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11-AUG

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Dedication

After the Battle

The officer standing in the center of this group of Union soldiers after the battle of Antietam is Lt. Alonzo Cushing, who died less than a year after this group portrait while fighting in Gettysburg during Pickett’s Charge.

Sitting at left is Evan Thomas, who was killed in ambush by the Modoc Indians a decade later in California.

07-AUG

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Surrealism

Lofty Lucidity

Don’t worry about tomorrow; who knows what will befall you today?

–Yiddish folk saying

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

–Isaac Asimov

You’re at that age when everything Mother Nature gave you, Father Time is taking away.

–Milton Berle

26-JUL

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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

Pneuma prothymon, hē de sarx asthenēs.

  • Pneuma: to breathe; the human spirit, inner disposition.
  • Prothymon: willing, eager, ready.
  • Sarx: flesh – physical body, or human nature in its frailty.
  • Asthenēs: weak / without strength.

“The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” (Mark 14:38)

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.

24-JUN

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Association

maybe two with command potential – ouch!

Psuedo-religious attitudes and entertainment to sooth outrage; nationalism & militarism unrestricted by constitution; intolerance to differences; use of force to centralize control; decisions made in secret.

So, So Proud

11-JUN

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Mechanization

Baked • Slaked • Shaken

Feeling tired? Run down? Worn out by a facial and shampoo? Consider yourself better off than the model at center (above), who seems to have dreamed she was an astronaut in a vibro-massage bra. She will presumably arise like some assembly-line Aphrodite, renewed in spirit if mildly mortified in the flesh.

This menacing array of instruments for self-enhancement was put together to show the variety of space-age beauty equipment now available, but it almost seems better calculated to prove the French maxim: il faut souffrir pour etre belle.

  • Vapor & Heating Machine
  • Ozone Vapor Spray
  • Hood & Comb Dryer
  • Belt Stimulator
  • Spot Reducer
  • 2 Hand Rollers
  • 3 Kinds Of Sun Lamp
  • 6 Massage Machines
  • Massage Couch
  • High-Frequency Massage Comb

Sending satellites to Venus, or aspiring to Venus-like charm, one is getting to be as complicated as the other. Over this photograph the London magazine Queen put the simple heading “All Systems Go!”

As they say, you must suffer to be beautiful.