Notes - inspiration / memory / art / amazed and humbled

         Last night in a short fit of inspiration you were attempting to describe to your muse what was coming up. This is an excerpt what you wrote (out of the blue):

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You ever inspire me. I close my eyes and the world returns to those unforgettable moments on the high mountain. I can smell the coolness in the morning air. . .

Merlyn is in another memory. He is meeting Vivian for the first time. She is 14 and he is a virgin (for good purpose and reason) at 36. In those days of the seventh century this was quite a plausible but unexpected moment for such a Druid as himself. The 'enchantment' description is what I remember tonight as how it was in moments on that mountain, moments where time did not exist yet the stones, the human passageways, the earth and myself did. Merlyn becomes the only one of the four elements of Aristotle he could become -- the air, and it fills young Vivian's lungs full before she expires a breath mounted high on his own. Such is the first way between this Druid and young Druidess-to-be in "The Dead", Chapter 18, Great Merlyn's Ghost, Volume I.  

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         0905 hours. The words splashed from my fingertips on the keys as if they were a joyous and silent water. This morning Doug sent me a quick note about yesterday's posting and this was my response:

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Good morning, Doug!

This [photo] is one of the very few natural views in which time slips away to nothing but the transcendental spiritual moorings - a real enough place rarely visited because it comes as a surprise to consciousness; it always (in myself) comes from the unconsciousness first. We were given sandwiches and a drink and allowed to explore. Perhaps there were twenty people who in the enormity of the place disappeared in their explorations of nooks and crannies. We headed up to the cemetery, sat down and had our picnic surrounded by river below, mountain, surrounded in a distance by a mountain peak in each of the four cardinal directions. Afterwards we walked down to the 'hitching post' of the sun, a sacred place where the priests/priestesses metaphorically threw and magic rope out to capture the sun at its lowest point and pulled it back via ritual. It always returned to bring the summer. Thus the act was always reinforced by nature (partly the will of the Inca) to force the sun to return. I have pictures somewhere but let me look on line for for a good one. -- In '71 and '72 there were no ropes surrounding. We have a picture someplace of us sitting on the stone. The stone among the surroundings (natural and otherwise) is very impressive and in many ways more intimate than Stonehenge in its viewing.   Dick

"Intihuatana"

Hitching Post of the Sun

[Wiki - photo]

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         Yesterday Doug sent you a most interesting YouTube video on giraffes at play 'realism-like through art' that fully delighted your visual senses:

         The reason this is an important piece here is that the visual arts today are more wholly mastering the mind at play. Post. - Amorella

         Mid-afternoon. You and Carol had a late lunch at Smashburgers and are presently in the far north lot of Pine Hill Lakes Park. Carol is reading The Presidents' Club, the section on Truman and Kennedy and enjoying it immensely.

         1500 hours. I have been neglecting my 'thank you's' for surviving this long.

         Who are you thanking you old agnostic? - Amorella

         'My lucky stars,' comes to mind, although not first. I'd rather not get into it Amorella. I have been more than fairly fortunate.

         It is an injustice then that you have been so fortunate, is that it? - Amorella

         I think human justice and divine justice are two different matters. In the books human justice seems to be directly connected with HeavenOrHellBothOrNeither. What we call 'divine justice' is really something else again.

         I did some quick online research and I cannot agree with the definitions of justice or divine justice because I do not really know what these term words really mean other than people agreed on the definitions. If an Angel of G---D were to ask me what human justice is I would have to say, "Watch the definitions of human justice in action and decide for yourself." And, if an Angel of G---D were to ask, "What is divine justice?" I would have to say, "I have no idea because as I have no definition I would not know what to look for."

         2302 hours. Is this 'human justice' and 'divine justice' a part of The Dead 18?

         What do you think? - Amorella

         The Dead 18 is an example of divine justice.

         That was easy. Good night, orndorff. Post. - Amorella

         I am ever amazed and humbled at the same time.

         Good. - Amorella