martes, 21 de diciembre de 2010

"Navidad Planetaria (O Universal)"

Haciendo apenas un poco de historia, con esto de mandar mensajes y saludos a otras partes del mundo.... Algunos de los que "sólo vieron las últimas computadoras hogareñas" tal vez no sepan que hasta el año 1970 del S.XX eran comunes los aparatos de onda corta (ahora no se usa mucho ese sistema en radiodifusión). Esos aparatitos podían oír cosas de Inglaterra igual a como ahora se captan desde Argentina vía internet. Lo que importa para esta entrada, es ver si todos los saludos pueden llegar a todas las regiones del mundo, o si por el contrario en Samoa o el centro del Amazonas no tienen forma de recibirlos. Este año, entonces, con una pequeña ayuda del "Gran Internet", los saludos de Navidad y Fin de Año deberían poder llegar por lo menos hasta Saturno (Y tal vez debería decir muchos años luz más allá).

Afrikaans - Geseënde Kersfees
Akeanon (Philippines) - Maayad-ayad nga Paskwa
Albanian - Gëzuar Krishtlindjet e Vitin e Ri
Aleut - Kamgan Ukudigaa
Alsatian - E güeti Wïnâchte
Amharic (North Central Ethiopia) - Melkam Gena. Merry Christmas
Apache (Western) - Gozhqq Keshmish
Arabic (Modern Standard) - أجمل التهاني بمناسبة الميلاد و حلول السنة الجديدة (ajmil at-tihānī bimunāsabah al-mīlād wa ḥilūl as-sanah al-jadīdah)
Armenian (Eastern) - Շնորհավոր Ամանոր և Սուրբ Ծնունդ (Shnorhavor Amanor yev Surb Tznund)
Armenian (Western) - Շնորհաւոր Նոր Տարի եւ Սուրբ Ծնունդ (Shnorhavor Nor Daree yev Soorp Dzuhnoont)
Aromanian (Southeastern Europe) - Cãrciun hãrios
Asturian - Bones Navidaes y Gayoleru añu nuevu!
Aymara - Sooma Nawira-ra
Azerbaijani - Yeni Iliniz Mübarək
Basque - Zorionak eta urte berri on

Belarusian - З Божым нараджэннем (Z Bozym naradzenniem)
Bengali - শুভ বড়দিন (shubho bôṛodin)
Bhojpuri (north-central, eastern India) - शुभ क्रिसमस और शुभ नव वर्ष (subh krismas auur subh nav varsh)
Bikol (Central Philippine) - Maogmang Pasko
Blackfoot (Montana) - (i'taamomahkatoyiiksistsikomi)
Bosnian - Sretan Bozic i sretna nova godina
Breton - Nedeleg laouen ha bloavezh mat
Bulgarian - Честита Коледа (Čestita Koleda)
Catalan - Bon Nadal i feliç any nou
Cebuano (Philippines) - Maayong Pasko
Chamorro (Guam, Marianas) - Felis Nåbidåt yan Magof na Åñu Nuebu!
Cherokee - Danistayohihv; Aliheli'sdi Itse Udetiyvasadisv
Cheyenne - Hoesenestotse; Aa'eEmona'e
Chinese

(Cantonese) - singdaanjit tùhng sànnìhn faailohk
(Mandarin) - shèngdàn kuàilè xīnnián kuàilè
(Shanghainese) sendaijiq kualoq

(Taiwanese) - Sèng-tàn-chiat Khòai-lok - Merry Christmas
(Teochew) - siandang kuailak
Choctaw (Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana) - Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito
Comanche - Tsaa Nuusukatu Waa Himaru
Cornish (United Kingdom) - Nadelik Lowen ha Blydhen Nowydh Da
Cree (Canada) - Mitho Makosi Kesikansi
Creek (Oklahoma) - Afvcke Nettvcakorakko
Croatian - Sretan Božić!
Czech - Veselé vánoce a šťastný nový rok
Danish - Glædelig jul og godt nytår
Dutch - Prettige kerstdagen, Zalig kerstfeest
East Inuktitut (Canada, Greenland, Alaska and Siberia) - Quviasummi Quviasugitsi
Elvish - Ná merye i turuhalmeri!
Estonian - Rõõmsaid Jõule
Faroese - Gleðilig Jól og eydnuríkt nýggjár
Fijian - Me Nomuni na marau ni siga ni sucu kei na tawase ni yabaki vou
Filipino - Maligayang pasko at manigong bagong taon!
Finnish - Hyvää joulua ja onnellista uutta vuotta
Flemish (Flanders, Middle Dutch) - Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar
Frisian (Netherlands) - Noflike Krystdagen en folle lok en seine
French - Joyeux Noël et bonne année
Friulian (North Italy) - Bon Nadâl e Biel An Gnûv!
Galician - Bo Nadal e próspero aninovo
Georgian - გილოცავთ შობა-ახალ წელს (gilocavth shoba-akhal c’els)
German - Fröhliche Weihnachten
German (Swiss) - Schöni Fäschttäg
Greek - Καλά Χριστούγεννα! (Kalá hristúyenna)
Greenlandic - Juullimi Ukiortaassamilu Pilluarit
Guinea-Bissau Creole - Bom Natal ku boas entradas, pa ano entrano diritu
Gujarati (Indo-Aryan language) - સાલ મુબારક (sāl mūbārak)
Hausa (West Africa) - barka da Kirsimatikuma barka da sabuwar shekara
Hawaiian - Mele Kalikimaka me ka Hauʻoli Makahiki Hou
Hebrew - חג מולד שמח ושנה טובה (Chag Molad Sameach v'Shanah Tovah)
Hiligaynon (Philippines) - Malipayon nga Paskwa
Hindi - शुभ क्रिसमस (Śubh krisamas)
Hungarian - Kellemes karácsonyt és boldog új évet
Icelandic - Gleðileg jól og farsælt komandi ár
Ilokano (Philippines) - Naragsak a Paskua
Indonesian - Selamat hari natal dan tahun baru
Inonhan ( Philippines) - Malipayon nga Paskwa
Inuktitut (Canada, Greenland, Alaska and Siberia) - Kuvianak Inovia
Iñupiaq (Alaska) - Quvianagli Anaiyyuniqpaliqsi suli Nakuuluni Ukiutqiutiqsi
Inupiatun (Alaska) - Annaurri Aniruq-lu Paglaun Ukiutchiaq!
Irish (Gaelic) - Nollaig shona duit (Happy Christmas to you)
Italian - Buon Natale e felice anno nuovo
Japanese - merī kurisumasu
Javanese - Sugeng Riyạyạ Natal lan Warsạ Énggal
Jèrriais (Channel Island of Jersey) - Bouan Noué
Judeo-Spanish / Ladino - Noel alegre
Kapampangan (Luzon) - Masayang Pasku
Kazakh - Жаңа жыл құтты болсын! (Jaña jıl quttı bolsın!)
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) - Noheri nziza n'umwaka mushya muhire!
Kirghiz - Жаратканнын туысымен Жана Жылыныз кутты болсын (Žaratkannyi tuysymen Žana Žylynyz kutty bolsyn)
Klingon - QISmaS DatIvjaj 'ej DIS chu' DatIvjaj
Korean - jeulgeoun seongtanjeol bonaesigo saehae bok manhi bateusaeyo
Kurdish (Kurmanji) - Kirîsmes u ser sala we pîroz be
Kurdish (Sorani) - Kirîsmes u salî nwêtan lê pîroz bê
Lao - Souksan van Christmas
Latin - Natale hilare et annum faustum
Latvian - Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus un laimīgu Jauno gadu
Lithuanian - Linksmų Kalėdų ir laimingų Naujųjų Metų
Luganda (Uganda) - Mbagaliza Christmass Enungi Nomwaka Omugya Gubaberere Gwamirembe
Luxembourgish - E schéine Chrëschtdag an e glécklecht neit Joer
Macedonian - Христос се роди! (Hristoc se rodi!) - Christ is born
Malagasy - Mirary noely sambatra
Malay - Selamat Hari Natal (Christmas)
Malayalam (India) - പുഥുവല്സര ആശംസകല് (puthuvalsara aashamsakal) - Christmas
Maltese - Il-Milied Ħieni u s-Sena t-Tajba
Manx - Nollick Ghennal as Blein Vie Noa
Māori - Meri Kirihimete me ngā mihi o te tau hou ki a koutou katoa
Marathi (India) - शुभ नाताळ (Śubh Nātāḷ)
नवीन वर्षच्या हार्दिक शुभेच्छा (Navīn varṣacyā hārdik śubhecchā)
Mongolian - Танд зул сарын баярын болон шинэ жилийн мэндийг хүргэе (Tand zul sariin bayriin bolon shine jiliin mendiig hurgey)
Navajo - Ya'at'eeh Keshmish
Na'vi - lefpom trr, fpom srekamtxon [lɛ.ˈfpom tṛ fpom sɾɛ.ˈkam.t'on] - Happy Day, peace before midnight (Lo mejor que pude hacer, para que el saludo también estuviera en este idioma).
Nepali - क्रस्मसको शुभकामना तथा नयाँ वर्षको शुभकामना (krismas ko subhakamana tatha nayabarsha ko subhakamana)
Norwegian - God jul og godt nytt år (Bokmål)
Occitan (Southern France) - Polit Nadal e bona annada
Ogoni (southeast Nigeria) - Eenyie Mea Krist Ne Eenyie Aagbaa
Old English - Glæd Geol and Gesælig Niw Gear
Pangasinan (Philippines) - Maabig ya Pasko
Papiamentu (Curazao, Bonaire, Aruba) - Bon Pasku i Felis Anja Nobo
Persian - كریسمس مبارک (kerismas mobārak)
Polish - Wesołych świąt i szczęśliwego nowego roku
Portuguese - Feliz Natal e próspero ano novo
Punjabi (India) - ਕਰਿਸਮ ਤੇ ਨਵਾੰ ਸਾਲ ਖੁਸ਼ਿਯਾੰਵਾਲਾ ਹੋਵੇ (karisama te nawāṃ sāla khušayāṃwālā hewe)
Quenya - Alassëa Hristomerendë! Alassëa Vinyarië!
Rarotongan (Cook Islands) - Kia orana e kia manuia rava i teia Kiritimeti e te Mataiti Ou
Romansh (Swiss canton of Grisons) - Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal ed in bien niev onn!
Romanian - Crăciun fericit şi un An Nou Fericit
Russian - С Рождеством Христовым (S Roždestvom Khristovym)

Samoan - Manuia le Kerisimasi, ma le Tausaga Fou
Scots (Lowland Scotland, Ulster) - A Blythe Yule an a Guid Hogmanay
Scottish Gaelic - Nollaig chridheil agus bliadhna mhath ùr
Serbian - Христос се роди (Hristos se rodi) - Christ is born
Ваистину се роди (Vaistinu se rodi) - truly born (reply)
Sesotho (Austral Africa) - Keresemese e monate le mahlohonolo a selemo se setjha

Sicilian - Bon Natali e filici annu novu
Sindarin - Mereth Veren e-Doled Eruion! Garo Idhrinn Eden Veren!
Sinhala ( Sri Lanka) - (subha natthalak)
Slovak - Veselé vianoce a Štastný nový rok
Slovenian - Vesel božič in srečno novo leto
Somali - Ciid wanaagsan iyo sanad cusub oo fiican
Spanish - ¡Feliz Navidad y próspero año nuevo!
Swahili (Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Congo) - Krismasi Njema / Heri ya krismas
Swedish - God jul och gott nytt år
Tagalog (Philippines) - Maligayang Pasko, Manigong bagong taon
Tamil - கிறிஸ்துமஸ் மற்றும் இனிய புத்தாண்டு வாழ்த்துக்கள் (Christmas matrum puthaandu vaazthukkal)
Tahitian - Ia orana no te noere
Telugu (southern India) - సంతోషకరమైన క్రిస్ఠ్మస్ ! (saṅthoashakaramaina kristmas)
Tetum (Austronesian) - Ksolok loron natal nian no Boas entradas!
Thai - สุขสันต์วันคริสต์มาส และสวัสดีปีใหม่ (sùk săn wan-krít-mâat láe sà-wàt-dee bpee mài)
Tibetan - Losar La Tashi Delek - Happy New Year
Tigrinya (Ethiopia) - rHus beˋal ldet (ygberelka))
Tongan - Kilisimasi fiefia mo ha ta'u fo'ou monū'ia
Tsotsil (Chiapas) - Xmuyubajuk ti avo'one ti ta k'ine xchu'uk ti ta ach' jabile
Turkish - İyi Noeller ve Mutlu Yıllar
Tuscarora (Canada, United States) - Ujhenetya Kriswen tihsne? Nu Yah!!
Ukrainian - Веселого Різдва і з Новим Роком (Veseloho Rizdva i z Novym Rokom)
Urdu (Pakistan, India) - کرسمَس مبارک 'Merry Christmas' = (krismas mubarak)
Uyghur (Eastern, Central Asia) - يىڭى يىلىڭىزغا مۇبارەك بولسۇن - Merry Christmas - (rojistiwa bayrimingizge mubarek bolsun)
Uzbek - Yangi yilingiz bilan! (Happy New Year)
Vietnamese - Chúc Giáng Sinh Vui Vẻ và Chúc Năm Mới Tốt Lành
Volapük - Lemotöfazäli yofik e nulayeli läbik
Võro (south-eastern Estonia) - Hüvvä joulu ja õnnõlikku vahtsõt aastakka
Waray-Waray (Mindanao) - Maupay nga Pasko
Welsh - Nadolig llawen a blwyddyn newydd dda
West Inuktitun - Quvianaq Qitchirvik/Quviahugitsi Quviahugvingmi amma Quvianaq Ukiuaq Nutaaq Tikingmivuq!
Xhosa (Botswana) - Siniqwenelela Ikrisimesi Emnandi Nonyaka Omtsha Ozele Iintsikelelo
Yiddish - אַ פֿרײליכע ניטל און אַ גוטער נײַער יאָר (A freylikhe nitl un a guter nayer yor)
Yorùbá (West Africa) - Ẹ ku Ayọ Keresimesi ati Ọdun Tuntun
Zulu (South Africa) - Ngikufisela uKhisimusi oMuhle noNyaka oMusha oNempumelelo

lunes, 6 de diciembre de 2010

"Arashi No Yoru Ni" - Some artists

Images from one of my favorite japanese movies,
the pictures made by different artists;
representing the same innocent,
strong, and honest relationship
between two very different souls.


"Are You Over There...? Gabu...?"
eronine - deviantart

"I'm Always Close To You!"
kinah - digital dreams


"True Smiles Come From True Friends"
chibi9 - digital dreams

"I Know, I'm Just Enjoying This Moment"
edgar corona - digital dreams


"Stay Here, Baby Mei..."
insomniacawake - digital dreams


"In The Calm Of Our Shelter"
glad_sad - deviantart

"Sharing The End Of The Winter"
Reverse Alchemist - digital dreams


"Don't Worry, Little Mei"
jerome jacinto - deviantart


"A Big, Perfect Family"
thecheesecracker - deviantart

(Gabu and Mei just found that green forest;
now other evicted Wolves and Goats joined them there)

lunes, 29 de noviembre de 2010

"El Templo De los Tigres De Tailandia"

Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua - Le Temple Des Tigres


En 1999, les habitants d'un petit village de la province de Kanchanaburi en Thailande ont découvert dans la forêt deux bébés Tigres blessés dont les parents avaient été tués par les braconniers.


Ne sachant quoi en faire, ils les ont apportés au temple bouddhiste Wat Pha Luang où ils ont été recueillis et soignés par les moines.
Le "Temple des Tigres" venait de voir le jour.
Depuis de nombreux bébés Tigres orphelins furent emmenés au temple et élevés par les moines y résidant.
Les Tigres sont apprivoisés et habitués à ne manger que de la viande cuite afin d’éviter qu’ils ne développent le goût pour le sang. Ils sont traités comme des membres de la famille du temple.
C’ est un lieu communément considéré comme un sanctuaire pour animaux et un centre de préservation.


Le temple est ouvert aux touristes



Les employées gardent les Tigres sous contrôle et sont prêts a intervenir si les Tigres deviennent agités.
Les visiteurs sont invité à laisser un don si ils désirent être pris en photo avec les Tigres.
C’est le seul endroit au monde ou il est possible de caresser des tigres en liberté.




...Así, al menos en un lugar del mundo se logra lo que todos intentan: proteger a los Tigres de la extinción mientras se aprende a convivir con ellos.


domingo, 14 de noviembre de 2010

Cuando las Criaturas más salvajes...

...Muestran compasión hacia las más débiles,
pueden ocurrir cosas como esta:
O esta...
O tal vez esta...

The helpful Hippo that rescues helpless animals from Mara river

Visitors to a safari camp close to where the film Out Of Africa was shot stood in awe as they witnessed the annual Wildebeest migration.
But as they watched thousands of animals cross the raging Mara river they were astonished to see a Hippo come to the rescue of two drowning stragglers.
The strong current separated a Wildebeest, or Gnu, from her calf and she watched helplessly as it was swept away.
'To everyone's amazement the Hippo came to the Gnu's rescue and pushed it gently to the river bank', said Abdul Karim, the head guide at Sanctuary Olonana in the Masai Mara, Kenya.
The infant panted for a moment before getting up and running to its watching mother.
But the female Hippo's work did not finish there. Within ten minutes she spotted a little Zebra crossing the same stretch of water and pushed it across, its tiny head struggling to keep above the torrent.
'It was an unforgettable incident', said Mr Karim.
Maternal love can be so strong it can even surpass species boundaries', he added.
Huge concentrations of game move between Kenya and Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park every year in the constant search for fresh grazing.





Y también esta:

A Zebra appeared to dice with death by leaning its head into the jaws of a Hippopotamus –but it emerged unscathed after 15 minutes cleaning the mighty mammal's teeth.
The Hippo is one of world's most aggressive animals and can kill with one snap of its powerful jaw.
Visitors to the zoo where both animals live were amazed to see the Zebra craning its neck into the mouth of the water-loving mammal.
But their surprise increased when they realised the striped creature was cleaning the Hippo's teeth.

Si bien en todos estos casos los grandes protagonistas fueron Hipopótamos, seguramente hay muchas demostraciones similares por parte de otras Criaturas.


...Y aquí las tienen. En tres de estas historias, los héroes, o salvadores, son Serpientes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEhJzpfFHFg

http://www.lusakatimes.com/2009/05/18/snake-saves-ndola-woman-from-rapists/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1109035

http://www.africancrisis.co.za/Article.php?ID=3609&

lunes, 1 de noviembre de 2010

"Our Sweet Last Breath"

Imagen como para una historia de amor
entre una Princesa y un Dragón...
En este momento ella y él acaban de darse
el último adiós mutuamente
y tan felices de haber vivido juntos
como de irse al mismo tiempo.


martes, 5 de octubre de 2010

"What Trees And Plants Still Hadn't Show Us"

Smarty Plants: Inside the World's Only Plant-Intelligence Lab


SESTO FIORENTINO, Italy -Professor Stefano Mancuso knows it isn't easy being green: He runs the world's only laboratory dedicated to plant intelligence.
At the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology, about seven miles outside Florence, Italy, Mancuso and his team of nine work to debunk the myth that plants are low-life. Research at the modern building combines physiology, ecology and molecular biology.
"If you define intelligence as the capacity to solve problems, plants have a lot to teach us", says Mancuso, dressed in harmonizing shades of his favorite color: green. "Not only are they 'smart' in how they grow, adapt and thrive, they do it without neurones. Intelligence isn't only about having a brain".
Plants have never been given their due in the order of things; they've usually been dismissed as mere vegetables. But there's a growing body of research showing that plants have a lot to contribute in fields as disparate as robotics and telecommunications. For instance, current projects at the LINV include a plant-inspired robot in development for the European Space Agency. The "plantoid" might be used to explore the Martian soil by dropping mechanical "pods" capable of communicating with a central "stem", which would send data back to Earth.
The idea that plants are more than hanging decor at the dentist's office is not new. Charles Darwin published The Power of Movement in Plants -on phototropism and vine behavior- in 1880, but the concept of plant intelligence has been slow to creep into the general consciousness.
At the root of the problem: assuming that plants have, or should have, human-like feelings in order to be considered intelligent life forms, Mancuso says.
After the folksy 1970s hit book and stop-motion film The Secret Life of Plants, which maintained, sans serious research, that greenery had feelings and emotions, the scientific community has avoided talking about smarty plants.
So while there has been a bumper crop of studies demonstrating that green matter can be nearly as sophisticated as gray matter -especially when it comes to signaling and response systems, few talk about intelligence.
To christen the lab in 2004, Mancuso decided to use the controversial term "plant neurobiology" to reinforce the idea that plants have biochemistry, cell biology and electrophysiology similar to the human nervous system. But although LINV is part of the University of Florence -where Mancuso teaches horticulture- funds for this fertile field of research weren't forthcoming.
Studies at LINV were eventually given lymph -1 million euro so far, with about 500,000 euro to come- from the Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, a bank foundation that mainly supports cultural events and art restorations.
What convinced them to provide seed money?
"Looking beyond the name at the research", says Paolo Blasi, a physics professor at the university who's on LINV's board of directors. "It sounds almost like a pseudoscientific field, but now even skeptics are convinced because of the validity of the work".
In addition to studies on the effects of music on vineyards, the center's researchers have also published papers on gravity sensing, plant synapses and long-distance signal transmission in trees. One important offshoot of the research activity is an international symposium on plant neurobiology. Next year's meeting will be held in Japan.
Leopold Summerer, advanced-concepts team coordinator at the European Space Agency, remembers that the term "plant intelligence" raised a few eyebrows when collaboration with the lab was proposed -even on a multidisciplinary think-tank team that's used to pondering ideas out of left field. Nonetheless, Summerer says plant research may provide important ideas.
"Biometrics can provide some of the most inspiring resources for us", he says. "Solutions found by nature that might not seem related to real engineering problems at first sight actually are related and give technical solutions".
Radical as the LINV sounds, if it weren't for a lone sugarcane stalk perched on a cabinet, the lab looks like any other.
While white-coated researcher Luciana Renna patiently tests for DNA markers, molecular biologist Giovanni Stefano analyzes data on two computer monitors around the corner.
During a visit to the lab's two greenhouses -where research is being conducted on the effects of light on olive trees and reactions in Venus flytraps and the Mimosa pudica- Mancuso points out a few neglected office plants sent there for a little TLC.
Mancuso, however, is no plant-whisperer. Under-tended plants are a long way from understanding sweet nothings spoken softly to them, he explains.
"Plants communicate via chemical substances," Mancuso says. "They have a specific and fairly extensive vocabulary to convey alarms, health and a host of other things. We just have sound waves broken down into various languages, I don't see how we could bridge the gap".

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/10/veggie_intelligence


More Examples...


In 1966, Cleve Backster claimed that his Dracena plant could read his mind. More recently, botanists at Penn State University discovered that the five-angled dodder vine could hunt down its prey by scent. In fact, there is evidence to suggest that plants are not only intelligent, but they also communicate this intelligence to the ecosystem.
As Stephen Harrod Buhner states in The Lost Language of Plants (Vermont, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2002), "all things possess a soul, a sacred intelligence or logos" because all things are made from the sacred. Plants have demonstrated versatility with this sacred language. Some believe that man, who used to be able to communicate with plants, has lost touch with this language.
For example, healthy plants can sense what their community's need in terms of soil chemistry; they deliberately increase their production of the missing ingredients and send them into the soil for distribution. Trees that have been cut or injured are supported with nutrients through a network from neighbouring healthy plants.
Moreover, some believe plants know how cry for help. Ecologist Richard Karban of the University of California, Davis, examined this plant version of communication in a 2008 paper in which he details how plants release a complex blend of volatile chemicals when they are attacked by mites. These chemicals attract other insects that prey on these mites. Moreover, the volatile signals are "read" by neighboring plants which immediately "beef up" their own defense mechanism.
If problem-solving is one of the signs of intelligence, then some say plants are very intelligent. The dodder vine mentioned in the introduction of this article knows enough about its surroundings to bypass human throats for tomato stalks, which it embraces tightly before sucking out its juices.
The Amazonian Stilt Palm knows how to track its area for sunlight. Once it has found the right location, it sends out new roots and "de-activates" old roots that have grown in the shade.
Several studies also show that rhizomes know enough to "construct a three-dimensional perspective of their local space... to exploit resources, thus receiving rewards for successful behavior".
Plants can also change their genetic structure when they are under stress, and in a very short period of time, they can produce a highly variant offspring that can adapt to the new environmental demands. Their capacity to learn and adapt, discover solutions to problems attests to their evolutionary advantage –they learn to function within the ecosystem, not against it.


www.suite101.com/.../does-plant-intelligence-exist-a155651

And yet another wonderful fact, though now about trees: if one makes a cut in two trees, confronted, they will turn their trunks so that the cuts be not in front of each other...
With just half of this, we can now consider trees and plants much closer to us than we thought for hundreds of years.
And then, knowing this, maybe respect them all instead of burning, or throwing them down like they were simple and senseless pieces of wood.

lunes, 27 de septiembre de 2010

"No Matarás Ni Siquiera A Un Mosquito"

En entradas anteriores hablé de Leones, Perros, Lobos y otros animales que en algún tiempo se destacaron por actos dignos de los mayores Santos; tanto que ellos mismos eran dignos por su propio mérito, y hasta participaban de algún modo en los designios de lo Alto. Más exactamente, como el León de Pablo que pìdió ser bautizado, el Perro San Guinefort (quien fue venerado como tal tras su muerte) y el Lobo de Gubbio cuya historia post mortem dejé en una entrada, todos fueron precisamente dignos símbolos de muchos creyentes Cristianos.

¿Pero acaso alguno de nosotros podría imaginar a un grupo de Mosquitos rezando?

Ahora que tal vez se esfumaron las últimas risas, podemos leer la historia que sigue, relacionada con Santa Rosa de Lima, su grupo de Mosquitos adoradores de Dios junto a ella, y en el final, la anécdota de cómo salvó a un Gallo enfermo:

Cruel enemigo es el zancudo o mosquito de trompetilla, cuando se le viene en antojo revolotear en torno a nuestra almohada, haciendo imposible el sueño con su incansable musiquería. ¿Qué reposo para leer ni escribir tendrá un cristiano si en lo mejor de la lectura o cuando se halla absorbido por los conceptos que del cerebro traslada al papel, se siente interrumpido por el impertinente animalejo? Creo que una nube de zancudos es capaz de acabar con la paciencia de un santo, aunque sea más cachazudo que Job y hacerlo renegar como un poseído. Por eso Santa Rosa, tan valiente para mortificarse y soportar dolores físicos, halló que tormento superior a sus fuerzas morales era el de sufrir, sin refunfuño, las picadas y la orquesta de los alados musiquines. Sabido es que en la casa en que nació y murió la Rosa de Lima, hubo un espacioso huerto en el cual se edificó la santa una ermita u oratorio destinado al recogimiento y penitencia. Los pequeños pantanos que las aguas de regadío forman, son criaderos de miríadas de mosquitos y como la santa no podía pedir a su Divino Esposo que, en obsequio de ella, alterase las leyes de la naturaleza, optó por parlamentar con los mosquitos.
Así decía: –Cuando me vine para habitar esta ermita, hicimos pleito homenaje los mosquitos y yo, de que no los molestaría, y ellos de que no me picarían ni harían ruido. Y el pacto se cumplió por ambas partes.
Aun cuando penetraban por la puerta y ventanilla de la ermita, los bullangueritos y lanceteros guardaban compostura hasta que con el alba, al levantarse la santa, les decía: –¡Ea, amiguitos, id a alabar a Dios! Y empezaba un concierto de trompetillas, que sólo terminaba cuando Rosa les decía: –Ya está bien, amiguitos: ahora vayan a buscar su alimento. Y los obedientes sucesorios se esparcían por el huerto. Ya al anochecer los convocaba, diciéndoles: –Bueno será, amiguitos, alabar conmigo al Señor que los ha sustentado hoy. Y repetíase el matinal concierto, hasta que la bienaventurada decía: –A recogerse amigos, formalitos y sin hacer bulla.
No obstante, parece que alguna vez se olvidó la santa de dar orden de buen comportamiento a sus súbditos; porque habiendo ido a visitarla en la ermita una beata llamada Catalina, los mosquitos se cebaron en ella. La Catalina, que no aguantaba pulgas, dio una manotada y aplastó un mosquito.
–¿Qué haces, hermana? –dijo la santa–, ¿Mis compañeros me matas de esa manera? –Enemigos mortales que no compañeros, dijera yo –replicó la beata. ¡Mira éste cómo se había cebado en mi sangre, y lo gordo que se había puesto! –Déjalos vivir hermana: no me mates a ninguno de estos probrecitos, que te ofrezco no volverán a picarte, sino que tendrán contigo la misma paz que conmigo tienen. Y ello fue que, en lo sucesivo, no hubo zancudo que se le atreviera a Catalina.
También la santa en una ocasión tuvo que valerse de sus amiguitos para castigar los remilgos de Francisquita Montoya, beata de la Orden Tercera, que se resistía a acercarse a la ermita, por miedo de que la picasen los jejenes. –Pues tres te han de picar ahora –le dijo Rosa–, uno en el nombre del Padre, otro en el nombre del Hijo y otro en nombre del Espíritu Santo. Y simultáneamente sintió la Montoya en el rostro el aguijón de los tres mosquitos.

Santa Rosa Y El Gallo
La madre de nuestra santa criaba con mucho mimo un gallito que, por lo extraño y hermoso de la pluma, era la delicia de la casa. Enfermó el animal y postróse de manera que la dueña dijo: –Si no mejora, habrá que matarlo para comerlo guisado. Entonces Rosa cogió el ave enferma y acariciándola dijo: –Pollito mío, canta de prisa, pues si no cantas, te guisa. Y el pollito sacudió las alas, encrespó las plumas y muy regocijado soltó un ¡Quiquiriquí!

miércoles, 1 de septiembre de 2010

"La Leona Tyke Y Sus Seguidores"

(Como había dicho al final de mi entrada anterior, ya pueden ver cosas nuevas en http://forevermeerkatwhiskers.blogspot.com/ y en http://kabbalah-myths.blogspot.com/ ; También hay una actualización en "In Memory Of Thelma, The Cat" y una en "Strong Family Bonds From The Beginning").

En esta, como quería hablar del vegetarianismo, busqué y encontré estas imágenes; algunas, acompañadas de una historia alusiva. Pero todas nos dicen que es absolutamente posible vivir bien sin nada de carne...



Meet Dante: Britain's first vegetarian cat who refuses to eat meat or fish
By David Wilkes
Last updated at 1:19 AM on 14th April 2009

When he was found starving in an alleyway, the abandoned kitten clearly needed a square meal.
His rescuer Becky Page took him home and prepared a hearty bowl of chicken- but the black and white bundle of fluff just turned his whiskers up.
A plate of fish prompted the same response.
It was only when the kitten spotted some leftover vegetables by the kitchen bin that he began licking his lips.
He 'wolfed' them down, says Miss Page- and ever since he has stubbornly stuck to a vegetarian diet.
Now aged two, the kitten Miss Page went on to name Dante continues to refuse to eat tinned cat food, and could even be the world's first vegetarian cat.
Instead of meat, he happily feasts on fruit and vegetables his owner grows, such as Brussels sprouts and rhubarb.
He also has a penchant for melon and asparagus and has been known to raid the fruit bowl for bananas.
Dante's eating habits have baffled experts because cats are natural carnivores and unlikely to willingly forgo meat from their diet.
Unlike humans and dogs, they can only derive certain vital nutrients in sufficient quantities from meat.
These include taurine, an amino acid essential for cats but not for other mammals.
In the prolonged absence of taurine, a cat's retina slowly degenerates and it can become irreversibly blind. Others include arachidonic acid- a fatty acid vital for helping wounds heal.
Dante, however, has remained as fit as any puss his age- perhaps because his owner secretly tries to hide scraps of meat in his food.
Yesterday Miss Page, 21, a child minder, said: 'Since he had that first plate of veg, he won't go near anything fatty and prefers the things I grow in the garden'.
Maggie Roberts, director of veterinary services at the animal charity Cats Protection, said: 'This is extremely rare, I have never before heard of a cat that will not eat meat.
'We advise that cats be fed a complete cat food, which provides all of the necessary nutrients in the right balance'.
Miss Page is convinced Dante does not supplement his diet by hunting for wild prey.
'He doesn't really like going outside much, he finds it all a bit too scary,' she said.
'I've never seen him chase any birds or small animals. He hunts bits of string around the house instead to fulfil his predatory instincts.
'I have to smuggle bits of meat in among the veggies because I want him to get all the nutrients he needs. But sometimes he spots the meat and will just leave it'.
Miss Page, who lives with her partner Adam Carpenter, 26, also keeps three chickens, a rabbit, two guinea pigs, a rat, a hamster and fish at her home in Tasburgh, near Norwich.
But Dante has not been tempted to try to catch any of them either.
A Vegetarian Society spokesman said: 'Although it is possible to keep dogs on a vegetarian diet satisfactorily, cats are more specialised'.
Some vegetarian cat foods are available which include synthesised forms of the nutrients they need from meat.






"After I had given a brief discourse in Hindi on Vedanta, our group left the peaceful hermitage to greet a nearby swami, Krishnananda, a handsome monk with rosy cheeks and impressive shoulders.
Reclining near him was a tame Lioness. Succumbing to the monk's spiritual charm -not, I am sure, to his powerful physique!- the jungle animal refuses all meat in favor of rice and milk.
The swami has taught the tawny-haired beast to utter "Aum" in a deep, attractive growl- a Cat devotee!"

Dos imágenes de Little Tyke (las más conocidas)...



TIGRE VEGETARIEN !
Posté par Archives le 20 juin 2009

Lettre d’un Citoyen du Monde (ex anesthésiste-réanimateur en T.O.M., acupuncteur, écrivain et créateur d’art) à Mme Aharonian qui a eu la gentillesse de nous la communiquer. Celle-ci retrace un événement peu banal qui donne à réfléchir…
Marseille, le 16/09/1998

« Madame,
Sur votre demande téléphonique, j’ai recherché dans mes archives de 1989 la découverte et l’élevage d’un bébé tigre royal de quelques jours, en pleine jungle montagnarde d’Asie du Sud-Est.
Alors que notre jeune pépiniériste recherchait en jungle des arbustes à transplanter dans notre domaine de 4800 hectares, il fit la découverte d’une tigresse pendue dans un traquenard de braconnier, lequel piège avait été mal conçu pour que la bête soit prisonnière et non pendue.
Notre pépiniériste ayant constaté des mamelles très développées a compris que cette bête devait avoir un bébé, d’où il se mit à parcourir les alentours pour chercher la progéniture de l’animal. Après une heure de recherche, il découvrit 2 bébés tigre de quelques jours à demi morts de faim. Vite mis dans un sac, ces animaux furent transportés en toute hâte vers le campement de notre confraternité Confucianiste. Aussitôt, il fut confectionné des récipients avec des bambous et nous nous mîmes à recueillir du lait de nos chèvres pour alimenter plusieurs fois par jour ces 2 bébés tigres. Le lendemain, le bébé femelle était mort, alors que le mâle continua à être alimenté. Après quelques jours, il n’était plus utile de le tenir à plusieurs personnes pour lui faire avaler son biberon. Après plusieurs semaines, il a été décidé de le nourrir avec la pâtée que nous faisions pour les animaux de basse cour (poule, canard, oie, phacochère). Cette pâtée est confectionnée avec des légumes, des germes de plantes diverses, de la farine de graines diverses. Ce mélange est légèrement cuit mais on y adjoint des fruits de saison. Cette pâtée pourrait convenir à une alimentation pour carnivore vu le soin que nous prenons pour qu’il y ait tous les ingrédients, vitamines et minéraux, ainsi que protéines. Nous nous aperçûmes vite que les ongles de cet animal étaient très acérés et capables de nous causer des blessures, donc nous avions décidé de couper ses ongles et de les limer tous les 2 ou 3 mois. Cet animal, que nous avons nommé d’un commun accord « Ghuan », était au début un chat, puis un gros chat, puis un énorme chat, auquel on a institué un régime lacto-fructo-végétarien intelligemment équilibré, ce qui ne l’a pas empêché de croître et embellir. Après deux ans de cette nourriture, nous avons essayé de mettre dans sa pâtée de la viande de volaille qu’il prit entre ses dents, la mit de côté sans y goûter, ce qui pourtant fit le délice des phacochères.
Ce tigre pèse actuellement 270 kilos. De temps à autre, on le voit se promener avec 2 ou 3 gosses sur son dos. Lorsqu’il juge la promenade suffisante, il se couche sur le côté et va donner des coups de museau aux enfants pour, sans doute, se faire pardonner. Il dort tantôt dans une case, tantôt dans une autre, au gré de sa fantaisie au milieu des hommes, des femmes et enfants qui sont là. Parfois, alors que je travaille à écrire mes mémoires sur une machine à écrire, il vient mettre sa patte gauche sur la table, l’autre sur mon épaule pour me lécher abondamment le cou, les oreilles, la joue. Après un moment, je lui donne une tape sur son museau, ce qui le fait grogner et venir avec moi sous la douche.
Bien des gens qui se prétendent défenseurs des animaux m’ont demandé l’autorisation de venir dans ce coin du monde, que je tiens secret afin de ne pas nuire à la quiétude des animaux « animal » et des animaux humains qui y vivent. Dans ce domaine, il est interdit de photographier et de filmer quoi que ce soit. Les animaux « animal » prétendus fauves et les animaux humains vivent tous en bonne entente et sont des apprentis de la sagesse universelle.»


Lea, The Lioness From Italy

Watched by camera-toting journalists, in January 2002 a very remarkable Lioness named Lea arrived at the Rhino & Lion Nature Reserve near Johannesburg, South Africa, after a 30-hour journey from Rome, Italy.

Why 'very remarkable'? Because this seven-year-old female feline did not fit the 'ferocious carnivore' Lion stereo­type, having been raised not on meat but on a diet of potatoes, green vegetables and cheesy pasta. Lea had in fact been nicknamed the 'Spaghetti Kid' after her favourite food, spaghetti, which she especially loved flavoured with Neapolitan sauce.
And now the caretakers at her new home in South Africa were facing 'the real challenge', for the first time in Lea’s life, of introducing this 'Spaghetti Kid' to meat and to the companionship of other Lions.

Lea's mother lived in Naples Zoo, which had a policy of selling the cubs born there. So at the tender age of six weeks, Lea found herself in the Italian village of Nettuno in the care of a man called Antonio Vincenzo. The two seemed inseparable; Lea slept on Antonio’s bed at night and accompan­ied him everywhere by day, without any leash or restraint- across busy streets, among crowds and even to the local supermarket. No wonder that 'everyone in Nettuno knew Lea', and of her diet of spaghetti, vegetables and tomato sauce.
But when Lea was a year old, Antonio's work circumstances changed and he could no longer look after his 'pet' at his home. A zoo on the outskirts of Rome agreed to accommodate Lea, provided Antonio supplied the zoo with her food. And so Lea continued to grow on her diet of pasta, ricotta cheese and vegetables. But, seeing her confined to a 4 m x 4 m (13 ft x 13 ft) concrete enclosure at the zoo, Antonio resolved to find Lea better living quarters. (Antonio visited her every Sunday- the Lioness would whimper and cry when it was time for him to leave.
After years of fruitless searching, eventually the way was clear for Lea to be sent to South Africa- Antonio would accompany her on the journey and remain at Lea's new home for a few weeks to help her adapt.
Given Lea's distinctive nickname ('Spaghetti Lioness') and the publicity associated with her move to South Africa, many people got to hear of what Lea had eaten for the first seven years of her life—and were amazed. One journalist wrote: 'Not with standing her strange diet she thrived'. This Lioness had not only survived (for seven years), but thrived on a meatless diet from infancy.

But Lea is not unique in recent (Lion) history in having successfully been raised on a meatless diet. A renowned vegetarian lioness in the USA did not eat meat at all during her entire lifetime. And many other animals normally regarded as being meat-eaters (e.g. dogs, vultures), are known to be able to live on meatless diets.
To understand such a situation, we need to go back into history. But which history is correct- evolution or the Bible? It just doesn't make sense if one has an evolutionary perspective- that this is a 'dog-eat-dog' world, and that animals with sharp teeth, claws and beaks evolved over millions of years to be meat-eaters.
In contrast, the Bible tells us that felines were originally created vegetarian (Genesis 1:30) and it also speaks of a time when 'the Lion will eat straw like the Ox' (Isaiah 11:7, 65:25). So, from the Bible, vegetarian ‘carnivores’ make much more sense.
As Lea emerged from her transportation crate at her grassy new home, a crowd of camera-clicking reporters awaited the photo opportunity: Lea devouring her first South African meal of pasta, cheese and sliced tomato.
But Lea took one sniff and walked away.
"No, no, no", said Antonio. "It has to be Italian pasta and cheese, and tomato sauce- never cut tomatoes".
As they say- you can travel the world, but there’s nothing like good old home cooking!








La comida favorita de Lea

sábado, 28 de agosto de 2010

"Mucho Más Que Dos Canes"

El 22 de Agosto, si no me equivoco ahora, en Francia se reccuerda todavía seguramente a San Guinefort... Yo tendría que haber dejado esta entrada el mismo día pero tal vez no haya estado tan mal el descuido. Porque hace muy poco fue el día de honrar a Ginny, la gran Protectora de los Gatos que nació y vivió en Long Island.
Y ella, además de haber sido adoptada (rescatada de la calle), parece haber querido devolver ese gesto ayudando a más de mil Gatos que entre ella y su dueño encontraban por las calles, especialmente de noche, que es cuando salían ambos a buscarlos o llevarles de comer. Ginny por su parte, no sólo iba con él; como ya se sabe, podía saber si uno de ellos tenía alguna enfermedad o una falencia, como sordera o problemas de visión.

Si bien la historia de San Guinefort nos viene de la Edad Media, la de Ginny bien puede ser la de una Santa de hoy, digna de tal consideración.

En cualquier caso, aquí tenemos dos videos (los únicos que pude encontrar), que nos muestran algo más sobre los dos Santos Canes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ROTGGR5LyA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP3xz8qPA1


(Como creo que ya saben de mis otros blogs, en pocos días habrá algo nuevo en "Kabbalah-Myths y For Ever Meerkats).

lunes, 12 de julio de 2010

"Leyendas Actuales"

Algo que acabo de terminar para otro de mis blogs, dedicado en parte a leyendas antiguas o actuales. En el caso de Back To Eden, corresponde que sean de hoy, como algo que hubiera sucedido uno o dos días antes. Porque, ¿Cuántos habrán ahora, que quieran ver a una de estas Criaturas en persona?


Como una invocación

Ven, Dragón, de tu hogar de misterio,
aunque hoy tu historia no sea más que fragmentos
de un móvil viejo y olvidado,
pero construído con tus propias escamas,
creado para traernos cuentos
que hablaran de tus alas extendidas
entre el Sol y nuestros sueños.

¿No has vuelto, acaso, a surcar los vientos?

Pues hoy te nombran más de mil historias:
altivo, fuerte, y nunca conquistado,
a no ser por una gema legendaria
o una mujer, de ti aún más digna,
con quien vivir por siempre
entre un jardín del Cielo
y un sueño de la Tierra.

¡Ven, Dragón! ¡Regresa!
Que las leyendas de ahora
te reclaman y esperan. ¡Regresa!

lunes, 5 de julio de 2010

"Especial - 5 de Julio"

Algo que escribí hace más de 15 años -aunque ahora le cambié un poco el final-, relacionado con el día de la Independencia de Venezuela.


"Una parte del himno"


Este día ha de brillar más
el Sol de San José y Curiapo;
han de ser más doradas las estrellas
y más azul el cielo sobre la roja tierra.

Un polo margariteño
lo celebra en Nueva Esparta,
en compañía del Sol.

Más allá del Orinoco,
en cada golpe 'e tambor
laten corazones libres.

El Sol despierta al Llanero,
y hasta el cuatro se contagia
el entusiasmo nacional.

Bella Luna Valenciana...
Cuando haya acabado el día,
bailará un vals en el cielo.

En los Andes se oirán
alegres cantos, y las estrellas
se bañarán en el Torbes.

Zulia dirá adiós al Sol,
y se mecerán las palmas
como banderas al viento.

Con su voz y su cantar,
cada cual canta una parte
del himno, que en Venezuela toda
se oye igual que el viento que alcanza la inmensidad.

viernes, 18 de junio de 2010

"Foto 'Back To Eden', Nueva Serie"







El primer año dejé estas imágenes para ver si elegían la "Foto Back To Eden" de cada año; ahora dejo las siguientes, esperando que por lo menos les den los respectivos puntajes...







martes, 18 de mayo de 2010

"Una parte del mundo de hoy..."

Aunque haya mucho movimiento en el mundo a nivel energético, no todos están de acuerdo con tales ideas; y algunos directamente las cuestionan o se les oponen, ya sea usando argumentos racionales; buscando medir algo mucho más grande que el Universo; creando hábitos cómodos entre los jóvenes (1); desacreditando a aquellos que realmente practican alguna Religión (2), o haciendo que pierdan la confianza en ellos; monopolizando negocios o manejando la información como un mazo de naipes; o directamente trabajando para el Enemigo de la Humanidad y de la Creación.

Allí están ellos, buscando separar y alejar a los seres en lugar de unirlos o hacer que colaboren para la Reintegración.
Pero en su Palacio invisible de Shamballah, el propio Señor del Mundo -o Sanath Kumara-, observa todo lo que ocurre en la Tierra... Y tal vez gracias a su vigilante presencia, ninguna Criatura se encuentra hoy completamente desamparada, o viviendo sin que sus obras la acompañen.

Otros tres signos de estos últimos años, tienen mucho que ver con una canción llamada Cambalache, con la idea del Gran Atractor, y con los Tsunamis.
Porque si en ese tango decía "Siglo veinte, cambalache, problemático y febril..", en apenas diez del XXI se vio lo que no ocurrió ni en el último milenio.
En segundo lugar, cada acontecimiento ocurrido desde 1990 hasta hoy, cada libro, espectáculo o noticia de alto impacto, parece venir a decirnos "Vamos, vengan a verme... Pues soy un Sol opacando con mi luz a todo lo demás, y eclipsando con mi corona todo lo anterior a mí"
Y en tercer lugar, de esta idea surge la de un Tsunami: un acontecimiento provocado que también viene a hacernos olvidar en gran medida todo lo que hayamos podido ver.
Pero tal vez, al fondo de todo esto, haya todavía un reloj de péndulo marcando las horas; acompasado e imperturbable... Tic, tac... Tic, tac... Tic, tac...


(1) -De esto, el ejemplo actual más importante es lo que pasan en las FM argentinas y en los canales de aire... ¿Qué clase de gente podrá haber de 30 años si ahora, teniendo por ejemplo 15, se pasa los días escuchando cosas repetidas diez veces por semana como mínimo, o viendo por canal de aire algo muy inferior al libro más simple, porque de todos modos no quiere buscar otra cosa? ...Yo ya vi esto, cerca de donde vivo.

(2) -Respecto de la Religión, lo que escribí ahora me hizo acordar al tema de mi entrada relacionada con los Animales en la iglesia... Hasta hoy, sólo en una pude entrar con un determinado animal. De la iglesia donde me dejaron hacerlo, pienso entonces, entienden un poco mejor el profundo significado de la palabra Religión (cual un acto de estar reunidos todos los seres como iguales ante el Padre de la Creación).

jueves, 6 de mayo de 2010

"Un San Guinefort del Siglo 21"

Unas horas después del día en que ocurrió el siguiente caso, traigo esta entrada para hablar del Terrier George, que con una valentía diez veces mayor a su tamaño y a sus fuerzas, salvó a unos niños en Nueva Zelanda del peligro inminente que representaban unos Pitbulls. Él murió más tarde como consecuencia del enfrentamiento, pero si aquí en la Tierra ellos aún lo recuerdan y seguirán haciéndolo, en el Cielo tal vez George esté junto a San Guinefort intercambiando sus respectivas experiencias.




Honor en la Tierra, Luz en el Cielo...

martes, 30 de marzo de 2010

"Tres Imágenes, Distintos Temas"









También en este caso, tengo versiones un pooco mejores, y voy a ver si las traigo más adelante; o subo otra serie...

"Dos Cosas Escritas Y Una Imagen"

Estas dos cosas las escribí -o las publiqué- hace dos años; aohra las traigo de nuevo, pero con la imagen correspondiente (más abajo).

My Best New Found Dream

When the Sun
covering the valleys
looks down on us
while you take me in your arms...
I fly with you
smiling and protected,
as your open wings
cut through the dawn
close to a Sun of dreaming.

You turn to look
again, my golden eyes;
words coming out
through them, say that they need you...
and of how much
my soul is being cradled
even with a single
smile in your eyes
so tender and caressing.

We've been for years
two hearts beating with sorrows,
wasting all the love
they had for one another...
I go with you now
in a never ending tale,
where I feel also cradled,
my everywhere love,
in this beautiful morning.

This newborn day
is perfect since you're with me,
kissing my lips
as your golden hair glitters...
Treasure of sweetness
of our daily honey moons,
before your eyes,
a star is just
a pale ghost in the evening.

Oh, my sweet love,
my for ever white Dragon,
to fly with you
is now my best new found dream...
Since we found something
much stronger than we are,
our sweet encounter
started for us
a love story in the making.


Happiness Of Angels

If I could turn
In words my little heartbeats,
They would say just
My love, my love, my love!
The only words which would go
Like Butterflies to your heart.
The only conversation
Which yours can have with mine.

When you're not here,
I think I miss the Springtime,
And the Sun light
That brings hope in the dawning.
The same light bright in softness
That makes me smile as I watch,
And then enters my spirit
Sowing flowers of sweetness.

If you're with me,
All I know turns to nothing...
My only strength
Is to love, need and have you.
The only power in me,
Is given by the soft touch
Of your silky loving hands
Which mine need to feel so much.

When you're not here,
I feel myself like drowning
With all this land
And everything above it
Now that I take you higher,
Both ground and skies are nothing...
Just your life here in my arms,
And your tenderness smiling.

Our flight, my love,
Is like and endless feeling
Of clear blue skies,
And happiness of Angels.
The winds which now are blowing
Just sing with us the same song...
Of stars shining inside us,
And souls blended like fire.




Hay una versión mejor de esta imagen en otro lado, pero si puedo la traigo otro día.

jueves, 11 de marzo de 2010

"In Memory Of Thelma, The Cat" - Past & Future





To Nurse Mice And Rats Was Always Our Job
...But We Always Did It With Love,
And Of Course We'll Keep Doing It.

Updated again!!! - 19 / 9 / 2014

(Link to the other entry):

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English Mouse suckled by a Cat in 1916

EUCALOL: Card #1 from Series 235 (Believe it or Not)

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 (Year unknown, I chose the 50's...)

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Cat Nurses Two Rats (Maybe More):

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Mother of many Mice…
About 100 years ago



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1959 - Greenville, South Carolina.
Cat Mother Nursing Baby Mice And Kittens


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1966

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1966-Press-Photo-Cat-Adopts-Mice-/371124142118?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item5668b90026&nma=true&si=uo3LdPFVgVL8eaTMyo6mSmE2KDQ%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

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Canadian Press - July 15, 2003 - 05:15 PM

CRANBROOK, Canada - A family awoke Tuesday to find their Cat nursing two Mice along with her seven week-old Kittens.

Irene Weller said one of her daughters found some baby Mice in their home the day before.

"I didn't want Mice in the house". Weller said. So the baby rodents were promptly thrown outside.

But on Tuesday morning, the Wellers saw their Cat Patches nursing and caring for the Mice as if they were part of her litter. She's actually feeding the Mice.

Patches was upset they weren't in the bed. All she wanted to do was lick them.
"When we put them back in the bed Patches calmed right down".


A picture of Patches Weller,
With her Mice



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(Squirrel, with one of her Rats, 2003)


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(Kitty and her other children, 2003)



As she had her Kittens, in the same house a mother Rat had her babies.
Suddenly the baby Rats ran to Kitty and the Cat accepted them full of happiness...
But, what about the Kittens?

"Well... Given the circumstances, I found
these Sweety-Baby-Kitties to nurse
as my own children"
(The truth of this, at the end of the entry)


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(Maybe, the Cat from Via Cagliari…)


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2006-06-04 - 13:45:41 - China Daily
Two baby Mice rest near a Cat's head as she feeds her new litter on a farm in Dongfeng County, northeast China's Liaoning Province. The owner says she gave the Mice to the Cat to eat, but the feline soon adopted them…
…And of course, to feed them as their mother.


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August, 2006 - Cat breastfeeds Hungry Rat - In Brazil


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Another mother, with her ten baby Rats


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A mother in a shelter, few years ago



“Mom, tell them I also need milk!”
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(Another Cat feeding her Mouse; Flickr, around 2007)


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The Cat of Yantai, 2008


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Jilin - China
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With this very recent photo, one would say with 90% security, that the Cat has been nursing the Mouse


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And the Cat Meeko, with her nine baby Mice, 2009
(Meeko could be actually a Tomcat, if it were not because "he" would hardly allow the little Mice to cuddle like that...)


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10 October, 2010

A Cat Feeding A Small Rat in Sivasagar. My birthday present!!! - (It's October 11)

Oh, how I was waiting this... And the video appeared right in my birthday. It also must have come in the most right moment, with some threats which may come from the countries between middle East and China. This must have been the year of all those real Cats (with all the stories I found), from past, present, and of course, a future of nursing many more Rats and Mice!


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22-04-2011

Page 17

"Arch-enemies form unlikely bond - Fans of cartoon nemesis Tom and Jerry have reason to be outraged over the show's factual authenticity in Thailand, Cats and rodents apparently form quite different partnerships. In Samut Prakan Province's Pra Pradaeng District, the neighbors of Sompong Koocharoen were puzzled to see a two-year-old female Cat breastfeeding a small baby Rat along with one of her own new-born Kittens.

Mrs Sompong said her Cat had just delivered three Kittens on March 1, but two of them had been separated from their mother and adopted by a friend. She said that a week after the Kittens were separated, the mother returned home with a young baby Rat -its body still red and hairless-and put it beside her Kitten.
"I thought she would give food only for her baby, but she let the Rat drink her milk along with her Kitten", Mrs. Sompong said. The unlikely family have become a neighborhood sensation, with community members inundating the household with photo requests.

Story from Matichon

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My Kitten and them


Red Bubble, John44 (2011, I guess).
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2012 - Xinhua Net
A Cat mother and her ow Kittens adopted a tiny little Mouse into their family.
The Cat nurses the little critter from another species like her own. The Kitten loves its new sibling and they all get along beautifully.




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6-11-12

Another Mother In Her Right Place…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nqXRmgx0eQ

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Taken from a video where another Cat is doing her real job.


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2014
In China yet again! Chinese mother Cats know what they were born for.
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Image of Tantu, from Zonguldak, with one of her babies;
the favorite of her, it seems.


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...And of course, somebody had
to give back all that love!


Nothing crazy here! ...See this:


No, wait... Did I say somebody? ...Meaning only one?

Second wonder - I guess that what you'll read here is exactly what the original note said.
In case you want to see it, here's the link:
http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/33517547/

10 June 1892
Here is a Cat that didn't kill the Rat that ate the malt.
Dr. F. Evwist of St. Mary's, Ohio, found in his barn a few days ago a large Rat nursing three Kittens. When the mother Cat returned she relieved the Rat, which went to sleep in the hay. Next day the Doctor and some friends saw the Cat go up to a large rat-hole meowing several times, whereupon the Rat came forth and took its place among the Kittens.

Third wonder

The Singapore Free Press, 9 March 1950, Page 8
Rat adopts Kittens
From the communist stronghold of Pyinmana, Central Burma, comes a report of a white Rat adopting two Kittens and sharing mealtime duties with the mother Cat. This strange family lives harmoniously in the shell-damaged railway station.

Fourth wonder

Masson & McCarthy (1995) tell in one of their books about a Rat suckling a Cat and a Chick.
Pleeeease, I want to see this story, soon...

Fifth wonder... (If I can find more of these stories, maybe it'll be time to make a new entry)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m7-s2rUs4A
This video is like one of my dreams come true...  I only wish I had seen the mother Rat nursing them, such as shows the description:

07/05/2012 - Leanne Jones
My Rat Artamis helped me out by helping to care for two orphaned Kittens. She would go in and out of the box and groom and stimulate the Kittens. She laid on her side and let them suckle on her nipples to calm them and help them sleep. When they were smaller she would carry them around by their scruffs and move them around the box. Very sweet, unfortunately my Cats now like to chew on random things and climb into small spaces like the Rat. They also sleep on their backs with their feet up because of how the Rat would lay to keep them warm and comfort them.
RIP Artie.

But I'm much more than happy of having found this beautiful video!!!


Well, and the future?

It may come anywhere, anytime,
But if I can do something, it will come soon
And be like a dream come true.
At least for me, at first;
The world will have to wait.