Archive for May, 2007
MARIA CALLAS
Posted in art on May 26, 2007 | No Comments »
satisfied with not understanding the world?
Posted in art on May 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Oxford professor Richard Dawkins speaks about Children here.
“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”
When reason is under siege, reasonable people must speak. Wise words in defense of seeking wisdom
Posted in Ethics, Humanity, World Issues, tagged Children, religion on May 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Sidestepping an avalanche of evidence reinforcing Darwinian theory, its critics are pushing with worrisome success for public-school teaching of “intelligent design” — a fairy tale that hardly qualifies as a theory. This resistance to scientific scholarship is driven by fundamentalist believers, who’ve found quite a friend in President Bush.
Editorial: Wise words in defense of [...]
Julia Margaret Cameron
Posted in art on May 23, 2007 | No Comments »
To the nineteenth century public mind, even the idea of child pornography was officially remote. Although children enjoyed no legal status or protection from physical abuse or exploitation, child pornography was nevertheless unthinkable as a reality. Victorian images of children were often contradictory, children either being extolled as virtuous or else portrayed as victims of [...]
Posted in art on May 20, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s deep, the redness, and yellows of the leaves
As it’s Autumn and they’re falling from the trees
It’s cold out, but I’m happy and I’m just
sitt’n here, watching them,
them leaves.
Sign the Close the Gap pledge
Posted in art on May 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Together we can end the Indigenous health crisis.
We’ve stood together to right this kind of wrong before. In ‘67, Australians united to pass an historic referendum, affirming the basic rights of Indigenous Australians. But as long as diseases like leprosy, TB and blinding trachoma still afflict our people, that fight isn’t over. As we draw [...]
I am
Posted in art on May 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I am a shoe box
stuffed full of parking tickets
held shut with packing tape
I’m moving away
again.
i am a computer screen
overwhelmed with essay attempts
hiding lifetimes in photographs
throw them away
again.
i am a bookshelf
unbalanced and leaning leftward
spines with impossible names
they won’t read me
again
i am a person
sitting on my own
feeling sad and uninspired
waiting by the phone
I am a shoe box
I [...]
Metaphors by Sylvia Plath
Posted in art on May 14, 2007 | No Comments »
GOYA
I’m a riddle in nine syllables,
An elephant, a ponderous house,
A melon strolling on two tendrils.
O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!
This loaf’s big with its yeasty rising.
Money’s new-minted in this fat purse.
I’m a means, a stage, a cow in calf.
I’ve eaten a bag of green apples,
Boarded the train there’s no getting off.
Reflect
Posted in art on May 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
René Magritte (1898 – 1967)
(ilana-in-the-night)
Posted in art on May 6, 2007 | No Comments »
bubble bubble
barefooted boy blue
bend over
backwards.
by the way,
baby’s beyond boiling
bewildered bedtime
between
BANG BANG BANG!
rock bottom
better before….
believe what you will.
Reclaiming identity
Posted in art on May 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Central to the healing or recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder is the reclamation of identity. A major part of having this personality disorder is not having a stable sense of identity. This is, in and of itself, alone, a very painful place to be. Until a certain degree of emotional maturation and growth takes place [...]
