The 64 Arts of The Kama Sutra:
1. Singing
2. Playing a musical instrument
3. Dancing
4. A combination of singing, using musical instruments and dancing
5. Writing and drawing
6. The art of tattooing
7. Adorning an idol with flowers
8. The art of spreading flowers on a bed or on the ground
9. Coloring fabrics, nail and body with colors from plants
10. Fixing colored glass tiles on floor
11. The art of making a bed
12. Producing music by striking glasses of water
13. The art of storing water in reservoirs
14. The art of picture making and decorating
15. Making rosaries, necklaces, garlands
16. Tying turbans
17. Stage playing
18. The art of making ear ornaments
19. The art of making perfumes
20. Proper care of jewels, decorations and ornaments
21. Magic (sorcery)
22. Manual skills
23. Cooking (culinary skills)
24. Making combination drinks and flavored drinks i.e.– lemonades, sherbet etc
25. Tailoring and sewing
26. Making handicrafts e.g.– parrots, flowers etc. from thread
27. Skills to solve riddles, puzzles and covert speeches
28. The skill of Antakshari (a singing game were one must start with the letter with which other person’s song ended)
29. The skill of imitating natural sounds
30. Reading, chanting and intoning
31. Mastering tongue twisters
32. Skills at martial arts (the skills to use sword, stick, bow and arrow)
33. Skill to reach logical conclusions based on given facts
34. Carpentry
35. Architecture
36. Knowledge about gold, silver and gems
37. Chemistry (knowledge of properties of materials)
38. The art of coloring jewels or beads
39. Knowledge of mines
40. Gardening
41. The art of cock fighting (getting cocks, quail or rams to fight and make the fowl/animal victorious)
42. Teaching parrots or starlings to talk
43. Applying perfumes on body and hair
44. Understanding of code language
45. Spoonerism (purposefully interchanging position of letters of words while speaking)
46. Knowledge of languages
47. Knowledge of making flower chariots
48. Knowledge of making mystical graphics, spells and charms and ways to avoid spells
49. Mental exercises
50. Composing poems
51. Knowledge of dictionaries and vocabulary
52. The art of impersonation
53. Impersonation of materials i.e.– make common things appear like fine rare substances (make cotton appear to be silk)
54. Knowledge of gambling
55. Using mantras (enchantments) to to obtain possessions
56. Skills in sports and games
57. The art of social conduct, paying respect and sending compliments
58. Knowledge of war, arms and army deployment
59. Knowledge of gymnastics
60. The skills of knowing a person’s real character from his conduct
61. The skill of reading and composing verses
62. The skills of enjoying arithmetic puzzles
63. Making artificial flowers
64. Making images with clay
conversations with people who read books are much more interesting
not getting civil war vibes here rather everyday americans are pretty much normal & on the same (sane) page.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/28/election-democracy-poll
If you want to understand world history a first step is to know often when a book is documented — for example: The Book of Enoch The Ethiopian but many, many others — as having been translated from the Greek or Hebrew into Ge’ez the truth is the original was in Ge’ez and later it was translated into Greek or Hebrew or whatever.
Everything flows into place from understanding that truth. So: the three “religions” of Judaism, Christianity & Islam actually make no sense. Who were Christians before Christ? Why is Judaism named for Judah and not Jacob? Where does Islam fit in since the same places and stories overlap?
Two of these “religions” are in a mutually destructive war that will weaken both to possible irrelevance and the third is in a steady decline of bankruptcy also heading toward irrelevance. I believe out of the weakening of these three constructs all of whom based their identities on stories and histories they laid claim to which were not theirs, or rather, cast themselves as main characters when they were the side players, the truth will gradually emerge & order restored.
i do not consider myself a painter, nor have i ever used oils but this triptych calls for it.
a series of archangel michael i am painting at the request of a coptic priest for three churches.
blue: san francisco
green: oakland
yellow: a village in eritrea 
totally believe higher ups talk live & direct to KL. he seems straight from tribe of judah. nostr:note1j6dlcjxfrerukqj560397e5f9jauvs4ld203rwhej9z2hkadm95ss0cqde
yea someone curious about my mail much! “oh it’s just a book”
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Noice & The Naked Ladies
These long stem lilies bloom in August but some midget ones appeared here on this oh so summery october day to greet the arrival of NOICE MAG. 
i had a delicious little organic keitt mango for breakfast & i thought i’ll try & grow a mango tree from the seed…so i looked it up, cut open the papery shell & can you believe what was already germinating inside?
nature just takes my breath away.
i almost threw this seed in the trash (well, compost but still).
i’m have a pro-mango-life moment right now.
#nature #artstr #photography 
#dreams
secret admirer:
a couple nights ago i had a dream that a man—don’t know who—gave me a gold bracelet and gold ring. i was not sure i should accept them.
in last night’s dream a clear box with little boxes inside appeared on my writing desk which contained among other tiny things a diamond ring and diamond studded earrings.
not sure from who again. i don’t recall dreaming of jewellery before. the diamonds were rather large & the gold bracelet and ring quite thick & weighty.
“fin de cinema”
—1967 JLG
#filmstr
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u1MKUJN7vUk&pp=ygURYmFuZCBhIHBhcnQgZGFuY2U%3D
usually depicted with an ostrich feather 🪶 on her head #nostrich 
MAAT: Egyptian Goddess of Truth, Justice, Balance & Order. 
#satoshi4prez 
i guess this is a write-in situation.
who should i vote for? elvis? jesus? miriam makeba?
#satoshi4prez 
i remember coming across this view back in my research days and being shocked but it is a clear, cold truth.
everyone should by now understand that women & children in palestine are not collateral damage in the search for “terrorists”—they are the intended targets.
israeli leadership regrets not doing full on “clearing” in 1948 and are playing catch up; this historian said the quiet part out loud. to me, genocide is a desperate survival tactic for the weak not the strong.
benny morris: “if he was already engaged in expulsion, maybe he should have done a complete job. I know that this stuns the Arabs and the liberals and the politically correct types. But my feeling is that this place would be quieter and know less suffering if the matter had been resolved once and for all. If Ben-Gurion had carried out a large expulsion and cleaned the whole country - the whole Land of Israel, as far as the Jordan River. It may yet turn out that this was his fatal mistake. If he had carried out a full expulsion - rather than a partial one - he would have stabilized the State of Israel for generations... Even the great American democracy could not have been created without the annihilation of the Indians. There are cases in which the overall, final good justifies harsh and cruel acts that are committed in the course of history.”
—haaretz interview, 1/8/2004, by ari shavit, “survival of the fittest”
a long journey to realize the treasure was right back where you started