The Origin of Religions, From a Distinctly Darwinian ViewThat has been the dark side of religion. But it is not an inevitable side of it. I don't want to come across as na�ve, but there's no theoretical reason why the moral circle can't be expanded to ultimately include everybody. Nor is there any reason why we can't take a surgical approach to religion, and keep what is positive about it while eliminating the intolerance.
Q. What about you? Are you religious? Do you believe in God?
A. I consider myself a communitarian, and there are many things I admire about religion, but no, I don't believe in God. I tell people I'm an atheist, but a nice atheist.

The Origin of Religions, From a Distinctly Darwinian ViewThat has been the dark side of religion. But it is not an inevitable side of it. I don't want to come across as na�ve, but there's no theoretical reason why the moral circle can't be expanded to ultimately include everybody. Nor is there any reason why we can't take a surgical approach to religion, and keep what is positive about it while eliminating the intolerance.
Q. What about you? Are you religious? Do you believe in God?
A. I consider myself a communitarian, and there are many things I admire about religion, but no, I don't believe in God. I tell people I'm an atheist, but a nice atheist.

MSNBC CoverThe Sun is in Capricorn, the Moon is in Sagittarius. You've been stretched beyond your old limits, and you survived. Better than that, you thrived. You love that expand-the-mind stuff, and there's lots more of it coming.

``You can't sacrifice other individuals in the name of your own religious beliefs,'' he said. ``I sincerely hope that with the help of good legal assistance the child sues the pants off the Raelians and the parents.''

California�s water allotment reducedSAN DIEGO, Dec. 27 � The Interior Department said Friday that it will cut California�s share of water next year from the Colorado River to ensure allocations for six other Western states. The amount would be enough to supply roughly 1.4 million people a year, and represents 13 percent of the water California has been taking from the river, officials said

Retraining the brain for New Year�s
�It�s about cognitive thinking,� says Popp. When a behavior becomes a habit or an addiction, you�re not making rational choices, she says

The Wire - News from The APWASHINGTON (AP) � Federal unemployment benefits will get cut off Saturday for almost 800,000 jobless workers because Congress failed to pass an extension before adjourning for the year.

Chemist claims first cloned humanNEW YORK, Dec. 27 � A chemist connected to a group that believes life on Earth was created by extraterrestrials claimed Friday to have produced the world�s first human clone, a baby girl named Eve. The baby was born Thursday, said Brigitte Boisselier, head of Clonaid, the company that claimed success in the project. She wouldn�t say where the baby was born

Alan Boyle: Cosmic Log
Dec. 26, 2002 / 7 p.m. ET
God vs. science? The Christmas season is traditionally a time for publications to reflect on the meaning of religion.

From Lake's Depths, Frozen Bacteria Are Brought Back to Life

Mystery whale identified in JapanMystery whale identified in Japan
DNA confirms first complete set of remains from rare breed

Top 10 Space Mysteries for 2003Top 10 Space Mysteries for 2003
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 07:00 am ET
26 December 2002

GreenCine | article

The Hand of God: Thoughts and Images Reflecting the Spirit of the UniverseWhat frustrates you most about the secularist scientists or the religious ideologues that refuse to bridge the divide?

The same thing that frustrates me about many things: That the ability of many people to resolve conflicts is severely limited by their ideology. I believe that a rigid belief system whether it is religious, scientific or social is a severe impediment to creative problem solving.

U.S. Gets Tough In N. Korea Standoff: From The Tampa Tribune`I don't think this administration cares if the North Koreans build weapons,'' said Joel S. Wit, a former State Department official who was coordinator of the 1994 Agreed Framework deal. ``It serves a very cynical purpose on their part, which is to push all other countries into our lap. According to our cynical game plan, then [the North Korean regime] will collapse.

U.S. Gets Tough In N. Korea Standoff: From The Tampa TribuneWASHINGTON - In years of confrontations with North Korea, it was almost always the Americans who blinked.
U.S. leaders believed that a regime that would starve its people, assassinate foreign leaders and risk war through military provocations could not be rational and had to be placated with concessions.

Today, the Bush administration faces a deepening crisis with a new attitude: Pyongyang's leaders are sane and, under pressure, will realize that must give up their nuclear program and illicit arms trade if they want their government to survive.

Eating Fish Just Occasionally Can Help Ward Off StrokeEating Fish Just Occasionally Can Help Ward Off Stroke

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By Diana Jong
SPACE.com Staff Writer
posted: 04:40 pm ET
23 December 2002

GOP and a strategy from the pastSINCE THE DAYS of Nixon, it�s been known as the �Southern strategy,� an appeal to frustrated Southern whites opposed to civil rights gains. That strategy, perceived by some to subtly racist, has been a big reason why the GOP enjoys a political lock on the South.
There was Sen. Jesse Helms� 1990 television ad called �white hands,� appealing to whites angry about affirmative action.

A matter of beliefA matter of belief

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By SPACE.com Staff
posted: 07:05 am ET
19 December 2002

i called my lawyer and once the judge signs my check
i am on my own, that will be in about a month
and i also called up my adjuster and told her
i had a prescription for six more therapy meetings
and thanked her for all her help, and i thanked lawyer
so when miss bitch heather calls my adjuster,
she will tell miss bitch heather they have to
see me until the judge signs my check

so i will need to tell this all to dr schwartz
when i see him on jan ninth, and tell him i
want him to be my doctor and that i will continue to
pay him to help me get better, ie, my knees, back, and neck
so it looks like i will have no medications for about a month
so i will have to grin and bear it until i get those funds

so its funny and good heather coped an attitude today
that prompted me to call my adjuster and my lawyer
so i know where i stand, i mean, this is so fucin cool

i might even get my money sooner

but i for sure wont go back to healthsouth for therapy
i will have to treat it on my own
and i will be able to see doctor jackson
to get my hypertension under control
to treat my kidney stones
and to treat the roseacea

i so want a car
and i so want a job that will be fun
and above all things
i want a kiln, and a nice little apartment

where i can make beautiful things
ceramic sculpture, and fulfill
my destiny

and be happy
and be a happy artist
and smoke, smoke, smoke
the peace pipe

heather also bad mouthed me in saying i
had not worked in a year
i do believe that is slander
i will be writing letters to her boss when the
time is right

dave hell

today i rescheduled my physical therapy appt via fax
and james was there went heather went off on me
saying she was going to call my adjuster
then james and i screamed at each other for ever
and i am so tired of all these mother fuckers that
dont care, that dont have any idea what it is like
to be in pain twenty four hours a day, to be
screwed by workers comp lawyers, to be
screwed by kids in distress who picked the doctors,
to be screwed by a doctor who after seeing me twice
cut off all my medications and mmi me, causing me
great grief, i mean, my case is settled, i will have
my money in two months, and those mother fuckers
at health south , heather, have the balls to have an
attitude, i will be writing letters to all when i have
my money telling them all to fuck off

dave hell

Sun-Sentinel: News LocalTALLAHASSEE -- A governor's task force failed to locate one-quarter of 393 children missing from Florida's child welfare system, and dozens more are disappearing each week.

Diuretics best treatment for blood pressureDiuretics best treatment for blood pressure

Study suggests older remedy may trump new medicines

Bright light offers shimmering futureGlobal sales of OLEDs, estimated at just $80 million in 2002, are expected to jump to $2.3 billion by 2008, said Kimberly Allen, research director at iSuppli/Stanford Resources, a firm that tracks the industry.
As OLEDs progress, analysts say they�ll replace the silicon-based LCD, or liquid crystal display technology, that�s used in everything from watches and calculators to flat-screen monitors and some TVs.

2,800-year-old frozen microbes revived THE ANCIENT MICROBES were in a state of suspended metabolism, similar to dormancy, said study team member John Priscu of Montana State University.
�They�re in a frozen state,� Priscu said in a telephone interview. �They�ll come back to life if you add water.�

the metallic ape has a waking dream at gomez
standing in a wheat field, fire, ashes cover me
thunder, lightning, down from the sky thru my metallic
fingers into my metallic groin

huge huge animals surround me
ejecting mucus from their horns covering me from the waist down

dripping all over my ass and cock
thunder, wind, more flashes of light

now turning their mucus into hardening crystals
then suddenly a breath on the back of my neck

arms embracing me from behind
these crystals fracture and fall off

leaving me anked and exposed now
allowing him to reach around and to hold me
thrusting and saying

I WILL HELP YOU HEAL, I AM THE TREVOR

i am all whom you have loved and lost to death
you must do the art thing, you must be an artist, you must do it
with preserverance, then trevor steps inside and is still within me

i so wish i had said yest that fateful day of your death
the day you asked me to make love to you
perhaps i could have stopped the stabbing knife
to your chest, perhaps i could have stepped
in between you and that darkness and taken

the blows for myself

all full moons are now trevors moon
as it was the full moon of august, 1983

i felt you last night here my dear trevor
i wait for my day to join you and all my lovers
and passed loved ones and lovers

but i have many many years here still to do
50 plus

let my life be

Foster Care Woes: The Costs of IncompetenceDAYTONA BEACH -- Before taking a shower at a local emergency shelter for troubled teens, Theresa Miller's 16-year-old grandson was given a packet of toiletries by staff members.

The packets include razor blades. The boy shouldn't have had it; he had attempted suicide in August when he lived with Miller, who had raised him since he was a toddler. The shelter's policy, according to an official there, is to keep razors out of the hands of suicide-prone kids.

it will not work without the money needed, why blame others when
dcf let the ball drop, jed bush let the ball drop by having it all go
private, i should know, i was a counselor for years in the system, i last worked at kids in distress in wilton manors, and they were abusing
kids , and i saw it, they all saw it, and let it continue, florida is a mess

Markets slide amid global (bush) worriesAll three market averages fell for a second consecutive week. The dollar dropped to a near three-year low against the euro and the price of gold, traditionally a safe-haven investment, rose. Japan�s Nikkei hit a three-week low

Galaxies Made of Nothing? New Theory of Mysterious Dark MatterGalaxies Made of Nothing? New Theory of Mysterious Dark Matter

Telescope Proves Mettle in Hunt for Cosmic NeutrinosTelescope Proves Mettle in Hunt for Cosmic Neutrinos
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 02:00 pm ET
21 March 2001

Astronotes: The inside scoop on the Universe at large.December 8


Elusive Neutrinos Pinned Down

In recent years scientists have been nailing shut the case that shifty little particles called neutrinos have mass. Friday, the nails seemed have been driven home.

Neutrinos are products of the Sun and other stars. They are detected in underground setups on Earth where other particles cannot penetrate. Neutrinos were once thought to be massless. Problem was, theorists said the Sun should make lots of them, and yet scientists could not detect the proper quantities. Researchers have therefore learned that neutrinos must have mass, a requirement for their being able to change into unknown forms, explaining those that go undetected.

The latest research was done in an old mine in Japan. Neutrinos from the country's nuclear reactors were sought, and fewer were found than expected, proving that some changed from in transit. Because nuclear plants emit precisely known quantities of neutrinos, the results provided firm confirmation of previous detections of reduced numbers of solar neutrinos, experts said.

"This is really a clear demonstration of neutrino disappearance," said Caltech particle physicist Robert McKeown. More about Neutrinos

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he is like two different people
nice and then mean, beyound cruel
why
a sprark flies, then the house is on fire
i irritate him, i dont mean too
i think this is love crap left over from the war
the war, my war, the war so long ago
a war i have forgotten, but he remembers
am i too sensitive, he thinks i am insensitive, that
i only care about myself, and that is far from the truth
i take each step alone now
what a strange thing
stepping
i want to climb, and soon i shall climb
with funds, with my ceramic work
but i want more
i want peace, love , beauty, i want
what all men want
i

Report: Al Qaeda deal for nerve gasU.S. suspects nerve agent VX was smuggled through Turkey

Astrophysics Challenged By Dark Energy FindingAstrophysics Challenged By Dark Energy Finding

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Ancient Mars: Renderings Show Raging Floods, Vast OceansAncient Mars: Renderings Show Raging Floods, Vast Oceans

Scalding Rains, Flash Floods and Worse Plagued Ancient MarsMars in the popular imagination is a planet that was once warm and wet, a place that might have fostered life. But new research shows how these imagined pleasant periods were brief, hellish, and punctuated by utter catastrophe

Dark Streaks on Mars Suggest Running Water Still PresentDark surface streaks along canyon and crater walls on Mars could be signs of running water presently scouring the surface, according to a new study

Cyber Planets: Building Virtual Worlds to Explore Signs of Real LifeSomewhere between reality and the unknown, science fiction has always flourished. The best sci-fi authors rigidly adhere to one principle: Make it as real as possible, given what's known. Now, as if lifting a chapter from an Isaac Asimov novel, NASA plans to create hundreds of "synthetic planets" that might represent real worlds orbiting faraway stars.

NASA creating synthetic planets

Astrobiology RoadmapOrigins and evolution of functional biomolecules. Life can be understood as a chemical system that links a common property of organic molecules�the ability to undergo spontaneous chemical transformation�with the uncommon property of synthesizing a copy of that system. This process, unique to life, allows changes in a living molecular system to be copied, thereby permitting Darwinian-like selection and evolution to occur

Astrobiology Roadmap

Extrasolar Planetsthis site is interactive and way cool

Origins: What is the Origins Program?Over the course of the next two decades, the Origins Program will develop the sophisticated telescopes and technologies that will bring us the information we seek. While the questions are challenging, our generation is privileged to have the technological ability to reveal the possibilities for the first time. Just as the Greeks were known for democracy, the Egyptians for pyramids, and the Romans for roads, our civilization may well be remembered for discovering life beyond our own planet, forever changing our perception of the Universe and our place within it.

Origins: Missions: Space-based Missions

The Origins missions form a family, in which each generation passes on a rich technological heritage to those that come after. Much like in human families, each mission has something unique to contribute, yet is closely tied to the others to form a supportive web. Origins currently has four chronological generations that move technology and knowledge forward:

Search for Another Earth Quietly UnderwayThe bottom line is that we just don't know what the probabilities are for finding a planet about the size of Earth in an essentially circular orbit at a distance from the star that such conditions would be habitable," Aizenman says. "Nevertheless, the hunt is a great adventure."

Life-Building Carbon Rings Found in Space"The molecules causing the UIBs must form in the relatively short period from protoplanetary nebula to planetary nebula," Cernicharo said. "It seems that carbon-rich protoplanetary nebulae are the best organic chemistry factories in space."

Life-Building Carbon Rings Found in SpaceThere's no shortage of hydrogen in space. And there's always a sprinkling of all the other star stuff. But now, a team of Spanish astronomers has made the first detection of interstellar rings of carbon, the type of molecules upon which Earth's life is based.

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The team used the European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) to find benzene, the ring molecule par excellence. They think benzene is produced by stars at a specific stage of evolution, and that it is an essential chemical step towards the synthesis of more complex organic molecules whose true nature is still unclear. In industry, benzene is obtained from petroleum and has many uses.

Benzene is made of six atoms of carbon chained together to form a ring, plus six atoms of hydrogen, one per carbon. This structure was discovered in 1865 by the German chemist August Kekule -- who would later say a dream inspired him.

Nitrates, Lightning Key to Life at Early EarthThis advance in plant evolution would have allowed for plants to colonize more environments on Earth, he said, and this proliferation eventually raised oxygen levels in the air and made an environment suitable for animals later.

"Once life invented the ability to fix (produce) nitrogen, life's new invention made it stronger," he said. "When life responds to changes, that life is stronger than before

Jupiter's Deadly Radiation Could Power Life On EuropaIn the search for microbial life on Jupiter's icy moon Europa, a new idea has emerged, suggesting that heavy doses of lethal radiation surrounding the massive planet might spur chemical reactions on its tiny satellite, providing fuel for life in the suspected liquid ocean below.

Ocean Lurks Deep in Ganymede, Galileo FindsSAN FRANCISCO � NASA�s Galileo spacecraft has detected an ocean deep below the frozen crust of Ganymede, making it the third of Jupiter�s moons thought to harbor liquid water beneath its surface.

Auroras Shed Light on Jupiter's Moon GanymedeThe findings, Feldman tells space.com, confirm that oxygen is present on Ganymede, something that had been inferred from earlier spectroscopy data. The images also confirm the presence of a magnetic field around Ganymede, first detected by the Galileo spacecraft in 1996. there is life on ganymede and europa

Scientists Claim Evidence of Life in Outer SpaceLONDON (Reuters) - A team of international researchers said on Tuesday they have found what could be the first proof of life beyond our planet -- clumps of extraterrestrial bacteria in the Earth's upper atmosphere.

Hints of ET: Rock-Eating Critter Under the SeaFrom small things come great hope. Glass-eating microbes discovered 300 meters below the Earth's ocean floors have given scientists further evidence that life on Mars and Europa is a possibility.

The newly found microbes are literally at the rock bottom of the food chain. And they survive on a bare minimum: water, heat, and nutrients they digest from volcanic glass in the ocean floor. These lithoautotrophs, as they are called, are so bare bones they could easily exist on other less hospitable worlds.

Bizarre Creature in Idaho Raises Prospects for Life on MarsThe methanogen discovery is one in a long string of findings over the past two decades showing how resilient and creative life can be. Researchers have found simple organisms in relatively dry valleys of Antarctica, in pockets of water under permanent packs of ice, deep inside Earth and huddled around hydrothermal vents at pitch-black ocean bottoms

Good News for Life: Early Earth May Have Been Cool"This early age restricts theories for the formation of the Moon," Valley said. "Perhaps the Moon formed earlier than we thought, or by a different process."

Another intriguing question is whether or not life may have arisen at that early time. The earliest known evidence for life and for a hydrosphere is estimated at 3.85 billion years ago, and the oldest microfossils are 3.5 billion years old.

"This appears to be evidence of the earliest existence of liquid water on our planet," said Margaret Leinen, assistant director of geosciences at the National Science Foundation, which helped fund the study. "If water occurred this early in the evolution of earth, it is possible that primitive life, too, occurred at this time."

Life may have evolved and been extinguished several times in catastrophic, meteorite-triggered extinction events in those early years, Valley said

Alien Intelligence Depends on Time Needed to Grow BrainsAnother limiting factor for evolution on Earth was a lack of oxygen. The early Earth had very little free oxygen until cyanobacteria and other photosynthetic life forms began producing it about 2 billion years ago. Oxygen may be the key to tissue multi-cellularity, and thus the formation of large, multi-celled organisms capable of developing a brain. The build-up of oxygen also led to the development of an ozone layer, shielding life on Earth from the Sun's harmful UV rays.

But this need not be the case on other worlds. Perhaps some planets begin with substantial amounts of atmospheric oxygen. Slower tectonic activity would make more oxygen available, as would a less iron-rich geography. A planet with early access to oxygen might see life, and intelligence, evolve much faster than on Earth

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What puts the twinkle in a quasar?Dec. 9 � Some very distant galaxies called quasars are lit up dramatically by powerful black holes. Oddly, their radio emissions shimmer and twinkle when detected from Earth, even though radio waves are barely scrambled by Earth�s atmosphere the way visible light is.

A Plague on the Plains A MYSTERIOUS SICKNESS called chronic wasting disease, closely linked to the mad-cow illness that terrorized England, has been cropping up in elk and deer in the Rockies and the upper Midwest. There have been no documented cases of humans� contracting the deadly brain disease, and health officials are not warning people to stop eating venison

New Arctic studies point to warmingSAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9 � Although surrounded by this tourist city�s famed sights, earth scientists meeting here this week are instead eyeing issues from around the globe, and in particular new studies indicating a chilling pattern: The northernmost reaches of the Earth are warming � reducing the sea ice across the Arctic Ocean, melting the ice sheet in Greenland and spreading shrubs into the Alaskan tundra.

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i think i should go ahead and see my doc this thursday as planned, and tell him the trouble i am having,
what do you think.......

Niki Museum Index

dear muse:
i was up all night researching art, i am going to make ceramic , porcelain boxes that will look like
tombs and santa fe architecture with doors and then figures climbing up and around the boxes, i got
first place in the stetson homecoming art festival in 1976 for one of my porcelain boxes, that one
had a jesus figure in the top of the box with no head, and a monkey thing crawling up the side,

i made a box in daytona beach in 1996 and i have it but have not fired it, it has a rose on one side,
three greek characters dancing on one side, then bones in relief on the third side from that frozen
prehistoric man they found six years ago frozen in green land, and then on the fourth side is
an abstract male figure who is "howling", as his mouth is open, on the top is a broken
peice of stonehenge, it has made it thru traveling from daytona to largo, then made it to and back
from fort lauderdale, i cant wait to fire it, as it is still "green", and then put lusters on it, i am
also going to use gold leaf on my stuff,

and i have ideas of a series of large women,(your idea, thanks), doing chores, like hanging cloths
on an outside clothes line, all attached to four sided boxes with sant fe architecture on the boxes,
i came across this really cool lady artist, here are links to her museum in japan and
her tarot card garden , and i am going to use some of her ideas
for the large women series.

http://www.nikidesaintphalle.com/

http://www.int-acc.or.jp/niki/english/index.htm

her name is Niki de Saint Phalle, check out the links and i am including a pic of the type of
women i am going to sculpt

she did a series of large females and she called them the nana series, i am
going to use them for inspiration but not copy her women, i might also do large men...

i really like the way she uses color., on the breasts, etc, i want to use
that but i dont want to copy it,

well, dear muse, love u much, and see you soon

hi, i want to thank you in advance for the ----, one week ago i dropped my denture, (this would sound funny if it didnt hurt so much)
on the floor and it
rolled under my bed and i got down on both knees on a pillow to get it, and in getting up off the floor, my
right knee freaked out, i had already missed three weeks of therapy due to hurting my neck three weeks ago, i have gone back, and i had an awful time and they were mad at me cause i had missed 21 days and needed a new prescription, which
i had by the way, and gave it to them, you would think they might show some compassion but not a bit,


but i am still going to therapy no matter what now, i was supposed to see my doc this week, but he
will just freak out on me and i cant afford to have him mmi me now, like the last doc, and he is not approved to treat my knees, so i am going to change the appt
to next week, that way i can get three or four more therapy sessions in before i see him, and
that should help out my right knee, i am icing a lot and that helps, it was so weird, the few weeks before
this the pain n my knees was getting better, i quess i need to be really careful, as soon as my check comes
i am hiring a rheumatogist to treat these knees, its a damn shame i had a shitty doctor , dr abrahamsen to treat my knees, he
is the one that told the other lawyers i was a chronic complainer and the boy who called wolf cause i was faxing him all the time saying i needed better pain management, man did that backfire on me,......, that were his words
during my hearing on oct 15, kids in distress was going to take me to court over my knees and that would have
taken three to six months so that is why i settled, what would be the point of seeing another orthopeadic surgeion
who works for them and then be really screwed and with no money, i hate this workers comp shit,

i am assuming its the scar tissue that is fucing with my knee, i had been massaging both knees for those
last three weeks and that hurt but it really helped, i had even stopped wearing my braces for three whole weeks, i was
so excited,

so this week i will stay off of it till thursday but will stretch it, go to therapy on wednesday, and friday
and try to stretch it and rub it so it will get better, i am so afraid of having my current doctor mmi me, like the
orthopeadic surgeon did, i will see him in two weeks and then i will tell him i had a set back with the knee,
by then he can refer to four more appointments under my belt with the physical therapist and he
wont freak out on me, so thank you so much honey....i quess this is going to take a lot longer to heal
then i ever imagined. love u much

dave

Laserium Gallery

the crowd came home early and all pissed off
due to fake beans, when will people learn, buy one, try it, then buy more
dont fucin buy a bunch and then get pissed off, they are there own problems
they will learn in time, i tell them to buy kits to avoid this, but damn
friends, u have no idea waht the fuck you are putting in your bodies
its a big risk, i for one have not done drugs in over two years now

Two Van Gogh paintings stolenAMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Dec. 7 � Thieves broke into Amsterdam�s Van Gogh Museum overnight and stole two paintings by the legendary 19th century Dutch artist, police said Saturday.

i have a mother, a sister, a father
i have an aunt and an uncle
but these are not my family

i stand alone

i feel and pray for my aunt today
she had spinal surgery and is in great pain]
she is the one that wrote me that awful letter
i pray for her healing

Uranus isn't moving backwards anymore. (That was a painful five months.) You're bubbling with creative ideas now, so try to follow through on them. If you have a grand plan to start your own business, don�t allow your inspiration to burn out. Fuel those fires by talking with a mentor, chatting with investors, or jabbering with your dog, Eddie (who can always be relied upon for a balanced opinion.) You always have problems grounding your creativity in the real world, but, this time, odds are high that you�ll succeed.

i wish for days with no pain
i wish to run in a field of sunflowers
i wish to create ceramic sculptures
i wish to have good friends
i wish for complete healing
i wish for miracles

i am the metallic ape
my feelings once true and pure
resound now withing this metal casing i call a body
no one cares anymore

i am the metallic ape
i wish to walk and climb
but now due to an injury sustained while
restraining children at kids in distress in wilton manors
i can not walk, or climb

i suffer, i cry, i wish for death
i know i should not think like this
i know i should not write this down

i am the metallic ape
cold, resounding echoes

once a wonderful man stood here
once this man dreamt of such wonderful things

now crippled, now harmed
in a world where no one gives a shit

i am the metallic ape
i wish, i wish................................

this morning is a morning of unbearable pain in both knees
i seem to have suffered a set back from knelling on my knees the other day
and from physical therapy
i wish i did not have to settle my claim, but without that money
i will be in more trouble,
i was up at five a m icing both knees, and had to sit in a chair
while i made breakfast,

i can only hope this is not a big deal, my knees that is
for the past three weeks the pain was getting better
and i was able to massaqe the quadricep tendon in both knees

quess i wont be kneeling anymore, god
i have physical therapy again on wednesday, and i need to change
the doctor appt to the following week,

i will not let this depress me, i know i will get better
i know my knees, back, and neck will heal, it just takes time
and i have plenty of time,




i am indeed grateful he is letting me stay here, and
buying me food, but when he gets mad and yells
at me over little things, well those are the times
like today
i wish i had stayed in fort lauderdale
or committed suicide
i know i should not think this way, but
for some time i have been just this depressed

it took me years to get over my love for james griffin
its a shame i am living here, i wish i could
have found another alternative
but his is my fate

i pray for total healing and no pain
i pray for my funds to come soon
i pray for my own place, a good job, and
please god, let me do my art again

i dare say i want to leave love behind

it causes so much pain
it ruins so many dreams

i am not sure as to what love is or its purpose
it can get so fucked up, that thing we call love

as a child i sought to be like jesus christ
as a child i sought to love each and everyone
and as a child it seemed to work

but as a man, i live in times
where men live to hurt and destroy

i live in awful times

but i am an artist, i will make something of these times

i dream so i can dance

and in the dancing i move so that
the floor is left behind

so that i can fly
i fly a great deal in my dreams, those dreams
that come during sleep

but i know the secret, it is no longer a mystery
or hidden from me

I AM AN EVOLUTION AND I EXIST TO DREAM AND DANCE

i am an evolution and i exist to dream

there is a power in dreaming

there is power in the dreamer

a thought is so much more then we understand or imagine
a thought is a from of energy

energy living in my brain
that thought reaches out into the
universe

that thought exists to become a solid thing
a real thing, living in real time
something in time i can touch
something in time i can feel, make warm, make cold
hold
and even break

i am an evolution

dreams are the things we want
but are they the things we need

i for one, i insist upon dreaming
big big wild dreams, beyound my comprehension

for i know, i feel in my heart and very bones

some dreams come true

it s cold here in florida
thanks to my ex i am in a warm place
yes my feelings got hurt tonight, but
i turned it around and am feeling better
what is one night

james is not my lover
doug can do his thing
i am not part of that social circle
and frankly i have no interest in it at all

i dont like being around men who drink
and i get more and more tired of men who abuse drugs
my god, six beans in one night, what is perri thinking

well , i learned my lesson, they each in turn
must learn theirs

it would be nice to have a lover slash soul mate

dreams, why do we dream, and .........

i am preparing for my body of work
it already grows within me
wanting to be

i wish to make things of such beauty
that i will hurt to part with each one
i have no interest in mass production
and i really have no interest in monetary gains

now who am i kidding, every artist wants
to find that gem in his soul
to spit out that gem
and with his fanciful vomit
become a millionare

it is my wish
to vomit and vomit and vomit

things of beauty fired with heat and fire
things of beauty of clay, turned into solid objects

wonders from my mind and soul
happy and sad, they all shall be born

i will have this ....many children
each one

i wait for my funds
i wait for my kiln
i wait for my car
i wait for my apartment

i want a place of beauty
looking over water
i want second floor
and want a balcony

these things i shall have
and bundles and bundles of calcified vomit

so this is my story
so this is my song

how one man found himself so alone
and without love
and from depression
and pain
found all his dreams

i was a child playing n the back yard of my grandparents house on seneca
i was buring leaves in a big fire
and asked god for the gift of wisdom, and the unknown

now i am older but still this child lives within me
he runs and plays, jumping over all the fires
and pushing his way over walls and under rivers
to find what he wants to have, wants to be

an artist
and a rich one

tonight i shed a new tear
the tear of wisdom
james to bring me dinner
then he calls up later and has decided to stay out late with douglas
doug offers to buy me a pizza,
the games stupid gay men play
james is neither my friend or my lover
i can not wait till i am out from here and on my own

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Georgia O'Keeffe Canvas-Textured Framed Art Prints and Posters

thank you teri for always being there
thank you teri for always being here

i must add, i do love james griffin

i will always love james griffin


but i have no time
for i am out of time
this is my time

physical therapy was really painfull today, i had missed three weeks
due to my neck, and it was hurting cause everytime i.......i aggravate my back and neck
god
james has been weird the pass few days, with little to say in nature of kindness towards me
i know he wishes i was not here, i wish i was not here, but sometimes he
just like picks a fight
he went to an interview today i set up for him, its a job 41, 000 a year, i really want him
to get it, i put a lot of effort into it, he never thanks me

as soon as that money is in my hands , and a car in my lap, and a job
on my shoulders, i will be out of here so fast they wont know what hit em
and i am thinking of moving to gulfport, south of st pete, into a place
that over looks the bay

i want to buy my kiln so bad, and i want to start working real bad
i have so many ideas, i dont want to do fantasy art, i want to do real art
i quess once i start smoking again and sit down with the clay, the
things will flow out

i have been reading the letters of vincent van gogh and doing
a lot of research on his life,

i feel i was him

i feel this very strong

i was him

i will make my stand here in fucing florida for sure
i dont care if my family doesnt like it, fuck that
i am going to start off where i was in deland when i saw IT

i know it changed my art, i know it changed me, and with
all the stuff on tv, taken, and stuff, i know what i saw

and i know what lives in side of me, more then me
yet totally me

shall i take the path of insanity, shall i take the path of lost loves
shall i take the path of friendship
shall i take the path of a god

i will walk on those sharp stones
i will walk on that broken glass

i will run up any hill, any mountain
i will run through any wall, any barrier, any human

i will set up for myself such a place and a thing of beauty
that from my soul will pour things made of clay

to surprise me more then most
to take this thing humans call

imagination

and skip down the golden path of day day

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Geologists find world�s oldest rocks

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Religious misgivings

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High court to review sodomy lawsWASHINGTON, Dec. 2 � The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will consider whether states can punish homosexuals for having sex, a case that tests the constitutionality of sodomy laws in 13 states.

Antiwar effort gains momentumReed, recalling the four wars she has seen this country involved in during her lifetime, said she is often motivated by a single memory decades old. She was visiting the nation�s capital, she said, when she saw a man without a face.
�Yes,� she said, �without a face. He had nothing but a plastic mask with two holes for eyes and one for mouth. It still swims before my inner vision, provoking an agony of grief that no one had been able to stop the war that took away that man�s face.�

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NEW

Original Handcrafted Ceramic Art | Masuo Ojima - Los Angeles

LAURA ZINDEL CERAMICS
A r t i s t S t a t e m e n t

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Decoration is the most important part of the process in my work. I make forms just to be able to embellish the surface. The majority of my work is made from objects that I collect. I then make a plaster mold so that I can recreate the imagery in clay. In my art, I can reorganize the world in a way that suits me, this gives me a feeling of power, however false and fleeting, that I have yet to find in any other activity.

I enjoy the Olde Lady techniques the best. Gold lustre, molds, decals, glaze pencils, stencils, anything I can use to decorate and go overboard. Most of the time I find my inspiration outside of the ceramic world from a variety of cultures and craft techniques. Patterns in textiles, carved folk art, 17th century still life painting, and engravings of plants and animals are a few of the things that I look at. Detail, excess, nature and decay are themes in my work, but my ultimate goal is to make beautiful objects that please the senses.

Technique
Each piece is made in earthenware, glazed with lowfire hand mixed glazes and slips and finished with gold lustre. Each piece is created individually by casting found objects, and layering them onto textured surfaces. The addition of glaze pencil drawings, intricate stencils, decals and carved stamps, add to the rich surface of each piece. Each piece is meant to be decorative, although tiles can be installed in the home, platters can be used for food, bottles and vases can be filled with liquids, and boxes can hold any number of personal belongings.

Ken Price's Studioentry

Ken Price's contemporary art studio and gallery

Sculpture by Beth Stichter - Artistic StatementThrough formalistic abstraction of organic, mechanical, and subconscious forms, my work searches for that elusive space between contradictions where we catch our breath and furrow our brows. The images I create come from an interior landscape. As Andr� Breton stated, �the firmness of the past [and our present reality] is an illusion�a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought.� I would like to court your subconscious, and suggest a way of looking that will allow you to see again what is there