Category Archives: Woodland

31-Late

Growth

Little Garden

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly, or modestly.

Mao Tse-tung

25-Wary

Assimilate

The stronger the soul and the flesh, the more fruitful the struggle and the richer the final harmony. God does not love weak souls & flabby flesh. The Spirit is a carnivorous bird which is incessantly hungry; it eats flesh and, by assimilating it, makes it disappear.

Kazantzakis

19-Pulp

Delicious

Baobab Tree

Baobab fruit dries naturally on its branch instead of dropping and spoiling, it stays on the branch and transforms into a hard coconut-like shell. The pulp of the fruit dries out completely producing a delicious pure fruit powder.  

If the opinion that men might live very comfortably on virtue only, be a notorious error; no less false is that position of some writers of romance, that a man can live altogether on love; for however delicious repasts this may afford to some of our senses or appetites, it is most certain it can afford none to others.

Those, therefore, who have placed too great a confidence in such writers, have experienced their error when it was too late; and have found that love was no more capable of allaying hunger, than a rose is capable of delighting the ear, or a violin of gratifying the smell.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749) by Henry Fielding

16-Need

Phases

And a youth said, Speak to us of Friendship. And he answered, saying: Your friend is your needs answered.

The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran (1923)

The moon is a constant companion. It’s always there, sometimes shining brightly, sometimes obscured by clouds, but it’s a reassuring presence in the night sky.

Like a friend, the moon is ever-present yet often silent, offering its gentle light and gravitational pull to Earth and all who gaze upon it.

ChatGTP

14-Folk

Intention

Walhalla by Max Bruckner (1836-1918)

Half of those who die in combat enter Valhalla, while the other half are chosen to reside in Fólkvangr.

Folkvangr by Frostwalkers

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution.

Aristotle

02-Wild

Inner Coast Range

Sunol Regional Wilderness

Flag Hill at Sunol Wilderness is a slab of ancient sea floor which, in response to pressure from below, was tilted up more on one side than the other, revealing a cross-section of its sedimentary layers.

The hill shows a vegetation pattern typical of the inner coast ranges. During summer, the hot sun dries the south-facing slope. Only grassland and soft chaparral can survive under these conditions. On the north-facing slope where moisture lasts longer, trees thrive.

Sunol is one of the most beautiful parks in the Bay Area.

28-Bump

Tree Trunk

Don’t strut too tall!

Update April 28, 2023: The real tragedy is having had to make a decision in the first place.

Update April 28, 2024: The ultimate tragedy is having made the wrong decision through limited thinking: selfishness. Regret.

24-Keep

Troubled Bridge

What society thinks of as reality is the hypnosis of social conditioning, an induced fiction in which we are all collectively participating.Deepak Chopra

Update April 26, 2023: still waiting for results of yesterday’s MRI.