a perfect response to city ordinances and those HOC too.👌🏽😎

It's an example of malicious compliance, a phenomenon in which someone intentionally complies to the letter of request or order — but not the spirit.

"I like looking at my boat and I made a point of that," Constable said. "I followed the rule and did it my way."

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/boat-fence-seaside-california-1.7205296

"study published in 2009 in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

The researchers divided a cohort of 370 women and men into two groups, one viewing photographs of the natural world, the other viewing photos of cityscapes.

The former group then scored higher on tests measuring

connectedness, empathy, and sharing. There have been other such studies, all with the same results."

those photos are beneficial to well being🤗

a photo of today's blast.

the solar deity is ramping up its blasts.

"Dramatic auroras seen at unusually low latitudes over the weekend were caused by a cluster of sunspots, around 17 times as wide as Earth, that sent

at least seven blasts of magnetized plasma towards our atmosphere.

The current storm is ‘extreme’ in scale and capable of knocking out satellite communications and power grids.

more and bigger storms to come, the most intense ones can occur after the solar maximum, which is expected later in 2024."

excellent book on bird culture on sale today Amazon and Apple books.

"it is good “to give thanks to the birds, for they are the ones who lift us from our troubled minds.”

To the children of the wind, who watch, listen, and share their stories and find the power of silence within."

@Oma_Trisha @stueytheround @BosmangBeratna

hmmmm. i perceive that to be the norm around CoSo. the gateway to the gathering of the tribe of the Weird. found around the world in small numbers, they nonetheless have always been around.

now they're found, and have found.

CoSo etc🤣

free today on Amazon.
a book on solitude

be mindful

There is a solitude of space
A solitude of sea
A solitude of death, but these
Society shall be
Compared with that profounder site
That polar privacy
A soul admitted to itself—
Finite infinity.

Emily Dickinson

the sublimation of libido—the life energy of all striving, creativity, spirit, etc.

“The unceasing complexity of life's accumulations
has created a great principle for energy expression—

it is termed sublimation—and in popular parlance

represents the spiritual striving of mankind

towards the perfecting of a relation with the world
of reality—

the environment—which shall mean
human happiness in its truest sense."

From
Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts
Herbert Silberer

Seneca’s words:

"Nothing can be more commendable and beneficial if you persevere in the pursuit of wisdom.

It is what would be ridiculous
to wish for when it is in your power to attain it.

There is no need to lift up your hands to Heaven, or to pray the servant of the temple to admit you to the ear of the idol that your prayers
may be heard the better.

God is near thee; with thee.
Yes, Lucilius, a holy spirit resides within us, the observer of
good and evil, and our constant guardian."

“The God who created
such monstrosities, before whom the poor weak man
stiffens with anxiety,

truly must hide qualities within himself
which are food for thought.

This God lives in the
heart, in the unconscious, in “the realm of metapsychology.

There is the source of the anxiety before the unspeakably
horrible, and of the strength to withstand the horrors."

the story of Job, both sides of god.

“God is like the
behemoth and the leviathan;

fruitful nature giving
forth abundance,—the untamable wildness and boundlessness
of nature,—and the overwhelming danger of the
unchained power.

what has destroyed Job’s earthly paradise? The
unchained power of nature.

God has simply turned his other side outwards for once;

the side which man calls the devil, and which lets
loose all the torments of nature on Job.”

Psychology of the Unconscious
C. G. Jung

Jung sounds a tone that resonates

"certain neurotic and
especially mentally diseased people continually defend
their innocence against non-existent attacks;

at a closer examination, the patient, while
he apparently defends his innocence without reason,

fulfils
with that a “Deckhandlung,” the energy for which arises
from just those impulses,

whose sinful character is revealed

by the contents of the pretended reproach and
calumny."

Psychology of the Unconscious

"When the Eternal first gave Love
A myriad hearts sprang into life;
Ears filled with music, eyes with light;
Pealed forth with hearts with love all rife:
All glory to the God of Love!”

Miss Miller

“While directed thinking is conscious throughout, the same cannot be asserted of phantastic thinking.

much goes along in half shadows, and generally an undetermined amount in the unconscious"

—hence, much behaviour we're seeing now is thus, sleeping. however, when one awakens and observes—

"By means of phantastic thinking, directed thinking is connected
with the oldest foundations of the human mind,

which have been for a long time beneath the threshold
of the consciousness."

some wilding opossums visit my friend's garden.

babies❤️😘😍

volunteer dogwood, love the shape of these trees.

and a graceful redbud, flowers and leaves.

purple rooster bee balm growing in clumps.

and a critter den under the back neighbour's garage😜

some spring garden photos.

things are greening up😎

a maple sapling i transplanted from a front flower bed, where it wouldn't have been able to grow. perhaps bonsai or maybe later transplant.

some wild poppies, which pop up around the garden.

some columbine from last summer's seeds, which don't compete well with goldenrod, so i gave them their own space.

and the berm, where i plan to plant some rock rose this year. hopefully the nursery will have some 🙏🏻

this storm centre off the coast has dragon features.

nirvana is not permanent.

"And why is it not permanent? Because projections of individual or shared characteristics are impermanent.

Therefore it is not permanent.

And why is it not impermanent?

Because it is the personal realization attained by all sages of the past, the present, and the future.

Therefore it is not impermanent."

out the window
tree
regaining its feathers
wind in its wings
ready to fly