I'm not satisfied with this "Merit Badge 36." Maybe it should be structured around the idea of how to survive when the teacher is out to get you. Any ideas?
rosada

'out to get you'?? wow, Rosada you are painting a picture of malaise in your 36, huh . . I've no ideas on that but the more I'm looking at it the more it reminds me of 'hide and seek'

Actually I was thinking along lines of something much worse than just malaise. More like how to survive an abusive husband [post #270] or a parent who is a bully or what to do when you're stuck in a room full of religious fanatics - but should we make putting yourself in an abusive situation the requirement to earn a badge? Although I guess following 35. Get a Job, it would make sense to then need to know 36. How to Handle a Boss Who Is Crazy.
Anyway, I like your suggestion of making Darkening of the Light about playing Hide and Go Seek.
Eagerly awaiting your post!
-rosada

Rosada I'm trying to put the idea on paper but also thought of 36 as 'Being scared to sleep with the lights off' . . I seem to be getting ideas without being able to really unfold them into badges . .
if you want to try any of them out yourself please do and I'll try to come up with my versions too -if not, maybe I can catch up later . .

No time limits here! Post your version when ever the muse speaks!

Okay, I reworked my #270 post to be advice for working with crazy employers.

I'm going to post #37 here shortly but feel free to post your own versions of past hexagrams any time.

rosada

ty Rosada
I think that by tomorrow I'll have my versions on too!

here it is,

hexagram 36 as
'Hide and Seek'

Sometimes we are the ones in hiding, sometimes we go out to seek; best way to go ahead is by keeping things as basic and fun as possible!

line 1: (for those hiding) the game has one simple rule: find a hide out and keep quiet until the time is right to go forth

line 2: (for those seeking) count till 10 and on 11 open your eyes . . turn around and see nothing? don't take it to heart, you're on a quest

line 3: in hiding and in seeking we are all looking for clues, hints, subtle noises to warn us for what's coming or lies near us . . this might take a while

line 4: the hidden signs are approaching, you can make a decision to make it into a new place or show yourself!

line 5: the essence of the game is not about fooling or outwitting others but about managing to make it through in good spirits no matter what

line 6: eventually it all comes round: those hiding go seeking and those seeking go hiding


(soon back with 36 as 'Sleeping with the lights off' )

Dora, I love this! Especially your take on 36.6. But what I really got out of this was that while I could only interpret 36 as a terrible situation, you were able to see it as a game. important life lesson there i think!
Eagerly awaiting Sleeping with the lights off..
Rosada

thank you for your nice words Rosada
haven't had much time for 36's other version but I'm getting to it right now (apologies for the delay . .)

hex 36 as:

'Learning to sleep with the lights off'

When it's night, it's dark, it's a law of nature. Sometimes sleeping with the lights off is scary but then, how else are we gonna discover the stars?

line 1: Just like we use the light in the daytime for our waking hours, same way we need the dark in the night for our dreaming hours . . so it goes, half light, half dark; half real half dream . . would you really want to forgo the peace of your dreams to keep the days awake?

line 2: have you seen how our eyes get accustomed to the dark and still see? like a change of lights on an inner movie screen or that magic lantern which substitutes for the opaqueness of my walls an impalpable iridescence, supernatural phenomena of many colours, in which legends were depicted, as on a shifting and transitory window

line 3: oops, fallin asleep, are we? get comfortable, this is an all night projection

line 4: if this is still scary we can have a really small light in the corner, right? As some ancient wise people used to say, 'it's better to light a candle than curse the darkness'

line 5: Riding at a jerky trot, Golo, his mind filled with an infamous design, issued from the little three-cornered forest which dyed dark-green the slope of a convenient hill, and advanced by leaps and bounds towards the castle. This castle was cut off short by a curved line which was in fact the circumference of one of the transparent ovals in the slides which were pushed into position through a slot in the lantern. It was only the wing of a castle . .

line 6: besides, haven't you heard, the darkest hour is just before the dawn . . sometimes insomnia comes with its own glimmering insights . . A little insomnia is a great help in understanding the nature of sleep, in projecting some light into that dark night . . said a long lost and forgotten little man.
Oh excuse me, haven't we met before? My name is Proust





(excerpts taken from Proust's Rememberance, all based on the idea mentioned in line 4: it's better to light a candle than curse the darkness . . )

h36 and 37
"Toula. The man is the head, but the woman is the neck. And she can
turn the head any way she wants." from My Big Fat Greek Wedding

chuckling . .
but what would a neck be with no head? the neck is found there to support and connect the head to the body . .

Wonderful Dora!

I am going to be out of town for a couple of days. If people feel to post 37 + that's fine by me.
Rosada.

It seems the metaphor was lost. The neck is 36, which while remaining below and inconspicuous, is responsible for the direction of the head: "She must attend within to the food." This teamwork makes the groundwork for a family. Either is worthless alone.

37. The Family

THE JUDGEMENT

THE FAMILY. The perseverance of the woman furthers.

THE IMAGE
Wind comes forth from fire:
The image of THE FAMILY.
Thus the superior man has substance in his words
And duration in his way of life.

37.1
Firm seclusion within the family.
Remorse disappears.

O37.2
She should not follow her whims.
She must attend within to the food.
Perseverance brings good fortune.

37.3
When tempers flare up in the family,
Too great severity brings remorse.
Good fortune nonetheless.
When woman and child dally and laugh,
It leads in the end to humiliation.

37.4
She is the treasure of the house.
Great good fortune.

037.5
As a king approaches his family.
Fear not.
Good fortune.

37.6
His work commands respect.
In the end good fortune comes.

-Wilhelm

Merit Badge 37. Create a Website

THE JUDGEMENT

YOUR OWN WEBSITE. It will work while you sleep.

THE IMAGE

Your own website will give substance to your emails and twittering will become a way of life.

37.1
Prevent problems from the get go:
Don't give your password to anyone.
You wont be sorry.

037.2
Don't use the computer to visit a lot of silly sites.
Use it to make a living.
In time you will be successful.

37.3
You should invest in a good firewall program to keep out hackers.
The real danger comes from giving your email address out carelessly.
You could wind up with a lot of spam.

37.4
The website will be your prize possession.

37.5
You'll make friends all over the internet.

37.6
Your website will command respect.
In the end good fortune comes.

-Rosada

nice! I would never had thought of that Rosada

I'm putting together my take . . was thinking something about my kitchen, or cooking

38.Opposition

THE JUDGMENT

OPPOSITION. In small matters, good fortune.

THE IMAGE
Above. fire. Below; the lake:
The image of OPPOSITION.
Thus amid all fellowship
The superior man retains his individuality.

38.1
Remorse disappears.
If you lose your horse, do not run after it;
It will come back of its own accord.
When you see evil people,
Guard yourself against mistakes.

38.2
One meets his lord in a narrow street.
No blame.

38.3
One sees the wagon dragged back,
The oxen halted,
A man's hair and nose cut off.
Not a good beginning, but a good end.

38.4
Isolated through opposition,
One meets a like-minded man
With whom one can associate in good faith.
Despite the danger, no blame.

38.5
Remorse disappears.
The companion bite his way through the wrappings.
If one goes to him,
How could this be a mistake?

38.6
Isolated through opposition,
One sees one's companions as a pig covered with dirt,
As a wagon full of devils.
first one draws a bow against him,
Then one lays the bow aside.
He is not a robber; he will woo at the right time.
As one goes, rain falls; then good fortune comes.
-Wilhelm

rosada said:

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38.6
Isolated through opposition,
One sees one's companions as a pig covered with dirt,
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-Wilhelm

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Hi, Rosada:

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See here:

http://www.flyingpigmarathon.com/training_information/mental.shtml

...The Mental Edge
Creating Effective Goals for a Successful Performance

A quote from there:

Society places a lot of emphasis on competition and winning, so it is difficult not to focus on the end result and outcome of the competition. Researchers have found, in working with elite athletes, that the best way to win a championship or gold medal is to focus on your performance goals. They have found that putting too much emphasis on winning may increase not only competitive anxiety, but also puts the competition out of the athlete's control.

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Maybe another view on muddy pigs.

All the best,

Charly

I have had an awful, uninspired 37 post for quite some time now and was not posting it thinking there has to be something better until . .
two days ago when I was watching a cooking show on T.V where they showed how to make an eggplant timbale .. hmm, yum!


hex.37: Kooky kitchen business

a meeting point for the raw and the eaten . . and the place where everyone had to be in during lunch!

line 1
the kitchen: no matter how small, in all the houses I've lived so far, the kitchen has always been the true meeting point for all of us in the house. We could be coming from different sides of the planet, different races and traditions but we all had a way of knowing each other . .

line 2
. . that way -as you might have guessed- was hidden in the kitchen. . . Inside the protruding oval buttons of the oven -what do you mean how inside the buttons, there is no real kitchen without the space inside the oven buttons!- we had hid the wing of an almond which unlocked a universe of hungry fingers and suspended routine. The fingers were always the ones doing the talking -swishing, opening, breaking, spreading, bending, flexing and hooking, gushing, halting and nipping, they were those that took over the direction of languages and palates.
The routine usually -yes, the 'suspended routine'- that one, was hanging most always along our dark winter coats near the kitchen door . . there were other things hanging there too of course . . there was a missing paper back that had quietly asked for its immobility and had found its place all cozied up there right next to the unadmirable slits found the previous year in our holiday break and some stymied, dried and smoked peels of yesterday's news -all adding a taste of lived-in locale, like the concave tracks of sitting left in our big brown couch and the emptied lake I would wake up to find lying in my pillow each morning . .


line 3
(here is usually where I would get called in the kitchen, having spent most of my morning ruminating among noisy, slightly annoying thoughts of midwifery -in other words, having done nothing much but getting groceries and enjoying flights of fancy . . good thing is, I have given the day off to the midday calling voice today . . and making my way on fairly quiet until now . . )


line 4
Enough with these unruly thoughts though and back to the eggplant timbale . . It seemed like a recipe that takes its time -first having to peel the eggplants and grill the peels, then cook the rest and add it to the filling which is made by penne mixed with various kinds of cheese (try ricotta, mozzarela, maybe a little of parmezan to bring it all together), garlic and a couple more ingredients, then layer them all in a cake pan and let them cook in the oven-


line 5
but the result appeared like a delicious summery food albeit with an unexpected look of something chocolatey, since it was all covered by the dark, shiny eggplant peels . . *


line 6
to make a long story short however, what really got me going with this recipe was the piece of advice that was given and what felt to me like the badge of a very real, everyday, hands-on cook . . and that was this: 'If you're looking to make a really tasty food, never follow the recipe exactly as given . . . let your eyes and hands and gut to make your food rather than the recipe . .'. From that moment on I had to watch closely


:bows:




*closest image I could find on the internet -which doesn't do it much justice . .

p.s: Rosada, my apologies for not being that regular here . . badges seem to come in unexpected moments . .
-Charly lot's of thanks for your wonderful view on 38.6 . . love it!

Wonderful!
Looks like "The Kitchen" is definitely the thought right now!

I haven't worked this out fully yet but I'm thinking of:


hexagram 38
Weaving a tapestry of diverse threads . .

I haven't come up with anything for 38. Curiously, when I went to the memorizing threads for inspiration I discovered that I had been out of town and away from a computer when we were discussing 38 so maybe this is a merit badge I have yet to earn myself.
Maybe it would be useful to discuss a little bit what 38 is all about.
I see 38.1 as saying BEFORE opposition (because the 1st line suggest circumstances before the situation discribed by the hexagram has manefested) one should not try to avoid it by chasing after those you would like to be with - sort of a "Don't chase after people trying to get them to like you." - and also when you sence someone is chasing after you, out to get you, it's important to keep your guard up.
So it seems 38 has a sort of friends/enemies lesson to it and something about coersion.
38.2 Says "One meets his lord on a narrow street" which sounds like after 38.1, you can only avoid a confrontation for so long - eventually you run into each other. The "narrow street' suggests to me that there is no way to get around it. The fact that one is meeting his "lord" suggests possiblity of feeling somehow intimidated. However the rest of the line says, "No blame." So maybe you do meet but the "lord" doesn't overpower you.
38.3 "One sees the wagon drawn back, the oxen halted, a man's hair and nose cut off."
So everything is out of place. But then, "Not a good beginning, but a good end." this is because the weak 3rd line has a connection with the strong line in the 6th position, meaning there is someone to resolve the misunderstanding. How does this manifest in real life? Or in this hexagram about siblings, could this be the parent?
38.4 Here there is an inner affinity between the two so there is no opposition.
38.5 It becomes ones duty to overcome the outer separations and meet with the one we hve an inner affinity with.
38.6 AFTER opposition.The two do indeed meet and good fortune comes.

Not really ready to post this. these are just notes as I talk this over with myself. Will edit it later.
-rosada

. . a long overdue post (you were right about 38 as writer's block after all Rosie!!) -maybe better late than never. Here's a story for my 38 idea . .


. . At one time in my early 20s, I met a director, a Hollywood big-shot by now but then he just had his first movie out and was traveling the world, going form film-fest to film-fest, meeting people, exchanging views. We went out to eat one day and got to talking about how he came up with his film's storyline where he went into explaining how film-making was to him similar to making quilts . . like gathering all these irrelevant tiny pieces, random data, a story from here, a snippet from there and putting them side by side, one little scrap to another little scrap to make a film out of them . . needless to say, that made a huge impression on me.

It also gave me a thought-form for works of art, how influences sip into them, how foreign elements get woven together to get to one final piece . .

38 has had many of these elements when it showed up in my readings . . sometimes it's meant the strange look we'll give to someone who does something we can't quite grasp, like collecting things that don't seem to match . . other times it was the wavering look of someone not quite in a communicable place and others it has shown me the things that go contrary to common logic, like thoughts almost dreamt awake . .

Hence my 38 as weaving a tapestry of diverse threads . . although these threads will be mostly visual, since the words are lagging behind . . or moving forward . Whatever the case, words and images reached a fork at 38 and decided to not join . . it's gonna be all images here . . although they do come with very interesting stories themselves, not to mention the story-telling role quilts have played!

hex. 38: from the shadow of a lake to the light of day


made by someone in Kenya



38.1: Fire and ice quilt; getting started


http://www.fabricfreedom.co.uk/QuiltsAndProjects.html



38.2: A 'Body Electric' quilt


http://www.sarahannsmith.com/gallery_quilt.php?RECORD_KEY(quilts)=ID&ID(quilts)=69


38.3: Harriet Powers' quilt


(read the story, it's worth it!: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug97/quilt/harriet.html )



38.4: Eco/Passage quilt:


Blue Mountain Center quilt



38.5: Power of mirror-imaging quilt:


(again from the lady in Kenya)



38.6: String style selvage edge quilt:


source


won't be around for quite some time Ro, have a great rest of the summer!!

rodaki said:

... We went out to eat one day and got to talking about how he came up with his film's storyline where he went into explaining how film-making was to him similar to making [...] quilts [!!!]
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Hi, Dora:

I love your quilts.

I go to think about the relation with H.38 lines. It looks promising.


Yours,

Charly

39?

39 is too hard so i think we have to go around it

trojan said:

39 is too hard so i think we have to go around it

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ha, ha!

hi troj, hey let me know how that works out for you ....think i'll stay home, drink a cup a cocoa, chat with gfs, have cookie baking party, like that, till the storm passes (well, maybe go out if I run out of choc chips ) all r welcome to stop over.

39.1 note to self: storm coming :hide:
39.2 stay home only unless ur out of choc chips and have to get more
39.3 but mostly stay home
39.4 chat, text, fb, plan party
39.5 party time
39.6 have faith: storm will pass:claps:

...am not pro like most here, but do love this thread very much and it's nice to have a chance to find a little humor in 39. sorry if i'm off mark.

heh well this ain't no storm Iams girl...its a mountain, it ain't going to pass no matter how long you stay indoors eating when you go out again that big mountain will still be sitting there...too high can't get over it...etc etc...

....still it is a good time as you say to sit there chatting, and texting ,about other ways to get around it...or maybe not to bother going over it at all but head off in the other direction where its less mountainous and more friendly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HtyPryGays