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Here the cliched pastels of dawn are easing up once again from behind the
darkness mountains, bringing the pale, glowing colors of rising hope. Such
marvelous performers, these morning lights, they take the stage each new
day like it was their first time! Shadows fail before them, the fallen flags of
retreating night. The same chorus line will assemble at dusk and wave gold-
spun hankies as they high-kick from the decks of departing cloud ships
sailing off on the ebbing tide of day.
In this circle of time, we make a calendar board game of our lives. We work
with our tools each day with meek or grand design. We scheme our wonder
by day and dream our blunder by night. Our plans are a currency of promise
that purchases a future that can only be known with a backward glance at the
reflection along the road behind where, with open heart, we can see a colorful
collage of spindled days and unintended consequences, and a trail of majesty
as splendid as any sunrise or sunset ever was.
In Reply to: Trail of Majesty posted by Jim H. [1146.1238] on July 26, 2004 at 07:40:38:
Thanks, Jim.
I appreciate your beatiful writing stimulating my memory of the beautiful sunrises and sunsets of the high desert. What delight!
Best wishes,
Jan
In Reply to: Trail of Majesty posted by Jim H. [1146.1238] on July 26, 2004 at 07:40:38:
Your words always remind me of things that I want to do or see. Seems I mentioned this, but I want to move but I Need to be able to see as many stars in the night sky as possible and don't think I would be happy if I couldn't see a lot, so have been looking for where the sky is really dark at night, or dark enough to be satisfying so I don't have to look for some really remote place. Far from the madening crowd would be great. It could all be dreaming but while dreaming I visualize the experience, and that is almost as good, and easier to acquire and deal with.
In Reply to: Trail of Majesty posted by Jim H. [1146.1238] on July 26, 2004 at 07:40:38:
So beautiful.
Thank-you so much for sharing here on this board.
In Reply to: Trail of Majesty posted by Jim H. [1146.1238] on July 26, 2004 at 07:40:38:
Oh, what a charming strand of words you have created, Jim!
Gosh, I don't think I'll ever be able to write as beautiful as you do, but hey, I can parody. So, here I just switched some of your words back and forth, hoping to make you laugh a little bit...especially that part about "scheme our blunder by day and dream our wonder by night"--I'm being a bad girl today, hehehe...
"Here the dawn of cliched pastels are easing up once again from behind the mountain darkness, bringing the rising hope of pale, glowing colors. Such performing marvels, these morning lights, they take the stage each new day like it was their first time! Shadows fail before them, the retreating night of fallen flags. The same chorus line will assemble at dusk and wave gold-spun hankies as they high-kick from the decks of departing cloud ships sailing off on the ebbing tide of day.
In this circle of time, we make a board game calender of our lives. We work with meek or grand design each day with our tools. We scheme our blunder by day and dream our wonder by night. Our plans are a promise of currency that the future purchases what can only be known with a backward glance at the reflection along the road behind where, with open heart, we can see a colorful collage of spindled days and unintended consequences, and a splendid trail as majestic as any sunrise or sunset ever was."
In Reply to: Re: Trail of Majesty--I'm being silly with a little word-game... posted by bing [312.10] on July 26, 2004 at 21:39:12:
BTW, you'll have to read your text side by side with my parody to get the intended fun and laugh :)
In Reply to: Re: Trail of Majesty posted by Happygal [2070.350] on July 26, 2004 at 08:17:56:
Thanks Jan,
I hope you've made it to the aspens, or some refreshing Rockies delight.
Jim
In Reply to: Re: Trail of Majesty posted by Vince F [173.9] on July 26, 2004 at 11:59:27:
Vince,
We get pretty good here, but the best starry sky I ever saw was in the Rio
Grande River valley in Southern New Mexico in the early seventies. You need
clear, thin air, and no city lights. The depth was staggering!
The sprawl of civilization has hurt some observatories, like Mt. Palomar in
California.
Jim
In Reply to: Re: Trail of Majesty posted by ~CT [105.1287] on July 26, 2004 at 14:53:54:
Thanks. I'm very glad you feel that way.
In Reply to: Re: Trail of Majesty posted by Jim H. [1146.1238] on July 27, 2004 at 05:21:23:
Jim, where are you at ? I am thinking I need to be in the darkest area but maybe not. here in Phila we are lucky to see a dozen stars and barely.
The sky I want to approach is the one I saw in the Air Force base near San Antonio, Tx in 64'. I don't know how close we were to the city since the # was amazing.
The light pollution maps show the west as pretty dark in areas. There are 2 spots in state parks closer to me in Pa and WVa that are supoosed to be Really good, though 6hrs away. A decent one is 30 mi away so I have to try to get there but I am not very brave anymore of going to places that are remote...and I want to Move to a remote area...
In Reply to: Re: Trail of Majesty--I'm being silly with a little word-game... posted by bing [312.10] on July 26, 2004 at 21:49:30:
I like what you have done, Bing. It is funny how changing a word or two, or
their order, makes new meaning. Some of your wording I may steal!
Jim
In Reply to: Re: Trail of Majesty posted by Vince F [173.9] on July 27, 2004 at 05:40:50:
Light is one aspect, Vince. I think the smog drifting in from cities upwind is
another. I am in the three points area of CA, NV, and AZ. We get a haze from
CA when the wind comes that way.
I'm going to So. Ca. tomorrow for a few days. It always makes me sad to see
the sky there.
Hope you find a good spot. There's always that pristine one in your mind that
is easy to get to. Ha!
Jim
In Reply to: Re: Trail of Majesty posted by Jim H. [1146.1238] on July 27, 2004 at 06:00:46:
Yea, lots of things can limit visability. Dust is another and they say that the higher the elevation the better But too high might affect your vision with too little O2 to breathe. One site I was reading, the guy said that he did Everything to Try to enhance his eyesite before traveling to AZ. he was geting enough sleep, taking Vit A and wearing sunglases in the daytime.))
Yea, I have that indeliable picture in my mind, But I only saw it one nite and under some stress since I was in basic training and didn't enjoy the scene as much as I would have liked to. Would be nice to be able to study the night sky now, with my different thoughts over the 30+ yrs. The sense of different distances was enlightening though I wonder if some looked closer and further because of different brightness. They didn't know that most stars were actually galaxies back then. I want to be able to count a few Billion.
In Reply to: Re: Trail of Majesty--I'm being silly with a little word-game... posted by bing [312.10] on July 26, 2004 at 21:39:12:
Thank you Bing...
Or shall I say.... Kenneth Lay?
Ron
In Reply to: Re: Trail of Majesty posted by Jim H. [1146.1238] on July 27, 2004 at 06:00:46:
Hi Jim,
The best night sky I can remember for many years happened
last summer when I was in that big 24 hour power failure
last summer...
A lot more than the brightest ones were looking back.
It could not have been any better.
Ron
In Reply to: Re: Trail of Majesty posted by Ron [181.81] on July 31, 2004 at 10:49:42:
Ron,
That depth created in the night sky (when you can see the little ones too, and
the stuff that looks like shiny dust) is an experience of awe for me. Majesty is
our natural ceiling, and we are spiritually poorer that the by-product of our
industry has dimmed it...an effect of pollution not widely noted.
BTW, I hear a lot of other kinds of surprises happen during blackouts.
Jim
In Reply to: Re: Trail of Majesty--I'm being silly with a little word-game... posted by Ron [181.81] on July 31, 2004 at 10:42:25:
Huh?
Did you mean you are K. Lay?
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