"...who have not one virtue..."

after 30 minutes of trying i finally got this image to upload from my photos...

so what in the hell is this internet thing anyhow!?...i looked it up and came across this information "How big is the internet in 2025-Data, websites and users explained" (5 min) Nextzen Tech...and it says 5.4 billion users daily or 67% of the global population...1.3 billion websites...but only 200-250 million of these are maintained...google does 100,000 searches per second or 8.6 billion per day...of course all of these numbers must be taken as possibly inaccurate, some wildly inaccurate...i was recently told that everything i have ever written on these blogs could be erased with a single key stroke...maybe...maybe not...i have probably pissed someone off somewhere...one thing for sure is that humans on planet earth are using the internet very enthusiastically!...i would like to be able to download into my hard drive some of the youtube presentations that i find inspiring...i did just this a few years back but now it seems to be harder...one of the things that i have noticed is that more and more of the presentations are bogus information...should some oversight group edit this crap off the internet?...well, maybe a personal "bullshit meter" needs to be used..."The most mysterious language on earth isn't even human"...(18 min)...this is about bio-semioics which concerns how biological stuff communicates and how "...survival patterns become meaning systems"...mind stretching stuff here..."meaning is never fixed, it lives in context..."meaning may be more fundamental than matter..."wow! this are heavy concepts...chew on this for a while...and now some music i have listened to and enjoyed....mr micah nelson has a very good presentation with "Particle Kid" (this name according to mr nelson derives from his father once refering to him as "prodigal son"... "Golden Hair/ When you dance" these songs seem to be almost incantations and micah presents as a full blown Druid...great guitar work and vocals...more of this!...listened to a lot of older joan armadtading...what a songwriter!...there is a 24 minute interview with ms. armatrading from paul cashmere (Noise11) from australia...and "weakness in me" Radio 2 piano room (3:20)..listen to the words!....show some emotion!..."cotton pickin kids" have a great presentation with "I'll fly away"...excellent  harmony!...also i listen to Juice Newtons (official video) of "Angel of the morning"...brings back memories of long ago...i listened to the great radio show "American Routes" last week with nick spitzer from new orleans and heard some roots music from "The Charioteers" a gospel tune called "All Gods Chillun Got Shoes"....this song is actually about the extreme deprivation suffered by american negros to the extent that they could not afford proper footwear....and now some of them obtain very expensive shoes...(i heard that some "restitution" proponents are saying that according to their calculations great britain owes about 130 TRILLION! dollars to the offspring of former enslaved people...thats a lot! )....you might like a single short lived musical group called "The Dirty Mac" with a video called "Yer Blues" with 4 experienced musicians...namely john lennon, eric clapton, keith richards (on bass!) and mitch mitchell on drums...good stuff...whatever happened to those guys? ...i just heard that "Guns and Roses" will go on a big tour next year...same hair, same hat...same ol same ol same ol...i heard where a musical group called "Deer Hoof" got tired of the big business of music and decided to release their latest offering on "craigslist" ...whatever it takes...i think with current political climate in the USA we should be on the alert for the creeping "GLEICHSCALTUNG"...it might happen here! got to go as the sun is shining bright and "miles to go before i sleep..."

"...who have not one virtue to rub against another in the field of active life, and yet perhaps, in the life of contemplation, sit with the saints." robert louis stevenson from "The lantern Bearers" (1888) here he describes some of the people in his community who seem simple but have rich inner lives.
 

"...creation is ALWAYS the successful resolution"

top image is of the insect when first encountered after a rainy night...the next image is of another giant rainbow which was only visible for about 40 seconds, the camera was handy...the next image is of the same insect after some of the water drops were knocked off it...the bottom image is of shattered glass....which is how my mind feels occasionally....

 in the last couple of weeks or so i have encountered some very stimulating ideas from the internet and reading some great articles in the "new york review of books"...an especially stimulating presentation from "the silent thinker" entitled "Spinoza explains why guilt is the oldest disease of the spirit" (34 min)..i don't know why i have not read more of this humble lens grinders ideas...this poor guy was thrown out of his jewish church and it was forbidden for anyone to speak to him...he was way too intelligent to be sucked into the very flawed world view that was being propose at the time...he died at the age of 44 probably due to glass dust in his lungs...mr steven west on "Philosophize this!" has a couple of interesting segments on Spinoza also...another radical presentation i encountered (i doubt if any of these youtube presentations i encounter are strictly random chance) ... "What does lying do to your energy field?" the hidden library (20 min) this view astounded me...and makes sense on several levels...and "Living with synchronicity: Marie-Louise von Franz and C.G. Jung " (the Jungian Aion) 38 min...some excellent learned commentary is presented regularly by Sabine Hossenfelder with her "bullshit" meter "Is it pointless now to fight climate change?" and "What the HELL is wrong with Europe"...ouch!...i always like to see what "Animalogic" and Danielle Dufoe has to offer and i was especially pleased with her "Andean Cat- the rarest cat in the world" these tiny felines eat a lot of viscachio? which look like a sad rabbit...i worked at a place that had several of these animals which are strictly forbidden in the USA...also the veterinarian at the N.O. zoo after much research figured out how to do artificial insemination in felines....this might be of some interest to these rare cat conservationist...also Ms. Defoe said something i have never heard anyone say....which is that people might want to get a game camera and set it up at night to see what critters are around...i think more citizen science would help the professionals with more information...much as the large population of birders have become an important source of information for bird conservationists... i looked at a lot of music videos...with the recent death of Jimmy Cliff one of the better known "island" music performers i came across Ernest Ranglin the so called inventer of reggae and ska , a very good guitar player...more later past my bedtime...."

"...creation is ALWAYS the successful resolution of internal conflict or anxiety..." Dale Salwak 

 

"Be a channel...."

 like so much we encounter in the visual world there are sometimes only shadows to inform us

this beautiful lake in the desert attracts birds and vegitation

this western grebe was a constant resident in this place where the water flowed at all times

lost/misplaced my so called smart phone yesterday morning...this is a more traumatic experience than i had assumed...had to buy a replacement at the walmart yesterday and set the damned thing up...well the phone lady in the phone department was adamant that she had no obligation to help me with a "pay as you go" phone...and so she was no help at all....the news seems to be pretty negative. as the federal government of the USA has not figured out that no funding stalls a lot of government activity...i think the other governments (city/county/state) are determined to keep society more or less running...i did not plan to fly anywhere anyway....enough of the human errors in the world...some of my reference material was/is on the errant phone (lost or stolen ) so i will look to the notebooks and my memory...since new york city is much in the news recently i will start with a very good article in "The New York Review of Books" from may 23, 2024...the article is about the building of supertall buildings  in new york city....'".., in light of all the other urgencies the profession should be addressing instead-climate change and social equity being the two most urgent- the devotion of so much talent, money, and effort to erecting ever higher "supertalls' and "megatalls" verges on the obscene. The world is burning- literally and figuratively- this flagrant waste of capital and imagination makes the biblical parable of the Tower of Babel all too easy to comprehend as both the most ancient and most modern of human follies." last lines from "Supersize that?" by Martin Filler...i think they should allow people to jump from the top of the tallest buildings with and without parachutes...there is a very good youtube presentation by Dr. Andrew Huberman who interviews Dr, David Fajgebaum about "Using existing drugs in new ways to treat and cure diseases of brain and body." (2 hours)..this fascinating discussion illustrates how multi-disciplinary approaches to treating ailments has proved to be very productive...this just in...elon musk allowed mucho money by tesla board...like a trillion bucks if he can make tesla stock price rise...the robot army awaits..."Ultra Hardcore" is a good article in New York review of books (jan.18, 2024) which gives some history of elon musk...his life is different from your life...and i do not begrudge him is wealth as it seems to me most everything he has sought to develop is a positive influence on humanity..."Seeking the truth"(30 min) is a good youtube presentation about the author leo tolstoy 

this guy was born into a wealthy family and inherited the family estate when his parents died...he inherited 330 serfs (slaves?) which was a great influence on his life...

his best known book is a huge volume and he said it was not a novel...he kind of rejected the life of social parties and self indulgence after a while and the plight of the economically oppressed interested him much...never read it...but his was an interesting life....i listened to one of the latest musical offerings from Ms Florence Welch called "Buckle"...a very good vocal presentation and good lyrics...this poor girl has not had much luck in the relationship department if her songs are to be taken as personal experiences...she is one of my favorite female vocalists and sings with great power...HOWEVER! i did notice that at the end of one of the presentations of "Buckle" (the one one where she is facing to the left and wearing a sort of veil thing)...there are at least a dozen or more persons or entities shown (credits)...she got robbed! the crook (shirley kurata) who gets credit for "costume design" had no costumes to design...that veil don't hardly count as "costume"...and the rest of the vultures should be given the boot also...ms. Welch needs to spend some quality time with lucas nelson and study his wonderful musical presentations like "Hallelujah"...the one where he sits crosslegged on a bed with a camera and a guitar....forget the damned superfluous production crap...this woman has too much talent to let it be "produced" to death...by the way she is pretty but needs to come to the realization that she is older today than she was yesterday and she will age like everyone else...get over it..."Ancient Aboriginal (australian) History" rock carvings deeper meaning (22min)(rob dogs vlog) this is a good not overproduced viewing of some old, old, rock carvings...GET AMONGST!..."Little Chinese Everywhere" is still putting out some great youtube presentations....visiting a village with german inhabitants was exciting for Flo who speaks the language...a couple of weeks back Mr. Flo had a splitting headache as they ended the show...well DUH!...he was eating any food that was dropped on his table which is a big no no...undoubtedly poisoned by some jealous russian..."trust your friends, but cut the cards"...is a good reminder to be cautious at all times....

"Be a channel, not a dam"...a huberman