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Friday 3 February 2017

Atardecer en Temascaltepec / Borges: Religio Medici, 1643 / Rolling Murican Prayer Space: "Wisconsin, I love Wisconsin"

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Atardecer en Temascaltepec: image via Fernández Noroña, 2  February 2017

Jorge Luis Borges: Religio Medici, 1643

Defiéndeme, Señor. (El vocativo
No implica a Nadie. Es sólo una palabra
De este ejercicio que el desgano labra
Y que en la tarde del temor escribo).

Defiéndeme de mí. Ya lo dijeron
Montaigne y Browne y un español que ignoro;
Algo me queda aún de todo ese oro
Que mis ojos de sombra recogieron.

Defiéndeme, Señor, del impaciente
Apetito de ser mármol y olvido;
Defiéndeme de ser el que ya he sido,

El que ya he sido irreparablemente.
No de la espada o de la roya lanza
Defiéndeme, sino de la esperanza. 



 #DarthVader visitará #México en #LaMoleComicCon: image via El Mañana de Valles @elmananavalles,  2 February 2017

Religio Medici, 1643

Save me, O Lord. (That I use a name for you
does not imply a Being. It’s just a word
from that vocabulary the tenuous use,
and that I use now, in an evening of panic.)
Save me from myself. Others have asked the same --
Montaigne, Sir Thomas Browne, an unknown Spaniard.
Something remains in me of these golden visions
That my fading eyesight can still recognize.
Save me, O Lord, from that impatient urge:
To yield myself to tombstones and oblivion.
Save me from facing all that I have been,
That person I have been irreparably.
Not from the sword-thrust or the bloodstained lance.
Save me, at least, from all those golden fictions.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986): Religio Medici, 1643 from Elogio de la Sombra (In Praise of Darkness), 1969: English version by Alistair Reid



Empleados de #Twitter hacen donación millonaria para combatir las políticas migratorias de #Trump reuniendo la cantidad de USD $1.59 millones: image via El Mañana de Valles @elmananavalles,  2 February 2017


Fernández Noroña en Torre #Trump acepta construir muro… pero con el mapa de 1830: image via El Mañana de Valles @elmananavalles,  2 February 2017


Security surrounds Mexican politician @fernandenorona as he protests with maps of the U.S. and Mexico in the lobby of Trump Tower in NYC.: image via Andrew Harnik @andyharnik, 4 January 2017 


Tenemos las placas de la Cherokee blanca. Ya se las daremos: image via Fernández Noroña @fernandonorona, 1 February 2017
 

 Iniciando @balfrevargas: image via Fernández Noroña @fernandonorona, 1 February 2017

 
Vamos tarde y la carretera...: image via Fernández Noroña @fernandonorona, 1 February 2017


   Se va formando la fila de apoyo mi candidatura nada menos que en Atlacomulco: image via Fernández Noroña @fernandonorona, 1 February 2017


  @realDonaldTrump to reporter when asked if military action was off the table in Iran replied,"nothing's off the table.": image via Stephen Crowley @Stcrow, 2 February 2017


 @realDonaldTrump tells #NationalPrayerBreakfast US is taken advantage of by nearly every nation in the world: image via Jeff Mason @jeffmason1, 2 February 2017



Scenes from the National Prayer Breakfast, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, in Washington. Photo by @evanvucci: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 2 February 2017



Scenes from the National Prayer Breakfast, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, in Washington. Photo by @evanvucci: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 2 February 2017



Scenes from the National Prayer Breakfast, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, in Washington. Photo by @evanvucci: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 2 February 2017


Scenes from the National Prayer Breakfast, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, in Washington. Photo by @evanvucci: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 2 February 2017


 Typically vain and vengeful while buttering up religious rt, how do u picture him at Natl Prayer Breakfast? As head of the bagels. Photo @stcrow: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 2 February 2017


@harleydavidson delegation visits the White House. On motorcycles, obviously.: image via Jeff Mason @jeffmason1, 2 February 2017


"Wisconsin, I love Wisconsin," @realDonaldTrump says while approaching @harleydavidson team at the White House.: image via Jeff Mason @jeffmason1, 2 February 2017


Boy would you like to see me fall off one of these, @realDonaldTrump says to reporter when asked if he would ride one: image via Jeff Mason @jeffmason1, 2 February 2017

Trump

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence stop to admire a Harley Davidson motorcycle parked on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, as he welcomed Harley Davidson executives and union representatives. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais): image via AP Images @AP_Images, 2 February 2017
 



 @realDonaldTrump, VP Pence met w members of Congress to discuss, NAFTA, trade, commerce; greeted Harley Davidson executives, union reps.: image via Stephen Crowley @Stcrow, 2 February 2017
 

The Art of Diplomacy: SecState Tillerson w Jordan's King Abdullah II, @realDonaldTrump smiling at Judiciary Committee member Klobuchar.: image via Stephen Crowley @Stcrow, 2 February 2017 



Can't get over the symmetry of this. Like the bedlam is going perfectly. Photo @andyharnik: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 2 February 2017



Snow falls on a quiet Saturday as police stand guard outside Trump Tower, in New York #trump #snow #saturdaymorning: image via Andrew Harnik @andyharnik: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 7 January 2017



Yes, the darkness and hysteria is thoroughly meditated. More notable, tho, is the transparency. The boastfulness. #DiabolicalManThatIAm @TIME: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 2 February 2017



Accompanied by top advisors, @POTUS @realDonaldTrump, left, speaks w Russian Pres Putin on the phone in the Oval Office in the White House.: image via Andrew Harnik @andyharnik, 28 January 2017


Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and their daughter Arabella Kushner, take photographs on the Truman Balcony of the @WhiteHouse: image via Andrew Harnik @andyharnik, 21 January 2017 


Offices in the West Wing of the @WhiteHouse sit empty on the morning of the first full day of@realDonaldTrump's administration.: image via Andrew Harnik @andyharnik, 21 January 2017


Multiple sections of empty bleachers at the reviewing stands for @realDonaldTrump inaugural parade outside the @WhiteHouse #Inauguration : image via Andrew Harnik @andyharnik, 20 January 2017
 

@realDonaldTrump golfing with @TigerWoodstoday at Trump International in West Palm Beach. Media pool kept at public library across street: image via Andrew Harnik @andyharnik, 23 December 2016


@realDonaldTrump boards an elevator after saying goodbye to Martin Luther King III, the son of #MLK, at Trump Tower. #MLKDay: image via Andrew Harnik @andyharnik, 16 January 2017
 

Protestors gather at Brooklyn Borough Hall to pray before a rally in protest President Donald Trump's immigration order Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II): image via AP Images @AP_Images, 2 February 2017


Daily lives of migrants living in abandoned warehouses during freezing temperatures in Serbia @Muheisen81: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 2 February 2017




4 comments:

TC said...

Junior Wells: Hoodoo Man Blues (live) ("an old pharoah and nice outstanding musician")

Junior Wells: Give Me One Reason

Junior Wells / Buddy Guy: Cryin' Shame, from the film Chicago Blues, 1970

kent said...

TC: Ya know, for a dead guy that JLB sure has a lot to say about things. At least around here.

Sandra said...

a deep insight !!

Hilton said...

The fire haircut got to me - and Im sure Borges would have something to say it.