What I learned about Ancient Greece at the Museum today
they had a season for battle between grains and grapes summers of trampled fields the dead young among the crop rows another harvest in the walloping sun we donβt wear the same clothes and our horses are just for fun but we live under the same scribbled sky history a tangled thread leading us nowhere
written for Twiglet #271 “tangled threads”
Sad. True. Marveloso.
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Thanks, Ron
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A season for battling. That makes perfect but unhinged sense.
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Unhinged is definitely where I see it π
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a walloping read! ππ
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Ta
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Yes, the tangles never end. Love the “scribbled sky” imagery! π
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Thanks, Tricia. π
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My pleasure! π
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the same scribbled sky
history a tangled thread
leading us nowhere
fantastic!
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Many thanks, Bob!
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I love this “another harvest in the walloping sun”
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Thanks, Debi!
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Merciful heavens, is it wine or blood.
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I have thought and thought about this comment since about 3am when I first saw it. I think you must be referring to the centre line – the harvest in the walloping sun? it was intended to refer to the dead not to the grapes. Gruesome but that’s the image I came away with having read the info at the museum.
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Oh hang on. Maybe you’re referring to the later harvest of the grapes??? That’s a fabulous, haunting image for intergenerational trauma, isn’t it?
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Yes, that’s what I hand in mind when I replied. I read recently that during the Battle of Hastings there was so much blood that the soil was soaked red, and nothing would grow for years.
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urgh. war.
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Agreed.
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This is excellent!
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Thank you! π
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Seems as though everyone has a season for battle, and they all tend to overlap. Your imagery is sublime. Always a delightful experience to read you. π
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Many thanks!
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Interestingly enough I heard on the radio about a state that has the first ‘human’ compostable site. Apparently there are more than one…
Ah…here: “Natural organic reduction β the formal term for human composting β is legal only in three states: Colorado, Oregon and Washington. Washington in 2019 became the first state to legalize the practice. Colorado legalized human composting in May, and Oregon followed in June.”
It is sad though to think about lost lives… that were unnecessary due to usless warring.
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? Indeed. I doubt humann composting is legal here.. is that for bodies or for human excrement? Just struggling to imagine who would have unclaimed bodies/parts to compost. A pathology lab? But why would they compost? It’s just all s bit outside my usual thought processes.
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It is for anyone who wishes ‘to be’ that way. For their ‘bodies’ to go back to nature. Not bodily waste. Kind of like those who wish to be cremated and have their ashes spread. The compostable method avoids the burning.
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Ahhh. I see. Of course that makes sense.
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Sorry about the question mark at the beginning of my first message. I only just noticed it. Definitely a typo.
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No worries. π
I phat finger all the time!
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