For all the loss and ruin that occurs in this world....
life continues to enter it.
With new life, comes a new lease on life.
Welcome fledgling Finches, and all, into unimaginable new worlds.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
New Nargis Numbers
Burmese state radio says the cyclone death toll has soared above 22,000 and more than 41,000 others are missing.
Up to 1 million people may be homeless after Cyclone Nargis and some villages have been almost totally eradicated, according to the World Food Program.
Aid agencies reported their assessment teams had reached some areas of the largely isolated region. But they said getting in supplies and large numbers of aid workers would be difficult.
A news broadcast on government-run radio said Tuesday that 22,464 people have now been confirmed dead and thousands more are missing.
The first assistance from overseas arrived Tuesday from neighboring Thailand.
Up to 1 million people may be homeless after Cyclone Nargis and some villages have been almost totally eradicated, according to the World Food Program.
Aid agencies reported their assessment teams had reached some areas of the largely isolated region. But they said getting in supplies and large numbers of aid workers would be difficult.
A news broadcast on government-run radio said Tuesday that 22,464 people have now been confirmed dead and thousands more are missing.
The first assistance from overseas arrived Tuesday from neighboring Thailand.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Cyclone Nargis
Cyclone Nargis hits Burma.
Current death toll: 3,900. With tens of thousands of people homeless or still missing.
Residents lined up to get drinking water on Monday in Yangon, Burma. Food and water are running short.
“Stories get worse by the hour,” one Yangon resident, “No drinking water in many areas, still no power. Houses completely disappeared. Refugees scavenging for food in poorer areas. Roofing, building supplies, tools — all are scarce and prices skyrocketing on everything.”
If those numbers are accurate, the death toll would be the highest from a natural disaster in Asia since the tsunami of December 2004.
This is not happening to some people on the other side of our planet...this is happening to people as you read this.
This is being lived...experienced...people are there in the middle of it...trying to cope.
....and with luck, extreme effort, generosity and humanity - survived.
Current death toll: 3,900. With tens of thousands of people homeless or still missing.
Residents lined up to get drinking water on Monday in Yangon, Burma. Food and water are running short.
“Stories get worse by the hour,” one Yangon resident, “No drinking water in many areas, still no power. Houses completely disappeared. Refugees scavenging for food in poorer areas. Roofing, building supplies, tools — all are scarce and prices skyrocketing on everything.”
If those numbers are accurate, the death toll would be the highest from a natural disaster in Asia since the tsunami of December 2004.
This is not happening to some people on the other side of our planet...this is happening to people as you read this.
This is being lived...experienced...people are there in the middle of it...trying to cope.
....and with luck, extreme effort, generosity and humanity - survived.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Jaffy Ryder
"That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order."
-- Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder was named the winner of the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize on Tuesday May 1st. Announcing the award, Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry magazine and chairman of the selection committee, said, “His poetry is a testament to the sacredness of the natural world and our relation to it, and a prophecy of what we stand to lose if we forget that relation.” The San Francisco-born Mr. Snyder, 78, whose poetry collections include “The Back Country” and “Danger on Peaks,” began writing in the 1950s as a member of the Beat movement and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for “Turtle Island.” He is professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Davis. The prize honors a living American poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition.
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/167
* Jack Kerouac renamed Gary Snyder - Jaffy Ryder, in Kerouac's book; Dharma Bums
-- Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder was named the winner of the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize on Tuesday May 1st. Announcing the award, Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry magazine and chairman of the selection committee, said, “His poetry is a testament to the sacredness of the natural world and our relation to it, and a prophecy of what we stand to lose if we forget that relation.” The San Francisco-born Mr. Snyder, 78, whose poetry collections include “The Back Country” and “Danger on Peaks,” began writing in the 1950s as a member of the Beat movement and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for “Turtle Island.” He is professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Davis. The prize honors a living American poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition.
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/167
* Jack Kerouac renamed Gary Snyder - Jaffy Ryder, in Kerouac's book; Dharma Bums
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Respect Reigns
1. The goal of life is living in agreement with Nature
Zeno (335 BC - 264 BC)
from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
(with the hope that one's rain soaked boots miraculously dry overnight)
2. Trees and stones in the woods will teach you that which you can never learn from books or masters.
Saint Bernard (1090 - 1153)
from Epistle
(a canonized guy, not the breed of dog)
Friday, May 2, 2008
Hey Day
It has to be noted...
Last evening's symphonic audio bath began with Arvo Part's Fratres which was done to bona fide unsurpassable perfection. A show-stopping beginning worth the price of admission.
And then the evening exploded and crackled in the hands of pure genius.
Russian pianist Alexander Toradze showed what authentic talent is.
Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky's extremely complex and challenging pieces were truly played, played truly, and truly-played-with in Alexander Toradze's capable hands at the command of Eri Klas, a wonderful conductor with the most wonderful sense of humour!
Last evening was World Class.
Still soaking in the deeply rich and nourishing symphonic audio brain bath.
Last evening's symphonic audio bath began with Arvo Part's Fratres which was done to bona fide unsurpassable perfection. A show-stopping beginning worth the price of admission.
And then the evening exploded and crackled in the hands of pure genius.
Russian pianist Alexander Toradze showed what authentic talent is.
Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky's extremely complex and challenging pieces were truly played, played truly, and truly-played-with in Alexander Toradze's capable hands at the command of Eri Klas, a wonderful conductor with the most wonderful sense of humour!
Last evening was World Class.
Still soaking in the deeply rich and nourishing symphonic audio brain bath.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
May Day
It may be May but I'm a bit bummed today.
My way of coping with such bummed-out-ed-ness is sitting front and center and soaking in a Symphonic bath.
Tonight will be Prokofiev's piano concerto No. 3.
Followed by Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4.
Needing to hear the audio turbulence of Tchaikovsky's emotional variety today.
My way of coping with such bummed-out-ed-ness is sitting front and center and soaking in a Symphonic bath.
Tonight will be Prokofiev's piano concerto No. 3.
Followed by Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4.
Needing to hear the audio turbulence of Tchaikovsky's emotional variety today.
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