*Ø* Blogmanac July 12 | Feast of St Veronica
Saint Veronica derives from a late-medieval legend. She was supposedly a woman of Jerusalem; when Christ passed carrying the cross, she wiped his face of sweat and blood with her veil. His image stayed on the cloth, which became Vera-Icon (Latin: true image). She thus became St Veronica. The cloth is a relic at St Peter's, Rome.
In bullfighting the most classic movement with the cape is called Veronica, as the cape is swung slowly before the face of the beast, like Veronica's wiping of Christ's face.
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He is a singular character – a young man with much of wild original nature remaining in him; and so far as he is sophisticated, it is in a way and method of his own. He is ugly as sin, long-nosed, queer-mouthed, and with uncouth and somewhat rustic, although courteous manners, corresponding very well with such an exterior. But his ugliness is of an honest and agreeable fashion, and becomes him much better than beauty.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer, on Thoreau
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau
1817 Henry David Thoreau, American tax resister, essayist and author, most famous for Walden and his treatise on civil disobedience.
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
Henry David Thoreau
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it.
Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived for," from Walden; or, Life in the Woods
“Hailed by some as the first environmentalist, Thoreau was a profound philosopher on the human condition. His essay Civil Disobedience was inspirational for Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi.
“Walden published in 1854, details two years and two months lived in the second growth forest around the shores of beautiful Walden Pond, not far from his friends and family in Concord. Thoreau embarked on the two-year experiment in simple living on July 4, 1845 ...
“He was a student and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson and a Transcendentalist." Source: Wikipedia
NPR: Thoreau's Walden, Present at the Creation
Shop Thoreau
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1895 Richard Buckminster Fuller, American writer, visionary and engineer
“In 1927, at the age of 32, Buckminster Fuller stood on the shores of Lake Michigan, prepared to throw himself into the freezing waters. His first child had died. He was bankrupt, discredited and jobless, and he had a wife and new-born daughter. On the verge of suicide, it suddenly struck him that his life belonged, not to himself, but to the universe. He chose at that moment to embark on what he called “an experiment to discover what the little, penniless, unknown individual might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity.” Over the next fifty-four years, he proved, time and again, that his most controversial ideas were practical and workable.
“During the course of his remarkable experiment he:
•was awarded 25 U.S. patents
•authored 28 books
•received 47 honorary doctorates in the arts, science, engineering and the humanities
•received dozens of major architectural and design awards including, among many others, the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects and the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects
•created work which found itself into the permanent collections of museums around the world
•circled the globe 57 times, reaching millions through his public lectures and interviews.
Source: Buckminster Fuller Institute (listed in Planet Directory)
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More news on J-9
Some readers will know that the surgery that our Blogmanac team member, J-9, underwent today was very serious. I'm happy to report that I've spoken to her and, although she's in more pain than she was prepared for, she is alive, joking and taking a fantastic atitude into a bright future.
Keep smiling, J-9! Lots of people care for you and are sending good wishes.
Saint Veronica derives from a late-medieval legend. She was supposedly a woman of Jerusalem; when Christ passed carrying the cross, she wiped his face of sweat and blood with her veil. His image stayed on the cloth, which became Vera-Icon (Latin: true image). She thus became St Veronica. The cloth is a relic at St Peter's, Rome.
In bullfighting the most classic movement with the cape is called Veronica, as the cape is swung slowly before the face of the beast, like Veronica's wiping of Christ's face.
He is a singular character – a young man with much of wild original nature remaining in him; and so far as he is sophisticated, it is in a way and method of his own. He is ugly as sin, long-nosed, queer-mouthed, and with uncouth and somewhat rustic, although courteous manners, corresponding very well with such an exterior. But his ugliness is of an honest and agreeable fashion, and becomes him much better than beauty.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer, on Thoreau
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau
1817 Henry David Thoreau, American tax resister, essayist and author, most famous for Walden and his treatise on civil disobedience.
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
Henry David Thoreau
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it.
Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived for," from Walden; or, Life in the Woods
“Hailed by some as the first environmentalist, Thoreau was a profound philosopher on the human condition. His essay Civil Disobedience was inspirational for Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi.
“Walden published in 1854, details two years and two months lived in the second growth forest around the shores of beautiful Walden Pond, not far from his friends and family in Concord. Thoreau embarked on the two-year experiment in simple living on July 4, 1845 ...
“He was a student and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson and a Transcendentalist." Source: Wikipedia
NPR: Thoreau's Walden, Present at the Creation
Shop Thoreau
1895 Richard Buckminster Fuller, American writer, visionary and engineer
“In 1927, at the age of 32, Buckminster Fuller stood on the shores of Lake Michigan, prepared to throw himself into the freezing waters. His first child had died. He was bankrupt, discredited and jobless, and he had a wife and new-born daughter. On the verge of suicide, it suddenly struck him that his life belonged, not to himself, but to the universe. He chose at that moment to embark on what he called “an experiment to discover what the little, penniless, unknown individual might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity.” Over the next fifty-four years, he proved, time and again, that his most controversial ideas were practical and workable.
“During the course of his remarkable experiment he:
•was awarded 25 U.S. patents
•authored 28 books
•received 47 honorary doctorates in the arts, science, engineering and the humanities
•received dozens of major architectural and design awards including, among many others, the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects and the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects
•created work which found itself into the permanent collections of museums around the world
•circled the globe 57 times, reaching millions through his public lectures and interviews.
Source: Buckminster Fuller Institute (listed in Planet Directory)
More news on J-9
Some readers will know that the surgery that our Blogmanac team member, J-9, underwent today was very serious. I'm happy to report that I've spoken to her and, although she's in more pain than she was prepared for, she is alive, joking and taking a fantastic atitude into a bright future.
Keep smiling, J-9! Lots of people care for you and are sending good wishes.
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