Up, Down.aka, Sunday meditation on 'brisa suave' / soft breeze.Now, he's hell-bent for destruction,He's afraid and confused,And his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.All he believes are his eyesAnd his eyes, they just tell him lies. Bob Dylan, License To Kill, Infidels, 1983.Before & After the Fall. Bookends. Like Genesis & Revelations.It could be that the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega as it were, has always been physical loving. Once is forever. Though modern histories require transcendence of the simple categories of faithfulness ... and then some!There is more to it than 'fazendo a coisa', 'doing the business' ... fucking. Raising children being an intense physical intimacy too, and not unconnected with the genitals.Getting above those first few chakras is a big step, mostly determined (I would hazard) by capabilities, personality colours, (what's that word? ...) oh yeah! temperament - in this case making principles of your capacities rather than your incapacities, but still ... and then, maybe it is no step at all, yet another snake eating yet another tail that turns out to be its own.Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd, Expulsion:Estimados irmaos e irmas, sejam bem-vindos a Celebracao da Eucarista. Rendamos gracas ao Pai por nos ter dado um sinal, a Palavra de seu Filho e a sua voz: tende confianca, sou eu, nao tenhais medo! E a presenca do Deus da brisa suave, o Deus da mansidao em nossas vidas.Hoje, e o domingo dos pais, da sua vocacao a paternidade. Rezemos para alcancar, cada vez mais, um coracao de filhos e filhas. Aclamemos nosso Deus. Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Carmo, Rio Grande, 10 de agosto de 2008.Marc Chagall, Temptation:(The woman in the third photograph is not Bella, who died in 1944.)LiminalityThe attributes of liminality or of liminal personae ("threshold people") are necessarily ambiguous, since this condition and these persons elude or slip through the network of classifications that normally locate states and positions in cultural space. Liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention, and ceremonial. As such, their ambiguous and indeterminate attributes are expressed by a rich variety of symbols in the many societies that ritualize social and cultural transitions. Thus, liminality is frequently likened to death, to being in the womb, to invisibility, to darkness, to bisexuality, to the wilderness, and to an eclipse of the sun or moon.Liminal entities, such as neophytes in initiation or puberty rites, may be represented as possessing nothing. They may be disguised as monsters, wear only a strip of clothing, or even go naked, to demonstrate that as liminal beings they have no status, property, insignia, secular clothing indicating rank or role, position in a kinship system - in short, nothing that may distinguish them from their fellow neophytes or initiands. Their behavior is normally passive or humble; they must obey their instructors implicitly, and accept arbitrary punishment without complaint. It is as though they are being reduced or ground down to a uniform condition to be fashioned anew and endowed with additional