Ice & boom & snow

tierra ~ viento ye fuego

We shot their bold chief at the head of their band

He died like a warrior with his bow in his hand.
When they saw their brave chief lie dead in his gore
They whooped and they yelled and we saw them no more.

Sioux Indians
Pete Seeger

Where have all the flowers gone..

Where have all the flowers gone..
long time passing

Breathe in the converging realms of awareness

Sometimes the days end speaks ….
and encourages
a continuity & closure.
"Embrace the beauty & temporality of the moment.
Breathe in the converging realms of awareness
that your ancestors could see
so clearly … the infinite , the finite are bound
in the synergistic miracle that is your life. "

Are Sustainability & Civilization incompatible...

Dominant culture is killing the planet

More than 150 species are going extinct daily...
background rates—or rates of extinction are a thousand to ten thousand times background rates

fall

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.
O troupe of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words.
The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.
It is the tears of the earth that keep her smiles in bloom.
The mighty desert is burning for the love of a blade of grass who shakes her head and laughs and flies away.
If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars…

Stray Birds By Rabindranath Tagore

Crow fly by

Hermann Scheer - Interview

River Park

Trashing city streets

NYC sanitation workers throw garbage on side walk obstructing parents & children near PS 102

When I asked if they were aware that children going to school had to pass here , one of them said " go call a trooper"

Trait diversity is more significant than biodiversity..

for spices migrating through the matrix hostility of the human landscape

Hey, look yonder, tell me what's that you see

Marching to the Afghanistan war...

Public Spaces

lagrima

Dirty Air Kills
Pollution knows no boundaries. It crosses state lines, creating nationwide health problems.

But the EPA is fighting back with its proposed Good Neighbor Rule, which will limit air pollution from power plants and prevent at least 23,000 heart attacks, 26,000 hospital visits and 240,000 asthma attacks, according to EPA estimates.

Conventional Cosmology is in dire need ...

of a prodigious amount of dark matter

Sinking Ship

Sinking Ship

The ship was sinking---and sinking fast. The captain told the passengers and crew, "We've got to get the lifeboats in the water right away."
But the crew said, "First we have to end capitalist oppression of the working class. Then we'll take care of the lifeboats."

Then the women said, "First we want equal pay for equal work. The lifeboats can wait."

The racial minorities said, "First we need to end racial discrimination. Then seating in the lifeboats will be allotted fairly."

The captain said, "These are all important issues, but they won't matter a damn if we don't survive. We've got to lower the lifeboats right away!"

But the religionists said, "First we need to bring prayer back into the classroom. This is more important than lifeboats."

Then the pro-life contingent said, "First we must outlaw abortion. Fetuses have just as much right to be in those lifeboats as anyone else."

The right-to-choose contingent said, "First acknowledge our right to abortion, then we'll help with the lifeboats."

The socialists said, "First we must redistribute the wealth. Once that's done everyone will work equally hard at lowering the lifeboats."

The animal-rights activists said, "First we must end the use of animals in medical experiments. We can't let this be subordinated to lowering the lifeboats."

Finally the ship sank, and because none of the lifeboats had been lowered, everyone drowned.

The last thought of more than one of them was, "I never dreamed that solving humanity's problems would take so long---or that the ship would sink so SUDDENLY."

Daniel Quinn

boom lift

How many galaxies fit within a mans consciousness …