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Dec 02 2010

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Please note: patience is not one of my virtues…heh.

SPECIAL NOTE: a small announcement: I will be hosting another Party here Friday night… same bat time same bat channel.

I. Animal / Spirit Totems

So, in my last Friday Night Party essay (the DD Rummage Sale) I popped a Poll in there. It was almost an afterthought, certainly spur of the moment… but I felt inspired to add it there, not really knowing what kind of response it would get. What the heck, I thought.

The concept of Animal/Spirit totems is one of those trendy things that I happen to like a lot. Even though I usually hate trendy things. So… I figured I’d embellish & explore a bit more here, after the jump.

So what do you imagine is your totem?

Mine:

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White Crane, Heron, Egret  

Dec 02 2010

Muse in the Morning

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Muse in the Morning

Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

I may not be different, but I’m definitely not the same.

–William J. Dybus


Ornamental 9

Dec 01 2010

Muse in the Morning

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Muse in the Morning

Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.

–Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare


Ornamental 8

The following was written for a previous World AIDS Day.


Planet

Days Will Come

Days will come

when sanity will

regain supremacy,

when disease will

be battled without

political consideration,

when people’s deaths

will not be occasions

to seek out

personal advantage.

But not today.

–Robyn Elaine Serven
–December 1, 2005

Nov 30 2010

Muse in the Morning

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Muse in the Morning

Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

If you don’t control your mind, someone else will.

–John Allston


Ornamental 7

Nov 29 2010

Muse in the Morning

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Muse in the Morning

Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

We need – and should encourage and honor – not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values.

–Walter Moberly


Ornamental 6

Nov 28 2010

Idiosyncrasies: Dragon’ s Head

Sunday, Nov 28 2010 Note: This is a Draft Rescue. FWIW. I started it months ago and never got back to it. (Procrastinate much? moi??) It’s really just a little ditty. Decided to go ahead and publish it, more to clean out my Draft Folder as much as anything. I’m in purge mode these days. ~LL

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I got plenty. I don’t know where I come up with some of these, I swear. But it’s entertaining sometimes. heh.

…  the Dragon’s Head …

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Nov 25 2010

Muse in the Morning

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Muse in the Morning

Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

One who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints. 

–Proverb


Ornamental 3

Nov 24 2010

Muse in the Morning

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Muse in the Morning

Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

–Ralph Waldo Emerson


Ornamental 2

Nov 23 2010

Muse in the Morning

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Muse in the Morning

Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.  If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened.  But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

–Friedrich Nietzsche


Ornamental

Nov 22 2010

Muse in the Morning

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Muse in the Morning

Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

–John Locke


Pierced

Nov 22 2010

Just Looking

Posted at Daily Kos and as “My Views from Last Week” at Star Hollow Gazette.

I have a few pleasant photography stories to tell from a week ago. Between the autumn color and the desperation of one last warm weather week, it was a good week for a photo buff. Now don’t go busting my bubble by just looking at the photos because you can learn a lot from a photographer. We see things.

Below you will find a Third Rock from the Sun brief encounter during an evening walk in the Village. I have several memories from a lecture I attended on photojournalism. There is a pleasant Veterans Day walk under the George Washington Bridge on the New Jersey side followed by a sunset from the New York side. Then a Friday afternoon walk in Central Park with some music videos I made and all day Saturday there too. There is even a little taste of Florence, Italy.  

Nov 21 2010

Conscience and Conviction

(Crossposted from Orange, and also posted at Writing in the Raw.  buhdy, my friend, this one is for you, because you catalyzed this at least in part.)

This has been a hell of a year.

And I don’t mean that in a good way.  It’s been the culmination of four years of stress, grief, anger and pain.

A silver lining exists, though, and that has been the journey I began in late spring, trying to reconnect with my deepest self.  Recently, an exercise in my ethics class (UUF) really shocked open the vague sense of unease that had been nagging at me for a year or two.  The exercise was the selection and ranking of my ten most important values.

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