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Old 11-14-2012, 01:00 AM   #22096
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Old 11-14-2012, 01:03 AM   #22097
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Thanks for the kind words folks, still no answers on what happened, but it looks as if it is murder.
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Old 11-14-2012, 01:46 AM   #22098
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Nice photos Stitchawl. I love how it looks so clean with the raked sand. Is there a ritual for the sand?
Deams, in Japan there is a ritual for EVERYTHING including entering and leaving the toilet! (You have to change your 'indoor slippers' to 'toilet slippers,') Every day one of the monks has the task of raking it all smooth, then re-raking the design. And not only 'this' design... Each garden might have its own, and there may be several different stone gardens inside a temple. Here is another one just on the other side of the wall from the first one!!

(When you study to be a Monk, you don't 'graduate' until you can walk across the garden and not leave any footprints... )

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Old 11-14-2012, 01:51 AM   #22099
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All I can think of now is Arlo Guthrie and the motor cycle song!
I don't want a nickle... Just wanna ride my mo..tor...cickle...

I won't drive a car unless I absolutely have to due to carrying constraints, etc. There is no pleasure in it at all for me. Four wheels move the body but two wheels moves the soul.

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Thanks for the kind words folks, still no answers on what happened, but it looks as if it is murder.
That really is so tragic, Anne. Let's hope that at least the police can catch the SOB who did it.


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Old 11-14-2012, 03:45 AM   #22100
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Hmmmmm.... That's got me wondering..... if a rose is beautiful, can it be more beautiful? Or is 'beautiful' the ultimate?
Although a thing that is beautiful is full of beauty, I think that one thing can be more beautiful than another, as it may have a greater capacity for beauty. For instance, a beautiful rose might have more beauty than a beautiful turkey. To find out, just measure them in Helens* and see which is comes higher on the scale.

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*Helen: The SI unit of beauty. One milliHelen is the amount of beauty required to launch one ship.
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Old 11-14-2012, 04:33 AM   #22101
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*Helen: The SI unit of beauty. One milliHelen is the amount of beauty required to launch one ship.
That's brilliant!!
I have never heard of the SI before this. What a wonderful convention!


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Old 11-14-2012, 04:46 AM   #22102
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Thanks for the kind words folks, still no answers on what happened, but it looks as if it is murder.
That somehow makes it worse. I echo Stichawl's sentiments and hope they bring whoever is responsible to justice quickly.
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Old 11-14-2012, 04:47 AM   #22103
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Your pictures are making me insanely jealous, Stitchawl. Just need to win the lottery and I'll be over there like a shot.

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That's brilliant!!
I have never heard of the SI before this. What a wonderful convention!
Umm... just in case, I should mention that the Helen is not an official SI unit.
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Old 11-14-2012, 05:09 AM   #22105
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Your pictures are making me insanely jealous, Stitchawl. Just need to win the lottery and I'll be over there like a shot.
Keep in mind that I only take photos of the pretty places. The rest looks just like London, New York, or Mexico City... I'm sure the countryside in your area is just a lovely, only it's too familiar to you to notice.

Proust said; "The voyage of discovery is not in traveling to new lands, but in seeing with new eyes."


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Old 11-14-2012, 05:18 AM   #22106
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Keep in mind that I only take photos of the pretty places. The rest looks just like London, New York, or Mexico City... I'm sure the countryside in your area is just a lovely, only it's too familiar to you to notice.

Proust said; "The voyage of discovery is not in traveling to new lands, but in seeing with new eyes."


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Granted. Though as much as I want to see the "real" Japan, even if it is now confined to the areas of which you speak, I also have very fond memories of Tokyo - I'm an admirer of cityscapes too, and fell in love with Rappongi, Ginza and other such districts.
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Japan is lovely in autumn if you are in the right place, but in springtime it's fantastic everywhere. There are cherry blossoms, magnolias, bulbs, wisteria etc etc, all flowering even in the smallest plots. My first visit to Japan in autumn left me with an impression of grey, in spite of going to the mountains and seeing all the lovely trees, the second visit in spring blew me away, there were flowers all over the place.

And thanks for the good wishes Orlok and Stitchy
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Umm... just in case, I should mention that the Helen is not an official SI unit.
Good thing you told me. I was thinking it was!
Well, it should be!


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