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"Rough wind, that moanest loud
Grief too sad for song;
Wild wind, when sullen cloud
Knells all the night long,
Sad storm, whose tears are vain,
Bare Wood, whose branches strain,
deep caves and dreary main,---
Wail, for the world's wrong."

Dirge by Shelley
 
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"Beautiful is the night in which the moon and the stars...are shining, but when the sun arises then we forget the hours of watchfulness and expectancy, and in the clear and joyous light of day there is revealed to us the reality of substance of the eternal and heavenly sanctuary."

---Adolph Saphir
 
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ANDALUSITE---also know as CHIASTOLITE
aluminum silicate
Al2SiO5
Hardness: 71/2

Best Field Marks: The internal pattern (in chiastolite) squarish shape in a cross section. Rough prisms that show cross

Named for the Spanish province of Andalusia. Andalusite is used as a gemstone and in ceramics, particularly in the manufacture of spark plugs.

CHIASTOLITE--CHIASTOS----in Greek meaning X-marked or cross stone
 
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[shadow=orange]The MUSICIAN WREN[/shadow]

THE MUSICIAN WREN or UIRAPURU
AKA Organ Bird
Cyphorhinus Arada
Brazilian Songster

Hearing the song of the Musician Wren brings good luck to the listeners the whole year through:

http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~tony/birds/best_singers.html

from:
"Candidates for the World's Best Singers"
Songs and calls of some of NY State Birds

Thank-you Tony!
 
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"Discovering Spirituality is like discovering you are in a boat. Mysticism is like pushing off from the dock. Since many leave safe mooring and perish in the waves, this is not done in a cavalier fashion---even though it can be exciting to push off into the deep. The issue is not of whether we should push off, for Christians must do so as well if they intend to get anywhere ( and that is what boats are for), but rather of where you are going...The Christian casts off from this world as well, but with a clear intent to where he is headed, with the best of maps, circumspectly, deliberately. The Christian Mystic arrives against all dangers and odds. Thus we launch out with fear and trembling, but trust that He who commanded us to do so can calm the waves, and see us through to His real, safe port."

C.S. Lewis
 
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BREATHE

BREATHE, BREATHE IN THE AIR

DON'T BE AFRAID TO CARE

LEAVE BUT DON'T LEAVE ME

LOOK AROUND AND CHOOSE YOUR GROUND


FOR LONG YOU LIVE AND HIGH YOU FLY
AND SMILES YOU'LL GIVE AND TEARS YOU'LL CRY

AND ALL YOU TOUCH AND ALL YOU'LL SEE

IS ALL YOUR LIFE WILL EVER BE.










Floyd: Dark Side of the MOON
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