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The Hobbit Hole IX - A sudden tree or standing stone
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Posted on 05/05/2004 7:57:51 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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A sudden tree or standing stone
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red,
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet,
Still round the corner we may meet
A sudden tree or standing stone
That none have seen but we alone.
Tree and flower and leaf and grass,
Let them pass! Let them pass!
Hill and water under sky,
Pass them by! Pass them by! |
Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe,
Let them go! Let them go!
Sand and stone and pool and dell,
Fare you well! Fare you well! |
Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
We’ll wander back to home and bed.
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Fire and lamp, and meat and bread,
And then to bed! And then to bed! |
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To: JenB
Also got the new Rurouni Kenshin manga - Borders didn't have it, but the mall bookstore did.Cool :) I need to get me some of those soon--I need my Kenshin fix :)
7,781
posted on
05/31/2004 12:13:19 PM PDT
by
Fedora
(Smeagol-Gollum 2004: "We can be our own VP, my Precious")
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
Good afternoon...Well, hiiiiiiiiiiiidy-ho! :)
7,782
posted on
05/31/2004 12:14:10 PM PDT
by
Fedora
(Smeagol-Gollum 2004: "We can be our own VP, my Precious")
To: Fedora
Didn't have time to find a cool-looking graphic to go with the four-of-a-kind, this time...
To: 2Jedismom; Overtaxed
~waving at you two~
*snif*
7,784
posted on
05/31/2004 12:22:22 PM PDT
by
Wneighbor
(Chrome is a good gift. Chrome don't die! --Benny Polston)
To: 2Jedismom
Great pics of OT, you and the jedis. The whistle moot appears to be a success, thanks for posting. Looks like nice weather for her return drive. It's only in the mid 70's here and the weather is cooperating.
To: RosieCotton
Hmmmm... maybe we need to pray that that guy goes to grad school! And we know who we're praying for to take his job.
I am really not all that excited about moving "home." I don't want to live there now a terribly lot either. But, the house there is paid for. I would like to go to San Antonio or Tucson. Maybe Colorado Springs. I have friends or friendly family in those places. Of course, I only look in those places sporadically. And in each of those cities there are people I love who would let me stay there till I got on my feet. :-)
7,786
posted on
05/31/2004 12:28:09 PM PDT
by
Wneighbor
(Chrome is a good gift. Chrome don't die! --Benny Polston)
To: RosieCotton
You can stay with me as long as you like!
I suppose I'll have a couch, anyway! What time frame are we looking at, anyway?
7,787
posted on
05/31/2004 12:37:58 PM PDT
by
JenB
(Colorado or Bust!)
To: Fedora
Well, the bow is shooting but the tiller isn't to my liking yet, so will move on for a bit to another task.
I think the reference to "different" was in respect to Japanese Yumi long bow, they have their own tradition of horse archery as well. The Koreans generally used a shorter horn backed bow. Like most things today, there are websites for Korean Archery and Japanese Archery and Horse Bows. Fortunately, there are fiberglass reproductions available in most cultural affiliations, given the high price of traditional crafted examples.
There is a horse bow festival each year in Ft. Dodge Iowa around Labor Day. It beginning to have a following here in the US. The bows of the Rohan horse archers are good examples, doubtless there will be a few in attendance.
Foot bows, another type, I know that they were used for flight or distance shooting, and there is still a small but dedicated following here in the US.
There are some references to large, long bows used to launch a heavy arrow against fixed or massed targets, but distance along is its forte.
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
Didn't have time to find a cool-looking graphic to go with the four-of-a-kind, this time...I didn't even notice the four-of-a-kind :) Nice snaig!--LOL!
7,789
posted on
05/31/2004 12:55:06 PM PDT
by
Fedora
(Smeagol-Gollum 2004: "We can be our own VP, my Precious")
To: JenB
August is all I know! I'm hoping for early August...but it was a brief conversation and I don't have their phone number at the moment. I should know more in a few weeks, I'd think.
7,790
posted on
05/31/2004 1:02:58 PM PDT
by
RosieCotton
(To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. - G. K. Chesterton)
To: JenB
And there's always the floor, if there isn't a couch! I ain't picky...
7,791
posted on
05/31/2004 1:03:35 PM PDT
by
RosieCotton
(To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. - G. K. Chesterton)
To: osagebowman
Thanks for the interesting info! That horse bow festival sounds neat. My friend from Tibet was telling me about his experience shooting from horseback there, which I found fascinating. It's pretty cool there are societies dedicated to such arts as that and the Japanese and Korean archery traditions. On the large long bows and heavy arrows, here is a book with some stuff on that I read recently that you might find enjoyable if you haven't read it already:
Ralph Payne-Gallwey, The Book of the Crossbow
A facsimile reprint of The Crossbow published in 1903 by Longmans, Green, and Co. in London. Surveys the history of the crossbow with comparisons to the longbow, shortbow and handgun; the construction and management of medieval and modern crossbows; and the ancient and medieval siege engines that stand in evolutionary relation to crossbows as cannons do to rifles. An appendix looks at Turkish and other oriental bows.
7,792
posted on
05/31/2004 1:05:38 PM PDT
by
Fedora
(Smeagol-Gollum 2004: "We can be our own VP, my Precious")
To: Wneighbor
Hmmmm... maybe we need to pray that that guy goes to grad school! And we know who we're praying for to take his job. Heh...I'm half hoping he doesn't go, since we already lost one of the team already this year - the only other gal finished grad school (she was only working for us part time during the school year) and got a job. But...I sure could use some better pay.
The other thing is...if the union stuff ever gets straightened out, it's possible they'll pay us back pay...i.e. if the rules say we should get a 2 or 3 percent cost of living kinda raise...we may get it back to when it should have been effective. Which would be June or July, I think...but at least it would mean we WOULD get that. So...I'm praying for that, too!
7,793
posted on
05/31/2004 1:06:20 PM PDT
by
RosieCotton
(To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. - G. K. Chesterton)
To: RosieCotton
I'll be there in early August, so I hope you can come out before the school year starts, though you might get the fun of coming with me to the DMV, etcetera.
7,794
posted on
05/31/2004 1:11:39 PM PDT
by
JenB
(Colorado or Bust!)
To: 2Jedismom
Here we are, just a bit ago, right before she left.Well that picture puts the 'slightly pudgy housewife' idea to rest! Both of y'all look great!
I'm fixing to post the pictures of the Applebee's parking lot jam!
7,795
posted on
05/31/2004 2:12:34 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
(Bush in 2004/Because we Must!!! (Bombard))
To: Fedora
I asked the boys about going out for Thai and turns out both of them want to go Japanese because they want sushi!
7,796
posted on
05/31/2004 2:13:53 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
(Bush in 2004/Because we Must!!! (Bombard))
To: 2Jedismom; RosieCotton; JenB; Wneighbor
Here's a couple more pictures from the VT/NH mini moot! Here's the jam at Applebee's.
Here's a picture of Van-sama!!
7,797
posted on
05/31/2004 2:25:38 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
(Bush in 2004/Because we Must!!! (Bombard))
To: SuziQ; RosieCotton
Van-sama!
You know, Rosie, if you should move, and would need new plates anyway, you'd just have to get vanity plates...
7,798
posted on
05/31/2004 2:31:33 PM PDT
by
JenB
(Colorado or Bust!)
To: JenB
7,799
posted on
05/31/2004 2:43:46 PM PDT
by
JenB
(Colorado or Bust!)
To: JenB
7,800
posted on
05/31/2004 2:43:51 PM PDT
by
JenB
(Colorado or Bust!)
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