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"You have to lose yourself to find yourself."

Willem Dafoe.

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are evil dragons really evil, or are they just vitamin D deficient?

(pt 2)

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Sigourney Weaver by Helmut Newton

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Haiku Practice

He holds on tightly

Sun beats down upon the rocks

This mountain is steep

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Abandoned shop, where over decades the once decorous dummy deteriorates.

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September 25, 1954 — see The Complete Peanuts 1950-1954

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November 25, 1954 — see The Complete Peanuts 1950-1954

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I’d rather let my spirit fly free, than be caged by religion. Become a Buddha not a Buddhist; become a Christ not a Christian. One implies an awakened state of consciousness, the other a dogmatic approach to life.” “God” is too big for one religion. Love & quantum physics are my religion. At one level, all religious traditions have the same aim—to transform the individual into a positive being. I love Jesus, I love Shiva, I love Krishna, I love Buddha. All rivers lead to the same ocean. “I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us.” ~ John Lennon ~

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Shaftsbury Avenue

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Art is communion not communication. 

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Old Compton St. Summer 2020. 

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The pyramids of Giza, imagined by Athanasius Kircher based on traveler’s reports, from Sphinx Mystagoga (1676). At the time, the Jesuit scholar was convinced he had successfully solved the enigma of the Egyptian hieroglyphs. As John Glassie wrote last year, Kircher was “a premodern man caught up in the middle of what’s now called the scientific revolution.”

However, despite posterity, as Daniel Stolzenberg points out in the Public Domain Review, in his day Kircher was one of Europe’s most successful scholars.

He embodied the contradictions of a moment when recognizably modern ways of thinking about the past had become available, yet older and conflicting models remained appealing and, to many, persuasive. As such, he allows us to explore a side of history too often lost to view. Without this view we cannot fully grasp the work of thinkers like Galileo or Descartes, much less understand the age on its own terms.

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