hello from toronto.

I’m here visiting my folks.  I hope you’re doing well, it’s an unpredictable life you lead and who knows where you might be!

I was thinking about you in the last couple of days...  I really miss our conversations and your company.  It’s strange how much that morning visit to the museum meant to me.  Ah well, our journeys continue and our paths may cross again.

I’m more or less doing the same things: teaching my classes, which is great; avoiding the faculty, who are numbingly close-minded; and living in my apt.  I got the renovation to the point where I could cook as of September 1st.  There’s plenty left to do, but I’m grateful to have what I have. 

Best wishes to you and everyone around you,

I’d love to hear what you’re up to!

Love always,

My dear and friend, I am so touched by your message.

I've been thinking about you very often, specially this days.

I miss you a lot and wish I could talk to you with a nice cup of coffee like we used to do.
Good times, nice memories.

God willing, next year, I will be able to get a visa and visit NYC.

Hi Canim ❤️

I wish you a very happy Holidays 😘

You always in my mind

Best hoca I had ever had

Best

Hope laid her second egg this morning.

with love.

Dear Hippie Lou
It was so good to see you !
I realize how much I missed you !
Pls read first draft of screenplay and be honest with the feedback !
 With Love
And please if you need my assistance kindly let me know . I would be more then happy to help out !
The world you represent should be protected from the harm and cherished to blossom - Love

into the void you have stepped.

apologies for my tardy response and thank you for your beautiful message.

if only you could have been my script-writer, i might have had a
better connection with my mother!

it sounds like something i could have read to her, and can read it to
her even today.  it captures very well a very complicated and tangled
knot of experiences, feelings, thoughts, and dispositions.

to make such a complicated and emotionally charged thing simple and
clear is the work of a spiritual prodigy.  love mixed with patience
and understanding of self and others is an incredible healing balm,
and you administer it with gentle persistence.  i have no doubt that
healing will come to both of you as a result of both your continued
efforts.

i am reminded of one of my heroes - philippe petit.  into the void you
have stepped, and dancing on the wire you are.  truly!

with all my heart, david/hippie lou

who knows we will SEE !!!

yesssss hahaha they carried wipes in the car and everywhere.

i found this amazzzzzzzzzzzzzzing asian lady that does natural hair in NEW YORK CITY !
she cuts hair in its curly state most hair stylist like the one i used to go to until about 2 weeks ago im not going back there last time i went there and left i was not happy but this lady seems amazing. shes expensive a cut in the curly state is 200 dollars but its well worth it if its once every 6 months like twice a year theres only one guy i know on ig that cuts natual hair in its curly state and thats in i believe in LA his name is TheCurlDoctor but this lady is in NYC and shes moving to a new shop soon in NYC her IG is:

and its surprising because people say if your black and have black peoples hair go to black people so this asian lady knows how to cut and style natural hair and to deal with it its not easy its thick and tangles so easily so im gonna grow my hair out a little bit and maybe by next year around this time i will go to her or by December or before that who knows we will SEE !!!

and can you email text me because i dont check my email like that so if you could email text me that would be better :)

ILY 💟 see you soon

hope you're doing well & staying healthy 🙏

wind over the foil.

now i turn my head;
i look to the future;
i have been
looking behind
thinkinking
infinite runway
infinite road
in front
ahead
my time now
is to look forward
runway getting short;
pull back
the lever
the wheels are
lifting
lifting
wind over
the foil
kill devil hills
kitty hawk
all eyes
all energy
for staying
aloft
for soaring
for swooping
wing footed
messenger
you have boundaries
to cross.

start here.

a key. a roof over your head.  roommates. communal living.  a coffee shop nearby.

we are so very excited for you and appreciate all that you've done sharing what you've learned and all the support you've given others.

enjoy and bask in what you have accomplished! <3 nancy

thanks hippie lou! it was awesome you staying here and im grateful for our super cool talks and getting to know you. see you on the flip side!

divination by drawing lots.

@hippielou, What's the name of the form of divination where you open a book and read the first thing that pops out at you? Your tweets remind me of that.

*****

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word bibliomancy (etymologically from βιβλίον biblio- "book" and μαντεία -mancy "divination by means of") "divination by books, or by verses of the Bible" was first recorded in 1753 (Chambers' Cyclopædia). Sometimes this term is used synonymously with stichomancy (from στίχος sticho-"row, line, verse") "divination by lines of verse in books taken at hazard", which was first recorded ca. 1693 (Urquhart's Rabelais).

Bibliomancy compares with rhapsodomancy (from rhapsode "poem, song, ode") "divination by reading a random passage from a poem". A historical precedent was the ancient Roman practice of sortes ("sortilege, divination by drawing lots") which specialized into sortes Homericae, sortes Virgilianae, and sortes Sanctorum, using the texts of Homer, Virgil, and the Bible.

there but for fortune may go you or i.

phil was so vulnerable to him
but dylan would play with him
the way a cruel person might
when you know you have the
full affection of someone else
and you toy with it.

and that went on
over and over with
phil and dylan.

it was a very big part
of phil's pathology, i believe.

some alcoholics you want to push away
and some you want to take care of
some of them you have a
sense of their worth and their
struggle and their gift
they bring out the love
and the concern
and i think that's what happened with phil

he couldn't stop drinking
and i know it was guilt
he felt very guilty about his daughter
and about his marriage
when you make mistakes
there are no time machines
to rectify mistakes
so mistakes are lodged
like harpoons
and fish hooks
in an intelligent person's soul

and i think phil couldn't get beyond
those personal harpoons
that made him feel in some ways
worthless.

their limited capacity for cargo and crew were their main drawbacks, but these aspects did not hinder their success.

Before the fifteenth century, European nations confined their sailing to the Mediterranean Sea. The ocean was too rough for their fragile, unadaptable ships. But around 1450, the Portuguese developed a new kind of vessel, the caravel. It employed a triangular [lateen] sail that enabled it to travel against the wind. Soon, exploratory missions ventured into the open sea and down along the coast of West Africa.  Eventually, this new technology enabled long westward trips across the Atlantic.

I propose that we make the caravel your symbol of power for 2018, Libra. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will find or create a resource that enables you to do the metaphorical equivalent of effectively sailing into the wind.

*****

Until the 15th century, Europeans were limited to coastal navigation using the barge or the balinger (barinel), ancient cargo vessels of the Mediterranean Sea with a capacity of around 50 to 200 tons. These boats were fragile, with only one mast with a fixed square sail that could not overcome the navigational difficulties of southward oceanic exploration, as the strong winds, shoals and strong ocean currents easily overwhelmed their abilities.

The caravel has origins in earlier Portuguese fishing boats built in the 13th century based on the medieval Islamic qarib, used in Islamic Spain. The lateen sail, which had Middle-Eastern origins, was also adopted from medieval Islamic shipping in the 15th century.

The caravel was developed in about 1451, based on existing fishing boats under the sponsorship of Henry the Navigator of Portugal, and soon became the preferred vessel for Portuguese explorers like Diogo Cão, Bartolomeu Dias or Gaspar and Miguel Corte-Real, and by Christopher Columbus. Its name may derive from an ancient boat type known as carabus in Latin and καραβος in Greek, later adopted into Arabic as qārib, indicating some continuity of its carvel build through the ages. They were agile and easier to navigate than the barca and barinel, with a tonnage of 50 to 160 tons and 1 to 3 masts, with lateen triangular sails allowing beating.

Being smaller and having a shallow keel, the caravel could sail upriver in shallow coastal waters. With the lateen sails attached, it was highly maneuverable and could sail much nearer the shore, while with the square Atlantic-type sails attached, it was very fast. Its economy, speed, agility, and power made it esteemed as the best sailing vessel of its time. The limited capacity for cargo and crew were their main drawbacks, but did not hinder its success.