There is magic in all gardens….Weekly Photo Challenge: In the Background

One with a shadow of a tree in my garden. Our little Sony Cyber-Shot camera takes amazing pictures. This camera was a christmas present to my son from his grandmother. My son and I both use it. It is our creative friend. The image is of a human shadow that is "one" with a tree … Continue reading There is magic in all gardens….Weekly Photo Challenge: In the Background

Daily Prompt: The Glass : oscillating dualistic

Looking with eyes shut. A cup appears. It shines and comes to focus and out again, as an image in a cloud. Clear then vague, at one moment, and then gone. Life is this way. Rain falls and awakens the smell of the earth in all of her sweetness. This is when the cup is … Continue reading Daily Prompt: The Glass : oscillating dualistic

Dear Leader

"The world is my country, all humankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." – Thomas Paine Over the last few months, I have noticed a great deal of fraudulent activities going on. We have many local governments run by gangsters. These leading individual fools are making bad choices. Our local leaders … Continue reading Dear Leader

Rain: hopeful green from water…

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being; the words are rising to their lips in immediate spontaneity The theater is supremely fitted to say; "Behold! These things are." The Razors Edge by W. Somerset M.

Ember, the continuity of an image

This got me thinking about the continuity of an image. An image can fly around through many cultures and not really be understood, even though it sometimes carries great meaning, wisdom and insight. Hudley Watercolor As an older woman I find nothing in my current culture to affirm what I am going through, which is … Continue reading Ember, the continuity of an image

My own mind is my own church

“The more unnatural any thing is, the more is it capable of becoming the object of dismal admiration… But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes? Do we not see a fair creation prepared to receive us the instant we were born-a world … Continue reading My own mind is my own church

Nature has a conscience, An indirect editorial about rape via Nature Politics.

“My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pain / My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.” ~ ~ John Keats The trusting woods? The unsuspecting trees Brought out their burrs and mosses His fantasy to please. He scanned their trinkets, curious, He grasped, he bore away. What will the solemn hemlock, What will … Continue reading Nature has a conscience, An indirect editorial about rape via Nature Politics.

Oldest conceptual image in human history…

Politics dividing people This shows the real aim of it's riffle where is the continuity where is the humanity? Look to the night sky and see it continuity and unity listen to the cosmos without music or words but with the heart Seek the truth It is part of everything! ~A Poem by Hudley Flipside

Fallen Heroes for the Masses

No heroes or heroines that is my motto for life. I like to be inspired by other human beings. The whole myth of heroes is based on demigods. The immortals, but sadly enough our modern heroes are anything but immortals or something to be a cult follower of. Lance Armstrong, Clint Eastwood and Alfred Hitchcock. … Continue reading Fallen Heroes for the Masses

Mock Pee

Today I watched my beautiful white Himalayan male cat mock pee on the outside brick fence. Male cats turn backwards and then spray their territory. The male cat does this by vibrating their tail. Mr. Po Po is different because he is a very clean cat. I know he learned the pee ritual from Flash our … Continue reading Mock Pee

Am I assuming too much? Why not be horny for peace instead!

CAIRO - Ema Mostafa, a village girl was shot and killed last month when she dared to spit in the face of the man who groped her. ~ Los Angeles times taken from article by Reem Abdellatif I looked up the word groped in the Urban dictionary, http://www.urbandictionary.com/, and it means what I know it means … Continue reading Am I assuming too much? Why not be horny for peace instead!

Debating Anarchy and Chaos

Greek word for the undifferentiated mixture of raw elements supposed to occupy the Word-Goddess's womb before creation and after destruction of each recurrent universe. It meant Goddess herself in her state of "eternal flux," when the fluid of her womb was not yet clotted into the formative state of solid world. Chaos is expressed in … Continue reading Debating Anarchy and Chaos

“Exuberance is Beauty”

The image below needs to be looked at sideways! Symbolic meaning: We have the left and right side of our brain. We are good and evil. A point that we need to be aware of from Blake's perspective...a balancing act that can bloom into a lovely sunflower. William Blake William Blake I can only gaze … Continue reading “Exuberance is Beauty”

Homeric Hymn to Demeter

After the Goddess smiles the "Orphic" hymn has the line. "She received the glittering vessel which contained the Kykeon" ~ Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter by Carl KerenyI

Autumn…politics and music: Sweet peace is within my breast !

I sometimes think there are two Wagner's in our culture, almost unrecognizable different from one another: the Wagner possessed by those who know his work, and the Wagner imagined by those who know him only by name and reputation. ~ Bryan Magee, Wagner Scolar I am celebrating Autumn. I usually do this by listening to … Continue reading Autumn…politics and music: Sweet peace is within my breast !

The Seminary of Praying Mantis.. Observations of Nature Politics..

The post is below. https://hudleyflipside.com/2012/03/26/the-seminary-of-praying-mantis-observations-of-nature-politics/

Conscience the blood of a living anarchist

I shall now be a little more free and open with you than I was before. I wish we were all true-hearted, and that we did all carry ourselves with integrity. ~ Thomas Rainsborough Anarchy seems so often clothed in the rebellion and intellectual dress of its followers. When I was younger we had … Continue reading Conscience the blood of a living anarchist

Lao-tsu’s Peace Prayer

If there is to be peace in the world,There must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations,There must be peace in the cities. If there is to be peace in the cities,There must be peace between neighbors. If there is to be peace between neighbors,There must be peace … Continue reading Lao-tsu’s Peace Prayer

Annihilate this Boulder

Every three months or so I come upon a boulder As I walk through the stream Up to my hips There it is in front of me SO this means I have to look at it But I hate it I yell at it I have expectations from it It is unavoidable It manipulates It … Continue reading Annihilate this Boulder

Current Events: Lawmakers to start moving budget through Legislature

"Brown and Democratic lawmakers are in agreement on the approach to the tax plan, which would temporary raise the sales tax levels on the state's tax and levels on the state's wealthiest residents. They assume more than $8 billion in revenue from those taxes and anticipate extra cuts of more than $6 billion, mostly from … Continue reading Current Events: Lawmakers to start moving budget through Legislature