Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future. —Laurie Helgoe
acrylic painting by Alan Magee
北宋 晏幾道的詞
阮郎歸
「舊香殘粉似當初，人情恨不如。」
12點半出去。買冰棒，這是對自己有害的施予。拾荒老者將濕毛巾當帽子前行的景像。
http://hcbooks.blogspot.tw/2015/07/196450.html
唐‧李商隱‧宿駱氏亭寄懷崔雍崔袞
竹塢無塵水檻清
相思迢遞隔重城
秋陰不散霜飛晚
留得枯荷聽雨聲。
唐‧李商隱‧宿駱氏亭寄懷崔雍崔袞
竹塢無塵水檻清
相思迢遞隔重城
秋陰不散霜飛晚
留得枯荷聽雨聲。
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/8272058.stm
Huge Anglo-Saxon gold hoard found | ||
The UK's largest haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure has been discovered buried in a field in Staffordshire.
Experts say the collection of 1,500 gold and silver pieces, which may date to the 7th Century, is unparalleled in size and worth "a seven-figure sum".
It has been declared treasure by South Staffordshire coroner Andrew Haigh, meaning it belongs to the Crown.
Terry Herbert, who found it on farmland using a metal detector, said it "was what metal detectorists dream of".
It could take more than a year for it to be valued.
The Staffordshire hoard contains about 5kg of gold and 2.5kg of silver, making it far bigger than the Sutton Hoo discovery in 1939 when 1.5kg of Anglo-Saxon gold was found near Woodbridge in Suffolk.
Leslie Webster, former keeper at the British Museum's Department of Prehistory and Europe, said: "This is going to alter our perceptions of Anglo-Saxon England as radically, if not more so, as the Sutton Hoo discoveries.
"(It is) absolutely the equivalent of finding a new Lindisfarne Gospels or Book of Kells."
The Book of Kells and Lindisfarne Gospels are intricately illuminated manuscripts of the four New Testament Gospels dating from the 9th and 8th Centuries.
'Just unbelievable'
Mr Herbert, 55, of Burntwood in Staffordshire, who has been metal detecting for 18 years, came across the hoard as he searched land belonging to a farmer friend over five days in July. The exact location has not been disclosed.
"I have this phrase that I say sometimes; 'spirits of yesteryear take me where the coins appear', but on that day I changed coins to gold," he said.
"I don't know why I said it that day but I think somebody was listening and directed me to it.
Duncan Slarke, Portable Antiquities: ''It is a hugely important find''
"This is what metal detectorists dream of, finding stuff like this. But the vast amount there is just unbelievable."
BBC correspondent Nick Higham said the hoard would be valued by the British Museum and the money passed on to Mr Herbert and the landowner.
A total of 1,345 items have been examined by experts, although the list includes 56 clods of earth which have been X-rayed and are known to contain further metal artefacts.
This means the total number of items found is likely to rise to about 1,500.
Following the initial find, Alex Jones, director of Birmingham Archaeology and his colleagues were invited to excavate the site, Birmingham University said.
Terry Herbert: "Is there anything better than this to be found?"
Mr Jones said it was fantastic news for the region and raised the importance of heritage research.
"Being a partner in one of the most exciting archaeological discoveries of our time is something we can all be proud of," he said.
Experts have so far established that there were at least 650 items of gold in the haul, weighing more than 5kgs (11lb), and 530 silver objects totalling more than 1kg (2.2lb) in weight.
Copper alloy, garnets and glass objects were also discovered at the site.
Duncan Slarke, finds liaison officer for Staffordshire, was the first professional to see the hoard, which contains warfare paraphernalia, including sword pommel caps and hilt plates inlaid with precious stones.
He said he was "virtually speechless" when he saw the items.
"I saw boxes full of gold, items exhibiting the very finest Anglo-Saxon workmanship," he added.
Roger Bland, head of portable antiquities and treasure at the British Museum, said: "The most we can say is, I think we're fairly confident it is likely to be a seven-figure sum."
'Truly remarkable'
The collection is currently being kept in secure storage at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery but a selection of the items is to be displayed at the museum from Friday until 13 October.
Dr Kevin Leahy, who has been cataloguing the find for the Portable Antiquities Scheme, said it was "a truly remarkable collection".
He said it had been found in the heartland of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia.
"All the archaeologists who've worked with it have been awestruck," he added.
"It's been actually quite scary working on this material to be in the presence of greatness."
He said the most striking feature of the find was that it was almost totally weapon fittings with no feminine objects such as dress fittings, brooches or pendants.
"Swords and sword fittings were very important in the Anglo-Saxon period," Dr Leahy added.
"It looks like a collection of trophies, but it is impossible to say if the hoard was the spoils from a single battle or a long and highly successful military career.
"We also cannot say who the original, or the final, owners were, who took it from them, why they buried it or when.
"It will be debated for decades."
清水工業區
「這是我們的土地，請把垃圾帶走」
屏東縣泰武鄉的萬安溪，經歷八八風災重創後，兩年前，人潮逐漸回流，成了夏天消暑戲水、烤肉的勝地。但是許多遊客卻將垃圾、廚餘留在河岸邊，不僅散發惡臭，也引來大量蒼蠅，萬安部落的青年會成員，於是發起淨溪活動。
萬安部落青年會副會長顏旭華說，兩年下來他們發現，越撿溪邊的垃圾卻越多，因為遊客以為有人固定整理，於是就更不願意自己把垃圾帶走。當外地來的孩子在溪中開心戲水，部落裡的孩子，卻是每到夏天就要去撿垃圾。部落青年只能無奈的在溪邊掛上布條，呼籲遊客一起維護環境。
不只萬安溪，屏東五溝村、花蓮銅門部落的慕谷慕魚、台東池上伯朗大道，都面臨遊客超載帶來的環境問題...
》今晚10點公共電視【我們的島】準時收看～
Today at MoMA Store Soho: meet Nervous System, the designers behind the 3-D printed dress. http://bit.ly/1HX3uu4
[Nervous System (est. 2007), Jessica Rosenkrantz (American, b. 1983), Jesse Louis-Rosenberg (American, b. 1986). Kinematics Dress. 2013. Laser-sintered nylon. Image courtesy of Steve Marsel. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Committee on Architecture and Design Funds]
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(It is) absolutely the equivalent of finding a new Lindisfarne Gospels or Book of Kells 
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