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Ron Silliman: Online Poems
the nose of kim darby's double
Canyons, paths
dug thru the snow
the walls as high as
The weight of it
when it begins to melt
& then, at sunset
still midafternoon
the temperature drops
wind over the ridge
so that by dawn
each surface
hardens into ice
Dams clog the drains
to turn the window
facing north
into a waterfall . . .
Driving north
past the mall turn, King
of Prussia, past Bridgeport
and the narrow brick streets of Norr'stown
the road eases up, what
was once country
into a more purely rural
suburbiana (golf course
blanketed in white
A gas station that has not yet
turned into a minmart
Swath cut
by the powerlines
right thru the old quarry, the pit
filled with water
is called a lake, each
new townhouse with its private dock
tho if you look upstairs
you will discover the doors to the closets
all made of vinyl
Someone in another room is singing the alphabet
Barely visible in the high slush
fog mixed with rain
a woman waits for her bus
The form of the flower
petals dropping away
to reveal a new, further flower
now red, now blue
each shape a perpetual
revision, this
leaf thick and milky, this
spiky, hard, this
covered with the finest fuzz
In his dream the boy
has dug a maze through the snow
complex, magnificent
that his parents want to dig up
(At four, to identify
the tension of generations
Glow threading
thru the woods at night,
headlights from an auto
Gamuk is kissing Ganuganuga
Resolution protocol:
song of a dot matrix printer
Casting text
across the listserv,
I write
until the first sight of sun
triggers morning's hunger,
voices echo elsewhere in the house
in the form of
a sheep, black,
Dinosaur constructed
from wire and beads
A pennywhistle lies on the rug
Thru the poplars
just enough light
to cast the first silhouette.
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For Jackson Mac Low
Proto-mallie: the flaneur.
"The older I get the more
floors I discover
at Macys." Little red
thermos looks like
fire extinguisher. Ants won't cross
trail of
petroleum jelly. Hat
with no bill, cubist
leather beret.
Sore on my tongue, smell
of dung. Voice's choices
sight's relight. In gaol
they make you surrender
your panty hose
to prevent suicide.
The crowd of protesters
approach, chanting
"out of the boutiques
and into the streets."
Seagull brushes
up against my cap.
Rude Work Ahead.
Velcro strap,
reusable cast.
Dog's name
is Cutty.
Eco-Brutalism, Deep
Semiology. Sturgeon
General. Boot failure!
Odd trim
of the ear's rim.
The neck seen as a tube is
seen incorrectly.
Post-its peeking
from a three-ring binder.
Dog snarls
behind window of
locked Rabbit.
Morning's magic means
make my
daily bread. Ears
put head in
brackets. Hypervariables
in DNA show up
on screen like
Bar code
on a cereal box.
Rushed writing.
one is to words
always an outsider,
tho they invade your head,
colonize dreams.
Neither an Aram
nor Omar be.
Picking your teeth versus
picking your nose. Voice
echoes up the lightwell.
Reading to discern liquids
from the bottoms of used cups.
Place mats
map the table.
De Man who shot liberty: valence.
Blue sparks fly
in the dark tunnel
beneath the train's wheels.
The sound of an egg cracking
against the bowl's edge.
All sirens are narrative.
The brothers hover in the doorway
smokin' their crack.
Powdery sugar
atop apple pancake.
Now that we have computers
liquid paper is doomed.
Pair of grackles
attempt to mate
perched atop
Amtrak arrow logo
till the she-male
jumps into flight.
Water fountain's
cooling motor
hums on.
An odd john;
high urinals
and low basins
hard to tell apart.
Thimbalism. "JWs,"
he sniffed and sniffed he did,
"black Mormons." yellow stone house
across the way, in which lives
Mrs. Florence Schneider
amid her treasures, rare china,
fine handspun cotton, a garden
of grape hyacinth--that odd
blue purple. Dump truck
pale blue filled with clay
atop which lays a shovel.
Black lores of the red cardinal.
Rounded shovel
is for cutting into
the earth, square ones
for piling it away.
Combination of
the swing and these
new reading glasses
quickly makes me seasick.
Back panel of greeting cards.
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from You
for Pat Silliman
For Bob and Francie
P=H=I=L=A=D=E=L=P=H=I=A. Under the dogwood tree,
scampering, playful as a squirrel, a large grey rat, fat as can be.
Old hardwood floor, impossible to cross silently in the dark. Dog
attempts to hump the cat. For Spring, an old closed-in porch, a
neighborhood crow.
Three old men play golf in the rain. What is a redpoll? Street
cobbled after all these years precisely to reduce the speed of
traffic. Thanks to Paul Hoover, I can find my work in any strip
mall bookshop in America. For Pound on the Main Line, the trip
to Penn proved no journey at all. Business center parking lot on a
Sunday, a half dozen cars parked by the squat brick six-story
Beyond the tightly clustered streets of the small town,
half-boarded up Main Street surrounding the single tall spire of a
church, the road quickly turns rural (cluster of mock castle
executive homes out by the golf course). Twin clouds of steam rise
almost forever from Limerick. Concept of a basement as
Suppository understood as a term of rhetoric. Early morning,
cheap ballpoint pen falls into a urinal in the fourth-floor men's
room–who knows how?–never to be removed, to become a
target, moved willfully by streams of urine, pushed counter
clockwise around the white–who knows what it is made of?–urinal
cake. Returning in the rain from the old brick bank to the car, I
realize that I forgot to feed the meter, had scurried right past it in
my hurry to stay dry, only to have gotten by without a ticket, little
gift of fate. Kitaj's eyes.
Back roads amid dogwood. Terminal emulation. Rag doll
anatomically correct. A cloudless sky but for the power plant. An
old small town at the center of all this development. Holds a
skateboard the way you would a schoolbook. Pink petals
Man sitting zazen has stroke, falls forward, suffocating in the soft
foam of an empty meditation pillow. Cat locked out all night in the
rain. A pager in every pocket. Suburban train.
Whoever lives by the aphorism dies by the cliché. A dream in
which I might know the bomber. A dream in color. Idea of a road
as a "pike."
Moment in which I realize I'm not wearing my glasses. Old stone
house. Blue plastic wrap of the New York Times. Impact of red
wine on white fur of the dog. Sunrise.
Poem as gradual as weather. Hotel art (pseudo-Hoffman softened,
retro-Rothko as filigree in pastel). What Trenton makes, the world
takes. What Nixon knew when Nixon knew it.
First compulsive songbird, pre-dawn, abruptly halts. The air
conditioner is constant (unnoticed but never silent). You can hear
the electricity in lightbulbs, faint crackling. Motivation: man in hotel
conference room throws football to the sales reps.
Too bleary to imagine. How the river carves the city (lost at night,
trying to find my way across). Dog leaps for the stick, her own
ballet, then loses interest, wanders off to sniff the grass. History as
a function of curiosity.
Of the forbidden, my three-year-old says "That makes me sad."
Impossible to discern the ice from the shards of broken glass. A
table of contents from which I've been omitted. Room in which
toupees outnumber beards. The firestorm sweeps left across the
screen: we only imagine the men, women and children inside. I'm
walking in a world you cannot imagine, having died so long ago.
Dream of real estate. Amato's tomatoes. The sun emerges
gradually through the woods. (The son emerges gradually through
the woods.) The present has not become a perfect copy, but
rather an uneditable one. The boat sinks rapidly in the text. Try to
capture the shape and impact of your cheekbones in words.
From an airplane, the spokes of suburban mall (this one in
Princeton is T-shaped) are indistinguishable from those of a
minimum security prison but for the immense parking lot. But for.
When the hard drive on the PC that controls the security system
crashes, every fire door in the hotel–each held open by electrically
controlled magnets–slams shut. Cardinals will take some getting
used to. Dark-toned palette of The X-Files.
Old stone inn, used by the Tories to plot the assault on
Philadelphia, still serves rich veal medallions covered with crab
meat, spinach and Hollandaise sauce. Cardinals in the silver birch.
Metronome of an old wind-up mantle clock. Your body beneath
that new little night blouse, then my hand beneath that.
An enclosed front porch converted to language. Each person I
meet insists on telling me their "California story." Restaurant on
main floor of old municipal building: the workers stash their
belongings downstairs in the jail. Elf-like, a porcelain imitation of
Santa's wife, the woman warns us of the "colored" districts (this is
1995). Cat stops to stare at me, then turns and glides away.
Read me. Full moon in the dogwood. In St. Petersburg and
Moscow, a gang (eight young men, two women) has been
murdering apartment owners in order to sell their apartments. I set
the pager to vibrate. Driving endlessly along Bethlehem Pike,
seeming to get no closer to familiar landmarks, I notice the sun
starting to set in the East. Don't look!
In the next room, the large formal dining room table is covered
with thousands of pieces of an unfinished jigsaw puzzle (little more
than the rectangular outer rim is complete, an echo of the shape of
the table, though two of the corners have begun to be filled in,
clusters of two and three joined pieces dotting the center), but in
this light (at this angle and distance), it's impossible to tell what the
image is, or even that one exists. Crow screaming in the trees.
Gypsy curse: May you have a lawsuit in which you know you're
The problem with poetry is poets. Bone spurs grab the heart. First
shrill roar of cardinals. This storm doesn't so much arrive and pass
as it does gather and dissolve.
The writhing lesson. The dog's paws as it crosses the hardwood
floor. The rain stops but the trees still have to shed their water.
House with two fire places (in sight of one another). Telescope in
the dining room. We imagine the bird's song as an expression of
Paragraph is burning. Alone in the playground, dressed in a suit
that doesn't quite fit, red shirt, black tie, stands the
developmentally disabled boy atop the tall slide, vomiting.
Smidgens in the glass harass. Moment at which first bird starts to
sing, impossible still visually to discern dawn's approach. To
imagine Duncan's text is to envision Duncan.
First dull light foretells a clouded dawn. Bear masks made from
paper plates. Mockingbird clicks. Gradually, moving out, as the
furniture and pictures disappear, the architecture of the room
re-emerges as if hidden by use, bare potential, naked as any
person, almost obscene. Mockingbird gargles and growls.
In the dream, I have the same conversation about the storage
capacity of my laptop that I had last week with a teenage boy with
the president of CompuCom. Realtor points to a crack in the
stucco. Little boy dances to inaudible tune.
Jungle gym as prototype, as personality inventory, the problem to
be defined before it can be solved. Day in which I drive three cars
(rental car's last driver obviously smoked). Owned now by a long
succession of other people, the house in which I grew up has
become a cipher, opaque object half-buried by bougainvillea.
Sentences written long ago. Standing at the coast, horizon
contained by fog. Sign on the door reads "Division of the Arts" but
what I want is multiplication. Basket of dolls. Ratio of books to
ideas is getting higher by the day.
Her name is Cinnamon, her mother Teal. Baywatch Ken doll
anatomically edited for content (to fit your screen). Ceiling fan
spins slowly. That the whole of one's life fits into one truck.
Phone on the floor of an empty house, an echo to anything I say.
Mold on the wall behind each bookcase, a kind of damp shadow.
Aphids, like dandruff, on each leaf of the plum tree. Ham on
foccacio, a bowl of tea. The clouds hung low.
Small boy in a seaman's cap reminds me suddenly of my own such
hat at that age, cap my father left behind. A light fog promises to
burn off. A week between homes.
Voices, verbs, verses (word, bird, third – absurd). Boy's shout
from the street stories below brings me out of my sleep instantly
until I determine that all my children are here inside asleep. The
absolute second you have the first opportunity in over a week to
relax, to take a deep breath, give a sigh, you realize from its
shallow painful wheeze that you've had bronchitis for days. Pesto
potato pizza.
Seek out the path of most resistance.
A splinter I thought would work itself out has instead infected the
whole finger. Dream in which, although I haven't seen you in ages
and we were never more than cordial in a professional context, I
wake to discover you next to me in bed naked – the actual body is
always such a surprise – leaning toward me for a long, slow,
deliberate kiss, guiding my hand gradually from you small almost
conical breast south until I enter, first the front, then behind, and
you twist, groaning, a broad grin across your face. Day that never
Day that I discover total allergy to this powder detergent, big
welt-like rashes everywhere from my neck to the soles of my feet.
Cardinal in the yard smaller than I expected. You live on the east
coast now.
When, on the car radio, they hit the baby-in-the-microwave story,
I hit the button. Among the morning's rich cacophony of birdsong,
pick out first one, then another, that sound completely unfamiliar,
using each in turn as the foreground through which to hear the
whole (nearby crow entirely out of scale). Upstairs, footsteps pace
back and forth, for which I construct my own imaginary narrative:
a young girl, a Latina whose parents, themselves the children of
farm laborers, are schoolteachers, goes on scholarship to an
excellent school, then rises quickly to corporate middle
management, one day to discover her own desire for one of her
employees, an older married man entirely inappropriate for her
future – what should she do? Velcro sandals.
The sky grows lighter before it starts to rain. I stand in an empty
attic studio, wondering where to put the desk. Young poodle
lopes up to the wire fence. Fan rotates slowly over the vacant
Sun is in the trees behind which a train rushes north to New York.
The day after you die, people still sip coffee in fast food joints as a
thunderstorm gathers in the sky, newspaper headlines proclaim
great events overseas, stupidity and corruption at home, suffering
everywhere. In the video game arcade, someone sets a new high
score for Tetris.
House at the edge of the forest. Two swans amid the geese by the
small lake – could they be anything but domestic? One can hear
the freeway here, but that sense of mass urgency feels wildly out of
place. High above the canopy, a deep-throated, curling birdsong
I've never heard before.
Catbird hops onto the grass. Carrying one side of the sofabed, he
steps backwards through the moving van's side door, foot missing
the long metal ramp, so that he falls from the side of the truck, the
large couch crashing down in the dark vehicle, twisting as he drops
to catch himself so that he hits the pavement with his hands out,
right wrist shattering on contact. Woodpecker taps out a message.
In the park, volunteer fire department uses the toddlers' climbing
structure to practice blindfold maneuvers. Wind in all these trees
breathes. What bird answers the call of my alarm clock?
Wooden children's climbing structure narrativized as a sailing ship,
a Cessna, a train. In this scene the monkey has become an
elephant and carries the pretend prince through the narrow streets
of the city. Most of the volunteer fire crew are in their early 20s
and stand around holding their heavy rubberized jackets, baggy
pants held by red suspenders, passing a single pack of cigarettes
between them as they watch the demonstration, fireman
blindfolded, face mask covered by aluminum foil, crawling through
the play structure, following the yellow rope headfirst down the
Dinosaurs strewn across the vast plain of an attic rug. Fireflies
glitter in the back yard, half moon making its way over the tops of
these trees. Mall lot in which people don't appear to lock their
cars. The beautiful dentist half jogs, is half dragged by her large
dog, through the forest.
Angles vs. shadows in an attic room. Bookcase full of children's
toys, overseen by a bespectacled Mr. Potato Head in a green
baseball cap. Every asset management program is built either from
the procurement database out or from an inventory function up.
Horizontalizing that work force made each member expendable.
Angels and shadows.
She demos the grill by serving "tater tots," hot dogs, sausage, in
front of the hardware store on a Saturday from 10 until 2. Book's
spine is its sole moving part. When this you hear, so much to fear.
In the dream, bobcats and cougars have multiplied and are killing
the pets of North Berkeley. Squirrel gallops over the roof of this
A quirk of morning. A quark of meaning. Estimate the train's size
just by the rumble of wheels over the tracks. Mom, she says,
spent last summer in Siberia, "telling people about Jesus." Late at
night, by a light installed over the garage door, they play
Ping-Pong in the yard, variable metronome. At the station, a
woman maybe 40 with the hard, drawn look about her of too
many years of drugs or alcohol, cigarette almost absent-mindedly
lodged between her fingers, bends down to speak gently with her
beautiful, six-year-old daughter.
Missiles, missives. Take a message (whomp). If you have a touch
tone phone, press one now (VRU with FRU). A walk in the
woods: at this point in the valley, the creek is exposed so that each
driveway requires a bridge (somewhere up high in the trees, a dog
is barking). The western idea about money. I hear the cardinal
before I see it. Each toy truck offers its own theory of
representation. Voice response unit, field replaceable unit. Then it
grows quiet and dawn arrives.
Rabbits become common, as does the American flag as a porch
ornament. The tiger in the dale, the tiger in the dale. Jays in the
trees mark distance (in the background, one barely hears the
steady rumble of a train). Old man's features blurred by years of
drink. What did I think?
"If you've already got a mouse pad," she says, "this makes a
terrific jar opener."
Disposable phone. The absence of mail. Blue jay vs. the
mockingbird's parody. Western name on his Social Security Card
vs. pure Korean on his passport, a lengthy delay at the
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. The car, having sat in
the humid heat all morning. Under the tall tulip poplar. Where
yesterday I saw a rabbit successfully cross 252, today a
wolverine, fatter than I would have imagined, by the side of the
Old cardboard wardrobe. Catbird's call, sort of a yowl. Basket of
bears. Biscuit of butter. Whistle in the cardinal's call. A bench at
the end of the cul-de-sac under tall trees. Still life (still as the verb).
Robin pauses, surveys his lawn.
The breeze sucks the shade into the window's screen.
A wheeze in the garbage truck's brakes. Red and blue birds flash
in the trees. Fire flies flicker.
Lightning laces the sky. Error message. Real water boiling on a toy
stove. Anxious to start the double play too quickly, he closes the
glove before the ball is in it. Full moon smeared behind the scrim
of cloud.
Lilies shutting at dusk.
The dream gauged by depth and completeness.
The Wawa brutalizes the ice cream.
Roar of the crickets all through the night.
Driving through completely unfamiliar streets, realizing this will be
your home. Tee ball power drive. Woodpecker's rapid beat.
Humidity of a different planet. Theory of a turnpike. At the train
station, the suburban poor become visible. Across the street,
Cowboy's Tattoo Ranch.
Raising the seven-foot bookcase high, angling it around the
banister at the turn of the stairs. Hummingbird's egg, the
appearance of a white jelly bean. Red-tail hawk turns, high over
Perkiomen Creek.
Finches at the thistle sock, doe at the edge of the highway. YTD
revenue for embedded systems. Realtor puts a plastic flag on each
lawn for Independence Day. Lawn lights. Big rigs in a row at the
service plaza. Old lamp on a modern table, flowers etched in a
base of glass.
Light switch missing its face plate, having to put towels down by
the shower just to turn the water on. One cannot give an example
of hapax without canceling the effect. Thrashing as a surrogate for
emotion. Roofed-in porch perfect for a barbecue in the rain
(groundhogs in the grass, alas).
Tic talk. The discipline of bottom feeders. Identify three routes
between points A and B; list advantages and disadvantages of
each. Young boy with a fever. Scrollin' back to my same old
These are the sounds of science (thunderstorms under glass, alas),
an echo in the poem. "Eck!" screams the crowd, the famed
reliever's wavy hair flowing to his shoulders as he stares in at the
next hitter, a nearly crippled limping Kirk Gibson. Waves batter
the sea wall, full moon punctuation.
Sunlight flashes off the windshield of a car passing on the road
through the trees, lone evidence of limit to this forest. "I can smell
weekend from here," he says, 8:00 AM Friday morning. They wait
for cars to get caught by the red light in the left turn lane, then
spread out with buckets and old rags washing their windows
rapidly, knowing just how long they have to coax a tip from each
involuntary customer. Rapidly, the mountain of strips of bacon
disappear from the plate in the center of the table.
Squirrel at the thistle sock, fat and gray. White bearded affable
therapist next door was an RCP militant in the sixties. Static growl
of a modem.
Uncorrected proof. Riding the train backwards. To which, for
your entire library, now add the costs of hauling and shipping.
Moon follows, long walk at dusk. A two-boy basket.
I step into the humid air. What did you know and when did you
know it? Moon yellow foretelling rain. The squirrel growls. First
sun smeared across the morning sky.
Chooses "Alfred" when he comes to the US to attend college, that
the Anglos won't struggle with a Korean name. Old Giants media
guide, filled with bios of prospects who never made a dent. Smell
of over-ripe bananas the minute you enter the room.
Beyond the great mansion, five outdoor swimming pools
overlooking tennis courts and soccer fields rimmed by running
tracks. Each strip mall proposed as a theory of how to live. Small
boys playing soccer with a volley ball. Vast lawn aglitter with
lightning bugs. We stalk them.
Our love of the word poop. In the glass, ice melts, leaving beads
of water around its outer surface. A train in the forest (how did it
get there?). Moth's imprint on the window screen.
The air hot and thick as syrup, blue jays listless in the trees. First
sun reflected off the top branches before you see the sun itself.
Achilles tendon taut, almost brittle, each step as you rise the stairs.
A house of deep-colored walls, burgundy and pink, through which
to reach the large yard. Turning the corner in the corridor we
almost bump and step back, excuse ourselves and walk on, small
dance of the break-up of intimate space.
Lightning rolling, popping, snapping all across the sky (the whole
forest in silhouette, down to the most infinite twig), then rain,
although not as much as I would have expected, after which the
hot spell is broken, no electricity anywhere for miles, people
emerging slowly form their houses once the sun rises, the beauty of
a gray dawn.
Behind this bale of hay, the tiniest full grown horse in the world, so
small that a cup of water and a handful of hay is a mighty big meal
for Tiny Tim. Merry-go-round balanced precariously over the
fairground mud. Tattoo on the back of her neck forms a pyramid
of letters, all san serif and upper case, but she won't hold still so I
can read them. Font catalog.
First the lightning, then the rain. Last demo filing cabinet missing
handles, one drawer locked with no key in sight. I walk out of the
building and my glasses steam instantly at the difference in heat and
The cup is a funnel inverted over a base of blue clay, the handle
added later, rather large, like an ear out of proportion to its head.
Ice melts quickly, leaving only a smear of bubbles on the surface
of its watery residue. I'm calling in my role as the difficult client. In
the bank, a bowl of lollipops by each teller's window (there is only
one teller). First silhouette of the trees, predawn sky to the east.
Lettuce falls from the corned beef sandwich.
The voice that was late within us. In such weather, one can watch
bananas ripen in real time. Day lilies unfurl, the sky brightens
before the sun arrives, almost pink through the tall poplars. Black
dog wanders in the large yard in the far end of which a crow has
just settled.
In the forest, a small wood-frame house, burnt to the ground, no
sign of people anywhere. He opens the palm of his hand to reveal
a lightning bug, which rises slowly in the night air before it shines.
Fire truck rides for a buck, Ferris wheel lights the sky, giant
mechanical swing in the form of an Egyptian boat.
In the forest, voices, laughing. Just how leathery the flesh of my
own neck has become. As that man strides purposefully towards
him, I saw this fellow reach for something under his jacket tucked
right into his pants at the small of his back and think gun. My
pager set to vibrate. Soft first light of sun.
The aggression of toddlers or of squirrels. Theory of naming
evident when we call a black-capped chickadee a bird that more
accurately appears to wear a white mask. I carry a sleeping boy
up the stairs and to his bed.
The word on the net is that you are in France. A large one-story
pomo building on an even larger lot turns out to be a hair salon
(land use away from the city). How each McDonalds is most apt
to differ from one another lies in whatever special accommodation
is made for the play of toddlers. Aware of the dewpoint nearing
eighty degrees.
Irked at Adam's meddling, Hayley set a wedding date with Abe,
then later went to the beach with Mateo. After defending Kirk to
Scott, Sam stunned Kirk by insisting that they start their
honeymoon right away. Meanwhile, Nikkie tried to get Amy to
show interest in Nick, and then tried to get Nick to show interest
in Susan. Luke explained AIDS to Lucky.
On the couch, starting to watch a video (Gerard Depardieu as
Cyrano leaps and rants about the stage), I virtually swoon into a
deep sleep, to dream of a great wall of candy, sugar-coated drops
of licorice, white, pink, black. Simple male transfer protocol.
Three kinds of woodpeckers about these trees. Atmosphere is a
Old town graveyard after dark, the grass too high, lit only by lights
from the nearby church parking lot. A bowl of blueberry frozen
yogurt. Large sore on the roof of my mouth. The sweltering sky.
Hourglass frozen against the screen. First inverted whistle of a
cardinal in the poplar. T3 trunk line upgrade rollout – scan that!
Differentiate in a boy's mind gravity from magnetism from simple
suction. Small girl skating down the steepest of hills.
An icon for poetry (winged hearse). Woodpecker walks up the
trunk of tree. Light mottled on the large leaf. Squirrel growls.
To look up at the impossible brightness would be fatal, tall cloud
full of human ash, the city itself missing, to be defined forever by
this absence, instance. Undelete function enabled. Nineteen years
later, a boy arrives at a demonstration. Don't Laos me up.
Hilltop forest stripped, winding private road arrives at an 'S'
shaped development of new construction (three models: Adelaide,
Bristol, Chaucer), through the mud into a shell of board and sheet
rock, cedar shake shingles, 65 surface choices for cabinets (I look
up in the closet right through the attic to the sky). Red tail hawk
threads the air.
This is what makes a rabbit hop. I shut my eyes and the dream
(cartoon samurai) continues. Tea too hot to sip. An elephant king
and a mouse, both made of cloth, equal in size. Tractor fed, the
old dot matrix looks robust and healthy.
Embodied poetics would be a more intriguing proposition. This
paragraph is called the Sicilian Defense. In the dream the reading
is a pretext for a party, the party a pretext for a seduction.
Radar reveals T-storms in green. Suitcase hangs by a strap from a
doorway, an effigy. Constant growl of the crickets. Instant in
which the engine turns over. When, in the corridor, he says to her,
"You model, don't you?" her reactions change totally, vague
flirtatiousness replace by tone composed in equal parts of fear and
anger, "Who told you? How do you know?"
Chem lit vs. fem lit. Channel surf the AM dial west of Dallas.
Poetics of the open mike: categories for people who write but
don't read. The curtains blow tho the window's shut. Give you the
world every 30 minutes. Later, this will all be handwriting, then
print. A flicker, in what should be an empty glade. Roadkill here is
Held by its feet upside down, the turkey will twist its neck to keep
its head upright. Roadside stands sell old gas station signage,
decommissioned pumps perfect to decorate a tavern or gift shop.
Lone drivers heading south, route I-35, Fort Worth just a blur in
the rear view mirror. Bird feeder hangs from the tree.
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Syble Neff
Syble Neff, 88, of Poteau died Friday, Jan. 18, 2013, in Heavener. Syble was born Jan. 19, 1924 in Poteau to Otha L. and Emma (White) Johnson. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her parents; and husband, James L. Neff. Brothers, Othal "Bud" Johnson, Tommy Allen Johnson; sisters, Grace Marler, Elenor Dorey, Elise Welch, Emma Jean Hanley and Billie Dean Stock.Survivors include her sons, James L. Neff Jr. of Wister, Edward Lee Neff of Poteau; grandsons, Johnathan Neff and Jordan Neff; sister, Johnnie Dorey of Poteau; three brothers, Ernest Johnson of Tulsa, Floyd Johnson of Poteau, Orville Johnson of Oklahoma City; numerous nieces and nephews; other relatives and loved ones.Services were held Monday, Jan. 21, at Oakland Cemetery Pavilion, Poteau. You may leave an online message at evansandmillerfuneralhomes.com. Evans and Miller Funeral Home handled arrangements.

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Seattle Seahawks blogger Clinton Bell weighs in with a simple question, what the (bleep) was Russell Okung thinking? If you haven't heard the news yet of Russell Okung running with the famed bulls in Pamplona, Spain, do yourself a favor and click this article right now. If you have already heard the news, do yourself a favor and click this article to hear my special take on this event. How did Paul Allen, and Pete Carroll sign off on this?
What the %!@# was Russell Okung thinking?
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Jacksonville, TX., veterinarian Dr. Ira Stephens urges pet owners to protect their animals from heatstroke. Dr. Stephens, who runs the Animal Medical Clinic, says that this Texas summer weather can be dangerous for pets. While all furry pets are in danger of overheating, dogs and cats with thick, long coats, short-nosed dogs such as pugs, bulldogs and boxers, or pets that are overweight are particularly at risk. Dr. Stephens says that if not treated promptly, heatstroke can kill within minutes.
Dr. Stephens says heatstroke is an entirely preventable tragedy, but that his Jacksonville veterinary services team sees cases every year. "Heatstroke can come on very quickly for an animal, and they can't take off their fur coats to cool down. It's important for people to be aware that even temperatures in the 70s can cause a dog to overheat. Just because you're comfortable in the sun, doesn't mean your pet is comfortable. If your pet starts panting and tiring easily, get him out of the heat fast."
The veterinarian says that people should know the symptoms of heatstroke so they can act quickly to save their pets. Overheating pets pant and drool very heavily and exhibit dark red gums and tongue. They may also seem disoriented and lethargic; unable or unwilling to move or get up. If a dog's temperature goes over 104 degrees, immediate action is needed to stop the damage. Dr. Stephens says that in such cases, people need to bring their pets to the veterinary hospital immediately while trying to cool them. He says to use cool (not freezing) water to spray the pet and set him under a fan while underway.
Most importantly, Dr. Stephens says that heatstroke prevention is better than the cure. He explains that owners should keep pets in shady, well-ventilated areas on hot days and provide plenty of fresh, cool water for them to drink. He says that people should still walk their dogs for exercise, but to do it early in the morning, or later in the evening after the sun has gone down and the air is cooler. He recommends giving long-haired breeds a short haircut for summer, and to play in the grass instead of paved areas, since grass stays cooler. He also insists that people never leave their pets in parked cars as the heat inside can rise to deadly levels very quickly.
He adds, "Preventing heat stroke is easy and so much better than having a pet suffer at all. We have a veterinary services team here who has seen the consequences of heatstroke and knows how to help, but I urge people to keep their pets cool, watered and in the shade on hot days."
Dr. Ira Stephens provides both routine veterinary services and emergency animal services at the Animal Medical Clinic. The clinic website is http://www.animalmedicalclinicjacksonville.com.


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Who's Calling 911 In New York City? Butts Are
Just about everybody who has a cellphone has accidentally "butt" or "pocket"-dialed someone at one time or another. And when this happens you just hope you don't end up ringing an ex, or your boss at 3 AM.
But it turns out many of these inadvertent calls end up being directed to 911 — somewhere else you really shouldn't be calling unless you have a real emergency. In fact, in New York City, 38% of all calls to emergency services in 2010 were accidental.
That adds up to an amazing 10,700 mistaken calls to 911 a day. Or close to 4 million a year.
And the problem isn't just limited to New York. Last year the city of Evanston, Illinois reported 20% of all calls to its 911 service were accidental.
Should something be done to combat this scourge of butt calls, which take up a 911 operator's valuable time? The only thing we can think of is a ban on concealed cellphones, which certainly wouldn't fly.


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New York State Community Health Indicator Reports (CHIRS)
New York State Community Health Indicator Reports (CHIRS) were developed in 2012, and annually updated to consolidate and improve data linkage for the provided health indicators in the County Health Assessment Indicators (CHAI) for all communities in New York. The CHIRS provide data for over 300 health indicators, organized by 15 health topic and data tables with links to trend graphs and maps.
- Health indicator data for all counties, regions and state by health topics
- Health indicator data by counties
- Data sources, methodology and data presentation
To obtain data for an individual health indicator for New York State and all counties and regions, click on a topic area.
County Health Assessment Indicators (CHAI)
To obtain data for a specific county, select a county from the map below, or from a list of counties in New York State
Data Sources, Methodology and Data Presentation
Methodology and limitations
New York State Community Health Indicator Reports (CHIRS) - Methodology and Limitations
A discussion of the limitations of the data reports, the maintainance of confidentiallity and statistical testing methods.
Data Sources and presentation
Numerous data sources were used to develop this information including:
- Mortality and natality data: New York State birth and death files
- Hospitalization and emergency department (ED) visit data: Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative Systems (SPARCS) files, based on hospital discharges and ED visits
- Disease and condition specific data: Department of Health disease registries, including cancer, AIDS/HIV, communicable disease, rabies, tuberculosis and sexually transmitted disease
- Program-based data: WIC program, Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, and Heavy Metals Registry, Student Weight Status Category Reporting System (SWSCR), Expanded Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), Oral Health Survey of 3rd Grade Children, Medicaid, New York State Governor's Traffic Safety Committee
- National survey data: U.S. Census Bureau
Mortality and hospitalization based indicators are presented as both crude and age-adjusted rates. The standard population that was used for adjustment was the 2000 United States population. Age adjustment allows for the comparison of rates between geographic areas with different age distributions.
These community statistics are grouped into fifteen health-related topics. Each topic contains a series of indicators and an "About" page that provides indicator definitions, data sources and NYSDOH program contact information.
Data for each health topic can be obtained in two different formats. The first option, The New York State Community Health Indicator Reports (CHIRS) presents 15 health topics that include over 300 health indicator tables with links to trend graphs and maps. Each table contains data for all 62 New York State counties, 11 Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) regions, New York City, the State excluding New York City, and New York State.
- Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) Program.
The DSRIP program aims to promote community-level collaborations and focus on system reform (Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT) reforms), specifically a goal to achieve a 25 percent reduction in avoidable hospital use over five years . DSRIP relevant performance data - DSRIP data reporting and presentation resulted in organizing counties into 11 regions (These regions replaced the historically used HSA regions in CHIRS).
- Region 1: Long Island
- Region 2: New York City
- Region 3: Mid-Hudson
- Region 4: Capital Region
- Region 5: Mohawk Valley
- Region 6: North Country
- Region 7: Tug Hill Seaway
- Region 8: Central New York
- Region 9: Southern Tier
- Region 10: Finger Lakes
- Region 11: Western New York
Information can be accessed by selecting one of the health-related topics. After selecting a topic, a list of available indicators will appear. Indicator data are presented in several different formats. The following is a description of each data format.
- (Table + Trend): Indicators are presented in a table with the most recent data available for the numerator for the time period, and the annual average denominator, as well as the county and state rates. By clicking on a county name, a trend plot and a table with 10 years of data, for most indicators, will be displayed for the county. Clicking on the New York State link will display a plot and table with 10 years of data for New York State, New York State (excluding NYC) and New York City.
- (Map): Indicators are presented in a New York State map with counties shaded based on the quartile distribution of the indicator of interest. The map for each indicator presents crude rates. There is also a corresponding graph displaying rates for each New York State county.
- (Multiple Maps): Indicators are presented in two New York State maps with counties shaded based on the quartile distribution of the indicator of interest. The first map for each indicator presents crude rates and the second, age-adjusted rates. Scroll or arrow down to see the second map. There are also corresponding graphs displaying both crude and age-adjusted rates for each New York State county.
The second option is the County Health Assessment Indicators (CHAI).
- The CHAI presents fifteen different health-related profiles of each county
- Each CHAI health topic profile includes a list of multiple indicators along with data for the county, New York State, New York City or the State excluding New York City. Significant differences are indicated for comparisons made between the county rate and state or respective regional rates.
- County ranking groups for individual indicators are displayed.
- Each profile provides links to indicator trend graphs and maps.
Indicators are presented in a table with the most recent data available for the numerator for the specified time period. County rates were compared to New York State, New York State excluding New York City for "upstate" counties, or New York City for "city" counties/boroughs, and tested to see whether the two rates were "significantly" different at the 95% confidence level. The county ranking groups include four levels: 1 - most favorable to 4 - least favorable. These county ranking groups are categorized based on the quartile distribution of all county rates. Note: for indicators where it is more desirable to have a higher rate (e.g., percentage of people with health insurance), the 1st category for the county ranking group includes counties with rates in the fourth quartile; while the 4th category for the county ranking group includes counties with rates in the first quartile.
The tables can be saved as HTML, Excel spreadsheets (when using Internet Explorer) or text for users who wish to work with these data using other software.
If you have any questions or comments regarding the New York State Community Health Indicator Reports, please email the Public Health Information Group or contact us by phone at (518) 474-2543. For information about county health initiatives, please contact the respective local health department.


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2002 Jeep Liberty - A New Jeep With a New NamePosted in Project Vehicles on February 1, 2001
Its here. Yep, the all new 02 Jeep Liberty from DaimlerChrysler has made its debut. After more rumors and dead-end hot leads, we got it here for you in full living color. Is this the replacement for the venerable Cherokee introduced back in 1984? Nope. The Libertys boxy brethren are supposed to live on for at least a few more years, so now Jeep has four vehicles to compete in the popular SUV market.
We know that some of you may raise a scared eyebrow at this new offering, but hey, we tested it ourselves on the Rubicon trail last fall and it really does work. And the styling? Most readers will recognize many design elements from the concept vehicles DC has produced, most notably the Jeepster and the Dakar. Even though a vehicle rarely goes from concept to production, the grille is unmistakably Jeepster, while the large rear body, four doors, and rear hatch have clearly evolved from the Dakar.
You may ask, how does the Liberty work in the real Jeep world? Alas, the new Jeep has been produced with Independent Front Suspension, which hasnt been on a Jeep since the early 60s. Die-hard solid axle fans will cry foul to this abomination of the Jeeps soul, and rightfully so. In fact, other manufacturers who dropped the solid axle idea years ago may think Jeep finally figured it out, but instead Jeep has outdone them all in developing an IFS system thats beefy and durable. Most important, though, is the amount of suspension travel8 inches up and downwhich is impressive in a stock IFS vehicle. Of course, the new suspension has no articulation in the true sense of the word, but the available wheel travel nearly makes up for that, and the IFS delivers excellent street performance.
Jeep was able to design this vehicle from the ground up, since it fits into the growing SUV market that desires good on-highway ride and performance. In effect, the IFS and rack-and-pinion steering clearly provide the required performance, but detract little from the standard Jeeps off-road ability. The uniframe construction is the stiffest Jeep has ever produced for better handling on the road and long-lasting durability off the pavement. An all-new 3.7L V-6 engine evolved from the successful 4.7L V-8, which is found in the Grand Cherokee. It is plenty powerful in this package, and the matching auto tranny works like a dream. Out back, a Chrysler 8¼ rearend for the 4x4 models is attached by a three-link system and coils, which wed like to see under our own ride, but in a Dana 44 style. The proven NV231 and NV242 are also available, and when slipped into low range, the crawl speed, braking, and climbing parameters are also changed to match the terrain.
These new Jeeps are built in the all-new Toledo North Assembly plant in Toledo, Ohio, and DC expects to be able to crank them out at a rate of 800 a day, quite a feat for a new vehicle. We were lucky enough to get a tour of the plant while they were tuning it up, and it is a marvel of automotive manufacturing, especially if youve been in plants that have been operating since the turn of the century. We were also fortunate to ride the Rubicon with these rigs along with the engineers, and get an exclusive off-road driving impression long before most journalists had even seen the thing. Equipped with street tires and without all the performance details nailed down, the Liberty was a success on the rock, and handled the trail nearly as well as the accompanying TJ, XJ, and WJ. Were looking forward to testing the beast thoroughly, and that means putting real tires on it for clearance and traction. We also wonder who will be developing a lift kit for the Liberty, as well as other performance items. Were ready when they are! For more information on the new Liberty check out Jeeps site at www.jeep.com.


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Joule III is a shiny, power-generating hub
This new Biologic Joule 3 arrived at Hugga HQ a few weeks ago and Tern is demoing it today at Eurobike. Eurobike is like the CES of the European bike industry and next month is Interbike for the North American market. As you can see in that photo, the Joule is significantly improved and much shinier than the version I rode with in Maui last year. The Joule II worked well powering the Reecharge case and the iPhone in it while I rode, but was a bit bulky and creaked on the road when engaged in power mode. As Tern's PR told me
The BioLogic Joule 3 is the most up-to-date Dynamo hub on offer as it's smaller, lighter, more efficient and powerful than any other available right now.
After lacing this dynamo hub to another wheel, I'll ride it in Maui again. The full product details haven't been released, but expect pricing at $150.00.
The Joule 3 just won a EuroBike award in the Design category.
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As with humans, or any other animal, a poor diet can equate to general ill health and greater susceptibility to pathogens. Some of the more commonly observed problems with poorly fed saltwater fish include lateral line and fin erosion, weight loss, color infidelity, listlessness and disease outbreaks.
Fish need protein, lipids, carbohydrates,
vitamins and minerals. Unfortunately few foods contain all or enough of these essential nutrients. Therefore, the best way to ensure all their nutritional prerequisites are met is to give them a varied diet. This means a combination of
frozen and fresh foods. Relatively few reef fishes are specialized feeders. For example, the vast majority of carnivores feed on a number of different types of prey, not just a single animal species. With your reef fish, variety is essential to ensure their long term health.
One good staple food is frozen sea food. Shrimp, clams,
squid and marine fish flesh, rinsed and finely chopped are great foods.
I will take frozen shrimp, squid or fish flesh and run it over a cheese-grater to produce bite sized shavings for my fish. Many graters have holes of varying size so you can adjust the size of the shavings to better suit the size of the fish your feeding. If feeding marine fish flesh, avoid oily species (e.g., tuna, herring) as they will cause a fatty film on the water's surface. Also beware that fresh foods can quickly become rancid, polluting the aquarium. Therefore, it is important to remove uneaten pieces from the aquarium bottom and filter soon after it is introduced to the tank. Although some have suggested that feeding fresh or frozen seafood can spread pathogens to your fish, to the best of my knowledge, I have never had this happen.
One of my favorite foods is
frozen mysid shrimp. I have found that there are many fish that may normally be difficult to feed, but will accept these succulent little crustaceans with gusto! They are also a nutritious food, relatively high in protein and fats. I am so excited about these crustaceans as a food source that I've teamed-up with Biotope Research Laboratories to offer whole, vitamin enriched mysid shrimp
(Lifeline Scott Michael Mysis Shrimp).
Unfortunately, not all frozen mysid shrimp are created equal. Some brands tend to consist more of mysid fragments rather than whole shrimp. The only downside with mysids is that they are not high in carotenoids. If you feed your fish only mysids, certain fish species may exhibit some color loss. I would recommend supplementing a mysid diet with some of the
frozen preparations (e.g., Lifeline frozen foods) or
flake food with added pigments.
I used to discourage the use of
flake food as a staple diet for marine fishes, but there are some wonderful, nutrient-rich brands out there now that are not only good for your fish, but can help maintain their amazing colors. Vibra-Gro is one that I've had good success with. It has added pigments that will reduce the likelihood that a spectacular fish will change from dramatic to dull.
There are also some wonderful frozen preparations made-up specifically for fishes of the various feeding guilds, like
carnivore diet and
herbivore diet, or even specific taxonomic groups. For example, a specific diet for
angelfishes (which includes sponge fragments), a diet for triggerfishes and also diets for small sharks. The Lifeline Foods, produced by Biotope Research, are my favorite frozen foods. They include a mix of marine organisms (e.g., scallop, fish, crustacean), supplemented with pigments, vitamins and essential amino acids, and make great staple foods.
I do feed some
frozen brine shrimp and
krill, but would never recommend you use it exclusively. Both these foods, and many other crustaceans, are rich in carotenoid pigments and do help fish retain their bright colors. Another way to ensure your fish are getting their nutritional "fix" is to soak fish food in an additive like
Selcon. This contains omega-three fatty acids and a stabilized form of Vitamin C, vital nutrients that are often missing in aquarium fish diets. It works particularly well if you are feeding
freeze-dried foods, like krill, which soak it up like a sponge.
If you are keeping herbivores (e.g., tangs) and omnivores (e.g., angelfishes) in your aquarium, you will need to supplement their diet with vegetables. A great supplement for plant-eaters are the
sheets, flakes or chunks of dried macroalgae that are now on the market. For example, Julian Sprung's
SeaVeggies Seaweed Flakes are chopped algae that most fish will accept with gusto. These products enable the aquarist to feed their herbivores brown, green, and red algae species, which should be fed on a daily basis. There are
suction cup feeders on the market you can stick on the inside of the aquarium, making it easier for the fish to browse on the vegetable matter.
I also recommend feeding some
live foods and these can be especially helpful if you are trying to get a finicky fish to eat. I have found most fish love live black worms, but I am very careful not to throw too many of them in the aquarium at once since they quickly die and decompose. Live
brine shrimp and
ghost shrimp are also popular with many marine fish and freshwater crayfish and fiddler crabs are great treats for predators that like large crustaceans. Freshwater feeder fish, like mollies, guppies and goldfish are very popular foods, but you should not feed your predators only live freshwater fish since they lack fatty acids that marine fishes need for good health. Live marine mussels, which are sometimes available in the seafood section of grocery stores or in fresh fish shops, are a great food to initiate feeding in finicky feeders. These mollusks are particularly valuable for enticing picky eaters, like certain butterflyfishes and angels. Simply break the shell open with a screwdriver and a hammer and then throw the open clam into the tank. The feeding frenzy that ensues is remarkable!
A varied and proper diet is just as important as temperature and
water quality. If a fish is fed a diet that lacks necessary nutrients, its immune system will be weakened. But if provided with a proper diet, such as a herbivore receiving the high quality
plant material it needs, it has a better chance of warding off the parasites that are most likely to infect it. This will save you and your fish much grief in the long run!
Scott W. Michael is an internationally recognized writer, underwater photographer and marine biology researcher specializing in reef fishes. He has served as scientific consultant for National Geographic Explorer and the Discovery Channel. Scott studied marine biology at the University of Nebraska and has kept tropical fishes for more than 25 years.


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Public health officials have launched a new, coordinated attack to contain a persistent outbreak of
Officials say 11 have died since 2007. Sixty of the 78 cases were among homeless people who live on and around skid row.
Scientists have recently linked the outbreak to a tuberculosis strain that is unique to Los Angeles, with a few isolated cases outside the area.
"This is the largest outbreak in a decade," said Jonathan Fielding, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. "We are really putting all of our resources into this."
Health workers have identified about 4,650 people who were probably exposed and are trying to track them down for testing and treatment. Local and federal officials are particularly concerned because the cases are linked to one relatively small geographic area and one vulnerable population. But officials are concerned that the outbreak could spread beyond skid row if action isn't taken.
Homeless people are especially at risk of getting TB and of being undiagnosed because they have poor hygiene and nutrition, limited access to healthcare and ongoing contact with infected people. Transmission of the airborne disease is also common because the homeless live in overcrowded areas and are constantly moving among hospitals, shelters and the streets. Many homeless people also have
"They go from place to place and the likelihood of passing it along is much greater," said Paul Gregerson, chief medical officer of the JWCH Institute, which runs a homeless healthcare program on skid row. "It makes everybody more susceptible."
Tuberculosis is easily transmitted by inhaling droplets from infected patients when they sneeze,
The public health department issued an alert several weeks ago to doctors at emergency rooms, clinics and urgent care centers informing them about the investigation within the homeless community.
Most of the patients are men and about 20% are also
The increase of TB among the homeless population is occurring even as the county is seeing a decline in overall cases, officials said. There are probably additional cases among the homeless population that have not yet been confirmed.
The health department also issued new guidelines for shelters earlier this year on how to effectively screen and identify patients at risk of tuberculosis. The guidelines urge shelters to appoint a TB liaison and to create a "cough alert" log for tracking patients with persistent coughs.
The county also recommended that shelters determine if incoming clients have been screened and refer those who haven't been to health providers.
The county suggests that all employees and volunteers also be screened for TB because they are also at risk.
As part of the ongoing investigation, the public health department asked shelters last week for information about everybody who has used their services. In the Feb. 12 letter, Los Angeles County TB Control Program acting Director Peter Kerndt said that the information "is necessary to investigate the increase in TB cases so that appropriate steps can be taken to prevent and control the spread."
Officials at local shelters said they are committed to working with public health officials.
"We're trying to understand the urgency of what the CDC and L.A. County Health is doing," Midnight Mission spokeswoman Mai Lee said.
"It does raise questions and concerns."
At the Union Rescue Mission's health clinic, officials said they are taking a much more proactive approach to TB screening — going to the patients rather than waiting for them to come to the clinic.
Mary Marfisee, medical director of the
"We are testing everybody who is willing to be tested," she said. "And those who aren't willing, we are trying to talk them into it."
Union Rescue Mission Chief Executive Andy Bales added that his staff members are ensuring that any clients with a cough are sent immediately to the clinic for evaluation.
Standing in the courtyard of the Midnight Mission on Thursday, Fred Christopher said he gets tested regularly for tuberculosis but is concerned about symptoms among other homeless people he comes into contact with.
"There's a good deal of people out here who don't care whether they get [a TB test] or not and there's people who do care but take their time about caring, like putting off their doctor's appointment for later," Christopher said.
Christopher, who has been living on the streets since 2005, said he has seen people "coughing like crazy."
Carol Oakman-Schmid, 54, who is also homeless, said she has heard people at the shelter with coughs that come from "way down deep in their chest."
"Whether it's TB, I don't know, I'm not a doctor," she said. "But sure it's a concern, absolutely. You have a lot of respiratory ailments here."


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I reunite identified family photos that I find in antique shops and second hand stores with genealogists and family historians. If you see one of your ancestors here and would like to obtain the original, feel free to contact me at familyphotoreunion [ at ] yahoo [ dot ] com. I also accept donations of pre-1927 images to be reunited. I hope you enjoy your visit!
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
What A Shame Wednesday: Fifteen-Year-Old Mary, Philadelphia, 1884
When this cabinet card photograph was created in 1884, Mary was 15 years old. We know this because someone has recorded this information on the reverse of the photo. Unfortunately, while we're told this is "Aunt Mary," we haven't been given a surname. The image was taken at the Blaul & Baumgardner Studio, 1937 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, PA. Louis Blaul, a well-known Philadelphia photographer had two studios in the city by 1890. Adolf J. Baumgardner was his business partner for a time in the 1880s. By 1890 Baumgardner was working with Louis H. Helbing on Lancaster Avenue.
We know that Mary was born around 1869, but with a common given name like Mary, a big city like Philadelphia and with no last name, we don't have much chance of learning more about her. Pity.
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In the small world department, my g-g-g-grandfather and his family lived only three blocks away from where this photo was taken. Makes me wonder if there are any Mary's b. about 1869 in the tree. :)ReplyDelete
That would be one of those great serendipitous moments in genealogy if it turned out Mary was related to you. Such things do happen. Ever read any of Henry Z. Jones' "Serendipity in Genealogy" books? Fun stuff. I even had a couple of stories appear in his second book.ReplyDelete
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Charleston's church architecture, like the city's architecture in general, is overwhelmingly of English derivation, as might be expected in an English colonial establishment which has been referred to as a "Little London."
Georgian Palladian
During the Colonial era the prevailing architecture was English Georgian, which was founded securely on the work of the late Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, as interpreted by Indigo Jones and subsequent English architects. In church building, the translation of Palladio's influence came through the designs of Christopher Wren and James Gibbs.
Although South Carolina's religious freedom (for all non-Catholics) attracted many Dissenters, the Church of England was the established church after 1706. Even before that, the '"English Church" was dominant and its houses of worship were public buildings. The first structure of St. Philip's Church, the first Anglican parish, was erected in 1681-82 at the southeast comer of the Meeting and Broad Streets, the site now occupied by St. Michael's Church. John Oldmixon wrote in 1708 that it was "large and stately enough," and the "most remarkable" of the town's public buildings. It was built of black cypress upon a brick foundation.
The intriguing question is whether or not this first "English Church" had a tall pointed steeple inspired by Wren's steepled churches in London, built after the Great Fire of 1666. The Gothic steeple had been in disfavor, due to the influence of the Italian Renaissance, until it was revived by Wren and classicized through the use of arches, pilasters and other devices. It is not impossible that the first St. Philip's had such a classicized steeple. On the other hand, the Congregational, Anabaptist and French Calvinist churches and the Quaker Meeting House, all of which were built about the same time, were simple, steepleless structures, more a tribute to the Lords Proprietors' guarantee of liberty of conscience than to the architectural aspirations of their congregations.
Colonial Charleston was the wealthiest of English cities in America, and the city's elite maintained close ties with London. That a sophisticated taste in architecture was present early in Charleston was illustrated by the second St. Philip's Church, built in 1710-23. The brick church featured not only a steeple but also three monumental Roman Doric porticoes, depicted in an illustration from London's Gentleman's Magazine in 1753. The steeple, a polygonal tower topped by a polygonal lantern, dome and cupola, perhaps was based on the steeple of Wren's St. Magnus the Martyr, London, or on that of St. Ignatius, the Jesuit church at Antwerp.
St. Philip's undoubtedly was the most sophisticated church building in the English colonies when it was built. It antedated Christ Church in Philadelphia, which was the second church in America to use an applied order, and Peter Harrison's King's Chapel in Boston, the second church for which a giant order portico was designed. The English aesthete Edmund Burke later described St. Philip's as "spacious, and executed in a very handsome taste, exceeding everything of that kind which we have in America." The proud new edifice was sited to protrude into Church Street, so that the tower and porticoes provided a terminus to the vista. The siting of the church as a vistal terminus reflected a Baroque city planning concept, prototypes of which included similar building sitings in some of the plans for rebuilding the City of London after the Great Fire of 1666.
The taste for Palladian and Wren-Gibbs design outlasted the Colonial era, and Charleston's conservatism in that regard triumphed in the rebuilding of St. Philip's Church following a fire in 1835. During a debate on the design of the replacement structure, the view was expressed that Charleston's older buildings were superior, in design and construction, to those in the newer 19th century styles. As a result, St. Philip's vestry insisted that architect Edward Hyde rebuild the Georgian church exactly as it had been before the fire, Hyde acceded to their request except for minor changes on the exterior, but persuaded them to let him model the new interior after that of James Gibbs' St, Martin's-in-the-Fields. A decade later, the vestry commissioned architect Edward Brickell White to design the present steeple, in the Wren-Gibbs tradition.
The third St. Philip's might be considered anticipatory of the Colonial Revival movement of the late 19th century, if it were not for the motivation of the conservative vestry and congregation. Their goal was not to revive the architecture of the past, which would have been an innovative step, but to continue it. Therefore St. Philip's has to be cited as a rare instance of "Georgian Survival." White's 1849 steeple for St. Philip's did not replicate its domed predecessor but was consciously patterned after, and made intentionally higher than, the steeple of St. Michael's Church.
St. Michael's Church remains Charleston's oldest church edifice. An Irish architect, Samuel Cardy, built and largely designed St. Michael's Church, erected in 1751-61 on the site of the first St. Philip's, at the southeast corner of Broad and Meeting streets. Like St. Philip's, St. Michael's exemplifies the Wren-Gibbs tradition of American Colonial church building. Like many Colonial churches of the period, it was inspired by James Gibbs' design for St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, c. 1726, and many of its details are reminiscent of plates from Gibbs' A Book of Architecture, published in 1728.
The initial design of St. Michael's was by a Mr. Gibson (possibly Robert Gibson, Sr). However, Cardy, who became involved in the project after construction had begun, significantly altered the original plan. Cardy was responsible for the remarkable ceiling, which spans some 60 feet without visible support, being carried on hidden trusses. In that feature, St. Michael's recalls churches of Sir Nicholas Hawksmoor, such as St. Alfege's, Greenwich (1713-18), rather than St. Martin's, which has arches on columns supporting the ceiling (and which provided the model for the interior of the third St. Philip's, as noted above). Cardy also contributed the steeple, which has three octagonal upper tiers over a square tower. Cardy solved the problem of supporting the diagonal faces of the octagon over the voids at the comers of the square, by carrying them on corbelled brick half arches, known as "squinches," which span the corners of the square.
Robert Mills
America's first native-born professional architect, the Charlestonian Robert Mills, designed for several Charleston congregations. Mills had a varied architectural background. He studied under James Hoban, a Palladian traditionalist who was the architect of the White House; he was a protégée of Thomas Jefferson, who defined his own style at Monticello; and he worked under Benjamin Henry Latrobe, who brought Rational Neoclassicism from Europe to America. The latter was based on the philosophe Laugier's Essai sur architecture, in which he advocated a more functional approach to classical architecture, anticipating Louis Sullivan and the Beaux Arts. Although French in origin, the Rational Neoclassical in America was based mainly on the English version, as evoked by Sir John Soane and George Dance, whose work was studied by Latrobe, Mills developed a distinctive Millsian style, a robust and geometric form of Rational Neoclassicism, but the influence of all his teachers is evident in his buildings as well, including the more conservative elements.
Mills' first major contribution to Charleston architecture was the design of the Circular Congregational Church, built in 1804-06, which was the first Pantheon-like church in America. In the Circular Church he employed a dome of laminated ribs, such as was found in Jefferson's copy of Philibert Delorme's Invention pur batir les couvertures courbes, and which Jefferson had used in the dome at Monticello. Afterwards, Mills used the Delorme system in round and octagonal churches in Richmond and Baltimore.
Mills' plans for the Circular Congregational Church included a portico of stolid Doric columns, and no steeple, reflecting the Rational Neoclassicist influence of his mentor, Latrobe. His plans were altered by the building committee, which substituted Corinthian columns attenuated in the then-current Adamesque taste, and subsequently the portico was replaced with a more elaborate one, designed by the Charleston firm of Jones & Lee in the 1850s. Similarly, the church engaged Charles Reichardt in 1838 to add a Wren-Gibbs steeple. Reflecting the "Georgian Survival" trend noted previously at St. Philip's, Reichardt patterned the steeple closely after that of St. Michael's.
The changes made the church unrecognizable as a Mills building. The original Mills design became suggestible again only after the great fire of 1861 reduced the church to a brick skeleton, In rebuilding in the 1890s, the Congregationalists kept the circular concept, but it was reinterpreted in the then-fashionable Richardsonian Romanesque style.
Mills may also have designed the First Scots Presbyterian Church, built in 1814. The architect of the church has not been identified, but Mills' family were members of the congregation. The facade of the church features twin towers capped by domes, flanking a partially recessed portico. This scheme is reminiscent of Latrobe's design for St. Mary's Cathedral in Baltimore, which anteceded First Scots Presbyterian by just a few years. It should be noted that James and John Gordon, builders and designers of the Second Presbyterian Church and St. Paul's, Radcliffeboro (see below) also were members of First Scots Presbyterian.
Mills was especially proud of his design for the First Baptist Church in Charleston, built ca. 1818. He described it as "purely Grecian in its style, simply grand in its proportions, and beautiful in its detail." The superlatives are true, except the building is not "purely Greek." The portico, with its Roman Doric columns, is more Palladian-Georgian than Greek Revival. The portico is not an integral component, as is the portico of a Classical temple, but is appendaged to the rectangular body of the church in the Wren-Gibbs tradition. The use of two tiers of arched windows along the sides also constitutes a continuation of Georgian tradition. Such conservative features may reflect the lingering influence of his early training under Hoban.
However, newer Rational Neoclassical concepts are revealed in the simplification of ornament, the differentiation of the parts of the building -- portico, vestibule, auditorium -- and in the massy, windowless attic, reminiscent of the work of the French Rational Neoclassicist, Claude-Nicholas Ledoux, as well as some work of Latrobe. The church formerly had a domed cupola, as well, reminiscent of Latrobe's design for St. Paul's in Washington, built in 1815.
Jeffersonian Classicism
Mills' mentor Thomas Jefferson developed his own style in his Virginia buildings, characterized by Roman Doric porticoes and arched openings, and fanlights everywhere, including the pediment of the portico. Two Charleston churches, Second Presbyterian and St. Paul's, Radcliffeboro (the latter now the Cathedral of St. Luke and St.Paul), are in this style. Both were designed and built by the Gordon brothers, James and John, ca. 1809-1811. Both also developed structural problems in their towers, so that their steeples were never completed. Second Presbyterian's tower was capped by a simple lantern, while that of St. Paul's was topped off, incongruously, by a Gothic parapet.
Greek Revival
The first of the popular 19th century eclectic styles to arrive in Charleston was the academic Greek Revival, which was based on a study of the temple architecture of classical Greece. There had been little interest in Greek architecture, since the Italian Renaissance chauvinistically based its architecture on Roman models which were considered superior to their Greek prototypes. Interest in Greek forms was stimulated in the mid-18th century by scholarly expeditions to Greece and by the publication of works such as The Antiquities of Athens, containing on-site drawings of classical Greek ruins by the English architects Nicholas Revett and James Stuart. The architects of the academic Greek Revival movement sought to design modern buildings using authentic Greek elements of design, gleaned from the study of prototypes in Greece and the eastern Mediterranean.
In Charleston's church architecture the Greek Revival had a flowering after the great fire of 1838. The fire reduced to rubble a large part of the King and Meeting streets commercial area, and most of Ansonborough, a residential neighborhood. The fire, though tragic, nevertheless provided a unique opportunity for the Greek Revival. The majority of structures built in the burnt district during the years after the fire were in that style, and the neighborhood is sprinkled liberally with temple-form buildings.
One of the new churches in the "burnt district" was the Doric temple Second Baptist Church (now the Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church), built in 1842. It was designed by Edward Brickell White, the local architect most identified with the Greek Revival. White felt obliged to defend his design after the church authorities altered his plans to place two additional doors in the facade, behind columns. This, he pointed out, was a departure from precedents in Greek temple design. One of the most beautiful of the Greek temple-form houses of worship in the "burnt district" is Temple Beth Elohim, built -in 1840-41. It was designed for the Reform Jewish congregation by a New York architect, Cyrus Warner. The academicists would have protested that, while its massive fluted Doric columns are authentic, the spacing of the triglyphs, and metopes in the entablature is more Georgian than Greek, and the ceding of the sanctuary has an ornamental saucer dome, which, while gorgeous, is more Roman than Greek. However, those not hemmed by 19th century academic constraints will agree that, although the ensemble is not "purely Greek," the result is superb.
Gothic Revival
The Gothic Revival movement was based on an earnest theological justification for the Gothic as the most proper Christian architecture. The intellectual foundation of this "Ethical Gothic" premise was established in the writings of the British architect Augustus Northmore Welby Pugin, whose conversion to Roman Catholicism guided him to a desire to revive England's medieval Catholic architecture. His ideas were presented in his influential works, Contrasts, or a Parallel between the Noble Edifices of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries and Similar Buildings of the Present Day, published in 1836, and The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture, published in 1841. Pugin's ideals evoked a response among Protestants as well, as they paralleled the ideas of reformers within the Church of England and the Anglican academic community. John Henry Newman and others began in 1833 the Oxford Movement which sought to restore ritual and liturgical richness to the Church of England. The Cambridge Camden Society (later known as the Ecclesiological Society) was formed at Oxford in 1836 by scholars with a common interest in medieval Christian architecture, who advocated through their publication, The Ecclesiologist. For that reason, the Ethical Gothic is also known as the Ecclesiological Gothic.
In the United States, the British born architect, Richard Upjohn, was a subscriber to The Ecclesiologist. His Trinity Church in New York, 1839-1841, had no galleries (which the Ecclesiologists condemned) and introduced a raised altar, an extended chancel and a cross-topped spire (all of which they promoted). The church was built of stone (which they advocated) but the interior vaulting was not executed in stone, but simulated in lath and plaster (of which neither the Ecclesiologists, nor Pugin would have approved).
Charleston architect Edward Brickell White made a "visit [to] the Northern Cities, on professional, calls," in 1842, when Upjohn's Trinity Church was under construction. Subsequently, he designed the Huguenot Church, built in 1844-45. The Huguenot Church was praised locally as "the only specimen of pointed, or emphatically Christian Church Architecture, which has ever been erected in our city." The language indicates a knowledge of Pugin's works, and the design indicates possible direct references to them. In the use of materials, the church owes no allegiance to Pugin or The Ecclesiologist. The crockets and finials, tracery of the principal window, and dripstones are all of cast iron, and the vaulting inside is simulated in lath and plaster. The church is unusual in that it has no tower and spire. It is a simple rectangle with a tent-like roof.
White became South Carolina's foremost Goth, designing Gothic churches, including Grace Church in Wentworth Street, and other structures in Charleston and elsewhere. Grace follows Ethical strictures in having no galleries and is topped by a graceful steeple. However, White employed no stone; the materials, like those of the Huguenot Church, were stuccoed brick, lath and plaster, and cast iron. In the 1970s, White's cast iron crockets, having deteriorated in Charleston's damp climate, were replicated in fiberglass.
The Ethical Gothic fervor inevitably faded, but interest in the Gothic continued. The later Gothic Revival drew inspiration from periods other than the "Middle Pointed" promoted by Pugin and the Ecclesiologists as the ideal. When Francis D. Lee Gothicized the late 18th century structure of the Unitarian Church in 1852-54, he employed the late Gothic of the Tudor period, which the Ethicists had considered debased. Lee gave the church a handsome perpendicular tower, and a magnificent fan-vaulted ceiling, the latter inspired perhaps by ceilings of the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster and the cloisters at Gloucester. Lee designed a similar ceiling for St. Luke's Church (now the Fourth Tabernacle Baptist Church), ca. 1859.
The Brooklyn, New York, based Patrick Charles Keely, an Irish-born architect, designed literally hundreds of Catholic churches in the United States, including three in Charleston. Keely claimed to have been a student of Pugin, England's premier Gothicist. In the 1850s Keely designed the Cathedral of St. Finbar, which was lost in the great fire of 1861, as well as its successor on the same site, the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, begun after the 1886 earthquake. The two cathedrals followed the Ethical requirement to be built of stone (Connecticut brownstone) in emulation of the medieval prototypes, and manifested similar but differing versions of Gothic design. Keely also designed the Gothic Revival edifice of St. Patrick's Church, built 1886-87.
John Henry Devereux, the most prolific architect of the post-Civil War era, designed two Gothic Revival churches in the city. St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church, built in 1867-71, originally was polychromed, its stuccoed surface scored and overlayed with paint, mixed with sand, to simulate blocks of different colored stone. That colorful scheme reflected the influence of the English aesthete John Ruskin, who in works such as The Stones of Venice, advocated the use of polychromed stone in church architecture.
Romanesque Revival
Another popular 19th century style for church buildings was the Romanesque Revival. The style was derived from earlier medieval church architecture, before the rise of the Gothic, and is distinguished from the latter mainly in the use of round, rather than pointed, arches.
The firm of Jones & Lee (Edward C. Jones and Francis D. Lee) of Charleston designed the Citadel Square Baptist Church in 1855-56, employing the Norman mode of the Romanesque Revival style for the edifice. The design of Citadel Square Baptist deviated from the model by the use of a steeple (Romanesque churches had bell towers, whereas the steeple spire was a Gothic innovation). The steeple was blown over by a hurricane and the tower was damaged by an earthquake. The tower was repaired and given a lower steeple, designed by Edward Silloway, a Boston architect. Silloway's steeple was lost in a hurricane (Hugo) in 1989, and replaced by a new steeple along the lines of the original, design by Jones & Lee.
Richardsonian Romanesque
The Romanesque Revival of the antebellum period was based mainly on examples in Northwestern Europe. In the late 19th century, another version of the Romanesque was developed by the Boston architect, Henry Hobson Richardson, based on churches of Provence and Spain. Used for the first time in the 1870s in his Trinity Church, Boston, the Richardsonian Romanesque became widely popular in the ensuing decades. Charleston's best Richardsonian Romanesque building is the Circular Congregational Church, built in the 1890s to replace Mills' burned predecessor. Designed by the firm of Stevenson and Green, it features a massive central tower, somewhat reminiscent of Richardson's Trinity Church. Although the "Circular" remains part of the name, the present structure is not really circular but tri-apsidal.
Written by Robert P. Stockton, adjunct professor of history at the College of Charleston.


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|Yours Truly, Mom and Husband at Washington Place
built for my 4x great aunt, Mary (Jones) Dominis
Most Americans have never heard of Washington Place. It is a historic house in Honolulu built by Captain John Dominis for his Boston born wife in the 1840s. At a time when most people were living in thatched huts, this enormous white mansion became a showplace. No one knows why Capt. Dominis built such an impressive home, but within a short time of its construction he died at sea in 1846. His widow was reduced to taking in boarders to help cover the expenses of running such a big household.
Mary's boarders were mostly Americans. One of her first boarders was Anthony Ten Eyck, the American Commissioner to the islands. Ten Eyck nicknamed the house "Washington Place" in a letter dated 22 February 1848, on an anniversary of George Washington's birthday. The name stuck when King Kamehameha III liked the name and wrote a royal decree retaining the name "in all time coming".
Mary Lambert Jones was born in Boston on 3 August 1803. She married Captain John Dominis in Boston on 9 October 1824. He was a native of Trieste, Italy, which is now in Slovenia. Mary was the sister of my 4x great grandmother, Catherine Plummer (Jones) Younger. When she was building the house in Hawaii, she enlisted the aid of her brother-in-law, Enoch Howes Snelling, to send the windows and doors from Boston. Enoch, a glazier in Boston's North End, was married to another sister, Sarah Dargue Jones.
|The glass in the windows and doors of Washington Place
were sent from Boston by Enoch H. Snelling, husband of my 4x great aunt
For some unknown reason, the Dominises removed from Boston to Schenectady, New York where their three children were born. Mary lived with the family of Reverend Christopher Yates while Captain Dominis went on many voyages to the Pacific.
In 1837 they sailed on board the bark Jones to Honolulu, leaving two young daughters, Mary, age 12, and Frances, age 8, at school in Schenectady. They brought their little son, John Owen Dominis, age 5, with them to Honolulu. The year after they left Mary died in Schenectady, and in 1842 Francis also died. Mary Dominis traveled back to Boston and New York in 1843, but her daughters were already laid to rest in the Yates family plot at the Vale Cemetery, Schenectady. It is hard to imagine her loss.
But Mary returned to live in Honolulu, and raised her son there. John Owen Dominis became the governor of Oahu and Maui. He married Lydia Kamekeha Paki in 1862, the daughter of an ali'i family. She became Princess Liliuokalani and later the last Queen of Hawaii. After the Kingdom of Hawaii was overthrown, she made Washington Place her permanent home. Liliuokalani lived there for the rest of her life, and died in her bedroom there on 11 November 1917. She had lived there for 55 years.
|A portrait of Queen Liliuokalani graces the dining room inside Washington Place
Washington Place was bought from the Queen's estate by the legislature of Hawaii in 1921. It became the governor's mansion for the territorial and state governors of Hawaii until 2002 when a new governor's mansion was built. It is now a historic house museum, and the site of official events for the state of Hawaii, such as parties, press conferences, and official visits from heads of states. Tours are free, and available by appointment.
Although Washington Place is owned by the state of Hawaii, the funds for maintenance and upkeep are raised by the private Washington Place Foundation. The house is now 171 years old, and the tropical climate has caused several maintenance problems which will be expensive to repair. With state cutbacks and economic measures being what they are now, the house museum is seeking additional donations towards major structural repairs. To make a donation please make a check payable to:
The Washington Place Foundation
PO Box 873
Honolulu, HI 96808
For more information on Washington Place:
Washington Place, A First Lady's Story, by Jean Hayashi Ariyoshi, Honolulu, Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii, 2004
A previous blog post about Washington Place
Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo


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Sunday, September 17, 2006
10 comments:
- Alina said...
Beautiful photos, Mo. Enjoyed the first and second mostly.
- September 17, 2006 9:17 PM
- شهرزاد Shahrazad said...
Wow, you're back! I discovered your blog a few months ago and you stopped blogging! I take it you've joined a sufi order?
- September 17, 2006 10:48 PM
- Mohamed said...
I like the second one too Alina. I especially like the contrast between the pictures.
No, not really Shahrazad. Just exploring.
- September 17, 2006 11:16 PM
- Alina said...
Mo, indeed, you chose quite different and contrasting moments.
- September 18, 2006 10:24 AM
- شهرزاد Shahrazad said...
Ok, is that the sheikh Nazim order by any chance?
Did you find it to be a genuine sufi order?
- September 19, 2006 9:46 AM
- Mohamed said...
What's a "genuine sufi order"? From what I know they can be quite different. So which would be the genuine one? What I found is that its very hard (for me atleast) to map or relate the theory you read in books to people. Everyone is in the order for a different reason I suppose, so everyone is more comfortable with what suits them most.
Yeah, Sheikh Nazim is in the third picture. The second picture is the entrance to his house.
- September 19, 2006 11:03 AM
- شهرزاد Shahrazad said...
"What's a genuine sufi order..."
Well if i knew that....
I wasn't talking about theroies and books, from my very limited understanding of sufism you cant learn it just from reading about it or by intellectually analysing it .
Yes they can be from different backgrounds and thus folow different "paths" but what i meant by genuine is kind of hard to explain. I guess i hear of many supposedly sufi order who do nothing more than imitate what they believe to be sufi behaviour.
I'm not referring to this particular order, i know of them but that's it, i was just asking not making a statement.
Good luck
- September 19, 2006 10:33 PM
- Mohamed said...
Yeah, well to me theory/books are the logical explanation of an order because there's a spiritual level that they try to reach I guess, but its not out of the blue that they get there. Its by following a Way, a way of life and a way within yourself to "cleanse your heart" in order to experience that Divine Presence. How many get there, I don't know, but they're all at a certain level on the way I suppose.
But I wouldn't know how to judge an order as genuine though. You'll have to explain what you meant. Imitating? Sometimes you learn by imitating and repeating. I judge the limited group of people I saw according to my standards or according to the standards I read, but how good is my judgement? Overall though, I have mixed feelings about it.
I didn't get a chance to explore other Tariqas, do you have any links?
- September 20, 2006 11:55 AM
- شهرزاد Shahrazad said...
Look, i'm not the expert here so it would be like the blind leading the blind.
what i meant by imitating is this, you could for instance be keen to learn yoga so you go to this yogi only to find them obsessed with repitition and aesthetics and bell ringing and weird gowns and all this for the sake of it not for a specific purpose. Of course it comes down to your own personal judgement but imitators are those who imitate sufism in particular and lack the essence of sufism. Of course everyone would only see what they want to see and for some it would be perfect.
I'd absolutely hate to recommend and give you a link, but you said you have mixed feelings, why?
You could perhaps try reading something by Idries Shah, "al nafs al ammarah" and "sufi thought and action" are a good place to start.
Oh i just thought of the word i mean by imitators, y3ni zy el orders el b masr el feeha sha3waza more than sufism, or those that imitate the stereotype of sufis.
I didn't really think you could learn sufism by repetition, or imitation, anything yes but not anything spiritual, don't you think?
- September 20, 2006 2:27 PM
- husni said...
Moulana Sheikh Nazim,leader of the Naqshabandi Order is a truely genuine sufi order.I have followed him for several years and I find him to be so humble & sincere servant of Allah.If you need to know about this order there are several websites you could go to and learn from them,Inshallah you will be enlightned through his sohbets.
- May 22, 2008 1:44 PM


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