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Thomas Hadfield's photostream Its not often I get to take pictures of war items; personally, I think war is a horrid thing, despite a lot of people justifying it. Regardless, the Iconography from it is strong, and striking.

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24 photos by Thomas Hadfield; Just getting some of my work out there before I start regular updates.

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I used to have a beard. Really. Thats me. :D

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A picture I took at a local witch shop, Mystic Moons. The owner is an old friend and she lets me take snaps. :D 

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Perhaps I am old.

Perhaps I am old. I remember a time when society was VERY different. Our parents did their best to raise us, coming into the fact that two parents HAD to work to support children, while their parents, our grand parents just shook their heads and wondered why the man of the relationship simply couldn’t support the entire family working 50 hour work weeks.  We where spanked. We where yelled at. In elementary school, the teachers let the boys fight, as long as no sticks or rocks, or serious harm came to be. These boys afterwards, regardless who won, knew what it was like to be punched, to be kicked. To be hit, and struck by one another, and they knew that no matter how angry they where that hurting the other person didn’t solve the problem.  The girls where just as brutal, only with words and social ostracizing, rather then striking (most times anyhow.)   Heck, in grade one, I was knifed by a kid across the face and chest, because one girl talked to me, and not him. Things where rough, yes. Never in my adult life has a day passed that I thought, ‘I outta just knife that guy’.  Its never happened. I grew up before the internet was a thing, before excite, and astavista where search engines, and long before netscape navigator. The earlier modems I recall where 28k, not even 56k. When the internet came out originally, it was for ‘nerdy dorks’ and the truly gifted that understood things like 2600hz ona  payphone where considered ‘wizardly’. Slowly it changed as e-commerce became a thing, and then the invent of true social media. As soon as people from all over the world started connecting, it truly changed the societies we all lived in to a degree.  Now, if you dont tweet, or tumblr, your ‘an old guy thats out of touch’. At least for me, thats what Im told. And thats the thing; people only know what they can perceive and mentally and spiritually metabolize. My children are being raised in a world that is hyper connected, and its difficult for my children sometimes to put their devices away and disconnect from the internet and reconnect online.  I’ve seen families and loves break apart because of things that the latest chatgroup has shared, as ‘12 ways you can tell if hes looking for another woman’ and ‘15 ways you can tell if shes unhappy’. People take these kinds of things very seriously, and really to the heart. From a generation that had to be raised by our grandparents, while our parents worked, its an alien thing really. Is it any surprise that some of our values come from not our parents, but our grandparents, as our parents toiled, all the while telling us to ‘fight the power’? As I see it, and again, maybe I’m old, but what we have is a society online, and a society in real life. The online society is now moving to real life, and some of it is good; progress with civil liberties, and movements for groups that wouldn’t have existed because they where too small in their demographics that they lived in. Some of it however, is toxic. What we gained in acceptance we lost in the ability to have moderation. Just because someone has an idea, or a belief doesn’t make it a good or safe one. It is my hope that each and everyone who reads this post seriously looks at not just what they are doing, but the repercussions it has on the world they live in and the real people that are around them, not just the online communities that they get lip service from.  But maybe Im old.

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I have not tumblred in a long time, to find someone else has been using my account. Bad! Bad person!

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Php

So I'm learning php, by teaching myself. You can shake your head at my futile attempts @ www.rubyobelisk.com

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Randomthoughts

It is an awkward time when I realize I like my staff more then half my family. Even the staff that threaten to punch me in the face, and the ones that talk incessantly about cute boys to me.

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Thoughts.

When we exist for our possessions, then they are that which posses us.

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Woooah.

If I was a monk, and I had another friend that was a monk, would we be two tem-pals?

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Tumble nub here.

What does Cis stand for, when referencing a person? My brain thought it meant cello in symphony, but I don't think my brain is correct.

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Mah face!

So, apparently I have this weird dental condition where my wisdom tooth has a claw around the nerve bundle in the left side of my jaw. The tooth is infected so its gotta come out.. So. The surgeon is talking permanent nerve damage. Woo. But you know what? A good friend of mine has advanced distonia and alien arm syndrome. So I need to suck it up. Also, a staff member threatened to punch me yesterday, and apparently I made a stupid smirky face so now my sales manager thinks I like have younger female staff strike me. Damnit.

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Tramadol thoughrs

When in tramadol, this occurred to me. "With enough caramel, these orange sticks taste just like apples with caramel on them. Holy shit. These orange sticks are carrots."

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wdwsparkles

I miss the good old days when staff would threaten to punch me in the face. #tramadolthoughts

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Jumpkick. What a funnyword. Like. Really. Crawlkick? Kneelkick? Makingbreakfastkick? TakingmySATwhilecheckingmypriveledgekick? Really. Jumpkick.

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I miss the good old days when staff would threaten to punch me in the face. #tramadolthoughts

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Some days I want to roll in the ocean like a great blue whale. Sometimes I want to frolick in green glens. But then I remember, whales get killed and delete get poached. Man. I need to be a blue whale sized MINOTAUR!!!