Saturday, April 7, 2007
"Shopping Around"
4:30pm
3020 8-Tier Adjustable
Height 51.25"
Width 26"8"
Manufacturer: Atlantic
Shipping/Handling included in our prices and No Tax!
[Color: Black] 1 $69.95 $69.95
Subtotal: $69.95
Shipping and Handling: $0.00
Grand Total: $69.95
It wobbles easily
After finding a larger view of the item, I felt assured that it looks sturdy, like a sized down version of those steel wire shelves used for industrial purposes. I think it will take the weight of 400 CDs.
I think Julia will be happy once it's all in place and organized. Anyway, it's got to be better than plastic crates held together with thin yarn covered wire!
I eagerly await its arrival.
Meanwhile, today I felt in a mood to go shopping in town, after going to the library so Julia could borrow more books. Me, I still haven't picked up the Kerényi I put down a few weeks ago. I feel bad to get so distracted, but am glad there's so many interesting things to distract me. So while she looked for books, I sat and sketched:
This is children's service in the temporary location. The librarian was on the phone the entire time.
Everything has been decorated with spring flowers.
A studious young man...
Oh, I couldn't pass by the blouse collections, I couldn't do that even though I have a closet bar stuffed with blouses. I saw a paisley shirt with a white background on sale for cheap and a paisley shirt with a warm brown background on sale for not QUITE so cheap. However, the more expensive one, I felt 'alive' in it as Oprah recommends, and the cheaper one would not nearly have been so satisfying to wear.
After all that, I wanted to give the fabric store that's closing out one more chance. Everything is now 70-80 percent off. So we scoured the rapidly dwindling wares for the last of the best. I chose lining for vest fabric I'd bought earlier, and two lengths for dresses for Julia and some yellow background paisley for a blouse for me. And I bought lots of buttons.
I paid the bill, and then as I left the store I had a sinking feeling something didn't feel right. It seemed for that much off, we should have paid a great deal less. Julia thought so, also, and once we got home she brought up her Excel program to examine matters. She found that we'd paid whole price for many items, amounting to nearly 65 dollars more than we should have paid.
Six dollars, I would have let it go. Sixty dollars, no, Julia and I both work far too hard to let that much go needlessly. So we went back, armed with a print out of Julia's detailed results. The clerk carefully fixed her mistakes and we look forward to seeing a credit in our account.
Before I end today's entry, here's another one of the fair flowers:
This had been mislabeled 'iris', I believe it's really an orchid.
(First addition)
| There must be a balance. Those modernists who seem to simply borrow the names of ancient deities with little or no research into how the old Priesthood saw their deity also lack a vitality. Their efforts are superficial and can attain no depth. |
This was inspired by some oddly puzzling things observed in my web travels. One 'lodge' is ascribing to Horus some things that clearly are the realm of Set. Poor scholarship is unexcusable. Another is a clock featuring Set on its dial face. Now, Set is lord of many things, but the measuring of time is not one of them. If you ask Set what's the time, he will say, "It's NOW, NOW is all you need to know, NOW is the only time in which you can act!". If you ask Horus, he will say, "I see daylight, time to rise and fly high on the hunt" If you ask Thoth, you'll get the measuring of days and nights into minutes, hours, months and years.
On the other hand, maybe this what the clock sellers want to say, "Nevermind the measures, NOW is the only time in which to act."
The other addition relates to recent discoveries which were enhanced by what I learned at the Arizona Science Center:
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I am a Setian, and in my intuitive understanding, which sees Set as the one of Power, he did not 'create the darkness', it was already there, and he arose from it. According to a Pyramid text Thoth came forth from Seth, as a result of 'relations betweeen Horus and Seth' (Seth, God of Confusion, page 39, by Te Velde.) "As we have seen, Horus and Seth are not usually imagined as working together in concord. The two combatants bring forth the god of peace. He appears and places himself between the two gods, thereby interceding in the struggle..."(Page 45) So in my Setian understanding, it is Set first, the 'first one of darkness', full of power. From this power, light arises forth out of darkness, and Horus is born. They squabble, and necessity brings forth Thoth, the reconciler. 'As above, so below', there are further reasons to have the cosmology thusly. When I was at the Arizona Science Center, I learned the brain develops from back to front. (Teenagers' brains are still developing.) The frontal lobes of the cerebral cortex lie under the forehead, which has to do with planning, reasoning, movement, and some aspects of speech. This would indeed be the realm of Thoth. Understanding the realm of consciousness is the heart and soul of all Egyptian thought. In 'Egyptian Mystics', Moustafa Gadalla explains, "The main Egyptian mystical (Sufi) theme is the importance of consciousness, in integrating the inner faculties into comprehension through a gradual process. The Egyptian mystics refer to this process as using all organs of perception for a more comprehensive understanding."(page 27) Power, vision and then reasoning co-ordination is the most logical evolution.
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Changing my focus to more mundane things, I had to update my understanding in regards to flower types. I'd labeled the pretty purple and white flower in yesterday's entry as an 'iris', then a segment on today's Sunday morning show about orchids got me to thinking and searching the web. So I updated that photo's name!
Here are more items from the fair's horticulture displays:
This 'alien' looking plant (full plant photo) is a Monadenium Paper Cactus.
(I photographed the label this time, but oddly, I can find no reference to this unusual plant online...)
It's easy to remember the name of the LADY SLIPPER flower!
The PDF turned out to be eleven pages long, after resizing pictures and so forth. I'm glad to have a hard copy and made two. I had just enough paper. (Time to go to Staples again!)
Sunday, April 8, 2007 C
"Ending of the Fair"
9:48pm
Once inside the buildings, the fair definitely was in a state of closing down, however. Photos were in boxes, and people were trying to assemble them by number. The fine arts building still had a few pieces on the wall, but most were gone. I took note of the careful comments one person had made on them:
