SYNCHRONICITY #110 – BETWEEN TWO WORLDS WITH DR. MICHAEL DAINE

SYNCHRONICITY #110 – BETWEEN TWO WORLDS WITH DR. MICHAEL DAINE
WARNING: NOAH'S GOT A BIT OF A F#CKIN' POTTY MOUTH, IF YOU DON'T LIKE CURSE WORDS IN YOUR PODCASTS;-)
I just listened to the above podcast on my iPad and when I went to the 'Synchronicity' podcast site to grab a screen shot for this podcast I was writing up, I saw the Japanese style block print that Noah had used and I was taken aback, as I was flicking through my new 2018 wall calendar that I bought earlier this year at the 'Byron Writers Festival', while I was listening to this podcast. 

I got a bit sick of owls staring back at me from the kitchen wall throughout 2017 and since I didn't see any Crow/Magpie calendars for 2018 I grabbed the calendar full of Japanese prints by artist Utagawa Hiroshige.

Dog stealing a workman's meal
 from a snow Daruma

I would think that the painting above about a dog stealing a workman's lunch would have made the 2018 calendar being the 'Year of the Dog' next year, but it didn't.
Probably looked a bit too drab for a calendar month, I suppose.
Then again that's probably because that print belongs to another Hiroshige, maybe?
Dog gone it!

I also received a free wall calendar from my local city council in a welcome to the neighbourhood pack, because I'm a new rate payer (again), but I'll be doing the right thing and re-cycling it in my council bin.

I did think it was rather comical that the winning entry in this council calendar was called; "Take Care of the World", by a boy named Alex Herse.
Herse means -
herse (plural herses)A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes, hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered to impede the advance of an enemy.
Obsolete form of hearse (a carriage for the dead)
(obsolete) A funeral ceremony.

Being a Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks supporter I think that the second-place getter should have won;-)

My favourite Utagawa Hiroshige picture in the 2018 calendar is this one above.

I like the idea of going with the flow on a smooth river surface.

If I imagine myself as the guy in the orange shirt on the boat, I can really lose myself in that picture.
Especially if I use a flash to take that picture;-)

Anyway, I should be focusing on this year's calendar, as there is no guarantee that I'll be around in 2018 to even use that calendar. 

In fact, the only real calendar that is guaranteed is the Chinese daily calendar that hangs in my kitchen.
Because today (I took that photo three days ago) is all we really have, and we have to make it through the whole day without dying, too.