:: the other side ::

:: The Blessings of Hygeia

"I swear by Apollo the physician, and Asklepios, and Hygeia, and Panakeia, and all the gods and goddesses, that, according to my ability and judgment, I will keep this Oath and this stipulation ... " - Hippocrates, The Hippocratic Oath

To my long time friends, Phil in Redondo Beach and Josh in Palo Alto, the healing powers of Hygeia. And for these children of the 80s, some music to go along with it. Phil, here is Aha! in a song that always makes me smile, and for Josh, it's got to be the Beach Boys.



Hygeia,in this brilliant painting by Klimt, is a goddess of healing and continued good health. She came to be associated with the moon and is most often seen at the side of her father the physician Asklepios.

Labels: friends, history, media, moon

:: flickr fooey and flickr fun
I tried a flickr "badge" on the right side of this page, but golly, it sure took a while for the code to resolve and images transmit. So, I've removed it and replaced it with links to two of my favorite flickr sites. flickr itself is typically fast, but for some reason, the badge thing was hanging my page dreadfully.

The links to the right are photoblogs, but there are a number of wonderful photographers, and groups of shutterbugs, at flickr whose images you can see presented as slideshows. Here are a few of my favorites: efatima, swerve, collages. You may need a membership to flickr, which is free and well worth the short time it takes to set up an account. Even if you don't have images of your own to share, membership can be used to gather images of particular interest.

Labels: attitude, computers, media

:: The Other Side - Samurai Lapin
Versa Luna being The Other Side of the Moon, it is fitting that her steward be honored by this series of animations by British animator, Mata, a self-described 'animator, PhD student, and pontificator', and who, by the sheer breadth, volume, and quality of his website, is indefatigably tapped into a deep well of creativity.

The Other Side - Twisted animations by Mata - Samurai Lapin

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:: Theodore Roethke | The Waking
Selected Poems of T. Roethke | The Waking

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.

Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me, so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.

Theodore Roethke

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