Rock, River & Renewal

The Ephemeral art of Andrew Goldsworthy http://scienceblogs.com/chaoticutopia/2008/12/the_ephemeral_art_of_andy_gold.php


Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002JL9N6?ie=UTF8&tag=chaoticutopia-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B0002JL9N6

New Year is upon us. Happy Peaceful New Year, Salam Muharram, Slainte Hogmanay, Selamat Tahun Baru, Bonne Année, Gungheefatzhai, Feliz año nuevo...


http://www.ncidc.org/photos/gallery2/85_2.htm#anchor291593
The Karuk people tradition of World Renewal: The altar is built in the form of a crescent up to eye level in height. It is within this wall that the Medicine Man Healer gathers the powers given to him to make medicine for his people - to bring an abundance of fish from the river and good hunting from the forest. The spring from which the Healer drinks is also sacred and kept covered to protect its purity for the next World Renewal Ceremony.

http://www.wiyot.com/history.htm
A central act in the Wiyot people's spirituality is an annual World Renewal Ceremony held at Tuluwat village. Indian Island, formerly called Duluwat Island, was and is the center of Wiyot world. On the island a ceremonial dance was held to start the new year. The ceremony was called the World Renewal ceremony. All people were welcomed, no one was turned away. The people ate mostly clams and acorns and made long carved log canoes. Healers and ceremonial leaders were mostly women, who got their powers on mountain tops at night.


I re-cycled a small woven sphere left there for renewal.

New Year celebration, colorful geodesic sphere at New York City Times Square.
http://www.timessquarenyc.org/nye/nye_ball.html

200 years since Darwin: Grand Rounds ~ Evolutionary Medicine http://www.moneduloides.com/?p=850

kanakahaoli: ]-[/-\\/\//-\||/-\|\|

Hajj pilgrims http://wallpapersyi.blogspot.com/2009/01/holy-hajj-pictures-2008.html

the arc

Honorable Mention, Illustration: "Visualizing the Bible"
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/photogalleries/2008-best-science-photos/photo6.html

Also see my other blog for nice pics of "the arc": http://dudescoffeeblender.blogspot.com/2008/09/arc-anciel-httpwww.html

And to cap off this post, a quote from Kelly's blog: "Okay, Patience: Across the arc of a life lived in faith, it allows the Almighty to be all-mighty." from "Flabbergasted" by Ray Blackston
[I have no idea of the context, but it's a cool quote! Cheers!]

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Couple late links on Charles Darwin, Naturalist:
His tree of life: "I Think"
His faith & marriage: "I Do"
His r'evolutionary idea: "I Am"

Language and gesture: http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/Ec&Ev_Distance_learning/BehavLab/evolved_human_behaviors.htm

Twins

human nature & human nurture


honey_wheres_my_supersuit

Dolphin kick http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93566627

Your Inner Fish: Human anatomy article

Human anatomy is a formative experience in the training of future physicians -- it is the students' grand introduction to the body, when they memorize the names of bones, organs and nerves as they painstakingly dissect a real cadaver. That first year, as well as in years after, the medical students were curious about what kind of doctor I am. I am a fish paleontologist who studies finned creatures that have been extinct for more than 370 million years. Seeing the history inside our bodies is like peeling an onion: The first layers we see reveal the history we share with primates (large brains and opposable thumbs). Peel deeper and we find the layers of history shared with other mammals (hair and breasts), reptiles (our distinctive way of chewing food), fish (arms, legs, backbones and heads), worms (an anus on one side of the body and a mouth on the other), jellyfish (the DNA recipe that builds our bodies), sponges (our many celled bodies) and so on.Article

Earth = Home. Can't just throw it away & buy a new one.

Videos, pics, articles on human ancestry along sea coasts and whale evolution
humans and dolphin link

Some of the lines of Siddhidas Mahaju(N.S.987-N.S.1050) read as follows

सज्जन मनुष्या संगतनं मूर्ख नापं भिना वै
पलेला लपते ल वंसा म्वति थें ल सना वै

which state that even a moron can improve with the company of good people just like even a drop of water appears like a pearl when it descends upon the leaves of a lotus plant.

(my last blog post for now, can't predict the future)

100th post @ THE ARC blog

See below for Teeth & Armor and Parallel Convergence Speculations and much more.

I have some things to clean up and a few hundred newsletters to fold and insert, so I'm off.

Any lurking visitors, feel free to drop a question or two or leave a message.

May the arc be with you! (^u^) Peace be within you ~ salamalaikumsalam ~ shalomelaichemshalom

Really nice free diving video with Tanya Streeter, flying penguins etc.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsyHt0WHqb4