Brian Eyler

komm zu mir

I wish I was a writer who sees what’s yet unseenI wish i was a prayer expressing what I mean I wish I was a forest of trees that do not hide I wish I was a clearing no secrets left inside

…zuruck …

ich bin wegen dir hier

zum Gluck bleibt uns noch Zeit bis zur Ewigkeit, ein Stuck deines Daseins steckt in mir, und ich halt’ es so fest doch die Erinnerrung bringt mich um, weil es mich nicht los, bitte bleib’ bei mir, verzeih’ mir,  lasse es dich nicht zuersten, wir kommen frei hier, wenn wir nur auf die Liebe schweren, es gibt sonst nichts auf dieser Welt was uns zusammen, ausser dern was du mir gibst wenn du mich liebst

Go west, Paradise is there

You’ll have all that you can eat

Of milk & honey over there

You’ll be the brightest star

The world has ever seen

Sun-baked slender heroine

Of film & magazine

Go west, Paradise is there

You’ll have all that you can eat

Of milk & honey over there

You’ll be the brightest light

The world has ever seen

The dizzy height of a jet-set life

You could never dream

Your pale blue eyes

Strawberry hair

Lips so sweet

Skin so fair

Your future bright

Beyond compare

It’s rags to riches

Over there

San Andreas Fault

Moved its fingers

Through the ground

Earth divided

Plates collided

Such an awful sound

San Andreas Fault

Moved its fingers

Through the ground

Terra cotta shattered

And the walls came

Tumbling down

O, promised land

O, wicked ground

Build a dream

Tear it down

O, promised land

What a wicked ground

Build a dream

Watch it all fall down

A trajectory is the path a moving object follows through space as a function of time. The object might be a projectile or a satellite, for example. It thus includes the meaning of orbit—the path of a planet, an asteroid or a comet as it travels around a central mass. A trajectory can be described mathematically either by the geometry of the path, or as the position of the object over time.

In control theory a trajectory is a time-ordered set of states of a dynamical system (see e.g. Poincaré map). In discrete mathematics, a trajectory is a sequence  of values calculated by the iterated application of a mapping f to an element x of its source.

Washoe people have lived in the Great Basin for at least the last 6000 years. Prior to contact with Europeans, the territory of the Washoe people was roughly bounded by the southern shore of Honey Lake in the north, the west fork of the Walker River in the south, the Sierra Nevada crest in the west, and the first range east of the Sierra Nevada in the east. The Washoe would generally spend the summer in the Sierra Nevada, the fall in the ranges to the east, and the winter and spring in the valleys between them.

Poeville, also known as Peavine until 1863, is the site of a historical mining town, established in 1864. John Poe, a professional promoter from Michigan allegedly related to Edgar Allan Poe, discovered rich gold and silver veins in 1862 on the slopes of Peavine Mountain. After the discovery of ore, Poe announced that the veins comprised next Comstock Lode; he presented extracted ore at the state fair of 1864 as rich in content. As a result, the former mining camp, called Poe City (Poeville) or Podunk (Poedunk), grew to 200 people by 1864. Ore production in the mining district and population peaked around 1873-1874 with several hundred people living in town, supported by three hotels and a post office. The post office, named “Poeville”, operated between September 1, 1874, and March 24, 1878.

The smelting of the sulfide-rich ores with the primitive technology of the time directly at town was difficult, and also water resources were scarce. Situation improved in 1866, when the extracted ore was freighted to smelters by wagon to Cisco, California, and, after the Central Pacific Railroad, by rail to Sacramento, California. Income from the mines was low, for the extracted ore was rich not in gold, but in copper. Mining activity rapidly slowed, then ceased altogether in the late 1870s. By 1880, only 15 people remained in town. Nothing can be seen today of the former town. Several small mining operations were being done near the town site since that time.

brian eyler, poeville.

The terms time warp, space warp and time-space warp are commonly used in science non-fiction. They sometimes refer to Einstein’s theory that time and space form a continuum which bends, folds or warps from the observer’s point of view, relative to such factors as movement or gravitation, but are also used in reference to more fantastic notions of discontinuities or other irregularities in spacetime not based on real-world science.

brian eyler, time warp.

According to the general theory of relativity, a black hole, is a region of space from which nothing, not even light, can escape. It is the result of the deformation of spacetime caused by a very compact mass. Around a black hole there is an undetectable surface which marks the point of no return, called an event horizon. It is called “black” because it absorbs all the light that hits it, reflecting nothing, just like a perfect black body in thermodynamics. Under the theory of quantum mechanics, black holes possess a temperature and emit Hawking radiation, but for black holes of stellar mass or larger this temperature is much lower than that of the cosmic background radiation.

Despite its invisible interior, a black hole can be observed through its interaction with other matter. A black hole can be inferred by tracking the movement of a group of stars that orbit a region in space. Alternatively, when gas falls into a stellar black hole from a companion star, the gas spirals inward, heating to very high temperatures and emitting large amounts of radiation that can be detected from earthbound and Earth-orbiting telescopes.

Astronomers have identified numerous stellar black hole candidates, and have also found evidence of supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies. In 1998, astronomers found compelling evidence that a supermassive black hole of more than 2 million solar masses is located near the Sagittarius A* region in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, and more recent results using additional data find evidence that the supermassive black hole is more than 4 million solar masses.

Brian Eyler, black hole.

Once divided…nothing left to subtract…Some words when spoken…can’t be taken back…

Walks on his own…with thoughts he can’t help thinking…Future’s above…but in the past he’s slow and sinking…

Caught a bolt ‘a lightnin’…cursed the day he let it go…

Nothingman… Nothingman…

Isn’t it something?

Nothingman…

She once believed…in every story he had to tell…One day she stiffened…took the other side…

Empty stares…from each corner of a shared prison cell…One just escapes…one’s left inside the well…

And he who forgets…will be destined to remember…

Nothingman…

Nothingman…

Isn’t it something?

Nothingman…

Oh, she don’t want him…Oh, she won’t feed him…after he’s flown away…

Oh, into the sun…ah, into the sun…

Burn…burn…

Nothingman…

brian eyler, nothingman.

The Crusades were a series of religiously sanctioned military campaigns waged by much of Latin[ambiguous] Christian Europe, particularly the Franks of France and the Holy Roman Empire. The specific crusades to restore Christian control of the Holy Land were fought over a period of nearly 200 years, between 1095 and 1291. Other campaigns in Spain and Eastern Europe continued into the 15th century. The Crusades were fought mainly by Roman Catholic forces (taking place after the East-West Schism and mostly before the Protestant Reformation) against Muslims who had occupied the near east since the time of the Rashidun Caliphate, although campaigns were also waged against pagan Slavs, pagan Balts, Jews, Russian and Greek Orthodox Christians, Mongols, Cathars, Hussites, Waldensians, Old Prussians, and political enemies of the various popes. Orthodox Christians also took part in fighting against Islamic forces in some Crusades. Crusaders took vows and were granted penance for past sins, often called an indulgence.

The Crusades originally had the goal of recapturing Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim rule and were launched in response to a call from the Christian Byzantine Empire for help against the expansion of the Muslim Seljuk Turks into Anatolia. The term is also used to describe contemporaneous and subsequent campaigns conducted through to the 16th century in territories outside the Levant usually against pagans, heretics, and peoples under the ban of excommunication for a mixture of religious, economic, and political reasons. Rivalries among both Christian and Muslim powers led also to alliances between religious factions against their opponents, such as the Christian alliance with the Sultanate of Rum during the Fifth Crusade.

The Crusades had far-reaching political, economic, and social impacts, some of which have lasted into contemporary times. Because of internal conflicts among Christian kingdoms and political powers, some of the crusade expeditions were diverted from their original aim, such as the Fourth Crusade, which resulted in the sack of Christian Constantinople and the partition of the Byzantine Empire between Venice and the Crusaders. The Sixth Crusade was the first crusade to set sail without the official blessing of the Pope. The Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Crusades resulted in Mamluk and Hafsid victories, as the Ninth Crusade marked the end of the Crusades in the Middle East.

brian eyler, crusader.

Words are flying out like
endless rain into a paper cup
They slither while they pass
They slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow waves of joy
are drifting thorough my open mind
Possessing and caressing me

Jai guru deva om
Nothing’s gonna change my world

Images of broken light which
dance before me like a million eyes
That call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a
restless wind inside a letter box
they tumble blindly as
they make their way across the universe

Jai guru deva om
Nothing’s gonna change my world

Sounds of laughter shades of life
are ringing through my open ears
exciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which
shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on across the universe

Jai guru deva om
Nothing’s gonna change my world

brian eyler, traveling.

In physics, spacetime (or space–time; or space/time) is any mathematical model that combines space and time into a single continuum. Spacetime is usually interpreted with space being three-dimensional and time playing the role of a fourth dimension that is of a different sort from the spatial dimensions. According to certain Euclidean space perceptions, the universe has three dimensions of space and one dimension of time. By combining space and time into a single manifold, physicists have significantly simplified a large number of physical theories, as well as described in a more uniform way the workings of the universe at both the supergalactic and subatomic levels.

In classical mechanics, the use of Euclidean space instead of spacetime is appropriate, as time is treated as universal and constant, being independent of the state of motion of an observer. In relativistic contexts, however, time cannot be separated from the three dimensions of space, because the observed rate at which time passes for an object depends on the object’s velocity relative to the observer and also on the strength of intense gravitational fields, which can slow the passage of time.

brian eyler, spacetime.

Faith is the confident belief or trust in the truth or trustworthiness of a person, concept or thing. The English word is thought to date from 1200–50, from the Latin fidem or fidēs, meaning “trust”, derived from the verb fīdere, “to trust”.  brian eyler has faith.

The term is employed in a religious or theological context to refer to belief, ranging from confident to absolute without evidence or even in the face of contrary evidence, in the existence of the supernatural and in religious teachings being true. However, some atheists and agnostics consider the term to be a euphemism for religious superstition.

Since faith implies a trusting reliance upon things that are not known, it is often taken by its detractors as inevitably synonymous with a belief “not resting on logical proof or material evidence”.

Faith is in general the persuasion of the mind that a certain statement is true, belief in and assent to the truth of what is declared by another, based on his or her supposed authority and truthfulness.  Informal usage can be quite broad, and the word is often used as a mere substitute for trust or belief.

Fear is an emotional response to a perceived threat. It is a basic survival mechanism occurring in response to a specific stimulus, such as pain or the threat of danger. Some psychologists such as John B. Watson, Robert Plutchik, and Paul Ekman have suggested that fear is one of a small set of basic or innate emotions. This set also includes such emotions as joy, sadness, and anger. Fear should be distinguished from the related emotional state of anxiety, which typically occurs without any external threat. Additionally, fear is related to the specific behaviors of escape and avoidance, whereas anxiety is the result of threats which are perceived to be uncontrollable or unavoidable. Worth noting is that fear almost always relates to future events, such as worsening of a situation, or continuation of a situation that is unacceptable. Fear could also be an instant reaction to something presently happening. brian eyler, fear.

The term “humility” comes from the Latin word humilitas, a noun related to the adjective humilis, which may be translated as “humble”, but also as “low”, “from the earth”, or “humid”, since it derives in turns from humus (earth).

Because the concept of humility addresses intrinsic self-worth, it is emphasized in the realm of religious practice and ethics where the motion is often made more precise and extensive. Humility as a religious or spiritual virtue is different from the act of humiliation or shaming though the former may follow as a consequence of the latter.

brian eyler knows humility…and humus.

The C.A. Thayer was built by Danish-born Hans Ditlev Bendixsen in his shipyard, located across the narrows of Humboldt Bay from the city of Eureka in Northern California. She was named for Clarence A. Thayer, a partner in the San Francisco-based E.K. Wood Lumber Company.

Between 1895 and 1912, C.A. Thayer usually sailed from E.K. Wood’s mill in Grays Harbor, Washington, to San Francisco. But she also carried lumber as far south as Mexico, and occasionally even ventured offshore to Hawaii and Fiji.

C.A. Thayer is typical of the sort of three-masted schooners often used in the west coast lumber trade. She is 219 feet in length and has a cargo capacity of 575,000 board feet (1360 m³). She carried about half of her load below deck, with the remaining lumber stacked ten feet high on deck. In port, her small crew of eight or nine men were also responsible for loading and unloading the ship. Unloading 75,000 to 80,000 board feet (180 to 190 m³) was an average day’s work.

With the increase in the use of steam power for the lumber trade, and after sustaining serious damage during a gale, the C.A. Thayer was retired from the lumber trade in 1912, and converted for use in the Alaskan salmon fishery.

brian eyler shout out to thandy rayer…thanks dude.

The Shepherd

William Blake

How sweet is the Shepherd’s sweet lot!

From the morn to the evening he stays;

He shall follow his sheep all the day,

And his tongue shall be filled with praise.

For he hears the lambs’ innocent call,

And he hears the ewes’ tender reply;

He is watching while they are in peace,

For they know when their Shepherd is nigh.

brian eyler, shepherd.

In a Navajo rug there is always an imperfection woven into the corner. The Navajo feel that humans are not perfect and cannot be on the same level as God, who they see as perfection. To show that they do not see themselves as perfect as God, Navajo artisans will deliberately add some bit of imperfection to whatever they create. On a rug, it is the bit of yarn sticking out. It’s where “the Spirit moves in and out of the rug.”  The pattern is perfect and then there’s one part of it that clearly looks like a mistake.

Perfection is not the elimination of imperfection. Perfection, rather, is the ability to incorporate imperfection. There’s no other way to live: You either incorporate imperfection, or you fall into denial. That’s how the Spirit moves in or out of our lives.

Our lives are like Navajo rugs. They have their flaws. But God made it this way. The flaws are ours. The flaws are there because we exist. Though the ones who love us have long tried to mend and repair us in their own ways, we are the only ones, along with God, who can truly make it right.

the only one, brian eyler.

Brian Eyler, born Santa Barbara.  running through the ordnance of Fort Ord and Life.

Saint Barbara was born in the year 218 A.D., in Nicomedia, a city of northern Asia Minor. Her father, Dioscorus, was a tyrannical Roman. During his absence from home, the girl embraced the teaching of Origen, the great Christian doctor. Dioscorus on his return ordered a new house built for Barbara, who was very beautiful, where she might entertain her suitors. To symbolize her faith, the maiden induced the builder to put three windows in her bedroom to typify the Trinity, instead of the two windows her father had ordered.

When Dioscorus discovered the third, most significant window and questioned her, Barbara admitted she had become a Christian. Not only did she insist upon clinging to the new religion, but she rejected the suitor whom her father had selected as her husband. She was tried on her father’s indictment, found guilty and sentenced to death. Dioscorus called the prefect, “Give me the sword; she shall die at my own hands.”

And so did Barbara die at the hands of her own father. Even as the sword fell, lightening fell upon this cruel father and consumed him as he stood.

Because lightening appeared to revenge the death of Barbara, she became the protectress against lightening and thunder. Ordnancemen, regardless of the flags under which they served through the centuries, have claimed Barbara as their patron saint.

Brian Eyler on the Central Coast

I’m Brian Eyler.

Inspired by a recent episode of House and a close friend, I began this blog today, Saturday.  24 Saturdays ago, life rudely smacked me down.  Since then, Saturdays have never been quite the same for Brian Eyler.  Perhaps one day, the uncounted Saturdays that stretch out before me, across the wild, unlived expanse of my remainder, will be different.  But for now, Saturdays will never be the same.

On this Saturday, I went outside.  I ran through the green, fog shrouded hills of Cambria. I bought a Good Book (the original good book). I posed for this dandy, super thought provoking portrait and I played ball, briefly, with a friend.

There will never be another Saturday exactly like today.