Living life in touch with divine spirit lets us see the light of love in all living beings. (bell hooks, All About Love)

Knowledge can, of course, be the bigger context. … Knowledge can, in and of itself, constitute a context, and once you become a link in the chain of transmission, from one person to another, from one time to another, knowledge becomes meaningful in itself, quite apart from considerations of utility or profit. It’s at the heart of everything. When you talk about human experience, you’re not talking about individual experience, you’re talking about our communal experience, which is passed on, retold, and reexperienced. (Patrik Svensson, The Book of Eels)

Love and abuse cannot coexist. Abuse and neglect are, by definition, the opposites of nurturance and care. (bell hooks, All About Love)

From today’s walk…

Bus shelter with artwork. Paintings of two women, the woman on left appears to be whispering into the ear of the woman on the right. The transparent plexi roof with streetlight in the distance.

Stickers on a metal surface. The top is for “Free Zine Box.” The bottom is an oriental stylized drawing of a Koi fish.

Train tracks disappearing into weed bushes and trees.

Mannequin with wedding dress. Reflection of tree and street overlaid.

Sticker calling for the abolishment of prisons, the freeing of Palestine and stopping cop city. Decorated with red poppy like flowers.

A new addition to the everyday mandala series…

Queen Anne’s Lace bloom shot from directly above and located equidistant from left, top and right edges of the rectangular frame. Black and white image.

Three patriarchal archetypes…

Two piles of magazines on the left, leftmost pile featuring a woman headshot on the cover of People magazine and the rightmost pile featuring a Marlboro cigarette add. To the right edge of the frame is a portion of an antique wooden fireman’s hat sculpture/sign.

Make garbage beautiful again!…

Garbage can overflowing with plastic bottle, aluminum can, and branches of a bush. It almost seems designed to be attractive trash arrangement.

… ah, if only i had the womanly figure to wear this dress!… i think i would have to be a few decades younger too!…

Colorful summer dress in a shop window.

Sculpture by Lori Merhige

A silver rope sculpture running from the second story window of a building into a pile on the grass in the foreground.

A set from yesterday…

Caprisun drink package on concrete sidewalk.

Two interestingly folded napkins lying on concrete sidewalk with joint line running through the frame from right to left, passing below the bottom of the napkins.

Soiled piece of paper with interesting folds and wrinkles lying on asphalt paving.

I love finding random still lifes like this…

Honeydew melons on a metal tray on a table in restaurant window.

Love the colors in this one…

Pink house dress and uranium glass wear display in a shop window.

From last week…

Two orange cones with caution tape strung from a stick inserted in the cone on the right side.

I am excited by Harris as the candidate. Fingers crossed the dems all fall in behind her. We don’t need a power struggle.

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. (bell hooks, All About Love)

Men theorize about love, but women are more often love’s practitioners. Most men feel that they receive love and therefore know what it feels like to be loved; women often feel we are in a constant state of yearning, wanting love but not receiving it. (bell hooks, All About Love)

The wife likes SciFi, I love RomComs… enter Max and Molly, a SciFi RomCom!:)

… for all it may be a fiction, the machine model has persisted precisely because it has proved a very useful one. That is true enough. But that it can often prove useful does not mean it is true. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)

… this is really about establishing the perimeter of a context in which the useful is true enough… it is when the context is extended that it becomes less and less useful…

Estrangement from the realm of the senses is a direct product of overindulgence, of acquiring too much. This is why living simply is a crucial part of healing. (bell hooks, All About Love)

More than ever before we, as a society, need to renew a commitment to truth telling. Such a commitment is difficult when lying is deemed more acceptable than telling the truth. (bell hooks, All About Love)

… yes, but we appear to be headed in the opposite direction…

I have this sickening feeling that the hubris of Joe Biden and Ruth Bader Ginsburg will combine to become the downfall of Democracy.

I don’t care who the dems nominate. But they need to decide and get focused. I will support whatever they decide to do. But please, decide and get on with it.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe. (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man)

… marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get; it’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day. (Jeff Golden, Reclaiming the Sacred)

… walking is a mode of making the world as well as being in it. (Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust)