Sweet Heat

Flare by Mary Oliver

2011-03-30T17:21:00.001-07:00

My girlfriend sent me this poem today...

Welcome to this silly, comforting poem.

It is not the sunrise,

which is a red rinse,

which is flaring all over the eastern sky;

it is not the rain falling out of the purse of God;

it is not the blue helmet of the sky afterward,

or the trees, or the beetle burrowing into the earth;

it is not the mockingbird who, in his own cadence,

will go on sizzling and clapping

from the branches of the catalpa that are thick with blossoms,

that are billowing and shining,

that are shaking in the wind.

You still recall, sometimes, the old barn on your great-grandfather's

farm, a place you visited once, and went into, all alone, while the grownups

sat and talked in the house.

It was empty, or almost. Wisps of hay covered the floor, and some

wasps sang at the windows, and maybe there was a strange fluttering bird

high above, disturbed, hoo-ing a little and staring down from a messy ledge

with wild, binocular eyes.

Mostly though, it was restful and secret, the roof high up and arched,

the boards unpainted and plain.

You could have stayed there forever, a small child in a corner, on the

last raft of hay, dazzled by so much space that seemed empty, but wasn't.

Then -- you still remember -- you felt the rap of of hunger -- it was noon --

and you turned from that twilight dream and hurried back to the house,

where the table was set, where an uncle patted you on the shoulder for

welcome, and there was your place at the table.

Nothing lasts.

There is a graveyard where everything I am talking about is,

now.

I stood there once, on the green grass, scattering flowers.

Nothing is so delicate or so finely hinged as the wings

of the green moth

against the lantern

against its heat

against the beak of the crow

in the early morning.

Yet the moth has trim, and feistiness, and not a drop

of self pity.

Not in this world.

My mother

was the blue wisteria,

my mother

was the mossy stream out behind the house,

my mother, alas, alas,

did not always love her life,

heavier than iron it was

as she carried it in her arms, from room to room,

oh, unforgettable!

I bury her

in a box

in the earth

and turn away.

My father

was a demon of frustrated dreams,

was a breaker of trust,

was a poor, thin boy with bad luck.

He followed God, there being no one else

he could talk to;

he swaggered before God, there being no one else

who would listen.

Listen

this was his life.

I bury it in the earth.

I sweep the closets.

I leave the house.

I mention them now,

I will not mention them again.

It is not lack of love

nor lack of sorrow.

But the iron thing they carried, I will not carry.

I give them -- one, two, three, our -- kiss of courtesy,

of sweet thanks,

of anger, of good luck in the deep earth.

May they sleep well. May they soften.

But I will not give them the kiss of complicity.

I will not give them the responsibility for my life.

Did you know that the ant has a tongue

with which to gather in all that it can be

of sweetness?

Did you know that?

The poem is not the world.

It is not even the first page of the world.

But the poem wants to flower, like a flower.

It knows that much.

It wants to open itself,

like the door of a little temple,

so that you might step inside and be cooled and refreshed,

and less yourself than part of everything.

The voice of the child crying out of the mouth of the

grown woman

is a misery and a disappointment.

The voice of a child howling out of the tall, bearded,

muscular man

is a misery, and a terror.

10.

Therefore, tell me:

what will engage you?

What will open the dark fields of your mind,

like a lover

at first touching?

11.

Anyway,

there was no barn.

No child in the barn.

No uncle no table no kitchen.

Only a long lovely field full of bobolinks.

12.

When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider

the orderliness of the world. Notice

something you have never noticed before,

like the tambourine sound of the snow-cricket

whose pale green body is no longer than your thumb.

Stare hard at the hummingbird, in the summer rain,

shaking the water-sparks from its wings.

Let grief be your sister, she will whether or no.

Rise up from the stump of sorrow, and be green also,

like the diligent leaves.

A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world

and the responsibilities of your life.

Scatter your flowers over the graves, and walk away.

Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.

In the glare of your mind, be modest.

And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.

Live with the beetle, and the wind.

This is the dark bread of the poem.

This is the dark and nourishing bread of the poem.

Lent today

2011-03-09T18:31:00.000-08:00

[linky]

Sassing around!!!

2010-12-04T15:06:00.000-08:00

Hi everybody!!!!! Almost a NEW YEAR!!!!!

WHAT NOW AMERICA--BaNZai7

2010-11-22T12:25:00.000-08:00

Happy story!!!

2010-11-08T19:30:00.000-08:00

Ten-day-old dolphin was discovered by walkers on a beach near Montevideo, Uruguay.

The baby Dolphin was nursed back to health.

YEAH!!! [source]

Sad story...

2010-10-21T17:42:00.000-07:00

This is a dead mother deer behind my house in the woods... I saw her yesterday and she must of just died and a coyote or something had just eaten her heart out... today when I went back about half of her was eaten away.

I had seen two fawns in the neighborhood who looked too young to be on their own... a friend who lives several houses away told me that she had seen a mother deer with a broken leg and the two fawns together...

So the fawns had been hanging around with their mother in those back woods and now she is gone... I hope the best for the fawns...

My goldfish!!!

2010-10-16T05:29:00.000-07:00

Today is my goldfish's birthday so I'm doing some special things for her! [Her name is SillyFish!]

I grew her some homemade mosquito larvae!

I decorated her bowl!!!!

And I got her some shows from Youtube for fun!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SILLYFISH!!!

Kitchen gardeners - cultivating global change

2010-10-09T08:45:00.000-07:00

This is a recipe for figs/blue cheese and caramelized almonds from a great site...

Kitchen gardeners - cultivating global change

I think it's helpful for peeps to know that their gardening efforts really do effect the world... beyond just eating really well...

And I would LOVE to have a fig tree... maybe we can plant one to share at the community garden...???

Novelty eats!

2010-09-24T20:09:00.000-07:00

Commercial opportunities!!!!! [Linky]

Devil at the solstice

2010-09-20T18:07:00.001-07:00

Mammoth grew this one!

Solstice DEVIL!!!!

The moon is full, full full!

Box heads

2010-08-29T12:07:00.000-07:00

I made this piece a long time ago...

And I still feel this way about society...

Odd how art expresses deep feelings about complex subjects...

Here's to deboxing society...

Sweet summer...

2010-07-19T12:06:00.000-07:00

Pictures that I took today to remember summer happiness!

Reposting some truth...

2010-07-17T12:02:00.000-07:00

I don't usually put politicks on this blog but this is very good!

Financial Reform Bill Fixes the Economy ... Just Kidding!

from George Washington's Blog by George Washington

Congress, Bernanke, Geithner and the boys are patting themselves on the back for passing the financial "reform" legislation. Obama says it was "my policies that got us out of this mess." The glorious financial reform bill has fixed the economy. Just kidding! In reality, as discussed below, none of the real problems have been addressed.

The rule of law has not been restored, so - as PhD economist James Galbraith notes - the economy can't recover. Consumer confidence is plunging again because no one has actually taken the steps which would restore trustin the system. The real economy continues to bleed and unemployment continues to plague the economy, because the government is feeding the parasite and killing the patient. Main street continues to bleed because - instead of breaking up the too big to fails so that their dead weight stops suffocating the real economy (virtually all leading independent economists have said that the too big to fails must be broken up, or the economy won't be able to recover; and see this), the government has allowed them to get even bigger (and see this and this). Indeed, just as BIS warned years ago, bailing out the banks has simply spread their crisis into a sovereign crises ... and now the banks and governments are broke, and the entire fiat money system worldwide is imploding.

Deficit hawks" like top economic historian Niall Ferguson says that America's debt will drive it into a debt crisis, and that any more quantitative easing will lead our creditors to pull the plug. See this and this. Indeed, PhD economist Michael Hudson says (starting around 4:00 into video):

If the problem that is grinding the economy to a halt - too much debt - and if no one in the government, in either party is looking at solving the debt problem, then the answer is, we're going to go into a massive, go into a depression as far as the eye can see.

Yet the U.S. hasn't reined in its profligate spending. While modern economic theory shows that debts do matter(and see this), the U.S. is spending on guns and butter like debts are a good thing. As PhD economist Dean Baker points out, the IMF is cracking down on the once-proud America like a naughty third world developing country. (As I've repeatedly noted, the IMF performed a complete audit of the whole US financial system during Bush's last term in office - something which they have only previously done to broke third world nations.) On the other hand, "deficit doves" - i.e. Keynesians like Paul Krugman - say that unless we spend much more on stimulus, we'll slide into a depression. And yet the government isn't spending money on the types of stimulus that will have the most bang for the buck: like giving money to the states, extending unemployment benefits or buying more food stamps - let alone rebuilding America's manufacturing base. See this, this and this.

Nobel prize winning economist George Akerlof predicted in 1993 that credit default swaps would lead to a major crash, and that future crashes were guaranteed unless the government stopped letting big financial players loot by placing bets they could never pay off when things started to go wrong, and by continuing to bail out the gamblers. (Not only has the government rewarded the gamblers, bailed them out and let them engage in a new round of risky betting, but it hasn't even reined in credit default swaps.) Paul Volcker is warning that the watered-down Volcker rule (which won't even kick in for some time) won't prevent the next crisis. Similarly, one of the primary authors of the legislation - Chris Dodd - long ago said the billwouldn't prevent future crises. Shady accounting is part of what got us into this mess ... but as Citigroup Inc. analyst Keith Horowitz notes, banks are making huge amounts of money from an accounting rule that allows banks to book profits when the value of their own bonds falls. High frequency trading is wrecking the markets ... but isn't addressed in the new legislation. Neither is reforming money pits like Fannie and Freddie The Fed is warning of 5 to 6 years before the economy recovers, and "significant downside risks" and a possible slide into deflation. Big surprise ... the idiot Bernanke doesn't understand that liquidity was never the problem, he has continued the same behavior which got us into this mess in the first place. Bernanke and the Fed have caused widespread destruction to the economy (see this, this, this and this) ... and yet the Fed has been givenmore - instead of less - power.

The moron Geithner was largely responsible for the crash and prolonging the crisis (see this, this, this, this, this,this, this, this, this and this) ... and yet Geithner is being given more - instead of less - power."

Instead of becoming more democratic and more of a free market capitalist economy, the U.S. has become an oligarchy, a kleptocracy, a banana republic, a socialist or fascist state which acts without the consent of the governed. No wonder the American and world economies are falling back into the double dip of a very nasty downturn. And see this.

Grow, grow GROWING

2010-07-14T19:26:00.000-07:00

The rains have come the last few days and the gardens are very happy... here they are in all their glory!

Bounty bounty bounty!!!!

2010-07-12T19:02:00.000-07:00

I GREW THIS BEAUTIFUL STUFF!!! WOWOWOWOWOW!

Weekend homework...

2010-07-10T09:48:00.000-07:00

Time to work on girlie stuff!

Lots of good lessons... :)

Sweet one...

2010-07-04T20:05:00.000-07:00

Looks a little worried...

hmmmm...

via Akubi...

Edgar Allan Pug

2010-06-27T07:51:00.000-07:00

Speaks for itself...

via FYD via Chet Phillips

Knowledge is power!

2010-06-24T10:57:00.000-07:00

via Yama-Bato

via Robin Dude

via Manolis Thr

~ Beauty in the world ~

2010-06-15T16:14:00.000-07:00

Strong, pretty beauty... shake you booty in the world!

Partners in crime...

2010-06-05T19:15:00.000-07:00

Saw this on herekitty and smiled...

Sending good vibes to Peter Bethune

2010-05-28T07:43:00.000-07:00

Anti-whaling activist pleads guilty but denies assault

New Zealand anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune appeared in a Tokyo court this morning facing five charges related to his boarding of a Japanese whaling ship in the Antarctic earlier this year.

Bethune is charged with trespass, vandalism, obstructing commercial activity, being armed with a weapon and, most seriously, assault causing injury.

The assault charge stems from allegations Bethune threw tubs of rancid butter onto one of the whaling ships and in the process slightly injured a Japanese crewman.

Bethune pleaded guilty to four of the charges but denied the assault.

If convicted he faces up to 15 years in jail.

The charges arose after Bethune tried to make a citizen's arrest on the whaling ship's captain and was also trying to serve him with a multi-million-dollar damage bill.

Bethune was the captain of the powerboat, the Ady Gil, that was destroyed in a confrontation with the Shonan Maru 2 in January.

On Thursday, a group of ultra-nationalist supporters gathered outside the court to make it clear they want Bethune punished.

One carried a placard calling for the Sea Shepherd activist to be hung.

More than 400 people queued for 18 seats inside the courtroom.

Bethune faces an uphill battle, with the Japanese conviction rate particularly steep compared to Western standards.

The court system in which Bethune is being trailed is widely quoted as having a 99.8 per cent conviction rate, and Japanese law deals with assault charges harshly.

Bethune has served three months already and according to his lawyer is hoping for a suspended sentence.

They are hoping the court will take into account that he pleaded guilty on the other charges and consider he is conceding he broke Japanese law.

It is believed Bethune will be tried by a panel of three judges.

via ABC News...

I'm riding a HORSE!!!

2010-04-29T07:51:00.000-07:00

GIDDY-UP!!!!!

Thanks Edgar!!!!!

Fly away...

2010-04-23T19:01:00.000-07:00

via hidden pearls of the cliff...

Happy Friday everybody!!!!

I wanna sing

2010-04-16T18:15:00.000-07:00

I wanna sing sing sing... I'm getting looser...

Happy Friday everybody and thanks Akubi for the song!!!!

volcano...

make light... thanks for the light ceecee!

Primal heights

2010-04-08T13:58:00.000-07:00

Prussian optical telegraph...

via Lupo LeBoucher

Stretching the truth...and puppy porn

2010-03-26T18:52:00.000-07:00

Stretching the truth via hushbaby...

Illustration by Édouard Manet for a French translation by Stéphane Mallarmé of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven".

via hushbaby

the many forms of Linus

2010-03-19T15:54:00.000-07:00

via turn of the century

via y Emilio Segre Visual Archives

via Oregon State

the crack of doom is coming soon...

2010-03-14T19:36:00.000-07:00

via fyd

oh Helmut...

via the butcher

Four teddy dolls and wish upon a star...

2010-03-07T17:10:00.000-08:00

The world is full of trouble and kindness... as we flow through this time on earth I wish you health and happiness... be safe friends...

Happy Friday!!!

2010-03-05T18:15:00.000-08:00

Kadrey pinups

Miu Miu pumpy

I'm tired but happy! Hope you are too!!!!

aggressive pacifist’s campaign

2010-02-26T17:28:00.000-08:00

I think I'll blog about cool, tiny houses... I love them... :)

From Tumbleweed House Company blog...

"It has been nearly 14 years since I started, what I like to call, my aggressive pacifist’s campaign to make the built world a smaller place. To date, my approach has been to pretty much just live my life in a small footprint and hope that my example might inspire others to do the same.

On Wednesday, March 3 at roughly 7:00pm at the Hopmonk Tavern in Sebastopol, CA. I’ll be taking a somewhat more active approach. Ignite Sebastopol 3 is part of Global Ignite Week. Roughly a dozen speakers from the Bay Area will be given just twenty slides and five minutes each to present their subjects. I will be using my time to rip America’s system of imposed excess a new body part. My distain for the building codes that restrict how small a house can be is no secret. On March 3rd I’ll be making my position all the more clear. All presentations will be recorded and posted for international viewing.

We’re expecting a full house (~130 inside, and others watching the live feed to a screen in the outdoor Beer Garden), so get your tickets early. [Read more]

Kitty's college drawing

2010-02-24T11:21:00.000-08:00

ohhh boy... this is a drawing that I did in college and a friend has and sent me a picture... when I first saw it I thought that's interesting and then my memory remembered and I realized I made it... not one of my better ones but nice to see it after so long...

Chat-chat-chat!

2010-02-22T15:14:00.000-08:00

Who's civilizing who?

2010-02-20T06:47:00.000-08:00

This is how the earth is tamed... wow... love...

via fyd via burl:hushaby:danza:kazukij:Cgunit - Online Gallery

Happy hearts day!

2010-02-14T11:23:00.000-08:00

HAPPY Valentines everyone!

Live video chat by Ustream

Happy alive!!!!!!

2010-02-05T17:20:00.000-08:00

MM light and shining! The truest sweet-heat!

Ride the pony!!!!!

2010-01-31T16:55:00.000-08:00

Chantal Sutherland shows how beautiful strong fillies are... blast on girl... check her out on twitter

Getting stitches I went to shoppers and got some skin glue and glued my lip back together-hope it heals well, doesn't hurt. Hope I can win..

12:41 PM Oct 4th, 2009 from mobile web

Thanks Edgar!!

2010!!!!!!!

2010-01-23T19:43:00.000-08:00

First full moon of the new decade... LUNA!

via dead girls

Megaverse

2010-01-20T15:00:00.000-08:00

Big Bang Briefly (Briefly Ep. 01)

from the fear that defeats and dreams are one

Happy birthday Edgar!

2010-01-19T19:32:00.000-08:00

via ubu507:

Poe — born January 19, 1809

Alone together, the narrator asks Dupin how he found the letter. Dupin explains the Paris police are competent within their limitations, but have underestimated who they are dealing with. The Prefect mistakes the Minister D— for a fool because he is a poet. For example, Dupin explains how an eight-year old boy made a small fortune from his friends at a game called "Odds and Evens." The boy was able to determine the intelligence of his opponents and play upon that to interpret their next move. He explains that D— knew the police detectives would have assumed that the blackmailer would have concealed the letter in an elaborate hiding place, and thus hid it in plain sight.

baby Blue

2010-01-10T09:51:00.000-08:00

Yup... better than many humans!

via fyd...

Sweetheat 2010!!!

2010-01-07T19:55:00.000-08:00

Deliciously sweet... from Akubi...

Hello 2010!!!!!!!!

2010-01-06T17:41:00.000-08:00

Love these pretty ones from "

I AM NOT A CRACKHEAD

Wishing all the best in 2010!!!

2009-12-31T09:37:00.000-08:00

Sweetheat everywhere!....

pups via fyd...

Ho ho ho!!!

2009-12-25T19:57:00.000-08:00

Egon Schiele - Wally in a Red Blouse

balloon adrift

via bigfun

Sunwise turning

2009-12-22T05:46:00.000-08:00

via escaping superstition ooo

via hardly noticing

In Scottish folklore, Sunwise or Sunward was considered the “prosperous course”, turning from east to west in the direction of the sun. The opposite course was known in Scotland as widdershins (Lowland Scots), or tuathal(Scottish Gaelic, lit. northerly), and would have been counterclockwise. It is perhaps no coincidence that, in the Northern Hemisphere, "sunwise" and "clockwise" run in the same direction. This is probably because of the use of the sun as a timekeeper on sundials etc, whose features were in turn transferred to clock faces themselves. Another influence may also have been the right-handed bias in many human cultures.

Holiday beautiful...

2009-12-16T19:30:00.000-08:00

===

Thanks Cee!!!

Old riches

2009-12-16T18:51:00.000-08:00

Old favorites... need to find the sources... uhmm...

I'm so cute!

2009-12-13T09:44:00.000-08:00

Darling... via rrusty

Encounters at the end of the world...

2009-12-06T12:18:00.000-08:00

Encounters.At.The.End.Of.The.World

Werner Herzog, 2008

Yeah TGIFF!

2009-12-04T19:05:00.000-08:00

Illustration Friday - Climb

Threads of History

The Worshipful Company
of Framework Knitters
Most of the 108 livery companies of the City of London were trade guilds with strong religious ties owning their own chapels and having their own patron saints up to the time of the reformation. Then, Charters were granted to companies which stressed their responsibilities for and control of the commercial/trade standards, which they operated until centuries later.

The great majority of livery companies no longer control their trades but still assist them with various charitable works including student bursaries, scholarships, schools and almshouses.

The Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters was incorporated by Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth, on 13th June 1657 and was re-incorporated and its privileges extended by Letters Patent of His Majesty King Charles II on 19th August 1663 with the style, "The Master, Wardens, Assistants and Society of the Art or Mystery of Framework Knitters of the Cities of London and Westminster and the Kingdom of England and the Dominion of Wales". The company was incorporated by order of the Court of Aldermen as a Livery Company of the City of London on the 9th June 1713, being 64th in order of precedence.

The Company is one of the Liveries, which maintains a close association with its industry and many of the Company's membership of 275 men and women have direct connections with the knitting, and hosiery industries.

The Company supports two charities, its Almshouses at Oadby, Leicester (Charity No. 212946), for retired employees of the industry needing sheltered housing, and its Educational Trust (Charity No. 292630), which administers the Student Bursaries and Awards Scheme.

Arms :
Argent a Knitting Frame Sable garnished Or

Crest:
[Upon a Helm on a Wreath Argent and Gules] A Lamb passant proper resting the dexter forehoof on a Hank of Silk fesswise Or

Supporters:
On the dexter side a Student of the University of Cambridge in academical costume of the seventeenth century proper and on the sinister side a Female Figure also in seventeenth century costume habited Azure cuffs cap neckerchief and apron Argent holding in the dexter hand a Knitting Needle proper and in the sinister hand a Piece of Worsted Knit Gules

Motto:
Speed, Strength And Truth United

History:
Originated in the first successful knitting machine, supposedly invented by a Cambridge graduate to gain the love of a lady. The Charter was awarded in 1657, when the Company became very prosperous. Later the industry tended to move to Leicester and Nottingham, where many of the Livery live. (Linky)

Stockings Addict...

My favorite childhood gift

2009-12-03T04:21:00.000-08:00

When I was a wee tot... Alistar Cook did this incredible series called "Civilization" on PBS... I LOVED it... then my dearest Father gave the book from the series for my birthday... I loved looking at the golden Charlemagne...

It is the energy of the people and the will of the individual and the collective that creates civilization... I forget that... good to be reminded...

(HT (lupoleboucher)

‘Spiegel eiland’

2009-12-01T07:40:00.000-08:00

ooooooo via akubizone ooooooo

via akubizone...

uncertaintimes:

lapetitebaobab:

‘Spiegel eiland’ (‘Sunny Side Up’ / 1985) - Paul Driessen

perfect Friday...one day late!

2009-11-28T16:13:00.000-08:00

TGIFF! Belated!

Had this in the queue! Holiday brain!

via astralis... via sex savages on wheels

fright night

2009-11-24T18:07:00.000-08:00

bebelestrange:

giffery via Akubizone:

By Bruno Dicolla

Butterfly girl... and fishies...

2009-11-20T16:33:00.000-08:00

glittery fairytales....

dancing diva...

Friends for life!

2009-11-17T11:06:00.000-08:00

akubizone:

Kitty and Edgar: Check this out!!!
honeysticks:
KITTEN AND CROW BFF
what the fuck why isn’t this my life

HEHEHEHEHEHEHE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cold orbit

2009-11-15T15:45:00.000-08:00

akubizone:

Passing back and forth between cold logic and hot passion... living in a Cold Orbit.

Electric

2009-11-11T09:34:00.000-08:00

I think this is Edgar as a child... :) Maybe?

FRIDAY!

2009-11-06T18:23:00.000-08:00

Hot hot Friday... fish. fish. gone fishing.

via fashiontography!

Cee's so cool...

2009-11-05T19:33:00.000-08:00

From CeeCeeCee... I luv these shoes ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Real inspiration...

2009-11-02T16:10:00.000-08:00

Artist JoWOnder presents a pre-Raphaelite painting of Ophelia created with bacteria. The demise of the painting is filmed using time-lapse photography, showing a story of death and creation of new life.

via akubizone

Styles

2009-11-01T09:12:00.000-08:00

Uhhh huh... uhhh huh...

The wings to fly..

2009-10-31T19:31:00.000-07:00

via FYD

Hallow fishies

2009-10-30T18:47:00.000-07:00

rocky relationship

pop/porn via sticker Sidpooch via FYD...

Space heater

2009-10-27T11:44:00.000-07:00

% % % Getting kind of chilly out... time to warm my bum. % % %

loving a dog is a perfect experience

2009-10-26T05:49:00.000-07:00

I lost my heart to a black lab puppy named Blue... she looked just like this... she had the biggest, most open heart ever... loving a dog is a perfect experience...

Miss you Blue... thanks for loving me so much...

photo via FYD...

Showdown In Chicago

2009-10-24T16:49:00.000-07:00

Showdown In Chicago

The same financial institutions that caused the economic crisis and took billions in taxpayer bailouts are back to earning incredible profits. Meanwhile, Americans face shrinking pensions, rising foreclosures and unemployment, state budget cuts, predatory lending, outrageous overdraft fees, and sky-high credit card interest rates.

The American people want oversight, accountability and common-sense financial reform NOW. This is the classic David vs. Goliath fight, with Wall Street spending millions and millions on lobbying to defeat reforms that would protect the American people and our economy.

Yes... it's FF.

2009-10-23T16:05:00.001-07:00

oceans daughters

2009-10-22T05:08:00.000-07:00

holy the visions holy the hallucinations holy the miracles holy the eyeball holy the abyss!
-- Allen Ginsberg

via Prunikos

growgrowing

2009-10-20T07:46:00.000-07:00

love leaf

communitygarden.org

localharvest.org

The Awareness of Inner Light…

2009-10-18T04:31:00.000-07:00

Diwali (Sanskrit Dīpãvali, "row of lights") is one of the biggest festival of Hindus, celebrated with great enthusiasm and happiness in India. The festival is celebrated for five continuous days, where the third days is celebrated as the main Diwali festival or "Festival of lights". Different colorful varieties of fireworks are always associated with this festival. On this auspicious day, people light up diyas and candles all around their house. Diwali is celebrated on the Kartika Amavasya or New Moon, which falls during October/November. via Planet Waves..

via Dilip Muralidaran's photostream

Weeks end or weaks end...?

2009-10-16T13:00:00.000-07:00

via suicideblonde: Marilyn via FYD...

I'm very sleepy but this is my homage to Fishy Friday... Luv these heels... crazy.

via von murr

Bye Georgie...

2009-10-15T13:16:00.000-07:00

Bye Georgie cat... thanks for being my wonderful first pet... your suffering is over now... relax... play with Caesar and all the other ones I brought home that you hated in the great feline heaven. You outlived them all...

You were a very fine friend for 19 years... peace Georgie... find peace now...

Black eyed pea in the desert and a meteor

2009-10-14T17:54:00.000-07:00

This is the BEST video that I've seen in a long time!!!

Thank you CEE girl! I was thinking about it all day!!!

meme kitty today

2009-10-13T12:47:00.000-07:00

im imagining your head going poof aceo

}}}don't worry this is how I look when I'm happy{{{

Happy alive!!!!!!

2009-10-12T12:34:00.000-07:00

via FYD... l

attata:

Thomas Bölke Fotogalerie - Haus- und Hoftiere/Ich bin zurück!

Deepest Blue.

2009-10-11T15:01:00.000-07:00

via Catherine

From Cee

Kisskiss

2009-10-10T16:02:00.000-07:00

via Lucky-Kitty. (via OISIN O.)

Soundbrilliant

2009-10-10T11:22:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Cee!

Poison kitty -- oh uh...

2009-10-09T14:52:00.000-07:00

More von murr

Fishnets on Friday...

2009-10-09T14:29:00.000-07:00

via von murr

infrared puppy

2009-10-08T16:32:00.000-07:00

ohhh infrared puppy via Mitchell at BaaBaaB...

For my dear friend

2009-10-06T17:10:00.000-07:00

Mooncrash

2009-10-05T19:15:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Edgar we see mooncrashing on October 9th.

Why crash the moon?

Crashed up everything on earth?

Dumbcrashers.

sleepy girl

2009-10-04T19:54:00.000-07:00

via seniorita † polyester

vampire teddy from hell

2009-10-03T16:16:00.000-07:00

hhh

Oh... Wurzeltod... I think you are the coolest thing/// her site says...

"Suzanne G. likes embalmed armadillos, pickled monkey brains, conjoined kitties, octopi, her precious one-armed vampire teddy from hell, and Alex CF who crafts the cutest tentacled creatures in jars for her.

She is a student at University of Basel. The subjects of her studies include art history, ancient history and media studies
currently working as a monkey slave for Gallery Hauser & Wirth in Zurich/CH… but actually, she always wanted to become a taxidermist and she loves nothing more than to collect dead squirrels in the forest.
Suzanne has neither published the book “Nach dem Regen scheint die Sonne”, nor won an Oscar for “Best Epileptic Actress”.

Contrary to many beliefs, Suzanne does not live with her husband, three sons and seven daughters in Novosibirsk.

This website is dedicated to Hugo Ball, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp, Tristan Tzara and Virginia Woolf - forever in loving memory.
No baby seals were eaten, beaten, sewn or used for brain experiments during the creation of this site.
Except one.

magic flowers/Catherine

Gone fishing

2009-10-02T18:04:00.000-07:00

Friday... ahhhh... (via Roesje)

vijnana bhairava tantra

2009-10-01T18:14:00.000-07:00

The Radiance Sutras

a version of the vijnana bhairava tantra
by Lorin Roche

One day The Goddess sang to her lover Bhairava,

Beloved and radiant Lord of the space before birth,
Revealer of essence,
Slayer of the ignorance that binds us,

You, who in play have created this universe
and permeated all forms in it with never-ending truth.
I have been wondering . . .

I have been listening to the songs of creation,
I have heard the sacred sutras being sung,
and yet still I am curious.

What is this delight-filled universe
into which we find ourselves born?

(photo... henna radianCe)

Pink cap

2009-10-01T07:51:00.000-07:00

More lovely FYD...

Noble

2009-10-01T07:31:00.000-07:00

Yes... very noble... we can learn from them... (from FYD)

flow

2009-09-30T20:24:00.000-07:00

via pony_x

FYD

Butterfly mind

2009-09-29T20:04:00.000-07:00

The Illustrated World of Nikki Pinder (via akubizone)

beyond the veil...

Animal cloud

2009-09-29T19:22:00.000-07:00

Magic sky...

Very sweet heat ... indeed... pink...pink...

2009-09-29T10:03:00.000-07:00

from Catherine...

I love pink... pink heat...

Lagoon nebula

2009-09-26T20:26:00.000-07:00

(via bap_mundy)

Weeeee... lagoon....

Lovelies... so sweet...

2009-09-25T20:50:00.000-07:00

Kim's pics
thanks Cee!

Butterfly girl...

2009-09-23T20:13:00.000-07:00

(via akubizone) (via catprism)

early autumn haiku

2009-09-23T19:45:00.000-07:00

via Catherine

Shadows grow down in
the valley, while mountains bathe
in twilight orange.

– matt at shadow of iris

via FYD

Sweet Heat

Flare by Mary Oliver

Lent today

Sassing around!!!

WHAT NOW AMERICA--BaNZai7

Happy story!!!

Sad story...

My goldfish!!!

Kitchen gardeners - cultivating global change

Novelty eats!

Devil at the solstice

Box heads

Sweet summer...

Reposting some truth...

Grow, grow GROWING

Bounty bounty bounty!!!!

Weekend homework...

Sweet one...

Edgar Allan Pug

Knowledge is power!

~~~ Beauty in the world ~~~

Partners in crime...

Sending good vibes to Peter Bethune

Anti-whaling activist pleads guilty but denies assault

I'm riding a HORSE!!!

Fly away...

I wanna sing

Primal heights

Stretching the truth...and puppy porn

the many forms of Linus

the crack of doom is coming soon...

Four teddy dolls and wish upon a star...

Happy Friday!!!

aggressive pacifist’s campaign

Kitty's college drawing

Chat-chat-chat!

Who's civilizing who?

Happy hearts day!

Happy alive!!!!!!

Ride the pony!!!!!

2010!!!!!!!

Megaverse

Big Bang Briefly (Briefly Ep. 01)

Happy birthday Edgar!

baby Blue

Sweetheat 2010!!!

Hello 2010!!!!!!!!

I AM NOT A CRACKHEAD

Wishing all the best in 2010!!!

Ho ho ho!!!

Sunwise turning

Holiday beautiful...

Old riches

I'm so cute!

Encounters at the end of the world...

Yeah TGIFF!

Illustration Friday - Climb

My favorite childhood gift

‘Spiegel eiland’

perfect Friday...one day late!

fright night

Butterfly girl... and fishies...

Friends for life!

Cold orbit

Electric

FRIDAY!

Cee's so cool...

Real inspiration...

Styles

The wings to fly..

Hallow fishies

Space heater

loving a dog is a perfect experience

Showdown In Chicago

Yes... it's FF.

oceans daughters

growgrowing

The Awareness of Inner Light…

Weeks end or weaks end...?

Bye Georgie...

~ Beauty in the world ~