And we have a winner on the “Calling Code Breakers” page!!
“We bathe your palms
In showers of wine
In the crook of the kindling
In the sacred elements
In the sap of the tree
In the milk of honey.”
-Traditional Irish Blessing
DV YZGSV BLFI KZONH
RM HSLDVIH LU DRMV
RM GSV XILLP LU GSV PRMWORMT
RM GSV HZXIVW VOVNVMGH
RM GSV HZK LU GSV GIVV
RM GSV NROP LU SLMVB
-GIZWRGRLMZO RIRHS YOVHHRMT
Congratulations Alysiafun! 😊
I have always been fascinated by codes. When I wasn’t writing in my own codes, I was breaking cryptograms in game books.
They’re good exercise for the brain!
The shorter the cryptogram, the harder it is to break.
Look for patterns: repeated letters such as ee, oo, ll, ss, mm, etc… are easy to spot. Then the challenge is to decide which letters they actually represent.
Another pattern to look for are letters that repeat in certain ways. Such as with the word “people” where p repeats with two letters in between.
The patterns of “sh” and “th” along with word endings such as “ing” and “tion” become more noticeable when you work with cryptograms.
The more you work with patterns, the easier it becomes to figure out what words they could be.
A = Z
Once you know that “A” is represented by the letter “Z” then you know that you can write A above every Z throughout.
It’s easier when it’s printed on paper so that you can write above the coded letters.
DV YZGSV BLFI KZONH
RM HSLDVIH LU DRMV
RM GSV XILLP LU GSV PRMWORMT
RM GSV HZXIVW VOVNVMGH
RM GSV HZK LU GSV GIVV
RM GSV NROP LU SLMVB
-GIZWRGRLMZO RIRHS YOVHHRMT
You’ll see in this cryptogram that RM is repeated often.
This could represent words like: is, it, if, in, as
GSV is also repeated often: she, and, the
So, if you decide that GSV represents the word “the” then you know that every “G” is a “T” throughout the code and that every:
S=H
V=E
Have fun! I’d love to see in the comments if you break the code!
And the winner is:
Mercury Rising
If you need a break today, I found an enchanting bench in a beautiful space filled with Nature’s music.
Step away with me
A little haven and retreat
From the pace of life
Nature’s medicine
Mind, body and spirit
Time slows
One way of crowding out unhealthy calorie intake is to eat more from foods that are unprocessed and unpackaged.
The challenge for school this week is to eat one meal from unpackaged and unprocessed foods. Or, to do this for an entire day, and then journal about how you felt after eating this way, how it compares to how you’d normally eat, and if there were any foods that you were not able to eat.
Today at the Unitarian Universalist Church, we watched this video on Toni Morrison, the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
A society that accepts others, even though they are different, is a change in perspective from wanting to “fix” someone so they can be more “normal.”
“I wonder what would have happened to great geniuses in the past if they had been labeled with a disability… the world needs the Asperger’s people.”
What a Loser was Albert Einstein?
Autism: A Quick Trip To My Home Planet |Monique Botha |TEDxSurreyUniversity
She found me roots of relish sweet
And honey wild, and manna dew
And sure In language strange she said
I love thee true.
-John Keats, La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Hundreds of people were arrested in ICE raids this week which left children without their families. I don’t know about you, but this doesn’t have the face of justice.
Danielle LaPorte – Use Your Platform
https://www.instagram.com/tv/B065lUzn2Ji/?igshid=ono0nalp4447
by Beth Haley
How do you really want to feel right now? And, how do you plan to get there? The answers say a lot about what you want and need.
Sometimes when we are navigating a spiritual path, we see it looking a certain way. Maybe our vision of “arriving” looks like someone who only wears yoga pants, meditates 10 hours a day, who dances with fairies, is calm, speaks in a hushed tone, and who has changed their name to, “Pink Unicorn.”
Spiritual freedom, to one person, may be dropping their shorts for a room full of strangers at a nudist retreat. Hey, you won’t be strangers for long! However, this isn’t for everyone.
If this isn’t for you, and you find that you don’t fit the “spiritual movement” or “mold”, does that really make you less fulfilled or spiritual? Of course not, right!?
“One man’s meat is another man’s poison.” Lucretius
Perhaps these things really are what someone else’s happiness looks like. That doesn’t mean that’s what it will look like for you.
Follow your own path. What does your happiness look like and feel like?
Visualize it and use your senses: see it, feel it, taste it, hear it and smell it: and then make a game plan on how to get there.
And by all means, if dropping your shorts for a nudist gathering is what does it for you, then more power to you!
I for one, will be found at the local library, clothed, and taking notes for my ongoing growth pilgrimage.
Inspired today by: Love, Service, and Living Your Truth with Danielle LaPorte and Chase Jarvis.
Danielle LaPort is the author of:
The Desire Map and White Hot Truth
And, inspired always by: Sahara Rose
Pilgrimage Studio 