Still only 7.40am here, I wake up by 5.30 since the clocks went back last weekend and it's not good.
Head full of too much the last few weeks with too much going on.
Funny we all moan when bored and nothing going on, but when it alll kicks off it's too much!
I keep thinking as a new stage in life is reached, then things will settle, but of course they don't, it's shifting sands all the time, without us realising it usually. Every change has a consequence, not always good or bad, just different, constantly making us adjust to our circumstances in life.
I love autumn too, the colours of the leaves now are so wonderfully diverse and vibrant. Been a lovely sunny day and the wind blowing the cobwebs away, love it.
Only down side is the nights are drawing in so very fast and it's only 5.45pm here and the light is fading.
Clocks will go back in a couple of weeks and it will be dark at 4pm!
Early decks Playing cards first appeared in Christian Europe some time before 1367, the date of the first documented evidence of their existence, a ban on their use, in Bern, Switzerland[citation needed]. Before this, cards had been used for several decades in Islamic Al Andalus (see playing card history for discussion of its origins). Early European sources describe a deck with typically fifty-two cards, like a modern deck with no jokers.[citation needed] The seventy-eight-card tarot resulted from adding the twenty-two trump cards to an early fifty-six card variant (fourteen cards per suit).[citation needed]
Wide use of playing cards in Europe can, with some certainty, be given from 1377 onwards[citation needed]. Tarot cards appear to have been developed some forty years later, and they are mentioned in the surviving text of Martiano da Tortona.[citation needed] Da Tortona's text is thought to have been written between 1418 and 1425, since in 1418 the painter Michelino da Besozzo returned to Milan, and Martiano da Tortona died in 1425.
Da Tortona describes a deck similar to the cards used for Tarot card games in many specific ways though what he describes is more a precursor to tarot than what we might think of as real tarot cards. For instance, his deck has only sixteen trump cards, with motifs that are not comparable to common tarot cards (they are Greek gods) and the suits are four kinds of birds, not the common Italian suits. What makes da Tortona's deck similar to modern tarot game cards is that these sixteen cards are obviously regarded as trump cards in a card game; about twenty-five years later, a near contemporary of Da Tortona, Jacopo Antonio Marcello, called them a ludus triumphorum, or 'game winner'.
This is just a little bit from wikipedia online doesn't say who invented.
25 Or 6 To 4Waiting for the break of day Searching for something to say Flashing lights against the sky Giving up I close my eyes Sitting cross-legged on the floor Twenty-five or six to four
Staring blindly into space Getting up to splash my face Wanting just to stay awake Wond'ring how much I can take Should I try to do some more Twenty-five or six to four
(solo)
Feeling like I ought to sleep Spinning room is sinking deep Searching for something to say Waiting for the break of day Twenty-five or six to four Twenty-five or six to four
Love that song and loads more by them, saw them live in Kingston I was 16 I think fantasit performance.
SirenLydia Forum Posts (4,138)
for tomorrow
RE: Is it worth trying to become a better person?
What else is there to hope for in this world, than that everyoneshould strive to be a better person.
Trouble is too many think they are better than others and
like to dominate!
Peace to all and a happy new year..