Some prose and Skywatch Friday

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It's been a while (nine years?) and I miss the Skywatch community. In the meantime I started weekly posting a short story or a poem. "So why not do both?" I asked myself. And here I am.

How 're all you lovelies doing in your parts of the world?

Since these days I'm working and living in Belgium, I didn't take any pictures of my hometown of Amsterdam, the Netherlands to show you. Hope you can forgive me and take solace in these pictures of Mechelen.

Beautiful centuries old buildings, right? Make that singular (e.i. 'century') because these buildings are basically replicas, built when the city centre of Mechelen got reconstructed after bombs in The Great War (at the time World War I was not called World War I yet) ended their actually old predecessors.

One of the 'real' old pieces that withstood the tests of time, is this statue of Neptune. Once part of a fountain (in 1718) it is also known as 'Vadderik', local slang for 'lazy fat man':

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The little moments (a circle #poem)

The little moments 

he missed most. 

Like the way she ate.

He had never witnessed anyone 

eat so beautifully

and more than once 

wished to be her dinner 

Or at least the sunset 

that was allowed to watch

her through the window 

that might have been older 

than the beach side restaurant 

where they once met

and agreed to always remember 

the little moments 

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Historic legends

Unfortunately quite a few 'historic facts' turned out to be urban legends, a cautionary tale or simply a made up story. Take the 'true' story of Lady Godiva. The story about how she helped the locals by riding through town naked in exchange for lower taxes implemented by her husband, was written down some 200 years after the events supposedly took place.

Of course details of the story got mixed up and changed in translation and by passing on the story orally. Everyone who has ever played 'Chinese whispers' knows what I mean.

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Am I drawing parallels with The Bible? Of course. It's not that the old stories don't hold any wisdom and every single detail is made up but we have to remind ourselves they are stories. Just stories. If you follow the Bible/Torah literally, the Israelites started out as a family of 70 people. Just a few generations later there were at least 2 million Israelites.

Apparently Abraham/Ibrahim had a few thousand children with his half sister Sarah. Very potent couple. If you take the stories literal.

Was that some kind of miracle or simply a made up story, an exaggeration? Made up by the people who wrote the stories to give themselves some extra credit, a 'Raison d'être'?

The Exodus is the founding myth of the Israelites.[1][a] The scholarly consensus is that the Exodus, as described in the Torah, is not historical, even though there may be a historical core behind the Biblical narrative.

"Yeah, but there is some archealogical evidence that some of the people and places in the Bible/Torah existed to the stories must be true!"

Sorry to tell you but that's a rather stupid argument. Unless you believe Spiderman is real.

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