Thoughts

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Dragons

Today’s message is brought to you by the love of lore, the magic of myth, and the soul of science. Here we are with every child’s dream, the truth of nature in the form of a lizard.

Lea Ann Munyon‎Mysterious, Forgotten, & Hauntingly Beautiful

Lea Ann Munyon: ‎Mysterious, Forgotten, & Hauntingly Beautiful

Technically they aren’t dragons, but they are flying lizards, which is pretty close. The tiny lizards are known as Draco Volans, and over the course of thousands of years, they developed an amazing way to evade predators – flight.

According to Wikipedia, Draco Volans, the common flying dragon, is a species of lizard endemic to Southeast Asia. Like other members of genus Draco, this species has the ability to glide using wing-like lateral extensions of skin called patagia.

Their wings are different than your average bird’s wings, as they are actually a set of elongated ribs, which they can extend and retract on command.

 

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Mother’s Day

In celebration of all mothers, everywhere, of every kind.

natureamazing.net · 15 hrs · Nice Capture, Motherhood

natureamazing.net

And oh would we had known—as with so many things—how short a time those babes would be in our arms. How terrible and joyous the days could be. What music and silence.

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Revolutionary Blood

Americans are fond of saying that we have a history of protest. From the American Revolution to the Vietnam War, we have staged protests from one credo group to another as the Revolutionary Blood has run hot through our veins. We have said accept our voices, we are not violent. It is our history, it is in our blood.

What we have not noted is the American—as in U.S. Government—response. That has not been a voice, loud or silent. It has been one of violence. The U.S. Government has not ever been one of quiet patronage and a “there, there, loud child,” posture. From behind-the-scenes investigations of Eugene Debs voters and followers to the overthrow of foreign governments, the U.S. government has spilled blood. Including that of its own citizens.

Today is an important reminder. Today is May 4. It matters. This is a reminder of how the U.S. Government shot down students. Students. Young people in peaceful protest. Remember the children who placed flowers in rifles which were pointed at them? Those kids. That’s who the U.S. Government killed and wounded. The nation should go dark and mourn. But it doesn’t.

Not many people recall or were there. The American Revolutionary Blood that has been spilled, not by another factious group, not by a foreign government, but by the U.S. Government. Some people still wear the scars.

KentState

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When The Veils Thin

It is said that twice a year the veils thin. So it is in this time that we throw the Runes to hear them speak, listen to the wind, and sing our songs. Again, we honour those who went before us; we honour the ancestors.

So Mote It Be
Spirit of Old · Yesterday · Twice a year the veils thin. Again, we honour those who went before us, we honour the ancestors. So Mote It Be

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Yeats Too

Time and again. I come back to Yeats, and his prophetic words from ‘The Second Coming’. “The ceremony of innocence is drowned. The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” Personally, I don’t associate Yeats’ language with religion, or politics or war. For me it represents a far deeper internal mythology; the one that presents us with the cold choice of a hero’s journey or a sleep that lasts for eternity. NB

This was posted by Nick Bantock, along with the photo (appropriately) of a postcard. Bantock is the author of Griffin & Sabine, and others of their books, the trilogy of which I have. And I will tell of that at some further post coming up.

Nick BantockSo, Bantock and Yeats too, as we continue to read our way through our self-isolation. Our quarantine. Who better?