Friday, July 12, 2013

JULY 4TH, 2013

YESTERDAY I WENT TO THE FIREWORKS AND MET A FIGIAN WHO CAME WITH BOYFRIEND.  THERE WAS A HAIRDRESSER THERE TOO. PEOPLE WERE GATHERED IN THE PARKING LOT AND WE CHEERED AS THE FIREWORKS BEGAN TO START.  THE GLITTER LASTED ONLY 1/2 HOUR AND WE COULD NOT HERE THE NOISE.  THEY HAD A LARGE CROWD THERE AND SOME PEOPLE WERE EATING ALL KINDS OF THINGS FROM THEIR COOLERS AND THEY BOUGHT ICE CREAM.  IT WAS QUITE A WEIRD EXPERIENCE WITH THE CHILDREN WITH ALL THE FAN FARE.  IT WAS STILL VERY HOT.  I WASHED MY CAR BY HAND THERE.

CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING

CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING LAST WEEK SAID TO KEEP AN OPEN MIND I NEED TO BE KIND TO PEOPLE.  SO I WENT TO THE MINISTER TO SEE IF I COULD VOLUNTEER WITH VETERANS AS HE SAID THAT WOULD BE A GOOD THING AND HE FOUND THIS ARTICLE IN A PAPER.  SOME FOLKS SAID I COULD TALK WITH FOLKS.  THE OTHER FOLKS SAID THERE IS NO VOLUNTEERING TODAY THERE.  SO I DECIDED TO VOLUNTEER AT A THRIFT STORE INSTEAD.  IM GLAD I'LL BE GETTING BACK WITH MY FAMILY SOON.

SERVING THE COMMUNITY CAN TAKE YOU OUT OF YOUR DILEMMAS AND REALIZE OTHER PEOPLE HAVE GREATER NEEDS.  IT GIVES ME SATISFACTION TO CLARIFY MY POTENTIAL WITH TRUE RAPPORT WITH  OTHERS.

VOLUNTEERING JOBS I HAVE HELPED WITH INCLUDE
; SEWING QUILTS, CLEANING UP THE CREEK, CLEANING UP THE LARGE HALL, AND HELPING CLEAN UP ART SHOW.

A TYPE OF FREELANCE POET EXPERIENCE

YESTERDAY I WENT TO A INTERESTING BOOK AND TEA SHOP IN SEBASTOPOL.  HE MAY BE ON A RADIO SHOW CALLED KOWS.  I HEARD OF THE MANY RIVERS STORE BEFORE.  THE POET WAS PHIL LAWRENCE WHO ABOUT 12 OR SO POEMS.  ONE OF HIS POEMS WAS ABOUT ALL TYPES OF FRUITS SHAKING THE GROUND AND RIVETING OFF EACH OTHER.  HE LIKED TO SPEAK VS. JUST WRITE.  ANOTHER ONE WAS ABOUT A LION WHO WAS A TEACHER OR A HIGHER SELF.   

PHIL WAS QUITE SOFT SPOKEN AND HIS POEMS WERE4 ABOUT NATURE AND REMINDED ME OF KENNETH REXROTH, ANOTHER BEAT POET WHO HAS PASSED.  HE WROTE AT A STATE PARK WHERE I FOUND SOME OLD REMAINS OF HIS CABIN.  PHIL ALSO LIKES TO BE QUIET.  HE LOOKED KIND OF FRAIL.  HIS TONE WAS NOT VERY FLEXIBLE AND LUCKILY THERE WERE 2 MUSICIANS WHO MADE IT INTERESTING!

THIS EVENT WAS IN A MEDITATION ROOM THAT HAD MOST PEOPLE SLEEPING, MEDITATING OR CLOSING THEIR EYES..  SOME FOLKS WERE INTERESTED IN REPLYING TO SOME OF HIS POETRY.  ONLY IN ONE OF HIS LAST POEMS ABOUT CELEBRATION DID HE SHOW SOME LIGHTER POSITIVE EMOTION.  HIS MUSICIAN SAID SHE WOKE UP SOME NIGHTS AND WROTE SOME MUSIC OF SOME SORT.

Monday, July 8, 2013

CULTURE OF TURKEY

TURKEY'S PEOPLE ARE FROM MANY ETHNIC PLACES - BYZANTINE, EUROPEANSAND MID EASTERN, CENTRAL ASIA, LIBYAN TO ITALY.

TURKEY LOST IN 1912 UNTIL TURKEY WAS MODERNIZED IN 1923 FROM A RELIGIOUS DRIVEN EMPIRE INTO A MODERN NATION STATE WITH A STRONG SEPARATION OF STATE. 

TURKEY HAS EVERY EXTREME  OF EASTERN AND WESTERN CULTURES IN MANY COMPROMISES.  WESTERN CULTURE'S OF MANY TO MIX WITH OTHERS.  AFTER THE FALL OF OF THEIR EMPIRE IN WW I, THEY ADAPTED A UNITARY APPROACH TO MIX WITH WITH EACH OTHER WITH THE AIM OF PRODUCING A SEPARATE CULTURAL IDENTITY.  THIS RESULTED IN SHADES OF GREY AS COSMOPOLITAN ISTANBUL.  FOLK POETRY WAS VERY FAMOUS TO MODERN TURKEY.  THEY DEVELOPED SONG.  THEIR POETRY WAS RITUALIZED AND HAD A SYMBOLIC  ART.  THEY HAD MANY POETS AND GREAT WRITERS.

TURKEY'S ARCHITECTURE BEGAN IN 1300 - 1453 WHEN THEY BUILT A VARIETY OF MOSQUES.  THEIR MOSQUES WERE DOMED AND THE DOMED ONES CONVERTED TO A NEW CAPITAL, ISTANBUL.  THEY BUILT PALACES AS WELL..

DURING 1700'S THEIR ARCHITECTURE WAS INFLUENCED BY ROCCO STYLES THAT WERE POPULAR IN EUROPE.  THEY HAVE A WORLD HERITAGE SITE.  IN THE 1700'S THE TURKS HAD A PERIOD OF PLACE.  SOME TURKS HAD A PERIOD OF PALACE BUILDING.  THE OUTSTANDING ARCHITECTS ARE KNOWN WORLD WIDE WITH ST. PETERS BASILICA THAT WAS DESIGNED BY DONATA BRAMAMTA IN EARLY 1500S.  SOME OF THEIR ARCHITECTS ARE KNOWN WORLD WIDE.

DURING THE CLASSICAL PERIOD, MOSQUE INCLUDED OUTER COURT YARDS.  THE INNER COURTYARD AND MOSQUE AND WERE PART OF THE EUROPEANS AND LIFE BAROQUE.

THEIR WERE MANY PERIODS OF ARCHITECTURE FOR THE TURKS THROUGH THE 1930'S.  STARTING IN THE 1950'S TURKEY WAS ISOLATED FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD.  THEIR STYLE WAS A PERIOD IN THE 1930'S THAT STARTED TO DIFFER FROM TRADITION.  AFTER WW II THEIR ARCHITECTURE HAD A PERIOD OF ISOLATION AGAIN WITH INSUFFICIENT FUNDS. 

BY 1900'S THEIR FILMS WON NATIONAL AWARDS.  TURKISH CUISINE INCLUDED EUROPEAN DISHES  AND PIECES OF VARIOUS OTTOMAN DISHES.  THE BLACK SEA HAS CORMORANTS AND ANCHOVIES.  THEY ALSO HAVE BAKLAVA AND KUNEFE.  THEY HAVE DOUGH BASED ON DESSERTS.  THEY MAKE KEBOBS OR GARLIC DESSERTS.  OLIVE OIL IS USED FOR COOKING.  MOST OF COOKING IS MEDITERRANEAN WITH VEGETABLES AND WHITE RICE.  PORK IS TABOO AND FORBIDDEN TO MUSLIMS.  EVEN THOUGH THE KORAN ALSO FORBIDS ALCOHOL, MANY DRINK VARIOUS LIQUORS.  SOME FOLKS  REGARD SOME FOODS AS TABOO.  SOME FOLKS FAST AND THEN HAVE A FEAST WITH A SPECIAL MEAL,  THEY MAKE A RICH MEAL OF LAMB MEAT.  THEY HAVE MANY FISHERS, FARMERS,  AND ANIMAL WORKERS WITH A VARIETY OF VEGIS AND FRUITS.  VERY FEW FARMERS ARE SELF SUFFICIENT.  MANY LARGE FARMS HAVE CONVERTED TO MODERN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY.  THE TRADE WITH THE U.S., RUSSIA, GERMANY, ENGLAND AND ITALY.

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

ITALY CULTURE

FROM ANTIQUITY UNTIL THE MID 17TH CENTURY, ITYAL WAS CONSIDERED AS CENTRAL PLACE OF WESTERN  CULTURE.  IT WAS UCYS POINT OF ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.  ITALY GAVE BIRTH TO A FAMOUS PAINTERS, SCULPTURES, POETS, MUSICIANS AND ARCHITECTS.

ITALY WAS HOME TO WELL KNOWN INFLUENTIAL AND CIVILIZATIONS., INCLUDING GREEKS AND ROMANS.  FOR 2000 YEARS  ITALY EXPERIENCED MIGRATIONS, INVASIONS, ANND WERE DIVIDED INTO MANY INDEPENDANT     TRADITIONS.  POPULAR TSTES IN DRAMA IN ITALY HAVE LONG FAVORED COMEDY. IMPROVE STYLE  IS PERFORMED. 

ROME IS THEIR ANCIENT CAPITAL IN THE SEAT OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.  FLORENCE WAS HOME TO MANY ARTISTS.  THEY MADER MANY ACHIEVEMENTS.  VENICE IS A CITY WITH INTRICATE CANAL SYSTEMS AND RICH CULTURAL HISTORY.  PEOPLE VISIT FROM ALL COUNTRIES. ITALY HAS 49 SITES AND 1/2  OF THE WORLDS ART TRESURES.  THEY HAVE 5000 MUSEUMS AND 216 ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES.  THEY HAVE 10,000 CHURCHES, 40,0000 CASTLES, AND OVER 4,000 GRADENS.  MOST STUDENTS STUDY THEIR PAST HISTORY.

THE ITALIAN FASION INDUSTRY IS ONE OF THE MOST  IMPORTANT SECTORS.  ROME IS ONE OF THE FASION CAPITALS.  MANY DESIGNERS ARE BASED HERE.  IT IS A VENUE FOR THEIR COPLLECTIONS THAT ARE SHIPPED A5ROUND THE WORLD.  JEWELRY LABELS ARE ALSO MADE HERE.

ITALY HAS PROMINENT ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN. AS WELL AS FURNITURE PIECES.  ITALY HAS PRODUCED MANY MANY KNOWN FILMS.

THEIR GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT WAS ST. PETERS BASILICA, DESIGNED BY DON BRAMANTE IN THE 1500'S.

ITALIAN COMICS WERE PUBLISHED IN 1908.  MANY OTHERS FOLLOWED.  SOME COMICS ATTEND ACADEMICS OF ART.  SOME OF THEIR BOOKS AAAAARE 100 PAGES!  IN THE EARLY 1900'S FUTURISM, A MOVEMENT IN ITALY, INFLUENCED THEIR LITERATURE IN EARLY 1900'S.  ITALY'S FILM AGENCY BECAME INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN FOR  HISTORICAL SPECTACLES.

MUSIC WRITING BEGAN IN ITALY.  THEIR MUSIC USED ITALIAN WORDS.  FLORENCE PLAYED A CRUCIAL  ROLE IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC.  MUSIC HAS ALWAYS PLAYED AN IMPORTANT PART OF ITALIAN CULTURE.  THE STILL STANDING BATHHOUSES, AQUADUCTS AND BRIDGES WERE ENGINEERING FEATS.DUIRNG THE MIDDLE AGES LARGE SCULPTURE S WERE LARGELY RELIGIOU.  MANY MADESULPTURES FOR BIBLES AS DECORATION FOR PARTS OF CHURCH ALTARS.  THEY INCLUDED MICHALANGELO WHO CREATED OTHERS WHO MADE SCULPTURES OF BIBLICAL PEOPLE.  OTHERS MADE BRONZE SCULPTURES IN 1400'S.  THERE WERE MANY OTHER SCULPTORS FROM ITALY.  BY 1900'S FOLKS CREATED LEADING ROLES AND MADE OBJECTS IN MOTION.

THEATRE ALSO BECAME INFLUENCED BY ROME AND GREECE DRAAAAAAAAAAMATISTS.  THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ACTED OUT PIECES OF THE BIBLE.  DRAMATISTS PRODUCED PIECES FROM EASTER, CHRISTMAS, AND THANKSGIVING, ETC.  OTHER PLAYS WERE REVIVALS.

PAINTINGS HAD MANY STYLES INCLUDING MANNERISMS, BAROQUE, AND MACHIOLI.  IN 1900 MONA LISA BY DE VINCI WAS FAMOUS IN ITALY AND IN THE WORLD.FLORENCE WAS THE PLACE FOR RENNAISSANCE ART.  THEY HAVE 3000 MUSEUMSFROM THE 4TH CENTURY.

ITALIAN FOODS HAVE EVOLVED.  ONE DISH, RISOTTO, IS NOODLES, BEANS, RICE, AND CARROT SOUP.  CHEESE AND WIONE ARE A MAJOR PART OF ITALY.  THEY HAVE OVER 9 TYPES OF NOODLES.  ITALY PRODUCES THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF WINE IN THE WORLD, AND SOME HOMES HAVE THE OLDEST VINEYARDS! COFFEE AND EXPRESSO  HAS BECOME HIGHLY IMPORTANT TO THE CUISINE IN ITALY.  MACHIATO IS A STRONGER PORTION OF MILK.  THEY HAVE A CHOCOLATE POWDER THAT IS DRUNK AT BREAKFAST.

ITALY HAS FREE EDUCATION AND IS DIVIDED INTO FIRST GRADE TO MIDDLE SCHOOL.  THEY ALSO HAVE PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND A RANGE OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

ITALY HAS SOME OF THE BEST BUISENESS SCHOOLS.  THERE WERE SEVERAL TRADITIONAL GLOBAL BUISINESS SCHOOLS SOME UNIVERSITIES HAVE RECIEVED IMPORTANT RECOGNITION.

THEHISTORY OF ITALY IS CONTINUOSLY  CHANGINGING FROMFROM 10,000 OR MORE YEARS AGO.  THE ROMANS BECAME THE CHIEF POWER OF THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD FROM IRAQ, TO SCOTLAND.  ITALY HAD A GREAT EFFECT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHRISTIANITY.  LIKE THE OTHER WORKS OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY, THE CARE OF SICK WAS FROM THE BEGINNING.  A SACRED DUTY FOR EACH OF THE EACH OF THE FAITHFUL.  HOSPITALS HERE WERE UNKNOWN BEFORE CHRISTIANITY.

ROME FELL IN A.D. 400.  THEN THEY HAD MANY RULERS.  DURING AD 400 - 1400 THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH  REPLACED ROMAN EMPIRE AS THE UNIFYING FORCE IN EUROPE.  IN THE MIDDLE AGES LEARNING THEOLOGY OR THE STUDY OF OR THE STUDY OF GOOD OR SCOLASTICISM.  COMMUNES WERE PART OF THEIR MODERN DEMOCRACY.  THEN THEIR WAS AN INTELLECTUAL REVIVL STIMULATED IN PART BY THE DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT GREEK WRITINGS., AND GAVE RISE TO THE RENNAISSANCE .  THIS PERIOD HADD A REBIRTH IN ARTS.  AND CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS CAME FROM HERE TO THE U.S. IN 1492.  GALLILEO FORMULATED PLANETARY MOVEMENTS .

ITALY HAD MANY IMPORTANT POETS AND PAINTERS AND MUSICIANS AQND PHILOSOPHERS

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MY INTEREST IN SAVING CARBON FOOT PRINTS

I HAVE BEEN NOTICING HOW MANY FOODS IN OUR GROCERIES COME VARIOUS COUNTRIES INSTEAD OF FROM THE USA.  IF YOU LOOK AT VARIOUS PRODUCTS AND LABELS CLOSELY YOU CAN SEE THAT COMMON FRUITS LIKE GRAPES COME FROM CHILI OR MEXICO.  IF YOU CAN IMAGINE ALL THE PRODUCTS THAT PEOPLE BUY IN THIS COUNTRY THAT ARE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES IT CAN BE ASTOUNDING TO FIND OUT HOW MUCH TRANSPORTING ALL THESE FOODS TO US HAS INCREASED THE CARBON FOOT PRINT.  CARBON FOOTPRINTS ARE THE AMOUNT OF MONEY USED TO TRANSPORT THE FOODS FROM VARIOUS .  THESE COSTS EQUAL MONEY AS WELL AS EFFECTS TO INCREASE CARBON AND FUEL USE IN OUR ENVIRONMENT,

EATING SEASONAL LOCAL FOODS MAKES MUCH MORE SENSE FOR OUR ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMY.

DESIGNING MEDITATION GARDENS

SACRED GEOMETRY IS USED TO DESIGN A GARDEN THE SHAPE OF A NAUTILUS OR SPIRAL IS USED  TO DESIGN A PERFECT MEDITATION GARDEN  EMOTIONS ARE PART OF YOUR DESIGN YOU SHOULD WORK WITH THE LANDSCAPE ELEMENTS OF THE YARD SQUARE.  YOU DO NOT NEED TO USE THE SPIRAL GEOMETRY IN YOUR ENTIRE GARDEN.  IT CAN BE USED IN JUST PART OF THE YARD.  CREATE YOUR PLANTING PLANS AND DETAILS FOR HARDSCAPING AND IRRIGATION PROJECTS.  ONCE YOU START INSTALLING YOUR PLANTS YOUR PLAN MAY TWEAK A LITTLE. 

THE PLAN CAN TWEAK A LITTLE.  YOU CAN SELF TEST YOUR BY PUTTING A SAMPLE FROM THE ROOT ZONE AND ADD SOAP TO FIND OUT HOW MUCH CLAY, SILT, AND SAND IS IN YOUR SOIL.  ADD AMENDMENTS AS NECESSARY.