FYI

 

I've thought for a while now that whoever is making the next LOTR films should really get Phil Harding to play Tom Bombadil.

Sure, he's older than in his Time Team days, but some hair filler/extension, some prosthetic make-up, and maybe some CGI, etc. whatever, he would make the best Tom Bombadil. If you've ever watched Time Team (I love Time Team so much and they really ought to bring the show back) you will know Phil Harding's laugh. 

 

(There's Raksha's laugh going on at the same time, so you have to distinguish Harding's laugh. Anyways you just need to watch episodes of Time Team to see and hear it. LOL)

He is literally Tom Bombadil. He knows old artifacts like Bombadil. He also has Bombadil's build.

I'm telling you, if the people making LOTR don't get Phil Harding to play Tom Bombadil they are making a grave error.

Yeah, sure, he would be an unexpected Tom Bombadil - but he would be the best. For one his accent is the oldest of English accents. And I mentioned his laugh - it's that and his infectious, put-you-at-your-ease-but-still-somewhat-strange demeanor.

Not So Long

Another room has opened in this night

which holds no winter: vibrato in the waters

and transmission from the firs, oceanic

south wind - abrupt, benevolent, stealing in.

Not so long and the chirrups will rise, amphibian

gladness from the ponds, creeks, and ditches,

when dark air sighs about the notch of warm

poised in the chill - of softening humus,

when air sings strangely of water houses
multitudinous and suspended, where the crick
crick crick reverberates, and skunk cabbage surfaces.
Not so long and the oak won't rattle - but release

its stiffened leaves, like shriven sins; not so

long and daffodil green, wetly woven, will

bend in pliancy and sheen, in silence.

A room is being made, a humble promise.

Forward Together

You see, Buddhist priests of this temple sheltered hidden Christians during Japan's two and a half centuries of suppression:

And centuries later, when the Buddhist temple was falling into disrepair, who contributed a substantial sum of money to its rebuilding? 

 

And this Catholic church on the Gotō Islands of Nagasaki, which was one of the first to be built when the ban on Christianity was ended, who is the one to visit over twenty times a month to take care of it? 

 

A Christian - a Catholic? Nope. A Buddhist.

You see?

Fratelli Tutti.

That is so true

Question

How is it that masks are suffocating and so impervious that they cause people to choke on their own co2, but when it comes to them preventing COVID-19 suddenly masks are "like a chain link fence through which one throws a handful of gravel"?

Okeeydokeey then. Good luck with all that.

LOL.