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06-Spin

Ballet of Campbell
Steps of City Hall

Is it worth while in any individual case to look for the meaning of a dream, supposing that dreams have any meaning at all and that this meaning can be proved?

The psyche is the most baffling phenomenon with which the scientific mind has ever had to deal. Although we must assume that all psychic phenomena are somehow, in the broadest sense, causally dependent, remember that causality is no more than a statistical truth.

Carl G. Jung
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05-Lotr

Life On The Row

Heaven hovers over. It has lofty qualities, a divine atmosphere. It’s a spiritual shelter of continual security, a state above humanity’s most exalted hopes & desires. But the celestial firmament is not a place of rest. Even the angels work. They have their God given assignments.

THE WORD (1958) by Edna Sarah Beardsley (re: heaven)
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04-Donk

Equine

Donkeys on Shore

Descendant of the wild ass, the donkey is a domestic member of the horse family used for hauling goods since 4000 BC.

Donkeys are also related to zebras, although they’re often stockier, stronger and have much different personalities.

Female donkeys are called “jennies” or “jennets,” and a female ready to breed is known as a “broodmare.”

Ass is interchangeable with donkey, and “jackass” refers specifically to a male donkey. But a jackass is not a mule, and all burros are not jackasses.

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03-Pill

The three pillars stood out clearly now, three pillars topped with two cross pieces in a way which looked stupefyingly familiar to Arthur’s addled brain.

“The three pillars,” thundered the man. “The Steel Pillar which represented the Strength and Power of the Galaxy!”

Searchlights seared out and danced crazy dances up and down the pillar on the left which was, clearly, made of steel or something very like it. The music thumped and bellowed.

“The Perspex Pillar,” announced the man, “representing the forces of Science and Reason in the Galaxy!”

Other searchlights played exotically up and down the righthand, transparent pillar creating dazzling patterns within it and a sudden inexplicable craving for ice-cream in the stomach of Arthur Dent.

“And,” the thunderous voice continued, “the Wooden Pillar, representing…” and here his voice became just very slightly hoarse with wonderful sentiments, “the forces of Nature and Spirituality.”

The lights picked out the central pillar. The music moved bravely up into the realms of complete unspeakability.

“Between them supporting,” the voice rolled on, approaching its climax, “the Golden Bail of Prosperity and the Silver Bail of Peace!

The whole structure was now flooded with dazzling lights, and the music had now, fortunately, gone far beyond the limits of the discernible. At the top of the three pillars the two brilliantly gleaming bails sat and dazzled. There seemed to be girls sitting on top of them, or maybe they were meant to be angels. Angels are usually represented as wearing more than that, though.

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING, Chapter 8, by Douglas Adams

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02-Nity

Setting the Session

Q: We’ve zoomed in September & October – how has that helped you?
A: Helped understand geometry.

Q: I’m glad to help. Who else have you asked for help?
A: Math teacher. Honors students.

Q: Tell me about your teacher. Is he/she good at explaining things?
A: They’re about to go on maternity leave.

Q: What does your teacher look like?
A: Pregnant.

Q: Tell me about your math class. Is it sometimes interesting, or always boring?
A: 30 people, 30 minutes, 5 days per week. Many days just study hall.

Q: How are your friends doing in math? Who is the smartest?
A: Lori

Q: When was your last test? How did you do?
A: October. Fine. 70 out of 100. C-

Q: When is your next test? How will you prepare for it?
A: Friday. Do review today.

Sophomore Sketchpad
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01-Wash

Finally, got our Wish!

We’re going,” he said excitedly, and shivered with energy.

“Where? How?” said Arthur.

“I don’t know,” said Ford, “but I just feel that the time is right.
Things are going to happen. We’re on our way.”

He lowered his voice to a whisper. “I have detected,” he said, “disturbances in the wash.”

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING, Chapter 2 – by Douglas Adams

Modern Color Wheel
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30-Tisa

Utilitarian

Artisan & Impression
Behind Campbell Avenue
Mural outside TheArtBeat.net

Materialist world is the Bubble world. It’s inhabitants live inside a consumer-driven, status-obsessed bubble.

Possession is key. Those who can see beyond the walls of the bubble are deemed mad & deluded.

Glimpse of Truth will burst the fragile walls.

The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith
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29-Lico

Expansion

In the Hills Above Silicon Valley

Venture capitalists expect some of businesses they back to fail; if that never happens, they aren’t taking enough risks. Similarly, a government program aimed at advancing technology is bound to end up with some lemons; if it doesn’t, it’s not extending the frontier.

Paul Krugman
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27-Reba

Magnitude

Meteor fireball streaks in sky above Sakurajima Volcano

map
Happens in the first 20 seconds. Continue to watch for lightning in cloud.

Human thought is still best described by metaphor, poetry, & other literary devices to express what we do not fully understand. Experience is a matter of sensibility & intuition, of seeing & hearing the significant things, of paying attention at the right moments.

Garry Kasparov
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26-Tops

Unforgettable

Exhausted! by G.Garchar (2022)
Sutro Tower by G.Garchar (2022)
Presidio of San Francisco

Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. What do you see?–Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries.

But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster–tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. 

How then is this? Are the green fields gone? What do they here? But look! here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and seemingly bound for a dive.

Strange! Nothing will content them but the extremest limit of the land; loitering under the shady lee of yonder warehouses will not suffice.

No. They must get just as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in.

And there they stand–miles of them–leagues. Inlanders all, they come from lanes and alleys, streets and avenues–north, east, south, and west. Yet here they all unite.

Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Gibson Girls by Charles Dana Gibson
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24-Link

Psychodelic

Artwork Inside Philz Coffee
Artwork Outside Philz Coffee

Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup and looking up I noticed I was late. Found my coat and grabbed my hat, made the bus in seconds flat. Found my way upstairs and had a smoke, and somebody spoke and I went into a dream.

A Day in the Life by The Beatles
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21-Ursa

Resistance

Rosanna Rossi

La República de California was an unrecognized breakaway state from Mexico, that for 25 days in 1846 militarily controlled an area north of San Francisco.

Mexican officials had been concerned about a coming war with the United States and the growing influx of Americans into California. The rebellion was covertly encouraged by US Army Captain John Frémont.

California Republic” appeared only on the flag the insurgents raised in Sonoma. It indicated their aspiration of forming a republican government under their control.

The Bear Flag Revolt and whatever remained of the “California Republic” ceased to exist on July 9 when US Navy Lieutenant Joseph Revere raised the United States flag in front of the Sonoma Barracks and sent a second flag to be raised at Sutter’s Fort.

Kalindi says, “Get out by 2010.” (cd found in my junk drawer)
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20-Hill

Gorgeous

EXIT

Hobbes describes life as “nasty, brutish, and short.”
Keltner believes evolution has given Homo sapiens emotions like gratitude, joy, amusement, and compassion.

On the Science of Awe by Mark Leviton Thomas

Humans Appreciate Art

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18-Vote

Taxaracum

The Return of John Kiltman

A colorful character in downtown Campbell, we’ve seen him previously on July 10. Notice he’s got a dandelion in his hat, mismatched shoes, and no tires on the rims of his bicycle. Here he’s regaling my friend with entertaining tales of his encounters with police.

BTW, the scratch visible on the inside of his left leg is one of many on his skin that looks to be getting infected. Hope his immune system is as strong as his personality.

No Accounting for Taste in Entertainment
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17-Tada

GAME MULTIPLICATION TABLE

The Six Simple Files of Gamultable.com ← ACTUAL GAME

Reflect on the spirit embodied by monks at the Monastery of Christ in the Desert. Their daily work period is for 3 hours until 12:40 PM. Asked of one monk what he does when the bell rings but he feels that his work is undone, he replied, “You get over it.”

Four Hours by Oliver Burkeman\

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11-Pulp

Oceanography

Out of the Deeps by John Wyndham
(1st published 1953 England as The Kraken Wakes)

In this novel forty-one million Englishmen die, but it is only suggested through the hardships of one couple.”

Richard H. Tyre – emphasising that effective writing involves understatement.

Men will gain infinitely more knowledge, insight, and eventually more products, from mastering the depths of the sea than from spending billions more trying to achieve conquest of sterile space.”

Jacques Yves Cousteau [all wet]

Haunting the seas from Norway through Iceland and all the way to Greenland, the Kraken would attack vessels with its strong arms, and having a taste for human flesh would devour the ship’s entire crew at once.

Release The Kraken!

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05-Ount

Witchcraft

Coastland & Curtner by Joe

Halloween Will Be Here Soon

EDGAR 

Come on, sir. Here’s the place. Stand still. 

How fearful and dizzy ’tis to cast one’s eyes so low!

The crows and choughs that wing the midway air show scarce so gross as beetles.

GLOUCESTER 

Set me where you stand.

King Lear (Act 4, scene 6, by Shakespeare)
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03-Cast

What does it mean?

Found this diagram in some library book.

Re: “termite castle” culture – Swarms of termites build castle-like structures without supervision or a centralized plan. Working independently without communication or a leader, they proceed using environmental cues.

Map -16.47, 144.89

Back in 2012, as we drove south on the Mulligan Hwy in Australia and got down on the valley floor, we must have passed thousands of little termite castles.

Unfortunately, my environmental cues were not strong enough to make me stop the car and take a picture of any of those many interesting insect homes. Not one closeup photo; sad.

Mulligan Highway
Everlasting Impressions of Australia
16 photos · 11 views

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01-Hoof

Winding

Then came the Autumne all in yellow clad …

Russian Ridge Trail (No Sign of Putin)

Then came October full of merry glee …

The Faerie Queene (1590) by Edmund Spenser

Suffer no exceptions to the program, and maintain momentum. It’s critical to know what motivates, how to push that extra mile.

Stick to a regimen. To stay engaged, new challenges are needed. Repetition or comfort means it’s time to find a new target for one’s energy.

Garry Kasparov
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30-Loat

Perspective

This art was also found in K’s backyard. (Who is the artist?)

Cross your eyes to overlap images and see 3-D.

Humanhood stands somewhat aghast before #soul; stands awe-inspired in fear and reverence, while it communicates with #conscience as being very near. It understands conscience who is soul’s agent or moral representative.

The Word by Beardsley

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29-Spin

Circularity

Dial from Vintage Radio Police Scanner (found in K’s backyard)
Work of Art by M

Not darkness, for that implies an understanding of light. Not silence, for that suggests a familiarity with sound. Not loneliness, for that requires knowledge of others. But still, faintly, so tenuous that if it were any less it wouldn’t exist at all: awareness.

WWW:WAKE by Robert Sawyer
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28-Punt

Percolation

Community Center, Campbell
Half-mile South – Along the Los Gatos Creek Trail

Walk a fine line between flexibility & consistency. A strategist must have faith in his strategy and the courage to follow it through and still be open-minded enough to realize when a change of course is required.

Garry Kasparov
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25-Lift

Gathering

Hoist it to Our Host
Simon Said What?

Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention.

Salman Rushdie
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24-Tune

Astronomy

(Thanks Barb!)

On this night in 1846,following the marvellous calculations of Le Verrier of Paris and Adams of Cambridge concerning the celestial phenomenon known as the perturbations of Uranus, Herr Gaulle of Berlin discovered the existence of a new planet, one of the greatest triumps of theoretical astronomy. The planet was named Neptune

Book of Days by Elizabeth & Gerald Donaldson
Front Cover of Book of Days
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23-Nuts

Seasonal

September Paw Paw, the largest edible fruit indigenous to the United States.
and Bolts

Spend some time in your mind. Sit down, close eyes, palms upward on knees. What an empty cavern! Fill it with the realization that without your mind, you would be just another sack of shit. Then think of something else.

2 + 2 = 5 always gets me

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21-Gamp

Conversation

Heartbeat Cafe – Cambrian Park

Affirmation mode requires saying something positive, whereas an affirmation format produces a positive affirmation no matter what you put in the blanks.

Fill in the blanks with a negative expression:

I love everything about ______________________.

e.g., I love everything about “waiting for answers”.

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17-Post

Reconnoiter

Along the Guadalupe River
Mural at Campbell Community Center by M. Luna & Alber De Matteis

Time of great explorers has passed but there are still precious territories to discover. We can explore the boundaries of our own lives. But before we go exploring we’ll need a map telling which areas of mind are still uncharted.

Garry Kasparov
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16-Land

Routine

Not A Park
37.28,-121.88

Banana Public

Explorers:

  • Plan the route
  • Marshal resources, discarding any excess
  • Maintain a sharp tactical eye, never back away unless certain
  • Remain alert for dangers, aware of changes in environment
  • Energize with new confidence and inspiration
How Life Imitates Chess by Garry Kasparov
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15-Leap

Exploration

Apollo Space Capsule

Jojo was a man
who thought he was a loner
But he knew it couldn’t last.
Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona
For some California grass.

Get back, get back,
Get back to where you once belonged.
Get back, get back,
Get back to where you once belonged.
Get back, Jojo.

“Is Tucson in Arizona?” John checks with Paul as The Beatles write “Get Back” – New Yorker cultural-comment

What’s at LunarData.com?

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13-Look

Transportation

Three Creeks Trail & Bike Path at Willow & Bird
K stopped under Light Rail Crossing Gate on Dupont St
Paved Path between Caltrain and 87

Two of us riding nowhere
Spending someone’s
hard-earned pay
You and me, Sunday driving
Not arriving, on our way back home

We’re on our way home
We’re going home”

Two of Us by The Beatles, Let It Be (1970)
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12-Dirt

Archaeology

You and I have memories
Longer than the road
That stretches out ahead”

Two of Us by The Beatles, Let It Be (1970)

385 million years from now the world will be vastly different again as well, while the universe, during the same time period, will have changed insignificantly (in comparison to its totality, of course).

The point is: you don’t have to move all that far from where you are now to experience expanded consciousness. Merely step outside. Go to the beach if possible.

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04-Down

Rooftop

Part way into the third DVD you can sense how intensely the Beatles have their feet to the fire. But, Paul pulls it together, so diplomatically:

The movie’s director, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, says, “Tomorrow, with the nine cameras, if we do tomorrow, there is a kind of, ‘Something will happen’.”

Paul replies, “No, it’s the best bit of us, always has been and always will be, is when we’ve got — when we’re backs against the wall and we’ve been rehearsing, rehearsing, rehearsing.”

Paul then glances over at John, “And he knows it’s a take on the dub. And he does it great.”

The Beatles: Get Back (2021)

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26-Trak

Framework

Willow Glen Plaza
Odd August (6-day week!) <- click to get current month

I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises, and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the Earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire–why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express & admirable; in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals–and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

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22-Push

Underground

That yellow tubing is state-of-art material for natural gas pipeline.

Work is the way you occupy your mind and hand and eye and whole body when they’re informed by your imagination and wit, by your keenest perceptions, by your most profound reflections on everything you’ve read and seen and heard and been a part of.

You may or may not be paid to do your work. Work is a world apart from jobs. –Alice Koller, quoted in Sun Magazine

Work Is When You Put Off Playtime

twitter.com/ggarchar
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20-Rock

Takeoff

This Way to the Rocket Launch Live
Spinning the Engines up to Speed

Thousands of operations are performed before the rocket can leave the launch pad, and dozens of engineering cameras track these operations.

This is also a good preview of NASA’s super heavy-lift launch vehicle, the Space Launch System (SLS), mankind’s new vehicle for the next trip to the Moon.

The first flight of Artemis and the full Orion spacecraft is scheduled to launch on SEP 05.

Update: The launch date was actually Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at 6:47 AM (UTC).

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15-Yomi

Representative

Stephen Crowley/The New York Times (Jan 2017)

Judy Woodruff: There are a lot of Democrats who are changing their registration.

Tamara Keith: There are not enough Democrats in Wyoming to help her win. That said, she has the Cheney name and is unlikely to disappear from the political scene, certainly.

Amy Walter: And a lot of Democrats nationally are writing checks to her. She has a very big bank account right now. She’s not going to spend it all down even in this primary. You can’t spend that much money in Wyoming.

Voters are pissimistic about the economy and think that Biden and Democrats aren’t doing a good job and believe Republicans would do better. That’s what you make the campaign about.

The more the campaign is about Donald Trump, January 6, abortion, the better it is for Democrats. It becomes really a choice election, instead of a referendum.

And even if it is a referendum between Biden and Trump, that’s probably pretty good for Democrats, not very good for Republicans.

PBS Newshour

24-Risk

Often Focused

Drinking at least two cups of coffee a day could decrease the risk of death from cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.

Coffee is rich in polyphenols, a group of compounds with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity which can be divided according to their chemical structure into flavonoids and non-flavonoids.

National Library of Medicine

22-Seat

Reflection

AM-arqstudio, Braga, Portugal (2021)

If the space terms predominate in the expression for the interval between event-points, the interval is said to be space-like, since it is then possible to select a co-ordinate system–belonging to an observer with an admissible velocity, in which the events appear simultaneous, and therefore separated only spatially.

If, however, the interval is time-like the events cannot be simultaneous in any co-ordinate system, but there exists a co-ordinate system in which the space terms will vanish entirely, so that the separation between events will be purely temporal, id est, occurring at the same place, but at different times.

A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959)

20-Tool

Resolution

Channel fear into action (paradoxical intention); Energize Fear:

  • Fear of sickness.
  • Fear of damages.
  • Fear of regrets.
  • Fear of remorse.
  • Fear of guilt.
  • Fear of grief.
  • Fear of irrelevance.
  • Fear of death.

Let the channeling begin: ACTION!

16-Trug

Turbulence

Success is measured by the opposition you encounter, and the courage with which you maintain the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Marden

Eschew sidewalks and low hanging tree branches; walk in the middle of the street, and listen for the notes of traffic.

06-High

Fort Myers

Caloosahatchian Yearbook 1936 – Bud Baker

Forward – If, in this annual, the staff of ’36 can help to cast a backward glance over many pleasant, carefree hours spent in M.H.S. and cause us to live again those happy days of youth, we have reached our goal.

Fort Myers High School