In fearful day, and raging night. With strong hearts full our souls ignite. When all seems lost in the war of light....

Look to the stars. For HOPE burns bright!

The Last Glimpses of California's Vanishing Hippie Utopias

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-last-glimpses-of-california-s-vanishing-hippie-utopias

' A 15th century polymath of soaring imagination and profound intellect, Leonardo da Vinci created some of the most revered works of art of all time, but his artistic endeavors often seemed peripheral to his pursuits in science and engineering. Through his paintings and thousands of pages of drawings and writings, Leonardo da Vinci explores one of humankind’s most curious and innovative minds '

https://www.pbs.org/show/leonardo-da-vinci/

I think I've said it at least twice before, but I'll say it again: Don't make #media mouthpieces your heroes.

Whether it's Mika Brzezinski or Jake Tapper, Dana Bash or Don Lemon or anybody else, sooner or later they will let you down. It's not merely that they're human; they just answer to a completely different set of incentives than you or I.

#cosophotography #autumn

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overhead pale blue mixed with washes of white

homage
to the buddha-nature
being tree

our ancestors
still caregivers
airgivers
foodgivers

the green lions
here long before us.

without them
no us.

Canadian Spa Hopes Hair-Freezing Contest Can Continue for Another 12 Years – SEE the Hilarious Winners https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/canadian-spa-hopes-hair-freezing-contest-can-continue-for-another-12-years/ #Canada #humor

#politics

Chickadee in hydrangeas

—Cheryl Plautz

@gemswinc Good morning Cindy. Humor and martinis are well served dry. Autumn days? not so much.

@dauphin87 That’s because too many people in this country are tragically ignorant. They believe that they are merely going to get a warm, comfortable shower after a dusty, cramped train ride to places within Germany.

Please send this letter to your state governor regarding the planned mass #deportations. See also previous message for #Congress. #politics

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