20080629-Golden Glow
Today between 15:00 and 15:15 (Pacific Time), the sun took on a golden appearance. We have finished eating a late lunch a few minutes ago and ‘Maw’ noticed the golden cast upon the cement of our backyard. I, of course, grabbed my camera and proceeded to take several photos at ‘normal’ range and zoomed up close. I tried taking one movie shot but didn’t want to waste space on the 256MB camera chip or battery of six-double AA.
My photo showing the golden glow of and around the sun as seen through our trees in the backyard.
In my mind’s eye, I imaged seeing a six-pointed effect of today’s afternoon sun based on one of my many photos. The above sample showed the usual sun’s rays but if y’all will notice the ‘corona’ looks bumpy, almost square, and not at all circular as my previous shots of the sun. I chose this photo because the auto-focus calculated the shot from the leaves of our trees in the backyard. My other photos didn’t flash and showed at least red spots forming a square around bright objects such as the sun.
Below is a photo taken from one movie shot. It includes a vertical purple line going through the sun and from top to bottom of the photo. I could only surmise that the camera itself produces these sort of ‘phenom’, which looks strikingly like another dedicated blogger’s photos, only mine are not concentric circles of various pink and purple colors in nature.
My photo showing a purple, pinkish vertical line going through the sun.
Also, the skies from the northern California fires have not cleared up all that much as seen in the above photo as brownish clouds with some blue skies barely showing up in the background.
I don’t know what to make of this afternoon’s golden glow from the sun. Earlier, I was asking ‘Paw’ what is the English equivalent to the Filipino word ‘hibi‘. He said, ‘It means ‘dried [baby] shrimp’. I was thinking of that cute, ’small fry’ as in a small child from that photo, of course. So I made a connection of the celestial event with the up close face in this small way.
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20080629-Go Home
After the 09:15AM mass, we went the parish hall to eat some snacks of crackers, cheese, cream puff balls, fudge brownies and drinking very bitter tasting coffee. My parental units and I took pictures with Father V. and Father P. also. The conversation between ‘Maw’ and Father P. was interesting.
It had to do with foreigners who cannot seem to leave their damn superstition and cultural identities behind for good and move on by adapting to the lifestyles of the United States from speaking English (because definitely cannot understand a damn word from someone) to eating with a spoon and fork properly!
The point is that these people continue to come into the United States for a better life. Yet they complain how different everything is and that is too bad for them. Because for some naturally born American citizens, we don’t give a damn and they could just go back home for all we care.
And for what it’s all worth is but a burden to the government, especially for the free loaders taking what is left our social security benefits and riding on backs of welfare programs. Even those who have lived with the system don’t seem to get enough entitlement nowadays.
Sure there is the continued influx of new groups of hard working people who do the dirty work. But there are the worse kinds who come over with their bars of gold, hop onto a boat (which hopefully doesn’t sink in the Pacific Ocean) and then fight for their rights to bring back bad memories.
So whatever happens to our borders depends on which group of people [wants to stay or get out).
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20080628-Gold Weight
What is the worth in gold?
‘A bovine devil mooing’ over 200 pounds; some edible, caterpillar fungus for the Tibetan people; my life full of nasty, selfish, ungrateful, lying and deceiving people; or her expensive engagement ring of over ten grand?
Nay! I say gold and its intrinsic value belongs to this world and to the blind, who could only be appreciated in return by those comparing themselves to pieces of shiny, yellow rocks.
Yea! I say gold is priceless and eternal, belonging to the heavens and to those who listen well to the messages sung by the beautiful voices of angels, their sounds bring tears to one’s eyes and touches one’s soul.
This is gold – touching the lives of people through the human voice. Gold shines brighter as the voice of reason, not fighting or bad-mouthing, as the song of love, through unity and hope and as the gift from ‘God’ to bring all of us closer to our souls and to discover each other, too.
Here is a downloaded copy of the YouTube.com video by `mdkaye`:
Canon – Pachelbel – Boys Soprano Choir D Major
doneAuthor’s note: Y’all heard my thoughts again around midnight while viewing some videos of Choir Boys whose voices range in Soprano with Maw. I cried in the middle of the video around 11:33PM on 06-27-2008. This was my inspiration for this blog entry even though the last paragraph sounded oratory.
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