From The Ness…..Quite A Few..…Steve Drury’s ‘Earthlogs’…..From ‘Emergence’ Magazine….
by Bernie Bell - 08:55 on 25 July 2024
From The Ness…..
Dig Diary for Day 23….
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/2024-day-23/
…which includes information about the ‘paint shop’ – the discovery of which is just one part of what makes The Ness dig so special – absolutely certain proof that folk in the Neolithic used pigments to decorate their structures.
When it was first discovered I wrote a gently jokey bit about it ….
Picture it.....Ness of Brodgar.....Mid-summer's Eve, around 3,000 B.C. A group of work-men and artists have toiled all night, putting the finishing touches to the building which is destined to be 'The OrkneyTwilight Home for Bewildered Shamen.' Just as dawn breaks, a clear shaft of light streams down the entrance passageway, illuminating the brightly coloured wall carvings and paintings which the workmen have prepared for the delectation of the 'Old Dears'.
One workman turns to the other and says......."Cor, blimey, would ya' look at that?!!! Would ya' Adam & Eve it? Straight down the corridor, lights the place up something lovely, just as though we'd planned it or something! Wait 'til I tell me missus about it, she'll have to come and see this."
Esoteric knowledge? Nahhh, pure chance. (I don't know why the workman is a cockney - but folk did come from a long way to visit the Ness as it was known, nation-wide, as the best facility for Bewildered Shamen in the country!)
And Day 24 too….
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/2024-day-24/
And now I’m thinking, another addition to the Time Capsule – along with a roll-call of Diggers – a roll-call of all the non-digging Volunteers – all kept safe in the Thermos flask?
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Quite A Few….
…from Bartholomew….
…poems – that is….
https://iwriteher.com/2024/07/19/bartholomew-barker-3/
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Steve Drury’s ‘Earthlogs’…..
Maths way beyond my ken…..
https://earthlogs.org/2024/07/22/tectonic-history-and-the-drake-equation/
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine….
Directed by Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
“As someone who believes in transformation, as someone who believes in liberation, in ea, in sovereignty, in life, I think about the power of that imaginative space and what it offers for us if we honor it.”
What becomes possible when a story draws us into intimacy with the land? When a musician connects us to a bird in the forest through song; when a poet changes our relationship with a mountain? In Aloha ‘Āina, the second film in our four-part Shifting Landscapes documentary film series directed by Emmy- and Peadbody-nominated filmmakers Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, Native Hawaiian poet Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio opens a space where we can feel what it means to love the land. Evoking the ancestral promise to remember that the land is us, she wields her words in resistance to the construction of a thirty-meter telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea—the most sacred mountain in Hawai‘i.
Laying bare the remaking of Hawai‘i from a place where people and land have nourished one another for thousands of years, to a place colonized with projections of pleasure and profit, Jamaica’s poetry envisions the possibilities held by the cultural concept of aloha ‘āina––a love for and of the land. Voicing the spirit of aloha, she helps both speaker and listener understand anew the ways they are connected to each other, and to the land that sustains them both.”
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