beware the age of transitions

SIFTERS

Speaking of why one writes, Beckett opines:

"James Joyce was a synthesizer trying to bring in as much as he could, I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can."

Neither of them lived long enough to experience our information-overload times:where synthesizing and analyzing are both almost impossible.

Bloggers, like all contemporary writers, are called to be Sifters of all this information overload! Onward with the Sifting so!!!

we are on mars

the secret mars colony

you might not remember

you might not remember 

it's happened before 

what don't you know ?

(the hidden hand now available streaming on netflix)

f r e a k s

the crazy ugly humans

ralph steadman

Police chase Flying Saucer over Ohio 1966

the more you know

A to Zen

red

Lead Belly

dawn attack

frank frazetta

9/11: blueprint for truth

A Samurai’s Creed

A Samurai’s Creed
Anonymous, Circa 1300

I have no parents; 

I make the heaven and earth my mother and father.
 

I have no home; 

I make awareness my dwelling.
 

I have no life and death; 

I make the tides of breathing my life and death.

I have no divine power; 

I make honesty my divine power.

I have no means; 

I make understanding my means.

I have no magic secrets; 

I make character my magic secret.

I have no body; 

I make endurance my body.

I have no eyes; 

I make the flash of lightning my eyes.

I have no ears; 

I make sensibility my ears.

I have no limbs; 

I make promptness my limbs.

I have no strategy; 

I make “unshadowed by thought” my strategy

I have no designs; 

I make “seizing opportunity by the forelock” my design.

I have no miracles; 

I make right action my miracle.

I have no principles; 

I make adaptability to all circumstances my principles.

I have no tactics; 

I make emptiness and fullness my tactics.

I have no talents; 

I make ready wit my talent.

I have no friends; 

I make my mind my friend.

I have no enemy; 

I make carelessness my enemy.

I have no armor; 

I make benevolence and righteousness my armor.

I have no castle; 

I make immovable mind my castle.

I have no sword; 

I make absence of self my sword. 

birth of the bomb (4 parts)

bomb shelter

NASA's Uncensored Moon Images!

"Normal"

Changes have been made to the global “normal” template.

Do you want to save those changes?

Yes.  Yes, I do want to save the changes to the global “normal” template.  I probably like the new “normal” better than the old one.  If not --- hey, it’s just a template:  I can change it anytime I want.

Your changes cannot be saved.

What?! I want to learn more about this.  Why can’t I save changes to the global “normal” template?

Your file is “read-only.”

what is the greatest ?

art is what ?

art is a lie that

makes us see the truth

pablo picasso

exit music

D-Day: 70 years ago

world at war

murmuration

25 years ago today: the courage of the tank man

one 


man 


can 


make 


a 


difference 

 
the tank man in action

raw footage

birth, life and death - samsara

Scientists Studied What Psychedelics Do to the Brain, And It’s Not What You’ve Been Told | The Mind Unleashed

Scientists Studied What Psychedelics Do to the Brain, And It’s Not What You’ve Been Told | The Mind Unleashed

mauna kea heavens

out of the blue

this exhausted mind

Rest in natural great peace

This exhausted mind

Beaten helplessly by karma and neurotic thoughts

Like the relentless fury of the pounding waves

In the infinite ocean of samsara

Rest in natural great peace

rest

more than you know

john searl

mother of god

"god is not religion,

god has no religion,

religion divides us,

spirituality brings us together."