well here's something new you don't read every day

"  Let woman assert herself in all her native purity, dignity, and strength, and end this wholesale suffering and murder of helpless children. With centuries of degradation, we have so little of true womanhood, that the world has but the faintest glimmering of what a woman is or should be.  "






Elizabeth Cady Stanton  -  in response to real degradation

the death of a blog

a certain lethargy
an ennui has set in in regards to blogging
all the initial excitement about
communicaton via the blog world has subsided
now i look over the effort of a few years
and see a theme of intellectual idleness

this particular blog has been a bit parasitic
i've yanked texts from hither thither and yon
and strung them together for no great purpose

nothing in the world would change
if this were to end
the effort was completely superfluous
to everything else in the world....except for the rare human exchange that
did in fact occur

time to think of other possibilities

the light and lively breeze of original thought
settles into a cognitive doldrum

ah well
nothing is changed once more








...

such is our discipline

   In love, no certainty is ultimate...
        That elementary thing -
             the feeling that you are loved -
                 must be certified again and again,
                    because one doubt,   one mistake
                       razes everything to madness and ecstasy.






                                Mircea Eliade







 

the medium the message

                      "Neither rain, nor snow,
                                 nor sleet, nor hail
                                     shall keep the postmen
                                           from their appointed rounds."











........

the real object

“The object of education
is to teach us
to love
       what is beautiful.” 






                                                    Plato













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pathos

my heart is turning to ashes




   chung hae-sook












                - he lost his son when a boat sank off the coast of korea











........

eloquence in strange places

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjR0aPpepig










.....more poignant with the full screen


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this youtube was wrenched from cyberspace
don't know why
to some extent
it's the nature of the beast


....now it appears that the youtube is viewable
if one is invited to login