James Bond & Catherine

Venus

Botticelli
Fellowship
Plinth
Zócalo
Plinto

 

 1 Corinthians 1:9

“God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.”

 

Etched breastplate of Holy Roman Emperor sixteenth century.

 

 

 

 

 

 

“She was right, as she usually was. Although Steve was in his middle fifties, he was as much in love with Kate as he had been almost thirty years ago when they drove at midnight in a darkened car twenty miles west of Havana to catch THE SMALL BOAT in which they escaped from Castro’s Cuba. She had been his support then, assuring him: ‘You’ll find a job somewhere, Estéfano. The whole world needs doctors.’ And when at the last moment he had been overcome with fear, it was she who would not allow him to falter: ‘This boat! Crowded or not, this boat!’ and it was almost as if she had willed the frail craft north to the Florida Keys and freedom.
…
When he opened his office on what was to become Calle Ocho, Southwest Eighth Street near midtown Miami, it was her money that paid the rent, and during the first three years she served as his assistant so they could save money, and she encouraged those bold steps which led to Steve’s becoming head of his own clinic with four associates under him, and then officer of one of the first Cuban banks, and finally its president.”~~~James A. Michener: CARIBBEAN. Ch.15 The Twins.

Chess: "Botticelli" "Fellowship" "Plinth" "Zócalo" "Plinto" "Venus"

Amenophis III

Sanctuary
San Antonio
History
Amenophis III

  ❤
 

 Romans 10:10
“For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”  

 

 

 

"The delicate, almost feminine face representation of the great builder, Amenophis III.
The eyes and eyebrows formerly embedded with colored stones and the finely traced lips of his graceful portrait carved in obsidian have inspired much comment.
Among the many creations of King Amenophis III are the temples of Amun in Karnak and Luxor, the Colossi of Memnon, the Amenophium (since destroyed) and his vast tomb in the Valley of the Kings."~~~Henri Stierlin 

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Amenophis III

 

 

 

“The sands are number’d that make up my life”~~~Shakespeare

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prince of Wales then, and Johnny Cash

 

 

 

 

Chess: "Sanctuary" "San Antonio" "History" "Amenophis III" ❤

William

William Shakespeare
William Tell
Williamsburg

Matthew 7:6
“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”

1 Peter 3:15
“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight"~~~Shakespeare

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 UNA ROSA AMARILLA
De Jorge Luis Borges
Ni aquella tarde ni la otra murió el ilustre Giambattista Marino, que las bocas unánimes de la Fama (para usar una imagen que le fue cara) proclamaron el nuevo Homero y el nuevo Dante, pero el hecho inmóvil y silencioso que entonces ocurrió fue en verdad el último de su vida. Colmado de años y de gloria, el hombre se moría en un vasto lecho español de columnas labradas. Nada cuesta imaginar a unos pasos un sereno balcón que mira al poniente y, más abajo, mármoles y laureles y un jardín que duplica sus graderías en un agua rectangular. Una mujer ha puesto en una copa una rosa amarilla; el hombre murmura los versos inevitables que a él mismo, para hablar con sinceridad, ya lo hastían un poco: Púrpura del jardín, pompa del prado, gema de primavera, ojo de abril...
Entonces ocurrió la revelación. Marino vio la rosa, como Adán pudo verla en el Paraíso, y sintió que ella estaba en su eternidad y no en sus palabras y que podemos mencionar o aludir pero no expresar y que los altos y soberbios volúmenes que formaban en un ángulo de la sala una penumbra de oro no eran (como su vanidad soñó) un espejo del mundo, sino una cosa más agregada al mundo.
Esta iluminación alcanzó Marino en la víspera de su muerte, y Homero y Dante acaso la alcanzaron también.

 

 

 

 

Chess: "William Shakespeare" "William Tell" "Williamsburg"

Mississippi

Mississippi

Myanmar

Roberto
Oppenheimer

Psalms 27:11
“Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.”

 

 

 

 

 

The pillar of fire in the desert.

Myanmar (Burma)

Robert Oppenheimer

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Two Pillars: pillar of clouds and pillar of fire.
The pillars of cloud and fire are first mentioned in Exodus 13, shortly after Moses leads the Israelites out of their captivity in Egypt.

 

 

Chess: "Mississippi" "Myanmar" "Roberto" "Oppenheimer"  

Galicia

Galicia
Gales
Wales
Welsh
Weld
Wellington

Gaitero

 

Psalms 86:11
“Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.”

 

 

"she felt welling up in her mind some peculiar imagination"~~~Glenway Wescott

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chess: “Union” “Welch” “Wellington” “Weld” “Gales” “Galicia” “A Coruña”

Christopher Cross - Ride Like the Wind (Official Lyric Video)

SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO.

 Mensaje a García

LUIS Y YANET GARCÍA

Viviana Chiclana
El Palacio de Hierro
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Lord & Taylor  

1 Corinthians 6:20
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”

Yanet García

Mensaje a García y Og Mandino

Luis García

Sears Tower

Kathia Rodríguez and roebuck

"No veo los rasgos. Veo,
bajo el farol amarillo,
el choque de hombres o sombras
y esa víbora, el cuchillo.
Acaso en aquel momento
en que le entraba la herida,
pensó que a un varón le cuadra
no demorar la partida."~~~Milonga de Jacinto Chiclana de Jorge Luis Borges.

 

 

Chess: "Sears, Roebuck and Co." "Lord & Taylor" "Luis García" "El Palacio de Hierro"

 

 

Goldsmith

Goldsmith

Goldfinch

Ruby Tuesday

Poinciana

Psalms 23:6
“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.”

Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goldfinch (Spinus tristis)
 

"He always kept his poise

to the top branches climbing carefully"~~~Robert Frost

 

Vanessa Huppenkothen

 

 

“We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours.”~~~GOLDSMITH: The Vicar of Wakefield, ch, i.

RUBY:
 The ancients considered the ruby to be an antidote to poison, to preserve persons from plague, to banish grief, to repress the ill effects of luxuries, and to divert the mind from evil thoughts.
It has always been a very valuable stone, and even today a fine Burma ruby will cost more than a diamond of the same size.

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. — Prov. 31, 10, cp. also Job 28:18, and Prov. 8:11.

Marco Polo said that the king of Ceylon had the finest ruby ever seen. "It is a span long, as thick as a man's arm, and without a flaw." Kublai Khan offered the value of a city for it, but the king would not part with it though all the treasures of the world were to be laid at his feet.
The perfect ruby. An alchemist's term for the elixir, or philosopher's stone.

He that once has the flower of the sun,
The perfect ruby, which we call elixir, . . .
Can confer honour, love, respect, long life,
Give safety, valour, yea, and victory,
To whom he will.~~~BEN JOHNSON: The Alchemist, ii, 1.

The Realm

THE REALM
Right
Faculty
Potential
Kingston

 

 Galatians 3:26
“For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.”

 

 

 

"Come ... let us reason together"~~~Isaiah 1:18

 

 

 "It stands to reason that he will win."~~~Amenophis III

 

 

 

Chess: "THE REALM" "Right" "Faculty" "Potential" "Kingston"

Nashville

Ryman Auditorium

Nashville.
Dallas
Kansas City 

Psalms 100:2
“Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ryman Auditorium
 

 

 

 

Chess: "Ryman Auditorium, Nashville." "Dallas" "Kansas City"

Wine

Vino
Camelot
Wine 

Trinidad Saldaña

 

 

 Matthew 18:20
“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”
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Camelot 

 

 

"On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold and meet the sky;
And thro' the field the road runs by
       To many-tower'd Camelot;"~~~TENNYSON: The Lady of Shalott

 

 

Trinidad Saldaña and the mesquite range! 🔥

"His third and chief pride in these declining years of a long frontier life was his granddaughter Trinidad, thirteen years old and as charming a child as could be found in the northern provinces. Petite and dark-haired, she was a lively young lady with a wonderfully free and outgoing nature better suited to a canter over the mesquite range than to an afternoon of sipping hot chocolate with the mission friars, and although she was not a vain girl, preferring at this stage in her life a good horse to a pretty dress, she did like to look trim and paid attention to her appearance."~~~James A. Michener: TEXAS. Ch3 El Camino
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Camilla: In Roman legend a virgin queen of the Volscians. Virgil (Eneid, vii, 809) says she was so swift that she could run over a field of corn without bending a single blade, or make her way over the sea without even wetting her feet.
"Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn and skims along the main."~~~POPE: Essay on criticism, 372.

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Chess: "Vino" "Camelot" "Wine" "Trinidad Saldaña"