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Muse in the Morning

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Arcing 2

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Muse in the Morning

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Arcing A

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Then I thought that needed some oomph and achieved what is inside…

Muse in the Morning

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Snow Globe

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Then I thought that needed some oomph and achieved what is inside…

Muse in the Morning

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Floater 1

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Then I thought that needed some oomph and achieved what is inside…

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Greenroots

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Another graphic on the inside…

Friday Philosophy: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happinefs



We all grow up with a vision of what is right and just in this world.  Many, if not most, of us grow up with the idea of pursuing “the American Dream”.  For some that has meant the pursuit, as when it was first enunciated in 1931 by James Truslow Adams, of achieving a “better, richer, and happier life”.  In his book, The Epic of America, Adams stated it this way:

that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.  It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it.  It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.

Oddly, in view of today’s circumstances, Mr. Adams was a banker.

Muse in the Morning

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Face Time

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Continuation inside…

Muse in the Morning

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Streaks

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Then I thought that needed some oomph and achieved what is inside…

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Shaped

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Maybe another graphic inside…

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Mitosis

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Another graphic inside…

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Above and Below

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Saving the trees…and maybe the bats

Back in the middle of October I posted a piece entitled Save the Trees which you were all kind enough to elevate to the Rec List.  It concerned the efforts of a local group to fight the powers that be in West Orange, NJ to prevent the destruction of the Governor George Brinton McClellan Estate Old-Growth Forest and Arboretum in order that Seton Hall Prep could build additional sports field and parking lots.  This land is the only old-growth forest within the northern New Jersey metropolitan area which is unprotected and endangered.

You can read more of the background at the link above.  Tonight, however, I wanted to provide an update on the situation.

The trees have won a temporary reprieve…as well as an endangered species of bat which may or may not be using some of them.

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