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Flickr Photo Download: Purple and Orange Starfish on the Beach

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:41:33 -0700

this starfish, so utterly brilliant and perfectly formed, is almost like a well designed toy. but it is far more masterful than a toy, which is mass produced, and it convolutes in the water that we don't hardly even know, eating, mating, just going on. it is a miracle: it is its own, a life, unique and just like you are, and like i am. you never existed before nor will you again. this life is short. smile and glide through the water as a starfish might.

Amazing Planet - Filip Kulisev Photography

Wed, 20 May 2009 16:48:20 -0700

the third picture of this set is of stalks upon stalks of tall, green and verdant, bamboo. ahhh, the stalks feel so smooth in your fists. they are perfect.

can you imagine what it feels like to grasp the hardy stems of bamboo, or any plant, a tree too, then let your heart flow into the living thing, and to ask it to give it you its clean strength so you are able to step onward if you are in pain? i am talking now of physical pain, but i'd suppose you can go to the plants if you're feeling different types of pain too.

it's never failed me, but my neighbors think i am crazy, which is fine with me. then the gossips leave me alone. good.

the point is that this older form of life, a plant, is more primitive. it's open to the love that flows out of us from our minds and originally, from our hearts, in appreciation of them.

if you give your love to the tree or the bamboo stalk, that which perhaps has once nourished a panda, and pull ever so hard in your yoga pose that helps rid you of pain, its actual primitive spirit enters into you and it tackles the pain. it guides you to perform the correct movements in the proper time period. slow, for when you must move slowly, and then a quick tip, when you are meant to end that pose. it is as though the plant knows exactly what should happen, and when.

it's amazed me since i first tried it on the smaller linden tree that stood in the parkway outside of the old house i lived in. i loved that tree so much! and it knew me well. we were sympatico friends who appreciated one another. she did not disappoint me.

try it yourself, but put your mind into the correct form of humility to life that is far, far older than we are, perhaps wiser.

StudioZs favorites - StumbleUpon

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:26:20 -0800

i found studioz in such an interesting way. i had been looking at the scarce number of stumbles that i had placed on our site over these last 9 months of a depressing time. i was looking at that HORRID piece of green architecture, that skyscraper that has all the hanging gardens falling all over it, like mopheads. and then i looked at what other stumblers said about it, and here i found STUDIOZ, a gentleman from Brazil, who hates it as much as i do.

Go visit StudioZ: he has some real interesting slants on the uprising of communism all over the world these days. Be careful wherever you reside!

Flickr: Karen Dallas (a/k/a Karen Dallas Hartig)s Photostream

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:04:55 -0800

11.9.08 Part 2 of 3

And so, to show you a photograph of the old main branch of the Chicago Public Library's main reading room where I studied and wrote papers in my high school in Chicago, here is a photograph (not mine) showing you how it looks after it was renovated to the Chicago Cultural Center. And just imagine... It had been scheduled for the wrecking ball!!!

Only one view of the Grand Hall with Tiffany's mosaics, lighting fixtures and stained glass Rose Window: Main Reading Room, Chicago Public Library prior to renovation into the Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan/Randolph, Chicago

Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are | The Onion - Americas Finest News Source

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 08:19:25 -0800

you gotta watch this clip about the obama supporters that now walk in circles, like the demented (as john cheever so cleverly penned in one of his short stories), with nothing left to say, nothing left to do!!! the site is funny in itself too.

The Chicago Spire

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:48:49 -0700

And now, I present to you yet another wonder of modern architecture, coming soon to my home town! Mayor Richie Daley's current pet, The Spiral (to the left):

And Daley's budget shortfall 3 months ago, he screamed as he landed back from his vacation to Bejing for the Olympics (the only thing he ever wants for the city, damned be to all other improvelents), was TWO HUNDRED THIRTY MILLION!

But then, I guess he started contemplating the cost overruns on the Spiral, what with no windows and all, as well as gusts of wind whooshing by it from the west, onwards, down to the lake, where it is being built, as well as all the potential lawsuits brought by all the fereigners that are buying up a few condos in it, here and there (there had not been the bailout when it was started, dun, dun, dun, dun, da!), when they are picked up off of their feet and thrown down to the sidewalk, only to break many bones and to have to be taken to one of Chicago's hospitals in ambulances that may not be on the street come this January 2009, what with all the layoffs of city workers, because, I guess, he did not find the shortfall of FOUR HUNDRED TEN MILLION just last month.

But then again, just today, he announced that the city deficit is UP TO FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY-SIX MILLION DOLLARS!!!

But our el trains hurt your ears (fine stuff for Olympiads and the millions that will flock here to see them in God knows what year in the future they MIGHT come) as you ride them. And pretty soon, we citizens may sue the fair city that I want to leave, because Hiz Honor has determined that instead of replacing cars on the el trains, that he will install a few cattle cars that have no railings, and no seats, which means that if a woman is pregnant, or one has lost an arm, she won't be able to do anything other than scream as she looses her hold on the rings that will hang down from the ceiling.

Oh, I want to leave! Oh! I forgot: read comment no. 3.

Inhabitat & Singapore's Ecological EDITT Tower

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:33:06 -0700

When, oh when, will they stop this madness??? Methinks that it will all shrivel up and dry, being that there haven't been ANY solar flares for a long time now: the sun won't be flaring again for a long, long time. (Well, I suppose the benefit of that will be that it will be safer to live on Mars)!

Do you see how these crafty Chinese will again incorporate human waste into the agrarian building/plant structure? What will they do if the sun doesn't produce global warming?

Well, I guess another benefit is that all the shelves of ice that fell off of the singular coastline of Greenland (look at all the clips: they are precisely, exactly, the same!), the ice sheets that melted, producing rising tides on beaches, will now serve to form glaciers, and that way, all that global warming sunlight will be bounced back up into space.

And, ta da! We can re-engineer solar panels all over again, producing more jobs so that taxpayers can pay for more bailouts, so that they do not face the sun to collect solar flares, but so that they face the earth to catch the solar rays that will soon bounce right off of the planet earth!

Lotsa food for the residents, if they only get the rain!

elivings favorite web sites - StumbleUpon

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:40:10 -0700

elivings comes here to stumble around, and she find the most fascinating images! here is one she posted from this stumbler's page:

http://solstitiu.stumbleupon.com/

it reminds me of an experience i had just last night. have any of you ever seen the cirque du soleil perform? you really should! they are a troupe of many people now, including acrobats, superior stage designers, comedians, a full band, their own wonderful singers, and more.

talk about talent, fantasy, wonder! ummmm, i LOVE seeing the cirque. last night i saw their show under an outdoor tent called "kooza." glad to meet you, elivings!

this picture reminds me so much of a place of the mind that you might find when you let yourself and the world go, and you "travel." inside of the house, there are all sorts of characters that do wonders that astound you, they surprise you, they consume you. and then, in the depths of your mind, you DANCE!

kooza begins with a little boy out flying a kite. there is a delivery of a large red box--it's hilarious HOW it does get delivered! when he opens it, out pops a jack-in-the-box, who immediately sheds his outfit, and out steps a skinny, rather sinister-looking, maestro. you think he's going to frighten the boy, but instead, he waves about his magic wand here and there, taking him into the realm of fantasy in the big tent--what a circus is actually like. the cirque is real funny, too.

the cirque du soleil is AMAZING. "cuil it"--(see post below). you will find its web page where you can see their schedule of events (they have a show in vegas that never will travel based on the fantasy that the beatles gave to us), and also if you are a member, their free ecards are just what to send to your friends. i cannot compliment performers more than i can those who are part of the international cirque: if you wanted acrobatic-dance opera and amazing feats of the human body and thrills galore, this is what you'd see. i like the cirque better than an opera, really--the cirque takes me out of this world.

no, it is not too expensive: yes, it is worth every penny. go!

Cuil

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:22:56 -0700

(i just hope THIS ONE will indicate the dates that the site first was up and then dates and a summary of how the site changed over time. that would make it easier to zone in on what you are really looking for, much faster).

what i liked when i read about how cuil is designed is that it will be more exciting to search the web, since the developer created pictures that will span the results page. you know what they say, don't you? a picture is worth a million bucks.

and, it's about time google has competition! maybe, if this site gets up to snuff (it will...), people will no longer say "google it." they can say instead, "cuil it, mon!" LOL!!!

Tin foil hat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:44:53 -0700

before my man, ron paul, dropped out of the race, i've been blogging LOTSA politically--something i never did in my entire life. I HATE POLITICS (as usual...). so i wasn't inspired whatsoever in my whole adult life to vote for anyone until i learned about ron paul.

and well, if you go to http://www.answers.yahoo.com , the politics section and do a search for questions with just the words "tin hat," you will find all sorts of references to it.

but i did not know what "tin hat" meant. and so, i asked my cousin, a/k/a ms. encyclopedia. so what does she do (she is such a stitch, i wish she were here or i was over there to crack my ass off with her every day like we used to...!)? she sends me this link...

i LOVE this article! willyapliz (our greek yia-ya talked like that) take a look at the pictures?!? this will kill you laughing!!!

i can imagine myself volunteering to help patients on a mental ward, uh, recover their senses, uh... and then i go in there and see this CAT sitting there (we all know that dogs and cats help sick people...) wearing a Tin Hat!!!

shit! this is soooooooo funny!!!