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Shinto | Color of Sand
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Chinese New Year Tiles. Thank you, Wikipedia, for your excellence. These excerpts are from there:. 8220;Shinto is a religion in where practice (actions) and ritual, rather than words, are of the utmost importance. Shinto is characterized by the worship of nature, ancestors, polytheism. With a strong focus on ritual purity, involving honoring and celebrating the existence of. Shinto currently has about 119 million known adherents in Japan,. Shinto teaches that everything contains a kami (神 ,. Fushimi Inar...
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June | 2012 | Color of Sand
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Chinese New Year Tiles. Archive for June, 2012. Stopped at neighborhood red light yesterday, I watched what seemed to be a Western Tanager frantically diving over traffic, then disappearing into the same section of branches atop a cottonwood. Nest? Have to say, I relate right now to that bird’s pace: frantically diving. 8220;When it rains, it pours.” Will life ever slow down? Chinese New Year Tiles. Clay & log posts. Clay & log posts. Tiles for the Open Space Traditions Garden. Process for Imprint Tiles.
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November | 2012 | Color of Sand
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Chinese New Year Tiles. Archive for November, 2012. John Nichols hits my jackpot. Just finished reading John Nichols’ latest novel – On Top of Spoon Mountain. Chinese New Year Tiles. Clay & log posts. Clay & log posts. Tiles for the Open Space Traditions Garden. Process for Imprint Tiles. Log: end o’ summer 2015. Gratitude Award Tiles for New Mexico Literary Arts. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 11 other followers.
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August | 2013 | Color of Sand
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Chinese New Year Tiles. Archive for August, 2013. Log: other end of summer. Aug 29, 2013. A swallow dipped and curved over the same half block, movements echoing the shape of the orange cloud tinged by the sunset. 8211; a tall dog waded ankle deep in an emptying ditch. 8211; on the surface of the shallow water, bubbles rose in concentric circles. Chunky 5 inch crawdad swam, visible! 8211; tiniest skimmers – water striders? 8211; each steep muddy bank revealed rows of crawdad holes. Our 8th meeting of the...
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February | 2013 | Color of Sand
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Chinese New Year Tiles. Archive for February, 2013. Reading the recommended book. Pueblo Birds and Myths. By Hamilton A. Tyler. 8220;Swallows live just above the surface of streams and pools … seen just before and after shower of rain …[they will] “sit out” a downpour … insects as well as swallows fly low just before and after …”. Chinese New Year Tiles. Clay & log posts. Clay & log posts. Tiles for the Open Space Traditions Garden. Process for Imprint Tiles. Log: end o’ summer 2015. Miriam ’s Well.
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March | 2013 | Color of Sand
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Chinese New Year Tiles. Archive for March, 2013. The tilt to the north again. The grey clouds in the west. Seen through grey branches, trunks. Unzipping the jacket, unbuttoning the sweater. The new slant of light, the breeze. Now, where are the colored eggs? Springtime along the Rio Grande looking east toward Sandias 2010ccsniderbryan. Chinese New Year Tiles. Clay & log posts. Clay & log posts. Tiles for the Open Space Traditions Garden. Process for Imprint Tiles. Log: end o’ summer 2015.
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April | 2013 | Color of Sand
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Chinese New Year Tiles. Archive for April, 2013. Did you ever read Whole Earth Catalog and its sister publication Co-Evolution Quarterly in the 70’s and 80’s? Link is to a talk he gave — Yup, he’s a poet and pragmatist, too. Light and beauty — by Stewart Brand (about Warshall’s talk). Every day there is a brief time without danger. At twilight—as daylight shifts to night—all life pauses. That moment has a contemplative beauty that we cherish. It is a moment of Gaian aesthetic. Warshall’s talk, and his li...
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Azulejo | Color of Sand
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Chinese New Year Tiles. Thanks to Wikipedia, I learn the most important things. While googling “cuerda seca” and “cuenca,” the option to come to this Wikipedia page entitled “Azulejo” immediately grabbed my attention. The tradition of tile -making in Portugal and Spain was being outlined here. And these were two places I was lucky enough to visit extensively when I was young. I) Cuerda seca and cuenca – http:/ arts.jrank.org/pages/9932/Tile.html. A modified form of the. Tiles have complex geometrical Moo...
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C.C. | Color of Sand
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Chinese New Year Tiles. Author Archive for C.C. Snider-Bryan. Tiles for the Open Space Traditions Garden. Honored to the max! Staff members Noel Chilton, Kim Selving, Kent Swanson were joined by Board Member Charlie Wood to review my proposal to make press tiles. I showed them my Garden Companions press tile series (see other section of this blog) and they liked the idea that copies of the tiles could be made. Process for Imprint Tiles. In the late 90’s I read Frank Giorgini’s book. Where he describes cr...