Nightly votive in the porch garden.
“History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.” — Terry Pratchett, in "Jingo"
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Purple-splotched phalaenopsis orchids.
These ink spots don't want to set the world on fire either, but they do start a flame in my heart.
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Makes me think of a balletic jeté.
Those veils fascinate me, too.
... which makes me think of the Cummings poem, with a word changed
mr youse needn't be so spry
concernin questions arty
each has his tastes but as for i
i likes a certain party
gimme the he-man's solid bliss
for youse ideas i'll match youse
a pretty [guy] who naked is
is worth a million statues
I can't look at that hand gripping flesh without thinking of its equivalent in marble, Gian Lorenzo Bernini's astonishing "Abduction of Proserpina" in Rome's Galleria Borghese.
Nightly votive in the porch garden.
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions." — Robert Wilson Lind
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Cherry blossoms.
Monochrome Monday.
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Nightly votive in the porch garden.
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." — Eden Phillpotts
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I wish I could say I liked any of these.
It's become so commonplace that we hardly notice, but consider how remarkable it is that none of these need a name for us to know exactly who they're talking about.
Nightly votive in the porch garden.
"Protesting is an act of love. It is born of a deeply held conviction that the world can be a better, kinder place. Saying 'no' to injustice is the ultimate declaration of hope." — Amy Goodman
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That red robe!
A truly great woman.
Nightly votive in the porch garden.
"Trump was told by the greedy and the outright stupid that he would make a swell president. The Liar's Paradox has spun out of control, with liars lying to a liar who believed the lie. What would that be called? Fox News, I think." — Richard Cohen
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Nightly votive in the porch garden.
"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty." — Amadeu De Almeida Prado
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I have been in every one of those attitudes when listening intently, and the detail of their faces is marvelous against the blur of the rest of the audience.
How a new PM fumigates: Go to the puppet president's place, take a nice picture with him, read your indictment and start the bye-bye clock.
A wonderful sense of color when he needed to turn it loose.
Nightly votive in the porch garden.
"I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization." — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Nightly votive in the porch garden.
"Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders." — Walter Bagehot
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His religious mockery/delusion/blasphemy is nothing new. He posted this last May after the death of Pope Francis. And Christians are just now starting to clutch their beads?
Nightly votive in the porch garden.
"Despite the psychopath's lack of conscience and lack of empathy for others, he is inevitably better at fooling people than any other type of offender. I suppose conscience just slows you down." — Anna Salter
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Monochrome Monday. A gecko maybe two inches long on point under a porch light for dinner to be drawn in.
It's like a stadium panic, everybody rushing for the exits and no one can get through.
I don't have enough superlatives.
Nightly votive in the porch garden.
“It is not our diversity that divides us; it is not our ethnicity or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division among us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not.” — Nelson Mandela
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AKA informed speculation/analysis.
One long, long day! Superhuman persistence! And if at first you don't succeed, skedaddle.
His fellas all seem quite happy to see each other.