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Posted on Aug.14.2007 @ 05:39PM EDT by ______
I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Sky:
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die.
For after the rain, when with never a stain
The pavilion of heaven is bare,
And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams
Build up the blue dome of air,
I silently laugh at my own cenotaph,
And out of the caverns of rain,
Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb,
I arise, and unbuild it again.
~~Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'The Cloud'
http://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/
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Reply from Lynnoh
Aug.14.2007
06:22PM EDT
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Reply from 77 zen ror
Aug.14.2007
06:24PM EDT
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You are awaken in the lite of the sprit. You have compassion in your heart & eyes.You give love back to life. |
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Reply from Woodsman
Aug.15.2007
01:44PM EDT
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Is flirting an option here? |
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Reply from ______
Aug.15.2007
05:59PM EDT
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“It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of all creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more, for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her. There are not many of her other works in which some more material or essential purpose than the mere pleasing of man is not answered by every part of their organization; but every essential purpose of the sky might, as far as we know, be answered, if once in three days, or thereabouts, a great, ugly black rain cloud were brought up over the blue, and everything well watered, and so all left blue again till next time, with perhaps a film of morning and evening mist for dew. And instead of this, there is not a moment of any day of our lives, when nature is not producing scene after scene, picture after picture, glory after glory, and working still upon such exquisite and constant principles of the most perfect beauty, that it is quite certain it is all done for us, and intended for our perpetual pleasure. And every man, wherever placed, however far from other sources of interest or of beauty, has this doing for him constantly… the sky is for all; bright as it is, it is not “too bright, nor good, for human nature’s daily food,” it is fitted in all its functions for the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity, it is surely meant for the chief teacher of what is immortal in us, as it is the chief minister of chastisement or of blessing to what is mortal."
~John Ruskin, ‘Of the Open Sky’ Modern Painters I, Part II, Section III |
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Reply from ______
Aug.15.2007
06:01PM EDT
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“O! It is pleasant with a head of ease,
Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies,
To make the shifting clouds be what you please.”
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Reply from ______
Aug.16.2007
08:04AM EDT
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Reply from Lynnoh
Aug.16.2007
09:02AM EDT
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:) |
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Reply from ______
Aug.16.2007
10:19AM EDT
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Reply from ______
Aug.16.2007
10:21AM EDT
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Reply from ______
Aug.16.2007
10:48AM EDT
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Reply from ______
Aug.16.2007
10:49AM EDT
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Reply from Lynnoh
Aug.16.2007
10:50AM EDT
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its raining :) |
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Reply from ______
Aug.16.2007
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Reply from Lynnoh
Aug.16.2007
11:23AM EDT
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almost |
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Reply from Woodsman
Aug.16.2007
02:01PM EDT
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Bingo! With the monkey, if you want to qualify Curious George and the Hardy Boy's book 'The Masked Monkey... Whoah!!! Book number/page number same/same. Ok, I'm calling Jesus/God.
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Reply from 77 zen ror
Aug.16.2007
04:39PM EDT
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Wow that was so loveing & compassed. With the sprit of the sky. felld with love for or eyes to enjoy. Thank you,so much RORY |
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Reply from ______
Aug.16.2007
05:58PM EDT
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Tea? Vanilla, Brahmi or Peppermint? |
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Reply from 77 zen ror
Aug.16.2007
08:36PM EDT
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Green tea, Looking out over the west sun set in the forest of trees & beinging in the moment of zenen. Lets all go I wiil drive it;s a 20 min. drive for me. |
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