Sunday, April 26, 2009
Deborah and Brian's blogs.
I was just reading Deborah and Brian's blog and wondered as I did while listening to the "love" scripts on Friday, if they had consulted with one another. Deborah's "Death is the Mother of Beauty" and Brian's blog with the quote and poem from Eeva-Liisa Manner both have time as a central theme. In Deborah'sblog she discussed how death drives us to live. We have a concept of time because we know that we only have so much of it and no one knows how much that is. The fact that death stirs passions and makes us all realize that the time you give to others should be rich with sincerity. If you consider the quote and poem from Brian's blog where Manner claims that nothing is original and that even the subtlest of dejavues just confirm that it has all been done before. How some people may think that their time and experiences were oringinal and somehow unique. The "false conception of time" theory is very interesting. When you consider both blogs and the many variations of views that are possible with regards to "time" you realize that a person could sit and spend the rest of their life giving thought to the subject, that is until the dryer buzzer goes off and reality comes calling from across the house to remind you that there is only so much "time" before the clothes will wrinkle in the dryer.
Friday's Presentations:
Those were two fabulous presentations with very different themes. However, diversity is so easily achieved even among the same subject matter as the first group's presentation demonstrated. The scripts about "love" that each member of the first group wrote were all so enlightening. To think that they had all written them seperately and without consulting one another is amazing. It just proves that one emotion can have so many different perpectives. Once again, all of the scripts were beautiful.
The second group was a lot of fun too."Television for Immortals" would be a fantastic way to keep the gods entertained and from medling in mortals lives and probably save us all a lot of trouble.
The second group was a lot of fun too."Television for Immortals" would be a fantastic way to keep the gods entertained and from medling in mortals lives and probably save us all a lot of trouble.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Term Paper Topic:The Significance fo Callisto as a Constellation
Ovid's tale of Callisto and Arcas is only the beginning of the story of the Great Bear in the heavens. The constellation known as Callisto houses one of the most widely used astrological navigational bearings, the Big Dipper. Along with the constant celestial reminder of Callisto's tale, her sad story repeats itself almost daily in every culture arounf the world.
The constellation know as Callisto is the third largest of the eighty-eight recognized constellations and is visible in the Northern night sky all year round. Within this massive constellation begins the stars that form the Big Dipper. The Big Dipper has been the navigational backbone for everyone from ancient sailors crossing inhoispitable seas to the cowboys of the American West driving their herds across the vast grassy plains of an uninhabited land. It si even possible to tell the time in the night sky by observing the Big Dipper and referring to the Polaris Star Clock ( Check: Polaris Star Clock Assembly). All of this is possible from following the stars that lead off of the tail of the great bear who will forever watch over and guide those forget what they have remembered and need to find there way home. The tragic story of how the constellation, Callisto came to be is mostly known to those who have read mythology and Ovid's fabulous tales. However, some have claimed that there is no bear outlined in the hevenly stars of the Northern skies. Then there is also no explanatin for how some Native American tribes: Algonquin, Iroquois, Illinois and possibly others have also identified this same grouping of stars with a gigantic bear in their ancient writings and records.
Callisto's story is one that we have become desensitized to through modern media. Her story is the past that possesses the present every time you turn on the news and hear of a lover's triangle being resolved with the murder of the mistress at the hands of the wife. It is as though the mistress had forgotten to remember to resist the advances of the ever charming god, Jupiter or as he may be known today: Tom, Bob, Larry, Mr. Harris etc... This tragic story is told on almost every other episode of "48 Hours" andversions of lust ending in the murder of the innocent light up the marquis. All the while Callisto silently watches and must wonderwhy we insist on repeating her tragedy over and over again.
What are the chances that the transmigration of Callisto's tortured soul to the starry heavens could have affected so many over the ages? When you gaze into the zodiac and the great constellations try to remember what you have forgotten about their stories. And when you feel lost, take a moment to search the night sky and let Callisto help you find your way home.
The constellation know as Callisto is the third largest of the eighty-eight recognized constellations and is visible in the Northern night sky all year round. Within this massive constellation begins the stars that form the Big Dipper. The Big Dipper has been the navigational backbone for everyone from ancient sailors crossing inhoispitable seas to the cowboys of the American West driving their herds across the vast grassy plains of an uninhabited land. It si even possible to tell the time in the night sky by observing the Big Dipper and referring to the Polaris Star Clock ( Check: Polaris Star Clock Assembly). All of this is possible from following the stars that lead off of the tail of the great bear who will forever watch over and guide those forget what they have remembered and need to find there way home. The tragic story of how the constellation, Callisto came to be is mostly known to those who have read mythology and Ovid's fabulous tales. However, some have claimed that there is no bear outlined in the hevenly stars of the Northern skies. Then there is also no explanatin for how some Native American tribes: Algonquin, Iroquois, Illinois and possibly others have also identified this same grouping of stars with a gigantic bear in their ancient writings and records.
Callisto's story is one that we have become desensitized to through modern media. Her story is the past that possesses the present every time you turn on the news and hear of a lover's triangle being resolved with the murder of the mistress at the hands of the wife. It is as though the mistress had forgotten to remember to resist the advances of the ever charming god, Jupiter or as he may be known today: Tom, Bob, Larry, Mr. Harris etc... This tragic story is told on almost every other episode of "48 Hours" andversions of lust ending in the murder of the innocent light up the marquis. All the while Callisto silently watches and must wonderwhy we insist on repeating her tragedy over and over again.
What are the chances that the transmigration of Callisto's tortured soul to the starry heavens could have affected so many over the ages? When you gaze into the zodiac and the great constellations try to remember what you have forgotten about their stories. And when you feel lost, take a moment to search the night sky and let Callisto help you find your way home.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Golden Ass, The Story of Aristomenes
4/12/09:
The witches were interesting in this chapter, I wonder if we will see more of them. It seems to me that they must have had a purpose for Socrates and Aristomenes other than just to leave one dead by a creek and the other panicking through the countryside. But...we'll see. I found that the refernce to Socrates' wife crying herself nearly blind made me immediately think of Niobe from Ovid. Since reading the Ovid passages though I find that I look see little references to all of those stories in just about everything that I'm reading. There was also the transformation of the cheating lover to Meroe that she turned into a beaver with the hopes that he will eventually chew his own testicles off...interesting. The power of the oral tradition is mentioned when he claims to have been "towed along by his ears and not his horse" to his destination.
The witches were interesting in this chapter, I wonder if we will see more of them. It seems to me that they must have had a purpose for Socrates and Aristomenes other than just to leave one dead by a creek and the other panicking through the countryside. But...we'll see. I found that the refernce to Socrates' wife crying herself nearly blind made me immediately think of Niobe from Ovid. Since reading the Ovid passages though I find that I look see little references to all of those stories in just about everything that I'm reading. There was also the transformation of the cheating lover to Meroe that she turned into a beaver with the hopes that he will eventually chew his own testicles off...interesting. The power of the oral tradition is mentioned when he claims to have been "towed along by his ears and not his horse" to his destination.
Monday, April 6, 2009
New Thesis Statement
4/6/09: I would like to incorporate the zodiac into the theme "the past possesses to present."
Sunday, April 5, 2009
4/4/09: Death of a Pet.
I was invited to some friends house last night for dinner and a movie. They had rented "Marley and Me" of all the movies out there... Naturally there wasn't a dry eye in the house when we finally turned it off. I had intended not to see this movie, having barely survived reading the book however, painful as it was I survived the movie as well. It made me realize that Dr. Sexson probably knows what he's talking about when he says that to write about it will get it out from the deep place where painful memories haunt.
Her name was "Denali". She was a six week old German Sheperd puppy when I got her. She grew up to be a big loveable girl. At the time I had a riding program for children with disabilities in S. Florida and she loved the kids and they loved her. Over the years she developed a lot of problems with her back and hind legs. When I brought her out here to Montana with me in 2000 shw was so happy. She loved the snow and the cooler temperatures. She loved to hike for as long as she could take it without getting painful. I was working as a veterinary technician at the time so Denali had the best medications that I could get for her. The vets kept telling me that this symptoms were normal for a 12 year old sheperd that was as big as she was. She gout to the point where she couldn't get up and down the stairs and I had a hard time carrying her so I moved into the living room downstairs. Then she stopped enjoying the hikes and finally she stopped enjoying food, even ice cream. I had to make the decision to put her to sleep. I was with her at the end. Sometimes I'm struck with the thought that I didn't do enough for her, maybe I should have got one of those doggy wheelchairs for her. I brought her ashes with me on a trip to my mother's place in Fla. last year and buried her under a boganvilla that blooms with bright purple flowers.
I was invited to some friends house last night for dinner and a movie. They had rented "Marley and Me" of all the movies out there... Naturally there wasn't a dry eye in the house when we finally turned it off. I had intended not to see this movie, having barely survived reading the book however, painful as it was I survived the movie as well. It made me realize that Dr. Sexson probably knows what he's talking about when he says that to write about it will get it out from the deep place where painful memories haunt.
Her name was "Denali". She was a six week old German Sheperd puppy when I got her. She grew up to be a big loveable girl. At the time I had a riding program for children with disabilities in S. Florida and she loved the kids and they loved her. Over the years she developed a lot of problems with her back and hind legs. When I brought her out here to Montana with me in 2000 shw was so happy. She loved the snow and the cooler temperatures. She loved to hike for as long as she could take it without getting painful. I was working as a veterinary technician at the time so Denali had the best medications that I could get for her. The vets kept telling me that this symptoms were normal for a 12 year old sheperd that was as big as she was. She gout to the point where she couldn't get up and down the stairs and I had a hard time carrying her so I moved into the living room downstairs. Then she stopped enjoying the hikes and finally she stopped enjoying food, even ice cream. I had to make the decision to put her to sleep. I was with her at the end. Sometimes I'm struck with the thought that I didn't do enough for her, maybe I should have got one of those doggy wheelchairs for her. I brought her ashes with me on a trip to my mother's place in Fla. last year and buried her under a boganvilla that blooms with bright purple flowers.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Thesis Statement
The powerful bond and love between parent and child is a theme from the past that crosses the boundaries from humans to the stars and possesses our present.
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