dear, ahh, sudhi, & mr. p, how masterfully you set our table, & even hinting @ mother’s menu.  empire’s world like the plates it has been insanely juggling are spinning down upon its head.   africa, as in that brilliant russian painting ahh shared, is in our hearts, our hearts have blossomed in this short year to become global, russia, syria, palestine, china, india, africa, latin america all ablaze in our hearts.  & it is a relief to have our hearts expand so.

i don’t know how we missed it, but there is a terrific pepe on sputnik, perhaps the other also went first to sputnik, i have trouble linking sputnik (i’ll blame it on chrystia) but it’s very informative, chats about his chats with chinese comrades on brics.

dear, ahh, your revelations on africa are essential reading.  thank you for sharing.  blessings

apparently the russia africa summit has trigged within india a sudden desire to tighten entry requirements for brics membership.  this causes brows to cross.  ><  brazil apparently has also seconded these notions, which is doubly curious given dima’s private meeting with putin.   i suspect india is acting on empire’s behalf rather than for its people’s future well being, or that of the global south. i may be misreading as south africa has along standing membership & india has never voiced any objections but then south africa, as pepe points out is deeply complicated & compromised.  perhaps so brazil?  i had begun to hope india past penchant for shifty foot dragging (re: the iranian joint port) had been corrected by enlightened self interest but  this new road block suggests india has begin to back pedal in hopes of slowing many very progressive projects.

china, russia, iran & many african nations have long practised the art of rushing water encountering a fallen tree & simply flow around or over.  i foolishly imagined india might have observed  this & not allowed herself to be yet another fallen stump along empire’s swath to sustained global hegemony.

thank you, ahh, i could feel it, a blind small pet sniffing my way along the path, but, yes, your L 07 is our springboard.  in this, thank God, putin & xi are not blind schnuffling their way down the alley, they’ve long configured this passage & therein is our & africa’s way through.

bless you, ahh.  xo

good evening, ahh, i’m hoping you’ll parse over the next days/wks the various speeches from the african russian summit.  i’ve loved the translations, the ideas, hopes & prospects shared, marvelling that if someone had offered china or russia such guidance 30yrs past, & what it would’ve meant—& here today china & russia knowing what such guidance means extend their hands/goodwill, &, yes, for africa, with friends (finally!) perhaps africa might do what china & mother have taken decades to achieve in ‘the blinking of an eye’.  blessings.

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OT: my brother (his daughter (my beloved niece  31yrs) died of synovial sarcoma 4yrs ago, after surviving an 8wk diagnosis she fought through horrific pain for 3 1/2yrs, participating in trials utilizing curcumin)…my brother has returned home after 3wks in the hospital,  surgery for late stage liver cancer.  he does not want to survive.  so much of my energy/time is devoted to help him navigate this journey.

dear, ahh,  & sudhi, thank you for the trove of pictures & history.  in this, our extraordinary time, history routinely comes full circle encapsulating such symmetry to portend conclusion, yet as birth, a world readying to open.  how appropriate the meeting concludes with a wedding.  it dazzles, these times unfolding as though pre-ordained.  blessings.

dear ahh, you are a reservoir, your precious archive & years of astute observation illuminate dots,  herald & highlight the bridges & sea routes.  i am indebted,  your guidance is golden.  thank you for daniel, i had completely forgotten that prophecy.  & have more than once seriously grieved for the loss of babylon’s treasure, decorating some miser’s library deep in city’s bowels.  ahead,  i have an afternoon of reading, followed by meditation to  blend my rudimentary brushstrokes to an integrated patina.

ahh, thank you, for your calm overview & wisdom.   yes,  i’ve bookmarked the voltaire.net. it warrants continued reference & would’ve served me well to have drunk more deeply when i first made my way through in search of answers to the suffering inflicted upon syria & afghanistan.  i am indebted & grateful, you have delivered my thirsty quest to a cool rich date grove.  it illuminates why putin often seems to don a beekeeper’s attire when dealing with erdogan.  🙂  you undoubtedly recall putin making erdogan wait for an audience & when they met in what seemed a smallish hall not grand, lacking russian opulence but indelibly important, dedicated to a victory, & the two sat across from each other, alongside a mantel honouring a sculpture of a scrum long past wherein mother had disciplined the recalcitrant turk & here once more the delinquent sat awkwardly all knees on a delicate seat, hunkered, deeply shamed, explicated & warned.  they understand each other well.

while the charm city exercises over turks, baku, qatar baffles it is undeniable & i sincerely appreciate your guidance to let the flotsam flow & to focus instead on the stars, china, iran, russia, they are masterfully conducting this our night sky.  you are wise, indeed prayer is best for all that is holy.   blessings.