beginning at 6:14 (minutes/secs respectively) one of the most rockin
classic folk-musical pieces you might ever be exposed to... loudly electric is key to this rendition's success !  as well as the brilliant quality of the oil paintings and vintage photos existing beyond words...




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having said
that's emptiness
where nothing more is...

and being terribly unconcerned
with the vast and numerous amount

 of dooms'-day opinions out-n-about...

still, feeling is
suggesting an inspiration

for others to see...

once upon a not-so long ago
 period's age, land animals to be
 might not have even begun to conceive...

developing their surnames'
 formality--like you and me
merrily...

  while hardly having an ability
readily available to help us see land with
upon crawling from seawater to become wind's breath...

osmosis ...

 will it be another ice age 

that's recorded as the catalyst
to our greatest eventual demise...

since, many are conveniently guided

 to be building a global warming's stage
 i suggest considering the root beyond its bearing heirs...

for instance, stealing earth's crustal lubrication

out from under the weight of massive saltwater's volume

is a sign of blatant disregard for humanity's perpetual wellness...

hence, 

resulting from an abundant demand
 to live through greed's selfishness...

yet, it may also one day serve

as helping to fracture
 our blue-green planet's...

 ever-motioning, supportive top-shelf
just so happening to be located above/beneath stores
 of so-called crude wealth (resting by) darkness' seafloor caverns...

likely lending energetically to the creation of
 tsunamis and volcanic eruptions' fire brightly

throughout the world, as belts tighten...

no matter, whether your brain's hologram
 bases it on einsteinian physics
or...

when spirit comes shelling forth
 from neptune's watery existence

reaching for your front door

becoming such that a greater withholding 

 will no longer willingly be ignored,
 perhaps...

never you'll see this in many-a-lifetime
 due to being taught to close your eyes
so tightly during density's night time...

 if finding your expanse fortunate enough
 (or unfortunate) as it were within
 tectonic plate dips, shifts, lifts, spits, and flips...

then for facing ego's fear infused themes
let's predict an awakening into living beyond
 this mimickery's impregnatedly sullen schemes.

--j.a. knolls

"When you are in tune with the unknown, the known is peaceful."
---
"Chances multiply if you grab them."

--quotes appearing on Yogi Tea labels

i stood up tall today

while the ground sunk

beneath my tarred feet

from blackened asphalt

coarsely covering them...

like a woven burlap

blanket's warmth

then cast onto

my upright stance

backwards

without any atoms

having gone awry...

just as the other

gray morning had been

with falsehoods flourishing

through mar's continual flashing

lucid blueness from others afar

only enough to make out

a materialistic flicker in your eye

gleaming with the sow's angle

towards that of fermenting

rural swine...

as it's becoming

an uncomfortably humorous

loophole to bear

like having to watch

redundant re-run episodes

depicting sex-in-the-shitty

without its rancid glare.

j.a. knolls

Oregon Coastline...

why is the sky blue?

Sunlight interacting with the Earth's atmosphere makes the sky blue. In outer space the astronauts see blackness because outer space has no atmosphere. 
Sunlight consists of light waves of varying wavelengths, each of which is seen as a different color. The minute particles of matter and molecules of air in the atmosphere intercept and scatter the white light ofthe sun. A larger portion of the blue color in white light is scattered, more so than any other color because the blue wavelengths are the shortest. 

When the size of atmospheric particles are smaller than the wavelengths of the colors, selective scattering occurs-the particles only scatter one color and the atmosphere will appear to be that color. Blue wavelengths especially are affected, bouncing off the air particles to become visible. 

This is why the sun looks yellow from Earth (yellow equals white minus blue). In space, the sun appears white because there is nothing in between to scatter its white light. 

At sunset, the sky changes color because as the sun drops to the horizon, sunlight has more atmosphere to pass through and loses more of its blue wavelengths. The orange and red, having the longer wavelengths and making up more of sunlight at this distance, are most likely to be scattered by the air particles. 

The scattering of visible light by atmospheric gases is most correctly called the Tyndall effect, but it is more commonly known to physicists as Rayleigh scattering after Lord Rayleigh, who studied it in more detail a few years later. Rayleigh Scattering is where red, orange, yellow, and green are passed through and blue, indigo, and violet are "scattered" out creating the color. 

Whichever direction you look, some of this scattered blue light reaches you. Since you see the blue light from everywhere overhead, the sky looks blue. 

--Wiki Answers 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/video/2012/nov/22/fc-barcelona-catalonia-independence-video

My wife, Alice, is like the 'afternoon tea'....as mentioned here in this famous melody.

did the serpent in the forest teach
 the chimpanzee to sit upright?

while insight may very well say
 this is so...thinking rarely will.

however, it's okay
 because this dream
 is merely that...you'll see;

even if what you see with
 is something you know not
 of its having now...still,
capacity's function suggests,

 how could one
 not have such
 expansiveness?

j.a. knolls

keep ur' coins, i observe change...and that alone allows me to thrive.

Catalonia's own modernisme includes Lluís Domènech i Montaner’s Palau de la Música Catalana and its magnificient stained-glass window, above. Photograph: Charles Lenars/Corbis

Shri Hanuman Ji Ki Aarti

Listen to Audio / Download MP3 of this Aarti. Lyrics below:

Aarti Keeje Hanuman Lalaa Ki,
Dushta Dalan Raghunath Kala Ki.
Jake Bal Se Giriwar Kanpe,
Bhoot Pishach Nikat Nahi Jhanke.
Lanka So Cot Samundr Se Khai,
Jat Pawansut Bar Na Lai.
De Bida Raghunath Pathaye,
Lank Prajjawali Siya Sudd Laye.
Jagmag Jyoti Awadpur Raja,
Ghanta Tal Pabhawaj Baja.
Shakti Bann Laga Lakshman Ko,
Laye Sanjeewan Lakshman Jiyaye.
Peth Patal Tori Yam Kare,
Ahiravan Ki Bhuja Ukhare.
Aarti Kejee Jeisee Teisee,
Dhruv Prahalad Vibhisan Jaisee.
Sur Nar Muni Aarti Utare,
Jai Jai Jai Kapiraj Ucharen.
Bain Bhuja Se Asur Sanhare,
Dahini Bhuja Sur Sant Ubare.
Lank Prajjvali Asur Sanhare,
Raja Ram Ke Kaj Sanware.
Anjani Putra Maha Baldayak,
Dev Sant Ke Sada Shayak.
Vidhwans Lank Kiya Raghurayee,
Tulsidas Kapi Aarti Gayee.
Jo Hanuman Ji Ki Aarti Gavee,
Basi Baikunth Bahar Nahi Aavee. 

Any Soul That Drank the Nectar

Any soul that drank the nectar of your passion was lifted.

From that water of life he is in a state of elation.

Death came, smelled me, and sensed your fragrance instead.

From then on, death lost all hope of me.

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

5 : IN THE DARKNESS Dig deep into the earth where the spring water gushes, Through sheer pain and labour, seek to win through — In a place like this, then, you come across a true friend ... And seeing each other again (it’s you!) you both touch Heaven.

--written by a monk honoring Kuan Yin's mercy and wisdom

after an early morning's late return
clear shower-water falls, warming me

like a song about the west indian rainy-scape,

i stare at tiles going vertically with a horizontal glare
and ever so slightly raised eyebrows--lifting through broad, tight shoulders...

although, it certainly is only for a little while longer until harmony falls into thee, destined to become pee and leave, only to return again like the urges to eat and sleep.

as the world looks on in wonder at the pity of what any could think of as their kind only...so consider "thinking" to be the lowest form of intelligence on the planet not-so earth much more.

hey, i'm light to water as blood is to cosmic burn...

when did a non-incorporated approach become a sin,
was it when inc.s replaced the church's role to hand down verdict
like an enraged zoo baboon bouncing on its bars?

keep it to yourselves, vidal sassoon suburbanites

happening to be upon spirit airline's flight last nite,

where my long face was too much for their critique

of what's perhaps beyond any conceding mystic's reach--

like that of an alley cat upwelling
 a midnight's mist from its furry back
with nothing more to spitout,

among thoughts of what
happens next, under
watching's pure
glance.

j.a. knolls

A Friday afternoon hike along McKenzie pass...

to Lava Lake :

69 FIVE SEASONS A plum tree stands alone on a hill of its own, Its petals drop, its branches wither, its sap falls low. . And yet spring comes with all its vibrancy in spite of frost And the beauty and the life return to the flowers (see them).  --written by a monk honoring Kuan Yin's grace and wisdom