The bell that rang at Jetavana echoes yet:
"All things end"
The fading of the sala flower demonstrates:
"The prosperous fall"
The privileged do not last
They are as a dream on a spring night
The powerful perish in time
They are ash blown by the wind

That' my own translation of the opening of the Heike Monogatari. The original echoes in my head sometimes as a cold comfort. This is a good rendition, if you want to hear it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHi53yewcZs

You have power yet. The worst can yet be stopped.

I'll be doing what I can.

Courage.

#doom #translation #courage

Snow watching cat 🙂

#cat #caturday #catsofmastodon

Bandit was experimenting with a new combat technique 😆

She spent several minutes following Minnie around like this.

#caturday

There is a hotel I have stayed at several times that continues to make me think it's actually a stealth escape room. There is art all over the hotel that seems to be puzzles, but I've never spent the time to actually solve them.

Note that the hard to see top left image here is a street map of a city, divided into diamonds, where very other diamond is transposed with another somewhere else on the map. Faint red cursive text appears to have been written on the map before the transposition.

I'm not sure what to make of the braille guide and the "Row" graphic, but it does strike me that "row" is almost a visual palindrome in braille.

Elsewhere in the hotel other art is paired with Morse code guides. The presence of the "standard ciphers" really triggers my puzzle hunt / escape room instincts.

#puzzles #escaperoom #mystery

Bandit popping up for a look.

#cat #caturday