Rebel~Rubble

"Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short,
but when we have had our swing of pleasure,
our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat,
we say we have had our day." ~

For Mary: by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lil'Solstice

If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily.
~Old Chinese Proverb~

| surGery |

"All, just are as travelers: from one infinity__ into the next.
From sweet prairie grassland, to windy Chicago stockyards__amen."
~Robert Duvall as Uncle Prin(t)... Broken Trail 2006~

Pot.combo

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight.

In early comedy: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" ~wS~

Rampant~Rose

"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty__
outvalues all the utilities of the world." ~rwE~

Boyd's "Lumber Train"

Shakespeare said of glory:
Tis like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading, it disperses to naught.

Band~Width

"A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship,
for what we are worshipping__ we are becoming." ~ rwE~

Coleus Lakes

Aristotle said: No great genius has ever existed without some touch of ....madness.

Pincerbug

Now that my ladder's gone,
I must lie down where all ladders start,
In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.
~W. B. Yeats~ The Circus Animals' Desertion

CD-Press

"Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger__
than any material force that rules the world!" ~rwE~

Same3: Bud's

"The passive master lent his hand__ to the vast soul that o'er him planned." (From rwE's gravestone)

Limited~Light

"Society acquires new arts__ and loses old instincts."
so said R. Waldo E.

Bilateral Symetrical Ploy

“Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol,
and an audience is electrified.” ~rwE~

Boyd's Friends

"Who is Boyd Dawson?" . . . One of my REHAB friends. ~(:-_))-kfh

Mandevilla Drive-In

" I hate quotations! Tell me what YOU know?"
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Maltest~Mantis

As methods of modern society becomes more and more organized__ hence more bureaucratized, little points of contention just beneath the general activities of all out daily lives; can rise to like monsters of frustration and resentment
and even in a war like rage with/against the machine!
...from Dostoevski's, Underground Man.

Lake.Brakers

~The numerical pixel number's determines all the computer generated color transition points (and most irregular of altered shapes) just as the original photo was digitized. There are no freehand selections of contour but as artistic originator of this experiment:
~I stressed the software beyond the usual alteration points using noncomptpable combinations and the flaws hidden inside of repetition. It's kind of like the controlled breaking we do in our cars . . . the more we stop, the less we push, only slightly different from all the breaking actions going on in this photo.

~(:-_))-kfh

Magic Vase

"Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man__ these are the sacred." ~rwE~

Prehistoric Art

"Every scripture is to be interpreted by the same spirit which gave it forth," -- is the fundamental law of criticism. A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and of virtue, will purge the eyes to understand her text. By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause. Nature (1836)

Sunset East

"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." rWaldo.E

Guardian: Still Alive

I am the owner of the sphere
Of the seven stars and the solar year,
Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain
Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.
"The Absorbing Soul" Ralph Waldo Emerson

rbE~Junkyard

Illusions : from The Conduct of Life (1860, rev. 1876)

"There is no chance, and no anarchy, in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there, sitting in his sphere!"

The young mortal enters the hall of the firmament: there is he alone.. with them alone, they pouring on him benedictions and gifts, and beckoning him up to their thrones.

On the instant, and incessantly, fall snow-storms of illusions. He fancies himself in a vast crowd which sways this way and that, and whose movement and doings he must obey: he fancies himself poor, orphaned, insignificant. The mad crowd drives hither and thither, now furiously commanding this thing to be done, now that.

'What is he that he should resist their will, and think or act for himself?' Every moment, new changes, and new showers of deceptions, to baffle and distract him.

And when, by and by, for an instant, the air clears, and the cloud lifts a little: "there are the gods still sitting around him on their thrones,-- they alone.. with him alone." ~ rwE's Unitarianism~

Slim Jim

oro photo link

~"Being": The ultimate generalization one can make about this thing in mind. "Being... of God!" Taking some of my abstraction out of just the term but not really adding any useful information about this thin little creature; of such a short, slow yet busy life. I can't immagine all the things "Jim" needs to get done, in but just one sunny hot & dangerous day? ~(:-_))-kfh &
Heidegger's thinking: about man's most obstinate adversary...

THINKING!~

Planet~Lathe II

~An atheist might conclude: if our universe where without God... man is somehow then unjustified, even to the point of maybe absurd and he would become without reason for being. If God were dead__ he wouldn't need to make any planetary adjustments from time to time! Sartre concluded the first part, after alot of hard work. I'm easy to do the 2nd part. :)

:) DUALITY :(

"Separated cosmic forces, coming together on a computer generated abstract, balanced over delicate reality of today. In dynamic photo duality, symbolizing opposites: intergrating calm & order of the human urge for our own inner personality_ (overlay); on heated coals from our collective's demand_ for social justice and cultural harmony!" In like a paraphrase, from Mysteries of the Universe. ~(:-_))-kfh
oro photo link

38.Buick

..at the "Wild & Wonderful" Mountaineer Hotel & Casino.
oro photo link

3Rooms$398

"Dave! Why three mushrooms?" link

Observer's expectations__

... whenever we lack certainty about our world, our conscious experience is heavily determined by unsupported expectations. Reality for an observer, can become an abstraction of what should be."
Greatest "stream-of-conscious" novel writer Henry James' younger__ brother Bill implied.
details link

~(XOI:IOX)~

"In the theater of consciousness:
conceptual puzzles are the rule,
whenever we encounter 'truly'
new territory, not the exception!"
link: oro photo

Mouse Cordless

O'haze a genius, wet forehead stands,
Mouse cordless window's . . . slight by a hand.
Fate's Commander: fool's turn down canvas, "All slow!"
Lake of life's ready travelers, "Yes! So, must I go?"
~(:-_))-kfh link

SisterCares

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains;
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact . . .
~Wm. Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream~

.BirdEye

A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.
~R.W. Emerson~