prayers for peace

 

While the Putin cats away

 Maybe the mice should play

And make pussy cat pay

for what he does to the Russian people.

Wishing safety to all the human beings subjected to the wrath of an old baby.

I wish I knew how to rid the world of tyrants

Cry baby cry

 

You’re old

enough to

know better …

well maybe not

we are in the middle of a pandemic, you selfish old man. 

What is alive?

 I think everything is alive.  I don't parse it.  It makes things a lot easier to understand.

I was told that viruses do not have a brain, are not considered alive and I wondered if theirs was a sort of collective brain, working as a sort of spooky action as a distance in a cloud.  Or maybe there's an airborne myecelium..or! haha! they dip into the collective consciousness?  

I found this article asking the question if viruses are alive.  Since I think rocks are alive, I think ions are a sign of life, this quote peaked my attention:

A rock is not alive. A metabolically active sack, devoid of genetic material and the potential for propagation, is also not alive. A bacterium, though, is alive. Although it is a single cell, it can generate energy and the molecules needed to sustain itself, and it can reproduce. But what about a seed? A seed might not be considered alive. Yet it has a potential for life, and it may be destroyed. In this regard, viruses resemble seeds more than they do live cells. They have a certain potential, which can be snuffed out, but they do not attain the more autonomous state of life.

The seed example made me think of the seeds of men and eggs of women.  I think everything is alive.  I also think everything should make their own decision.

Are viruses parasitizing us to survive?  If we humans want to survive, what can we do to discontinue the virus' survival.  It survives, by spreading from one host to another.  Thus we should stop the spread.  The best way to do that is the mask.  Vaccine or not.  It's the mask.  Are we smarter than the virus?  Are we going to continue it's bidding?  

Parasites are considered alive.  Viruses act parasitically.  What direction would virology take if we considered viruses alive?

Anchoress Away!

Book board diptych

Teenage Anchoress

I gave up my life to pray for you

gave up my pretty clothes too

I didn't want to marry my betrothed

an old man from an old throne

I ran away into a cell

I was kept with nothing well

vistors in my window

like a puppet show

I'm a teenage anchoress

got on my nun dress

you know I'm not havin this

cuz I know I'm not havin it

What did I think of all day in 

my one person room?

Sometimes an anchoress never 

leaves and it becomes her tomb

Mostly I think of food,

but I also keep in mind the common good

I'm a lithe girl

gotta tithe girl

gonna sit here looking out into the wild world

I'm a lithe girl

gotta tithe girl

don't you know I've already died, girl?

I was there at my death ritual

now my life is habitual

pray, eat, pray, teach

pray, eat, pray, I don't preach

I'd do it all again to retain my own power

living autonomously in my miniature tower

vistors in my window

like a puppet show

I'm a teenage anchoress

got on my nun dress

you know I'm not havin this 

cuz I know I'm not havin it

I'm a lithe girl

gotta tithe girl

gonna sit here looking out into the wild world

I'm a lithe girl

gotta tithe girl

don't you know I've already died, girl?

just sittin, lookin out into the wild world

Mmm

 

Blue oasis in the dark

 This article makes me feel hopeful and sad that we can’t all get together and be scientific and reasonable about life on our planet

Juxtapose with these headlines and wishing I could request Paddy Considine to put out a new Le Donk “Calm Down” song

Could we replace these news headlines with famous people that are saying things that make sense?  Media, you are doing a big disservice to this whole thing by buoying the shock news and embarrassing the poor souls that are being brainwashed.  Rude, Media, really rude.

Calm down Aaron Rodgers, Calm down Robert Kennedy Jr

fan

 

Remedios Varo

 

A snowball right in the kisser

 

Countdown

 

Merry Christmas

 

Check

 

Christmas songs in my head

 

Waahoo doris, waahoo doris

I almost walk around drunk to this one

Christmas presents, check

 

Joyology to the World!

 

I love it!

I love it!

I love it!

For the bums

 

Christmas tree, check

 

Christmas card, check

 

A new tradition for me

How did I not know about either of these?!!

 

Open your portal

 with ecstatic trance!

Next time you go to your local art museum, make sure to stop by the ancient statues and make some notes on the postures.  You never know if one of those postures will open a portal into the spirit world.  Ecstatic trance was founded by Felicitas Goodman, an anthropologist originally interested in the intonations of speaking in tongues when in trance.  She wanted to know if there was some type of language in what appears to be gibberish.  Later, she made some type of a connection between the ancient statues postures and its use for a portal into the spirit realm for either healing or divinitory work.  She tried it on volunteer students and noticed that there were similar effects or themes with certain postures.  She also added rattling to to the ritual for better affect.  She set up the Cuyamungue institute in New Mexico, where you can try to experience ecstatic trance for yourself.  One of her students, Belinda Gore, has a tarot deck of different postures for different experiences.  Dr. Goodman also got interested in a true case of demonic possession of Anneliese Michel and wrote the book about it.  Check out this Yoga Journal article for a few postures. 

An ecstatic trance practitioner

Ecstatic example

Ecstatic Goodman

Ecstatic Jimmy

Francis Picabia

Never heard of him.  He was a Dadaist, then he renounced it for Surrealism.  He does multieyes and multimouths, I didn't realize there was such a thing when I was working on them.  Now, I'm considering doing a study on Picabia's work and get back to it, at least until the next shiny thing catches my eye.  Wiki

 

Ursula origin story

She was a happy mer-child.  Her mother and father doted on her.  Until one fateful night they were taken while she was sleeping.  She searched for them but only found her mother's haircomb or locket lying on the bottom of the ocean.  

She went to live with her aunt.  We see her in high school as an overweight, gothic teen. She is shy and keeps to herself, but gets bullied for her look and her weight anyway.  Trident and his girlfriend are the most popular and latently cruel.

She makes friends with the shrimps and a few other mer kids, she gets into magic and tarot and starts to find ways to empower herself.  she is looking for a pendulum and remembers her mother's locket— The pendulum locket starts moving in a mysterious way, so Ursula follows it.  She ends up at her old house, looks through all of her stuff, isn't it neat?  And then the finds something in her parent's treasure box, a map.

She follows the map and the pendulum to a great cave.  Something grabs her and then goes to black.

Her parents were interested in the great mystery of the ocean.  A mystical being that was said to have untold power.  Her parents were taken by the henchmen of a powerful merman.  He knew they had found the map and the secret and wanted it for himself.  Something happened to his treasure seekers and ursulas parents in the depths, meanwhile the powerful merman is still top of the food chain.

Ursula finds herself in a cage of some sort, tinkling around with bottles of odd stuff and other shiny bits of trash.  She hears an odd thump.  Black tentacles reaching into the cage frighten her.  

Fraktur Thanksgiving

 

She’s your art Healer

 Emma Kunz was an outsider artist and healer. She used a pendulum and radiesthesia.

Book I need

Hilma AF

 More visionary, spiritual work from the theosophical view, Hilma af Klint:

Portrait by Natalia Koren Kropf

Playing cards I need