cool (looking) clouds

check out these cool looking clouds: grimmglitter

Kundalini

Just some links for now:

kundalini

kundalini & biology (science) 

Throughout this book the term kundalini awakening is used interchangeably with metamorphosis, spiritual alchemy, spiritual acceleration, the inner marriage, the sacred marriage, The Passion and even The Great Bliss. The energy of kundalini could be variously called prana, chi, mana, Baron Carl von Reichenbach's odic force (od), Wilheim Reich's orgone, Ken Wilber's Spiritual Eros, Henri Bergson's elan vital, Tielhard de Chardin's radial energy, Freud's libido, archeus, etheric energy, vital life-essence, vital energy or life force. and even Sheldrake's morphogenetic fields. Also around the world it is referred to as ka, ichor, inua, sila, manetuwak, oloddumare, qi, Tao, ki, aether and quintessence.

 http://biologyofkundalini.com/article.php?story=Definitions

My sun kitties

2013-03-19 11.44.48, a photo by cathie on Flickr.

George is the orange and the grey tabby is our 18 year old Hans.

A quote about DFWallace from a New Yorker article by D.T.Max

"He conjured the world in two-hundred-word sentences that mixed formal diction and street slang, technicalese and plain speech; his prose slid forward with a controlled lack of control that mimed thought itself. "

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/09/090309fa_fact_max#ixzz2NuXeTTKO

More Byngs!!

Here's info about my third cousins three times removed,  John Byng's eldest son:
1) George Henry Charles Byng,
2) Henry William Byng (who was a Page of Honor to Queen Victoria) He met a rather gruesome and somewhat mysterious death: decapitation by train in 1899 (You can read an account of it here if you scroll down a bit. 
3) Rev. Francis Edmund Cecil Byng, 5th Earl of Strafford

Some information about Sir John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford (1772-1860)

Sir John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford.

 Can be found here.   He married my 1st cousin five times removed: Mary Stevens Mackenzie.

Here's a picture of their son: Viscount Enfield, 2nd Earl of Strafford, Captain George Steven Byng, who was my second cousin four times removed.

George Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford

 

Until I DO get my blogging mojo back...

why not take a peek at my oh so awesome tumblr-appropriately called "grimmglitter".

Some pictures of Hans going for a walk wearing his new jacket

It's been cold here in southern Ohio - so we got Hansi this fleece-lined jacket for him to wear on his walks. He doesn't love it, but he won't let him deter him from his walk...

"catawampus" is my new favorite word

I've just decided - "catawampus' is my new favorite word: 

also catawampous, cattywampus, catiwampus, etc. (see "Dictionary of American Slang" for more), American colloquial. First element perhaps from obsolete cater "to set or move diagonally" (see catty-cornered); second element perhaps related to Scottish wampish "to wriggle, twist, or swerve about." Or perhaps simply the sort of jocular pseudo-classical formation popular in the slang of those times, with the first element suggesting Greek kata-. 

Earliest use seems to be in adverbial form, catawampusly (1834), expressing no certain meaning but adding intensity to the action: "utterly, completely; with avidity, fiercely, eagerly." It appears as a noun from 1843, as a name for an imaginary hobgoblin or fright, perhaps from influence of catamount. The adjective is attested from the 1840s as an intensive, but this is only in British lampoons of American speech and might not be authentic. It was used in the U.S. by 1864 in a sense of "askew, awry, wrong" and by 1873 (noted as a peculiarity of North Carolina speech) as "in a diagonal position, on a bias, crooked." (from: the Online Etymological Dictionary)

A few snapshots from the end of the old year and beginning of the new

Returning to Oxford before the snow storm on Dec. 26th

Mieze watches the snow

cats and books

Quizzical Mieze

Mieze watching a video clip about fairy tales

Vegan lunch! (hummus, tomato & avocado on a "everything bagel" from Kroger. (They're vegan).