"As the soil..."

 new lens=micro-nikkor Nippon kogaku Japan=vintge $30

two images from "Seeing the Insane" sander Gilman (1982) female="the masturbator in a state of physical collapse" from Rozier 1830 (more female sexual condemnation) male image="monomania with delusions of military grandeur" gericault

this image is from "the yoga system of health and relief from tension" by yogi vithaldas...I used this book to instruct me when I was 19 years old and this is one os the most useful poses I found for keeping the spine limber....I highly recommend yoga exercises as a beginning to bodily awareness...combined with meditation and good diet the result is unsurpassed for spiritual advancement...and one feels energetic all day....

so I just watched v. Putin and d. trump on c-span holding a brief news conference  which is a much better image than relentless images destruction and death...I have neglected to mention a couple of regular YouTube presentations by "Little Chinese Everywhere" the last two...one in the desert and one with sweet melons...(I have not viewed the one posted today)...I hope the department of agriculture is taking note of all the great fruit and vegetables that are being seen in china...bring some of those seeds here...also "Philosophize this" has a good review of  with"A philosophy of self-destruction"(#233) the quality of these intellectual interpretations remains high...Lindsay Nikole did an excellent review of hammerhead sharks and stalk eyed insects...and the latest presentation illustrates why you have to be tough to get all those tattoos!...

"As the soil, however rich it maybe, cannot be productive without culture, so the mind without cultivation cannot produce good fruit." Seneca