Cribbage

I can count on one hand the number of times I have been dealt four fives, and instead of cutting a face card or a ten, I get a card like the above.

According to metasymbology.com, "the Eight of Club is one of the three fixed cards in the deck: their place in the card-spreads never changes. In many ways, Eight of Club people are like cats who always land on their feet. Protection surrounds them in all departments of life and yet it is this very blessing that can also trip them up."

Nice.

Your go.

15-2!

Say It With Diamonds

Prologue

what anger forms

this stone is shown

carved is art

but a jewel must be cut

who says it is

a shield before injury kneeling

sword in hand

a cross that cries by right

Table

gathered to face

the interior administration

of trustworthy light

equal until otherwise

a documentation problem

Da Vinci’s diners face out

a facet for each knight

does not always make it round

Crown

down and outwards

a susceptible angle

the collected scratches

a history of resistance

its rule and its injustices

gold’s purple abdication

gone fishin’ is free

to lure each shilling

Girdle

a border

not a cinch

to look at

catch light

its top assumes

a bottom

an indifferent gesture

sparkles at night

Pavilion

on climbing days

cutting feet

legs swinging

the body in each finger

under the weather

protected

with every ascent

a pulling

Culet

flat or pointed

goes unseen

a spinning top

is not about

what goes on

below

but what comes up

from under

In the Pines

On July 15 I posted a picture of Richard Armstrong introducing a group of us to Syilx cosmology. The picture (at bottom) was taken from the opposite angle as the one up top, which was taken last Monday on my way back to the parking lot after our 507 methods class. As for the foot prints, they are paw prints. (Now look again. Can you see the heart that these prints -- and that first tree -- make?)

Highway 16

"...they [RCMP] focused on cases where they thought a serial killer may have been involved, and once they determined that a case didn't involve a serial killer, it got put aside, like its been put aside for 30 years." -- Ray Michalko, former RCMP

Inquiries and Reviews

Susan Vella is the lead lawyer in Canada's National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Here is an excerpt from a press conference report that appeared in Tuesday's Toronto Star:

Vella also said that when the hearings get underway, people shouldn’t expect the traditional “western courtroom.” The goal is to incorporate indigenous customs to the process, which could include a circle instead of front-to-back courtroom-style set-up, and allowing evidence to be submitted through traditional storytelling, poetry or art...

Meanwhile, in the 9th United States Circuit Court of Appeals, White House lawyer and special counsel to the assistant attorney general August Fientje

argued that the plaintiffs, the States of Washington and Minnesota, did not have standing to challenge the president's action because the executive order was "well within the president's power."

That lead to a skeptical question from Judge Michelle Friedland, who asked, "Are you arguing, then, that the president's decision in that regard is unreviewable?"

Fientje paused before saying yes.

Mars News 3

The 45th American Presidential Cabinet was announced within hours of the 57th Venice Biennale doing the same with its list of participating artists.

Mars News 2

Here is what the artist said on Twitter at 12:39 p.m. 5 Feb. 2017:

"Just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril. If something happens blame him and court system. People pouring in. Bad!"

Enter the curator -- because something will happen. Why else would the artist say what he said other than to be right about something happening. It is the curator's job to make the artist appear prescient.