Reality

Reality
Random Access Memory
Crown
Slacks
Pants
Mechanics
Witchcraft 

Prov.16:30
"He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass."

Witchcraft

Witchcraft

Witchcraft

Chess: "Reality" "Crown" "Slacks" "Pants" "Random Access Memory" "Mechanics" "Witchcraft"

Airbnb

Airbnb
Aeronautics
Plomo
Lead
The Age of Fable
Eagle
Sir Thomas Lawrence

Prov.16:29
"A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good."

“We have seen the necessity of the Union, as our bulwark against foreign danger” ~~~James Madison

“shopkeeping naturally bulks large among London occupations”~~~G. D. H. Cole and Raymond Postgate  

Thomas Lawrence, Self-portrait, 1788

 Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA FRS (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was a leading English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy.

The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus, from Greek hali "sea", aiētos"eagle", leuco "white", cephalos "head") is a bird of prey found in North America. A sea eagle, it has two known subspecies and forms a species pair with thewhite-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla). Its range includes most of Canada and Alaska, all of the contiguous United States, and northern Mexico. It is found near large bodies of open water with an abundant food supply and old-growth trees for nesting.

 

Aeronautics

Plomo

Leaded glass

Chess: "Airbnb" "Aeronautics" "Plomo" "Lead" "The Age of Fable" "Sir Thomas Lawrence" "Eagle"

The Wall

The Wall
Murillo
Trivial
Triumvir
Macbeth
Cochinillo 
Trinity River 
Trigal

Prov.16:28
"A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends."

"I think, anticipating a little, I can drive this point home by a single illustration. When the ghost of Banquo seats itself at that dreadful supper, who sees it? It is not the company. Not even Lady Macbeth. Whom does it accuse? Not the company, and, again, not even Lady Macbeth. Those who see it are Macbeth and you and I. Those into whom it strikes terror are Macbeth and you and I. Those whom it accuses are Macbeth and you and I. And what it accuses is what, of Macbeth, you and I are hiding in our own breasts."   

Shakespeare's Workmanship: Crafting a Sympathetic Macbeth 

From Notes on Shakespeare's workmanship by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch. New York: H. Holt and Company.

ALL:	Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
	Hover through the fog and filthy air.

The couplet with which the witches take their departure is a confession of their creed. All that is good, "fair," to others is evil, "foul," to them, and vice versa. This applies to both the physical and the moral world; they revel in the "fog and filthy air," and in every sort of mischief and evil-doing from killing swine to entrapping human souls.

Sara Jean Underwood

Amanda Cerny

Cochinillo famoso de Segovia, España

Trigal

A Girl and her Duenna - Murillo Bartolome Esteban

The Trinity River is a 710-mile-long (1,140 km) river in Texas, and is the longest river with a watershed entirely within the U.S. state of Texas. It rises in extreme northern Texas, a few miles south of the Red River. Theheadwaters are separated by the high bluffs on the southern side of the Red River.

Robert Cavelier de La Salle, in 1687, called the stream the "River of Canoes". The name "Trinity" came three years later in 1690 from Alonso de León, who called the stream the "La Santísima Trinidad" ("the Most Holy Trinity").^[

Chess:  "The Wall" "Murillo" "Trivial" "Triumvir"  "Macbeth" "Cochinillo" "Trinity River" "Trigal"

White Sands

White Sands
Confetti
Surface Tension

Prov.16:27
"An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire."

"And one might ask the question, what in the world they mean by 'a thing itself', is (as is the case) in 'man himself' and in a particular man the account of man is one and the same. For in so far as they are man, they will in no respect differ; and if this is so, neither will 'good itself' and particular goods, in so far as they are good. But again it will not be good any the more for being eternal, since that which lasts long is no whiter than that which perishes in a day. " ~~~Aristottle: Nichomachean Ethics Bk1, ch.6

 Jesus rescues Peter

 Walking on water, by Veneziano, 1370

White Sands National Monument, New Mexico

White Sands National Monument, New Mexico 

Johanna Solano, Hermosa Beach, Ca.

 Confetti canon explodes as a bride and groom start their first dance

 Chess: "White Sands" "Confetti" "Surface Tension"

"But if the things we have named are also things good in themselves, the account of the good will have to appear as something identical in them all, as that of whiteness is identical in snow and in white lead. But of honour, wisdom, and pleasure, just in respect of their goodness, the accounts are distinct and diverse. The good, therefore, is not some common element answering to one Idea."~~~ Aristottle: Nichomachean Ethics Bk1, ch.6

Niagara

Niagara 
Nuptial
Waterfall
White
Mont Blanc
Nimble
Nine
Mariana
Orange
Ermine 
Labor Day
Summer
Sumerian
Niobe
Abraham


Prov.16:26
"He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him."
Gen.12:1
"Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:"
Gen15:18
"In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:"

"Where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy." ~~~Jefferson

"in walked Marcel Proust, dressed to the nines"~~~Frank Budgen

 

"Like a nimble dialectician, the political novelist must be able to handle several ideas at once"~~~Irving Howe

God's Covenant with Abraham (Genesis 15)

This 4-star Hilton Hotel overlooks Niagara Falls

Nuptial

Stoat/ermine (Mustela erminea) by pasvcan

Mont Blanc

Montblanc of the Writer's Edition, in honor of Agatha Christi, in classic 1920's style. The eye's of the snake are set with two rubies that glint bewitchingly

Mont Blanc Pen

Chess: "Niagara " "Nuptial" "Waterfall" "White" "Mont Blanc" "Mariana" "Orange" "Ermine" "Labor Day" "Summer" "Abraham" "Sumerian" "Nine" "Niobe" "Nimble"

Homo sapiens

Homo sapiens
Homo habilis
Weasel
Caín-Abel

Prov.16:25
"There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."

North American river otters, also mustelids, at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. Credit Barrett Hedges/NG Creative/Minden Pictures

 Black-footed ferrets, members of the weasel family, before being released in Colorado. Credit Shattil and Rozinski/NPL/Minden Pictures

A long-tailed weasel in Yellowstone National Park. Credit George Sanker/NPL/Minden Pictures

Chess: "Homo sapiens" "Homo habilis" "Weasel" "Caín-Abel"

Metáforas de la biología que nos ayudan a visualizar más concretamente la sabiduría en la Escritura. Por ejemplo hasta cierto punto este artículo sobre las COMADREJAS, más general los mustélidos, nos ilustra el alcance del versículo en Prov.16:23 si pensamos en el Homo habilis y el Homo sapiens metafóricamente, y vemos la habilidad como factor de éxito y de engorde en el mundo, cosa que nos parece deseable y buscable, pero que por sí solo si ignoramos que hay una comadreja, esbelta y fuerte, esperándonos para devorarnos después de vencernos en la lucha, entendemos por qué el Homo habilis ya no está, mientras que el Homo sapiens persiste. Pero el asunto es dialéctico, porque no se trata de aspirar a la condición de la COMADREJA, sino de saber que ciertas cosas del mundo que nos pueden agradar mucho puede ser el factor que nos lleve primero a convertirnos en un Caín y en última instancia a ser pasto de la comadreja, pero sí se trata de mantenernos "esbeltos, fuertes y ágiles" como la comadreja al alimentarnos espiritualmente con el pan de vida.
Algunos me dirán y al final de qué vale si todos vamos a morir, y la pasa mejor el narco sin escrúpulos y olvidado de Dios con su dinero y poder inmediato que el alma piadosa, porque lo único real es la muerte. Pues precisamente aquí nos ayuda mucho entender lo que es estar en Cristo y la Promesa de Vida Eterna, que naturalmente no puede ser en la inmortalidad del individuo, sino en la de la CLASE, la de aquellos que verdaderamente, de acuerdo a nuestro corazón, han visto al Padre. Y en este sentido nos queda claro por qué el Homo sapiens sigue aquí y no el Homo habilis. Que también algún día el Homo sapiens también desaparecerá como especie es un argumento razonable dentro de lo natural, pero para los que han visto el rostro de Dios, este argumento y posibilidad no les hace mella porque entienden correctamente el alcance de los atributos de Dios en omnipotencia y omnisciencia y la realidad de su Amor y su Voluntad.
Es "revelador" ver como la comadreja "FISHER", en castellano conocida como MARTA, que a pesar de sólo pesar 8 libras pueda comerse al puerco-espín que pesa 20 libras y cuenta con una formida armadura de espinas que lo protege de ataques de mamíferos depredadores mucho mayores que él, como lobos y osos, pero el FISHER rodeándolo, cuando lo encuentra en campo abierto, y lanzando relampagueantes dentelladas a la cara del puerco espín logra poco a poco desangrarlo, hasta que empieza a perder el equilibrio y la fuerza. En estas condiciones le da vuelta y empieza a devorarle los intestinos.
Pero precisamente para tener esas caracteristicas de velocidad, agilidad y mucho más fuerza con un cuerpo más esbelto y compacto la comadreja tiene un metabolismo con 400 latidos por minuto y esto lo obliga a un consumo energético que los hace hiperactivos pero que a su vez los obliga a una ingesta más intensa de comida. No fallan en la cacería, porque si fallan se mueren. Los grandes carnívoros necesitan comer un tercio de su peso en una semana. Las comadrejas necesitan comer un tercio de su peso en un día.




Weasels Are Built for the Hunt