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  • A Superhero Who Looks Like My Son | NYTimes.com

    …Superheroes had taught me that anything was possible. There was nothing more American. I wished China had comic book stores. Because he was born in Ethiopia and came to us as a stumbling, almost walking baby, I was especially disappointed… Continue reading

  • Darth Winnie, Dark Pooh of the Sith

    Thanks to my great brother Carl S. for sharing this with me on Facebook. Jim Cummings, voice of Disney’s Winnie the Pooh, was at Connecticon last weekend, where he performed the scene of Darth Vader boarding Princess Leia’s ship from… Continue reading

    Darth Winnie, Dark Pooh of the Sith

  • Intricacies of nature

    Originally posted on NikonGraham: After some research I have found that this is called a Granadilla flower. No two flowers are alike; they come in all colors, shapes, sizes, and with a variety of patterns! Continue reading

  • Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East

    Very much enjoying this anime. Five years previously everyone in Ōtsuka village died in a plague, but there were 3 survivors, Shino Inuzuka, Sosuke Inukawa and Hamaji. They took shelter in a church near another village, which happens to be… Continue reading

    Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East

  • Colour My World | The Ptero Card

    Originally posted on Theoria: One of my favorite James Hillman books is his, “Alchemical Psychology,” which I have just recently read. The book is a fascinating tour of the alchemical process and its correlative psychological journey as told to us… Continue reading

    Colour My World | The Ptero Card

  • Edvard Munch – On Screen

    Edvard Munch (Norwegian: [ˈɛdvɑʈ muŋk]  ( listen); 1863–1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th… Continue reading

    Edvard Munch – On Screen

  • Dead Christ with Angels | Manet

    This was the first of several paintings by Manet with a religious theme. The inscription indicates Manet’s source, but the passage he cited describes Mary Magdalen’s finding Christ’s tomb empty except for the two angels. After the painting was already… Continue reading

  • The Maybe-Logic of Reality Tunnels| R.A.W.

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    The Maybe-Logic of Reality Tunnels| R.A.W.

  • St. Symeon

    Symeon the New Theologian (Greek: Συμεὼν ὁ Νέος Θεολόγος; 949–1022 AD) was a Byzantine Christian monk and poet who was the last of three saints canonized by the Eastern Orthodox church and given the title of “Theologian” (along withJohn the Apostle and Gregory of Nazianzus). “Theologian” was not applied to… Continue reading

    St. Symeon

  • Daodejing 2

    #2* Under-heaven all know the reason why the beautiful is beautiful: the existence of the ugly; All know the reason why the good is the good: the existence of the bad. Therefore, to-be and To-not-be beget One another, Difficulty and… Continue reading

    Daodejing 2