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‘GENES’ is the French name for Genoa, and by extension of traditional style of trousers worn by Genoese sailors. Serve de Nimes was the name of a tough blue sailcloth, now corrupted to ‘denim’, traditionally woven in the French town. Levi Strauss (1829-1902) was a native of Bavaria who emigrated to New York at the age of fourteen and who joined his brothers in their business of supplying the prospectors and frontiersmen of Californian Gold Rush. Some time in 1860 Levi’s company had the idea of matching the denim cloth with the Geneoese trousers, and of strengthening the pockets and seams with brass horse-harness rivets. Thus was produced the most durable and universal item in the history of fashion design – a German immigrant using French materials and Italian style to invent an archetypal American product. ‘Blue Jeans’ remained workaday clothing in North America for almost a century, before taking Europe (and the rest of the world) by storm in the 1960s, a prime symbol of ‘Americanization’

Yet, lonely, eternal wanderer, Who are so thoughtful, perhaps understand What this earthly life may be, Our suffering and sighing, And what this dying is, This ultimate fading of the features, And perishing from the earth and falling away From every familiar, loving company “Night Song of a Wandering Shepherd of Asia” ~ Giacomo Leopardi(1798-1837)

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -- over and over announcing your place in the family of things. ~ Mary Oliver

Wall of Lombardy, New York HWW and Best wishes Regression was the idea that great trauma could cause you to regress to an earlier stage of development. It was an extension of the theory of recapitulation. This theory is best known for the phrase “Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny,” put simply,m many scientists thought that as the fetus develops in the womb, it changes from a single cell organism into a protomammal, then transforms into a simple primate. Next it becomes a complex primate. Finally turns into a human. Of course, we now know this isn’t remotely true, but it was widely believed similarly Freud described regression as a sort of ‘Involution,” or “a return to earlier phases of sexual life.” ~ Page 210

HBM ~ Best wishes

Clouds heap upon clouds and it darkens. Ah, love, why dost thou let me wait outside at the door all alone? In the busy moments of the noontide work I am with the crowd, but on this dark lonely day it is only for thee that I hope. If thou showest me not thy face, if thou leavest me wholly aside, I know not how I am to pass these long, rainy hours. I keep gazing on the far away gloom of the sky, and my heart wanders wailing with the restless wind. Rabindranath Tagore

Before my bed There is bright-lit moonlight So that it seems Like frost on the ground: Lifting my head I watch the bright moon Lowering my head I dream that I'm home From "Jing Ye Si" ~ Li Po

April 18th 2011

The garden is very still, It is dazed with moonlight, Contented with perfume, Dreaming the opium dreams of its folded poppies. Firefly lights open and vanish High as the tip buds of the golden glow Low as the sweet alyssum flowers at my feet. Moon-shimmer on leaves and trellises, Moon-spikes shafting through the snow ball bush. ~ Amy Lowell

HWW -- Have a gret day

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