Today is you Aunt Ruthie’s birthday and also your brother-in-laws, Bill. Halloween by any other name is still a day. Trick or treat, as they say in the U.S.A. – Amorella.
You searched for more images of crosses but most are Christian religious which are not equal in distance. You returned to Celtic crosses but most are too ornate for your purpose. In the basement above your desk you have a green glass Celtic cross you bought some time ago in the gift shop at Washington Cathedral. That will serve your purpose for a variety of reasons. One, it is three-dimensional and two, you can hold it in your hand and absorb the sense of the colored glass. Let’s give the green glass a shot. – Amorella.
Yes. I like the concept for a variety of meanings. For one, if I remember right, I can see through it, and another, it is connected with one of my favorite cathedrals.
I took a few minutes to put the stain glass through several full contortions to pull the glass plate with the nail attached which had been embedded in the side frame of the staircase which the desk sets under. I forgot how heavy the piece is. Strange, I set it down flat between the window and myself and notice that the dark light green reflected through the is the eerie color of the ‘spirit-light’ I saw in the hallway at our house on Majken Place. What a coincidence – almost spooky in itself.
I thought as much. You have chores and have to think about getting ready for your doctor’s appointment at fourteen-hundred hours. Post. Later, dude. – Amorella.
I forgot the stained glass piece was above the desk. I forgot how thick and heavy it is. I think Merlyn would like this imagery. I can glean some ‘spiritual-like’ properties from this glass, as its authenticity at least comes from being sold in a cathedral – one my two ‘architectural muses’ no less. The eerie green and the cold in the hallway – why the cold? Does a spirit draw its energy from physical heat while here? The green light spectrum, what does that have to do with a spirit? Is it an electro-magnetic energy of some sort? Fire and ice – light and cold – can I make a connection with this, with physics and metaphysics? “For now we see through the glass darkly”, comes to mind, and a film – by Bergman I think.
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Through a Glass Darkly (Swedish: Såsom i en spegel) is a 1961 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, and produced by Allan Ekelund. The film is a three-act "chamber film", in which four family members act as mirrors for each other. . . .
The title is from a biblical passage ( 1 Corinthians 13) in which seeing through a glass darkly refers to our understanding of God when we are alive; the view will only be clear when we die. The Swedish title literally means As in a Mirror, which is how the passage reads in a 1917 Swedish translation of the Bible.
Bergman described Through a Glass Darkly as a “chamber film,” an allusion both to the chamber plays of Strindberg (Bergman's favorite playwright), and to chamber music in general. In line with the “chamber” theme, the film takes place in a single 24-hour period, features only four characters and takes place entirely on an island.
From: Wikipedia
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Very cool. I have read Strindberg’s play and I saw the film. Awesome. The things a person forgets in a lifetime.
Just post, orndorff. - Amorella
You have 2238 hours on the MacAir and it has been a long day. Your kidney specialist doctor says you will have to go on insulin, probably in January. Your marker is 1.5 and your body has used enough metformin – ten or twelve year’s worth and it is beginning to affect the kidneys. Diabetes is progressive and there is nothing you can do about it. As such you have been reading up and find the insulin is much better than when your dad started taking it in the early fifties. He lived into his 82nd year and died of heart failure while sleeping. Grandma Orndorff also had diabetes but she didn’t have it until about your age.
I will continue to read up. Dad was very regimented when it came to taking care of his blood sugar levels. It never stopped him from doing what he wanted as far as hunting and fishing and traveling to hunt and fish was concerned. He and a friend or two rode horses up in the Rockies along the continental divide looking for elk and such game. At one time he had killed one of the largest pointed elks ever, in Wyoming I think. I remember in the 1960’s when he bought his first Weatherby .300. I used in target practice a couple of times, a very awesome weapon with an unbelievable bullet. If I remember right it could be used to kill elephant and rhino back in those days.
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Weatherby claims that this is the most powerful .30 caliber magnum rifle commercially available, but the recently introduced .300 RUM is now more powerful. Of course there are quite a few very large .30 caliber wildcats around, not to mention Weatherby's own .30-378 Weatherby Magnum.
One must note however when comparing the .300 RUM and the .300 Weatherby Magnum the difference in factory loadings. Performance data is often listed on the side of the ammunition box for those who wish to do an in-store comparison. On average the Weatherby cartridge is listed with higher performance. This is because from the factory Weatherby loads its rounds with a greater powder charge than does Remington. This is because Remington generally sells rounds below the cartridges maximum performance envelope so that its recoil will be more forgiving to shooters. In order to take advantage of the greater case capacity of the non-belted Remington round one must handload it to a greater powder charge.
The .300 Wby is in common use by big-game hunters all over the world.
From: Wikipedia
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The point is that Dad lived an adventuresome hunting life well into old age. I think he was 78 when he fell about 18 feet from a tree stand while he was hunting deer. In six months he was walking again so he could go turkey hunting in the fall. The man was something else, but I was and am not a hunter and fisherman – he even had fish emblems put on his casket. Target shooting was fun though; I was pretty good at it at one time. I think I’ll be all right once I get the hang of this diabetes. There are worse diseases in the world and something is going to take you out sooner or later anyway so there is no use whining about it.
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