Re: (Re)Introduction, Art, Nature, Periods of the Day

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From: "Ajin Kwai" <yasmin4@...>

> hi, i'm yasmin...
Hi, Yasmin!

> i used to post regularly, perhaps a couple years ago,
> but have been lurking again the past few weeks.  Never
> formally introduced myself in the first place.
I remember you from a couple years ago!

> 29 yo "professional" freespirit, been working on my
> pet project draqa since i was 10.  It's been through
> quite a change over the years, but still retains even
> a bit of original material.  There have been others,
> but only draqa really has demanded to be nurtured...
Do remind us again of draqa and why it has claimed your attention.

> I wonder if the concept of the Japanese garden, etc.
> is not one of nature tamed, but of nature fulfilling
> itself... if truly seen from the perspective of
> "humans=nature".  How many insects, animals, even
> plants organize spaces in nature to make them more
> amenable to whatever use is intended?  Very many
> indeed... Is theirs too a defense against nature?  Or
> is that a particular way of looking at a
> near-universal activity of nature's denizens?
Very thought-provoking observation.  Ants seem to have structured
"defense-against-nature."  Birds and squirrels make nests... so maybe we all
ought to rethink this.  We think we have no instincts, just because the
nest-building song-singing tendency in us has to be "taught."  Maybe it's
just another example of something humans have taken from the animal world
expanded to the nth-degree.

> interesting, i recently made a simple vocabulary list
> in html and periods of the day were at the top. draqa
> has six.  The typical draqa has two sleeps in a day,
> one at "cikixi - nighttime", and one at "zheoxk -
> midday".
How sensible! :)

> After the first sleep, one awakens to "fwiaxa -
> sunrise, early morning",an often active period which
> is followed then by "zkaye - morning proper" when the
> tempo begins to wind back down...
In the Mediterranean, it winds down after about 1, and things pick up again
after about 3:30.  Again, sensible.

> After the sleep during zheoxk, one finishes things up
> in "sífwia - afternoon", so that they can party well
> into "hehxehn - sunset, evening"...
Sounds like a happy people.

Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."