It’s Coming….
Look to July 16th 1945, there it begins…
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Animals that Live in the Mirror
Excuse me a moment friends, I hope you don’t mind if I pull a memory from my thoughts for a moment,
Animals That Live in the Mirror
In one of the volumes of the Lettres edifiantes et curieuses that appeared in Paris sometime during the first half of the eighteenth century, Father Zallinger, of the company of Jesus, mentioned the possibility of compiling a catalog of the il-preliminary listing, he noted that the Fish was an elusive, gleaming creature that no one had ever touched but that many people believed they had seen in the depths of mirrors. Father Zellinger died in 1736, and the work begun by his pen remained unfinished; 150 years later, Herbert Allen Giles, took up the interrupted labor. According to Giles, belief in the Fish is part of a broader myth, which goes back to the legendary age of the Yellow Emperor.
“In those days, the world of mirrors and the world of men were not, as they are now, separate and unconnected. They were, moreover, quite different from one another; neither the creatures nor the colors nor the shapes of the two worlds were the same. The two kingdoms – the specular and the human – lived in peace, and one could pass back and forth through mirrors.
One night, however, the people of the mirror invaded this world. Their strength was great, but after many bloody battles, the magic of the Yellow Emperor prevailed. The Emperor pushed back the invaders, imprisoned them within the mirrors, and punished them by making them repeat, as though in a kind of dream, all the actions of their human victors. He stripped them of their strength and their own shape and reduced them to mere servile reflections. One day, however, they will throw off that magical lethargy.”
Jorge Luis Borges
OK, another one of the Corax rants, but seriously, it just reminded me, replace the mirror with the shadow, perhaps they too are trapped in their victors shape….
We meet, and we put on our masks…
Have you ever had an intimate conversation with your reflection or shadow? Looke din your mirror and seen someone else deep down in there?
Who are you? What name and image do you go by this evening? (Kaia, Drang, Amalia, Harsh, Billy, Scarlet, etc, etc.
Take from it what you will, I just found it interesting. No, I’m not crazy, just wanted to share my crazy thoughts!
Tell me what you see…
Ok, I think I’m starting to see things. The first thing I saw in this pic was a face looming and smiling above the teepees. I personally thought it was an intentional photo manipulation. However, it isn’t, it was just a picture of where this guy lives, nothing is said on his site about a face smiling down.
Does anyone else see it??? I can point it out for you if you need me to.
Oh yeah, the guy who lives here, is an Heyoka.
Seperate emotion, recent events have me thinking…
Let me just say, some people have a stronger will then others, some people are better tricksters, manipulators, some others now not how to handle their emotions, trickling from one emotion to another, unable to interpret their feelings, or attaching to those they see as more stable. Some have no confidence in themselves and fall easily unto those tricksters. Yet then some tricksters hit a wall, they hit those like the Raven, who sees the trick, then stops the continuation of the trick from being fulfilled upon him. Those tricksters who succeed in tricking the Raven may find great reward or horrible karma. Some should be careful about how they proceed,
and how they play the game.
“The blood of the unworthy will run down the walls of the temple and all those who have angered the beast will rue the day of their birth.” – ASB.
All this may sound cryptic to some, but recent events have me thinking….
Raven & Coyote Foot Print
There is a rumor, that ravens and coyotes will sometimes play together, I have heard the stories. 
Raven outsmarts…
yikes just waiting for the feedback onthis one!!
Sorry couldn’t help but share this with the coyotes in my life. Makes me giggle a little.. a piece taken from an article a scientist studying them wrote,
A Glimpse into the World of Ravens / Intelligent, Opportunistic, and Strong
When you see a raven dropping a piece of meat on the road bed in the spring time and guarding it until roosting time, check out the shoulders and see if it is a coyote crossing. Many a coyote has been ironed out on the asphalt because they stalled out in traffic to try to pick up a tasty tidbit glued to the road bed. Coyotes are creatures of habit. They will use the same road crossings daily while making the rounds. Ravens are a roadside attraction for sure.
The last hunt I witnessed was in late March or early April of this year. I heard the ravens outside of my house and went out to see what they were up to, Upon going outside I saw four adult pairs from two adjoining nesting territories. They were circling at what appeared to be approximately 400 feet for one pair and 500-600 feet for the other pair. At first I thought they were just enjoying the day’s updrafts and visiting.
“I watched them for almost 40 seconds, and then I heard a lone raven at ground level below the circling birds. I went back in the house and grabbed my spotting scope and returned to the yard. With the scope I spotted a raven on the ground below the circling pairs. The bird on the ground was standing 8 to 10 feet away from a mature, breeding age cottontail rabbit. Then I heard another raven croaking in the distance.
“I followed my ear with my eye and spotted a redtail heading towards the ravens that were distracting the rabbit. The redtail was about ¾ of a mile out when I spotted him and probably at an altitude of 900 to 1200 feet . The redtail had already set its wings and locked on to its target area.
“There was a lone raven flying closely ahead of the redtail and no more than 100 feet below it. The ravens had found one dumb bunny and held it in one location for many minutes while a single raven flew out over the sagebrush, locating and irritating a redtail until the redtail’s utmost thought was to nail the raven. The raven then led the hawk on a straight descending line to the rabbit and raven on the ground.
“The hawk and the raven coming in together were about 200 to 275 yards away from the rabbit when the raven leading the hawk broke away from the redtail. All the ravens went silent except for the one next to the rabbit on the ground. The Raven on the ground jumped into the air at almost the same time that the redtail rolled over and went into a dive.
“The raven on the ground squawked, jumped, and flew directly over the rabbit at a height of about 6 to 8 feet. As the raven flew over the rabbit, it obscured the hawk from the rabbit’s view. When the raven was out of the way, the rabbit saw the hawk. However it was too late to flee and it froze.
“After the redtail had made the kill, the ravens all landed and ran off the hawk and had a little ‘hare of the dog’. They also fed on immature rabbits that left the burrow later that evening at the same location.
“The next time that you see what looks like a redtail trying to capture a raven in flight, look again and listen for the sounds of other ravens nearby. If you are lucky enough to have a spotting scope you may witness one of the most fascinating and intriguing spectacles involving the intelligence of the ravens. They utilize illusion for profit. Truly amazing. Truly magical.”
Baby Grass
Baby Grass and Mama Grass are very good. Baby Grass is rolling over and eating cereal and squished squash and howling at the sky. I’ll try to leave some pictures.
