adopt the Unreliable's plan. He was much interested in this quaint proverb, and directed the powers of his great mind to its consideration for three or four consecutive hours. He was supposing a case. He was supposing, for instance, that he really wanted the worm - that the possession of the worm was actually necessary to his happiness - that he yearned for it and hankered after it, therefore, as much as a man could yearn for and hanker after a worm under such circumstances - and he was supposing, further, that he was opposed to getting up early in order to catch it (which was much the more plausible of the two suppositions). Well, at the end of three or four hours' profound meditation upon the subject, the Unreliable rose up and said: "If he were so anxious about the worm, and he couldn't get along without him, and he didn't want to get up early in the morning to catch him - why then, by George, he would just lay for him the night before!" I never would have thought of that. I looked at the youth, and said to myself, he is malicious, and dishonest, and unhandsome, and does not smell good - yet how quickly do these trivial demerits disappear in the shadow when the glare from his great intellect shines out above them!

I have always heard that the only time in the day that a trip to the Cliff House could be thoroughly enjoyed, was early in the morning; (and I suppose it might be as well to withhold an adverse impression while the flow-tide of public opinion continues to set in that direction.)

I tried it the other morning with Harry, the stock-broker, rising at 4 A. M., to delight in the following described things, to wit:

A road unencumbered by carriages, and free from wind and dust; a bracing atmosphere; the gorgeous spectacle of the sun in the dawn of his glory; the fresh perfume of flowers still damp with dew; a solitary drive on the beach while its smoothness was yet unmarred by wheel or hoof, and a vision of white sails glinting in the morning light far out at sea.

These were the considerations, and they seemed worthy a sacrifice of seven or eight hours' sleep.

We sat in the stable, and yawned, and gaped, and stretched, until the horse was hitched up, and then drove out into the bracing atmosphere. (When another early voyage is proposed to me, I want it understood that there is to be no bracing atmosphere in the programme. I can worry along without it.) In half an hour we were so thoroughly braced up with it that it was just a scratch that we were not frozen to death. Then the harness came unhitched, or got broken, or something, and I waxed colder and drowsier while Harry fixed it. I am not fastidious about clothes, but I am not used to wearing fragrant, sweaty horse-blankets, and not partial to them, either; I am not proud, though, when I am freezing, and I added the horse-blanket to my overcoats, and tried to wake up and feel warm and cheerful. It was useless, however - all my senses slumbered, and continued to slumber, save the sense of smell.

When my friend drove past suburban gardens and said the flowers never exhaled so sweet an odor before, in his experience, I dreamily but honestly endeavored to think so too, but in my secret soul I was conscious that they only smelled like horse-blankets. (When another early voyage is proposed to me, I want it understood that there is to be no "fresh perfume of flowers" in the programme, either. I do not enjoy it. My senses are not attuned to the flavor - there is too much horse about it and not enough eau de cologne.)

The wind was cold and benumbing, and blew with such force that we could hardly make headway against it. It came straight from the ocean, and I think there are ice-bergs out there somewhere. True, there was not much dust, because the gale blew it all to Oregon in two minutes; and by good fortune, it blew no gravel-stones, to speak of - only one, of any consequence, I believe - a three-cornered one - it struck me in the eye. I have it there yet. However, it does not matter - for the future I suppose I can manage to see tolerably well out of the other. (Still, when another early voyage is proposed to me, I want it understood that the dust is to be put in, and the gravel left out of the programme. I might want my other eye if I continue to hang on until my time comes; and besides, I shall not mind the dust much hereafter, because I have only got to shut one eye, now, when it is around.)

No, the road was not encumbered by carriages - we had it all to ourselves. I suppose the reason was, that most people do not like to enjoy themselves too much, and therefore they do not go out to the Cliff House in the cold and the fog, and the dread silence and solitude of four o'clock in the morning. They are right. The impressive solemnity of such a pleasure trip is only equalled by an excursion to Lone Mountain in a hearse. Whatever of advantage there may be in having that Cliff House road all to yourself, we had - but to my mind a greater advantage would lie in dividing it up in small sections among the entire community; because, in consequence of the repairs in progress on it just now, it is as rough as a corduroy bridge - (in a good many places,) and consequently the less you have of it, the happier you are likely to be, and the less shaken up and disarranged on the inside. (Wherefore, when another early voyage is proposed to me, I want it understood that the road is not to be unencumbered with carriages, but just the reverse - so that the balance of the people shall be made to stand their share of the jolting and the desperate lonesomeness of the thing.)

From the moment we left the stable, almost, the fog was so thick that we could scarcely see fifty yards behind or before, or overhead; and for a while, as we approached the Cliff House, we could not see the horse at all, and were obliged to steer by his ears, which stood up dimly out of the dense white mist that enveloped him. But for those friendly beacons, we must have been cast away and lost.

I have no opinion of a six-mile ride in the clouds; but if I ever have to take another, I want to leave the horse in the stable and go in a balloon. I shall prefer to go in the afternoon, also, when it is warm, so that I may gape, and yawn, and stretch, if I am drowsy, without disarranging my horse-blanket and letting in a blast of cold wind.

We could scarcely see the sportive seals out on the rocks, writhing and squirming like exaggerated maggots, and there was nothing soothing in their discordant barking, to a spirit so depressed as mine was.

Harry took a cocktail at the Cliff House, but I scorned such ineffectual stimulus; I yearned for fire, and there was none there; they were about to make one, but the bar-keeper looked altogether too cheerful for me - I could not bear his unnatural happiness in the midst of such a ghastly picture of fog, and damp, and frosty surf, and dreary solitude. I could not bear the sacrilegious presence of a pleasant face at such a time; it was too much like sprightliness at a funeral, and we fled from it down the smooth and vacant beach.

We had that all to ourselves, too, like the road - and I want it divided up, also, hereafter. We could not drive in the roaring surf and seem to float abroad on the foamy sea, as one is wont to do in the sunny afternoon, because the very thought of any of that icy-looking water splashing on you was enough to congeal your blood, almost. We saw no white-winged ships sailing away on the billowy ocean, with the pearly light of morning descending upon them like a benediction - "because the fog had the bulge on the pearly light," as the Unreliable observed when I mentioned it to him afterwards; and we saw not the sun in the dawn of his glory, for the same reason. Hill and beach, and sea and sun were all wrapped in a ghostly mantle of mist, and hidden from our mortal vision. [When another early voyage is proposed to me, I want it understood that the sun in his glory, and the morning light, and the ships at sea, and all that sort of thing are to be left out of the programme, so that when we fail to see them, we shall not be so infernally disappointed.]

We were human icicles when we got to the Ocean House, and there was no fire there, either. I banished all hope, then, and succumbed to despair; I went back on my religion, and sought surcease of sorrow in soothing blasphemy. I am sorry I did it, now, but it was a great comfort to me, then. We could have had breakfast at the Ocean House, but we did not want it; can statues of ice feel hunger? But we adjourned to a private room and ordered red-hot coffee, and it was a sort of balm to my troubled mind to observe that the man who brought it was as cold, and as silent, and as solemn as the grave itself. His gravity was so impressive, and so appropriate and becoming to the melancholy surroundings, that it won upon me and thawed out some of the better instincts of my nature, and I told him he might ask a blessing if he thought it would lighten him up any - because he looked as if he wanted to, very bad - but he only shook his head resignedly and sighed.

That coffee did the business for us. It was made by a master-artist, and it had not a fault; and the cream that came with it was so rich and thick that you could hardly have strained it through a wire fence. As the generous beverage flowed down our frigid throats, our blood grew warm again, our muscles relaxed, our torpid bodies awoke to life and feeling, anger and uncharitableness departed from us and we were cheerful once more. We got good cigars, also, at the Ocean House, and drove into town over a smooth road lighted by the sun and unclouded by fog.

Near the Jewish cemeteries we turned a corner too suddenly, and got upset, but sustained no damage, although the horse did what he honestly could to kick the buggy out of the State while we were grovelling in the sand. We went on down to the steamer, and while we were on board, the buggy was upset again by some outlaw, and an axle broken.

However, these little accidents, and all the deviltry and misfortune that preceded them, were only just and natural consequences of the absurd experiment of getting up at an hour in the morning when all God-fearing Christians ought to be in bed. I consider that the man who leaves his pillow, deliberately, at sunrise, is taking his life in his own hands, and he ought to feel proud if he don't have to put it down again at the coroner's office before dark.

Now, for that early trip, I am not any healthier or any wealthier than I was before, and only wiser in that I know a good deal better than to go and do it again. And as for all those notable advantages, such as the sun in the dawn of his glory, and the ships, and the perfume of the flowers, etc., etc., etc., I don't see them, any more than myself and Washington see the soundness of Benjamin Franklin's attractive little poem.

If you go to the Cliff House at any time after seven in the morning, you cannot fail to enjoy it - but never start out there before daylight, under the impression that you are going to have a pleasant time and come back insufferably healthier and wealthier and wiser than your betters on account of it. Because if you do you will miss your calculation, and it will keep you swearing about it right straight along for a week to get even again.

Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin - but stake the last cent of your substance on the judgment of old George Washington, the Father of his Country, who said "he couldn't see it."

And you hear me endorsing that sentiment.

Sunrise in Bled by Martin Deja

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Calm sunrise in Bled, Slovenia

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Norfolk by Pianowerk

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uncanny by on my own path and still discovering....

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okay, i am going to say this right off the bat: I read my horoscope almost every day. now allow me to put this statement into context. i don't run my life by these mystic wordings of what your life will bring to you. but i have followed a couple of "advisors" for quite some time and have come to be amazed at how uncannyingly true these prophecies can be. to me, it is astounding how some person, gifted or not, can compile a projection to serve as guidance to ME yet still be generic enough for a mass of souls that have to number tens of thousands to glean some bit of truism from the words. now don't get me wrong, i am NOT some lost sheep in the field of life wandering and bleating along hoping some being greater than i will come down and shine a glorious golden beacon for me to amble along behind on a path to ultimate goodness. for me it is much the opposite, life has taught me that hard work and perseverence are the path to reward. you set stones in place as you go along creating your own path on this big old ball that we call Earth. using experience and wisdom gained on your way you carefully place these footfalls such that they will serve you the next time you pass this way. a lot of time these pavers are just thrown down willy-nilly with no regard as to whether they will be secure enough to be there whence you need them. thusly many people stumble through life and cannot figure out why "stuff" always happens to them. an old truism states that if you do the same thing the same way you most likely will achieve the same result, over and over. this can be good or bad. if you don't learn from your mistakes and their resultant bad forces that befall you, you are going to have a very difficult life. if however, you do chose to examine what really caused a particular situation and be honest to yourself as to your part in bringing some misfortune upon youself, you can have a profound effect on the results should the same or a similar situation present itself again. by putting the paving stone in a slightly different place you have created a whole new path to advance upon. sure, not many people can have the future vision to emphatically state this is where i should put the stone and this will create the perfect path for me. obviously there are so many differing forces that surround us everyday, many unseen and completely unknown to a person with an open mind; let alone the vast majority that trek along with a closed mind. all my life i have sought out a more spitiual life. of course in my younger years i didn't really know i WAS doing this. and of course when a moment of enlightenment would present itself, my youthful innocence and naivety would rebuke the useful information and i would chart a course otherwise to what was preposed as the best course. in time you learn; hopefully. how many times do you bump your head on a particular object in your path before you alter your course to avoid the painfull outcome? part of my lifelong growing spirituality has taught me that there are forces more powerful and yet invisible, flowing around each and every one of us. oh, to be able to tap into these swirling zones of energy and use them as guidance in our daily, weekly, monthly lives would almost be like having that glorious golden beacon splayed out around us such that the unseen would be illuminated. then we could see the bad and good and choose accordingly as to where to lay that next paving stone. as i stated earlier i have followed a couple of advisors along my path in this life. they have proven to me over time that they do in fact have some kind of ability to see these hidden forces and then put into words a sort of beacon for the unseeing to use. i cannot count how many times i have read a horosope and then had the exact situation play out in my life. of course i know that having read the words does create the sense of me looking for the moment to happen. the thing is i don't run my life by horosopes and for the most part just read, digest a bit then forget them in the course of a day. forget them until at some point in the day the exact thing that i read plays out before my eyes. instantly my mind goes back to the wordings and a Holy Crap! exclamation builds inside of me... that is EXACTLY what my horoscope said! again, blind dumb luck probably makes up the better part of this revelation and having planted the seed by reading the horoscope does tend to invalidate the goldenness of the light. but in the course of life how many times can these psychics who don't even know me, hit my daily path right on the head? here's one better....maybe i'll have not read my horoscope for a particular day (i'm not a fanatic) and then i'll go back and read it the next day and will sit amazed that again, what was described actually played itself out. uncanny. recently i had to do a complete factory restore on my daily-use computer due to a nasty virus finding its way into my system. i have been working my way at putting addresses of my favorite websites into the browser's Favorites section. during the course of this i came upon the website addresses of my usual horoscope pages. i decided to search for a couple more just to add to the consensus of information presented. so i read this different horoscope this morn and the person has assigned a song for me for the year. oh, here we go, is what i thought. there was a link to a YouTube video. what the heck, let me check out this farce. now this song was assigned to me, but also to a hundred thousand other Virgos. i decided to give it a listen. it is in German from an artist that isn't familiar to me. but the visual portion grabs me. i can't believe how closely tied these images are, as to where i am in my life right at this moment. uncanny. the music is almost Enya in style and is pleasing enough. i decided to translate the lyrics. again, my mindset right now was almost written out before me. uncanny. how i ask, how can this be? how can this person who doesn't have a clue about me or where i am in my life, be able to pull up this piece of music and say here... this is for you? questions, questions. anyway, i have decided to adopt this song as MY song for the year. also made a mental note to delve a bit deeper into this artist. so to sum things up...there used to be this astrologer who would come onto a somewhat local radio station years ago. the station was out of Boston, MA and was 104.1 WBCN - The Rock Of Boston. Charles Laquidara was the DJ host of a somewhat offbeat morning show called The Big Mattress. it lasted nearly 25 years. i shall not get into my feelings as to how time ruins soo many things. but at some point in the show Charles would go into the astrological forecast for the day. he would consult one Darrell Martinie who was a professional astrologer and would proceed to talk about the planets, the moon, and the stars and how they were in relation to each other and what the forces of such would create for that day. Venus retrograde means that blah, blah, blah. then he'd give the ratings for the day/night from 0 to 10 if you were going out, staying in, or working, and as i recall he often made a commentary pointing to how one should conduct themselves. myself and my friends would half heartedly apply his rating to our lives. i never investigated as to whether they actually panned out as he stated, and we lived our lives regardless. Darrell was dubbed The Cosmic Muffin and became quite a hit for the time he was doing his thing. it's a bit odd that i would be finding myself some 30 years later still remembering his closing line for each and every day... "It's a wise person who rules the stars, it's a fool who's ruled by them. Over and out." 5/365

the vid for anyone interested....

youtu.be/DJu-qUZh_Xg

and the lyrics translated:

A beautiful day was given to us

such as there are not many

filled from pure joy

unclouded by worries

With songs which the lark sings

so the morning began

the sun gave golden splendor

the day it then began

A beautiful day full of harmony

is like a precious jewel

it illuminates you and calls out to you

“Today you should be happy.”

And what destiny brings to you also,

whatever may come always,

it stays with you, the memory,

about a beautiful day.

The second Cliff House and Seal Rocks by dougsf

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The second Cliff House. From Wikipedia, "The second Cliff House was built in 1863, and leased to Captain Junius G. Foster.[1][2] It was a long trek from the city and hosted mostly horseback riders, small game hunters or picnickers on day outings. With the opening of the Point Lobos toll road a year later, the Cliff House became successful with the Carriage trade for Sunday travel. Later the builders of the toll road constructed a two mile speedway beside it where well-to-do San Franciscans raced their horses along the way. On weekends, there was little room at the Cliff House hitching racks for tethering the horses for the thousands of rigs. Soon, omnibus, railways and streetcar lines made it to near Lone Mountain where passengers transferred to stagecoach lines to the beach. The growth of Golden Gate Park attracted beach travelers, in search of meals and a look at the sea lions sunning themselves on Seal Rocks just off the cliffs, to visit the area."