Jesus Diaz

Jesus Diaz

I am painter, poet and nautical cartographer.
I love the history.

Location bogota

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  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    Farewell

    Thanks for this marvelous course

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    Davy's links to slavery

    Is very complicated to evaluate the conduct of Davy in this time, but we can remember that in this years William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson were fight against the slavery and no was a clandestine action was very public, developed inthe parliament

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    The Development of Davy's Lamp

    Davy lamp, only genius can imaginate a simple solution for a big problem

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    Introducing the Davy Lamp

    those mines were hell

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    What were Davy's lectures like?

    I have been a lectures about poetry and I enjoyed these conferences the kind of language are elegant and metaphoric and I love the poetry.

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Elizabeth Riley
    Davy Among the Poets I

    Watercolor is the most exigent technique

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    Davy as a Poet and a Chemist

    The poetry is the chemical of the literature, when the poet writes a poem, merge his inspiration produce another poetic creation

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    Recreating Davy's 'Volcano'

    it´s an interesting intend to explain the eruption of a volcano

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    Gillray cartoon

    It´s a fine satire about nitrous oxide

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    Meet the team

    I would to like to know Dr Eleanor Bird's articles on slavery. thanks

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    Introduction to the course and to Davy

    Excellent foreword. Thanks

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    Who's your favourite character?

    My favorite character is Melquiades. Every time he visits Macondo, Melquiades the gypsy sells a new invention to José Arcadio Buendía: magnifying glasses, navigation instruments, Portuguese maps, a spyglass, an alchemy kit, etc

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Jesus Diaz
    What makes a good book?

    @InekeFioole. Ineke no, García Márquez's novels are definitely better than the film versions, all the films based on his novels fail to have the quality of his written work

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Jesus Diaz
    What makes a good book?

    @SusanAnneMurray . Yes Susan, it is an unforgettable novel and a few years ago a movie was made based on this novel and it was filmed in Cartagena

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Jesus Diaz
    What makes a good book?

    @InekeFioole Yes Ineke, is a fantastic novel, is the best representative of magical realism

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Jesus Diaz
    What makes a good book?

    @MaryR Hi Mary I´m very happy to enjoy this course with you and Ineke

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    What makes a good book?

    I´m Jesus, I love the poetry and literature, one book is different when it change the course of our live, my favorite novel is "One hundred years of solitude"

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @MaryR @BarbaraC
    I love the Strachcycle University mural; the land ship, the helmsman, other sailors maneuver the magnets of the compass, someone locates a point with the alidade and I suppose the navigator is lowering a star

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC @MaryR

    Yes, you are right Barbara, they are referring to the displacement from Africa, I agree with you, it is very sad. The sculpture that appears in the video is by Benkos Bioho, originally from Guinea, he was betrayed by the Spanish governor who ordered him hanged and his body was dismembered in 1621.
    As you say, the Atrato river has legal...

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @MaryR @BarbaraC
    Mary splendid places, I love how the anchors forms part of the landscape, they bring an mariner environment very romantic.

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC @MaryR
    Barbara Yes, it is wonderful to know the incredible places around the world, if we want to keep these places, we need to keep this planet clean without plastic, it would be horrible if Caño Cristales, the multicolored river, transported any plastic bottle.
    The video is magnificent, the musicians repeat a chorus that says "this land is not...

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @MaryR @BarbaraC
    Mary, the sexteen are an edenic group, as you say is not necessary to follow a religion but the music is so sublime and I enjoy it very much.
    an example is Carmina Burana, I love the canto VI "O fortuna"
    Yes Mary, two musicians are Colombians from Palenque, the first free town in America,
    At the beginning of the 17th century, the slaves...

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC @MaryR
    Barbara. Definitely when we listen to music of the quality that we are sharing, our life acquires more value, and we can face problems with more strength and optimism.
    And by combining it with painting, it further develops our artistic faculties.
    Although I can't dance due to my vertebral spine, I really enjoy the dance and this...

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC @MaryR
    Now, when I paint the waves, I will listen to Soweto String Quartet Beyond Africa, And I will owe you my next seascapes, the rhythm of the quartet produces a vibration in my hands, which makes it easier to paint the movement of the sea. Thank you Barbara.
    you're right, techno music is inhuman.

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @MaryR @BarbaraC
    Mary, In the midst of these storms, we have your music that leads us through calm seas.

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC @MaryR
    It is a plague of unprecedented proportions.
    and now combined with the ChatGPT4, humanity faces unpredictable challenges, in behavior and interpersonal relationships.
    Barbara and Mary let's hold on to the fine arts, like a castaway to a piece of wood in the middle of the sea

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @MaryR @BarbaraC
    Mary now the people do not need others to put chains on their hands, they themselves put their own chains, and the most terrible thing is that they do not realize they have them on, these are the slaves of the 21st century, now who will figh for the abolition of slavery of devices?
    William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson, Olaudah Equiano,...

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC @MaryR
    Your comment about how the government uses classical music to keep away young people is incredible; on the contrary, it would be using classical music to attract people.
    I use music when I paint or write, Symfony No 40 is one of my favorite pieces. music feeds our spirit and develops our inspiration.
    Now I'm listening to Dvorak's Symfony...

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC @MaryR
    I was touched that a part of HMS Victory participates in the event

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC @MaryR
    I don't know if it's a carriage or a history book.
    unforgettable and magnificent carriage full of symbolism.

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC @MaryR
    Excellent article by Dr Pullman, it is dramatic that many people have not read a book in their entire lives, have never heard a Beethoven sonata or do not know a painting by John William Waterhouse and many feel proud to have a television in the living room 55"
    The cultural starvation is a modern epidemic.

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC @MaryR
    Thank you for your words, I think languages are very rich and we can use many terms and expressions that help us write better and express our ideas clearly.
    I totally agree with you, the number one enemy of rhetoric is SMS and social networks, it is terrible when combined with emojis and acronyms, the pleasure of writing is lost and...

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC @MaryR
    Barbara, I think the handcraft helps to humans to be more humans, and avoid to lose in the universe of the objects made by machines,

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    書物に見られる異文化・異国間の影響について

    When the Spanish came to America, they found a special way of writing from the Aztecs, and they called them codices, they were the books of the indigenous people, but the Spanish believed that these codices are the work of the devil and burned most of them.

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    キリシタン版国字本

    I would like to read "Guia de pecadores" "The Sinners Guide" which contains a long and copious exhortation to virtue and keep the divine commandments

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    キリシタン版の様々

    The Jesuits are characterized by bringing culture to all the places they evangelized, in South America they also taught the Indians how to make musical instruments

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    天草版『平家物語』

    The engraving shows a western king, who drives a carriage that is pulled by two lions with the face of human beings, the engraver is European

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @MaryR @BarbaraC
    Yes, the crochet will make it possible to stand out in another aesthetic aspect, which will allow Douglas to stand out on the street as a support for this craft.
    Double value as crafts and ecological alert.

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    旅の書物/旅する書物

    I have a book about the travel of the charts through the siecles

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    コース概要

    Hello I am Jesus and I love the history of the our best friends: The Books

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC
    Barbara, your words are very eloquent, I think that at this moment the most important thing is to preserve our ability to be amazed and curiousity with the simplest things in our life, and avoid that the devices that have invaded our lives eliminate these qualities of the humans
    Very wise the phrase of the poet William Wordsworth, "let nature be...

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC
    It is very impressive to see the stars reflected in the sea, it is a spectacle that I always remember with great nostalgia, to recognize the constellations and witness how shooting stars cross the sky and fall into the sea, in that ephemeral moment close your eyes and make a wish.
    a spectacle that I always appreciated, it was like the sun...

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC@MaryR
    I remembered when I was sailing and every night we looked for the stars, terms like Nadir, Azimuth, Cenith, Alpheraz, Alderamin and so many Arabic names that reign in the heavens flooded my imagination.

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC @MaryR

    You right, the poetry permit us to denounce our terribles actions in a beauty way

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC @MaryR
    Yes, is very amazing the time transcurred , the distance recorrida , the humidity in the tropico ,etc.
    the cartographers used a thick paper and watercolor for the drawings, perhaps this material collaborated for its conservation.

    The book is a pleasant surprise, we all know the high development of science reached by Muslims and...

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @MaryR @BarbaraC
    Bon voyage my dear Friend

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @MaryR @BarbaraC
    The bags are the symbol of epoch and always we associate with the migration

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC @MaryR
    La Perouse's voyage is fascinating, perhaps we will never know its end, these stories enrich everything related to these expeditions that disappeared forever.
    It is incredible the task of Sir Russel Grimwade did with Captain Cook's cottage, he took his house to the other side of the earth, brick by brick, I imagine what you feel when you...

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC @MaryR
    Your description of the elements of the museum is excellent. I think that the suitcases may be the symbol of migration. Perhaps in those suitcases they bring a piece of their home, as you say.

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @MaryR @BarbaraC
    You always surprise me with your thoughts and memories, you are right Mary, the albatross originated our friendship,
    a wonderful reason that has led to a beautiful friendship between the two.
    We have enjoyed and shared our hobbies, which are many and most importantly, you have given many reasons for inspiration for my painting and...

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC @MaryR
    I would like to know what they keep into their bags.

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC@MaryR
    Barbara, your words break my heart "I'm so glad you're doing this course, Jesus. It's been a pleasure to share it with you." Me too, during these days I have learned many interesting topics that excite my soul, thank you Barbara.

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @MaryR @BarbaraC
    Mary, Bruno catalano is an sculptor of the another planet, his artwork invite to us to think and imagine rest of the sculpture, he opens our imagination and never permits to close the conversation.

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC @MaryR
    The XVIII and XIX centuries are the centuries of great expeditions around the world, among them we can mention Cook, La Perouse, La Condamine who measured a degree of latitude in the equator, Malaspina, Humbolt and Darwin aboard his famous HMS Beagle, I have a British chart surveyed in 1836 by Captain Fitzroy.
    Barbara and Mary we have in...

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @MaryR @BarbaraC

    Mary and Barbara, I never thought that during the course I would come across this history of the sea and beautiful images of ships, charts, decks, rigging, etc., this seems like a sailor's paradise, they are right Mary, the ship is similar to our Independent.
    Thank you Barbara for sharing these links that I have enjoyed very much and have...

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC @MaryR

    I remember that I read an article a few years ago about the problem of mice in Australia, this article reported that it is an invasive species, not native to Australia, they came aboard ships
    a now as you say is a nightmare.

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @MaryR
    Mary. If many centuries ago humanity spoke of the seven plagues, today humanity speaks of only one: the plastic

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC @MaryR

    Douglas's idea is necessary to disclose to our friends. and they their friends.
    Its stunning this idea, I can believe that one tree produces different fruits.
    I suppose this is the famous tree of Ada and Eve.

    I think Mary will surprise us with a fantastic idea.

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Barbara C
    Introduction

    @BarbaraC

    Barbara I have read about the history of Australia, the participation in the ANZAC, in both wars, this April 25 they celebrate their day and I highlight the Australian hospitality by providing a home to many refugees from different countries of the world.
    The situation of countries like Somalia is very sad. Here we have Haiti, the poorest...

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC
    Barbara, I have a new hero: Douglas, it is very important to give the trees a voice and to inform everyone about their dramatic existence due to our excessive consumerism, to use and discard without thinking about the sacrifice of thousands of silent trees.
    The idea of London is innovative and it needs that vocation to protect each tree.
    I have...

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Barbara C
    Introduction

    @BarbaraC
    Barbara, by your words I feel the sadness that your soul is suffering, now that you have seen the changes that have affected the quality of life in Australia during the last years.

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Barbara C
    Introduction

    @BarbaraC
    Edenicas images you share with us of that unknown Australia, I think that if paradise had existed, South Australia would have been the preferred place.
    Thanks for showing us those wonderful photographs and the videos show us how different cultures have integrated, starting with the Australian aborigines, the music is great as always

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC
    Yes Barbara, the consumer society is destroying this planet, buy, use and throw away, no matter the environmental cost of this irrational behavior.

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Barbara C
    Introduction

    @BarbaraC
    These beautiful images change the idea that I had about Australia, where large tracts of desert land prevailed,
    I see beautiful wooded places, the picture with the island in the middle reminds me of the island of Santorini

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC
    The Japanese always surprise us with their age-old techniques to comserve the nature. Mary sent me a similar video last year, the way to conserve trees is spectacular, it is an example for all countries, especially those that still have large extensions of forests and who believe that they are infinite

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    Mary as you know, I love the etymology too

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @BarbaraC
    Yes , migth be of interest, in this moment we need to sapeak to trees.
    A few years ago I flew to Brazil, and I came back very depressed, from the plane I saw how gigantic yellow machines cut down the Amazon jungle day and night, when I remember this gruesome spectacle I get depressed again.
    A prayer for the trees that are currently being...

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Barbara C
    Introduction

    @BarbaraC
    Barbara I fully agree, is very complex to abandon their lands, I hope that the volcano kep the calm, the most important is to stay alert, because the volcano never warns....

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Barbara C
    Introduction

    @BarbaraC, Yes Barbara was terrible, almost desappear a town called Armero

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    Mary you right, the long distance friendships are not only possible but very rich and life-affirming! As we have discovered! Excellent your comment .
    I´m very happy with your idea about the poem, I hope the others enjoy the poem.
    and about the word carpenter I found this information:
    Roman cars were made of wood and were called carpentum, a word of...

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    The ambition – A new relationship

    Congratulations to your neighbouring farmer, definitely the insecticides are finishing and contaminating everything

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Nature connectedness and wellbeing

    @MaryR
    Mary I would like to walk, not just one day many days with you.
    We will talk to the trees and apologize for invading their space with concrete.

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Barbara C
    Introduction

    @BarbaraC
    Barbara, I asked Hephaestus to calm down his volcano and avoid a catastrophe similar to that of November 13, 1985.

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Barbara C
    Introduction

    @BarbaraC Mary R
    Barbara, Thank you for your concern for me and my family, yes we live at a safe distance from Nevado del Ruiz. approximately 300 km.
    The authorities have evacuated the people and animals that live near the Nevado, we hope that the volcano stops the ash emissions and the numerous tremors that it generates daily

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Ineke Fioole
    The origins and legends of Chinese silk

    @InekeFioole
    Ineke is very lovely to meet you, I'm very well, I´m painting and writing and working on ship model using recyclable materials. and how are you? after many months without receive your news.

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Barbara C
    Introduction

    @BarbaraC @MaryR
    Bates' blog is very interesting, he mentions Thomas Clarkson, it's incredible how poetry transports us to other spaces and times like slavery, if someone loves poetry, he condemns slavery like Thomas, I remember Wilberforce and Equiano, who along with Clarkson fights against human trafficking.
    I thank all the gods for giving us the poetry...

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Introduction

    @MaryR
    Yes, you right, as you know I love the artwork of Andy, he teachs us the connection with the nature.

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Barbara C
    Emotional connection with nature

    @BarbaraC It is an example of how we can recover nature, after having been destroyed by fire.

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Emotional connection with nature

    @MaryR Definitely Dartmoor is a perfect place for to live a dreams

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Barbara C
    Introduction

    @BarbaraC
    Barbara did not know this aspect of poetry and you help me discover this surprising use of poetry.
    that benefits many people who are experiencing painful situations
    I will look for the book here because.....
    I would like to be part of an immortal community as Jonathan Bates says
    Thank you very much Barbara

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Introduction

    @MaryR
    This work will be fascinating Mary

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Introduction

    @BarbaraC
    I am very happy to communicate with you again Barbara and
    I totally agree, now it is easier to communicate with the concrete jungle where we live and every day we are further away from nature

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Barbara C
    Introduction

    Barbara, @MaryR
    Excellent the term Bibliotherapy and the relationship with the poetry

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Introduction

    @MaryR
    Mary we need to communicate with the nature as soon as possible, due in the future we could lost all ways of contact with our friends the trees

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Barbara K-S
    Archaeological finds of silk

    @BarbaraK-S
    Based in the image is 1.36 cm, you rigth Barbara

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Mary R
    Archaeological finds of silk

    @MaryR
    What a lovely surprise to meet you Mary, I just sent you an email telling you about this awesome course.

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Ineke Fioole
    The origins and legends of Chinese silk

    @InekeFioole
    Its very nice to meet you.

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    Welcome to the course

    Excellent foreword for this excellent course

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    Why are you here and why study with us?

    I would like to know more about this religion that the Spanish brought to America five centuries ago

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    Course introduction : Who were the first Christians?

    Excellent foreword

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Jesus Diaz
    Introduction to the course

    @SueC
    Thanks Sue, the alliteration is a beautiful figure

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Jesus Diaz
    Introduction to the course

    @SueC
    Sue.
    I love the trees, the clouds fascinate me.
    the fantastic colors of the maples in autumn
    melt our hearts

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Jesus Diaz
    Introduction to the course

    @SueC Excellent, Sue.
    The trees are patient, stoic, as you say they are our best friends,
    unfortunately we are not good friends with them.

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Jesus Diaz
    Introduction to the course

    @SueC. Don't worry, tomorrow you will have enough time to write the best poems.

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Jesus Diaz
    Introduction to the course

    @SueC The clouds are the queens of the sky, all the elements include the sun, they have to obey the clouds, otherwise they will be sent to the galleys

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    Summary of the week

    Thanks for this marvelous course, I remember when I sailed and we are all day pending of the weather, the winds, the clouds, until the birds

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    What is climate change?

    La Niña phenomenon affected us this year, and the whole year has been rainy, and the forecast announces that next year it will continue to rain, it seems that the sky has broken here.

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    Lightning

    The Catatumbo lightning is a meteorological phenomenon that occurs from the southern area of Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela to the lower basin of the Catatumbo River and beyond, in Colombia, from which its name comes. According to recent research results, it is the area with the highest lightning activity in the world

  • Jesus Diaz made a comment
    Heat, sun and UV

    I live 2600 meters above sea level, in this altitude I suppse the UV levels increase aprox 26%

  • Jesus Diaz replied to Jesus Diaz
    Introduction to the course

    @InekeFioole
    Excellent Ineke my favorite game is to play with words