Today, marks the birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Lurther King, Jr. and I feel the following amplifies the value of his life, as eloquently stated from that noble bard of yesterday , James Russell Lowell,

Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth and falsehood,
For the good or evil side;
Some great cause, God's new Messiah,
Off'ring each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever
Twixt that darkness and that light.
Though the cause of evil prosper,
Yet 'tis truth alone is strong;
Though her portion be the scaffold,
And upon the throne be wrong:
Yet that scaffold sways the future,
And behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow
Keeping watch above his own.

Artists and musicians, found here in Oregon, are some of the most inspiring you'll find for their abilities to create reflections of that which flows on...

The frontside of a hoodoo is pictured below, which does not light a candle that may shine on the backside, like the sunshine does there after 10 am...as an all-time season unfolds here, near the Cascade Mtns' heart point, with epic amounts of early snowfall.

today
 is my wife's birthday
and she is an angel
from the moon...
like a wonderful dream

in my eyes,
 a true friend
 and teacher.

her formosa
 islander's name

 symbols the idea of :
'for pure, inner strength'

and she reflects
 this to me,
 which is a gift, indeed !

when the dreams

 you have dreamed 

start dreaming you,

 then there is only

 one course of action

 left to do....

Perhaps, we are here to learn life's rhythm is best experienced when your own soul, mind, and body interact as one-stream to fish from...?

Vladimir Franz

with a gentle smile

a real sense of happiness exists

 in that which never arrives

 or needs to split.

 perhaps, instead it simply is...

with a gentle smile as we await

 the initiation into a greater sea

of our mitochondria's delivery. 

where such is to be experienced

 and allowed outwardly at will...

with a gentle smile for all

 becoming able to see.

j.a. knolls

 THE LOVERS : A fish and a dragon in a river thought, ‘We’ll live together.’ They hid deep in the depths, waiting for their time . . Staying out of trouble, one morning they’ll escape — And they’ll leap the gate in one, into the Palace of Ecstasy.

4 Ajaw 3 K’ank’in G9 (Dec. 21^st) – a “defining” energy associated with the full light of the sun,

    symbolic of renewal and enlightenment, in tandem with the “activation” of K’ank’in’s “precious

    sun” energy, in conjunction with G9, the Night Lord who oversees Period Endings; this is the

    “defining” Burner Day that coincides with Long Count 13.0.0.0.0, the end of the 13^th B’aktun on

    the day of the Winter Solstice; the day in which a whole new Great Cyle of Time is “seated” (takes

    the throne); a return of the 4 Ajaw energy that was in place when the last Great Cycle of time was

    “seated” in 3114 B.C  --- writing by Dr. Marguerite Paquin http://www.whitepuppress.ca