u/Corvidae5Creation5

Riddle me this:

"The reference to Han Kan praying before he painted suggests the habit of meditation practiced by many painters. The character ch'ing (to pray) is composed of yen (to speak), a drawing of words issuing from the mouth, and ch'ing (green), made up of shêng (to produce, to grow; life) over tan (red), forming a vivid pictographic description of the process of growing as "burning with life." Thus "to pray" might be rendered as "asking for the fire of life"; among Taoists and Zen Buddhists, it is the emptying of the mind and heart in the practice of meditation in order to be filled with and to reflect the Tao, moreover to become identified with the Tao in the object painted. As recorded in a comment by Su Tung-p'o, when Han Kan, of whom we are speaking, painted a horse "he became a horse." The common use of ch'ing, as in "please (pray) be seated," carries over a ritual manner into what now is mere politeness."

Which character is this? It should be near the beginning of this book, if that helps any.

I have a Chinese text in Writer .odt that's written left to right, I'd like to make a right to left version. How do I change the order of the characters without rewriting the whole thing? Like, it currently says 123??? But I'd like it to say ???321

I've already gone to format > paragraph > alignment > properties > right to left, but all that did was shuffle all the punctuation to the left and reverse the arrow keys. The text itself is still aligned left to right, so it looks like ???123

Got no one else to tell this to, but I rescued a long legged myotis from my bottom-capped chimney today. Heard him scuffling around before dawn, but I thought he was a bird so I waited til sunrise (this isn't the first time, I've been harassing my landlord to install bird mesh at the top of the chimney but nothing ever gets done in this dump). He was all tucked in on the bottom of the cap, so I brought the whole mess outside, grabbed some thick gloves and gently scooped him out onto a tree. He was most fearsome in his protests, squeaking almost low enough pitch for me to catch a few swear words and baring his teeth in a terrifying grimace. Hung him up about 6 feet up in a thick evergreen so he has a choice whether to fly or roost. Checked the whole yard 20 mins later and he's nowhere to be seen. His name is Pipi and since we'll never know for sure, I choose to believe he lived happily ever after. (No pics because had my pockets full of tools instead of my phone)

It's been a minute since I played and forgot you can't actually drive the RV. Really wanted to park it in Dan's lot and just kinda ice cream truck it around town. It's the coziest of the properties, you can even finagle a large storage shelf in.

Used some sumi-e practice paper to make a cat toy and Pippin immediately took it to pieces XD

Android 14 on Pixel 4A5G

Been recording long videos (10-20 mins) and lately whenever I try to delete them, the trash folder pops up an error message telling me it couldn't delete a file or three, the file disappears from all apps, but the space is still taken in internal storage. I'm running out of room. I've tried clearing caches and rolling back updates, plugging it into a computer and looking for hidden files, and I still see neither hide nor hair of those missing files, and storage remains stubbornly low. What do?

Who's actually eaten a grapple?