Balancing

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Power pole, Banciao, Taiwan: photo by Aaron Aardvark is... (AntEater Theater), 18 October 2013

Your cane serves as a lever that allows you to stand up on the bus

You hobble a few steps down the aisle

Embarrassed

Swaying

Grasping the seat backs

The overhead strap

Unsteady
I wrote a letter to my love and on the way I dropped it
One of you has picked it up and put it in your pocket
It’s not you, it’s not you, it’s not you…

Someone taps you on the back

It's your stop

You lurch toward the exit 
Unsteady

Start to slip

And at the last moment catch yourself before falling

Scaffolding, Taipei: photo by Aaron Aardvark is... (AntEater Theater), 4 January 2014
 

Construction scaffold, Taipei: photo by Aaron Aardvark is... (AntEater Theater), 6 July 2009

Electrical sign installation, Tianmu, Taipei: photo by Aaron Aardvark is... (AntEater Theater), 8 October 2012
 

Welders' ladders, Taipei: photo by Aaron Aardvark is... (AntEater Theater), 16 April 2012
 

Ladders, fashion display, Taipei: photo by Aaron Aardvark is... (AntEater Theater), 11 April 2012
 

Painter's ladder with green mirrors, Taipei: photo by Aaron Aardvark is... (AntEater Theater), 2 October 2011
 

Window ladder, Taiwan: photo by Aaron Aardvark is... (AntEater Theater), 28 April 2009
 

Cheerleader balancing, Taipei: photo by Aaron Aardvark is... (AntEater Theater), 24 July 2011
 

Window cleaner: photo by Aaron Aardvark is... (AntEater Theater), 17 December 2010
 

Self-made glider (2/4): Ascent. Taiwan Birdman Competition, Luzhou: photo by Aaron Aardvark is... (AntEater Theater), 23 September 2012
 

Self-made glider (3/4): Descent. Taiwan Birdman Competition, Luzhou: photo by Aaron Aardvark is... (AntEater Theater), 23 September 2012
 

Construction workers with sand bags, Taipei: photo by Aaron Aardvark is... (AntEater Theater), 6 May 2010
 

Spoonfed alley cat on wall, Taipei: photo by Aaron Aardvark is... (AntEater Theater), 26 June 2013
 

Firetruck ladder, Taipei: photo by Aaron Aardvark is... (AntEater Theater), 10 February 2012
 

Handstand, Taipei: photo by Aaron Aardvark is... (AntEater Theater), 24 July 2011
 

Bowling mirror, Fukuoka, Japan: photo by Aaron Aardvark is... (AntEater Theater), 27 August 2007

Rooftop dog, Taiwan: photo by Aaron Aardvark is... (AntEater Theater), 4 January 2009

Rooftop dog, Guatemala: photo by Aaron Aardvark is... (AntEater Theater), 2003, posted 23 March 2010

 
Under stands, Eugene, Oregon: photo by Aaron Aardvark is... (AntEater Theater), 18 July 2010

Construction, Taipei: photo by Aaron Aardvark is... (AntEater Theater), 31 May 2009

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Berlin at night: photo by NASA astronaut Kevin Ford taken from the International Space Station using ESA's NightPod camera aid, 8 December 2012 (ESA/NASA)

A pulsating point on a map was all there was left to come home to,

Midnight codes having finally isolated

That which needed to be retained outside the cave

Into abstract pseudo knowledges, color dots

On a computer graphic illustrating how and when

The onslaught of universal electricalillumination

Had scattered trophy wounds of lightover the savanna

In a desert once some nomad's unconnected nest --

Who could then know, when the windows once aglow

In the bright hall, the hollow ball of bone,

Began to go out, what the night might yet hold,

In its great wideness, for the anxious watchman --

They glimpsed these wonders as through glass darkly

Before the cave wall slide show history ran out of power.

Berlin at night. The former division between East and West Berlin can be seen. The yellow lights correspond to East Berlin and the greener tones show West Berlin. Over twenty years after the Berlin Wall was dismantled the effects of separating the city can still be seen from space: photo by NASA astronaut André Kuipers taken from the International Space Station taken from the International Space Station using ESA's NightPod camera aid, 5 April 2012 (ESA/NASA)
 



The Netherlands at night: photo by taken by ESA astronaut André Kuipers from the International Space Station using NASA's NightPod camera aid, 5 April 2012 (ESA/NASA)

 

Naples and the Bay of Naples at night: photo by taken by ESA astronaut André Kuipers from the International Space Station using NASA's NightPod camera aid, 5 April 2012 (ESA/NASA)

Melbourne at night: photo by taken by ESA astronaut André Kuipers from the International Space Station using NASA's NightPod camera aid, 4 April 2012 (ESA/NASA)
 


Kiev, Ukraine at night: photo by NASA astronaut Kevin Ford taken from the International Space Station using ESA's NightPod camera aid, 8 December 2012 (ESA/NASA)

 

Cairo at night: photo by NASA astronaut Kevin Ford taken from the International Space Station using ESA's NightPod camera aid, 9 December 2012 (ESA/NASA)



Chinese city at night: photo by NASA astronaut Kevin Ford taken from the International Space Station using ESA's NightPod camera aid, 8 December 2012 (ESA/NASA)
 



Paris at night: photo taken by ESA astronaut André Kuipers from the International Space Station using NASA's NightPod camera aid, 10 April 2012 (ESA/NASA)

 Milan at night: photo by NASA astronaut Kevin Ford taken from the International Space Station using ESA's NightPod camera aid, 8 December 2012 (ESA/NASA)

 

 
 
London at night: photo by NASA astronaut Kevin Ford taken from the International Space Station using ESA's NightPod camera aid, 9 December 2012 (ESA/NASA)

 

Nile River Delta at night: satellite photo by ISS Expedition 25 crew, 28 October 2010 (NASA)

(NASA caption: In this view of Egypt, we see a population almost completely concentrated along the Nile Valley, just a small percentage of the country’s land area.The Nile River and its delta look like a brilliant, long-stemmed flower in this astronaut photograph of the south-eastern Mediterranean Sea, as seen from the International Space Station. The Cairo metropolitan area forms a particularly bright base of the flower. The smaller cities and towns within the Nile Delta tend to be hard to see amidst the dense agricultural vegetation during the day. However, these settled areas and the connecting roads between them become clearly visible at night. Likewise, urbanized regions and infrastructure along the Nile River becomes apparent. Another brightly lit region is visible along the eastern coastline of the Mediterranean — the Tel-Aviv metropolitan area in Israel (image right). To the east of Tel-Aviv lies Amman, Jordan. The two major water bodies that define the western and eastern coastlines of the Sinai Peninsula — the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba — are outlined by lights along their coastlines (image lower right). The city lights of Paphos, Limassol, Larnaca and Nicosia are visible on the island of Cyprus (image top). Scattered blue-grey clouds cover the Mediterranean Sea and the Sinai, while much of north-eastern Africa is cloud-free. A thin yellow-brown band tracing the Earth’s curvature at image top is air-glow, a faint band of light emission that results from the interaction of atmospheric atoms and molecules with solar radiation at approximately 100 kilometres altitude.)

 

European map of Flickr and Twitter locations. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both: image by Eric Fischer (See something or say something), July 2011 

London: map of Flickr and Twitter locations. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both: image by Eric Fischer (See something or say something), July 2011

San Francisco: map of Flickr and Twitter locations. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both: image by Eric Fischer (See something or say something), July 2011

 

New York: map of Flickr and Twitter locations. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both: image by Eric Fischer (See something or say something), July 2011

North American map of Flickr and Twitter locations. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both: image by Eric Fischer (See something or say something), July 2011



World map of Flickr and Twitter locations. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both: image by Eric Fischer (See something or say something), July 2011

Endarkenment

January 21, 2014, 3:35 am

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Chinvat Bridge, Gallicanta, Montemolin, Extremadura: photo by Angel (Angel. G-), 23 July 2004

It is not in the power of a human being to destroy his celestial Idea; but it is in his power to betray it, to separate himself from it, to have, at the entrance to the Chinvat Bridge, nothing face to face with him but the abominable and demonic caricature of his 'I' delivered over to himself without a heavenly sponsor.

Henry Corbin (1903-1978): The Paradox of Monotheism, 1976

The Path from Endarkenment (Beckton Park, London): photo by Ian Tindale, 28 August 2008

Every physical or moral entity, every complete being or group of beings belonging to the world of Light...has its Fravarti. What they announce to earthly beings is...an essentially dual structure that gives to each one a heavenly archetype or Angel, whose earthly counterpart he is.

Corbin: Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth, 1977

General Warehouse by night (Richmond, California): photo by efo, 12 January 2014

The history of the modern West is the history of "l'homme sans Fravarti."

Corbin: The Paradox of Monotheism, 1976

General Warehouse by nightNo. 2 (Richmond, California): photo by efo, 12 January 2014

It is this Fravarti which gives its true dimension to the person. The human person is only a person by virtue of this celestial dimension, archetypal, angelic, which is the celestial pole without which the terrestrial pole of his human dimension is completely depolarized in vagabondage and perdition.

Corbin: The Paradox of Monotheism, 1976

Berkeley forge. Heavy industry in Berkeley: photo by efo, 5 January 2014

I saw myself present in a world of light. Mountains and deserts were iridescent with lights of all colours... I was experiencing a consummate nostalgia for them; I was as though stricken with madness and snatched out of myself by the violence of the intimate emotion and feeling of the presence. Suddenly I saw that the black light was invading the entire universe. Heaven and Earth and everything that was there had wholly become black and, behold, I was totally absorbed in this light, losing consciousness. Then I came back to myself.

A Persian Sufi, Lahiji, quoted in Corbin: The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism, 1971

Summer, Gallicanta: photo by Angel (Angel. G-), 23 July 2004

...to leave this world, it does not suffice to die. One can die and remain in it forever. One must be living to leave it. Or rather, to be living is just this.

Corbin: Cyclical Time in Ismaili Gnosis, 1983

The Search for Enlightenment (Berkeley): photo by efo, 27 June 2008
 

Sometimes Outside My Window (Stockholm): photo by Mikael Jeney, 13 January 2014

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January 22, 2014, 3:05 am

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First Snow (Stockholm): photo by Mikael Jeney, 12 January 2014

ghost ship in winter harbour

beneath a patina of snow

glows eerily in grey gloomworld

myopic wonderment

St. Elmo's fire crackling
around starboard rigging

could be decorative wreath
of electric lights

Black is Black version (Stockholm): photo by Mikael Jeney, 16 January 2014

Old Town Stockholm, first December morning -15 degrees C: photo by Mikael Jeney, 1 December 2010

F (Stockholm): photo by Mikael Jeney, 18 January 2014

COOLD (Stockholm): photo by Mikael Jeney, 18 January 2014

Ice Fall (Stockholm): photo by Mikael Jeney, 18 January 2014
 

Ice Grip (Stockholm): photo by Mikael Jeney, 18 January 2014
 

Ice Grip II (Stockholm): photo by Mikael Jeney, 18 January 2014

You Take Manhattan

January 23, 2014, 12:24 am

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Central Park Dam, Mishawaka, Indiana: photo by David Cory, 16 January 2014

Redundant flavours
that vanished with the snows
of Kilimanjaro --

or yesteryear,
was it?

There were so many, once.

You take

Manhattan, I'll take

Moose Tracks.

Or no, you take

Manhattan, I'll make

tracks

said the Moose.

Bonnie Doon, Mishawaka, Indiana: photo by David Cory, 5 February 2010

Bonnie Doon, Mishawaka, Indiana: photo by David Cory, 5 February 2010

Bonnie Doon (with garbage truck), Mishawaka, Indiana: photo by David Cory, 5 February 2010

Statue and snow. Statue outside the Ho Ping House Chinese Restaurant, South Bend, Indiana: photo by David Cory, 24 December 2009



Post Storm 2. Landscape light turned into an apple as the heat from the bulb caused the snow piled on top to melt slightly and engulf the light: photo by David Cory, 11 January 2011



Post Storm 1. Snow plastered against the wall by the snow blower, slowly peeling away: photo by David Cory, 12 January 2011



Extrusion. A brief period of sunshine and warmer temperatures resulted in some melting of snow. The climatic conditions and the weight of the snow on this chair resulted in an effect reminiscent of the Play-Doh Fun Factory of my childhood: photo by David Cory, 8 February 2011

Snows of Kilimanjaro. Miniature golf course during a snowstorm, Mishawaka, Indiana: photo by David Cory, 10 February 2010

Evening Train

January 24, 2014, 2:39 am

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Evening train (Albany, California): photo by efo, 6 November 2012

Train whistle in cold January night

down by the water

lonesome sound 

from a long way off
amid memory forest
Harlem Avenue 1947

or 1948

late

upstairs

in the exile bedroom

at grandparents' house

across from the house

of the mysterious famous gangster

in the dark
under the attic rafters
hour after hour
imagining a meaning

to fit

the brilliant silvery word

Zephyr

Switching operations, Point Richmond automobile yard: photo by efo, 10 February 2008

Fast freight, Berkeley: photo by efo, 28 August 2005




Along the tracks, Berkeley: photo by efo, 8 February 2012
 

California Zephyr, Oakland: photo by efo, 27 November 2005
 

Drawbridge No. 8 (Richmond, California): photo by efo, 27 July 2010
 

Amtrak train 734 (Pinole, California): photo by efo, 30 April 2006


 

The Burlington Zephyr, East Dubuque, Illinois: photo by John Vachon, April 1940 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)



Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Zephyr streamliner pulling out of Union Station, Chicago: photo by Jack Delano, February 1943 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)



 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Denver Zephyr diesel locomotive and older Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive side-by-side at Union Station, Chicago: photo by Jack Delano, January 1943 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)
 

Silver Pilot. E Unit Zephyr, at Illinois Railway Museum, Union, Illinois: photo by cradek23, 12 July 2008

Zephyr, Snowy Glenwood Canyon. The eastbound California Zephyr passes through Glenwood Canyon and along the Colorado River on a snowy February afternoon. The Glenwood Canyon passage, just east of the town of Glenwood Springs, is one of the most fabled scenic stretches on the Zephyr route: photo by George Hendrix, 6 February 2010

Bait

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Christian Fellowship Church and Bait Shop, Vallejo, California: photo by efo, 21 January 2014

Long shadows cast by distant dying sun fall

downhill

People living half

in and half out of

total abandonment

The time Safeway's freezer failed

and all the perishables

ended up in the dumpster
at once

is still spoken of as a historic day

but tonight

with that hard northeast wind biting again

on the streets

nobody would want

a half melted Sara Lee frozen apple pie

Turkeys. They're everywhere (abandoned building, Touro University, Mare Island, Vallejo, California): photo by efo, 19 January 2014



Dumpster: photo by efo, 18 January 2014

John Donne: A Lecture upon the Shadow

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Family  Portrait, Lower Darnley, Prince Edward Island, Canada: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 24 January 2014

Stand still, and I will read to thee
A Lecture, Love, in loves philosophy.
    These three houres that we have spent,
    Walking here, Two shadowes went
Along with us, which we our selves produc'd;
But, now the Sunne is just above our head,
    We doe those shadowes tread;
    And to brave clearnesse all things are reduc'd.
So whilst our infant loves did grow,
Disguises did, and shadowes, flow,
From us, and our cares; but, now 'tis not so.

That love hath not attain'd the high'st degree,
Which is still diligent lest others see.

Except our loves at this noone stay,
We shall new shadowes make the other way.
    As the first were made to blinde
    Others; these which come behinde
Will worke upon our selves, and blind our eyes.
If our loves faint, and westwardly decline;
    To me thou, falsely, thine,
    And I to thee mine actions shall disguise.
The morning shadowes weare away,
But these grow longer all the day,
But oh, loves day is short, if love decay.

Love is a growing, or full constant light;
And his first minute, after noone, is night. 

John Donne (1572-1631): A Lecture upon the Shadow, from Songs and Sonets (1633)

Stairway #2. Lower Darnley, Prince Edward Island, Canada: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 15 October 2009

Stairway #1. Crane Estate, Ipswich, Massachusetts: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 14 October 2012

Dune Shadow Sunset Self Portrait: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 23 September 2010

Where Fantasy Is Fact: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 3 April 2011

This Ocean Shoreline (Rockport, Massachusetts): photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 24 February 2013

Modern Architecture with Shadow: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 12 May 2013

In the Bramble. Dogtown, Gloucester, Massachusetts: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 6 January 2013

In the Bramble #3. Dogtown, Gloucester, Massachusetts: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 7 February 2013

In the Bramble #6. Dogtown, Gloucester, Massachusetts: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 27 February 2013

Black Hole (and) Sun. Horn Pond, Woburn, Massachusetts: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 25 November 2009

Dog Walk, Early Morning, Middlesex Fells, Stoneham, Massachusetts: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 15 December 2013
 

Nelson Island #5 -- Entrance. Rowley, Massachusetts: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 15 January 2014

Nelson Island #16, Rowley, Massachusetts: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 15 January 2014

Great Marsh in Winter #11, Rowley, Massachusetts: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 22 January 2014

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[Untitled]: photo by Joshua Perez (StrangeGoodness), 14 January 2014

Progressive Kristallnacht Coming?

Thomas Perkins: Letter to TheWall Street Journal, Jan. 24, 2014 4:49 p.m. ET

Regarding your editorial "Censors on Campus" (Jan. 18): Writing from the epicenter of progressive thought, San Francisco, I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its "one percent," namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the "rich."

From the Occupy movement to the demonization of the rich embedded in virtually every word of our local newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, I perceive a rising tide of hatred of the successful one percent. There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these "techno geeks" can pay. We have, for example, libelous and cruel attacks in the Chronicle on our number-one celebrity, the author Danielle Steel, alleging that she is a "snob" despite the millions she has spent on our city's homeless and mentally ill over the past decades.

This is a very dangerous drift in our American thinking. Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendent "progressive" radicalism unthinkable now?

Tom Perkins

San Francisco

Mr. Perkins is a founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers.

The Wall Street Journal, 24 January 2014

A hyper-wealthy billionaire venture capitalist has faced ridicule after comparing the treatment of super-rich Americans to the Holocaust.

Thomas Perkins, who is thought to be worth around $8bn, made the startling comparison in a letter to The Wall Street Journal in which he wrote of 'parallels' between the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany and what he describes as the "progressive war on the American one percent".

The letter, which was published by the WSJ earlier this week, begins: "Writing from the epicenter of progressive thought, San Francisco, I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its "one percent," namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the "rich."

Mr Perkins was recently in the news after spending $150million building a super yacht called the Maltese Falcon.

Rob Willliams, The Independent, 26 January 2014

Tom will be the first to tell you that he has a big ego. He might have named this boat A Big Ego. You don't build a 300 foot megayacht with masts that are twenty storeys tall, that weighs close to 1400 tons, that cost 130 million dollars, you can't do any of that without a big ego.

David A. Kaplan, Newsweek senior editor and author ofMine's Bigger: Tom Perkins and the Making of the Greatest Sailing Machine Ever Built, interviewed by CNBC for its report Tom Perkins: The Greatest Sailboat Ever -- Maltese Falcon, 6 July 2007

[Untitled]: photo by Joshua Perez (StrangeGoodness), 21 January 2014



Venture capitalist Tom Perkins: photo by Reuters via The Atlantic, 25 January 2014

Google Bus Protest, San Francisco: photo by cjmartin, 9 December 2013

Venture capitalist Thomas Perkins' $150m yacht The Maltese Falcon passes under the Golden Gate Bridge. Photographer's caption: "This is the Maltese Falcon, the biggest privately owned yacht in the world. It is owned by billionaire Tom Perkins. It is 289 feet long and has three 191-foot masts. It had to come into the bay at low tide or else it would not have fit under the bridge. This yacht has 3-deck atrium with a circular staircase with clear glass floors, 5 staterooms, a passenger cabin, as well as a dining room and art studios. Just compare the size of this thing to the normal-sized sailboats that surround it. I can't even imagine.":  photo by Scott Dunham, 27 September 2008

Luxury Yacht For Sale: Lounge of The Maltese Falcon. I know what you're thinking...it looks more like a mansion lounge and not the living room of a yacht. Bliss: photo by Maxine Simpson (yachtfan), 25 March 2009

Luxury Yacht For Sale: A bedroom in the Maltese Falcon. Almost as big as a house itself -- the epitome of what a yacht should be. And it's for sale!: photo by Maxine Simpson (yachtfan), 25 March 2009

Luxury Yacht For Sale: Yacht Stairs, The Maltese Falcon. It's like being in a night club, not a yacht!: photo by Maxine Simpson (yachtfan), 25 March 2009

Luxury Yacht For Sale: Deck of The Maltese Falcon Yacht. Luxury yacht through and through, what more can I say? Imagine having sun downer cocktails there...: photo by Maxine Simpson (yachtfan), 25 March 2009

Maltese Falcon going Full Tilt in all her glory: photo by Maxine Simpson (yachtfan), 25 March 2009

[Untitled]: photo by Joshua Perez (StrangeGoodness), 30 November 2013

[Untitled]: photo by Joshua Perez (StrangeGoodness), 6 January 2014
 

[Untitled]: photo by Joshua Perez (StrangeGoodness), 25 December 2013

The Birds

January 28, 2014, 4:57 am

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Pope Francis watches children release doves at the Vatican: photo by Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters, 26 January 2014

A dove which was freed by children flanked by Pope Francis during the Angelus prayer, is attacked by a seagull in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday. Symbols of peace have come under attack at the Vatican. Two white doves were sent fluttering into the air as a peace gesture by Italian children flanking Pope Francis Sunday at an open studio window of the Apostolic Palace, as tens of thousands of people watched in St. Peter's Square below. After the pope and the two children left the windows, a seagull and a big black crow quickly swept down, attacking the doves, including one which had briefly perched on a windowsill on a lower floor. One dove lost some feathers as it broke free of the gull, while the crow pecked repeatedly at the other dove. The doves' fate was not immediately known. While speaking at the window, Francis appealed for peace to prevail in Ukraine: photos by Gregorio Borgia/Associated Press, 26 January 2014

A dove which was freed by children flanked by Pope Francis during the Angelus prayer, is chased and attacked by a black crow in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014. Symbols of peace have come under attack at the Vatican. Two white doves were sent fluttering into the air as a peace gesture by Italian children flanking Pope Francis Sunday at an open studio window of the Apostolic Palace, as tens of thousands of people watched in St. Peter's Square below. After the pope and the two children left the windows, a seagull and a big black crow quickly swept down, attacking the doves, including one which had briefly perched on a windowsill on a lower floor. One dove lost some feathers as it broke free of the gull, while the crow pecked repeatedly at the other dove. The doves' fate was not immediately known. While speaking at the window, Francis appealed for peace to prevail in Ukraine: photos by Gregorio Borgia/Associated Press, 26 January 2014

San Gregorio: Juan Rizi, c. 1660, oil on canvas, 100 x 125 cm; image by Enrique Cordero, 22 May 2010 (Bowes Museum)

St. Gregory the Great: José de Ribera (1591-1652), c. 1619, oil on canvas, 102 x 73 cm (Gerard Farinas/Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Roma)

Annunciation: Fra Filippo Lippi, 1445-1450, tempera on panel, 117 x 173 cm (Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Roma)



Annunciation: Fra Filippo Lippi, 1448-1450, egg  tempera on panel, 68 x 152 cm (National Gallery, London)

Annunciation(detail): Fra Filippo Lippi, 1448-1450, egg  tempera on panel, 68 x 152 cm (National Gallery, London)

Annunciation: Fra Filippo Lippi, c. 1443, wood (Alte Pinakothek, Munich)

Annunciation(detail): Fra Filippo Lippi, c. 1443, wood (Alte Pinakothek, Munich)

Madonna and Child with St. Anne: Carlo Saraceni, 1610, oil on canvas, 180 x 155 cm (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Roma)

Two Venetian Ladies: Vittore Carpaccio, c. 1510, oil on wood, 94 x 64 cm (Museo Correr, Venice)

Two Doves: Franz Werner von Tamm, n.d.. oil on canvas, 90 x 57 cm (private collection)

Robert Creeley: The Warning

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 Couple, Madrid: photo by Chuck Patch, 2 May 2012

For love -- I would

split open your head and put   

a candle in

behind the eyes.

Love is dead in us

if we forget

the virtues of an amulet   

and quick surprise.

Robert Creeley: The Warning, from For Love (1962)

 Street conversation, Berlin: photo by Chuck Patch, 2012, posted 16 January 2013
 

Wait until you see the whites of their eyes (Bourbon Street, New Orleans): photo by Chuck Patch, 21 October 2006

Street scene, Hampden, Baltimore: photo by Chuck Patch, 11 June 2011

Harry Shearer and Judith Owen as Newt and Callista Gingrich, New Orleans, Mardi Gras 2012: photo by Chuck Patch, 21 February 2012
 

Street fair, Malmo, Sweden: photo by Chuck Patch, 19 August 2012

Lanier Heights, Washington, D.C.: photo by Chuck Patch, 18 August 2006

French Quarter, New Orleans: photo by Chuck Patch, 24 February 2009

Gaudi, la Pedrera, Barcelona: photo by Chuck Patch, 1 May 2012

Street scene, Copenhagen: photo by Chuck Patch, 22 August 2012



May 2 Celebration, Madrid: photo by Chuck Patch, 2 May 2012



House, night, New Orleans, Mardi Gras 2012: photo by Chuck Patch, 18 February 2012
 

Union Station, Washington, D.C: photo by Chuck Patch, 22 June 2009

Friedrich Hölderlin: Empedokles (Into the Volcano)

January 30, 2014, 4:26 am

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Volcano above the city.. Etna's New Southeast Crater showing intense Strombolian activity and lava flow emission on the early morning of 30 December 2013, seen from the roof of the INGV-Osservatorio Etneo building in Catania. The distance from the viewing spot to the crater is nearly 30 km.: photo by Bruno Behncke, 30 December 2013

You look for life, you look, and a divine fire wells up and gleams at you from the deeps of Earth, 

and in your quivering desire you cast yourself down into Etna's flames. 

So did the Queen's exuberance dissolve pearls in wine, and well she might! 

If only you, O poet, had not offered up your wealth to the seething chalice! 

But you are holy to me as the might of Earth that bore you away, bold victim! 

And, did not love hold me back, gladly I'd follow the hero down to the depth.

Das Leben suchst du, suchst, und es quillt und glänzt
.Ein göttlich Feuer tief aus der Erde dir,
..Und du in schauderndem Verlangen
...Wirfst dich hinab, in des Aetna Flammen.

So schmelzt' im Weine Perlen der Übermuth
.Der Königin; und mochte sie doch! hättst du
..Nur deinen Reichtum nicht, o Dichter
...Hin in den gährenden Kelch geopfert!

Doch heilig bist du mir, wie der Erde Macht,
.Die dich hinwegnahm, kühner Getödteter!
..Und folgen möcht' ich in die Tiefe,
...Hielte die Liebe mich nicht, dem Helden.

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843), Empedokles (Empedocles), c. 1795, English prose version (relineated) by Michael Hamburger, 1961 

Etna's fireworks continue. The latest eruptive episode at Etna's New Southeast Crater, which started on the morning of 29 December 2013, is continuing vigorously on the evening of 30 December, though weather conditions have deteriorated and visibility is very limited. Occasionally, though, a partly veiled view of the activity is possible, like this one seen from my home in Tremestieri Etneo, on Etna's south flank, on the evening of 30 December 2013. Low jets of lava rising from two vents within the crater are visible at left, and the lava flow spilling from the crater into the large Valle del Bove depression on Etna's east flank extends diagonally across the center of the view. Above the lava flow, a dense plume of ash and vapor rises into the sky, eerily illuminated by the glow of the lava below: photo by Boris Behncke, 30 December 2013

Multiple glows at night. While we still don't know whether the new episode of eruptive activity at Etna's New Southeast Crater will eventually culminate in some stronger and more spectacular activity, on the evening of 23 January 2014 the volcano is providing a suggestive, mysterious show of fiery glows. Lava is flowing from a vent at the eastern base of the New Southeast Crater cone, accompanied by mild Strombolian activity at the crater itself -- seen at left in this photo taken from my home in Tremestieri Etneo. The glow in the center is the vent from which the lava is issuing, and the active lava front is seen at right: photo by Bruno Behncke, 23 January 20

Lava in the morning. Throughout the night, Etna's latest episode of Strombolian activity and lava flow emission (from the New Southeast Crater) has continued; much of the time, bad weather has prevented observations. At dawn on 24 January 2014, the clouds partially opened, revealing a suggestive view of the lava flow moving down the steep flank of the Valle del Bove, a deep valley in the eastern flank of Etna, where most of the earlier lava flows from the New Southeast Crater have descended, too. Taken from my home in Tremestieri Etneo, 20 km south of Etna's summit: photo by Bruno Behncke, 24 January 2014

Infernal mornings. Always an incredible experience, after all these years, to wake up at dawn, look out and see an erupting volcano before your bedroom (and kitchen) window. Etna, 25 January 2014 seen from my home in Tremestieri Etneo: photo by Bruno Behncke, 25 January 2014
 

A fire in the clouds. Etna's latest episode of Strombolian activity and lava emission continues unabated, with a slight increase in the ash content of the emissions from the New Southeast Crater seen this morning (25 January 2014). The explosive activity is rather mild, quite different from the previous episodes of activity at the New Southeast Crater in the past three years, many of which produced awesome lava fountains and huge columns of gas and loose volcanic rock material (so-called tephra or pyroclastic material). But this time the quantity of lava that is being emitted seems somewhat more significant -- only that relatively bad weather is hampering observations of the activity a lot of the time. This view was taken at dawn on 25 January 2014 from my home in the village of Tremestieri Etneo, 20 km south of Etna's summit. At left is the silent, old cone of the Southeast Crater, and the erupting new cone is in the center; weather clouds surround the "volcanic siblings" to the left and right: photo by Bruno Behncke, 25 January 2014

Ash in the sky... On the afternoon of 26 January 2014, the amount of ash emitted from Etna's erupting New Southeast Crater increased -- interestingly this happened shortly after the Greek island of Kephalonia was shaken by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake (which luckily does not seem to have caused any deaths). The earthquake was also felt in eastern Sicily. This view shows continued ash emission at sunset on 26 January seen from the village of Aci San Filippo, on the lower southeast flank of Etna. Soon after sunset, the active lava flow running down into the Valle del Bove on the upper southeast flank of the volcano since three days became plainly visible...: photo by Bruno Behncke, 26 January 2014

... and lava in the backyard. When darkness fell in Sicily on the evening of 26 January 2014, the beautiful lava flow running down Etna's upper southeast flank became fully visible. This view was taken from the town of Zafferana, on the southeast flank of the mountain, with a power pole rising in the foreground. The lava looks close, but in reality is some 8 km away from the power pole. This lava flow is now going on for more than three days, and mild Strombolian activitiy, at times accompanied by minor ash emission, is continuing at the New Southeast Crater: photo by Bruno Behncke, 26 January 2014
 

The fires are dying. The latest episode of eruptive activity at Etna's New Southeast Crater is showing signs of coming to an end soon, one week after it started. Over the past two days, the activity has been progressively, albeit slowly, diminishing, and on the morning of 29 January 2014, only very rare, weak Strombolian explosions were visible. No Strombolian activity was seen after nightfall on the same day. Likewise, lava emission has diminished considerably: at nightfall on 29 January, the active portion of the lava flow was only a few hundred meters long, as seen in this photograph taken about 16:45 GMT (=local time -1) from the town of Santa Venerina on the southeast flank of the volcano. So Etna's fireworks may soon be over for this time - and we'll be wondering what the volcano will do next and when. This latest eruptive episode has been a rather low-intensity event compared to the previous episodes, most of which were brief, violent paroxysms with high lava fountains and abundant production of ash and lapilli. The last two episodes in December 2013 already showed a tendency toward weaker but more long-lived activity; this tendency has continued with the latest episode: photo by Bruno Behncke, 29 January 2014

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1 moment = 1/40 sec: photo by Prof Alex O Chevtchenko, 21 March 2013

Onemoment

One fortieth of a second

closer

Goat Family: photo by Prof Alex O Chevtchenko, 22 December 2013

Squirrel: photo by Prof Alex O Chevtchenko, 22 December 2012

[Untitled]: photo by Prof Alex O Chevtchenko, 9 May 2012

Riverside: photo by Prof Alex O Chevtchenko, 2 July 2012
 

old street: photo by Prof Alex O Chevtchenko, 26 November 2012
 

isle scan: photo by Prof Alex O Chevtchenko, 26 November 2012
 

winter trees: photo by Prof Alex O Chevtchenko, 23 January 2013
 

deep in the snow forest: photo by Prof Alex O Chevtchenko, 2 February 2013
 

snow snow: photo by Prof Alex O Chevtchenko, 22 December 2013

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Snow storm, Roland Park, Baltimore: photo by Chuck Patch, 27 January 2011

covering over
all the colour

in the world

with white
and gray

but for a little

yellow patch
exposed tissue

where a limb

has torn

away and left

tender life

vulnerable

and open

to the cold

Northwest side, Chicago: photo by Chuck Patch, 27 June 1973, posted 2014

Nova, winter, Madison, Wisconsin: photo by Chuck Patch, 1974, posted 2014



Winter, Lake Mendota, Madison, Wisconsin: photo by Chuck Patch, 1973, posted 2014

Joseph Ceravolo: Falling in the hands of the moneyseekers

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Super Bowl on Broadway: photo by Steve Pappas, 1 February 2014

It's the quiet that we
suck out of the noise. 
The morning carries Carbon 14
a relative waste jackknifed 
in the middle of the universe.

O brook, o river, o baptism,

falling in the hands of moneyseekers.

It's the hermit that we must feel

in the multitude. O woods

O forests, o river!

It's the quiet to extract

..from the wind

Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): February 3, 1987 [Bloomfield, New Jersey], from Mad Angels (poems 1976-1988), in Collected Poems, 2013

Super Bowl Boulevard, New York City: Autograph seekers: photo by Scott Lynch (Scooboco), 29 January 2014

Super Bowl Tailgate Party signage, East Rutherford, New Jersey: photo by Stephen Arnauovic (thoroughbredzone), 1 February 2014

Clam Broth House signage, Hoboken, New Jersey: photo by Stephen Arnauovic (thoroughbredzone), 1 February 2014

Super Bowl XLVIII installation, with Manhattan Island and Empire Sate Building in the distance, Hoboken, New Jersey: photo by Stephen Arnauovic (thoroughbredzone), 1 February 2014

The calm before the Super Bowl, Hoboken, New Jersey: photo by Stephen Arnauovic (thoroughbredzone), 1 February 2014

Super Mania, 7:24 a.m.!!!!Broncos cheerleaders, Super Bowl Boulevard, New York City.: photo by JamesPolk, 31 January 2014

 Super Bowl Toboggan Run, Super Bowl Boulevard, New York City. Fake snow courtesy of the NFL (I bet that's a long liability waiver!): photo by JamesPolk, 31 January 2014
 

 
Super Bowl Boulevard, New York City: Go Broncos: photo by Scott Lynch (Scooboco), 29 January 2014

Super Bowl Boulevard, New York City: Play 60 Rush Zone or something: photo by Scott Lynch (Scooboco), 29 January 2014

Super Bowl Boulevard, New York City: Field goal kick: photo by Scott Lynch (Scooboco), 29 January 2014

Super Bowl Boulevard, New York City: Pep City, Bryant Park, Soda: photo by Scott Lynch (Scooboco), 29 January 2014

Super Bowl Boulevard, New York City: Pep City, Bryant Park, Cheetos: photo by Scott Lynch (Scooboco), 29 January 2014

Super Bowl Boulevard, New York City: Lamb Ribs at Marc Forgione: photo by Scott Lynch (Scooboco), 29 January 2014

XLVIII (Super Bowl Boulevard, Times Square, New York City): photo by Gary Burke, 30 January 2014

Super Bowl Boulevard: photo by JamesPolk, 31 January 2014

  Super Bowl Toboggan Run! (Super Bowl Boulevard, Times Square, New York City): photo by agentjlovesnyc, 28 January 2014

Toboggan Run. Taken at the construction of Super Bowl Boulevard, Times Square, New York City: photo by agentjlovesnyc, 28 January 2014

Super Bowl Boulevard, New York City: Toboggan Run: photo by Scott Lynch (Scooboco), 29 January 2014

Fox Staging Area, Super Bowl Boulevard, Times Square, New York City: photo by agentjlovesnyc, 27 January 2014

Super Bowl Boulevard, New York City: Nygard models: photo by Scott Lynch (Scooboco), 29 January 2014

Super Bowl Boulevard, New York City: Seahawks photo op: photo by Scott Lynch (Scooboco), 29 January 2014

Super Bowl Boulevard, New York City: Broncos photo op: photo by Scott Lynch (Scooboco), 29 January 2014

Super Bowl Boulevard, New York City: Xbox One house: photo by Scott Lynch (Scooboco), 29 January 2014

Domo Arigato Mr Football Roboto 4215: Super Bowl Boulevard, Times Square, New York City: photo by Brecht Bug (Brechtbug), 30 January 2014
 

Cleatus: photo by JamesPolk, 27 January 2014

Super Bowl Boulevard, New York City: Pep City, Bryant Park, Half Time dancers: photo by Scott Lynch (Scooboco), 29 January 2014
 

Super Bowl Boulevard, New York City: World Champion Steelers fan: photo by Scott Lynch (Scooboco), 29 January 2014

Super Bowl Boulevard, New York City: Football toss: photo by Scott Lynch (Scooboco), 29 January 2014

 Heimann Cargo Vision Mobile (HCV) Radiation Scanner. CBP is using these to scan all cargo trucks that are making deliveries to MetLife Stadium prior and up to the day of the 2014 Super Bowl. The HCV is used for larger trucks and Semis. The HCV puts out 4 million Mega Elctron Volts (4MeV) of radiation and is capable of looking through 10 inches of steel: photo by Josh Denmark, 28 January 2014 (U.S. Customs and Border Protection/CBP Photography)

Super Bowl Boulevard, New York City: Security: photo by Scott Lynch (Scooboco), 29 January 2014

New Jersey Air National Guardsman, Staff Sgt. Jonathan Arochas, 108th Security Forces Squadron, 108th Wing, monitors the perimeter of MetLife Stadium along with a New Jersey State Trooper. With Super Bowl XLVIII scheduled to be played Feb. 2 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., the New Jersey National Guard in cooperation with the New Jersey State Police will provide security details for the event: U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen, 29 January 2014
 
 

Office of Air and Marine helicopter helps patrol over Metlife Stadium prior to Super Bowl XLVII: photo by Josh Denmark, 31 January 2014 (U.S. Customs and Border Protection/CBP Photography)
 

Director New York Field Operations Robert Perez, Assistant Director New York Field Operations Russo, and Port of New York/Newark Branch Chief for Tactical Operations Kevin McCabe visit MetLife Stadium prior to the Super Bowl: photo by Josh Denmark, 31 January 2014  (U.S. Customs and Border Protection/CBP Photography)
  

Miiitary helicopters fly over the Meadwpwlands, East Rutherford, New Jersey, two days before Super Bowl XLVIII: photo by Stephen Arnauovic (thoroughbredzone), 31 January 201l

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Metal Works, Icknield Port Road Birmingham. Another discarded lecture slide. This one dated 10/1959 is labelled Metal works Icknield Port Rd. To my mind the focus of the slide is the BCN repair depot on a loop off the Birmingham - Wolverhampton canal. A number of work boats are drawn up waiting for materials, much of which is lying around, canal gate timbers, lock mechanisms, building materials for bank/building repairs. The roofs in the foreground contain blacksmith shops carpentry shops and stables, all are listed buildings and still stand. The photograph was taken from the north end of Edgbaston reservoir. Although the slide is 53 years old no colour work or sharpening was needed but it was covered in scratches owing to it's long use in a lecture set by Mr Maurice Steadman University of B'ham: photographer unknown, October 1959, posted by Geoff Dowling, 13 April 2012

Empty boats
in Icknield Port
        and then
        a lump of church.
Hair branches scratch.
        "Oh!",
        the wet rot musk cloud sings.
Eyes are fucked
with caffeine shots.
        Traffic pulse desecrates and stutters.
Bare will's thinned.
        How heavy are my hands?

The Little Wooden Boy: Bus note 88, from The Little Wooden Boy, Saturday, 1 February 2014

 The start of the BCN [Birmingham Canal Navigations] Main Line, 1960. The junction to the left is for the Oozells Street Loop, the original course of the canal before straightening. Taken from a boat turning even sharper left towards the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, after leaving Farmer's Bridge top lock at about 11:10 in the morning: photo by Robin Webster, 17 April 1960

The Icknield Port Loop canal, a loop canal around an industrial area, Birmingham UK: photo by David Smith, 17 March 2010

Icknield Port Loop from Rotton Park Junction bridge over the Soho Loop on the BCN Main Line Canal, Birmingham UK: photo by Oosoom, 19 March 2012



Icknield Port Loop from Rotton Park Junction bridge over the Soho Loop on the BCN Main Line Canal, Birmingham UK: photo by Oosoom, 19 March 2012

Icknield Port Road, Birmingham UK. This is the NE side of the bridge on Icknield Port Road. The last station of that name on the Harborne Branch was on the other side of this bridge and beneath this wall the land has been in-filled. That station was closed in 1931 but the line lasted in use until 1963: photo by Aan Baylis, 25 April 2011

 

Icknield Port Road, Birmingham UK. The sign is leaning so rather than correct it I've left it as it is: photo by Alan Baylis, 18 May 2011

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Suspension: photo by efo, 29 January 2014

We stood by a pond that winter day,

And the sun was white, as though chidden of God,

And a few leaves lay on the starving sod;

         -- They had fallen from an ash, and were gray.

Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove

Over tedious riddles of years ago;

And some words played between us to and fro

         On which lost the more by our love.

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing

Alive enough to have strength to die;

And a grin of bitterness swept thereby

         Like an ominous bird a-wing….

Since then, keen lessons that love deceives,

And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me

Your face, and the God curst sun, and a tree,

         And a pond edged with grayish leaves.

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): Neutral Tones, 1867, in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, 1898

crosses / marking absences (morning, Munroe Falls Metro Park, Summit County, Ohio): photo by wood_owl, 11 January 2014
 

today the snow (edge of Heron Pond, Munroe Falls Metro Park, Summit County, Ohio): photo by wood_owl, 26 January 2014
 

Abandoned orchard, Ward Hill, Andover, Massachusetts: photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 28 January  2014
 

Twister (contrail, Middlesex Fells, Stoneham, Massachusetts): photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 2 February 2014

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Le bol de lait: Pierre Bonnard, 1919; image by bodythongs, 22 September 2013 (Tate Liverpool)

The fading strains of the dying refrain
warbled by the teakettle to the timeless beauty
who spends her time in the mind that ocean
closed off from us
brought back to her through the shadows of the afternoon
a thought that might have interested us
had we but known it 
 

La femme au chat ou le chat exigeant: Pierre Bonnard, 1912; image by LN BREUT, 30 October 2010 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

The letter: Pierre Bonnard, 1906; image by mbell1975, 26 December 2010 (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)
 
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Lenticular Cloud (altocumulus lenticularis), near Mt. Hood, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 12 January 2014

Friedrich Hölderlin: Die Kürze (Brevity)

"Warum bist du so kurz? liebst du, wie vormals, denn
...."Nun nicht mehr den Gesang? fandst du, als Jüngling, doch
........"In den Tagen der Hoffnung,
............"Wenn du sangest, das Ende nie?“

Wie mein Glück, ist mein Lied. -- Willst du im Abendroth   
....Froh dich baden? Hinweg ist’s, und die Erd’ ist kalt,         
........Und der Vogel der Nacht schwirrt
............Unbequem vor das Auge dir.

Brevity

"Why so brief these days?  Don't your songs move you 

 ..as they once did? Back when you were young

......and your days were full of hope and you wanted

.........your singing never to come to an end?"

As my luck goes, so goes my song. Would you have the glow

...of the setting sun put you right? It's gone! And the Earth grows cold

......and the ungainly bird of night flutters down

.........much too near, so that you must shield your eyes.

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843): Die Kürze (Brevity), 1798, English version by TC

 

TO IMPE'ND. v.n. [impendeo, Latin.]  To hang over; to be at hand; to press nearly.

Destruction sure o'er all your heads impends;
Ulysses comes, and death his steps attends.

Pope's Odyssey

Samuel Johnson: A Dictionary of the English Language, 1st ed., 1755

Fate is the antithesis of natural law. A natural law is something you fathom and make use of, but not fate.

The use of the word "fate". Our attitude to the future and the past. To what extent do we hold ourselves responsible for the future? How much do we speculate about the future? How do we think about the past and the future? If something unwelcome happens: -- do we ask "Whose fault is it", do we say "It must be somebody's fault", -- or do we say "It was God's will", "It  was fate"?

In the sense in which asking a question and insisting on an answer is expressive of a different attitude, a different mode of life, from not asking it, the same can be said of utterances like "It is God's will" or "We are not masters of our fate". The work done by this sentence, or at any rate something like it, could also be done by a command! Including one which you give yourself. And conversely the utterance of a command, such as "Don't be resentful", may be like the affirmation of a truth.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, private notes, 1947, inVermischte Bemerkungen (1977), edited by G.H. von Wright; translated by Peter Winch as Culture and Value, 1980

impending walmart, dead of night snowing. walking around in last night's blizzard: photo by Clayton Percy, 4 February 2014
 

Scarecrow, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 4 February 2014

Frozen field, Canby, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 18 December 2013
 

Watery Grave (Wakefield, Massachusetts): photo by Jim Rohan (LowerDarnley), 6 February 2014
 

salt and ice mix. cold knees: photo by Clayton Percy, 2 February 2014
 

wet spot with lines: photo by Clayton Percy, 11 January 2014

sleet on the boardwalk 1 (yesterday's sleet storm): photo by Clayton Percy, 31 January 2014
 

wet sleet on the boardwalk (more culvert work from the day of the sleet): photo by Clayton Percy, 2 February 2014
 

Lenticular cloud, Hammil Valley, California: photo by Jeff Ross, 25 January 2014

Palm trees (Oceanside, California): photo by michaelj1998, 2 January 2014
 

Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 27 January 2014

Pier (Oceanside, California): photo by michaelj1998, 2 January 2014
 

View from the Edge of a Cliff, Cape Kiwanda, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 12 January 2014

exit: one crow tree / none crow tree (Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio): photo by wood_owl, 23 January 2014
 

Last light, Mt. Hood, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 12 January 2014

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Market, Poland, night: photo by czako_o, 27 February 2007

Dark shapes bundled
against the weather

separate, each an other

body

world closed

upon itself

no one looks up

masked passers-by

slowly

moving, known only

to the night and the cold

Market, Poland, night: photo by czako_o, 27 February 2007

Market, Poland, night: photo by czako_o, 27 February 2007
 

Market, Poland, night: photo by czako_o, 27 February 2007
 

Market, Poland, night: photo by czako_o, 27 February 2007
 

Woman on stairs, Poland: photo by czako_o, 2 May 2007
 

Railway station, Poland: photo by czako_o, 13 February 2007
 

Railway station, Poland: photo by czako_o, 11 May 2007
 

Railway station, Poland: photo by czako_o, 13 February 2007
 

Street, Sweden: photo by czako_o, 18 October 2006
 

Sidewalk, Sweden: photo by czako_o, 18 October 2006

Street, Poland, night: photo by czako_o, 12 May 2007
 

Street, Poland: photo by czako_o, 25 July 2007

Street, Poland: photo by czako_o, 25 July 2007