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20 Years Ago

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:21:00 +0000

TWENTY

YEARS

which is like

20 days

for GOD

And since you are now with Him

ONE with the Creation

in His Presence

and back in

the truest form

IN SPIRIT

having shed

that mortal coil

twenty days ago

THUS...

FREE OF ILLNESS

FREE OF DISEASE

FREE OF DEATH

AND THROUGH HIM

WE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE

You can find the playlist here:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdoOAXgiMR4zQuWo8gqs6peezhxs77Y51&si=0KUNlAiVn_qmbwx2

Sempre Por O Melhor ☦️ Pai

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The Real 20th Bash

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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Luminous Flight

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 03:40:00 +0000

A meteorite

in the night!

Captured from Vermont

- on camera -

during its

*luminous flight*

before it turned

into the phase known as

"dark flight"

and ended up

somewhere in the

Eastern Townships...

Where many luminous

realizations

occur,

actually...

(Who knew, eh?)

✨️ 😇😇😇 ✨️

My old

stomping grounds

AND

now, suddenly,

the birthplace of a

VIRAL VIDEO

too!

One that has had

5.5 million viewers

so far ~

including

Sharon Stone!

Sharon Stone, yes!

It's either one of two things?

Either the E.T.s truly are

✨️LUMINOUS✨️

Or this sort of

entrapment

is sophisticated enough

to charm anyone!

Even

ME.

Any reason to reminisce about

Sharon Stone's career

is good enough ~ no?

The third coincidence here is

(as if an Eastern Townships meteorite

coinciding with a viral video ad

encouraging Eastern Townships tourism

being called a gem by an aging actress

such as Sharon Stone's stature

is not enough...!!!)

ANOTHER VIDEO has been shared

(though nowhere close to virally)

and it features Sharon Stone...

In this video, a short reel,

two idiots are mocking

the plot twist in Stone's

Basic Instinct film

- when it is revealed that

her character has an improper

relationship with an older one,

portrayed by screen legend

Dorothy Malone

-a virtual clone affair really-

And that appears to be

something that two wannabee

Siskel & Ebert of 2025

cannot stop snickering about.

They laugh about it idiotically

for the whole reel - mocking

Stone, Malone & Michael Douglas

via their characters maybe, but still...

They go on and on about it

they don't stop, the whole reel,

AND IT BECOMES SO PAINFULLY

APPARENT THAT THESE TWO CLOWNS

VISIBLY HAVE NO CLUE

WHO DOROTHY MALONE IS.

Here's for the clowns:

So what, clowns?

What if Mrs. Malone

played such a part

that strongly implied

a transgenerational lesbian bond

with the much-younger Mrs. Stone?

And what if the role he played

called for Mr. Douglas to convey

some feelings of aversion then?

They are cinematic giants.

And you are just maggots.

DON'T show up at the

Eastern Townships;

you won't be getting any hugs.

Maybe a bear hug. Yeah.

And a beatdown & a chokehold.

Rest in peace

Milady Dorothy Malone

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You exuded class and refinement

the whole time during your

Earthly pilgrimage.

I had actually even forgotten

your last role (?) had been

such a performance...

💥💥💥

Luminosa Pascoa

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:13:00 +0000

Yes ~ turn to Jesus!

Do it during Holy Week - why don't you?

Can't think of a most appropriate time, verily!

Talk about LUMINOUS TIMING ~ actually!

Just pick a day ~ any day:

With that ~ YOU'RE ALL SET!

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✝️✝️✝️

Luminous 20th

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:44:00 +0000

This luminous song

celebrates its 20th anniversary

*also* - in 2025...

WOW.

Seems like... yesterday

...when I was playing it...

in my bachelor's pad...

in my childhood bedroom...

in my soon-to-be

empty room.

This... was on the wall

And that - on another wall:

I used to think the song

to be very imbued of itself

and the lyrics to say

"fill my room with this song"

when it appears to be

WITH THE SUN instead...!

TRULY

A LUMINOUS SONG

And so very appropriate

as in-sync with my decor

and personal library...

I decorated it myself. Yes.

All based on my eclectic tastes. Si.

My prerogative. COM CERTESA!

This was my FAMILIA's contribution.

Also part of my eclectic tastes, mind you!

AMEN!

Always thought I had an Irish side...

It is that side that wouldn't dust off often.

I STILL HAVE THAT PLANT.

AQUAMAN - THE KING.

Me... even if I pretend to the crown

of Portugal...

I looked just like Superman on that cover.

I'm an Alien.

A stranger in a strange land.

I'm no king.

Always loved the sea, though...

Sanitas Per Aquam...

and Mean Gene.

This was one of my favorite books -

encouraged by my once-mentor,

Pietro Boglioni,

to read it...

Rest In Peace, Mr. Boglioni

Another favorite, right here...

...all my favorites,

and many collectibles,

were stacked there...

...so many priceless gems...

...some have been lost...

...if only to our senses...

BUT *THAT* SONG

STOOD OUT

as it also stands

the all-important

TEST OF TIME:

Aye, that room is now EMPTY.

But not for THAT reason...!

So many have used this song...

this MASTERPIECE...

A single song was enough

to ensure the future of

every member of MARJORIE FAIR,

the band

behind this gem.

And every time it is used,

no matter who is using it (well or not)

we can all relate to it -

we can all think of

OUR OWN EMPTY ROOM.

Sempre Por O Melhor

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Luminous Healing

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0000

No guarantees or warranty though

"Results may vary" ~ as they say

No money back - as none was involved

Prolonged therapy cannot hurt, however

FAITH HEALING remains TOPS

for that's what #LWO is into!

#LuminousWorldOrder

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And don't you forget it!

Luminous Diwali

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 14:10:00 +0000

It might have been good ol'

Roman Catholic

(...) resistance (...)

{lest it was protestant}

{or orthodoxy}

{presbyterian?}

{Adventurous Adventist!}

(or less-inclined to be adventurous)

(Jehovah's Witness???)

(Or Latter-Day Saint!)

but, yes, I admit:

TLB PRIME

has not fully endorsed

DIWALI

in the past...

And there is little or no

reason at all as to WHY...!

A feast / holiday / tradition

that celebrates the triumph

of LIGHT

over darkness

is super-fit for

The Luminous Blog

~ even if it ain't quite

er... kosher? ~

"C'est pas catholique!"

...as the frogs would say!

(Not that they are very...

practising, either!)

E, é claro, nâo é

CRISTÂO.

Car@!**!!!

But it has merit in spades

and, as USofAians tend to say

"it's the intention that counts"

That is how they approach

their damned electoral process

that is for damn sure...

But that's another story

What?

Indian... hacker???

Now surely that... activity

does not follow the tradition

of LIGHT triumphing over darkness!!!

THE FUNNIEST THING, ACTUALLY,

ABOUT THE WHOLE SHEBANG HERE:

These commemorative stamps

are issued by the public service company

with the most conflict woes currently:

Canada Post Corporation

or, as it often referred to,

the Crown Corporation

as it is a Governmental service

and, Canada, still speaks of "the Crown"

as if they had remained a colony

under British rule -

and part of the old British Empire!

All those years, I cannot count the chuckles anymore

each time the Queen of England was also called

Queen of Canada...!!!

And now it's a King of Canada... EH?

SO SAD.

But... that's another story, too.

DIWALI is, therefore, about LIGHT

defeating darkness decisively.

Canada Post Corporation

(or, as I call it, "The Corporation")

is entrenched in a labor dispute

pretending it has lost too much money

(engulfed too many funds into

ill-advised investments, yes)

and cannot, therefore, increase the salaries

of its workforce - so that employees

don't have to rely on food banks

when they are, supposedly,

"gainfully employed"...

by a government agency, to boot!

THAT conflict appears to be headed

to a lengthy STRIKE...

The Corporation can also employ

the hardball tactic of a LOCKOUT

- which would be funny, with memories

of such a recent LOCKDOWN...!

However, that is not all...!

CANADA honors a tradition from INDIA

just as there is that imbroglio over

the assassination of a diplomat

in Canadian territory

by Indian agents

and an entire SPYGATE over that

as India proves to be to Canada

what Russia is to the USofA...???

And this Poilievre clown

who is vying to be Prime Minister of Canada

in the very near-future

AND is quite opposed to Canada Post

remaining "The Corporation" -

purporting it should be privatized instead -

this clown has close ties to India's regime...!!!

The rednecks of the north

are probably going to vote him

into office at the next (forced) elections

But that... again... is another story.

...

Luminous 20th

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

AYE

It is the 20th Anniversary of TLB PRIME!

I sort of skipped the birthday - if one believes

the retroactive posting that I have done here

and the chronological order that ensues... !

However, in truth and fact, the Luminous Blog

- the all-too natural extension of myself,

as I had chosen, way back then, to go with

the aggrandizing monicker of *Luminous (\ô/) Luciano*

"A Blog Befitting My Luminous Person(a)"

which eventually begets a Luminous Network of websites,

a Luminous Universe (Multiverse, yes!) of fiction

and a Luminous World Order in the Real World -

this blog, therefore, *Luminous Prime*

(as in the (Luminous) TLB Prime Network - duh)

where I often called for a much better world

truly did debut/premiere in October of 2004.

TWENTY YEARS AGO.

But as I have... blogged... many times through the years,

it is *my blog ~ my prerogative!*

Where I celebrated everything and anything

worthy of being celebrated - as the fancy hit me!

WHEN THE FANCY HIT ME!

And thus... I will celebrate its anniversary

when I want ~ the way I want!

And, as it is, somewhere in-between all the dates

chosen as (luminous) *debuts* ~

via the magic of retroactive posting

(aw - cannot ever thank you enough for that,

Blogger! This Time Traveling power you give...

Or used to give, anyways!)

HENCE ~ WE CELEBRATE IT *NOW*

and with

OF COURSE, such a Luminous Blog began

with, either joyful reminiscing of innocent times

OR with rejoicing of JUSTICE being done, at last!

The very first luminous blog posting...!

Ah yes - when curses are reversed and justice is meted out effectively, whether it is "at long last" or "for once" (...) - - -

one can finally say these all-ominous sounding words: "THERE IS JUSTICE IN THIS WORLD!''

2004 was something else - INDEED!

The next decade would be... WELL-CHRONICLED,

shall we say? I blogged - a lot!

A LOT of the blog's, er, messages went through

the comments section, actually!

Entire articles, in fact - on top of my luminous pearls of wisdom!

Hence, yes, it was a lot of reading material - sort of!

Although, through those early years, I became more and more...

visual - catering to other senses - and less wordy, perhaps.

This comes about as the entire TLB Prime Network

embraces its mission: to be a Luminous Editorial

across the board ~ with no restrictions.

No subject is too controversial - no one is spared.

(The Lambasting Blog is soon born, too!)

The reticence to use other people's images dissipated

as the Luminous Disclaimer was composed!

Est. 2003
© 2007 Onwards ~ Luminous (\ô/) Luciano Pimentel
TLB Prime, The Truth, Luminous Writings, Aqua Musings, The Saudades Blog, 365 Days/Reasons and every other affiliated TLB Prime Network site, whether on Blogger or on another provider, are the intellectual properties of Luminous Luciano aka Luciano Pimentel.
No sections of this website may be reproduced or used in any way, partially or completely, in any fashion whatsoever without written authorization - the only exceptions to this rule occurring in the advent of an objective review of the entertaining value of said material and/or in the advent of objective and 'fair use' of my copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
Likewise, several elements displayed on this and on any given blog part of the TLB Prime Network may or may not be in the public domain; in the case of copyrighted material showing up here or anywhere else throughout this network, it is done so in accordance to the rules of the aforementioned FAIR USE ACT - always and in all ways.
All this in total and complete accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107.
For more information, once more, go here
God Bless!

ERGO, SOME FLASHY SAMPLES OF THAT ERA:

Statistics Sundays 6 - sixpence none the richer

A plethora of feline facts - once again! A cornucopia of cat kudos...?!? Anyway... no wonder we are none the richer for it - poor scaredy cats are always that, primarily - POOR! In the wild and fending for themselves as best they can... OR in captivity - and that is as rotten as it can get... eh?
On to the FACTS... Jack!

Pride lionesses frequently enter the breeding season together and later give birth at the same time; this allows them to share nursing and other maternal duties.

Although only one out of four hunting events is successful, dominant males always eat first, lionesses next, and cubs scramble for scraps and leftovers.

A tiger can consume as much as 40 kg (88 lb.) of meat in one feeding.

Tigers may drag their prey to water to eat. They are commonly seen in the shade or wading in pools cooling off.

Since white tigers have pigmented stripes and blue eyes, they are not albinos.

It is estimated that there are less than 3,000 Bengal tigers left in the wild.

The jaguar is the largest cat of the Americas, and the only living representative of the genus Panthera found in the New World.

More than 85 species have been recorded in the jaguars diet.

Jaguars are the only big cats that regularly kill prey (especially capybaras) by piercing the skull with their canines.

Deforestation rates are highest in Latin America (FAO 1993), and fragmentation of forest habitat isolates jaguar populations so that they are more vulnerable to the predations of man.

While the puma cannot roar, it is capable of a variety of vocalizations. Both sexes have a distinctive call, likened to a woman's scream, which is probably associated with courtship.

Widespread and uncontrolled hunting, which has the potential to remove animals from viable habitat in which they would otherwise be present, is an active threat to big cat species.

The larger a cat, the larger its home range.

The cheetah appears to have suffered a series of severe population bottlenecks in its history, with the first and most significant occurring possibly during the late Pleistocene extinctions, around 10,000 years ago.

Cheetahs are considered by some to be a threat to peoples livelihood; governments struggle to prevent the destruction of cheetahs on private lands by owners who own livestock and fear cheetahs will prey on their herd.

According to K. Sevrin (pers. comm. in Eaton 1974: 24), a captive cheetah was accurately clocked at 112 kph over a short distance.

Three races of tiger - virgata Caspian, balica Bali and sondaica Javan tigers -- have become extinct since the 1950s.

Stripe patterns differ among individual tigers and from one side of the cats body to the other.

A tiger cub taken in Rewa, central India, in 1951, was the last record of a white tiger in the wild. Named Mohan, this tiger became the progenitor of most white tigers now in captivity when bred with a daughter, proving that the albinism is the result of a recessive gene.

Black tigers have been reported occasionally (Burton 1933, Perry 1964, Guggisberg 1975, Mazák 1981), but the only physical evidence rests with a skin recovered from illegal traders in Delhi in October 1992, which has deep black on the top of the head and back extending down the flanks to end in stripes (P. Jackson pers.comm.).

The name bobcat is an abbreviation of "bob-tailed cat", which refers to its short, dark ringed tail

Unlike many other cat species, tigers readily enter water.

There were supreme moments of levity

as there were of humility

and there was even the occasional "borrow"

- or guest blogger on TLB Prime here -

rarely, very rarely... but there was!

None was greater than

the quotes from Our Lord Jesus-Christ

but there was this one time

a *Sealestial Nomad* was quoted:

Sunday, April 23, 2006

inbox indiscretions - "sealestial" edition! ;)

21 things to remember + 2 (cause we're the 23rd today!)

1. No one can ruin your day without YOUR permission.

2. Most people will be about as happy, as they decide to be.

3. Others can stop you temporarily, but only you can do it permanently.

4. Whatever you are willing to put up with, is exactly what you will have.

5. Success stops when you do.

6. When your ship comes in, make sure you are willing to unload it.

7. You will never "have it all together."

8. Life is a journey... not a destination. Enjoy the trip!

9. The biggest lie on the planet: "When I get what I want, I will be happy."

10. The best way to escape your problem is to solve it.

11. I've learned that ultimately, 'takers' lose and 'givers' win.

12. Life's precious moments don't have value, unless they are shared.

13. If you don't start, it's certain you won't arrive.

14. We often fear the thing we want the most.

15. He or she who laughs... lasts.

16. Yesterday was the deadline for all complaints.

17. Look for opportunities... not guarantees.

18. Life is what's coming... not what was.

19. Success is getting up one more time.

20. Now is the most interesting time of all.

21. When things go wrong... don't go with the flow.

22. If everything is going right - count your blessings and prepare for their running out on you eventually!

23. Tomorrow is the first day of the new you - start over making some noise!

Such Luminous Advice - it could have been penned by me!

*Sealestial* there was one of the members

over at tripod.com * I should have been, too! *

But I had other things to do...

Maybe not better things to do - no - but still...

I played "statistician" ~ Luminous Statistician!

25 years -

since 1986...

20 years ago

(18 May 1991)
Helen Sharman

became the first

British citizen

to go into space

20 years ago

(15 May 1991)
Edith Cresson

became first woman

Prime Minister of France

40 years ago

(30 May 1971)
NASA launched

the space probe

Mariner 9.

It became the first spacecraft

to orbit another planet

(November 1971)

40 years ago

(19 May 1971)
Death of Ogden Nash,

American writer

of humorous poetry

50 years ago

(25 May 1961)
U.S. President John F. Kennedy

gave his famous

‘man on the moon’

speech, in which

he urged Congress

and America

to commit itself,

before the end of the decade,

to landing a man on the moon

and returning him safely to earth

If you believe

they put a man on the moon...

50 years ago

(5 May 1961)
Alan Shepard

became the first American

to travel into space

75 years ago

(27 May 1936)
The British ocean liner

‘RMS Queen Mary’

began her maiden voyage

75 years ago

(22 May 1936)
Aer Lingus,

Ireland’s national airline,

began operating

80 years ago

(1 May 1931)
The Empire State Building

in New York City, USA

was officially opened

To think that

it could have crumbled

to dust

at the age of

70 -

if there hadn't been

another prime target

in NYC...

200 years ago

(14 May 1811)
Paraguay

declared its

independence

from Spain

Take that,

colonialist

spaniards...!

Oh,

and there were

two or three more

*significant*

anniversaries

this month,

too...

But that would be

too much information

now...!

Source

Eventually, there is a luminous balance

(what else could it be, except luminous ~ again)

in re: the word to picture ratio...

Blogs become specialized in very specific

subjects or categories; my topical approach...

But then updating them all AND carrying on

with 1001 other activities IRL

becomes... tenuous, not luminous.

We soon enter the *seldom updated* era...

Didn't we all, here?

The ephemeral aspect of even these things

that we post online - for posterity

that are supposed to be accessing eternity

in that certain cybernetic way...

But it does not, does it?

Not when it simply is yanked away

or not even seen by the proverbial L.O.Vs

SADNESS:

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
~ Jean de La Fontaine

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
~ Carl G. Jung

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. ~ Carl G. Jung

ON RIGHTEOUSNESS... To be righteous, we do not merely have to fight for what is right... No, verily, to be righteous, we should not fight at all - we must accept our lot and even love our enemies! Is such a philosophy compatible at all with the highly competitive world out there today - the so-called "real world" - the cold cruel world... hmm? HMM? Probably not - but such is the criterion of excellence in the field of righteousness and "genuine goodness" set by the very best humankind has ever offered; Jesus, son of Joseph. Jesus was, of course, more than a man. However, over the years, so many men and women have followed His Example - proving that such an impossible thing to do can be accomplished by mere mortals such as "petty, itty bitty us"! The likes of Francis of Assisi, Claire of Assisi, Simeon the Stylite, Augustine, Thérèse de Lisieux, Hildegard Von Bingen, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) - all either declared saints or bound to be real soon. The layman and laywoman can also be found to be a more than worthy example - Che Guevara was quoted saying these more than wonderful words: "the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love" - and, indeed, these words ring not just true, but they ring like the Truth!

Patient saintly souls still walk among us - one has but to open one's eyes to see them. I know a few, elite examples myself...

All of these exemplary men and women - and there are so many more, who no one has ever heard of - are verily what true Spiritual Warriors are all about. Not merely fighting off their own personal demons and everyday temptations - but making a difference in their entourage. For, verily, to me, Spiritual Warriors are Spiritual Survivors - whose awareness and vigilance are just a tad more elevated than the norm.
One has to be aware of the source of any affliction in order to cure it - and Spiritual Warfare is much akin to a chess game, moreso than actual warfare - it is a game of chess with dark influences that we must overcome. Being aware of their very existence is a huge step forward towards accomplishing just that. And once that is done - one's duty is clear; one must share such erudition with the highest number of receptive souls possible. Jesus was a Teacher - he wanted the children to come to Him. And what are we all - from the smallest one of us to the tallest, brightest and most powerful among us? What are we but children still - in the Eyes of the Lord.

I will expound further on this and other philosophical as religious matters in a companion blog - a sister site to TLB Prime (lest it should be called a... brother blog?) titled...

Luminous Praising of the Divine* (what else?).

Blessings!

(Originally posted October 26, 2005)

The oddest of acquaintances were made ~

offline as online - but most odd ones were online!

Those nincompoops over at the soon-to-be-defunct

Stripcreator site tried and write the account

of my clashing with several of them

over a great many things:

their bad taste, cluelessness, crass humor,

lack of refinement, idiocy, abject nature...

Most of all, that was it!

That went on during the early years of this

very Luminous Blog...

They (the nincompoops) still cannot fathom

the (again, very) luminous way

that I dispatched them, dealing with them

one by one, within the stripcreations themselves!

The most luminous examples:

Ugh ~ damned & dumb stripcreator messed up

*all* of my punctuation there - all the time!

Not as witty as the distinguished competition,

hmm, sullied, sickening, all-together silly stripcreator?

It wasn't -never will be- trilingual like I was, back then

(and, now, I am working on #7 already!)

But that's another story...

"Luminous Prime" - LP - a.k.a. The Luminous Blog

used to be the primary web-based platform

where I'd be commenting on any given topic,

(almost) on a daily basis!

The ideal excuse for that, to come onto the web

and chime in with my virtual two-cents' worth

(make it five cents - a nickel, at least)

of wisdom... luminous wisdom...

was, of course, any and all

HOLY DAYS

that we may get to have

on the ol' calendar...

Such as...

All-Souls Day (November 2nd, 2005 ~ which fell on a WEDNESDAY!)

Hence this title for the post:

"All-Souls Day... on a hump day... hmm... what would grandpa think of that... and what would grandma say!"
Benito Mussolini. Genghis Khan. Al DiSalvo (who was not the Boston Strangler). Sir Winston Churchill. Sir Alec Guinness. Sir Laurence Olivier (three sirs - I'm out!). Attila The Hun. Napoléon Bonaparte. Lizzie Borden. Jack The Ripper (whoever it was). Ted Bundy. Jeffrey Dahmer. Adolf... need I go on?
All of these and countless more are to be found -somewhere, in some misshapen ethereal form or another- in the Great Beyond... in the Land of the Dead! Verily, on a day like today, we should pause and realize that even though the planet is near over-population as it currently is (and never has it been so close to it as it is nowadays) - the Dead outnumber us by such a margin that our numbers -among the living- are dwarved in comparison! Aye, it is a good thing that there is no semblance of similitude between today and the cinematic Day of the Dead... That would be a losing cause for our side! But that is another story...

Of course, not all of the dead are "bad guys" - a great many gooder-than-good guys are found among their illustrious ranks - from the recently departed Karol Wojtyla and Mother Teresa to Sharon Tate, Rachel Corrie, Marla Ruzicka, Marie-Soleil Tougas, Lady Di... And add to that the innumerable everymen and everywomen that are our dearly departed - our kins who were never famous but who were unquestionably the true stars in the movies of their lives... as also stars in the eyes of all those that they touched during their passage on this Earth. These are the ones we REALLY should be thinking about today - the ones that matter the most. They who have crossed over and still love us, as we love them - the ones who have now seen the Light truely and know the Truth. May God grant them permission to help us out a bit, all of us still alive on this mudball called Earth - all of us among the Living...!
About "hump day" though...

SPECIAL DATES on the calendar were always in;

any and all that are specifically devoted to

a certain, defined/refined, exclusive club

and/or ANNIVERSARIES, also... duh!

I didn't wait until the 20th to post something!

Here's, actually, the 1st anniversary - sort of!

It was a little over a year, in fact, and I had reached

the total of 400 posts already - by my account, anyways!

(If you count all the unpublished drafts - most definitely!)

2005 had been *the* year when it got going,

really; I had found my stride here,

discovered what I truly wanted to do

with this platform of "blogging"...!

And here was the perfect way to celebrate it ~

have a look now:

Monday, November 07, 2005

And for this, my 400th TLB post, Luminous Luciano tackles Lunatic Lucian - in a dream match-up of literatis!

No disrespect intended - Lucian wrote his "TRUE STORY" about going to the MOON, so... Luna-cy seems to fit! This is not going to be all about him, however...!

It always struck me as synchronicity to the Nth degree that I was so very prone to write and verse poetic as sarcastic, as if by right - in the 20th Century - from the first day in little school, very nearly; when a certain Syrian by the name of Lucian had done the exact same thing in the 2nd Century of our era! We both have had the additional trait in common that we are not "widespread/mainstream" flavors of the moment... Both of us writing the way we wanted to write, independently of what is deemed "saleable" or "popular" in our respective times. Both of us... challenged the "status quo" quite a lot!

Apparently, my namesake Lucian made fun of near-namesake

Lucius - with this title right here! More on the latter (?) below!

Lucian is even deemed to be the FIRST SCIENCE FICTION WRITER - EVER! ""Lucian, Syrian by birth but Greek by culture, wrote his "True Story" parodying the weird tales told by Greeks from the Odyssey onwards. He was born about 120 AD, trained as a lawyer, but spent most of his life as a travelling lecturer, before he settled down in Athens to some more serious philosophy. Many of his books (he wrote over 80) weren't at all serious (being sarcastic in tone, they were not DEEMED SERIOUS... no.). "A True Story" anticipates Jules Verne, George Lucas and, especially, Douglas Adams."" I knew the similarities had to end at some point... First major divergent point is the abominable fact that he trained himself to be a lawyer... Yikes! I abhor pettifoggers! He did mock the beliefs of the Greeks, true, but he was also sarcastic about the beliefs of that budding new "cult" called... the Christians! Especially about the latter religion's lack of fear in the face of DEATH... Thus, quite evidently, even an intelligent man such as Lucian of Samasota could not fathom nor comprehend everything... heck, no one can!

The last drop is most probably the sad fact that he was more a harbinger of one profoundly atheistic (as well as irreverent, sure; no one is aaaaall bad, see?) and celebrated whimsical author - namely Douglas Adams - than he is a forerunner of... well... me, his namesake! Similarities with Jules Verne and even George Lucas I relish - but with Adams? Ugh! Wrong one to "connect" with if you ask me - I wish it had been, instead, Charles Addams! And, in some way, Lucian does have a little bit of Addams prefiguration too, somewhere in his massive body of work there... No time to look for it now - but you may find it yet... here. Or here. Or even here. Or, most especially here! (OK - make it here!)

This last link gives a good round-up of the titles that Lucian proudly produced over his lifespan - titles such as The Disinherited, Phalaris I & II, Demosthenes, Patriotism (!), The Fly (!), Swans and Amber, Dipsas, The Hall, Nigrinus, The Portrait-study, Defence of The Portrait-study, A Trial in the Court of Vowels, Hesiod, The Vision (!), Pantomime, Anacharsis, Toxaris, Slander, The Way To Write History (!) (Πως δεί ιστορίαν συγγράφειν), Hermotimus, The Parasite, A Feast of Lapithae, Dialogues of the Hetaerae, Dialogues of the Dead (!), Dialogues of the Gods (Θεών Διάλογοι ), Dialogues of the Sea-Gods (!), Menippus, Icaromenippus, Zeus cross-examined, The Cynic, Of Sacrifice, Saturnalia, A True History ( Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα ), A Voyage to the Lower World (!), Charon, Timon, Prometheus on Caucasus, Zeus Tragoedus, The Gods in Council, The Ship, The Life of Peregrine (!),The Runaways (!!), The double Indictment, The Sale of Creeds, The Fisher, Herodotus, Zeuxis, Harmonides, The Scythian , A literary Prometheus, The Book-fancier, The Purist purized, Lexiphanes, The Rhetorician's Vade-mecum, Demonax, a biography (?!?), Alexander The Oracle-Monger (Ἀλέξανδρος ἢ Ψευδομάντις), Mourning, Dionysus, Heracles, Apology for 'The dependent Scholar, A Slip of the Tongue, Peri Tes Syries Theoy, (De Dea Syria / Concerning the Syrian Goddess)., Dream ( Somnium Περὶ τοῦ ἐνυπνίου ), On Dancing (Περί Ορχήσεως )

The Face of Despair: Lucius had seen better days when they made his face mold there... (left pic - duh! And more about him in three... two... one!)
I knew not about Lucian (and much less about other "namesakes" of mine such as Lucian Freud or Lucius Annaeus Seneca) - when I first began to have the same interests in literature, satire and these subjects Lucian (of the 2nd Century A.D.) tackled so well and so often...
Heck, I did not even know about Lucien Piccard until recently - and the only famous Luciano I've always known is Pavarotti! Now, of course, I have discovered the Jamaican one - yeah, man!
Hmm... maybe I should have saved all this for the 500th post instead, hmm...? *lol*
Unless I decide to tackle my Brazilian namesake then - there is a model down in Brazil who bears my name... He doesn't stand a chance against me! *lol*

The Lucian/Luciano analogies are far more interesting to me though - far better also than the apparent similarities between myself and author Christian Mistral, whose name is great but whose writing - according to his own "people" - is "phoqué". Okaaaay... with fans like these, you don't need critics! *LOL* (And yes; if you want to know more about Mistral, you are going to have to google him up - AND learn French too! I am NOT linking him up to TLB! *LOL*). Oh, no... Come to think of it now, a druggie recently asked me if I was exactly that... "phoqué". Hmm... To him, non-addicts must seem very strange, I am sure... He also thought me to be a true-blue, full-blooded Italiano - since he is, evidently, his name being Fabrizio... Well, Luciano is a most popular name that is to be found now in Portugal, Spain, Mexico, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and so on! Italy has lost its exclusivity on the name! And the sons of Italia who bear the name have lost their monopoly... And originality in the process, I guess... Too bad, Guido!
They still have their Fabrizios to fall back on...
But enough about ME, the Satirist... And enough about him, the druggie! His wretched kind and I will never get along nor see eye to eye; I am profoundly convinced of so much!

I would have rather rubbed shoulders with the Syrian Satyr there; we had so much more in common, after all! Maybe when time travel becomes possible - *LOL*.

Blessings - to the rest of you - namesakes or not!

However, 2006 was the year in which

most of the really good stuff got blogged!

Very early in that year, on January 19th,

I premiered my most beloved series here:

SAINTS AND ANGELS

(inspired by a third party ~ yes, true!)

Third party, come forth now!

With the myriad holy ones -men and women- to choose from, I simply had to go with some sort of patriotic pride as my first saint here ~ hence, a fellow countryman of my ancestors who, like myself actually, accomplished nothing in the land of his ancestors but all of his life's work was on foreign soil instead.

St. Antonio de Padua was born in Portugal in 1195 A.D. ~ he spent most of his life in Italy though, first as an Augustinian and then, for the last ten years of his life, as a Franciscan.
He died a martyr in 1231 ~ as he had foreseen it happening too. He was only 36 years of age (which is, incidentally, my current age.)
St. Anthony of Padua would preach the gospel fervently and innocently - and this, ceaselessly. He was canonized less than a year after his death. His martyrdom, constant preaching (which earned him the title of “hammer of the Heretics”) and the miraculous apparition of the Infant Jesus to him were ample evidence to build his "case" with the Church... More evidence would be found three centuries after his death, as "his body was found to be corrupted, yet his tongue was totally incorrupt, so perfect were the teachings that had been formed upon it, upon exhumation of his body some 336 years after his death."

Angelology was always a fascinating subject for me ~ and the sources for studies on that subject are many! All three major faiths have them ~ angels abound in many ways and in all senses of the word "abound" too!

Who to pick as the first "subject-case" in this series...?

I will go with Metatron ~ the powerful archangel with no less than 76 names and maybe more than 100 (and that is aside from this most popular and vaguely super-heroic monicker here...)
Metatron is immensely powerful and one of the angelic order of the Seraphim, along with Michael, Seraphiel, Gabriel, Uriel, Nathanael, Jehoel, Chamuel (Kemuel, Shemuel) and, once upon a time but no longer, Satan (before his fall - evidently).
Metatron, like all archangels, is a "very large and radiant spiritual being". If Ah-nold was, selon Linda Hamilton, "larger than life" back in those days when he still made movies... surely Metatron is beyond "larger than life" status too...!

The Seraphim are said to have six wings of light and those wings have eyes...! If some basketball players (Bob Cousy, Larry Bird) were reputed to have eyes "all around their heads" ~ certainly angels can have multiple pairs too... even on their wings!

For all his power, though, (Metatron is one of few elite angels to be named as a member of more than one angelic Order) Metatron is NOT one of the nine angels "at the World's End"... A group of nine that we shall see mentioned here again - assuredly!
A group and not an Angelic Order per say - need it be precised.

Blessings!
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Saturday, February 25, 2006

Hmm... what do you say, l.o.v's? Should TLB Prime have its own Luminous V-Host (hostess with the mostest really - lol)?

Welcome To TLB Prime!

SAINTS & ANGELS though...

It was foretelling of things to come ~

as I would have need of all of them,

all the saints, all the angels,

very shortly - in 2006...

"Incandescence, patience illuminée
Chacun de nous a son long cheminement bien à soi
Nul ne sait où cela va le mener
tant partisans du toi, du moi que ceux de la foi
mais tous savent dans leur fort intérieur
quel est le but ultime - des mondes, le meilleur
C'est l'Incandescence Illuminée."
“Incandescência, paciência iluminadaCada um de nós tem sua própria longa jornada.Ninguém sabe onde isso vai levarambos apoiadores do você, do mim e aqueles da fémas todo mundo sabe lá, no fundoqual é o objetivo final - e dos mundos, o melhorÉ a Incandescência Iluminada."LUCIANO PIMENTEL
LUMINOUS PRODUCTIONS

2007-2008-2009...

They are a blur, quite frankly.

Because of the tragedy of 2006.

Save for this: not giving up.

Still writing - not giving up on that dream

For the next few years,

blogging became... cathartic,

therapeutic, a way to vent the anger

(Though flashes of that had come out already,

from the very beginning, practically...!)

as well as

preach

for a better world

in my own luminous perspective

2010 ~ I live again

2011

Championships.

Business endeavours.

The works!

#LWO ~ that's what it stands for, LOVs:

And I don't need to remind you what "LOVs" stands for,

now, do I...??? Luminous Online Visitors!!!

2012-2019

Those are the Blissful, Luminous Years.

Notably, the all-important Year of Our Lord 2017

They had their lot of frustration, too,

but for the most part... Bliss.

And Happiness.

2020.

The Luminous Pandemic!

2021 to this day:

the aftermath of that pandemic...

In latter years, most recently to this day in fact,

social media is the core sharing ground,

while this and all of the TLB Prime Network

has become a special platform for things

not so easily shared otherwise...

We all know the limits of X, FB, IG... etc!

X, especially - since Musk took over...

God, I miss Twitter!

No matter how long it stays "X" (forever, eh)

here, it is still referred to as my

Luminous Twitter ~

on the bottom of this blog!

There was the character-limit thing, yes;

but I used to circumvent that

with a tiny URL link

sending followers right back here;

to the Luminous Blog!

Looking back to the early daze though...

When everything ~ absolutely everything ~ was

still of the realm of the possible...

A Multiverse of possibilities out there, y'know...

There is a post that appears to have become...

prophetic. Lest it was the self-fulfilling type of it?

(Something that boils down to self-sabotage, really

- but that's another story...!)

NOVEMBER 2004:

GIVE IT YOUR BEST SHOT.

Always.

Lest we are found to embody this truism...
Written over a century ago...

"For of all sad words of tongue and pen
The saddest are these: "it might have been."
- --John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)

Blessings!

Captain is the band - "Broke" is the song...!

SOMETHING to which one could add

~ nowadays, in retrospect, with hindsight ~

yet another favorite tune of mine, from way back...

But for pure unbridled nostalgia -

there are other songs - BETTER songs - and there is

another blog too ~ The Saudades Blog

Looking back is not always a rosey experience.

One will always wonder if something could have been done

differently - often possible, here, through the edit button!

But it is more than that - of course!

One will always have... Saudades.

However...

The Luminous thing to do is

TO LOOK UP ~ EVERMORE!

And hey ~ what else did you expect from me, here,

on the 20th Luminous Anniversary - hmm?

THE LUMINANCE IS GUARANTEED

here... always!

For as long as there is a blogosphere!

Courtesy, here, of Google/Blogger/YouTube...

And Yours Truly,

as far as the luminous portion of it

known as the "TLB Prime Network"

which does include material hosted by

other providers; Bravenet, Wordpress...

Tumblr!

Luminous Luciano

...

😇💫😇

Luminous Future

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 21:17:00 +0000

I had a vision!

Well, not really ~ but sort of!

IN THE FUTURE...

I will (most probably) shave my head

(FINALLY... Been contemplating that

for the longest time now - really!)

AND WHEN I DO...

My Beloved Raina will follow me around

WITH CAMERA IN HER HAND

as I walk around town

like the Luminous Pedestrian that I am

If I merely emulate the lead singer of VNV Nation

in doing so... well... so be it!

HERE HE IS - LIVE - AT THE M'ERA LUNA:

And here is a full album from VNV Nation

~ to listen to while it's still possible!

There is also this, from their vast repertoire:

The single most luminous song from VNV tho

is this one right here:

💖💖💖

Luminous Birthday

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 07:14:00 +0000

My father

- O meu pai -

would be turning

today

never mind that it is, of course

PI DAY

This is the most ominous Pi Day of ALL

I do say so ~ so there you go

Sempre Por O Melhor

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It's All In The Eyes + DISCLAIMER

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 02:49:00 +0000

"A smile is the light in your window that tells others

that there is a caring, sharing person inside."

~ Denis Waitley ~

And the window to one's soul is in their eyes... actually!!!

And, hey, FOR THE 2OTH ANNIVERSARY OF TLB PRIME HERE... I repeat the

LUMINOUS DISCLAIMER:
This luminous site, and all of its TLB PRIME NETWORK "affiliates," contain summaries of copyrighted material for which reprint permission has not always been authorized by the copyright owner. We make these informations available in an effort to educate our "L.O.V.s" (luminous online visitors) on the broad range of issues impacting their lives, souls and society in general. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit for the purposes of criticism, comment, witticisms, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, research and/or strictly for rants, ramblings and other "rrrrrr-words"... (I.O.W. - Free Speech!)
The preceding shall apply also, of course, to any visual material such as drawings, art, photography, composite imagery and the like.
For more information go here

...now about that smile then...

Although, to be fair,

especially in this day and age

when people wear masks in public

for health concerns

(not for Halloween, folks!)

you can tell if someone is smiling

-or not -

by just looking at their eyes ~

come on!!!

IT IS ALL IN THE EYES!!

Now... One that is not smiling is EARTH:

And, again, you can see it -- in GAEA's Eyes...

Her heart is heavy...

But Help Is On The Way

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Luminosa Páscoa 2023

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 18:44:00 +0000

...and I would be remiss...

IF I DIDN'T RE-SHARE THIS:

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Prophecy Fulfilled...?

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 23:07:00 +0000

Events have been unfolding at a quicker pace now

--- or so it would seem?

Many are those -from every creed- who are saying

that things are coming to a head... soon.

Endtimeheadlines.org has been chronicling it

every step of the way:

now the red heifers are on their way,

the Third Temple is to be rebuilt,

and all the Lost Tribes have returned

as forces are converging against Israel.

The Freemasonry of their closest allies

-which mirrors the Temple in their own capital,

among various other touted to be mystical

significative things laid out by their own

founding fathers-

purports to be announcing the end times

-Armageddon, yes-

for 2022.

Can it be true?

Can the Washington Monument, for instance,

be accurately pinpointing the year 2022

as the date most dreaded by all

-especially the mighty ones of this world-

(the rich, vain and most materialistic, that is)

the time for the Final Battle

between good and evil ---

it would be now,

with three months left

in the year?!?

Was George Washington such a mystic

that he truly conversed with an angelic being

who foretold him about the rise of the USofA,

their victory at the end of the Revolution started in 1776,

their turmoil to come during the Civil War,

their prosperity and prominence afterwards

all the way to an eventual Final Conflict?

Were George and most if not all of the

famed "founding fathers" of that nation

members of the Freemasons as it is

believed by a majority of scholars

over there...?

The Freemasons' lasting imprint on their capital

is visible for all to see ---

and surely (most of) the Founding Fathers

were Masons and mystics as well

- aren't the WNBA ladies who play for the city

named the Washington Mystics...?

Movies such as National Treasure

and books such as The Lost Symbol

carry forward that fantasy --

which culminates with the year

at the top of the Washington Monument -

but that is quickly brought back down to

far more believable levels of

tradition, rites and legacy

by today's Freemasons

(their P.R. people; of course)

as there most likely is no buried gold

anywhere for the nation to rebuild

following that Armageddon event -

the best you can hope for, in D.C.

or anywhere else in the USofA

(aside from Fort Knox)

are valuable stamps:

But much like Os Lusiadas authored by

Luis de Camôes, Portugal's legendary poet,

all that Freemasonry work

created tangible links to something

that came before them.

Camôes aimed only for Homer's

Iliad and Odyssey epics

-pure legendary fabrication, that

enhanced his refined poetry-

however, the Freemasons

(and even their ideologically

opposed rival secret society,

the Knights of the Golden Circle)

aimed for ties to and a legacy

harkening all the way back

to the Holy Bible.

AND YET...

With all that talk of Biblical lore

ominous significance and

apocalyptic events,

the Freemasons are surprisingly mum

on the key subject of

the Antichrist;

...it is enough to quit the Lodge

and start listening to

Jim Carrey instead.

And don't you get us started on

the Sea Org... church of Scientology...

and other sectarian groups, out there!

All Will Be Revealed...

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Luminosa Pascoa 2022

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 19:59:00 +0000

AND HIS

RETURN

IMMINENT

+++

1,099TH

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 06:00:00 +0000

It isn't only on my beloved

Saudades Blog

or on my tumblr... or Pintrest...

~various corners of the blogosphere

as several more social media sites~

that I appear to be

LOST IN YESTERDAY...

(not that it's the case at all

on my Instagram... Twitter...

or YouTube channel!)

(But that... is another story!)

so... LOST... IN YESTERDAY... eh

And then, in the year of Our Lord

* 2020 *

Tame Impala

put it into lyrical words ~ and music:

But y'know what...

The way things are going...

I feel like singing along with GEORGE again:

"if I knew back then... what I know now"

(...y'know...?)

... 20/20 VISION!!

TRY...

(is all we can do;

just ask Nelly Furtado

and Pink!)

TRY

replacing that nostalgia

for yesterday

(as well as the foreboding

for what may lie ahead...)

with trepidation, joy and hope

for tomorrow ~

for the future

a far more luminous future

than the present is

- and than the past was!

TRY

and keep on smiling!

EH?

Happy New Year...???

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 06:30:00 +0000

#2020vision

#2020WON

#2020TOO

I dunno... it doesn't bode so well

Luminous Pause

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 06:00:00 +0000

As there are curfews imposed, resurgent variants,

spikes in contamination, contagion, hospitalizations...

As there are confinements, lockdowns, quarantines...

As the pandemic continues...

We feel less... festive.

Hence...

No Luminous Advent Calendar, this year...

No over-the-top celebrations - nor the decorations

that usually come with them...

No Commercial Christmas Fest - certainly not!

But one would be remiss if one did not

reassert the point here...

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Remember September

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 22:45:00 +0000

1,095TH

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

+++

~Luminous~

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 05:00:00 +0000

...assorted thoughts... images... sounds...

all around the main topic of LUMINOUS!

I was a regular tiny rowdy one, hmm...?

But that's another story...!

I thought this near-namesake of mine

-people call me "Lootch" oftentimes-

hit it out of the ball park

(lest it was the nail right on its head)

with his album there... inspired by his dad

just like this blog is, oftentimes, inspired by my dad

Always thought Flair was at his peak right here:

actually post-WCW... alas!

Circa 2003-2005...

Flair's hair was at its peak, anyway!

Sort of like mine was - around the same time!

Wooooo!

Again - my most luminous, prized

heirloom left me from my dad...

(Thought it was that Swiss knife on my keychain,

blasted wretches at customs? Did ya? HA!

You will rue the day... nonetheless!!!)

And speaking of... the apocalypse.

I've said it before and I'll blog it again;

IT IS THE END OF THE WORLD ALRIGHT

(or a sign that it is near - very near)

when they call a thespian such as Cate Blanchett...

"luminous" ~ over so many brighter,

truly radiant talent such as...

well, okay... I can't think of too many names right now...

(this modern batch of thespians - and the next generation

of actresses BOTH leave a lot to be desired!!!)

but surely the more logical choice of

Lucy Liu has to be brought up

in this discussion here...!!!

YEAH, WELL... OKAY!

NEITHER CATE NOR LUCY ARE "LUMINOUS"

- Y'HEAR ME ???

I'd sooner give it up to a neanderthal

like my near-namesake (another one)

LUCIAN BUTE

And, see, there... he really is not luminous!

*HE*

Is Luminous:

+++ Amen +++

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Sun, 09 May 2021 00:34:00 +0000

I was.

I AM.

I will be...!

...and, right now,

all I want is to listen to

my favorite music

of ALL-TIME...!

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15th Anniversary

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 11:00:00 +0000

It is hard to believe that - indeed.

For it feels as though it happened just yesterday;

that terrible event - that dreadful day... from our earthly point of view

As it truly is a return home; an ascension

into the everafter ~ into The Light

+++

Happy New Year...?

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 06:30:00 +0000

+++

December 1st

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:40:00 +0000

Aside from being a major holiday -in Portugal- it is

NOT too early to delve into...

Christmas Secrets...

...in spite of everything that has gone on in 2020...

we wish you a

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Combatting The Coronavirus!

noreply@blogger.com (Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™) — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 00:11:00 +0000

... and fight it off

with all you've got!

That's Right:

BEER!

And if you're not sure which ones to use

(or chug) here are just a few

luminous suggestions:

... although they clearly have their origin

in sin, paganism too -and blaspheme of an

Ostensory of the Catholic Church, in one

obvious clear cut case there- these beers

are, overall, not too bitter at all...

Not filling at all either; just fine - I guess.

This isn't the taste-testing blog here,

but we can share so much - hmm?

We'd even add CORONA here;

but without lime, it may not feel right.

(No, I am not saying that you'd

get both the coronavirus

and lyme disease - NO!)

(Mas agora assim, em segredo,

podém acreditar nisso...)

you can believe the publicity:

- STILL; we will recommend

H20 before anything ~ always!

JUST NOT FROM A SINGLE-USE

PLASTIC BOTTLE - OKAY?

and as for the beer-makers, brewers, breweries and

microbreweries - all:

NOW THAT ~

is a luminous idea!

but prayer will help - A LOT - too!

the luminous blog

20 Years Ago

The Real 20th Bash

Luminous Flight

Luminosa Pascoa

Luminous 20th

Luminous Healing

Luminous Diwali

Luminous 20th

The very first luminous blog posting...!

Statistics Sundays 6 - sixpence none the richer

Sunday, April 23, 2006

inbox indiscretions - "sealestial" edition! ;)

Monday, November 07, 2005

And for this, my 400th TLB post, Luminous Luciano tackles Lunatic Lucian - in a dream match-up of literatis!

Saturday, February 25, 2006

Hmm... what do you say, l.o.v's? Should TLB Prime have its own Luminous V-Host (hostess with the mostest really - *lol*)?

Luminous Future

Luminous Birthday

It's All In The Eyes + DISCLAIMER

Luminosa Páscoa 2023

Prophecy Fulfilled...?

Luminosa Pascoa 2022

1,099TH

Happy New Year...???

Luminous Pause

Remember September

1,095TH

*~Luminous~*

15th Anniversary

Happy New Year...?

December 1st

Combatting The Coronavirus!

Hmm... what do you say, l.o.v's? Should TLB Prime have its own Luminous V-Host (hostess with the mostest really - lol)?

~Luminous~