yet another thing to fight about

“If you want to get into a fistfight in Montana,
go into a bar
and share your opinion
about bison or wolves.”







     ( former )  Governor Brian Schweitzer - ---  Montana
















,,,,,

cognitive happenstance

translating all the information
is a most complicated negotiation

like swimming in a world of seaweed
and scum

the judgement is one of
utter disbelief

truth or consequences

Yesterday I attended the theatre.  I seated myself,
thinking I must be early.   Perhaps I fell asleep,  I
do not know:  I assert only that when I lifted my head
the columns had fallen,  weeds withered among
dusty marble tiers,   and glaucous lizards rhythmically
were breathing the somnolent noon;   and it seemed
I was in Tunis.  What meanings might obtain from this?
There could be several.










    -Evan S. Connell 
Notes from a Bottle found on a Beach at Carmel




















,,,










...

still, the effort to distinguish....

"We are halfway between the lunatic
 and the terrorist.
There is often a thin line
between petty crime
and
Al Qaeda."

    Eric Denece  - french intelligence

what's my line

But if some mind
 very different from ours
were to look upon some property of some curved line
as we do on the evenness of a straight line,
 he would not recognize as such the evenness of a straight line;
 nor would he arrange the elements of his geometry
according to that very different system,
and would investigate quite other relationships
as I have suggested in my notes.
We fashion our geometry on the properties
 of a straight line because
that seems to us
to be the simplest of all.
 But really all lines that are continuous
and of a uniform nature
are just as simple as one another.
Another kind of mind
which might form an equally clear mental perception
 of some property of any one of these curves,
 as we do of the congruence of a straight line,
might believe these curves to be the simplest of all,
and from that property of these curves
build up the elements of a very different geometry,
 referring all other curves to that one,
 just as we compare them to a straight line.
 Indeed, these minds,
 if they noticed and formed an extremely clear perception
 of some property of, say, the parabola,
would not seek, as our geometers do,
to rectify the parabola,
 they would endeavor,
if one may coin the expression,
to parabolify the straight line.

roger joseph boscovich sj

Ah!

the awareness of God
when it comes
so often strikes me as a sense
of finding myself returned
to a place that i had forgotten about
a sense of suddenly finding myself
in the presence of a great love
that i had forgotten was available to me
i find myself saying
"i missed you"
even though i had not been aware
until that very moment
that i was missing anything





   -larceny at it's finest

21st century mandate

strange warriors chanting


We strongly condemn
the use
of any violence
in connection
with protest
against abortion.

  -found on a trailer to a disturbing movie