mir·a·cle
noun
1. An effect or extraordinary event in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and is ascribed to a supernatural cause.–Dictionary.com
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Obtunded
Describing someone who is far from alert or oriented to time and space, and exhibits other signs being confused, a state just short of frank delirium.
I worked here forty years ago, then it was one building, a surface parking lot and nuns on the seventh floor. Forty years. O lost!
Oculus
Charlottesville, Virginia, UVA Rotunda
2. Architecture . a circular opening, especially one at the apex of a dome.–Dictionary.com
Decamp
de·camp
verb (used without object)
1. to depart from a camp; to pack up equipment and leave a camping ground: We decamped before the rain began.dictionary.com
We are supposed to inhabit the present. It is something I don’t do well. I don’t understand opportunity when it is in front of me. There you go. Don’t understand the visual when it is in front of me. End up wondering after the fact. Was that love? Was that a gift? End up wondering about details too. Was that thing significant? Was that thing mundane?
This photo is a 0.1666th of a second from the last day in November, 2338 hours. The Charlottesville Virginia Occupiers being removed from a City park for violating its 11p.m. curfew.
Were the ball-caps significant? They were a florescent green. Did they have a printed message? Seven people in the frame are wearing the caps.
The items on a pole on the left and the words “occupy for justice”. Looks like a standard, a repurposed 21st Century Aquila
In profile this staff and standard resembles a bird with a heron-like beak. In profile it looks like a kill stick. What is it intended to convey? How is it used?
There are police or firemen on the right, blurred. They are moving… to arrest the naked lady? Who are the actors? Who is that female illuminated enface in the foreground? Does her video include commentary? What is she saying? Is this what democracy looks like? Is this what Kabuki theater looks like? Who is that man on that horse?
O Lost!
Sophie visits Georgetown
ten·ta·tive [ten-tuh-tiv]
2. unsure; uncertain; not definite or positive; hesitant: a tentative smile on his face.–dictionary.com
Seligman, AZ
1. the state of being vacant; emptiness.
2. a vacant, empty, or unoccupied place, as untenanted lodgings or offices: This building still has no vacancies.
infrastructure
Infrastructure is basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function.
The term typically refers to the technical structures that support a society, such as roads, water supply, sewers, electrical grids, telecommunications, and so forth, and can be defined as “the physical components of interrelated systems providing commodities and services essential to enable, sustain, or enhance societal living conditions.”–Wikipedia
Infrastructure can inspire. Carefully engineered, lasting projects are beautiful and cost effective. The Aqua Virgo, an aqueduct supplying Rome with drinking water, was constructed in 19BC, and renovated in 1453.
The large diameter galvanized pipes above are shopping center infrastructure. Presumably, they’ll be buried beneath the ground and deal with storm water unable to penetrate the acres of impervious surface that are part of this new consumer Shangri-La. Could the rainwater be kept on top of the ground in a series of streams, meadows and lakes and allowed to infiltrate? The landscaping could be beautiful and functional. Maybe that is part of the plan? UVA, locally, leads in daylighting piped streams and dealing with stormwater intelligently.
One thing for sure. This is short term infrastructure. No one will be renovating this installation in a millennium. The useful life of corrugated pipe is measured in decades.
skeleton
Anatomy, Zoology . the bones of a human or an animal considered as a whole, together forming the framework of the body.–Dictionary.com
roadside
bric-a-brac
–noun ( used with a singular or plural verb )
miscellaneous small articles collected for their antiquarian, sentimental, decorative, or other interest.
Origin:
1830–40; < French, Middle French: literally, at random, without rhyme or reason; gradational compound from elements of obscure origin--Dictionary.com
incarcerate
1. to imprison; confine.
2. to enclose; constrict closely.–Dictionary.com
As part of the 2011 Preservation Week events, ACHS President Steven Meeks spoke about and lead a tour of the old Albemarle County Jail. 2/10 of a mile from the Downtown Mall, grassy yard, 18 foot walls. Nowhere to plug in a TV.