Marginalia

Banquet — James Jean

Sep 29th

“Like the sound of thorns under a pot, so is the laugher of...”
— Ecclesiastes 7:4

Sep 29th

Old Sheep Farm — Elizabeth Leary

Sep 28th

Remembing

I was born in 1951 and reared in the nineteenth century. The houses of Elizabeth Leary prompt my...

Sep 28th

House Bluffs — Elizabeth Leary

Sep 28th

“The Greek word, anamesis, means to remember, but it means...”
— Leslie Landis

Sep 28th

Pleasant Afternoon — Elizabeth Leary

Sep 28th

Pussy-willow — Jennifer Cadoff

Sep 28th

Sheer Babel —Scott Greene

Sep 26th

“Work like you don’t need the money. Love like...”
— ~ Satchel Paige

Sep 26th

Thinking — Ench

Sep 26th

“You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same...”
— ~ [Usenet]

Sep 26th

Clan — Maya Kulenovic

Sep 26th

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot...”
— - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Sep 26th

Why jokes are funny?

The top jokes have one thing in common — they create a sense of superiority in the...

Sep 25th

Bears Bulls and Pigs — Charles Bragg

Sep 25th

“An idiot was walking along the side of the river when she...”
— from Quirkology by Richard...

Sep 25th

Corvus Italia —Craig Kosak

Sep 24th

detail — Craig Kosak

Sep 24th

The Raven Overlooked But Present

The raven appears in the Bible as the understudy to the dove in the story of Noah and the flood....

Sep 24th

Stay on the trail — Gail Gash Taylor

Sep 24th

Tree of Life — Gustav Klimpt

Sep 22nd

Tree of Life Everywhere

There is a tree of life in almost every culture.  It speak to the sustenance that comes from the...

Sep 22nd

Shaker Tree of Life

Sep 22nd

Egyptian Tree of Life

Sep 22nd

Chinese Tree of Immortality

Sep 22nd

“…and out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up...”
— Genesis 2:9

Sep 22nd

Gavin Lyall

Sep 22nd

“"Some singers sing of ladies' eyes, and some of ladies'...”
— Ogden Nash captured some of...

Sep 21st

Garlic — Henrik Holmberg

Sep 21st

“Sacred cows make the best hamburger.  ”
— Mark Twain

Sep 21st

Head — Odd Nerdrum

Sep 20th

The Wind of Change — Victor Wang

Sep 20th

Annunciation — Denis Savchenko

Sep 20th

Letting Go -- A Focus On Self -- On the...

We try to control everything in life so that we will not be hurt. But we really can’t control...

Sep 20th

Adoration of the Magi II — Denis Savchenko

Sep 20th

“Letting Go Unknown To let go doesn’t mean to...”

Sep 20th

Charles Bragg

Sep 19th

And He Named Them Great And Small

To name is to give power. God had Adam name the animals — It is important to have a name...

Sep 19th

Untitled — William Brown

Sep 19th

“Names of Things You Never Knew had Names 1.    AGLET - The...”

Sep 19th

“Don’t argue about the difficulties. The difficulties...”
—  Winston Churchill

Sep 18th

The Great Galaxy — Andromeda —— Jerry...

Sep 18th

Nature Calls — Kadir Audah

Sep 18th

Puting Things in Perspective

In these days of extremes — polarities — the endless quest for certainty the common...

Sep 18th

Tomorrow — Alisa Lowden

Sep 18th

“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger...”
— Eliel Saarinen, quoted by his...

Sep 18th

Two People lose track of where they are — Ian Francis

Sep 17th

We Live In A Laboratory

We live in a laboratory.  We do not have to always get it right. It is not about if we fail but how...

Sep 17th

Agostino Arrivabene — Iceberg Transportation

Sep 17th

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again....”
— ~ Samuel Beckett

Sep 17th

Beowulf pursues Grendel’s Mother

Sep 16th

Going Down, Down, Down

Going down under is an image of the unconscious where we do the real work of the soul.  There in the...

Sep 16th

Dragon guards the pearl of wisdom

Sep 16th

“In the darkness of the unconscious a treasure lies hidden,...”
— Karl Jung — Symbols of...

Sep 16th

Car-crash — Bo Bartlett

Sep 15th

It's Brief, I'ts Broken And It's...

Life is complicated and at times a burden but life is also a glorious adventure!  And life is brief...

Sep 15th

Sep 15th

“There’s this old joke. Two elderly women are in a...”
— Woody Allen — Annie Hall...

Sep 15th

Only If You Need Elephants!

Often we are overcome by the “opportunity” and in our enthusiasm do not think though the...

Sep 14th

Elephant — Charles Bragg

Sep 14th

“New York City’s Mayor David N. Dinkins, when urged by...”
— Leonard Buder in New York...

Sep 14th

Greg Spalenka

Sep 13th

“Differentiation is about how to say “no” to the system...”

Sep 13th

Greg Spalenka

Sep 13th

Greg Spalenka

Sep 13th

Cycle of Differentiation

It is hard to be a self that is connected. It is easy to be a self that is cut off. It is easy to...

Sep 13th

Ebola Virus — respects no boundaries and invade other...

Sep 13th

“A couple of years ago as I was seated in a restaurant I...”

Sep 13th

Carol Peace

Sep 12th

Becoming The Thing We Fear

There is an urban myth going around about an elderly woman who was terrified that she would become...

Sep 12th

Albert Herbert 1988

Sep 11th

Jonah Again

I’m beginning a study of Jonah again this evening with the young adults group. Jonah is among...

Sep 11th

Jonah — Haitian Design

Sep 11th

“Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of the...”
— Jonah — Chapter One

Sep 11th

Jonah — Armenian

Sep 11th

Complaints of Being Spammed -Tiger in a cage — Igor...

Sep 10th

A Puzzle: A Piece Is Missing

The fellow who found the opportunity to steal that turned into a trap displays the condition that...

Sep 10th

Avi Ornstein

Sep 10th

Funny Prank Played on Thief - Haftu

Sep 10th

Moonmoth

Sep 9th

“ The most perfect martyrdom is that of a person who, for...”
— St. Clement of Alexandria

Sep 9th

The Martyrs of Memphis

Today is the Feast Day of the Martyrs of Memphis. Constance and her companions, three other sisters...

Sep 9th

Louis Schuyler One of the Martyrs of Memphis

Sep 8th

Constance and Her Companions, the Martyrs of...

Sep 8th

Martyrs of Memphis icon (via St. Mary’s Episcopal...

Sep 8th

Family "Stuff" Is Not Diluted By Time

  Emotional responses, both their nature and the degree of their intensity, are passed down from...

Sep 7th

The Family — Samuel Bok

Sep 7th

“Triangles are the basic units of human relationship”

Sep 7th

Family Tree — Tim O’Brien

Sep 7th

The Supper at Emmaus — Carravaggio

Sep 6th

Greg Spalenka 

Sep 6th

Memory and Faith

Pavarotti is dead. Now that his voice is still we have recordings of his gift of song. In the past...

Sep 6th

untitled — Greg Spalenka

Sep 6th

“Pavarotti Dead at 71 ”

Sep 6th

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Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma (via SchizoidXXI)

Sep 6th

Faith and Hope — Jimmy Lawlor

Sep 5th

WHAT WE ALLOW AS MUCH AS DO

Many years ago I drove on the Bluegrass Parkway in Kentucky in the deep Winter more on a sheet of...

Sep 5th

Sep 5th

“Spirituality is like driving a car on ice nearly everything...”
— John Sewell

Sep 5th

The Sixth Day — Charles Bragg

Sep 5th

Sep 4th

Home Page Alf J. Mapp, Jr.

Sep 4th

Berksinski Zdzislzw

Sep 4th

“It seems like my job as a designer is to find ways to make...”
— Thomas O’Brien — ...

Sep 4th

Sep 4th

Sep 4th

Sep 4th

CREATIVE TENSION: INOVATION & TRADTION

I come again and again to Alf Mapp’s Book Three Golden Ages as I try to make sense of these...

Sep 4th

Abstract Junk Yard — Mathias Yerhasselt

Sep 4th

“Wonders are built by the collision of epochs.”
— Rob Haskell Elle Decor Sept...

Sep 4th

Waiting For Spring —- David Bowers

Sep 3rd

“The care of every man’s soul belongs to himself. But...”
— Thomas Jefferson

Sep 3rd

Elclosions —Lamy

Sep 3rd

Broken Egg — Ligek

Sep 3rd

Tiden Rinder — Thor Lindeneg

Sep 3rd

“ Chronos asks what time is it? Kairos asks what is it...”

Sep 3rd

Symbols.com - Symbol 42:56

Sep 3rd

Vanity — James Christensen [vanity presents an egg...

Sep 3rd

How Cracked Is Your Egg?

If our soul is an egg what is it’s condition?  Is it cracked? Is it colored? Is it rotten? Is...

Sep 3rd

Omsorg — Thor Lindeneg

Sep 3rd

THE SOUL EGG

The egg is an ancient symbol of the soul. Egg One of the most comprehensive symbols, equally...

Sep 3rd

Mary Magdalene — Richard Stodart

Sep 3rd

Breakfast With Meret — Guy Denning

Sep 2nd

“In order to grow in grace, we must be much alone. It is not...”
— Andrew Bonar

Sep 2nd

Solitude — Erland Monk

Sep 2nd

To Dig Is Theraputic

The word Greek word therapeuo that gives us the English word therapy means to dig in the earth. The...

Sep 1st

Garden — Benjamin Carre

Sep 1st

“Where you stumble there your treasure is buried.”
— Joseph Campbell

Sep 1st