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I was trying to find the name of a book from about twenty years ago, could not remember the author name(s) at all but had some sense that the title was in three parts with commas, and had some (incorrect) guesses at the title but knew a bit of what the book was about.  

Did not succeed in guessing the book title with AI-Search so I had to go into this old list of books read I used to keep on facebook, 

remember when you used to track your movies watched and books you had read and those you wished to read, and follow your favourite musical artistes on their fan pages?  Those are no longer fb features but by delving into the archive, for which I had to switch from handheld to laptop, and from "app" to web browser, I successfully found the book and saw how part of the difficulty came from me and memory mixing up this book (and book cover) with a different book on related subjects that I interacted with in the same period which, in turn, had made me try to guess using wrong keywords.   

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C'est de l'art

 not just a laundry basket perched up there on the fantastic furniture

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What should we do now? - Nothing.

What should we do now?  Nothing??  

     

It's never (almost everywhere) if it's forever too.  

backlinks: 2025, 2019

(Still) learning something about 9-year cycles. 

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Why don't you say something, say something 🎶

When there's no internet, you start to see that you can get a lot done, like all those old (dusty) hobbies.

In other news, children's shampoo is the simple and beautiful answer to, just something to wash my hair.  The bathing soap section is even more mortifying; it's full of covert and overt bleaching agents.  

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Re: Israel and Islam, why didn't anybody tell me before?

Today I learned that, in Muslim tradition, 

the angel of death is named Azrael - sounds like Isra'il, 

pronounced asarailu in Yoruba.  

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12 "planets" in astrology

advocating for Ceres and Juno!  

They could be promoted to full rank as rulers of Virgo and Libra respectively.  

Already there is more than one system of rulership, 

the original one with the Sun, Moon, and only five other astrological planets, 

and the most popular one with 10 planets (adding Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) that lets Venus and Mercury rule two signs each - Taurus/Libra and Gemini/Virgo respectively - to cover the 12 signs.  

This would be one more system - it's the one I use these days: 12 planets, 12 signs, 12 houses, it works. 

I have been influenced in this opinion by astrotheme, and I don't remember which other writings, where I've seen many times descriptions that suggest this direction.  

Ceres, the biggest of the four minor asteroids used besides Chiron, is associated with the mythological goddess of growing plants and harvest and also symbolizes physical constitution, vitality and fertility. She's also known as Demeter, according to the astrologer Zipporah Dobyns, linked to the symbolism of the mother but in a less emotive and more physical way than the Moon. Ceres is thought to be the ruler of Virgo, in exaltation in Gemini, in exile in Pisces and in fall in Sagittarius. Keywords associated with Ceres could be order, practical sense, worry, precision, modesty, method, sobriety, motherhood, fertility, the Earth: a kind of a more cerebral Moon...

Juno is the asteroid corresponding to the adaptation to the marital partner and to the defence of individual rights; it is thus used in the field of marriage.

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write something.

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Done.  Catch you in April.  

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Maths for what, anymore?

Something to read or do, I think.  A grand and gorgeous enterprise.  A rebellion in search of...a cause.  Enjoy! 

Recommendation: If you like Sudoku, you'll love Pips. 

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War

Throat on fire 

My throat is on fire 

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Enemy forces vs. me 

Before this, the mucus was heavily coloured, but now that that stage has passed, does it mean we've, that is I, have killed the bacteria all dead?  

Still spilling excesses of clear fluid, sometimes that is coming up when I cough, like saliva but nearly mucus by viscosity and yet nearly glass-pane-colourless-clear, okay just mucous then? 

It tickles so I keep coughing.  What is this enemy?  I have to win.  

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THE LIST 2025 :: BEST music*video

  1 - 2 - 3  

LOVER GIRL by Megan Thee Stallion 

HALLELUJAH (I Don't Think About You) by Kevin Olusola, and the same song performed at Howard University with the Showtime Marching Band and Concert Chorale 

SATISFIED by Micah McLaurin 

bonus: Kendrick Lamar at the Super Bowl Show (WATCH)

extra: the 2024 list 

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With Gratitude to God for a Life well Spent

Notes: 

1.  

Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 

2. 

Jesus: Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering. 

3. 

Why do you seek the living among the dead? 

From the Holy Bible: Hebrews 11,  Mark 5,  Luke 24

Flags at half-mast for my mother.

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On studying the Classics

Would it not be nice to know the classics?  

Then you consider The Bible, and you remember Shakespeare, and you smile and shake your head because you've been classicking all along.  It does not get more classical than those.  

And so when a child learns at Koranic school, or an auntie tells a folk Yoruba story maybe with its own song and drums ... the beautifulness of life in that moment is complete and connected to the past so far back as to be valued as classic.  

How old is language?  All human speech, the older languages, the newest language? 

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the #unga

The 80th session of the United Nations' General Assembly. 

The theme of session is ‘Better Together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights’.

Ah, the speeches.  

You are welcome to view and listen to every single country's presentation...How big are your ears?  

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a brag about reading.

I savour the joy of travelling through other worlds while not leaving the current one.  I am currently reading about Tuvalu in this lush piece of journalistic literature.

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Carmen y Allan, el clásico

 

Paso Doble.
#goals #Y8

  The usual strange things happened so that this dance video here now (July 28th) is disgustingly inferior to the perfection it was the day I first discovered it (July 21st) yes, in the same video, somehow someone edits these things.  It has now been so mutilated, it's for me now unwatchable (July 30th). Ah well.  You should have seen them; they (Allan and Carmen) were sublime.  There's a chance that what you see is fine, that you are presented with the pre- destruction version.  If so, yayyy, congrats. Yipppeee. (History: Preposted late July and added notes late July for early August scheduled post.)

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Street Fashion

What I have been intending to write here for weeks is just how lovely it is to watch the fashion offerings, especially on Sundays here in Lagos. We have at least a million queens!

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30 days hath September, April, June, and November.

and we're roughly halfway through this year.   

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It's a big one!

Hooray!!! 

Going to have the best day ever.  

Going to have the best year ever.  

Yippee!!

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From dust...to dust. POPE FRANCIS 🌸🌺🌷

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