I’ve gotta be good or mama will scold me
Yes, yes, yes
I asked her and this is what she told me
Yes, yes, yes
Mother, may I go out dancing? Yes, my darling daughter!
Mother, may I try romancing? Yes, my darling daughter!
What if there’s a moon, mama darling, and it’s shining on the water,
Mother, must I keep on dancing? Yes, my darling daughter!
If he wants to kiss, mama darling, when he feels it’s time we ought to, Mother must I let him kiss me? Yes, my darling daughter!
What if he’ll propose, mama darling, when the night is growing shorter? Mother, what should be my answer? Yes, my darling daughter!
Oh mama, oh mama, oh mama, oh mama
What if he should insist on one embrace, mama,
How can I keep him in his place
If his manner becomes a shade improper?
Tell him that your heart belongs to papa
Mother, will it be exciting? Yes, my darling daughter
Mother, do I look inviting? Yes, my darling daughter
If he holds me tight, mama darling, and my knees just turn to water
Mama must I keep on dancing? Yes, my darling daughter
What if he’ll persist, mama darling, doing things he hadn’t oughta
Mama, what should be my answer? Yes, my darling daughter
the andrews sisters zingen, yes my darling daughter, op een guinyphone grammofoon bij de zwarte schijf te tiel
Titian, Venus with a Mirror/ Venus at Her Toilette, 1555. Oil on Canvas, 124.5 x 105.5 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
As Goffen elaborates, “The Venus with a Mirror is (partly) about vision, about being seen, about reality and its reflection, and about the exaltation of beauty that is embodied in the goddess and knowable through sight.” For the men and women of the Renaissance, there existed the concept of a hierarchy of the senses, of which sight was believed to be superior. Just as the beauty of Venus is knowable only through this highest sense, Titian’s skill as a painter is apparent through sight alone.
Until I’d dreamt of the word, I’d never heard of it.
But someone sure was trying to get a message to me.
Just sharing what I found.
For what it’s worth.
Temporism Etiquette – Quotations by Typo Master, Sir Temporal.
I’m born to this Life sharing earth water fire and air; all I can see
and touch are the elements.
The Temporist is very humble and consider the simplest thing
a real marvel.
In a figure of speech, he can envy a simple lightbulb;
for it just has to be screwd-up a little to get enlightened.
Temporists save energy, they are never always enlightened.
They don’t glow; they’re just seeking brightness through Life’s
lessons.
Temporists acknowledge their relative awareness as much as
their relative consciousness, and those of others.
They respect the other’s limitations as much as they can understand their own.
There are many many Temporist teachers in this universe.
They are the cards of a deck, without face and undiscriminated.
Pick a card, any card; It’s all about playing.
Most temporist teachers are not known for telling you what you
want to hear, and consequently they’re rarely popular because
they tend to offend people on a regular basis by their mere presence
on earth.
An enlightened Temporist person doesn’t know it all.
Enlightenment simply means receiving the energy of the soul, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.
That’s why there are so many of us.
Even enlightened Temporist people think of themselves as beginners.
They probably think of themselves as beginners more than others do,
perpetual beginners who begin again each moment because their subject
is boundless.
That does not mean they can’t acknowledge their success, in the face of others.
They just rather share it knowing it’s never entirely their own.
A Temporist teacher can show you the ways.
But no one can do it for you.
You have to take what you learn from them and go out and Live.
Life changes you, inspires you, shock you, then you die.
Everything is a miracle to a Temporist teacher, because he knows that
he knows nothing in the face of everything.
Miracle! Beauty of this world and beyond.
Scientific minds think they know why the chemicals on a match
can burst to flame, but a Temporist teacher never stops his mind on a
single interpretation.
In a few decades, Science will learn how simplistic their conceptions are.
The Enlightenment Cycle is a series of talks given by Rama – Dr. Frederick Lenz, about how to evolve and progress on the spiritual path. He discusses the nature of existence and eloquently delineates the steps for discovering the enlightenment that exists within each individual. He draws from the essence of many spiritual paths while couching the teachings in highly intelligible, modern terms. In this excerpt from Enlightenment, Rama offers trainings focused on gaining personal experience in higher, lucid states of meditation and awareness.
A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day. – Epicurus
The basic tenet of Epicureanism regarding fate is that the wise, having armed themselves with a proper understanding of the workings of the natural world and ridden themselves of the superstitions of the many, can withstand whatever happens to them “by fate”.
Yet whereas the Stoics (and perhaps the majority of the population of the Greco-Roman world) nearly deified fate, Epicurus’ notion of fate is much more akin to random chance and accident, as understood by modern biologists and natural scientists in general. Whereas the Stoics advocated submission to fate, which they saw as stemming from some Universal Reason (Gr.logos), the Epicureans advised rather a certain indifference to fate — as they also did not personify it, and saw it as indifferent to them.
The Oruro Carnival is a popular celebration held each year in the city in Bolivia in Oruro in honor of the Virgin of the Tunnel, and one of the biggest demonstrations of folk arts and traditional Andean culture.
Los guloyas dirigidos por Daniel (Linda) Henderson (primero de derecha a izquierda). AP/Ramón Espinosa
Oruro’s Carnaval has become Bolivia’s most renowned and largest annual celebration.
It’s great time to visit, when this somewaht unfashionable mining city becomes the focus of the nation’s attention.
In a broad sense, these festivities can be described as re-enactments of the triumph of good over evil, but the festival is so interlaced with threads of both Christian and indigenous myths, fables, deities an traditions that it would be inaccurate to oversimplify it in this way.
The origins of a similar festival may be traced back to the medieval kingdom of Aragon, these days part of Spain, although oruereños (Oruro locals) maintain that it commemorates an event that occurred during the early days of their own fair city.
Legend has it that one night a thief called Chiru-Chiru was seriously wounded by a traveler he’d attempted to rob.
Taking pity on the wrongdoer, the Virgin of Candelaria gently helped him reach his home near the mine at base of Cerro Pie del Gallo and succored him until he died.
When the miners found him there, an image of the Virgin hung over his head.
Today, the mine is known as the Socavon de la Virgen (Grotto of the Virgin), and a large church, the Santuario de la Virgen del Socavon, has been built over it to house the Virgin.
The Virgen del Socavon, as she is also now known, is the city’s patron.
This legend has been combined with the ancient Uru tale of Huari and the struggle of Archangel Michael (san Miguel) against the seven deadly sins into the spectacle that is presented during the Oruro Carnaval.
