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click to enlargeFlag background: Lawrence Ferlinghetti The creationof a thousand forests,is in one acorn.Ralph Waldo Emerson=======================An internal struggle here in the usa is going onabout how to fund health care, and how it willbankrupt the economy. Where has everyonebeen the last almost 9 years, with trillionsof dollars going to wars, with no way to fund them having been made?

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To an old man,a cup of coffee is likea door post of an old house -it sustainsand strengthens him.Old Bourbon ProverbI will be having some stamp sheets perforatedvery soon. The first time in many years.

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Source Book For The Network Of International Postal Art Activity,by Michael Crane & Mary Stofflet, 1984. Very hard to find and worth seeking to learnhow it all started and about the early players.Written and published in 1991, another good resourcefor a lot of interesting information on the network.Artistamp News always had samples of faux postagemade by people all around the world.I need to look

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Some places it's snowing, some sunny,here rainy, hence the out of focus look.A gazillion squirrels out collecting,more than any other year we've been out here, wonder what it means?And the birds?Everywhere, and noticed the nestwhen I got home today.It's in our next door neighbors yard.

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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. A. A. Milne - Winnie The Pooh

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this and last picture from:Artists Interpret The Wall (1985)from Checkpoint Charlie MuseumCompassion alone stands apartfrom the continuous trafficbetween good and evilproceeding within us.Eric Hofferclick to enlarge (me, lower right)The Wall, Berlin May 1990Berlin Wall : 1961- 1989Stopping Human TrafficEast to West and West to EastI was lucky enough to visit Berlin twice,for a month each time, in

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FUEL - Mount Vernon, IowaA Cup Of GeorgeDuring World War 1, the US Army useda brand of instant coffee called:George Washington'swith the result that dough boys oftenasked simply for a cup of George.

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click to enlarge -photo: courtesy of CafeP11 - GuatemalaIn a coffee bean:Coffee has specific growing conditions. Subtropical regions have distinct wet and dry seasons. Plants can live and produce fruit for decades, although drought and or heat in summer can diminish production and quality. Coffee requires a dry period in the spring,and heavy rains in this season can disrupt flowering.Global

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A cup of coffee, real coffee, home-browned, home ground,home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye,but changes to a golden bronze as you temper itwith cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth,thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpynor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is amatch for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all. Henry Ward Beecher =

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Our friend Jack, Wendell and his son a few years ago.If you ever have some spare time,check this LINK out.Wendell also has put together collections.The link I listed is about the local circus back in the day.Well worth a read!==========================================When Sir Humphrey Davyreturned from a visit to Paris,he was asked how the picture gallerieshad impressed him. "The finest

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JKB linkI had an idea someone would know and amsurprised mum that you knew. Not surewhy, but am grateful a few are familiar withBangs anyway. Houseboat was written in 1886and the Pursuit of The Houseboat was publishedin 1887. Any of his books are worth reading andcan be found very cheap these days.The Coffee book was published in 1900.Charles Erskine Scott Wood published this book in1927. Taken

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A few weeks ago, we ventured to Muscatine, Iowato see the Pearl Button Museum.Our friend Pauls father had a business back inthe day, that took mussels from the Wabash Riverin this area and shipped them to that town.I heard a few local oral histories and a fewpeople commented on his father and histreatment of the workers at that time.It did not surprise me as it seems allof his family easily

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This exercise was initiated by:ArtSparkTheatera few weeks ago.Although it is to be a drawing challenge,you wouldn't want to see my doodles.I was given the OK for a collage.My submission follows.This is how I come up with anythingI do like this: I pick one image, put somemusic on and in less than 15 minutes asa rule, I land at the finish line. If Itry to make a project "something inparticular" it

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click to enlarge, if you mustIt ishealththat is realwealthand notpieces ofgold and silver.Mahatma Gandhi

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Reasonrespectsthedifferencesandimaginationthesimilitudesofthings.Percy B Shelley

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VeryearlyI knewthat theonlyobjectin lifewas togrow.Margaret FullerArtist in top 1/2 of collage: hereArtist in bottom 1/2 of collage: herethanks for asking!

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ArtSparkTheater once sent a group of Alices to interested people to use in settingsfor others to see.I understand this is her last weekposting these and mine follows,although as you will see,she could only be usedin the opening scene.Alice Down The Rabbit Hole - DaliDali etchingsCirca 1969Mad Hatters Tea Party - DaliQueens Croquet - DaliI posted about Clarence and his wife,Barbara who has since

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Happinessis not a matter ofintensitybut ofbalanceorderrhythmandharmony.Thomas Merton=================================It's funny, looking back on all my years inthe bay area and never thinking about moving away.And then, had an opportunity,packed a few bags and haven't looked back. Moving here, I thought, it's the usa,what can be so different.But the rhythm here is very different.I'm sure much of

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for those of you recent peeks,if you look in the Nov 23, 2007 archive post,you will see more about our4 yrs of running a small coffeehouse.After us, a hot dog stand and another coffee shop,both lasting about a year each tried this location.I stopped by, although I knew I shouldn't, and this short clip is how it looks now. Those colors were not ours,nor the picture still hanging,although the

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The beginning of all thingslies still in the beyondin the form of ideasthat have yetto becomereal.I Ching============================We lived to the left about a 1/2 block from a fence,that separated us from a hike to the beach.We were the first ones on our blockfor at least a year I believe.San Francisco can be seen in the distance. The song "Little Boxes" by Malvina Reynoldswas written about

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The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life,and the fear of death,and blind faith, but through strivingafter rational knowledge.Albert Einstein==============================

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click on picture to enlargepaul & i at the donut shop==============================Age is an issueof mind over matter.If you don't mind,it doesn't matter.Mark Twain===============================We met Paul, when he was the first personto cross the threshold of our coffeehouse on Halloween, 1999. He asked if he could leave some subversive material for readingand we became good friends right

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Phenix Ins Co, Brooklyn, NYdate unknownI would rather have eyesthat cannot see,ears that cannot hear,lips that cannot speak,than a heartthat cannot love.Robert Tizon

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B/W photograph: Josef Koudelka 1968 Czechoslovakia=========================There is a time for departure,even when there's no certain place to go.Tennessee Williams==============================Once in awhile, an interesting conversation willarise and you'll learn something you just neverthought about.There's a 20 yr old young man who has recentlystarted speaking a little to me and as of today,I

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