TraipsingPele

Sweetemploy is on vacation. I'll be working hard at traveling around the globe and making more personal/biographical posts via a travel blog.
B O I N G !

rickshaw, jeepney, cabin cycle, dalnik, tuktuk, phat phati

COME TO ME!











I want you.






I need you.







We would be so happy together....

I.S.O. DRAGON

TZVETANKA sings a dragon's heart into life....

天涯歌女, Cheerful, Broken, and Lustrous

Roman Dans eder misiniz?

All I want for Christmas is a Weird Machine

hallighaus

Carmen Immortal

Night Tremors of the Sleeping Giant, part 1

Scratches on the surface of the variety of influences on Chinese culture and identity. Internal, adjacent, tangential.

Text is taken from the description of one video of a Tibetan woman singing in competition on TV in China:

To win a medal at the National Singing Contest, the following criteria should be met.
1. The singing technique should be excellent.
2. The singing performance should be affecting. That is, if the singer sings a love (or sorrowful) song, the audience should feel that their hearts are full of love (or sorrow).
3. The singer should be the best singer (or at least one of the best singers) among all those who can use the same singing technique in the world.
4. Since this National Singing Contest is not for a single ethnic group, but for all Chinese ethnic groups, so the singer should show the most beautiful part of her ethnic culture during her performance. And the audience should be shocked by the beauty of her ethnic culture.

Nationalism is a strange beast.

Double-Take Image - 24 Stories of Filial Piety

7. Filial Piety of Yen Tzu (1122 B.C.)

Yen Tzu's parents are old and have eye trouble. The doctor recommends treating them with deer milk. Yen Tzu wears the fur of a fawn to assume the form of a child of a deer. In this way he really gets some milk. His parent's eyes feel better. He has to get more again. Once he meets a hunter who mistakes him as a real fawn and is about to shoot him. He cries loudly and tells the hunter the truth and so is saved.

Nothing cannot be gotten by a son with filial piety. Readers will find some more examples in this small booklet. It is not that those good sons really possess supernatural powers but that they are always helped by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Gods, and All Protectors.

His parents do like to drink the milk of deer,
They do not know the price of it's dear.
He must wear the fur of fawn,
Almost is killed by the hunter with fear.



Text taken from the Website of Buddhist Yogi C. M. Chen. It's worth looking around the site if you're interested in other realms.

Each With His Own Brush

...from a book of the same title, by Daniel Johnson Fleming. I have been meaning to scan these images for months. It was hard to choose which ones to post. They are painted by Chinese artists, except for the Five Japanese Martyrs.
I photocopied the Self-Realization Magazine during college.

tatar lady; chechnian girl

circus of houses pt 1

the cat came back

My favorites from a chapter of The Book of Lists.

1. SUGAR - 1,500 miles
Sugar, a two-year-old part-Persian, had a hip deformity, which made her uncomfortable during car travel. Consequently, she was left behind with a neighbor when her family left Anderson, California, for Gage, Oklahoma. Two weeks later, Sugar disappeared. Fourteen months later, she turned up in Gage on her owner's doorstep - having traveled 100 miles a month to reach a place she had never been. The case was insvestigated in person by the famous parapsychologist J. B. Rhine....

In the book these are arranged by distance, so Murka, who should come in first for style, is

8. MURKA - 400 miles
In 1987 Murka, a stray tortoiseshell, was adopted by Vladamir Donsov in Moscow. Murka killed his canary; a year later, she unlocked the bird cage and killed another one. She was banished to live with Mr. Donsov's mother in Voronezh, but disappeared after two years. A year later, on October 1989, Mr. Donsov found her in his Moscow apartment building, hungry, dirty, pregnant, and missing the tip of her tail. She ate a large meal and slept for three days.

Image forthcoming.

man mimics bird, bird trumps man

submerged civilizations

湘妃竹 at a measured pace

Finally, a few good konghou videos showing up. This song has special significance to me.

happy new love