Mood board

 

Sarah Lucas

Lindy Lee

Sam Bakewell

Andy Goldsworthy

Rafaelle Mainella

This is zen

 

ceremony

 

Let’s be sane

Are we really saying that showmanship is more important than substance?

-Rev. Al Sharpton 

Quoted in his opinion piece, Biden’s debate disaster changes nothing. There’s only one path: Forward.

Why walk when you can cartwheel!

Happy day my little acrobat!

  

 

Fifi!

DandeLeon

May your dreams and imagination float 
like a delicate parachute stabilized by a vortex ring 

Make big wishes dear boy!

The late, great Hannibal Lecter

 Happy brain worms former President!

First lightning bug sighting of the year!

High in newly trimmed oak tree

While waiting on the aurora borealis

That was probably already above our heads unbeknownst to us

Lapiplasty

 

Keep cool, but do not freeze

Oh my god I found a new curiosity, wrapped into another curiosity!

I was trying to find this Jim Duke that an herbalist Kat Maier was talking about in Rosemary Gladstar's Inner Views series about him visiting the Amazon to prove to science about some wizards or something?  It piqued my interest to explore.  I thought I found him and after reading a few things, I was for sure going to post about him.  However, I'm nearly pretty sure that the Jim Duke to whom she was referring died in 2018. But this other Jim Duke, who has also visited the Amazon and... perhaps.. also looked for wizards too?--is alive.  His memoir just came out within the last year or so.

Jim Duke....submitted into the tomes of Periodical Curiosity...

I love his early thoughts, schemes on psychedelics -- I'm dying about the visual of mirror travel!

Reading Carlos Castaneda, I started believing I could learn to ‘mind travel’ to the extent that, if so desired, I could, for example, pop up in a mirror in a friend’s house across the country merely to surprise them. I also thought I might learn to fly and shape shift. I had great expectations.

--excerpt from this awesome post

His bio speaks to my roots. 

Dropping out of high school to pursue the life of a cowboy in Texas, Jim Duke eventually bullshitted his way into college and attended University of Wyoming and University of Texas before finally earning a BS in Zoology and MS in Range Science on Mountain Goat Habitat in Alaska, both from Colorado State University.

Largely unemployable, he works on an ‘as tolerated’ basis mostly dealing with equines and compost. His only professional writing experience came from a brief employment with the Roaring Fork Weekly Journal writing a column called “Kiss My Ass.”

We're not no Red Football for U(.S. Govt)

 

I'm not no red football
To be kicked around the garden
No no

I'm a red christmas-tree ball
And I'm fragile

I'm not no animal
Though I am to you

I'm not no crocodile
Like the one in dublin zoo
Who lived in a cage
The length and breadth of his body
With a window which people would look through
And throw coins on his back to taunt him
Though he couldn't move
Even if he wanted to

Well, I'm not no animal in the zoo
I'm not no whipping boy for you

You may not treat me like you do

I'm not no animal in the zoo

My skin is not a football for you

My head is not a football for you

My body's not a football for you

My womb is not a football for you

My heart is not a football for you

I'm not no animal in the zoo
See, this animal will jump up and eat you
I'm not no animal in the zoo

And I've every intention-

Of leaping up
and Get-ting YOU!

LALA LALA LALA LALA LALA LALA LALA LAH!
LALA LALA LALA LALA LALA LALA LALA LAH!
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!

I love you earth

 Yoko Ono is my earth representative to the universe, may this be pushed out in space as an ode

I love you Earth, you are beautiful, I love the way you are I know I never said it to you but I wanna say it now I love you, I love you, I love you Earth I love you, I love you, I love you now I love you, Earth, you are beautiful, I love the way you shine I love your valleys, I love your mornings, in fact I love you every day I know I never said it to you, why I'd never know Over blue mountains, over green fields, I wanna scream about it now I love you, I love you, I love you Earth I love you, I love you, I love you now You are our meeting point of infinity You are our turning point in eternity I love you, I love you, I love you Earth I love you, I love you, I love you Earth I love you, I love you, I love you now

Any minor world that breaks apart falls together again

Dissolving in your own tears?

 

Ideas for the scrapbook

Movement and Frame

Else Alfelt, 1 of 2 Cobra women

Pierre Alechinsky, last of the CoBrAs

Age of being Premature about Aging

“I think it’s premature at this stage to say that rapamycin is the drug you should take to reduce the negative effects of aging,” Volpi said.

Immature>Premature>Mature>Postmature
Anti-age
Antimature
Antimatter
Does it matter/mature?

Bacterial species for enzymes
Mined from Easter Island soil

5 antibiotics are found in this bacteria called 
Streptomyces hygroscopicus
3 enzymes can be isolated from cultures

Also in S. Hygroscopicus-
Herbicide
Insecticide
Immunosuppressant 
Indolocarbazoles--experimental cancer drugs

Pretties:

Cynobacteria

Atinomycetes

Cynobacteria

Streptomyces hygroscopicus

I'd rather be in a Class of Slime Molds

Hangin' with the fruiting bodies

The message is Do It!

 

Ideas for pandemic remembrance in US

The first week of March-- if possible, stay home, no or low purchasing, less car travel, a paid National Holiday, or Holi-week of rest for our part of the continent and all beings on it
A lockdown on our terms

Busts of people who perished during the pandemic gathered in their homelands, employ artists

Family, friends, neighbors can hold wake, touch the statue, bring flowers, picnic, mourn, grieve

Homemade paper with native flower seeds gifted to those who lost family members to Covid to write/draw thoughts, feelings, memories, share current life and leave on or around the bust

Tai chi or some type of collective movement (a sing along concert?) in this memorial park

String figures and how to make them

 Wiki page download

C.F. Jayne

Wiki list of string figures

International String Figure Association

Sun, moon and star

String Figure Magazine

Both for me

My mistake, it was discriminate killing

 The vehicles had a clearly visible WCK logo on their roofs so that the military would be aware the cars were full of aid workers. WCK said it was also in constant communication with Israeli military and civilian officials so that they were aware of the vehicles’ movements.

“It was a direct attack on clearly marked vehicles whose movements were known by the Israel Defense Forces,” Andrés wrote. “It was also the direct result of a policy that squeezed humanitarian aid to desperate levels.”

With WCK and some other aid groups suspending operations out of safety and Israel blocking entry into Gaza for the U.N. agency tasked with helping Palestinians, there is very little hope that remaining families in the enclave will have the resources to survive.

“I have been a stranger at Seder dinners. I have heard the ancient Passover stories about being a stranger in the land of Egypt, the commandment to remember ― with a feast before you ― that the children of Israel were once slaves,” Andrés wrote.

“It is not a sign of weakness to feed strangers; it is a sign of strength. The people of Israel need to remember, at this darkest hour, what strength truly looks like.”

from this article

The selfless loved ones:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/loved-ones-recall-world-central-kitchen-workers-killed_n_660d6c6ce4b078af1446f9d2

Indiscriminate killing--disturbing image

 

END all wars

Many happy greetings at Eastertide

 

Easter egg

 

Ah snakes

 

Why would the US support a cease fire on children?

I'm exhausted with envy

Where the hell is my vision?  

My skill?

Oh well

Simple sideways egg head, simple lines, runny watercolor
Who cares?

Emma Kohlmann, Untitled III, 2017

Anything is possible on Leap Day

Try time travel!

rawpixel on dribbble

You know, even the US Supreme Court can terrorize and hold a nation hostage.
Just do what you already want to do.
Nothing is real 
And nothing to get hung about

To reabsorb or shed an egg is murder

Every month a woman with a uterus is committing murder when she has her period.

A female baby is born with about a million eggs.  The first few million die in the womb, before the female human is born.  A female baby is murdering eggs left and right until puberty, that's about 11,000 a month.

Here is the break down of eggs in a female human lifespan:

In utero- 6-7 million
At birth- 1-2 million
Menarchy- 300,000-500,000
20s- 150,000-300,000
30s- around 27,000
40s- around 5000-10,000
In the year or so leading up to Menopause- around 1000

A woman will receive about 1 million sperm during intercourse, only one will fertilize the egg inside her.  The remaining spermatozoa will perish within the body of the female murderess.

If that fertilized egg gets to proceed to full, safe birth of a health baby--the female human is only partially golden.  She did her duty, but is still savagely laying waste to eggs and visitor sperm as time goes on.

Right now, a fertilized egg is considered a child in Alabama, USA.  A state that has a Romeo and Juliet law that provides a defense for consensual sexual acts with a minor as long as the victim (if it was consensual why use victim?) was at least 12 years old and the defendant was no more than 2 years older than the ..victim.  Is a 12 year old considered a child?
Please, let's have this state set precedent. We're taking crazy pills.

How long until an egg within a female human body will be considered a child?  

Would a spermatozoa be considered a child? 
Be careful human males, they could be coming for you too. Hahahahahah, as if.

Apparently we have to absorb murderous autocrats

So tired for you, dear Russian people
I'm glad hope never dies

I'm counting
On your heavy heart
Could it keep me
From falling apart

What needs have been
You'll realize
I've found myself
In bluer skies

I know belief
Is in your eyes
We can't believe
In blind light

Echo and the Bunnymen