tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post7880918316584640437..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Cuidado (Robinson Jeffers: Fire on the Hills)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-58948594183409301982013-08-30T03:16:02.838-07:002013-08-30T03:16:02.838-07:00Zooming in reverse downhill deeper and deeper into...Zooming in reverse downhill deeper and deeper into Revelations...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-23675159530070217172013-08-29T16:23:06.572-07:002013-08-29T16:23:06.572-07:00For Sale:
Pre-owned Brave New World
runs good dow...For Sale: <br />Pre-owned Brave New World<br />runs good downhill<br />some dents dings<br />steering uncertain<br />no brakes <br />lights out <br /><br />needs work<br />make offerHazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-21344557525595648712013-08-29T11:05:36.560-07:002013-08-29T11:05:36.560-07:00thank you so much for sharing your vision. revelat...thank you so much for sharing your vision. revelation within revelation. --from l.a.devi arneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14004917506594544087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-46257885597691957192013-08-29T08:08:33.353-07:002013-08-29T08:08:33.353-07:00The chopper photos looking down into the smoking c...The chopper photos looking down into the smoking canopy brought back eerie memories. The Central Highlands, 1966-67. Reminding that, hey, this is war.<br /><br />In the kind of society we now have, it's generally supposed that the best way to address problems created by our presence on the planet is to introduce technological "solutions".<br /><br />So naturally, there's no more serious talk of reducing carbon emissions -- the real cause of global warming, of which the plague of superfires is one obvious manifestation -- than there ever was.<br /><br />After all, the campers and skiers who zip up to the mountain "recreation areas" (Recreation Wrecks the Nation)... drive motor vehicles.<br /><br />So rather than save the forests and their tender ecosystems by relieving them of the onerous burden of human presence, what do "we" do?<br /><br />Ramp up the tech, of course.<br /><br />The California Air National Guard 183rd Recon Wing now has a new weapon in its firefighting arsenal. <br /><br />Target Acquisition made easy, the Smart Way. Kids don't have that shiny red fire engine to admire these days. It's hard to love a Drone really.<br /><br />Still this is the brave new world, and Drones R Us.<br /><br />So here's our brave new Super Fireman:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/portlet/article/html/imageDisplay.jsp?contentItemRelationshipId=5367983" rel="nofollow">MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle, Balad Air Base, Iraq</a><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MQ-1_Predator_controls_2007-08-07.jpg" rel="nofollow">Air Force personnel at the controls of MQ-1 Predator at Balad Air Base, Iraq</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-69125826056781778962013-08-29T03:47:26.123-07:002013-08-29T03:47:26.123-07:00Greece, summer 2007 and
afterwards.<a href="http://ec.europa.eu/echo/civil_protection/civil/forestfires_el_2007.htm" rel="nofollow">Greece, summer 2007</a> and <br /><a href="http://vazambam.blogspot.gr/2008/12/holocaust.html" rel="nofollow">afterwards</a>.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-89911687174383016262013-08-28T13:35:44.636-07:002013-08-28T13:35:44.636-07:00the fire was beautiful, the terror
Of the deer was...the fire was beautiful, the terror<br />Of the deer was beautiful<br /><br />an eagle<br />Was perched on the jag of a burnt pine,<br />Insolent and gorged<br /><br />Beauty observed. Opportunity in sight.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-4266819766955541912013-08-28T08:51:08.271-07:002013-08-28T08:51:08.271-07:00Good luck, indeed. When Jane was little, "cu...Good luck, indeed. When Jane was little, "cuidado" was what the Brazilian woman who lived with us always said to her in an assortment of potential child peril situations (but nothing like this). The Blackhawk photos showing the National Guard soldier are astonishing and, as Harris says, the Noah Berger photograph was revelatory. I remember reading and loving Jeffers' poetry in high school a long time ago and then being steered away from it by external forces and a lack of knowledge and inner conviction until rediscovering it on BTP. Thank you. CurtisUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01453842393788270587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34677984517847827712013-08-28T08:47:59.855-07:002013-08-28T08:47:59.855-07:00That small helicopter striving, hauling its teacup...That small helicopter striving, hauling its teacup of water to douse the spreading immensity of the fire . . . that says it all. <br /><br />“ . . . the whole mind . . .” sees the whole thing.<br /> <br />Sí, hombre, ten mucho cuidado.Hazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-50232006082283145332013-08-28T07:50:42.397-07:002013-08-28T07:50:42.397-07:00Tom,
"deer . . . Under the smoke . . . sky ....Tom,<br /><br />"deer . . . Under the smoke . . . sky . . . Blue, hills . . . black" <br /><br />-- image of eagle perched on the branch, deer looking at camera. . .<br /><br />8.28<br /><br />light coming into fog in front of still<br />shadowed ridge, grasses moving in field<br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> just that, point of thought<br /> connection with other<br /><br /> here, there in the distance,<br /> actual incoming light<br /><br />fog against invisible shoulder of ridge,<br />fog on horizon to the left of the point<br />STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-83212307597265249002013-08-28T06:39:18.363-07:002013-08-28T06:39:18.363-07:00The photograph by Noah Berger (“Flames from the Ri...The photograph by Noah Berger (“Flames from the Rim Fire consume a tree on Evergreen Road outside Yosemite National Park near Groveland, California,”) from your first Rim Fire post is a revelation. <br /><br />It shows the life in the natural element of fire as a kind of dance of transformation. I have never seen fire photographed so clearly and beautifully. <br /><br />As Jeffers says: “Beauty is not always lovely.” <br /><br />Good luck over there. <br /><br />HarrisUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15235344408979987198noreply@blogger.com