Tana's Day
Festival of Tana: May Eve (evening of April 30th) and May 1st.
There are four springfests coming straight out of the ancient pagan world: Imbolc (February 1), Lupercalia (February 15), Ostara (March 19-23), and Beltane (May 1). Imbolc was the start of spring to the ancient Gaels. I suspect that after being snowed in for several months, it was more in anticipation of the coming warm weather. Roman Lupercalia was originally more pastoral, based on the approaching spring weather allowing for livestock to graze. Ostara was the start of spring to the Teutons. Beltane was the actual start of warm weather in more of practical way of looking at it.
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The evening of Sunday, March 28
However, occurring at 2:50 PM est, it will basically be just as bright on Saturday night/Sunday morning. Technically, the point at which the Moon is “full” lasts only an instant. To the naked eye, though, the Moon can appear to be full for upwards of three days. I take this to usually mean the evening prior, the official date, and the evening after.
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'Christmas Eve', an 1878 painting by J. Hoover & Son.
Below another 'Christmas Eve' by the same artists. In many locations, for example the Midwest, it's still very much snowing throughout March.
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As you've may have noticed, DVDs of full seasons of television programs are often simply no longer available. It doesn't seem very long ago that so many people were in love with the idea that if they couldn't get to see their favorite programs, that they could just purchase the whole season and either binge watch them or just watch at their own leisure. There were many who preferred to wait and just buy the DVD at the end of the season. Well, many sources have announced that with streaming services available online, DVDs are an outdated media. Part of the idea is that the cost to prepare all of these programs for distribution doesn't not match the projected sales anymore.
This still doesn't seem like a satisfactory answer to me! Are people so shallow what they can no longer distinguish between the latest streaming fad to programs that they would like to own? Why do they see some streaming service as their own electric library? What if someone doesn't want to watch movies online? I guess I just can't quite grasp as to why they don't have specific movies and programs they wish to own? I get the music thing, but books are the same thing. It seems impractical to me to require some electronic reader to read a book; yet another device that must be charged, instead of just pulling a book off the shelf for reference.
I know that if someone wanted to purchase the entire collection of say 'Bonanza', that it would be available. However, the half dozen or so tv series that I wish to own are not available. A couple of them aren't even available on Amazon Prime; although I suspect that they would be available on the new Discovery Plus streaming service. Why I want to save just these very few tv series is my own business! I just want to own them. I have also read that as time has gone on, the producers are more and more reluctant to release tv series because they can easily be copied, and they want to horde the product for themselves... to maximize the profit. I don't see why Amazon, Discovery, or Netflix can't just make films and tv programs available to burn onto CDs.... and just charge extra for the service? They could overcharge and make a mint! Each party could get what they want.
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John Denver: Back Home Again
27,688 views - October 8, 2015
John Denver's Best Songs
A song perfect for walking or hiking on the road, and one of John Denver's most loved songs
Note: From the 1974 'Back Home Again' album
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John Denver Greatest Hits Album - John Denver Best Songs Playlist
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The beautiful Mira Sorvino
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Giant sea creatures are out there
Although there always seems to be what are almost "built in excuses" whenever something is discovered beyond what is known to the public, such as the Zuiyo-maru carcass or the Montauk Monster, the preponderance of evidence tells a different tale.Although its doubtful that a plesiosaur type creature--with a brain the size of a walnut--would have the cunning to remain out of sight from humans, I think there are large deep sea creatures.
'Sea Monster' Remains Found in Scotland
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'Stunning images reveal gigantic ice filled crater 50 miles wide on the surface of the red planet'
* Korolev crater is a 50 mile (82 km) wide feature in in the northern lowlands of Mars
* Its center contains a mound of water ice some 1.1 miles thick all year round
* The domed area forms a glacier comprising around 528 cubic miles of non-polar ice
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Nothing Gold Can Stay ("Stay Gold" from 'The Outsiders')
Nothing Gold Can Stay is a poem by Robert Frost (1874-1963), written in 1923.
In The Outsiders, it is recited by Ponyboy Curtis to Johnny Cade while they are hiding at the old church.
Johnny later refers to the poem in his last words to Ponyboy "Stay gold!" and in his letter which Ponyboy received after Johnny's death.
Text
'Nothing Gold Can Stay'
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
External links
Nothing Gold Can Stay at Wikipedia
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CRUISIN' TOGETHER- SMOKEY ROBINSON & THE MIRACLES (HENZ OLDIES)
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FROM MY BEST OF SMOKEY ROBINSON & THE MIRACLES ALBUM
Music in this video
Song: Cruisin' (Mono Version)
Artist: Smokey Robinson
Writers: Marvin Tarplin
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A view from Bieszczady National Park in Poland
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This park’s logo features the head of a Eurasian lynx, and it’s fitting that the official symbol is an animal and not, say, a broad forest or tall mountain. Sure, there’s plenty of countryside to admire in Poland’s Bieszczady National Park, and because the place is rather remote, the animals are abundant. Aside from the iconic Eurasian lynx, bears, grey wolves, and wild boars flourish here. The European wildcat also roams the area—a rare species that looks uncannily like a slightly stouter, fluffier, housecat. (Sorry, they can’t be domesticated.)
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"Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."
-- Socrates
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Root systems--from all types of trees, bushes, shrubs, plants, grass, etc--are far more complex than had previously been known. In the same manner in which a tree branches into the air, it also branches into the soil. All of these root systems mingle, merge, and become tangled in the world that we cannot see. For example, wines which are produced from vines planted nearby eucalyptus trees take on a "eucalyptus taste." Why would that be? All of the different roots, great and small, absorb water and nutrients from the soil. It's possible and probably likely then that the minerals and nutrients from decomposed eucalyptus leaves, through absorption, passes that taste through the vines and to the grapes.
However, it's becoming established now that there is much more to this subject. All of the various trees, shrubs, plants, etc.... actually cooperate and help each other! For example when one plant life-form is in need of a particular nutrient or mineral, it communicates this need through a chemical process, and one of the other plant like-forms tied together within it's root system will actually pass it onto them. I know, it's hard to believe, but it's true. Often it's the larger plant life-forms which cater to the smaller ones in this manner, and this system revolves around the trees. The trees are the gentle giants around which this process works. It's like a loving community of selfless lifeforms, always providing for each others needs if they can.
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The Green Moon
Sometimes under a clear night sky with a prominent moon, especially a full or almost full moon during the warm weather of a still night, the moonlight appears in a light golden color as it illuminates the landscape. Through the imagination, and there could be a scientific basis for it, it can appear as an almost light bluish light.
During the past several evening hiking, I did observe that the moonlight actually appeared in a greenish hue. This was due to the very green foliage of spring. This illusion of green light still seemed magickal to me amid the stillness; the moon lovingly shining light upon the new spring life.
I tend to believe that moonlight itself is healthy for you. The sunlight reflecting off the moon represents the energy from an intermingling of male and female spiritual energy. I think through this reflected light, the moon passes down the gentleness of the divine feminine to the life on earth. Even if we just look at this within the confines of modern science, in the same manner that a house plant can absorb and shift its leaves toward indirect sunlight, plants are indeed absorbing some nutrients from the moonlight... even if it's perhaps just 15% of what indirect sunlight can provide it during the daylight hours. Of course, this would be only if the conditions were available (clear sky, prominent moon above, etc). However, I think there is much more to this.
More than mere moonlight, a prominent or full moon deeply affects the magnetic pull of the earth; for example the tides, or even how it affects our bodies. Although it does not have the brightness of the divine masculine energy of the sun, it more than makes up for it in other ways. It affects menstrual cycles, now proven by mainstream science. It affects our chakras, our blood, our brains, body functions, our energy, our emotions, etc. This is all separate from the moonlight itself; still I think our health can also benefit by absorbing the moonlight.... including spiritual and mental health.
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Elvis Presley - Don't Be Cruel
31,866,405 views - January 29, 2010
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Elvis Recorded Don't be cruel,on; July 2 1956.
At the RCA Studio's , in New York.
It was only Take #28, that elvis was completely satisfied with, so this is the one.
It's written by; Otis Blackwell.
It became a big hit, all over the world, and is therefor aviable on a lot of cd's.
Here are some of the including:
Elvis 75 - 100 Track, ELV1S 30 #1 Hits, Hitstory - Elvis Presley, The King Of Rock N' Roll - The Complete 50's Masters, Artist Of The Century - Elvis Presley, Elvis - The king and on The Essential ELVIS PRESLEY- which is where thisversion is from.
(Lyrics:)
You know I can be found,
sitting home all alone,
If you can't come around,
at least please telephone.
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true.
Baby, if I made you mad
for something I might have said,
Please, let's forget the past,
the future looks bright ahead,
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true.
I don't want no other love,
Baby it's just you I'm thinking of.
Don't stop thinking of me,
don't make me feel this way,
Come on over here and love me,
you know what I want you to say.
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true.
Why should we be apart?
I really love you baby, cross my heart.
Let's walk up to the preacher
and let us say I do,
Then you'll know you'll have me,
and I'll know that I'll have you,
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true.
I don't want no other love,
Baby it's just you I'm thinking of.
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true.
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true.
I don't want no other love,
Baby it's just you I'm thinking of.Elvis Presley - Don't Be Cruel
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