The metal canister is called a thurible. The guy carrying it is titled the thurifer. Inside, charcoal burns incense. In the Catholic church incense smoke symoblize prayers rising to heaven and is also meant to purify whatever it touches. Here it was purifying the path of a small parade walking down NYC's Sullivan Street which was the culimination of the 57th Annual Novena and Feast of St. Anthony at the Shrine Church of St. Anthony of Padua. The use of incense in some ceremonial form has been and is used in many religions, including paganism, ancient Egypt, Hinduism and Buddhism.
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This would be the scintillating view one gets to enjoy for 4.5 hours when your 5.5-hour flight from San Francisco to NYC is diverted to Buffalo because of bad weather and they won't let you off the plane. Weather was part of the problem no doubt, but the ever-increasing number of take-offs and landings probably played a role too. Keep that in mind the next time they blame your delay all on the elements.
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At a Window
Give me hunger,
O you gods that sit and give
The world its orders.
Give me hunger, pain and want,
Shut me out with shame and failure
From your doors of gold and fame,
Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger!
But leave me a little love,
A voice to speak to me in the day end,
A hand to touch me in the dark room
Breaking the long loneliness.
In the dusk of day-shapes
Blurring the sunset,
One little wandering, western star
Thrust out from the changing shores of shadow.
Let me go to the window,
Watch there the day-shapes of dusk
And wait and know the coming
Of a little love.
—Carl Sandburg (Factoid: While Carl was in college, where he studied the classics and a professor encouraged him to begin writing poetry, he worked as a janitor at the fire department.)
On a sidenote, this will be the last week for the PotD. I committed to doing it for a year and 365 days have come and gone. I hope you've enjoyed it and learned as much as I have, and I thank you all for taking this ride with me. I am currently debating whether to continue in a different format, the PotW(eekly) perhaps, but I have yet to decide where to take it from here. Stayed tuned and keep paying attention to the world as it rolls by you.
All the best,
Scott
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Hopscotch. The game traces it's origin to the Roman Empire and the empire's time in England. Originally Roman soldiers hopped up and down 100-foot-long hopscotch-like courts in full armor for agility and endurance training, and the oldest known court can be found in the Roman Forum. Kids in England took what they saw the soldiers were doing, made it their own and a world-wide phenomenon was born. Click here to read more about its history, what it is called in different countries, and all its rules (there are more than you probably remember).
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Have you ever stopped to think how different huge cities like New York or San Francisco would be if bridges didn't exist? The first steel bridge in the United States was the Eads Bridge that crosses the Mississippi River at St. Louis. It was completed in 1874 and was the largest bridge ever built at the time. This is not that bridge. =)
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The Denver International Airport has all sort of cool and crazy and sometimes ugly art all over the place. The arch and the lights here are be part of a huge sculpture in the middle of concourse B. Cool? Crazy? Ugly? You decide.
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