Thousand Hand Bodhisattva Part 2

I was introduced to the video of this exquisite dance by Inge.  She finds beauty everywhere.

Thousand Hand Bodhisattva Part 2

Mine - done 2002 or 3

Carlo Suares - The Cipher of Genesis

For a more plausible and much more fascinating interpretation of the first book of the bible, read "The Cipher of Genesis".   

PRESAGES by Norman Cohan

Eloquent locution's psionic dive

Opens most post-terrestrials post-hive

Who choose to breakthrough the cultural trance

Many renascent crusaders enhance

Precisional visions of artisans refined

Imbuing unguents unhinging the mind

Cosmic doctors unlocking the void

Terminal adulthood they deftly avoid

Reflexive vis-a-vis what linkage exists

Twixt stellar vantages spin syntonists

An avalanche of avatars feeling zealous

In service deliver us delirious

          Aeonic strivings to upgrade the game
          Lively oracles preternally aflame

Inge's Morning Run Haiku

I love Inge's Haiku.  When I read it, I'm right there with her........seeing the light, smelling the woods, hearing the sounds.............

Leaves begin to fall
The pathway becomes a quilt
So brightly colored
                           10/25/10

Dancing through the trees
November sun hanging low
A wooded light show
                               11/08/10

The Female Brain

Excerpt.........

Imagine for a moment that you are in a microcapsule speeding up the vaginal canal, hitting warp drive through the cervix ahead of the tsunami of sperm. Once inside the uterus, you'll see a giant, undulating egg waiting for that lucky tadpole with enough moxie to penetrate the surface. Let's say the sperm that led the charge carries an X and not a Y chromosome. Voilà, the fertilized egg is a girl.

In the span of just thirty-eight weeks, we would see this girl grow from a group of cells that could fit on the head of a pin to an infant who weighs an average of seven and a half pounds and possesses the machinery she needs to live outside her mother's body. But the majority of the brain development that determines her sex-specific circuits happens during the first eighteen weeks of pregnancy.

Until eight weeks old, every fetal brain looks female - female is na-ture's default gender setting. If you were to watch a female and a male brain developing via time-lapse photography, you would see their circuit diagrams being laid down according to the blueprint drafted by both genes and sex hormones. A huge testosterone surge beginning in the eighth week will turn this unisex brain male by killing off some cells in the communication centers and growing more cells in the sex and aggression centers. If the testosterone surge doesn't happen, the female brain continues to grow unperturbed. The fetal girl's brain cells sprout more connections in the communication centers and areas that process emotion. How does this fetal fork in the road affect us? For one thing, because of her larger communication center, this girl will grow up to be more talkative than her brother. Men use about seven thousand words per day. Women use about twenty thousand. For another, it defines our innate biological destiny, coloring the lens through which each of us views and engages the world..........