Happy New Year!

le:ian ivluub auzoi ba nabei!  

Happy New Year!

Ba batelale: -- The one that crawls

Ever had something come to your mind that needed to be recorded RIGHT THEN AND THERE, no questions asked, no matter how awkward the locale?  I ended up recording this on a piece of toilet paper with a mechanical pencil.  It was barely legible, but still got the job done!  I've never had something quite so urgent to be written.

And all this said, I'm not even sure I'll translate it.  Some parts don't work in English- and the subject matter is rather personal.  Suffice to say it's about a bird on land.

Order of texts: Sandic

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ba batelale:

fian bamee-eso,

baxmii ba thiiaa nabei,

o grawwi baxahl uxnui,

le:agan ba oxneot ahl iat

paelain aan le:anee,

meer aan ta arasabin katelin otiab

baxraug,

fian bamee-eso aan pal mead

pal ba ototel ta arasan yahl.

wii aan fele: mee-e wii fele: otetel.

wii baxpe aan el,

wii nuale: baxel,

wii ba le:aneeb baxsore,

wii le:agan ba oxahl fon,

wii siad wii iat jeed ba thiiaa

jjiave aan thiiaa batara

batelale:.

baahl wii bateahl ba keri.

I'm still pondering that quote from the other day.  Today I took the wood-burner to a plaque I've had sitting around for a couple of days and wrote it.

I'll probably end up hanging this on the wall in my room, once I figure out how to put something onto it for purposes of hanging. :)

Listen to it here:


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I'm still learning the wood-burner, and this is only the second thing I've ever burned.  I hope I'll get better with time, and the nib'll stop sticking as much.  Onward and upward, as they say!

Accidental Sandic

I decided to do something today that I haven't done in a very long time.  I sat down and watched some movies.  Anyone who knows me knows that I am not a big consumer of visual media outside of the Internet, and so it is rare that I'll sit down and actually pay attention to something playing on a screen.  Generally such things simply do not interest me.

It looks like I ought to start doing this a bit more, though- Sandic is everywhere, apparently!

I sat down and chose to watch "The Mummy 2", which is a campy ridiculous... horror... um... something or other kind of film.  It's very Indiana Jones- but with a fun fake foreign language angle that makes me smile.

Imagine my surprise when a man appears on screen with tattoos in Sandic on his face!

This man's cheeks read A-K-A in Sandic, which is the sound a crow makes. 

Yes, his face says Caw!

This made my night. :)

Tao te tjen - Tao te Ching

I saw this challenge on Facebook and rather liked it.  It's true, of course.  "Jeegu masab ole:leet berai dee tree dee jut, a bee-enuun op jalenin oahl."

You can hear it below. :)


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Order of texts: Sandic -- English

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Ba fias utetreekainia baneot ahl ba fias ba kala.
Ba bee-enuu utemii-inia baneot ahl ba bee-enuu ba kala.
Ba bee-enuub baham baahl griawa repi ba aan wii ba priia.
Ba bee-enuub bale:leet ama ba ivi baahl.

inee:
wiisab kahami, ba jwri le:eeteraug se.
frn wiis kriani, ta katarain otiab peeteraug se.
Jeeguu masab ole:leet berai dee tree dee jut, a bee-enuun op jalenin oahl.
Jeed baahl ba deelew-
ba deelew gre kala.

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The Way that can be walked is not the eternal Way.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth.
The named is the mother of all things.

Therefore:
Free from desire you see the mystery.
Full of desire you see the manifestations.
These two have the same origin but differ in name.
That is the secret,
The secret of secrets.

A quote that's stuck with me.

I was out hunting a new staff in the woods today, and this quote seemed to fit my mood after finding it and working on it a bit.  Life is beautiful. :)

I've changed the blog background, as well.  Don't be concerned, all is well.  I just feel like it's time for a bit of a change. :)

AL:II.9 "Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains."     "Le:ee ta ivin ole:eetabe aan ba ara mas baahl treeso- aan ta lasven oahl noalkoin nu ivin- wii gre ivi baahl wii bateahl ba keri."

Lady spin your circle bright

Somehow I never published this song this year on 05/17/2013 when it was (apparently) translated!  I really am sad.  It's a good song, and I sing it as much as the other songs I have translated!

Ah well.  Here's a link to its song.

I'll sing it for you all later.

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Order of texts:  Sandic -- Smooth English of Sandic

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Lēé ama hamarab lēé opéma,
umai baahl frn yéâ wî glén
graŵi ské kaev wî ba hel
ŵiab oma

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O mother, make your circle
It is made of light and darkness
Warth air water and the fire
create us