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Our Sirius Time

The August 1-7,2009 issue of The Economist's cover story features Barack Obama's image and captioned Çrunch Time'.We here at TigerHawk totally agree.Many recent events and hints are out there,and last Friday's weekend retreat to Blair House by The Obama Administration and advisors signalled Team Obama recognize the pivotal moment.The essence of the cover story is that the coming 3 weeks are the moment of truth for the ENTIRE Obama Presidency.We concur.When this blog started on our Obama journey in September 2008, we attached ourselves to the Joseph Campbell 'Hero' notion.Barack Obama was the first political subject explored by TigerHawk since our blog debut August 2005. Now a full year later, the mysterious 'Hero' energy envelopes Barack Obama.Let's take our Hawk's Eye view here.Riding the thermals and air gradients we survey the history time-lines in play. President Obama had another birthday on August 4.

Julius Caesar's great nephew Octavius was anointed Caesar Augustus by the Roman Senate and the first Roman Emperor.Pax Romana started with this Roman.Further in recognition of glorius military victory, the same Senate which murdered Julius granted the month after Julius'(July) the name August.Equal 31 days for each ruler's month.In the words for the occasion it was noted he had conquered Cleopatra's( and Mark Antony's) Egypt in this sixth month , formerly Sextilis of the Roman calendar,he also stabilized the contentious Empire.The August reign covered 27 B.C to 14 A.D.

Sirius Time 2009It is intriguing that even then Egypt figured in Roman political calculations,cemented by Julius Caesar and then his ally Mark Antony's love for the Ptolemy desendent Cleopatra.Patriarch Ptolemy being one of the 4 trusted generals of Macedonian Alexander the Great.The Roman Empire basically absorbed the Greek civilization, so Egypt was a worthy jewel for the Latin glory.The wise Egyptians intuited the link between the summer flooding of the mighty Nile and the Heliacal(with the Sun) rising of Sirius(The Dog Star).Sirius which represented Goddess Isis is larger than our Sun, and in our Dog Days of Summer is thought to enhance the Earth's heat. (Editor's note:We feel obliged to mention that the Dogon people of Mali knew of the Sirius A and B Star system and their creation myths were transmitted to French anthropologist Marcel Griaule , in the early 20th century.The Dogon awareness of Sirius caused esteemed scientist Carl Sagan to lose his scholarly cool and cast demeaning aspersions on the Dogon experience).

In 2009, the Full moon in Leo for Sirius was this past Wednesday August 5.Barack celebrated birthday on Tuesday.When the first African-American President visited Cairo, the street merchants sold T-shirts claiming Barack, new King Tut for the World.We never got the scoop, but the young King Tut-ankh-aten(living image of Aten) became Tut-ankh-amum(living image of Amum).The name change is most profound and political.King Tut's father Akhanaten attempted imposing monotheism based on the Sun.The vengeful and powerful priest-hood switched the young man's allegiance to a more priest friendly poly-theistic theology.Tut moved the capital from his father's power centre at Armana, to the priests' preference at Thebes.The young ruler passed away at nineteen in 1349 B.C,engendering a murder mystery. The modern day Cairo merchants must know why they believe Obama fits that misguided boy-King's role.

August Currents..Flying with Hawks..

Four years ago on Aug 12 this here TigerHawk blog was launched.Our premiere post was inspired by the majesty of overhead Hawks as Tiger recovered from a mysterious ailment and was transformed into TigerHawk.We had no idea where we would end on our journey,but strongly felt that the convergence of Digital Publishing opening for individual content, net neutrality and broad-band proliferation, the moment was oppurtune to creatively espress and share on-line.This has been a most miraculous and humbling experience.We committed at the go to be responsible and be inspirational, non-partisan, informative, yet stimulating. Our audience growth and support are testaments to these goals being manifest.We say a loud Thank You to our readers Old and New.

We have striven to be responsive and relevant to the moment and have been serendipitiously led down surprising avenues.Our focus on Barack Obama evolved in such vain as Joseph Campbell's ideas of Hero in human mytholgy triggered a unique contemporary narrative.The Egyptians placed much value on the Hawk, with Heru (Horus) sometimes with a Hawk's head.Many cultures believe this high performance aerial predator to be a messenger from the heavens. The military prides their most deadly apparatus with Hawk power such as TomaHawk missiles, Black Hawk helicopters and Global Hawk remote control aircraft.

The breezy Los Angeles morns and afternoons can displace the summer heat in August ,and we know why L.A keeps us enthralled.Totally magical.Timeless currents we call August currents.We fly with the Hawks.Once a violinist friend was rehearsing for a TV show and the director needed the artist to cover a popular Johhny Gill song carefully for a beauty contest segment.The director then agreed the violinist was then free  to do his thing.Our heavily accented Latin violin master suggested You mean I can  FLY!!'. We feel that way .R.Kelly won Grammy for the said notion.As American as Apple Pie.Freedom.

"Let God Let Loose

What no Man can take from Us,

Freedom!!"

Tuskegee African-American Airmen on formation Flight Take-off

Courtesy Layon Gray's

Black Angels over Tuskegee

Layon Gray's Moving Tribute to the Black Tuskegee Air-Men.

Right this moment we are almost moved to tears as we recall that scene in a play staged in North Hollywood recently.We are determïned to interview the amazing writer/actor/director Layon Gray and The Black Gents of Hollywood.The Whitmore-Lindley is a modest smaller theatre in NoHo Theatre district on Magnolia Blvd.The play 'Black Angels over Tuskegee' is now off to North Carolina for the national African-American Theatre Festival, but the band of black thespians took our hearts.Economy of dialogue yet colorful and eloquent,Gray brought to life the mental , emotional and spiritual struggle of those Black Airmen,the Red Tails in WW II who fought 2 wars.In tha air over Nazi Germany and US racism.The engineering and technical skills demanded are deliberately exposed by Gray, showing the calibre of educated young black men who volunteered , sat a rigorous exam,bore racial hostility, and took a risk for a better career oppurtunity in a pre-Civil Rights America.The scenes on the tight stage are brilliantly choreographed to show the disciplined flight formations and their brotherly radio banter during combat and loss.Tear-jerking.A Red Tail survivor at a performance volunteered that Layon Gray was so accurate , he wondered to whom he spoke  as this veteran never got a call.

CAST

1. Derek Shaun          Jerimah
2.  Demetrius Gross     Percival            
3. DonnSwaby       Theodore
4. Layon Gray         Quentin
5. Thom Scott         Abe
6. Jay jones            Elijah
7. Doug Purcell     Major Roberts
8. Narrator    Antonio D.Charity        

Layon Gray and Black Gents of Hollywood, we salute you as we honor the Tuskegee Air-men.You were Free.They were Freer.Free like the Hawks!!

To Be Continued..A Work in Progress now...

August 2005 TigerHawk blog posts:

The Power of Jobim

Brando signature...Quemada?Quemaida/Burn!

Ache',Paz Y Luz

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