falconspace: 2005-07-03

The world is a mask that hides the real world.
Thatâs what everybody suspects, though the world we see wonât let us dwell on it long.
The world has ways - more masks - of getting our attention.
The suspicion sneaks in now and again, between the cracks of everyday existenceâ¦the bird song dips, rises, dips, trails off into blue sky silence before the note that would reveal the shape of a melody that, somehow, would tie everything together, on the verge of unmasking the hidden armature that frames this sky, this tree, this bird, this quivering green leaf, jewels in a crown.â¦
As the song dies, the secret withdraws.
The tree is a mask.
The sky is a mask.
The quivering green leaf is a mask.
The song is a mask.
The singing bird is a mask.

Tuesday, July 05, 2005

hybrid

Hood Man Bird Boss .

# posted by Unknown : 9:23 AM

Monday, July 04, 2005

What's that on the ledge?
Originally uploaded by braintoast.

# posted by Unknown : 9:37 AM

watching us watching

A closer look at the falcon
Originally uploaded by braintoast.

# posted by Unknown : 9:37 AM

having a bad hair day

Young Kestrel 24 days old
Originally uploaded by Jaap Keller.

# posted by Unknown : 9:36 AM

proud

Falcon Portrait
Originally uploaded by bfraz.

# posted by Unknown : 9:36 AM

pretty baby

Special Guest - 1
Originally uploaded by its-me.

# posted by Unknown : 9:35 AM

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Editor, archivist, all-around anonymous re-write man, short-timer, disgruntled as a result of mounting anomalies in the Founder files (and for other reasons I don't feel like writing about at this moment), now following the falcon (mixed metaphor alert!) down the rabbit hole â I, Redactor, occupy a Central Repository node that maintains archives from the last decade of the 20th century and the first decade of the present century â a hodge-podge of databases and systems running on various data storage and playback devices, many of them (especially the disk-based formats) obsolete outside CR. These resources include the early digital library, newspaper, radio, television and movie servers, as well as an archive of the original Internet and World Wide Web dating back to its earliest beginnings as a network for weapons R & D and emergency communications. We also maintain vast collections in warehouses and libraries here in St. Hubert and elsewhere in Dominion.
Among other duties, I find, catalog, and, as necessary, restore information resources pertaining to certain actors in the crisis that almost destroyed the Congregation in the first decade of the present century. The Elders are especially interested in the leaders of the rebel campaign of 2005, against the background of a larger effort to deter and detain the terrorist enemy. I've spent half a century tracking mediasphere references to the handful of rebel leaders who survived the suppression of that movement in 2007, and the continuing disssemination of the ideas and literature that inspired their revolt.
As a personal interest, over and above praynest exigencies, I track references to falcons, falconry, and ancient falcon worship, in the context of the larger CR collection of material related to raptors generally and eagles specifically, which is the primary focus of the CR praynest in which I co-create, collaborate, and congregate in the course of this sacred work assignment.
I don't perch high enough in the ChurchÃneÂ® pecking order to enjoy the privilege of practicing falconry â that's reserved for the highest circle of Elders, plus technical staff who work directly in the raptor restoration and conservation programs. But, vicariously at least, I've grown strangely fascinated with this ancient sport, its history and lore, and love watching the various hawks and falcons that live here in St. Hubert and Sanctuary nearby.
In this blog (I borrow the term from the turn of the century, a contraction of "web log" taken to mean a public journal published by an individual on the Web, although this blog is, I hope - I have taken not-inconsiderable pains to make it so - private and secure), I archive items, sometimes related to my official duties and sometimes not, found mostly in the turn-of-the-century servers I datamine, culled largely from the mainstream business, academic, and entertainment media (especially the extraordinarily long-lived It's A Jungle Out There! mediasphere franchise which has been publishing in one format or another - print, radio, television, online, satellite, telephone, etc. - for nearly two centuries now), and other private research materials...including certain documents and transcripts yet unpublished, which, perhaps unsuprisingly, tell a story radically at odds with ChurchÃneÂ® Doctrine...

A perfect falcon,
for no reason,
has landed on your shoulder,
and become yours.
âRumi

from Hierakonpolis,
"City of the Hawk"
Egypt, 3500 B.C.