Donald Traxler's Poetry: 07/09/22

Saturday, July 9, 2022

There Is Only Light / ᎨᏒᎠᏎ ᎤᏩᏌ ᎤᎸᏌᏓ

146,000 Visits and One Russian Pirate

It took about two and a half months to go from 145,000 visits to this blog to 146,000 visits (page-views), which is where we are now. The reason for the slowness is unusually low activity by would-be pirates. My favorite of these pirates, normally located in the US, had spent some time in Japan (for printing?), but his/her activity is now being replaced by that of a pirate in Russia, whom I'll call "Win-Chrome" (WC for short, appropriately). This is hardly surprising, since Russia is becoming known for various kinds of piracy.

Enough about that, I like to keep things positive around here. My film-photography activity has gone way down, since it is now summer. Temperatures in our garage, which does not have the benefit of air conditioning, and is also where I develop my film, are currently around 93-94°F (35°C). I'll get back to it one of these days, but am mostly using the digital for now.

I am again working on my translation of the Gospel According to Matthew into Udugi, which had languished for some months, or possibly a year. I've just begun to translate chapter six. This translation project is causing an expansion of the vocabulary of Udugi (sourced from Cherokee, and especially from the Cherokee New Testament). I will eventually publish an expanded Udugi Dictionary (probably when I complete the translation of Matthew).

My interest in the Psalms continues, and I recently wrote on the missing verse in Psalm 145. Perhaps I'll find the courage one day to translate all the Psalms, but it's a huge job, of which I've only done one-fifth, so I'm not sure about that.

I've recently been applying graphical distortions to some of my photographs (see the example below), and I expect to further develop that technique.

Once again, I would like to thank you all for your continued interest, loyalty, and enthusiasm. Thank you. Wadó, ꮹꮩ.