Category: art

My lucky day in the backyard

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Just sitting out in the yard with my soft drink, listening to the bird songs from the trees around me. Who showed up? Female Downy Woodpecker. https://videopress.com/v/4POomk5p?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Female Downy Woodpecker But the real show happened a short time later. I am thrilled that my phone captures such good video, silently. https://videopress.com/v/ZtvthE9w?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Mama and Papa feed …

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Human history and the human body. It’s all in how you look at it. Maybe suppressed knowledge is actually helpful. Sama Hoole enlightens us.

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This young man's hobby horse is human health, and how our conditions have changed with history. I'll bet you haven't looked at things quite this way before. Nasty, brutish and short. That is the phrase everyone reaches for to describe life before civilisation, and it may be one of the most successful pieces of propaganda …

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On Pride, and Children, and Perversion.

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June is designated as "Pride Month" by many governmental entities around the world. What that actually means is "Pride in Being Homosexual, and Grooming Children in Gender Ideology." If you have read your Bible, you will know that Pride is the first of the Seven Deadly Sins (the rest being Envy, Wrath, Gluttony, Lust, Sloth, …

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Lesser-known Signers of the Declaration of Independence: Abraham Clark of New Jersey (two takes on his life)

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For this lesser-known signer, I am reproducing two separate takes on his life. The first one is from the White House site where I have been getting my information on the other signers. The second one is from an X post that crossed my feed earlier today. Same guy, two different looks at his life …

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There is Beauty in the Belly of the Beast

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The Belly of the Beast is the capitol of Washington State, Olympia. We drove down there yesterday so we could sign a couple of petitions, one for voter ID in Washington, and the other to repeal the new "Millionaires Tax" which is an income tax. Lots of nice people were at the signing-we were lucky …

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Lesser-known Signers of the Declaration of Independence: Caesar Rodney of Delaware

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I just learned today about Caesar Rodney. It seems that he had his own "Midnight Ride" for the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Caesar Rodney was born October 7, 1728 on a sprawling farm in Kent County, Delaware. After losing his father in his youth, Rodney inherited wealth and responsibility that he used for …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #400: The Rule of Three

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This week, our friend Tina is running things, and she asks us to slightly alter the photographic "Rule of Thirds" which divides the space into thirds, both vertically and horizontally. Instead, she asks us for a subject containing three elements. Three's a crowd? Let's see. In the above photo, there are just three spectators in …

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Caturday Cat Tales (and tails, or lack thereof).

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Today’s tales begin with a new (to me) account which I am following. Steve Mullaney is an author who recently heard noises in his attic. When he checked, he found a litter of kittens whose mom had disappeared. It took a while, but he eventually caught all the kittens and brought them down from the …

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