Rolling Deep

 

"I have no more dress rehearsals to attend. Look closer: I am licking my lips." - Major Jackson

Venuses Of Antiquity

Venus of Pazardzhik

6,500 years old

5" tall of clay

Venus of Lespugue

26,000 years old

6" tall of ivory tusk

Venus of Willendorf

30,000 years old

4.4" tall of limestone

Venus of Amiens

23,000 years old

1.57" tall of chalk

Venus of Hohle Fels

42,000 years old

2.36" tall of mammoth tusk

Abuses Of Power

Wild and consequential times.

How to reconcile my local life sailing on, insulated by caste system privileges, while politics on a state and national level are a dumpster fire of predatory exploitation, unabashed dehumanization, willful dismissals of inconvenient truths, and personal rather than public agendas?

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing." - Alexei Navalny (d. 2024 in a Russian prison)

And yet I am realizing for the first time that the Serenity Prayer is aspirational. With wisdom's clarity, I have deep capacity for courage and serenity. Without it? Where do I have agency? How do I protect myself? How do I protect others?

It is a miracle when we experience the rare grace of epiphany and an equal wonder when we navigate forward without it, bumbling our way through uncertainty the best we can. 

Mercury In Retrograde

 

A doozie indeed.

Aren't We All A Little Extra?

 

Vacation Club got me to finally sit down and watch this. I am late to the party, but what a lovely party it is. Everyone's invited.

All That's Holy

Two books:

a poetic memoir of living/dying

and

case studies in nueroplasticity

Seal Teeth

 

If you ever need to be reminded how astonishing the world is, Google "seal teeth".

Ben urged me to do just that yesterday and then stood by as my mind was blown. SO FANCY. At first, I couldn't believe they were real, but Ben assured me he had learned about them in first grade science.

They're a bona fide natural wonder.