Prayer

 God Blood
 Prayer
Tulum
Boca Grande y Boca Chica
Edvard Munch
El Grito
Noruega
Virgo
Juan de Grijalva
Boquerones
La Gritería

Prov.13:3
 "He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction."

Gen.17:10
 "This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised."

 WHAT IS CIRCUMCISION?

Dominando el Caribe
La ciudad maya de Tulum, sobre la costa oriental de Yucatán, pertenece a la última fase de esplendor de la civilización maya. Con sus templos y pirámides frente al mar, pareció inexpugnable al conquistador Juan de Grijalva, que no se atrevió a desembarcar en ella en 1518.

 Tulum

 "A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is anymore than he"~~~Walt Whitman: Song of Myself 6 v.99-100

 

Chess:  "Prayer" "Tulum" "Boca Grande y Boca Chica" "Edvard Munch" "El Grito" "Noruega" "Virgo" "Juan de Grijalva" "Boquerones" "La Gritería"

Monument

Monstrance
Custodia
Greenwich
Monteverde
Claudio Monteverdi
Family Tree
Monument
Montana
Move On

Prov.13:12
"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life."

 “Although Henry Hudson himself was gone, his bay, his strait and his river remained as monuments to his life.”~~~Virginia S. Eifert

 

 Monstrance

 

 Johanna

 

 

“Sir George Airy”: was an English mathematician and astronomer, Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881. His many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, a method of solution of two-dimensional problems in solid mechanics and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian.





Chess:  "Monstrance" "Custodia" "Greenwich" "Monteverde" "Claudio Monteverdi" "Family Tree" "Monument" "Montana" "Move On"

Labná

Strawberry Shortcake

Murillo 

Labná 

Fishing

Angling
String Theory
Guitar
Strawberry Pancakes
Returns
Desert-Dessert

Aguacate

Prov.13:15
"Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard."

Detail from a 15th century altarpiece by Florentine artist Bicci di Lorenzo (1375 - 1452). The altarpiece was bequeathed to the Abbey by Viscount Lee of Fareham (died 1947). It is thought originally to have come from the Capella San Giovanni Gaulberto in Sta Trinita, Florence. The central panel shows the Madonna enthroned, holding a rose, with the Christ Child.

 

Still Life with a Guitar is an early 20th century painting by Spanish cubist Juan Gris. Done in oil on canvas, the work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery 905.

The work was created in 1913 in the small Spanish town of Céret in the Pyrenees. Céret was popular with artists, including Picasso, who paid a visit there in the same year.

Strawberry Shortcake

 

 

 

 

Murillo en Chichen Itzá 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
 

"We may say of angling  as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, 'doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did."~~~Izaak Walton: Compleat Angler, ch. v 

Strawberry pancakes

LABNÁ

La fachada principal

La sobriedad de la parte posterior del arco de Labná contrasta con la ornamentación simbólica que cubre la fachada: a ambos lados del pasaje se abren las puertas de dos pequeñas habitaciones abovedadas, rematadas por el friso, que  representa unas chozas con alta techumbre de paja, a ejemplo de la vivienda vernácula, lo mismo que los motivos cruzados que evocan las celosías de las edificaciones de caña. Es también símbolo de realeza.

Chess: "Strawberry Shortcake" "Murillo" "Labná" "Fishing" "Angling" "String Theory" "Guitar" "Strawberry Pancakes" "Returns" "Desert-Dessert" "Aguacate"

Japan

Japan
Tiger
Zen
Shogun
Tres Tristes Tigres
Los Tres Reyes Magos
Los Reyes de Oriente
Three Kings

Prov.13:11
"Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase."

"The wealth of Japan as a Nation, culturally and materially, is rooted in the right understanding and praxis derived from reading rightly Proverbs 13:11"~~~JAMES CLAVELL

Ballerina

Japanese House Crest "Go-Shichi no Kiri": The Imperial Crest, Mikado's Seal, or Paulownia Imperialis (kiris) is the private symbol of the Japanese Imperial family from as early as the twelfth century.

Flag of Japan

 Imperial Seal

Alison Roman’s cinnamon rolls. 

 PROLOGUE 

"The gale tore at him and he felt its bite deep within and he knew that if they did not make landfall in three days they would all be dead.Too many deaths on this voyage, he thought, I'm Pilot-Major of a dead fleet.One ship left out of five, eight and twenty men from a crew of one hundred and seven and now only ten can walk and the rest near death and our Captain-General one of them.No food, almost no water and what there is, brackish and foul. "~~~JAMES CLAVELL: Shogun

Louis Rozzo, who normally supplies seafood to restaurants, has been cheered by the customers who come to his makeshift retail store in Chelsea.Credit...Brittainy Newman/The New York Times

Canastos con café

 

 Kanji that makes up the word shogun

征夷大将軍, 
  Shogun is the short form of Sei-i Taishōgun ("Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Force Against the Barbarians")

Shogun is one of those rare books that you wish would go on forever. Indeed, I know people who re-read it every year. The story follows the adventures of marooned English sailor John Blackthorne in late medieval Japan during the tumultuous years when Tokugawa Ieyasu (here called Toranaga) was uniting all of Japan under his rule by any means necessary.It's truly an epic tale of war, honor, trechery, masterful manipulations, tragic heroism, and star-crossed love

Chess: "Japan" "Tiger" "Zen" "Tres Tristes Tigres" "Shogun" "The Three Wise Men" "Los Tres Reyes Magos"