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Soon enough
Soon enough awake From benadryl dreams Walking slumberland Each table a pillow Every surface A creature comfort Inviting me to Continue the big Easy sleep… Free of Itchy allergens But limited in Operating the Heavy equipment Out profound reason. Good night. Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the…
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Any excuse to use excessive force
Because any infraction of the law deserves complete, over the top violent response from a paramilitary police force. Ladies and gentleman, the panopticon and your tax dollars at work in the Society of Control… Police have justified this sort of heavy-handedness by claiming that people who run illegal gambling operations…
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The Lost Treasure of Da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci is considered by many to be one of the greatest artists who ever lived. Yet his reputation rests on only a handful of pictures – including the world’s most famous painting, the Mona Lisa. …Fiona Bruce travels to Florence, Milan, Paris and Warsaw to uncover the story…
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Just two small bricks
Wonderful talk by Ajahn Brahm. Highly recommend it. Watch, listen, contemplate. If you watch the whole talk, you will get why I decided on today’s title.
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Harrowing of Hell
I have been posting a lot of paintings on my blog. I hope that you have taken the opportunity to follow the links of these pictures to where I first discovered them on the web. Today’s is a tease for you… I want you to click away from Reason &…
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The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things
The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things is a painting attributed to Hieronymus Bosch, completed around 1500 or later. The painting is oil on wood panels. The painting is presented in a series of circular images. Four small circles, detailing “Death of the Sinner”, “Judgement”, “Hell”, and “Glory”,…
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Daodejing 41
#41* The person having most excellence who hears DAO practices assiduously. The person having average excellence who hears DAO only practices on occasion. The person having least excellence who hears DAO laughs at it. Yet, if DAO were not laughable, it would not be DAO. Thus, the old saying goes…
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Daodejing 40
#40* The motion of DAO: returning. The usage of DAO: weakening. 10,000 things grow by having. [1] Having generates from not-having . [2] *Translation by LU Wenlong & Keith Wayne Brown, ©2013. [1] Having –> 有 [Yǒu]: to have, to exist. We might put here “being” yet the character of yǒu better implies that the…
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The library, the cloud, and the digital scholar
Originally posted on jbrittholbrook: Mark Carrigan and I have continued our discussion begun here about the difference between various media (in this case, blogs and Moleskine notebooks). We haven’t discussed aesthetics, yet — but, to be clear, I’m not into technophilia. Dalek, you look maaaavelous! Makes me want to exterminate…
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Daodejing 39
#39* In the ancient days: grasping one. Heaven grasping one: clear and bright. Earth grasping one, tranquility. Spirit grasping one, effective. [1] River valley grasping one, fullness. 10,000 things grasping one, growth. Kings grasping one, leading under-heaven. Draw this inference: Grasp one. Heaven without clear and bright, splitting open. Earth without tranquility, shaking apart. Spirit without effect, stopping. River valley without…
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Daodejing 38 Redux
With this poem, we begin the Book of DE (the second part of the Daodejing, the poems on virtue or excellence). #38* Magnificent excellence (DE): Acting without thinking of being excellent. Acting thus is authentic excellence. Debased excellence: Keeping up the appearance of excellence. Acting thus is inauthentic excellence. Authentic…
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Spirits in the Material World
Originally posted on Theoria: Having recently revisited James Hillman’s book, The Dream and the Underworld, I was excited to read Jeremy Kessler’s article in the New Atlantis on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s work, “The Hall of Fantasy,” in which he proposes that those who would dwell too long in the imaginative world of…
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Hashtag America – Official Write Bloody 2013 Submission
A wonderful young poet who definitely deserves your attention. He is in a contest at the moment. Take a listen. If you are as impressed with him as I am, then go over to YouTube and “like” the video as well as leave him a comment.
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