silent thunder

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff. One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. This combustible mixture of ignorance and desire for power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good. What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away. ~Carl Sagan

A stunning live show recorded at Durham Cathedral in 2009 with a full orchestra intermixed with intimate pieces all researched and centered on Solstice/Christmas Madrigals and modern renditions of Traditionals from the 1500's (ish).

SoCal is simply amazing for diversity of localized weather patterns and systemic expressions. From where we live in South Bay, we can drive two hours in three directions and find snow for a hike/sled/skiing and then return to balmy beaches for Sunset.

Beginning to wonder if Ascetic is the ghost who's doing the harrassing...

The US and its Corporatocracy is financially predatory in nigh on every aspect of life.

*wonders*... is that shirt woven of mixed cloth?

Intrusive thoughts can be a manifestation of OCD, have you considered meeting with a psychiatrist?

It's like a virus...

These two playing concurrently on loop this morning.

awareness is...

As I regularly respond in Production Meetings when things are going off the rails here in Hollywood. "Behold the field in which I grow my Fucks and see that it is barren." Thank you dearest Taomeow, sincerely, deeply (and with my last fuck).

Delightful lullaby by David Gilmour