To Take His Own Time Henceforth Forever

Nature never makes haste. Her systems revolve at an even pace. The bud swells imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion, as though the short spring days were an eternity. All her operations seem separately for the time, the single object for which all things tarry. Why, then, should man hasten as if anything less than eternity were allotted for the least deed? Let him consume never so many eons, so that he go about the meanest task well, though it be but the paring of his nails. If the setting sun seems to hurry him to improve the day while it lasts, the chant of the crickets fails not to reassure him, even-measured as of old, teaching him to take his own time henceforth forever. The wise man is restful, never restless or impatient. He each moment abides there where he is, as some walkers actually rest the whole body at each step, while others never relax the muscles of the leg till the accumulated fatigue obliges them to stop short.
As the wise is not anxious that time wait for him, neither does he wait for it.
--Henry David Thoreau (journal entry for September 17, 1839)

redbud in Turquoise Canyon
Cottonwood Canyon
Colorado River above Palisades Canyon

Ta Dah

And On The First Tee...

Non est jam dicere, "Ut populus, sic sacerdos"; quia nec si populus, ut sacerdos.*
--St. Bernard of Clairvaux
(1090--1153)

*One cannot now say, the priest is as the people, for the truth is that the people are not so bad as the priest.

Hold My Calls

the
clash
meet
the
seventh
seal

Bathing Pygmy Hedgehogs

Howard's Big Dig

Does Tiger Owe You An Apology?

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Presented Without Comment

Howard Zinn

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

If those in charge of our society--politicians, corporate executives, and owners of the press and television--can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

--Howard Zinn (8/24/1922--1/27/2010)

The Known Universe

space isn't
remote
at all.
it's only
an hour's
drive away
if your car
could go
straight
upwards.
--fred hoyle

I May Want More

If I had the power to produce exactly what I want for next Christmas, I would have all the kings and emperors resign and allow the people to govern themselves.
I would have all the nobility crop their titles and give their lands back to the people. I would have the Pope throw away his tiara, take off his sacred vestments, and admit that he is not acting for God — is not infallible — but is just an ordinary Italian. I would have all the cardinals, archbishops, bishops, priests and clergymen admit that they know nothing about theology, nothing about hell or heaven, nothing about the destiny of the human race, nothing about devils or ghosts, gods or angels. I would have them tell all their “flocks” to think for themselves, to be manly men and womanly women, and to do all in their power to increase the sum of human happiness.
I would have all the professors in colleges, all the teachers in schools of every kind, including those in Sunday schools, agree that they would teach only what they know, that they would not palm off guesses as demonstrated truths.
I would like to see all the politicians changed to statesmen,– to men who long to make their country great and free, — to men who care more for public good than private gain — men who long to be of use.
I would like to see all the editors of papers and magazines agree to print the truth and nothing but the truth, to avoid all slander and misrepresentation, and to let the private affairs of the people alone.
I would like to see drunkenness and prohibition both abolished.
I would like to see corporal punishment done away with in every home, in every school, in every asylum, reformatory, and prison. Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
I would like to see the millionaires unite and form a trust for the public good.
I would like to see a fair division of profits between capital and labor, so that the toiler could save enough to mingle a little June with the December of his life.
I would like to see an international court established in which to settle disputes between nations, so that armies could be disbanded and the great navies allowed to rust and rot in perfect peace.
I would like to see the whole world free — free from injustice — free from superstition.
This will do for next Christmas. The following Christmas, I may want more.
--Robert Green Ingersoll
from "What I Want For Christmas" (1897)

Send Harry Back To Searchlight

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we're sending

Harry

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Creature Features

I love
cats because
I enjoy
my home.
Little
by little,
they become
its visible soul.
--Jean Cocteau

007
(on sofa)

thumper
(in tent)

And He Gave It For His Opinion

And he gave it
for his opinion,
that whosoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind,
and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
--Jonathan Swift

Don't You Think The Joker Laughs At You

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don't you think
the joker laughs at you?