19-Rack

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Solitude

Comfortable?

Leaden Paralysis is a psychiatric term.

If your thought patterns & attitudes, your very sense of self, could be altered by medication, there seems little room in the equation for the soul.

The Christian existentialist conclusion is that the soul is that which chooses.

Malfunctioning receptors may sap or boost your energy. Chemical fluctuations may create a racket in your head. But you can choose your words & actions.

Choose to reject the Voice of Doom.

MY THOUGHTS ARE NOT MY THOUGHTS ~Kathleen Founds, The Sun Magazine, February 2022

24-JUL

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Sauntering

Research/scan compliments of Dr Chuck Hillman, University of Illinois

To seriously enhance the thinking process, all you need to do is a little bit of exercise. Brain will get more blood flow, and better, more fruitful ideas.

22-JUL

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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.

21-JUL

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Landscape

Mars – Desert Planet – Void of Life

Love? I will tell thee what it is to love! It is to build with human thoughts a shrine, where hope sits brooding like a beauteous dove; where time seems young, and life a thing divine. All tastes, all pleasures, all desires combine to consecrate this sanctuary of bliss. Above, the stars in cloudless beauty shine; around, the streams their flowery margins kiss; and if there’s heaven on earth, that heaven is surely this.

Charles Swain (1801 – 1874)

Explication-of-love-by-Charles-Swain

20-JUL

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Wonderland

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

She succeeded in getting its body tucked away, comfortably enough, under her arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, just as she had got its neck nicely straightened out, and was going to give the hedgehog a blow with its head, it would twist itself round and look up in her face, with such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing.

And when she had got its head down, and was going to begin again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled itself, and was in the act of crawling away.

Besides all this, there was generally a ridge or furrow in the way wherever she wanted to send the hedgehog to.

Alice soon came to the conclusion that it was a very difficult game indeed.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (1865)

for a clever animation -> Alice and the Flamingo

19-JUL

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Mythology

But what I am anxious to arrive at is it is one thing for instance to invent those rays Rontgen did or the telescope like Edison, though I believe it was before his time Galileo was the man, I mean, and the same applies to the laws, for example, of a farreaching natural phenomenon such as electricity but it’s a horse of quite another colour to say you believe in the existence of a supernatural God.

Chapter 16 – Eumaeus, Ulysses by James Joyce