A Slice of Consciousness
We're having Alberto, the first named storm of the 2006 hurricane season, here in Central Florida today. It is raining, but not that hard. We need rain to put the fires out. Florida has been burning for a couple of months now. So, Alberto is doing its job, raining on the land.
I just got a hurricane alert. Let me give a quick look-see. They're telling me that Tropical Storm Alberto might be a hurricane.
I can feel the millibar pressure in my head. It feels weird. It feels like I'm wearing a too tight hat. A red one. Maybe a blue one. Or tan. Definitely not green.
Well, if I've learned anything by being here in Florida I've learned about hurricanes. I'll have to refresh my memory. Memory is strange. It seems to remember what it wants to remember and forget what it wants to forget. Silly that. The lower the millibars, the stronger the hurricane.
The Rain feels lovely today. There's been too much heat. That's why everything is burning.
I went to the store. Among other things I needed a pencil sharpener. I bought an Electric Pencil Sharpner, as opposed to a non-electric pencil sharpener, and a Red toaster oven. It was on sale.
Everything got wet.
That's because it is raining.
I'm changing up on my blogging a bit. I won't be doing kabbalah for a while. All the Religious Dogma is Driving Me Mad. All the sin and evil and punishment that you have to get through in order to get a mere glimpse of the inner secrets is making me crazy. A change of perspective is needed. I cannot let myself get warped by the religious dogma.
I thought about doing some creative writing here, but decided against it.
Blogging has taken its own form. It has become a type of personal journalism.
One's own personal awareness. One's own slice of life, slice of consciousness.
Also, I don't trust anybody.
Therefore
I've decided
to do some bibliophile blogging
continue with the news I feel is pertinent to attaining knowledge and awareness
and
I just sharpened some pencils. The Electric Pencil Sharpener works well. It is black and heavy. I love Pencils. I love Pencil Sharpeners. Just one of those things.
I think I'll decorate the Blackness of the Electric Pencil Sharpener. It needs decorating.
I had a conversation with an old friend in Cornwall yesterday. OOOO did we go at it. Everything. We talked about everything. We were talking books and Springsteen and Politics and Past and Now and What Might Be. Bless Ian. The only person I know that actually heard of the song "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?"
http://55brucefan-jerseygirl.blogspot.com/2006/06/how-can-poor-man-stand-such-times-and.html
We talked books and literature. Ian recommended one to me. "The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. He said it was a bibliophile's book. Interconnectedly enough, the book was on my bookshelf, unremembered, unread.
That's the novel I'm reading now. I always have to be reading a novel. Non fiction studying is something else all together.
It is a most wonderful book. The print is a little small, but.... I'll manage. Age.
Another thing.
I'm alive.
Today, actually it isn't the date but it is the day because it was a Monday {I never got the hang of Mondays - can you tell I've just finished reading Douglas Adams?} that I had my cardiac event, supposedly died whilst having CPR done on me for about 10 minutes. 9 years. I made it. I have to think about it. That ol' memory strangeness again. I'm alive. I'm blogging.
Ha. Halleluhjah
Here's a quote from " The Shadow of the Wind":
"
Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strangthens."
I love books.
The above is truth for me.
A news story caught my eye.
And sent the red alerts through my brain and up my spine.
This is MSNBC - AP
Bush summons war advisers for Iraq meeting
Military, civilian leadership to discuss future role for U.S. in Baghdad
WASHINGTON - Encouraged by the death of a top terrorist leader and continued progress on the formation of a new government in Iraq, President Bush is gathering his top military and civilian war advisers to plan the U.S. role in the country’s future.
The president planned two days of meetings at the mountainous Camp David presidential retreat, with national security advisers on hand and top commanders in Iraq connected by videoconference.
This is BBC:
Iraq tops agenda for Bush cabinet
President Bush faces a number of tough challenges in IraqUS President George W Bush has begun talks with his cabinet members and top military and political advisers to consider the path ahead in Iraq.
The two-day meeting is taking place at the presidential retreat at Camp David.
Senior US military commanders and new Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki will be joining in via a video link.
They are discussing how best to deploy the US resources in Iraq and how to achieve the goal of an Iraq that can govern itself and defend itself.
President Bush is meeting his secretaries of defence and state, his national security advisor and his top military commanders at the mountain retreat in Maryland.
No War Talk Council Meeting Bodes Peace.
That's all I can say.
It definitely doesn't
Nopers
Lo
Non
No.
The wheel turns
and
We're spinning with it.
I'm going to make a chicken stew today. Ashkenazi style. My way.
Its raining. Alberto is here.
I admit I did make the choice of solitude. I didn't expect it to be this lonely.
I've healed on many levels. Florida has been very good for my heart.
But I cannot make the connection between my past and where I am now.
Strange.
And I can't just leave it alone because of that ol' belief in quantum synchronicity.
Here's a story that floated my boat.
I've always been interested in rocks and stones. My father taught me about it. I have rocks and stone and crystals all over everywhere.
I'm not being religious, I'm being metaphoric now.
There is a myth that when the consiousness of humanity transcends the material, one of the signs is that the stones will once again speak. Actually, I've heard stones speak. In Cornwall mostly. And Stonehenge. Those stones. And little stones. But not in Voice.Anyway
This article presents data which connects to that myth, and that's why I'm posting it.
Dang, the Severe Weather Alert on the Puter keeps Thunderstorming.
Thor is the Thunder God
Speaking of Which
I also bought
Large Coloured Paper Clips when I bought the Black Electric Pencil Sharpner.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5055604.stm
Ancient rocks 'built by microbes'
The Pilbara structures were first described almost 30 years ago
Odd-shaped rocks in the Pilbara region of Western Australia offer compelling evidence they were built by microbes 3.43 billion years ago, scientists say.
The structures, known as stromatolites, could only have taken the forms they have if bacteria had been present, a Sydney-led team tells Nature journal.
The rocks' origin is disputed, with some claiming purely chemical processes could have made them.
But the Nature study suggests the biological explanation is the simplest.
"For all these shapes to be formed a-biologically would have required highly unusual and unexpected chemical processes to occur simultaneously in this [one location]," said Abigail Allwood from the Australian Centre for Astrobiology.
"It just becomes ridiculous to support that hypothesis; especially when the biological explanation is so readily acceptable."
Ms Allwood and colleagues have made an extensive survey of a 10km (six miles) stretch of land not far from the town of Marble Bar.
The area is now well inland but shows clear evidence of having been covered by a shallow sea in the ancient past.
The researchers have detailed an array of unusual sedimentary structures - seven clear types in all. Some look like upside-down ice cream cones; others resemble egg cartons.
These laminated structures have been described as stromatolites - the rock piles that in more recent settings are known to have been built by mats of microbes capturing grains and sticking them together.
But the Pilbara structures, found 30 years ago in a rock formation called the Strelley Pool Chert, are controversial.
Claims for individual microfossils of the original organisms within Pilbara's stromatolites have been challenged; and some scientists prefer an entirely non-biogenic explanation for the structures' creation.
These dissenters believe the piles resulted from the chemical precipitations that occurred around undersea volcanic vents.
Mars strategy
Allwood's response has been to describe the complexity of shapes and explain how these forms can be linked to different environmental niches in a shallow-sea reef setting.
"We have found an ecosystem-scale remnant of the early biosphere. It's not just a couple of individual or isolated fossils or dubious structures; it is in an entire, pretty well intact, section of hundreds of thousands of stromatolites in a reef ecosystem," Ms Allwood told the BBC News website.
"With that we now gain insight into the conditions that nurtured early life - the biological responses to different environmental processes."
The variety points to an entire ecosystem, say the scientists
The Pilbara stromatolites are not the oldest claim for life on Earth.
Some researchers argue that rocks at Isua in Greenland show the imprint of life at least 3.75 billion years ago.
At that time, these rocks were also on the sea bed. Thin layers of black sediment, separated by distinct layers of volcanic ash, look like they could be composed of the debris of ocean-dwelling microbes.
There are no fossil forms, but the nature of the carbon is consistent with the idea it was processed by living organisms. There are no known older remnants of the Earth's surface than the Greenland rocks - which probably makes Isua the closest science can ever get to the first life.
Researchers are keen to trace the story of the first microbes on Earth because it should provide clues in the hunt for possible life elsewhere in the Solar System.
Mars rovers should look out for stromatolite-like structures
The type of study conducted on the Pilbara stromatolites might, for example, help scientists interpret similar structures on Mars, should rovers sent to the planet ever come across them.
Commenting on this dimension, Dr Ian Crawford, a planetary scientist at Birkbeck College, London, UK, said: "Searching for ancient stromatolite-like structures such as those reported by Allwood et al should certainly be high on the list of future exploration strategies.
"However, given the amount of fieldwork performed by Allwood and colleagues, it must be doubtful whether purely robotic exploration of Mars would be able compellingly to identify such features in the field, and in the longer term effective Martian palaeontology may necessitate human exploration of the planet."
Good Story.
Ian and I also talked about BBC.
And we also said that we have to spread the consciousness of peace in any way we can.
That's what I'm doing with this
blog.
The endless differentiation is the manifestation of the complexity of the whole, not a cause for war and hatred.
Peace
\ /
I just got a hurricane alert. Let me give a quick look-see. They're telling me that Tropical Storm Alberto might be a hurricane.
I can feel the millibar pressure in my head. It feels weird. It feels like I'm wearing a too tight hat. A red one. Maybe a blue one. Or tan. Definitely not green.
Well, if I've learned anything by being here in Florida I've learned about hurricanes. I'll have to refresh my memory. Memory is strange. It seems to remember what it wants to remember and forget what it wants to forget. Silly that. The lower the millibars, the stronger the hurricane.
The Rain feels lovely today. There's been too much heat. That's why everything is burning.
I went to the store. Among other things I needed a pencil sharpener. I bought an Electric Pencil Sharpner, as opposed to a non-electric pencil sharpener, and a Red toaster oven. It was on sale.
Everything got wet.
That's because it is raining.
I'm changing up on my blogging a bit. I won't be doing kabbalah for a while. All the Religious Dogma is Driving Me Mad. All the sin and evil and punishment that you have to get through in order to get a mere glimpse of the inner secrets is making me crazy. A change of perspective is needed. I cannot let myself get warped by the religious dogma.
I thought about doing some creative writing here, but decided against it.
Blogging has taken its own form. It has become a type of personal journalism.
One's own personal awareness. One's own slice of life, slice of consciousness.
Also, I don't trust anybody.
Therefore
I've decided
to do some bibliophile blogging
continue with the news I feel is pertinent to attaining knowledge and awareness
and
I just sharpened some pencils. The Electric Pencil Sharpener works well. It is black and heavy. I love Pencils. I love Pencil Sharpeners. Just one of those things.
I think I'll decorate the Blackness of the Electric Pencil Sharpener. It needs decorating.
I had a conversation with an old friend in Cornwall yesterday. OOOO did we go at it. Everything. We talked about everything. We were talking books and Springsteen and Politics and Past and Now and What Might Be. Bless Ian. The only person I know that actually heard of the song "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?"
http://55brucefan-jerseygirl.blogspot.com/2006/06/how-can-poor-man-stand-such-times-and.html
We talked books and literature. Ian recommended one to me. "The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. He said it was a bibliophile's book. Interconnectedly enough, the book was on my bookshelf, unremembered, unread.
That's the novel I'm reading now. I always have to be reading a novel. Non fiction studying is something else all together.
It is a most wonderful book. The print is a little small, but.... I'll manage. Age.
Another thing.
I'm alive.
Today, actually it isn't the date but it is the day because it was a Monday {I never got the hang of Mondays - can you tell I've just finished reading Douglas Adams?} that I had my cardiac event, supposedly died whilst having CPR done on me for about 10 minutes. 9 years. I made it. I have to think about it. That ol' memory strangeness again. I'm alive. I'm blogging.
Ha. Halleluhjah
Here's a quote from " The Shadow of the Wind":
"
Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strangthens."
I love books.
The above is truth for me.
A news story caught my eye.
And sent the red alerts through my brain and up my spine.
This is MSNBC - AP
Bush summons war advisers for Iraq meeting
Military, civilian leadership to discuss future role for U.S. in Baghdad
WASHINGTON - Encouraged by the death of a top terrorist leader and continued progress on the formation of a new government in Iraq, President Bush is gathering his top military and civilian war advisers to plan the U.S. role in the country’s future.
The president planned two days of meetings at the mountainous Camp David presidential retreat, with national security advisers on hand and top commanders in Iraq connected by videoconference.
This is BBC:
Iraq tops agenda for Bush cabinet
President Bush faces a number of tough challenges in IraqUS President George W Bush has begun talks with his cabinet members and top military and political advisers to consider the path ahead in Iraq.
The two-day meeting is taking place at the presidential retreat at Camp David.
Senior US military commanders and new Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki will be joining in via a video link.
They are discussing how best to deploy the US resources in Iraq and how to achieve the goal of an Iraq that can govern itself and defend itself.
President Bush is meeting his secretaries of defence and state, his national security advisor and his top military commanders at the mountain retreat in Maryland.
No War Talk Council Meeting Bodes Peace.
That's all I can say.
It definitely doesn't
Nopers
Lo
Non
No.
The wheel turns
and
We're spinning with it.
I'm going to make a chicken stew today. Ashkenazi style. My way.
Its raining. Alberto is here.
I admit I did make the choice of solitude. I didn't expect it to be this lonely.
I've healed on many levels. Florida has been very good for my heart.
But I cannot make the connection between my past and where I am now.
Strange.
And I can't just leave it alone because of that ol' belief in quantum synchronicity.
Here's a story that floated my boat.
I've always been interested in rocks and stones. My father taught me about it. I have rocks and stone and crystals all over everywhere.
I'm not being religious, I'm being metaphoric now.
There is a myth that when the consiousness of humanity transcends the material, one of the signs is that the stones will once again speak. Actually, I've heard stones speak. In Cornwall mostly. And Stonehenge. Those stones. And little stones. But not in Voice.Anyway
This article presents data which connects to that myth, and that's why I'm posting it.
Dang, the Severe Weather Alert on the Puter keeps Thunderstorming.
Thor is the Thunder God
Speaking of Which
I also bought
Large Coloured Paper Clips when I bought the Black Electric Pencil Sharpner.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5055604.stm
Ancient rocks 'built by microbes'
The Pilbara structures were first described almost 30 years ago
Odd-shaped rocks in the Pilbara region of Western Australia offer compelling evidence they were built by microbes 3.43 billion years ago, scientists say.
The structures, known as stromatolites, could only have taken the forms they have if bacteria had been present, a Sydney-led team tells Nature journal.
The rocks' origin is disputed, with some claiming purely chemical processes could have made them.
But the Nature study suggests the biological explanation is the simplest.
"For all these shapes to be formed a-biologically would have required highly unusual and unexpected chemical processes to occur simultaneously in this [one location]," said Abigail Allwood from the Australian Centre for Astrobiology.
"It just becomes ridiculous to support that hypothesis; especially when the biological explanation is so readily acceptable."
Ms Allwood and colleagues have made an extensive survey of a 10km (six miles) stretch of land not far from the town of Marble Bar.
The area is now well inland but shows clear evidence of having been covered by a shallow sea in the ancient past.
The researchers have detailed an array of unusual sedimentary structures - seven clear types in all. Some look like upside-down ice cream cones; others resemble egg cartons.
These laminated structures have been described as stromatolites - the rock piles that in more recent settings are known to have been built by mats of microbes capturing grains and sticking them together.
But the Pilbara structures, found 30 years ago in a rock formation called the Strelley Pool Chert, are controversial.
Claims for individual microfossils of the original organisms within Pilbara's stromatolites have been challenged; and some scientists prefer an entirely non-biogenic explanation for the structures' creation.
These dissenters believe the piles resulted from the chemical precipitations that occurred around undersea volcanic vents.
Mars strategy
Allwood's response has been to describe the complexity of shapes and explain how these forms can be linked to different environmental niches in a shallow-sea reef setting.
"We have found an ecosystem-scale remnant of the early biosphere. It's not just a couple of individual or isolated fossils or dubious structures; it is in an entire, pretty well intact, section of hundreds of thousands of stromatolites in a reef ecosystem," Ms Allwood told the BBC News website.
"With that we now gain insight into the conditions that nurtured early life - the biological responses to different environmental processes."
The variety points to an entire ecosystem, say the scientists
The Pilbara stromatolites are not the oldest claim for life on Earth.
Some researchers argue that rocks at Isua in Greenland show the imprint of life at least 3.75 billion years ago.
At that time, these rocks were also on the sea bed. Thin layers of black sediment, separated by distinct layers of volcanic ash, look like they could be composed of the debris of ocean-dwelling microbes.
There are no fossil forms, but the nature of the carbon is consistent with the idea it was processed by living organisms. There are no known older remnants of the Earth's surface than the Greenland rocks - which probably makes Isua the closest science can ever get to the first life.
Researchers are keen to trace the story of the first microbes on Earth because it should provide clues in the hunt for possible life elsewhere in the Solar System.
Mars rovers should look out for stromatolite-like structures
The type of study conducted on the Pilbara stromatolites might, for example, help scientists interpret similar structures on Mars, should rovers sent to the planet ever come across them.
Commenting on this dimension, Dr Ian Crawford, a planetary scientist at Birkbeck College, London, UK, said: "Searching for ancient stromatolite-like structures such as those reported by Allwood et al should certainly be high on the list of future exploration strategies.
"However, given the amount of fieldwork performed by Allwood and colleagues, it must be doubtful whether purely robotic exploration of Mars would be able compellingly to identify such features in the field, and in the longer term effective Martian palaeontology may necessitate human exploration of the planet."
Good Story.
Ian and I also talked about BBC.
And we also said that we have to spread the consciousness of peace in any way we can.
That's what I'm doing with this
blog.
The endless differentiation is the manifestation of the complexity of the whole, not a cause for war and hatred.
Peace
\ /
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