Sheltering A Friend

Detail of wing of Chrysiridia rhipheus or sunset moth

Old climbing 🧗‍♀️

Yvon Chouinard admires the rock face he just climbed.

Yosemite National Park, California

1964

Cool beer labels

Man is no bubble upon the sea of his fortunes, helpless and irresponsible upon the tide of events. Out of the same circumstances, different men bring totally different results. The same difficulty, distress, poverty, or misfortune, that breaks down one man, builds up another and makes him strong. It is the very attribute and glory of a man, that he can bend the circumstances of his condition to the intellectual and moral purposes of his nature, and it is the power and mastery of his will that chiefly distinguish him from the brute.

Springs in CO springs!

They seem to have a rich history and a flat calciumy, yet bubbly taste.

Like the octopi, our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts. This is the essence of the more perfect Logos envisioned by the Hellenistic polymath Philo Judaeus—a Logos, an indwelling of the Goddess, not heard but beheld.

Hans Jonas explains Philo Judaeus's concept: A more perfect archetypal logos, exempt from the human duality of sign and thing, and therefore not bound by the forms of speech, would not require the mediation of hearing, but is immediately beheld by the mind as the truth of things.

Gonna miss ya Oakland !

Took these in Big Sur California.

Here is what iNaturalist has to say:

“Life itself was the first, the greatest, of all the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation.”-Oscar Wilde