On every seventh
take sabbatical of thy own.
Of every being
act as if guest in their home.
Uposatha
In Thee, Our Various Mortal Life Is Found,
O Fortuna Velut luna Statu variabilis Semper crescis Aut decrescis Vita detestabilis Nunc obdurat Et tunc curat Ludo mentis aciem, Egestatem, Potestatem Dissolvit ut glaciem. Sors immanis Et inanis, Rota tu volubilis Status malus Vana salus Semper dissolubilis Obumbrata Et velata Michi quoque niteris Nunc per ludum Dorsum nudum Fero tui sceleris. Sors salutis Et virtutis Michi nunc contraria, Est affectus Et defectus Semper in angaria. Hac in hora Sine mora Corde pulsum tangite Quod per sortem Sternit fortem Mecum omnes plangite.
O Fortune, like the moon you are changeable, ever waxing and waning; hateful life first oppresses and then soothes as fancy takes it; poverty, power, it melts them like ice. Fate, savage and empty, you are a turning wheel, your position malevolent, vain health always dissolves, shadowed and veiled you plague me too; now through the game my naked back I bring to your villainy. Fate, in health and in virtue, is now against me, affection and defeat always enslaved. So at this hour without delay pluck the vibrating string; since Fate strikes down the strong, everyone weep with me
Dolores
Only fully realized
in final passing.
All sentient beings
have something to teach.
The longer a part of one’s life
the more revelatory the lesson,
if we but listen.
Give Them A Song
El abrazo de la serpiente (Embrace of the Serpent). Directed by Ciro Guerra. 2015.
Your Future Is Metal
What Am I?
From svelte stream
To bubbling brook
Now raging river
Down mountainous scene
Not singular drop
Nor not.
Light and Heat of the Sun
The Runin’ Water Hushed
"The Ballad of Ira Hayes" by Peter La Farge
As sung by Townes Van Zandt from "A Gentle Evening with Townes Van Zandt'
Come gather round me people there's a story I'd like to tell
About a brave young Indian that you should remember well
From a tribe of Pima Indians, a proud and noble band
Who farmed the Phoenix valley down in Arizona land
Down the ditches for a ten-thousand years
The sparkling waters rushed
'Till the white man stole the water rights
And all the runin' waters hushed
Now Ira's folks go hungry
And their farms grow crops of weeds
But when war came, Ira volunteered
And forgot the white man's greed
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
the Marine that went to war
There they battled up Iwo Jima's hill,
Two hundred and fifty men
But only twenty-seven lived
to walk back down again
And when the fight was over
And when Old Glory raised
Well, among the men who held her high
Was the Indian, Ira Hayes
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He can't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
the Marine that went to war
Well, Ira came back a hero
And was celebrated throughout the land
He was wined and speeched and honored
Everybody shook his hand
But he was just a Pima Indian
Had no money, no home, no chance
In Arizona no one cared what Ira'd done
Since when did the Indians dance
And so Ira started drinkin' hard
Jail was often his home
They'd let him raise the flag and lower it
Like you'd throw a dog a bone
He died drunk early one mornin'
All alone in this land he fought to save
Two inches of water in a lonesome ditch
Was a grave for Ira Hayes
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
the Marine that went to war
Yeah, call him drunken Ira Hayes
But his land is still as dry
And his ghost is lyin' thirsty
Inside the ditch where Ira died
The Chances, The Changes
Lyrics: The Greatest Adventure Composed and Performed by Glenn Yarbrough The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break. The greatest adventure is there if you're bold. Let go of the moment that life makes you hold. To measure the meaning can make you delay; It's time you stop thinkin' and wasting the day. The man who's a dreamer and never takes leave Who thinks of a world that is just make-believe Will never know passion, will never know pain. Who sits by the window will one day see rain. The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break. The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Endless Knot (དཔལ་བེའུ། | dpal be’u)
"Echos of past events nudge the tiller on my preset course I await it's reflection in the future" -Scorcher, Adventure Time (S3:E4)