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

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)

Islamarina aquarborealis de embryologi humanite

The message summary:
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FROM: sufuan1@yahoo.com
DATE: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:30:20 -0000
SUBJECT: the tiny truth

Text on Human Embryonic Development: the stages of man's
embryonic development are stated: "man extracted from
clay.. as a drop.. in a place of settled attachment,
then into an alaqah (resembling a leech/suspended thingy/
blood clot), then into a mudghad (chewed cud-like material)
<http://www.islam-guide.com/ch1-1-a.htm#footnote1>
(Quran, 23:12-14) [paraphrased]

http://www.ngokop.blogspot.com/
"Jesus the prophet of Islam" talk by Mr. Green via Yusof Shamsi blog

Hydro prac., CPR, chr~is~lam review: Islam & Christianity, Huhu
http://www.makantido.blogspot.com/

http://laughingmeme.org/2005/11/09/religion-as-memetic-innovation

Muhammed: Environmental Advocate (per Ayn: Peak Oil presentation)
"If you are planting a tree,
and sense that the universe is ending,
finish planting the tree"

Islamic and Christian fundies share info on Darwin
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL0852496120070608

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

Islamic interfaith dialog, ummi
http://saifulislam.com/?p=614

Islamicity: "To the world, you may be one person, but to one person, you may be the world"
http://www.icmarriage.com/

"Extreme Medicine" IMAM UK/Eire SC (disasters, tsunami)
http://ngokop.blogspot.com/2007/04/report-on-extreme-medicine.html
I'm considering to co-establish ARC American Red Crescent along with existing ARC American Red Cross here in Eureka. It's actually here in the same building on other end. One block further is an abandoned hotel with swimming pool, that could easily be converted into a small campus, also another fancy hotel next is also not open. Some kind of pre-med, in association with Humboldt State Univ. and some Univ. program in M'sia/S'pore/I'sia/Brunei? Need funding though. Too bad the fundies (of both kinds) prefer to argue & battle than to fund projects for future caretaking of Earth and it's citizens via tactical, technical & strategic education.