Christmas in Eugene

We did not know what to expect, but it was really special. First we had an early Christmas dinner with Lourdes and then again on Christmas Eve at another friends place, Christmas itself was cery quite as we had overdone ourselves on many a fronts i guess, we lazed around while it rained outside and then 5pm we had Dinner with Cody and family.

Geothermal

What is it?

What are the Advantages of using Geothermal energy for my house?

Where can it be used?

What Equipment is needed?

How much it costs?

Week37

Thirty-seventh Week (December 15-21)

To carry spirit light into world-winter-night
My heart is ardently impelled,
That shining seeds of soul
Take root in grounds of worlds
And Word Divine through senses' darkness
Resounds, transfiguring all life.

A Falcon or a great song

This is a little Poem we have been reciting in our class since last few days, and it feels deep,, here it goes the Original German Version and then later the English Translation

Ich lebe mein Leben in wachsenden Ringen

Ich lebe mein Leben in wachsenden Ringen,
die sich über die Dinge ziehn.
Ich werde den letzten vielleicht nicht vollbringen,
aber versuchen will ich ihn.

Ich kreise um Gott, um den uralten Turm,
und ich kreise jahrtausendelang;
und ich weiß noch nicht: bin ich ein Falke, ein Sturm
oder ein großer Gesang.

A Falcon or a great song

I live my life in growing rings
which move out over the things around me.
Perhaps I'll never complete the last,
but that's what I mean to try.

I'm circling around God, around the ancient tower,
and I've been circling thousands [of] years;
and I still don't know: am I a falcon, a storm
or a great song.

Philosophy of freedom

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Sofia's Art for the Oregon country fair

She was working all night long, very unlike her but i was amazed on seeing what fantasy and colors she came out with, this once again makes me feel ahhh... this is all what we human were made to do!

I love Big Trucks

we cannot understand this, but Sidhartha has developed an infinity for big trucks i mean BIG TIME. Everything is about big trucks, we disttact him for eating with big truck images, he comes sits on my laps while i am working on computer and consistently asks me to show him the "Big Trucks" i did a few times but now we decided no more computer images. So his little doodle pad is all full of what's in his mind. We feel feel so sucked into as well, every time we see a big rig passing by we are filled with as much awe as he is... ok a few of the words now and more of the images of some Doodling one's.

It snowed today

Amazing! if one word could explain it, what an experience. i was up late night and just checked the weather report it says Eugene, snowing right now! i quietly walked to the window and opened the curtain..all was quite..all was white! my hair stood up i was wide awake in the middle of the night, its only second time ever in my life i see snow and first time ever freshly falling in front of me.

It's something very special. i don ot think i will mind living in a cold place? with a well insulated house of course;)

Eugene, The first few months

Arrival:
train, lordez, hideaway hills, car, school, house hunting etc
we found a house!
The Autumn sets in... the colors, the tree, the sky
Sidhartha turns 2!
The days are so short already?

He has the Ball

Every moment is amazing, Little Sidhartha is not so little anymore.

How to make a Straw Mattresse

Sidhartha turns two!

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Your Web Guy

Yet another incarnation of Mr. web?

It's a touchy tech subject.

America America...

here we are, in a brand new continent. Lots of fresh impressions but no way a culture shock it all look so tempered with..

Art Wall

Something very interesting caught my eyes, nice to see "the flourishing".

Open publication - Free publishing - More art magazine

Lucifer and Satan

Dispelling the Myths of
Satan and Lucifer
Written by Jeannie Weyrick with Christ, Archangel Raphael, and St. Germain

Lucifer
An except from the book "A Dictionary of Angels":
Lucifer Means "Light Giver", [or “Light Bearer“?]. Erroneously equated with the fallen angel (Satan) due to a misreading of Isaiah 14:12: "how art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning." an apostrophe [metaphor] which applied to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.... The name Satan was applied to Lucifer by St. Jerome and the Church Fathers. Milton in "Paradise Lost" applied the name to the demon of sinful pride. Lucifer is the principal character of the epic poem by the Dutch Shakespeare, Vondel (who used Lucifer in lieu of Satan), and a principal character in the mystery play by Imre Madach, "The Tragedy of Man". Blake pictured Lucifer in his illustrations to Dante. George Meredith's sonnet "Lucifer is Starlight" addresses the "fiend" as Prince Lucifer. Actually Lucifer connotes star, and applies (or was originally meant to apply) to the morning star or evening star (Venus). To Spenser in "A Hymne of Heavenly Love" Lucifer is "the brightest angel, even the Child of Light."
In fact a being named Lucifer does not exist at all, except in fictional writing. When Isaiah was translated into Latin 2500 years after it was written the words “this luminous falling star“? were translated into the Latin word “Lucifer“?, literally meaning “Light Bearer“?. What Isaiah wrote was meant as a metaphorical reference to King Nebuchadnezzar. Through fictional writings, such as in Milton’s “Paradise Lost“?, a whole character was created and developed that is still is referred to as “the devil“? or used as a synonym for Satan.
Satan
A quote from "The Dictionary of Angels":
"Originally, Satan was a great angel, chief of the seraphim, head of the order of virtues. While seraphim were usually pictured as 6 winged, Satan was shown as 12 winged. Gregory the Great in his Maralia, after listing 9 hierarchic orders, pays this tribute to Satan: "he wore all of them [all the angels] as a garment, transcending all on glory and knowledge." Talmud [sacred writing of Orthodox Judaism] claims that Satan was created on the sixth day of Creation."

Handmade Greeting Cards

The other day Deborah needed to send some cards to friends and there was Sofia with an irresistible offer i can make it for you and within a few hours away from prying hands of little Sidhartha she got busy, she starts to paint first with water colors and then let them dry for a day,  later she used a normal ball pen and made the outlines.. the results were splendid here they are:

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Sofia's Peacock

Today for Deborah birthday Sofia drew an amazing peacock so full of colors, so full of life... here it is a pleasure to share with you all.

Allways nice to be back

Here we are back again to the beautiful Tuscan countryside, it never leaves you really.  I cannot believe it's already 2 years since we had that grande Matrimonio right here in Campagna ahhhh... belissimo :)