Dim Whitby Windows

  Sunrise Coffee Service
One year, one month ago today I looked
Through a clear window facing west, so said
And thought Dad’s words and things he’d penned and booked
Before a broken body was said dead.

Today I seek a caffeine rush to clear
The  darkling smokey glass  of windows blurred
By mind’s eye sleepy visions inside fear
Behind an agate eyegate cloaked and furred

Now facing east I see a rising sun
Reflected on a silicated pane
Now captured by Nokia’s lens of one
Unwired connection netted, linked,  and lain

In tangled webs of  you’re onlines so swift
Now run to tell of eyelid’s joyous lift.

©  Glenn Gardner 2013

“This life’s dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye.”
~ William Blake 1757-1827

William Blake Poet William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.

A Bloody Striking Image

It’s hard to argue
with a path well chosen

Biogenesis Word Search Game

How to play the game

1. Find the word “animals” in the cladogram below.
2. Start naming animals.
3. Check to see who else is playing the game.
4. Check to see who’s watching the game.
5. Check to see if the game ever ends.
   

   First Find Animals

Genesis 2:19 (New King James Version)

19 Out of the ground
the Lord God formed every beast of the field
and every bird of the air,
and brought them to Adam
to see what he would call them.
And whatever Adam called each living creature,
that was its name. . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and we have been naming things happily ever after.
God formed some pretty smart beasts and birds.
God  also  formed  the  REALLY SMART octopus that could transform itself.
Makes you wonder why He made the REALLY SMART octopus that could transform itself
Yet did not invite the REALLY SMART octopus
To play the name game.
Makes you wonder how well He sees Adam’s progeny playing the name game.
Listen carefully to how your fellow players play the name game.
Think carefully about why they may have played their moves in the name game.
Think VERY carefully before you suggest alternate moves.
Think VERY VERY carefully before you move.
Don’t worry over it.
Be moved by good ol’ what’s his name that designed the game.

 

Face Palm Sunday

Let us face Palm Sunday with Joy
Let us not facepalm Sunday with Despair

Familial Familiar

Familiar Things    © Glenn Gardner

“View From My Desk”
by Ross Biscombe Gardner
(1927 – 2001)

Now, as I ponder “familiar thing” memories of Dad

The deposits of Person he left behind

The imprint of his Creator reflected

Imperfectly, through darkling smokey glass

A broken palette’s coloured rays

Layered down

Upon a cropped canvas foreshortened…

Yet daily,  graciously,  growing  in gradations glorious.

I am thankful I share his heritage and lineage

And honoured that I can humbly recognize

A fatherly man of whom I can say

“His delight was in the law of the Lord;
And in His law he did meditate both day and night.
And he was like a tree planted by the rivers of water
That brought forth his fruit in his season;
His leaf also shall not wither
And whatsoever he did
Shall prosper.”

The Parable of “Java Man Evolutionary Filters”

© Glenn Gardner

Metal was first of course.                                                 Things ground away.
White paper was finer.                                          Things ground away.
Brown was greener.                                  Things ground away.
Metal foil bonded to plastic frames survived well.
A    c o m p a c t    plastic    cup
with    synthetic    filter
beneath  foil  seal
holding  grounds
all  disposable
is  better
how?

Filter evolution midst a green revolution yields little clarification.