Here I am at the beginning of a whole new adventure in my life and trying not to engage in too many birth cries; I'm a little overwhelmed and getting my bearings. Kinda like learning to breath in a new atmosphere you could say. In the same way that a newborn isn't going to be any kind of a conversationalist, for the moment I'm going to just be quiet for now. I just had to do this first.
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- Steve
- Tucson, Arizona, United States
- I'm another one of those funny monkeys running around modifying my reality to keep a smile on my face. In more practical terms I'm a sculptor who at this point is trying to make a living putting smiles on other peoples faces by making beautiful work at reasonable prices. Keep looking and you'll see what I mean.
Some of the people I listen to, sometimes
- http://arlenegoldbard.com/
- Hildy Gottliebs blog
- Tu Scene
- Dispatches from the Culture Wars
- Daily Kos:Te State of the Nation
- Pandagon
- thoughtfood
- Arizona Eclectic.
- Bitch Ph.D.
- Once Upon A Time
- firedoglake
- this modern world
- Illustration Friday Night
- Figleaf's Real Adult Sex
- Alice Miller, child abuse and mistreatment
My other blog, the more professional, polite one
Untitled-One of my newer pieces
Media-concrete, steel and plant (Dykia remotiflora)
Some of the words I try to live by
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.-Erich Fromm
Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive, you’ll be dead soon enough.-William Saroyan
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.- George Bernard Shaw
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.-Basho
The wise man says, “I am looking for the truth,” and the fool, “I have found the truth.”- Russian proverb
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.-Andre Gide
I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector.-William Stafford
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.-James Thurber
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well ordered or confused.-Spinoza
The world is as we are.-Hindu saying
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.-Ludwig Wittgenstein
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.-Miles Davis
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.-Chinese proverb
The thing we tell of can never be found by seeking, yet only seekers find it.-Abu Yazid Al-Bistami
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you’ll know right away what you amount to. And what is your duty? Whatever the day calls for.-Goethe
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right
person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose,
and in the right way, that is not easy.
-- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! Had I the ability,
and could reach the nation's ear, I would today, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting
reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire;
it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, the earthquake.
The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused;
the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed;
its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.
-- Frederick Douglass
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship,
design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying,
take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure,
program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.
--Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
Two of the gravest general dangers to survival are the desire for comfort and a passive outlook.
--U.S. Army Ranger Handbook
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
--Albert Einstein
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family...
Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men.
I lose something by it, to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs,
opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.
--Albert Einstein
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
-- Richard Moss, M.D.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get
yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days
is to go about repeating the very phrases which our
founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
-- C.A. Beard
When it shall be said in any country in the world, my POOR are happy,
neither distress nor ignorance is to be found among them; my JAILS are
empty of prisoners, my streets of BEGGARS; the AGED are not in want,
the taxes are not oppressive . . . when these things can be said,
then may that country boast its constitution and its government."
I PUT the following work under your protection. It contains my
opinions upon Religion. You will do me the justice to remember,
that I have always strenuously supported the Right of every Man
to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine.
He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his
present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
-- Thomas Paine
If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed;
if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly;
you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against
you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight
when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
--Winston Churchill
Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free;
so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free,
you will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license";
and they will define and define freedom out of existence.
--Voltarine de Cleyre
By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and
individual rights are performed by governments ... The major crimes throughout history,
the ones executed on the largest scale, have been committed not by individuals or
bands of individuals but by governments, as a deliberate policy of those governments
...that is, by the official representatives of governments, acting in their official capacity.
--John Hospers
Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.
-- Michael Ventura
Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B', 'A' is most likely a scoundrel.
-- H. L. Mencken
They know how to think. From the Arabs I have learned one thing:
if you are led by Authority, that means you are led by a halter.
-- Adelard, circa 1100 A.D
Everyone should know of all information that others have deemed unfit for public knowledge.
--Author Unknown
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by
the Prohibition law, for nothing is more destructive of respect for the
government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
--Albert Einstein, My First Impression of the U.S.A, 1921
I want you to be the good news to those around you.
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
-- Mother Teresa of Calcutta
It is easier to see the center from the edge than it is to see the edge from the center - unknown
Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive, you’ll be dead soon enough.-William Saroyan
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.- George Bernard Shaw
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.-Basho
The wise man says, “I am looking for the truth,” and the fool, “I have found the truth.”- Russian proverb
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.-Andre Gide
I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector.-William Stafford
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.-James Thurber
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well ordered or confused.-Spinoza
The world is as we are.-Hindu saying
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.-Ludwig Wittgenstein
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.-Miles Davis
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.-Chinese proverb
The thing we tell of can never be found by seeking, yet only seekers find it.-Abu Yazid Al-Bistami
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you’ll know right away what you amount to. And what is your duty? Whatever the day calls for.-Goethe
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right
person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose,
and in the right way, that is not easy.
-- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! Had I the ability,
and could reach the nation's ear, I would today, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting
reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire;
it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, the earthquake.
The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused;
the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed;
its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.
-- Frederick Douglass
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship,
design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying,
take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure,
program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.
--Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
Two of the gravest general dangers to survival are the desire for comfort and a passive outlook.
--U.S. Army Ranger Handbook
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
--Albert Einstein
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family...
Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men.
I lose something by it, to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs,
opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.
--Albert Einstein
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
-- Richard Moss, M.D.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get
yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days
is to go about repeating the very phrases which our
founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
-- C.A. Beard
When it shall be said in any country in the world, my POOR are happy,
neither distress nor ignorance is to be found among them; my JAILS are
empty of prisoners, my streets of BEGGARS; the AGED are not in want,
the taxes are not oppressive . . . when these things can be said,
then may that country boast its constitution and its government."
I PUT the following work under your protection. It contains my
opinions upon Religion. You will do me the justice to remember,
that I have always strenuously supported the Right of every Man
to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine.
He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his
present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
-- Thomas Paine
If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed;
if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly;
you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against
you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight
when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
--Winston Churchill
Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free;
so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free,
you will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license";
and they will define and define freedom out of existence.
--Voltarine de Cleyre
By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and
individual rights are performed by governments ... The major crimes throughout history,
the ones executed on the largest scale, have been committed not by individuals or
bands of individuals but by governments, as a deliberate policy of those governments
...that is, by the official representatives of governments, acting in their official capacity.
--John Hospers
Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.
-- Michael Ventura
Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B', 'A' is most likely a scoundrel.
-- H. L. Mencken
They know how to think. From the Arabs I have learned one thing:
if you are led by Authority, that means you are led by a halter.
-- Adelard, circa 1100 A.D
Everyone should know of all information that others have deemed unfit for public knowledge.
--Author Unknown
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by
the Prohibition law, for nothing is more destructive of respect for the
government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
--Albert Einstein, My First Impression of the U.S.A, 1921
I want you to be the good news to those around you.
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
-- Mother Teresa of Calcutta
It is easier to see the center from the edge than it is to see the edge from the center - unknown
3 comments:
welcome to the noisy blog world...keep writing and sharing...it's good for all.
bro-one
Yea Steve! Time for more of your ranting!
Gimme 48 hrs in a day and I might get most things done. Life is short, art hard.
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