In Spanish, a term for an umbrella, is para aqua, or, "for water". If an umbrella is for water, then a parasol must be... "for sun". Amazing the pleasure i can get from these little realizations. Parasol, of course, it's for the sun.
Parasols don't seem very popular in the USA. Folks there want all the sun they can get, just as in Sweden. On the other hand, if you visit Japan, you see lots and lots of parasols. The same is true for Botswana. And although I never saw a great benefit for them in Japan, here, the sun is so hot, and the shade is so nice, parasols make a lot of sense.
In the Cairo Museum I saw an ancient Egyptian statue of Horus:
"He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart." Ps 91:4 and Ps 17:8, "Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings."
L^rd, shield us from the burning sin, let us find refuge in YOU alone.
Parasols don't seem very popular in the USA. Folks there want all the sun they can get, just as in Sweden. On the other hand, if you visit Japan, you see lots and lots of parasols. The same is true for Botswana. And although I never saw a great benefit for them in Japan, here, the sun is so hot, and the shade is so nice, parasols make a lot of sense.
In the Cairo Museum I saw an ancient Egyptian statue of Horus:
"He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart." Ps 91:4 and Ps 17:8, "Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings."
L^rd, shield us from the burning sin, let us find refuge in YOU alone.
Phil in Japan they consider light skin to show you are not a COMMON worker who has to stay out in the SOL!! Thus it is a higher status to have Light skin. No one in the World is ever satisfied with what the creator gives. Straight haired women curl the hair and curly haired women straighten it out.
ReplyDeletePeople who live outside in the bush want to live inside a house and you live in a house but want to camp outside in the bush. :-)))
Jimmy
yep, Mr. Moore is right, its just a vanity thing.
ReplyDeleteRegardless of hot or cold, the women of japan cover their forearms so as to protect themselves of the horrors on the sun. Whatever that means.
I cant pretend to understand what goes through the minds of women at all, much less the grown, married, with established families, women that wear gloves when its 105F.
Baffles me and makes me glad that I dont need to live to those standards