April 23 at Nature’s Treasures
4103 N. Interstate 35
Austin, TX 78722
Phone: 512.472.5015
12PM – 4PM, appointments encouraged. E-mail.
Tuesday at Nature’s Treasures.
“It’s really him,” at the rock shop in Austin.
Discounts are available.
April 23 at Nature’s Treasures
Use the code, “sparkle faerie” at the check out — for applicable discounts.
Price Selection Won’t Be Beat!
Vincit Qui Primum Gerit
“First to arrive gets the best deal.” (Source.)
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#Austin
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Shakespeare References
First French Lord Dumaine:
“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipt them not, and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherish’d by our virtues.”
Enter a Messenger.
“How now? Where’s your master?”
Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well (IV.iii.27-8)
Shakespeare References
Over the years, I’ve used a number Shakespeare References in my works. Currently, and looking ahead to baseball and other summer adventures, three — largely academic — references stand out. These are my current sources when trying to explicate or deconstruct pieces and parts in one of the plays.
• This is Shakespeare by Emma Smith
• Shakespeare After All by Majorie Garber
• Shakespeare: The Invention of Human by Harold Bloom
When I had time to burn on the commute to and from Austin? I faithfully listened to a remarkable podcast, the always wonderful Chop Bard. Thought-provoking, excellent presentation, deep dives on certain influences, and basically, just a clean version of the material.
That podcast is largely even-handed, not straying too far in any one direction, merely a critical dissection of the individual parts, and then an overview about how those various pieces all held together to form a dramatic whole. Historical, historicity, linguistic, and possible root sources, classical.
Accompanied, as I am these days, the commute is less about drama and more about music with baseball games taking up some of my airwaves.
Shakespeare References
What’s most amusing about my Shakespeare references is the way I got to the number one on the list, Emma Smith’s This is Shakespeare. Started with working at the rock shop, and from there, listening to the plays read aloud, then dramatically read aloud, and then, a podcast that was a single lecture about a single element in Shakespeare’s works, and eventually, I stumbled through her lecture series delivered as podcasts.
Each lecture was about a play, and then, taking what seemed like a central thematic element, or particular point, and looking at that, paying attention to the lens with which the critical structure is examined, and that makes all the difference.
It gives way to a critical thinking, and how I think about a certain situation, whether that is political, astrological, or mundane.
Shakespeare References
There’s a final point of reference, and one that comes up more frequently: the World Wide Web.
Annoying that it might be, the ubiquitous search functions, and the abundance of material available, just makes it a resource.
There’s a lot of good stuff, but sifting through that material is sometimes disheartening. One news story, unrelated, I looked for a headline snippet, and found that the same article was repeated, over and over, with no new material added. Same story, repeated. Looked factual, but then, I was trying to find dissenting views, counterpoints, and other possible interpretations. All I got was the same news bytes, copied and pasted, over and over. Maybe just read in from a news feed.
Just because it gets repeated, over and over, that doesn’t make it true.
Tales about Shakespeare, and the Shakespeare academic apocrypha lives on. Which is why I like, on some days, just a book that hold the data.
But the quote suggests that even Shakespeare foresaw the coming of the World Wide Web: “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together…”
Shakespeare References
About This is Shakespeare link •
About Shakespeare After All link •
About Shakespeare Enriching Life •
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Sunday in San Antonio
Guiding Light Healing Arts
1235 Basse Rd
San Antonio, TX 78212
Store phone: 210-354-7343
11 AM – 4 PM
Walk-ins welcome
Sunday in San Antonio
Today in San Antonio — at the Rim — with some answers to questions….
- See listing for details —
Sunday! In San Antonio!
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Sunday in San Antonio
Curious as to the astrological details?
There are two sources of data, seeing me in San Antonio this Sunday — or the weekly horoscopes.
Sunday in San Antonio
Portable Mercury Retrograde – Kramer Wetzel
Portable Mercury Retrograde: astrofish.net’s Mercury in Retrograde
San Pedro Creek
- San Pedro Creek – Kramer Wetzel
- San Pedro Creek
- Digital Version here.
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Vincit Qui Primum Gerit
“First to arrive gets the best deal.”
Weekly Notify Email
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
Great find at a Half Price Books.
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
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Regrets and Mercury
“27. Either there is a well-arranged Order of things or a medley that is confused, yet still an order. Or can a sort of order subsist in thee, while in the Universe there is no order, and that too when all things, though separated and dispersed, are still in sympathetic connexion?”
Excerpt From:
- Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius Book 4.
Ἤτοι κόσμος διατεταγμένος ἢ κυκεὼν συμπεφυρμένος. ἀλλὰ μὴν κόσμος: ἢ ἐν σοὶ μέν τις κόσμος ὑφίστασθαι δύναται, ἐν δὲ τῷ παντὶ ἀκοσμία; καὶ ταῦτα οὕτως πάντων διακεκριμένων καὶ διακεχυμένων καὶ συμπαθῶν.
- An ordered world or a mishmash. But still an order. Can there be order within you and not in everything else? In things so different, so dispersed, so intertwined?
Regrets and Mercury
Mercury in Retrograde is a regular occurrence. I’m used to it. I plan for it, and I plan around it. I make allowances for its errant ways. To a certain extent, I count on the mistakes, gaffs, and associated problems as part of the process.
I’m very process-oriented, as I’ve found that to be the most efficient way to make progress.
The goal was simply to streamline parts of the process, clean up material in the background that no one sees, but everyone sees the results.
I searched the web and the RTFM “read only” material I could find, skipping the too technical, or the material that was unnecessarily verbose with little content.
I know, I know, glass houses, and all.
Regrets and Mercury
Oddly enough? Older entry:
“Knowing why a problem exists doesn’t fix the problem, but it gives me valuable expertise in working around the problem.” (Seen here)
The instructions were all pretty clear, boiled down, using three-four reference points, and looking at the written form, not the video version, and then?
When I pulled the plug to make the shift, the whole site went tits-up – 404.
Regrets and Mercury
It was several hours of bouncing between hardware platforms, websites with instructions and pointers, then over to a command line editor, and back to settings. Nothing worked, and after a few misguided restarts, I just went back to the original configuration. Not a matter of what’s best, but a matter of ease-of-use from a website operations perspective. Still want to trim and streamline, but that’s not happening at the moment.
However, ponder and search the web for answers, long enough, diligence pays off, eventually.
the Portable Mercury Retrograde
Marcus Aurelius (meditations)
Marcus Aurelius | Marcus Aurelius
A free copy of Marcus Aurelius Meditationsis available here.
3 Marcus Aurelius
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Astro’s Games
Can’t say I’m an Astro’s fan. Can’t say I’m a hater, either. But I do like watching some baseball, and they are the closest MLB stadium. So Astros and Braves, or Los Bravos.
Here’s the deal: The Braves have the best play-by-play announcer in the business. Seriously, a really good announcer. He’s got a voice, knowledge, and what seems like a genuine love for the franchise and heartfelt adoration of the game itself.
From unrelated press material, one of his part-time associates, a serious pitcher, I gather, the announcer’s goal was to make the other guy laugh.
It’s easy to feign enthusiasm for a little while, but this has been going on for years, so it seems.
Astro’s Games
It was a tragedy of small errors in the first two innings, Braves up by 1. It was a bunch of innings of pitchers, then relievers, without a lot action, until the top of the last inning. 5 runs on singles, a little bit at a time, and then, a fan favorite, Jesse Chavez closed it out. The Braves fans easily outnumbered and certainly out-cheered the H-Town people.
I would think A.J. Minter would be a fan favorite in H-Town, as a he was a product of almost local A&M.
Treebeard’s at the Cloisters
What makes good collard green great? A hunk of ham. Or a liberal dose of bacon bits. Done right? This is a benchmark southern delicacy.
By the heritage marker outside, I think, Episcopalian from 1839, with the most recent structure only dating back to 1938? (porous memory)
“When the juries are sequestered, this is where they bring them.”
Either way, really acceptable southern cuisine in its finest. Bonus points for church setting.
Astro’s Games
Not much of a game, especially with the rest of the leagues with their upsets, dramas, shenanigans, and sordid stories.
Early in the season, the Braves were grinding out a win, until that final inning. Stick around.
A rather drunk Astro fan?
“Our team sucks.”
Not really, jut not playing as a team, besides, baseball? Always an element of luck.
Searching the web for Houston dining, ballpark ideas, I stumbled across an old post about Tuesdays being dollar dog night.
“Is it really dollar dog night?”
I pointed in the direction of the kiosk with the sign, then left them, “but only for Braves fans.”
Astro’s Games
“A pale horse…”
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