tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post1689119777894412983..comments2024-02-26T00:59:26.907-08:00Comments on Ana the Imp: Bridge of SighsAnastasia F-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-13691835585816565472011-09-25T15:54:26.793-07:002011-09-25T15:54:26.793-07:00Marty, yes a final example of the gentle wisdom th...Marty, yes a final example of the gentle wisdom that I have come to expect of you. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-33714475516854959462011-09-25T15:53:23.945-07:002011-09-25T15:53:23.945-07:00Chris, that's a super passage.Chris, that's a super passage.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-77934094512382897912011-09-24T07:03:12.088-07:002011-09-24T07:03:12.088-07:00I did most of my "serious" reading when ...I did most of my "serious" reading when I was young. To me, books, literature, are a launching pad into life, into the unknown, and not a place to land. Better to read when young, get your head and heart filled with dreams and wild ideas, and then go out and live them.nothing profoundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02538561601096574876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-31519643289965769472011-09-23T02:02:56.120-07:002011-09-23T02:02:56.120-07:00Anthony and Anastasia, here is a quote from a comm...Anthony and Anastasia, here is a quote from a commentary to the I Ching to add to that great quote from Ecclesiastes: “Suprahuman intelligence has from the beginning made use of three mediums of expression—men, animals, and plants, in each of which life pulses with a different rhythm. Chance came to be utilized as the fourth medium; the very absence of an immediate meaning in chance permitted a deeper meaning to come to expression in it.”<br /><br />Eighth Wing Pages 262 – 263Chris Coffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16599801901347194290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-71521109531832382922011-09-23T00:30:58.185-07:002011-09-23T00:30:58.185-07:00Ah, yes; more food for thought. :-)Ah, yes; more food for thought. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-49109396030961766152011-09-22T17:16:14.611-07:002011-09-22T17:16:14.611-07:00The Romans made a ritual of sacrificing people und...The Romans made a ritual of sacrificing people under the piers of bridges so that there would be a guardian spirit to protect the crossing.Calvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10640148105202971907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-869098958208308682011-09-22T16:17:23.633-07:002011-09-22T16:17:23.633-07:00Michael, thanks. You are very sweet. :-)Michael, thanks. You are very sweet. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-45645644436252566622011-09-22T16:15:02.843-07:002011-09-22T16:15:02.843-07:00Chris, thank you very much. Now here's a coinc...Chris, thank you very much. Now here's a coincidence - I read a lot of Graham Greene, including <i>The Power and the Glory</i>, when I was sixteen also! I agree; it's a fine book. I loved Greene, loved reading about some of the moral dilemmas he explored through his Catholic faith. <br /><br />I like the way you put things. I did feel a sense of spiritual numbness, if that's the right expression, looking on that marvel.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-67639603547850093832011-09-22T15:46:00.719-07:002011-09-22T15:46:00.719-07:00Calvin, actually there could be. I have something...Calvin, actually there could be. I have something flitting in the back of my mind about certain people being interred by bridges in the Middle Ages. I shall have to look into this to see if I can come up with anything further.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-61807267386594382322011-09-22T15:37:03.309-07:002011-09-22T15:37:03.309-07:00AS, thanks. :-)AS, thanks. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-54676208050742171532011-09-22T15:36:32.384-07:002011-09-22T15:36:32.384-07:00Anthony, this is one of my favourite passages from...Anthony, this is one of my favourite passages from the Bible:<br /><br /><br />"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."<br /><br />Even cosmic events are uncertain. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-88635124422158996992011-09-22T00:48:42.599-07:002011-09-22T00:48:42.599-07:00"But soon we shall die and all memory of thos..."But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and then forgotten"<br /><br />I "do" family history. I have come to realise that people fade away in a sort of mist. You know a lot about your parents and quite a bit about theirs. But probably have no idea about your great grandparents. They have faded into the mist. As will we all - unless of course you are famous - like you Anastasia. Welcome back.Michael J McCormickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15420031175369432868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-47476044356824272862011-09-22T00:46:33.405-07:002011-09-22T00:46:33.405-07:00I've never read THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY, bu...I've never read THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY, but now I will--thanks for the tip. One of my favourite Latin American novels is still Grahame Greene's THE POWER AND THE GLORY, which I, too, first read at 16. Upon re-reading it years later found it still moving, but not as overwhelming as I did at 16. Nevertheless, it's a similarly intense novel about a priest tormented by a guilty conscience for his own sins--but he is the only priest left alive in the district who can still perform sacraments for the people he meets as he flees the Mexican army hunting him down to execute him. <br /><br />I see from the fact that you're back to reflecting on books that, although still presumably in Peru, you've returned to your comfort zone of the intellect--and yet still easily moved to emotion. A presumably unfamiliar state to which you confessed in your previous post about Macchu Picchu, inter alia. That was an interesting post, as you seemed to portray an authentic encounter with sunyata, the truth that emptiness is form, form is emptiness. Your emotion and authentic awareness of a palpable reality beyond thought and words was a fine moment to read about . . . <br /><br />Confucius was of the opinion that one should not begin to study the I Ching until the age of 70 . . . Reading your two most recent posts--as you oscillate between perceiving reality more directly with your heart-mind and then once again processing reality through your formidable intellect--makes me wonder whether, if we knew how to properly experience consciousness, it would be possible for us to defer reading all books until, say, the age of 35 - 40? Sounds hellish, I know, but it might prevent the hyper-trophy of our intellects and the Cartesian blight that we Westerners all endure as a consequence, and allow us to engage with Being until we are no longer strangers to it, only then to finally read books when what we learn will take us deeper into Being . . . <br /><br />Good call, by the way, on Peruvian cuisine--the finest in Latin America.Chris Coffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16599801901347194290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-13126451576529697392011-09-21T22:23:54.495-07:002011-09-21T22:23:54.495-07:00The bright object to the east is most likely the p...The bright object to the east is most likely the planet jupiter and its moons but there is still the falling satelite?anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02931330128135957439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-91211058261586635442011-09-21T18:50:28.879-07:002011-09-21T18:50:28.879-07:00Shit happens. (Life is so much simpler for an ath...Shit happens. (Life is so much simpler for an atheist.) More effort spent on bridge maintenance and less on prayer would improve life immeasurably in Latin America.<br /><br />I wonder what sort of novel a pre-Pizarro Inca might have made of the scenario, or a Hindu, or a Confucian?<br /><br />Coincidentally, the mass murderers of Mexico seem to like to deposit the remains of their handiwork near or on bridges. Do you think there is some symbolism behind this - or is the choice more pragmatic, such as proximity to escape routes?Calvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10640148105202971907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-50079308374851058142011-09-21T16:52:48.610-07:002011-09-21T16:52:48.610-07:00wowwowAgapiStudioshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16374945177192242385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-67906611275563526992011-09-21T15:45:19.525-07:002011-09-21T15:45:19.525-07:00There is a large object visable for two nights now...There is a large object visable for two nights now in the eastern horizon. Our local news say it is a large UARS satelite the size of four city buses that is comming down to earth by thursday US central time? I can see it very well with 10x binoculars and it is a cluster of a large bright object and several smaller objects so soon we will see what this is.anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02931330128135957439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-23813837308829518312011-09-21T15:38:41.975-07:002011-09-21T15:38:41.975-07:00I have the DVD, I guess shit happens?I have the DVD, I guess shit happens?anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02931330128135957439noreply@blogger.com