The Sacred Cow…

The Sacred Cow,
Drifted through my dreams,
Telling of misery,
And untold schemes….

Then, smiling and laying,
A hoof, solid, down…
She laughed as she fit me,
With a rare, new crown.

We are the keepers, of the world we see.
We are the images, it’s you and me.
No time for anger, no time for despair…
We are the keepers, we must start to care.

Come, all you children,
Come, and gather ’round.
It’s the smile on your face,
That tells what you’ve found.

Now spread the word.
Spread it far and near.
It’s the peace in your heart,
That has to stay clear.

We are the keepers, of the world we see.
We are the images, it’s you and me.
No time for anger, no time for despair…
We are the keepers, we’re startin’ to care…

CAWatson 5/27/08

Oh, sweet, alone, Edgar…..

• From childhood’s hour I have not been
  As others were — I have not seen
  As others saw — I could not bring
  My passions from a common spring —
  From the same source I have not taken
  My sorrow — I could not awaken
  My heart to joy at the same tone —
  And all I lov’d — I lov’d alone —
  • “Alone” l. 1-8 (written 1829, published 1875)
  • Edgar Allen Poe

Wild Horses…..

Listen quietly, in the grass land.
Hear the hooves, digging into ground.
Feel the earth give out a tremor.
Know the wild ones still abound.

Manes in flowing admirations.
Rhythm through each muscle known.
All so individually united.
Hooves and heart have past me flown…

I will marvel, the great vast prairies.
I will search deeply, all canyons, I see.
Though none compare to the herds in passion.
None other so fill the spirit in me.

CAWatson05/12/08

Archimedes…….

We probably all know about Archimedes and his law of buoyancy….but Neatorama.com brings new light to an otherwise submersion of character…..

“The Man Behind the Law: Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212 B.C.), was a Greek geometer and is often regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians and scientists who ever lived.

Here are a few things about Archimedes you may not know:

- Plutarch wrote that Archimedes was so obsessed with math that his servants had to force him to bathe, and that while they scrubbed him, he continued to draw geometrical figures on his body!

- Archimedes invented a machine called the Archimedean screw to pump water.

- He also invented a “death ray” weapon using a set of mirrors that focused sunlight on Roman ships, setting them on fire. After many scientists discounted the story as false, David Wallace of MIT actually did the experiment: He had his students build an oak replica of a Roman ship and focused sunlight on it using 127 mirrored tiles from a distance of 30 meters. After ten minutes of exposure, the ship burst into flames!

- When the Romans captured Syracuse in 212 B.C., a Roman soldier came upon the mathematician who was studying a mathematical diagram drawn in the sand. Archimedes was annoyed by the soldier’s interruption, and said “Don’t disturb my circles” before he was killed. Moral of the story: don’t piss off a Roman soldier!”