"Perhaps no other animal on this planet
is
as maligned as the snake."
N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission > News > Blogs > NCWRC Blog - Year of the Snake Designation Raises Awareness about Snake Conservation: Debunking Six Common Snake Myths with Commission Herpetologist Jeff Hall: 2013 is the Year of the Snake, both on the Chinese calendar and as designated by Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, an organization dedicated to the conservation of reptiles and amphibians.
PARC designated 2013 as the Year of the Snake to help raise awareness about these truly magnificent animals and the threats and human perceptions that contribute to their decline.
Perhaps no other animal on this planet is as maligned as the snake, mostly due to the many, varied and often comical misconceptions people have about snakes. Jeff Hall, a biologist with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission who is also the coordinator of the N.C. chapter of PARC, is here to dispel a few common myths about snakes.
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Was watching the movie THE AMAZING SPIDER MAN when hearing these words spoken for the first time by THE LIZARD MAN. Immediately jumped for the remote so I could pause the movie and write these words down.
Perfect,
I thought to myself,
as another idea for a new sign to join the others.
Perfect,
I thought to myself,
as another idea for a new sign to join the others.
But I'm not sure what is trying to be said within the context of it's original source?
What was Michelangelo's purpose drawing a parallel with snakes?
Wasn't
the
metamorphosis
from
that of a silkworm to that of a moth far more impressive?
The way I see it,
once a snake molts,
it's still a snake.
Xxi. _the silkworm._
by Michelangelo
Florence, Italy, is considered the home of the great painter, poet, architect, and sculptor, Michelangelo Buonarroti, known today simply as Michelangelo. The second of five sons to Ludovico di Buonaorotto Simoni, he was born in 1475 in the nearby village of Caprese but always considered himself a 'son of Florence.' It's easy to look around and find his influence on the city. His tomb is displayed prominently alongside those of Machiavelli, Galileo, and Rossini, and many of his most famous works of sculpture are housed throughout Florence - including the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and the magnificent statue of David.
D' altrui pietoso.
Kind to the world, but to itself unkind,
A worm is born, that dying noiselessly
Despoils itself to clothe fair limbs, and be
In its true worth by death alone divined.
Oh, would that I might die, for her to find
Raiment in my outworn mortality!
That, changing like the snake, I might be free
To cast the slough wherein I dwell confined!
Nay, were it mine, that shaggy fleece that stays,
Woven and wrought into a vestment fair,
Around her beauteous bosom in such bliss!
All through the day she'd clasp me! Would I were
The shoes that bear her burden! When the ways
Were wet with rain, her feet I then should kiss!
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Two pencil drawings of mine done as part of high school art class now hanging in foyer just inside the entrance to my home.
Never one creative,
the source of my inspiration for these two drawings
were
the central figure from the painting titled
THE BIRTH of VENUS
and
one found in an art magazine titled
THE FROG PRINCE.
Just recently learned from watching the movie THE DiVINCI CODE
that
"Venus"
stood for all things female.
Like
"canary in a coal mine,"
I consider
"frogs"
to be one of nature's sentinels.
You will find them all around my home.
Had just been released from DeKalb Crisis Center/Georgia Regional Hospital at Panterville Road,
the first time involuntarily admitted,
when
deciding to have them framed.
Took them
to
FASTFRAME
EXPERT PICTURE FRAMING
Toco Hill Shopping Center
where
I told the
owner
Angel Ashe
to use her own
judgement
how
she matted and framed them.
"Surprise me,"
I told her.
Before we parted,
I asked her about the necklace she was wearing.
"It's of Saint Bridgit,"
she told me.
"Given to me by my boyfriend."
Saint Brigit is celebrated for her generosity to the poor.
Brigit's small oratory at Cill-Dara (Kildare) became a center of religion and learning, and developed into a cathedral city. She founded two monastic institutions, one for men, and the other for women, and appointed Saint Conleth as spiritual pastor of them. It has been frequently stated that she gave canonical jurisdiction to Saint Conleth, Bishop of Kildare, but, as Archbishop Healy points out, she simply "selected the person to whom the Church gave this jurisdiction", and her biographer tells us distinctly that she chose Saint Conleth "to govern the church along with herself". Thus, for centuries, Kildare was ruled by a double line of abbot-bishops and of abbesses, the Abbess of Kildare being regarded as superior general of the monasteries in Ireland.
Brigit also founded a school of art, including metal work and illumination, over which Conleth presided. The Kildare scriptorium produced the Book of Kildare, which elicited high praise from Giraldus Cambrensis, but which has disappeared since the Reformation. According to Giraldus, nothing that he had ever seen was at all comparable to the book, every page of which was gorgeously illuminated, and he concludes by saying that the interlaced work and the harmony of the colours left the impression that "all this is the work of angelic, and not human skill".
Anyway,
immediately fell in love with Angel's choice for the frame and matting.
You have to look closely,
but the gray framing has a pattern/texture looking very much like a snake.
Now,
can't help but call every harmless little gray ringneck snake
I happen upon
while
working around my home...
LILITH.
Was already thinking of letting these two drawings of mine,
drawings hidden away all these years since high school,
representing
this
radical atheist/environmentalist's version
of
ADAM and EVE.
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