A few from last night and this morning…
It’s Dahlia season!
A monthly newsletter I put out that includes info on two monthly salons I co-moderate, one of them virtual!
Today’s look…
My wife has decided to develop a Halloween movie advent calendar to match my Christmas movie advent calendar… do you have suggestions?
My wife contends that Meet Me in St Louis is a Halloween movie as well as a Christmas movie… what say you?
My wife and i have decided that our Halloween meal will be liver and fava beans with a good chianti…
From this morning…
So amazing to see two such amazing women as Liz Cheney and Kamala Harris working together to save our country!
When we intentionally strive to make our homes places where we are ready to give and receive love, every object we place there enhances our well-being. (bell hooks, All About Love)
From this morning’s walk…
From this morning’s walk… more Snapseed processing… passing through Lightroom first…
This morning’s look… more playing around with processing in Snapseed…
From this morning’s walk… played around with SnapSeed for editing… really like what SnapSeed can do, except it is buggy dealing with RAW files…
I swear matching the color of our new car wasn’t a consideration when i chose this nail polish color…
This actually gives me a bit of hope about the political situation… the idea that union and division need each other suggests if not blown apart, union will move in to displace the division with cooperation…
Hegel made the important point that sameness and difference, unity and division, have themselves to be unified; this seems to me from experience clearly right. Note this suggests the ultimate priority of the principle of union over that of division, despite the necessary part played by division at one stage of the process. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
From this morning’s walk…
Latest addition to every day mandala series…
Greed is rightly considered a “deadly sin” because it erodes the moral values that encourage us to care for the common good. Greed violates the spirit of connectedness and community that is natural to human survival. It wipes out individual recognition of the needs and concerns of everyone, replacing this awareness with harmful self-centeredness. Healthy narcissism (the self-acceptance, self-worth, that is the cornerstone of self-love) is replaced by a pathological narcissism (wherein only the self matters) that justifies any action that enables the satisfying of desires. (bell hooks, All About Love)
The will to sacrifice on behalf of another, always present when there is love, is annihilated by greed. (bell hooks, All About Love)
… when we are deeply imbedded in an economic system that is all about greed and exploitation, does love stand a chance?…
However, emotion is a critical part of our capacity to comprehend the world at all, the ability to understand and interact with other living beings. Without it we are foolish, however much we may know, and we are only alive in a diminished sense of the word. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
Curiosity as an Instrument of Love: Thoreau and the Little Owl – The Marginalian
It is only when we cede emotional attachment that we can be truly free from judgment, for all judgment is feeling — usually some species of fear — masquerading as thought. And when we judge, we cannot understand. True curiosity is therefore a form of love, because, as the great Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh so plainly and poignantly put it, “understanding is love’s other name.”
… it took a long time for me to have the courage to go bold with my lipstick…
… all up to date on COVID and Flu shots…
… feeling a little sad and lethargic today…