Donald Traxler's Poetry: October 2021

Saturday, October 30, 2021

We Divide Our Time

Friday, October 29, 2021

Material World (second version)

Yes, we live in a material world,

but we also live in a spiritual world,

and a magical one.

Finally, we live in a world

of consciousness

and light.

In my last blog entry, I included this same text, along with a different, much higher-contrast (and therefore more abstract, less revealing) version of the photograph above. When I posted the entry to social media, I tagged it #nsfw. But someone commented that it was not an "nsfw" post at all. So I would like to ask:

1) Was the original post "nsfw?"

2) Is this post "nsfw?"

3) Which version do you prefer?

Thanks for your input.

Thursday, October 28, 2021

Yes, We Live in a Material World

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Life Is a Continuum

Sunday, October 24, 2021

Names

Sara "Sally" McCune, Jack Hirsh, Marianne Seaver, P. Deborah Lorentz, Orion Culver, Ramana Maharishi, Allen Ginsberg, Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Shlomo Carlebach, John (Lubavitcher) Blank, Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Herman Hesse, Gandhi, Yeshua ben Yoseph, Moses de León, Federico García Lorca, Paul Twitchell, Adi Shankara, Lalla (Lalleshvari, Lal Ded) of Kashmir, Gerald Gardner, Pablo Neruda, Henri Bergson, William Buehler Seabrook, Persis Kirmse, Maria de Naglowska, Michael Sullivan, Marina Abramovic, Karen Finley, Yakov Leib HaKohain (L. G. Corey), Patricia Traxler, Linda Siegel Sang, Robert Burns Traxler Sr., Judith E. Jacobson, Kansas, Ersson, Ljusnarsberg, Bloom, Warsjobo, Bollnäs. Phoebe Jane Neely, Oklahoma, Sequoia, St. Jerome, Paul Gauguin, Helmut Newton, Edward Hopper, Marc Chagall, Francesca Woodman.

Relatives, friends, influences, objects of research, indiscriminately. Many have been left out. It's enough to make your head spin.

Sunday, October 17, 2021

Song of Even Ben Yakov Perach - I

Saturday, October 16, 2021

He Steps Out of the Mirror / ᎠᏨᏯᎢ ᎠᎳᏍᎬᏓᏎ ᏙᏰᎩ ᎠᏓᎨᏗ ᏂᏛᎴᏅᏓ

Friday, October 15, 2021

His Words Bring Light / ᎤᏤᎵ ᏗᎧᏁᎢᏍᏗ ᎠᏲᎯᏍᏓᏎ ᎤᎸᏌᏓᏁ

His Spirit Embraces Millennia / ᎤᏤᎵ ᎠᏓᏅᏙ ᏗᏓᏂᏴᏓᏎ ᎠᎦᏴᎵᏗᏁ-ᏧᏕᏘᏴᏓ

Thursday, October 14, 2021

These Human Bodies / ᎾᏍᎩ-ᎯᎠ ᏴᏫᎯ ᎠᏰᎸᏗ

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

The Great Spirit Gave Us This Human Body / equa adanvdo adanedise itsulv didla hia yvwihi ayelvne

ᎡᏆ ᎠᏓᏅᏙ ᎠᏓᏁᏗᏎ ᎢᏧᎸ ᏗᏜ ᎯᎠ ᏴᏫᎯ ᎠᏰᎸᏁ. Ꮭ ᎨᏒᎠᏎ ᎠᏓᏅᏖᏗ ᎨᏒᎢ ᎠᏕᎰᏍᎦ ᏂᎦ ᎢᎦᏛ ᎾᏍᎩ ᎥᎿᎢ ᎠᏂᏰᎸᏍᎬ, ᎠᎴ' ᎾᏍᎩᎯ ᎤᏯᎾ-ᏛᏁᏗᏗ. ᎠᎵᎮᎵᏍᏚ ᎠᏓᏁᏙ ᎭᏫᎾ.

The Great Spirit gave us this human body. There is no reason to be ashamed of any part of it, or its functions. Rejoice in the gift.

Monday, October 11, 2021

So God created mankind in his own image / ᎡᏆ ᎠᏓᏅᏙ ᎪᏢᏗᏎ ᎠᏂ-ᏴᏫᏁ ᎤᏤᎵ ᏗᏟᎶᏍᏔᏅ ᎭᏫᎾ

Y creó Dios a la humanidad a su imagen, a imagen de Dios la creó; varón y hembra los creó.

Saturday, October 9, 2021

123,000 Visits, One Dictionary, and One New Photo

Greetings! We have just passed the milestone of 123,000 visits to this blog. A lot of that, these days, comes from a single user in the USA. My theory is that the person is planning piracy, or perhaps working on a PhD dissertation. It could also be monitoring by some governmental agency. Not that that makes any sense, but they do hate secrecy, and may think that my Udugi language is secret. It isn't--a Cherokee speaker can understand 80% of it without prior study.

About a year and a half ago, on May 26, 2020, to be exact, I published a dictionary of my Udugi language, followed by a sketch of the grammar. It has occurred to me that accesses of this file could serve as an indicator is relative interest/use of the language. So here is the chart;

It seems as though there has been an uptick in interest recently, and this is in agreement with my own intuition on the matter,

As always, I would like to thank all of you for your continued interest in the blog. Thank you. Wadó. ᏩᏙ'.

Thursday, October 7, 2021

The Past Has Brought Us Here / ᏧᏩᎫᏔᏅᏒ ᎠᏲᎯᏍᏗᏎ ᎢᏧᎸ ᎠᎭᏂ

Monday, October 4, 2021

Sing the Sun Up / ᎧᏃᎩᏍᏚ ᏅᏓᏁ ᎦᎸᎳᏗ

Saturday, October 2, 2021

Nothing Needs to be Said / ᎥᏝᎪᎱᏍᏗ ᎤᏚᎳᏓᏎ ᎨᏒᎢ ᎯᏁᎩᏔ

[Finally, inclusive language.]