give me some of the old fashioned chivalry

If I were the last man on the planet to think so, I would want the honor of saying no woman should go before me into combat to defend my country. A man who endorses women in combat is not pro-woman; he’s a wimp. He should be ashamed. For most of history, in most cultures, he would have been utterly scorned as a coward to promote such an idea. Part of the meaning of manhood as God created us is the sense of responsibility for the safety and welfare of our women.




                                           John Piper








...

stumbling toward peace

the weak
cannot forgive.


forgiveness is an attribute
of the strong.














                     Mahatma Ghandi


















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rage against coddling

At every step the child should be allowed to meet
the real experience of life;
the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.






                                                Ellen Key
















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adam's core

At the end of his Ph. D. dissertation,
    Karl Marx wrote: 


      “I hate all the gods,
           and I hate them because they do not recognize
             Man as Supreme Divinity.”














...

eliot squirming

april
along with being the cruelest month
and national poetry month
is now the sexual assault  awareness month






...april seems burdened






....so much to think about as spring surges










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news of a relative in Walhalla ND 1899

J. A. DeLisle

and Wm. Martineau

sold

$81,000 worth of cattle on Saturday

 to

Montana parties.


















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nobody ever said space travel was going to be easy

I had to make my own distortion.


 Back in the ’50s, there was Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee,...


 but ‘Rumble’ don’t sound like ’50s rock and roll.


                          It sounds like outer space.












                                             the immortal
 
                                                    LINK WRAY












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flatlander divine eros

Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things:
One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in Hell.
The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on Earth
and you should save it for someone you love.







                               -- Butch Hancock












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sometimes the world is like a cognitive stripclub

In his book on the nude,
Kenneth Clark says that being naked
is simply being without clothes.
The nude, according to him,
is a form of art.
 I  would put it differently:
           to be naked is to be oneself;
            to be nude is to be seen naked by others
             and yet not recognised for oneself.
              A nude has to be seen as an object
                in order to be a nude.






                                      John Berger...     + January2017








I was for many years an ardent fan of this man's writing
and I think now I will go back to his books








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