Well, we are fast approaching a very propitious long weekend.
Full moon already looking quite full and will linger throughout. .. if you're into it, that itself will create change ... the Sun energy is more my thing, but Moon reflects that and moves the waters of the world ... tides and also human tides ... how could it be otherwise since the body is mostly water, the female cycle is not by calendar month, but lunar.
Wesak, in the Buddhist cycle, tunes into lunar time. This year it's Thursday, as the Full Moon. Buddhist tradition marks three anniversaries in one auspicious day. Gautama has his birthday, enlightenment, and death day rolled together. Whilst not signed up to the ism, I love the philosophy, psychology, cosmology ... the religious forms are not required, secular Buddhism is quite respectable, and at the deepest level, revering Buddha is not the point at all, but to realise our own Buddha Nature. To properly mark the occasion, some hair dressing equipment was sourced ... now just to find someone skilled enough to use them ...
Friday is VE Day.
Time for reflection on the sacrifices from all sides. The massive casualties taken by , the Soviets, breaking the back of the Axis armies on the Eastern Front, giving the Allied Forces a chance to return to France for the first time since Dunkirk. In the meantime the Resistance movements in occupied countries, supported by UK resources and personnel, chipped away at the Nazis, and provoked atrocities to undermine support, through terror. In Germany itself, anti-fascists stepped up and gave their lives. Let's see how the day plays out. At 9 pm, Dame Vera Lyn sings the very uplifting "We'll Meet Again" ... and if folks really listen to the words, then fear of death may lift.
Over all of this is the waning of the great disease, already longer than its natural term, thanks to governmental meddling, inspired by seriously mistaken modelling from Ferguson ... even today, after being forced out of the limelight due to some minor transgression of the measures inspired by his dodgy theory, defended by all with fingerprints on the mess, a simple sexual urge undoes him. An irony indeed, but rather sinister that the BBC, already suffering a drastic drop in confidence from any serious investigator, focuses on the sex and avoids the egregious error which drove the cruel house arrest of the elderly and vulnerable ..
A few days of glorious weather before the traditional Bank Holiday wet day on Saturday. Meanwhile the walking is wonderful. Wild geese join the rest of the birds high on the fell.
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