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I heard the spring peepers for the first time a couple of days ago. They are a chorus now. I love the sound.
Wed, March 19, 2008 - 4:24 AM
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www.naturesound.com/frogs/au...eeper.ram from: www.naturesound.com/frogs/pa...eper.html 
In Bush's mind, this is a painting of a daring christian missionary. It is his favorite painting, and he actually named his (ghost written) autobiography after it. In reality, it is an illustration of a posse about to catch a horse thief.
Sat, January 26, 2008 - 7:04 AM
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This is from Harpers: harpers.org/archive/2008/01/hbc-90002237 The Illustrated President BY Scott Horton PUBLISHED January 24, 2008 George W. Bush is famous for his attachment to a painting which he acquired after becoming a “born again Christian.” It’s by W.H.D. Koerner and is entitled “A Charge to Keep.” Bush was so taken by it, that he took the painting’s name for his own official autobiography. And here’s what he says about it: I thought I would share with you a recent bit of Texas history which epitomizes our mission. When you come into my office, please take a look at the beautiful painting of a horseman determinedly charging up what appears to be a steep and rough trail. This is us. What adds complete life to the painting for me is the message of Charles Wesley that we serve One greater than ourselves. So in Bush’s view (or perhaps I should say, faith) the key figure, with whom he personally identifies, is a missionary spreading the word of the Methodist Christianity in the American West in the late nineteenth century. Wilhelm Heinrich Dethlef Körner (you see why he used initials, though he later Anglicized this as William Henry Dethlef Koerner) was born in Germany and immigrated to a small town in Iowa as a young tot. He made his way over time to Chicago and worked as an illustrator for the Chicago Tribune. He married Lillian Lusk, a well-know graphic artist in her own right, and moved to Battle Creek, Michigan, where he worked for Pilgrim Magazine. He and his wife scrimped and saved to finance a move to New York City. They were after more formal art training and to establish a position as artists in the heart of the publishing industry. They made it to New York in 1907, and they were very successful. In fact, Koerner’s principal employer through the core of his career was Harper’s Magazine. Koerner published 55 feature illustrations in Harper’s, the first in 1910 and the last in 1925. You can view them here. Koerner was not exclusive to Harper’s, however, he also did important works for the Saturday Evening Post, McCall’s and Collier’s among other publications, and he did a brisk business for the book trade, again very heavily for Harpers Brothers, and he pioneered commercial illustration (Koerner did the first box artwork for C.W. Post’s Grapenuts, for instance). His serious work after 1907 focused heavily on the American West, and he clearly was one of the key “Golden Age” illustrators. His work is famous for dramatic images which for me are consonant with the age of Teddy Roosevelt—they suggest ruggedness, love for the outdoors, a strong sense of adventure and risk-taking. His paintings are packed with motion, and at times rather dramatic motion. I was not able to find much about Koerner and his sense of religion, through it is very clear that he did not engage in public displays of religious fervor and religious themes are absent entirely from his work. So Bush’s description of “A Charge to Keep” struck me as very strange. In fact, I’d say highly improbable. Now, however, Jacob Weisberg has solved the mystery. He invested the time to track down the commission behind the art work and he gives us the full story in his forthcoming book on Bush, The Bush Tragedy: [Bush] came to believe that the picture depicted the circuit-riders who spread Methodism across the Alleghenies in the nineteenth century. In other words, the cowboy who looked like Bush was a missionary of his own denomination. Only that is not the title, message, or meaning of the painting. The artist, W.H.D. Koerner, executed it to illustrate a Western short story entitled “The Slipper Tongue,” published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1916. The story is about a smooth-talking horse thief who is caught, and then escapes a lynch mob in the Sand Hills of Nebraska. The illustration depicts the thief fleeing his captors. In the magazine, the illustration bears the caption: “Had His Start Been Fifteen Minutes Longer He Would Not Have Been Caught.” So Bush’s inspiring, prosyletizing Methodist is in fact a silver-tongued horse thief fleeing from a lynch mob. It seems a fitting marker for the Bush presidency. Bush has consistently exhibited what psychologists call the “Tolstoy syndrome.” That is, he is completely convinced he knows what things are, so he shuts down all avenues of inquiry about them and disregards the information that is offered to him. This is the hallmark of a tragically bad executive. But in this case, it couldn’t be more precious. The president of the United States has identified closely with a man he sees as a mythic, heroic figure. But in fact he’s a wily criminal one step out in front of justice. It perfectly reflects Bush the man. . . and Bush the president. Update Though I haven’t exaimed Jacob Weisberg’s sourcing for his book, an alert reader points out to me that the story of the Koerner picture “A Charge to Keep” (though we should note that this is the name Bush gives to the picture, not Koerner’s name) was first explored and revealed by Sidney Blumenthal in April 2007 in a column published at Salon. 
I think a stainless steel pressure cooker is a necessary item for a kitchen. Food cooks in about a third the time, 70% faster, according to one source. That makes a lot of difference!! Think about it. Over the course of a year, the time energy and money saved is really impressive!They pay for themselves very quickly if you use them.
Wed, January 23, 2008 - 10:27 AM
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There are a lot of advantages that are less obvious than the time, energy and money savings. They make it so much quicker and easier to eat things like sweet potatoes, winter squash, brown rice, dried beans, quinoa, and other unprocessed foods, that they become a larger part of your diet, and this saves a whole lot. There is a distressing tendency for beans and brown rice to be served undercooked because of people being in a hurry, and using a pressure cooker means an end to that. They really help keep the house cool if used in the summer in place of conventional cooking methods. There are nutritional benefits to steaming vegetables in a pressure cooker. They take a little getting used to, but it is way worth it. The energy savings alone should convince folks to give them a try. Khrysso' s comment has me thinking to add reviews. I like aeturnum, a brand made in italy, but they are a little pricey and harder to find gaskets for. Here is a neutral looking review of a couple of reasonable ones. They have the added advantage of being easy to find replacement parts for too: Value/Budget Pressure Cooker: There are a lot of pressure cookers under $100 that got great reviews, but one that stood out amongst the others is the Presto 01341 4-Quart Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker ($44). The heavy duty 4 quart stainless steel pressure cooker from Presto has a strong-lock lid with steam vent, a pressure indicator, and an overpressure plug. You even get a rack for steaming food or canning purposes. Owners say this cooker creates great brown rice, beans, pastas. Although much smaller than the 6 or 8 quart models, this one still performs well for singles or couples with no kids. Another great value pressure cooker is the Fagor Splendid 6-Quart Pressure Cooker ($60). Larger than the Presto 4-quart model listed above, the Fagor is great for producing stews and chili. Easily makes meals that feed up to 6 adults and cleanup is no problem say most reviewers. If you plan on making meals for more than 2-3 people, go with the Fagor for it's added capacity. www.galttech.com/research/...cooker.php The piece that jiggles around and lets the steam out is called a petcock. Here is a poem using that word. Nervous laughter letting off steam like the petcock of a pressure cooker 
the world is a prayer wheel
Mon, January 14, 2008 - 4:48 AM
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swinging the moon around and around and around om mani padme hum blue white jewel in the lotus of our Sun's golden light the world is a rock tumbler tumbling around and around and around we knock up against each other rubbing off sharp edges polishing and shining jewels in the lotus of our Sun's golden light 
Sir James Lovelock to the Royal Society Oct 29th, 2007. The speech of an era.
Sun, January 13, 2008 - 6:22 AM
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56 MB, 1 hour This is required listening. It is available at : www.ecoshock.org/ Which is a wonderful resource. Thanks go to Russ, the fearless moderator of the mighty Gaia Tribe. Lovelock is a hero! www.ecolo.org/lovelock/ 
The world's first acid head, Albert Hoffman, turns 102 today!
Fri, January 11, 2008 - 3:00 AM
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"I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new conciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation." - Albert Hoffman 
During extensive research for the poem on my previous blog, i came across this:
Thu, January 10, 2008 - 8:31 AM
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Carpe diem is a phrase from a Latin poem by Horace. It is popularly translated as "seize the day", although a more literal translation of carpe would be "harvest" ("harvest the day"), as in the harvesting of fruit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpe_diem The painting is called "Gathering the Day" by Susan Spar susanmartinspar.blogspot.com/200...html 
I seized the day.
Mon, January 7, 2008 - 3:15 AM
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Then the day seized me! We both let go, And sat down for tea 
We are the power elite who control the fate of Earth. Real power belongs to people who can think their way through the dark labyrinth of arcane fears, shadows and confusion into the clear light of this new day.
Fri, January 4, 2008 - 3:42 AM
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The pyramid is a symbol of yang power and has been appropriate for the long age of power and action that we have been going through, Before this age, there was an age where Yin predominated, when we were receptive to Gaia's signals. During the coming Yin age, we will be receptive to Galactic signals as well as Gaian information. I do not believe that current events are being orchestrated by a power elite who control the world or anything even vaguely resembling this scenario. I think a lot of the coincidences people use as evidence of various theories are not so much an indication of the truth of the theory , but of the truth of the principle that reality tends to clump. Like likes Like! I think that patriarchal patterns of thinking still predominate, and that this is predicated on the principle that somebody is at the head, in charge. It takes intellectual, emotional and spiritual courage to come to grips with the fact that nobody is in charge. We are the charge. We are hooked together into a giant biocomputer, taking Seti at Home to another level, and taking in information very fast and getting faster. We are a global brain, though we are not thinking very clearly yet. And the reason we are not thinking clearly yet, is that we are still applying old, patriarchal, top down ways of thinking about things that should now be thought of in opposite terms. Not in terms of imposing our will, but in terms of matching our wills to harmonize with incoming information. Not in terms of competition, but in terms of cooperation. Breathe in, breathe out. You are part of the conspiracy. We only need to realize We are the power
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