Ronovan’s Weekly Haiku #Poetry Challenge #136

Prompt: Eye & Fade

 

Colors of my eyes
fade but never the fight of
my soul and heart’s ache

~~dru~~

For Cy’s Birthday

MANDELA by PseudoCyAnts…my late brother

A mandala (Sanskrit: मण्डल, lit, circle) is a spiritual and ritual symbol in Hinduism and Buddhism, representing the universe. In common use, “mandala” has become a generic term for any diagram, chart or geometric pattern that represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically; a microcosm of the universe…

Visualisation of Vajrayana teachings

The mandala can be shown to represent in visual form the core essence of the Vajrayana teachings. The mind is “a microcosm representing various divine powers at work in the universe.”  The mandala represents the nature of the Pure Land, Enlightened mind.

While on the one hand, the mandala is regarded as a place separated and protected from the ever-changing and impure outer world of samsara, and is thus seen as a “Buddhafield” or a place of Nirvana and peace, the view of Vajrayana Buddhism sees the greatest protection from samsara being the power to see samsaric confusion as the “shadow” of purity (which then points towards it).

source: Wikipedia

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Fair Wind Sailing Bro, its a bitch out here!

~~dru~~

 

 

Paul Revere Williams

Paul Revere Williams, FAIA (February 18, 1894 – January 23, 1980) was an Americanarchitect based in Los Angeles, California. He practiced largely in Southern California and designed the homes of numerous celebrities, including Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Lon Chaney, Barbara Stanwyck and Charles Correll. He also designed many public and private buildings. 

Orphaned at four years of age, Williams was the only African American student in his elementary school. He studied at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design and at the Los Angeles branch of the New York Beaux-Arts Institute of Design Atelier, subsequently working as a landscape architect. He went on to attend the University of Southern California, designing several residential buildings while still a student there. Williams became a certified architect in 1921, and the first certified African-American architect west of the Mississippi.

Source: Wikipedia

Williams’s client list included Frank Sinatra (the notorious pushbutton house), Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Lon Chaney, Sr., Lucille Ball, Julie London, Tyrone Power (two houses), Barbara Stanwyck, Bert Lahr, Charles Correll, Will Hays, Zasu Pitts, and Danny Thomas.

For Black History Month and Happy Lincoln’s Day from California

~~dru~~