Dear Ancestors, here is the list of mantras that I have been using in meditation. Can you bless them? (Petitioning the Ancestors)

transformed into something splendid by multiplying by ten or shooting up or accepting the cross

The Institute was the pinnacle of her studies, where she finished her PhD.

Your life as a single person will finish at ‘The Institution of Marriage.’ It is the pinnacle representation of law and order. Everything after that is just ceremony.

You’ve heard of the story: “The Sovereign’s New Clothes”? This sovereign stood up in front of his subjects wearing only a crown and towel.

He belongs to the dead exterminators.

you grow a goatee at the lake

“Flowers Seized from the Small Dog”  Pekingese was fulfilling her dreams one by one. After she was released from prison, and her podcast had gone viral, she was now receiving speaking engagement invitations regularly. She should have been happy, but she had a recurring nightmare. She often dreamed that just as her speech had ended, as the audience was applauding and she was being presented with flowers, they were seized from her paws, and the cheers turned to boos as Pekingese slunk off the stage. Moral: Seize the day because the night might seize you.

Also piling up in your cave is a bunch of your friend’s hair. Gross. Discard it. (Hunter-Gatherer)

the actor wears a mask on center stage

Picture a snake already starting to shed its skin.

Focus of the Wild West economy has been overturned to tourism, where people line up to see modern duplicates of old-time scenes.

Picture a mountain man with an auspicious lucky charm jewel.

a deceased moon is a new moon, new expectations for the new king

taste the coffee and need to add something

"He adds coffee to his warm-up routine to sail him through the first set." (Trumpeter Wu)

shadows make scenery on the wall in the shape of a bird tail

alternatively: 日+京+彡 sun + capital + bird tail, on a sunny day in the capital, the tail of the rooster weather vane (on top of the capitol building) casts a shadow

You harm someone with a sword when you cut off their arm.

my belly hurts, I swallowed dirt OR pregnant woman eating dirt

the “lowly” body part that just recycles blood, but really controls your temper