"The greatest poem ever known..."

                                             long awaited rain makes a big splash...hurray!

       biggest and brightest rainbow i've ever seen...the white on the right bottom is a 4-door pick-up truck

                                   coming and going...  seen more birds since the rain...these are happy birds

                                        lots of sand moved down the dry-washes when it rained

well i got what i wanted for christmas..."a monkey and a plywood violin"...probably should think about getting a room for the night..."It's the Presidential suite ya' know"..."Well the whole cabinet could use the bath-tub...They ought to have lifeguards"...been thinking about putting an advert on a singles site..."If you can't find love at least we can find symmetry"..."but my lifestyle does not appeal to most women..."It might get a wee bit dangerous sugar butt"...but i am always asked complicated questions about what i do..."I tempt those who can be tempted and i punish those who deserve to be punished...that is my function, my occupation,,,my job, my joy..."

heard this on a you tube lecture by John Bradshaw...on shame...

""To a Child"

""The greatest poem ever known/ Is one all poets have outgrown/ The poetry, innate, untold,/ Of being only four years old-/ Still young enough to be a part/ Of natures great impulsive heart/ Born comrade of bird, beast and tree/ And UN-self-conscious as a bee-/ And yet with lovely reason skilled / Each day a new paradise to build; / Elate explorer of each sense/ Without dismay, without pretense!-/ In your unstained transparent eyes / There is no conscious, no surprise/ Lifes queer conundrums you accept, / Your strange divinity still kept.-/ Being, that new absorbs you all/ Harmonious unit, integral/ Will shred into perplexing bits,-oh, contradictions of the wits!/ And life, that sets all things in rhyme,/ May make you poet too in time-/ But there were days, O' Tender elf,/ When you were poetry itself..."  Christopher Morley 
 

"It is time to dismiss..."

"Cei n'est pas une pipe!"...i saw an unusual pattern beneath a bush and was reaching down to pick it up when my old brain said NO!

 last night mama brought her baby to get a drink and maybe catch a kangaroo rat for dinner...maybe not....

i saw in my reptile book that the sidewinder rattlesnake is also called the "horned" rattler...all i see on this snake are a couple of white lines on top of the eyes...this animal was between 12 and 14 inches long so not a full grown sidewinder if that is what it is...the messages from the eyeballs are routed to two different parts of the brain...the old part and the new part...the old part gets the message quicker and in this case the old brain vetoed the hands move to pick up a snake....

good news...a bill was introduced in congress called the "Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act" by senator elizabeth warren and representative  hank johnson...i think that ms warren and ms harris might make a good pair for the presidential race...the current contenders...not so much...

i read this advice given by s. johnson to a clergyman in boswells life of johnson on how to write a sermon...it is also good advice on how to write a blog..."...in the labor of composition, do not burthen your mind with too much at once; do not exact from yourself at one effort of excogitation, propriety of thought and elegance of expression. Invent first, and then embellish. The production of something, where nothing was before is an act of greater energy than the expansion or decoration of the thing produced. Set down diligently your thoughts as they rise, in the first words that occure; and when have matter, you will easily give it form' nor, perhaps will this method be always necessary' for by habit, your thoughts and diction flow together."  samuel johnson 8/30/1780 

"It is time to dismiss bailouts, reject extortion attempts, and recognize that cherry-picking the past is no way to secure freedom and prosperity for the future." Washington Examiner 11/21/23  this after a special committee of African Union and Caribbean Community representing 75 countries endorsed demand that European states should pay reparations for "historical mass crimes"....i dont think so....

"Mr. (name blank), who loved buttered muffins.."

 spider skin from the spider cocoon, these spiders may be exclusively on the ocatillo  plants
 

it appears that there is a fight brewing with these foxes...

been having nightmares about the conflict in Gaza...i youtubed generational trauma and assume that both the Israelis and the palistinians are about ate up with generational trauma...there will be no end to this conflict...noble warrior culture...i dont think so...

also wanted to see what was available about carl jungs thoughts about UFO sightings...he wrote a book called "Flying saucers, a modern myth of things"...i have never been too interested in UFO but now i have twice seen lights in the desert sky...can not ignore it...as i can not identify these lights

had a big climate summit...ha ha ha...not a mention of population control yet! how stupid is that...

picked up an encyclopedia of sherlock holmes...for a dime...will soon begin to carry a penang lawyer and might find some serum of anthropoid to get my libido up and running

went to mexico this morning  for a tooth exam and a cleaning...one extraction=$50 one cleaning=$25 100 50mg antibiotic=$9 parking=$6...got a headache but the dental work needed to be done... 

"Mr. (name blank) who loved hot buttered muffins, but durst not eat them because they disagree with his stomach, resolved to shoot himself; and he eat 3 buttered muffins for breakfast, before shooting himself, knowing that he should not be troubled with indigestion..."   from Boswell's "Life of Johnson"

"No Mans error..."

                                           

have not seen any white tailed antelope squirrels which used to way out number the round-tailed ground squirrels...the foxes seem to have good coats and are really thirsty...i bought a new waterbowl today so there will be more water available

lots of helicopters flying low over the mountain-top...maybe someone decided to climb the trail to the top and fell jnto a crevasse...more food for the vultures...

well finished the 3rd season of "la Femme Nikita" and a basic overview is that all the characters first of all need to get laid...they are all trained to kill...and they need to get laid...and they are all devious...and they all need to get laid...and they are all sociopaths and they all need to get laid...and everyone wants to kill their co-workers...and they all need to get laid...Nikita shoots fast and kills with great frequency...and she needs to get laid...just a  suggestion...

"No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it."  Thomas Hobbes

"The germ of dissolution..."

                                     home sweet desert...near the cargo muchacho mountains

                                                 el centro is right up the road a ways...

i see where ms. Omar has filed a "resolution of disapproval" to stop the usa from supplying the Israeli military with bombs...however smart they may be...5000 dead children...sounds dumb to me...

i watched a movie a few days ago that i feel compelled to comment on..."Altered" (2006) 88 min. directed by eduardo sanchez with "creature" make-up by mike elizade...the movie is about some "good ol' boys" who go out into the swamp to capture a stupid alien monster hereafter referred to as SAM...these fellows are not strong on brain power...it seems that one "Timmy", brother of one of the guys was killed by SAM and now they seek revenge...they find one of these creatures and wrap it and chain it and haul it to the home of a friend nearby...the friend is too stupid to say no but his girlfriend ain't no fool and decides to get out of dodge...but she is detained by so called boy friend and tied to the bed and DUCT TAPE is put over her mouth...duct tape plays a bit part in this movie...the boyfriend is a nit wit and the SAM bites on the guys and is butt ugly...the creature is sort generic ugly with large teeth borrowed from half a dozen other monsters...it moves so fast you can not see how it is built but it likes to bite...now as ugly as this monster is once it bites someone they sort of break out with a serious case of ugly...mr elizade has done great job of creating very disgusting humans gone wrong... until the last 20 minutes or so i have no complaints about the acting or the directing or anything else...but the dialogue goes all to hell when the monster is loose and the girls boyfriend starts to tell the monster to take him and leave the others lone...what a loser...one of the bite victims has decayed into an open sore and they keep telling him he will make it...and the other one gets into a tug of war with his own intestines with the monster and he finally ends up stuffing is intestines back into is stomach...sort of (one of the better intestine shots is in "Machete" when mr Machete swings down the side of a building on someones intestines...) anyhow one guy pleads to be killed and he is finally obliged...as it turns out the girl (Hope) is the only one who has enough guts (so to speak) to come in with a pistol an blow SAMs brains out ; the boy-friend says that if the  monster is killed the whole monster clan will kill the entire human race...if these clowns are any example of the human race they deserve to be whacked...anyhow the last 20 minutes should have been re-written in my critical opinion...the girl is worth saving but the rest of the lot ain't worth pissin' on...even the sheriff's deputy is a loser...a dead loser

if you want to watch some seriously depressing on utube there is "Daniel Schmachterberger"...an introduction to the meta-crisis...i think the lecture on the Cerruti Mastodon is much more interesting as the speaker shows the evidence being used to say the 130,000 year old mastodon was eaten by a homimid in california..

 "The germ of dissolution of our federal government  is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scarecrow) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and  little tomorrow and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States and the government of all be consolidated into one."   Thomas Jefferson (letter)

"It is the first step..."

 glad to see the foxes and the kangaroo rats still live here...no antelope squirrel yet

i am living the dream that  wernher von braun had when he saw the first satellite hurled into space on his rockets...he said that the entire globe would be able to access information in the future... i sit in the desert/forest/swamp/etc and and able to see what is posted online...such as "Alan Watts on Carl Jung and the Philosophy of Good and Evil"...a must see posting...also "Face your Dark side" Carl Jung and the Shadow...also saw B. Obama in a 45 min. dialogue on AI...glad to know he is still in there making reason popular again...

i see where China has taken back their inbred pandas...when i was in the national zoo thee was a baby elephant across the sidewalk from the panda which i much preferred to watch...i view more than intellectual stuff however and would recommend Jason Salmon "Bisquits and Gravy" and Mark Normand "out to Lunch"......i crunch my big toe as i got out of the truck this morning and for a while had the "Byronic Limp"...but all better now....i did view "The Expendable" 1-2-3 and was entertained...one seldom hears a action hero like stallone say " i just go my ass kicked"...i heard the best line i have yet heard on "The Sopranos" last night when tony tells his son that he needs to "kiss gods as for the rest of your life"...great stuff....

"It is the first step in sociological wisdom to recognize that major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur; like unto an arrow in the hand of a child. The art of free society consists first in the maintenance of the symbolic code; and secondly, in the fearlessness of revision, to secure that the code serves those purposes which satisfy an enlightened reason. Those societies which cannot combine reverence to their symbols with Freedom of revision must ultimately decay either from anarchy, or from the slow atrophy of a life stifled buy useless shadows, "  Alfred North Whitehead..."Symbolism. Its meaning and Effect."

"Mens indignation, it seems"

                                      can in the desert with bayonet stab wounds

                                   remains of the tank tracks from training of Patton's troops
 

effects of wars last a long long time...Hillel the elder a revered Jewish religious leader was asked   what was the essence of Judaism....his reply was "Do unto others as you would have done to you."...one of the most quoted phrases from the Moslem holy book is "Allah is merciful"... so we can pretty much rule out religion as the cause of the current conflict in Israel and Palestine...i picked up a DVD called "30 days" created by Morgan Spurlock...all of the segments were great but one which is a good insight into the Moslem faith is called "Muslims in American" about a devout Christian who spends 30 days in a predominantly Muslim community and dresses as a Moslem eats as a Moslem  and prays 5 times a day with the Moslem's (as a Christian)...it is quite interesting how this man deals with this change in his life and how it changes his world view...one of the better discussions on the internet is from the Ralph Nader radio hour segment called "Strategy of Annihilation"...mr., Nader's family is from Lebanon and he is not in favor of the current US relationship with Israel...

i have watched several Robert Sapolsky lectures and one of the better ones is called "Biological Underpinnings of Religiosity"...also there is  a lecture on "Brian Gender" which is very informative and should be viewed by anyone who wants to stay relevant about the multitude of gender issues...i see where the Musk Mellon said something about the term "CIS" being anti heterosexual...according to Sapolsky CIS has to do with how one views themselves not who one has sex with...

i see where is is becoming popular in some circles to criticize  ms spears the entertainer...she apparently has some issues (as we all do) and she is still wealthy...i would recommend  that she spend some "face time" with ms "Jewel" ( i dont know if that is her first name or her last name) but she is another pretty blond entertainer except she spends some time in trying to reach some level of "self actualization"...,and did not take her "stardom" to define her...and she is a good yodeler...

"Mens indignation it seems is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior."  Thucydides