Santa Monica

Santa Monica
Johannesburg
Churchill
San José
Oro

Gold 

 

 

Matthew 5:14
“Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.”

 

Santa Monica: Populus felix in urbe felice ("Happy people in a happy city")

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Santa Monica, Ca.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tutankhaamun's gold mask, decorated witn enamel and precious stones

Although Tutankhumen's tomb was discovered in 1922, the splendour of his treasure only became fully apparent three years later. First the three funerary "chapels" built of gilded cedarwood had to be opened. Then  the heavy lid of the pink granite sarcophagus was lifted revealing two coffins of gold-plated wood, followed by a third coffin of solid gold. Only then did the excavators come face to face with the pharaoh's mask, an astonishing work in polished gold set with multicoloured stones.
 

 

 

Chess: "Santa Monica" "Johannesburg" "Churchill" "San José" "Oro"

Fort Griffin

Fort Griffin
Churchill
Colina
Montana
Mission
Forty
40
Prevention
Indonesia
Syrup
Comodo Dragon

Psalm28:8-9
"The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever."

Ecclesiastes 3:11

“He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.”

Chess: "Fort Griffin" "Forty" "Churchill"

"not poppy, nor mandragora, nor all the drowsy syrups of the world"~~~Shakespeare

Fort Griffin State Historic Site: Ornate metal plaque

 

FORT GRIFFIN

La CONQUISTA DEL OESTE es una ACCIÓN, CANCIÓN y una METÁFORA del PLAN de Dios para la Humanidad!

La dialéctica o tensión entre FORTY y COMANCHE ( Fort and Eating) podemos visualisarla meditando en estos dos versículos:

"We will destroy them!’ Matark decreed, and with a mixture of fear and joy the old men ran out to reveal the decision to the braves. They knew that judged by the long years, this strategy must fail, but they also knew that it was a gesture which had to be made. The odds against them were tremendous, for they knew how few in number they were and how powerful that line of Texas forts could be, crammed with blue-clad soldiers. The Comanche could recite the fearful names: Fort Richardson in the north, the new Fort Griffin, Fort McKavett, Fort Concho where the many rivers met, Fort Stockton to the west, Fort Davis, strongest of all beneath the mountains, Fort Bliss at the Rio Grande, and a dozen more."~~~James A. Michener: TEXAS. Ch.10 The Fort

 

 

 

  "Because the nature of Indian warfare on the Texas range must be understood if the history of Texas is to be appreciated, it must be recorded that during a span of about thirty years dozens of farmers and ranchers and traders were killed each year by the Indians, an awesome total. But it was the manner in which they were killed that enraged the settlers and made any peace with the Indians impossible."~~~James A. Michener: TEXAS. Ch.10 The Fort

Padar Island in Komodo National Park, Indonesia. The multi-island park is a major destination for tourists.Credit...Lauryn Ishak for The New York Times

 

Chess: "Fort Griffin" "Churchill" "Colina" "Montana" "Mission" "Forty" "40" "Prevention" "Indonesia" "Syrup" "Comodo Dragon"

Churchill

Churchill
Chaplin
Gandhi
Pablo Picasso
Cowboy
Brahman

Prov.24:5
"A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength."

"Now often one contrary state is recognized from its contrary, and often states are recognized from the subjects that exhibit them; for (A) if good condition is known, bad condition also becomes known, and (B) good condition is known from the things that are in good condition, and they from it. If good condition is firmness of flesh, it is necessary both that bad condition should be flabbiness of flesh and that the wholesome should be that which causes firmness in flesh. And it follows for the most part that if one contrary is ambiguous the other also will be ambiguous; e.g. if 'just' is so, that 'unjust' will be so too."~~~Aristotle: Nichomachean Ethics Bk V 

Pablo Picasso

The Old Guitarist is an oil painting by Pablo Picasso created in 1903. It is in the Chicago Art Institute.

¿    "Entre los hindúes, la poesía era un lenguaje cifrado que permitía, por medio de la dhvani, o resonancia, la transmisión de arquetipos o esencias de la realidad. Dhvani no era el sonido ni el sentido: la palabra daba el sabor de lo instantáneo, fomentaba un halo sobre los objetos. Una teoría vedanta recuerda que de los ocho sabores el primero es de la comicidad, que sólo puede obtenerse si se piensa en el color blanco hasta ver en este color una emanación demoníaca. De este sabor proceden el ingenio, el ultraje, la estupidez, la risa y el sueño. Acaso algo de eso hubo en el Mahabharata, que contiene un episodio llamado Bhagavad Gita (Canto del Señor), en el que un testigo narra a un rey el diálogo entre Krishna y Arjuna. Esa inefable conversación entre un rey y un dios, es una de las experiencias filosóficas y poéticas más relevantes que pueda tener un lector en su vida."~~~Fernando Báez :  BORGES Y LA CRÍTICA DE LA RAZÓN SÚBITA (*)

Universidad de los Andes       ?   ¿Qué nos dice Báez aqui?

Chess: "Churchill" "Chaplin" "Gandhi" "Pablo Picasso" "Cowboy" "Brahman"