Santa Barbara, California, from Stearns Wharf yesterday. One of the things the Brazilians kept telling me was that I had never seen an ocean or a palm tree, but I had gotten there from here. It is where I learned Portuguese, in fact. Axé.
A friend back home took this picture today, and I would like to be meditating like that man. In winter the ocean looks golden when the sun is low. Here is Chapman’s Homer, upon looking into which Keats felt like Balboa or as he said, stout Cortez upon first staring at the Pacific, “Silent, upon … More Balboa, or stout Cortez
San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, photo from Wikitravel. It was so bright today here that I thought of SS-Donostia. Axé.
Atención, pueblo tababé, que con las tripas vacías he traído en jasayé las ordenanzas de este día. Yo, que con tanto empeño, he querido con razón a este pueblo cruceño alegrarle el corazón (…) –Recopilado por Nino Gandarilla Guardia; fragmento del libro inédito 450 años de la Fundación y del Carnaval Cruceño, Sta. Cruz de la Sierra, … More El correo del carnaval
This is one of the films I found, trying to discover what World II looked like. In it the Soviets plan to invade Berlin and then do so. It is an amazing piece of photography and it causes your eyes to have experiences such as approach the Brandenburg Gate with the Red Army. It is … More Russians. The Socialist Songbook. Spain. Serrano Plaja. Vallejo.
Here is part of a US made, pro USSR propaganda film that won an Academy award in 1942. It is about the December 6, 1941 Soviet counterattack on the German forces that were advancing upon Moscow. This happened, conveniently, the day before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and the successful defense of Moscow appears … More Academy Awards of 1942
My state of lucidity is extreme. I am irritated not to have been able to attain this for so long, but there it is. Anyway to shore it up I am taking notes on that Cameron book without reading it. This will be better since I can create my own flash cards as it were, … More Julia Cameron Crib Sheet
We saw Les Misérables and although I do not like musicals it is interesting to pore over July Monarchy, the 1832 rebellion and 1848 as well as the emphasis on ambivalence in Hugo’s heroes (which Javert cannot handle). French history is instructive and I wish I knew it better as it might explain my institution, … More Les Misérables
It is raining endlessly and the films one could see include this and some others. This seems almost required — have you seen it and if so, do you recommend it? Axé.
In a true Danish Christmas there would be Lutheran Mass but we went to a Catholic one. It was very beautiful, the full ceremony with costumes and processions that I tend to forget are done now and not only in the late Middle Ages. These things were remarkable as well as inspiring and uplifting. Without … More Rhyme of the Norn Guest
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