Fern Fronds & translating beauty

Fern Fronds, Art Deco ornaments. Fern Fronds are of nature and inherently rural. Yet when cast bronze they take on a very cultured beauty. Man using his ingenuity to extract raw materials from the earth and transform them into representations of nature. It’s strange how beauty transforms from one thing to another. Peace.

Fern Fronds & translating beauty

Fern Fronds, Art Deco ornaments. Fern Fronds are of nature and inherently rural. Yet when cast bronze they take on a very cultured beauty. Man using his ingenuity to extract raw materials from the earth and transform them into representations of nature. It’s strange how beauty transforms from one thing to another. Peace.

Fern Fronds & translating beauty

Fern Fronds, Art Deco ornaments. Fern Fronds are of nature and inherently rural. Yet when cast bronze they take on a very cultured beauty. Man using his ingenuity to extract raw materials from the earth and transform them into representations of nature. It’s strange how beauty transforms from one thing to another. Peace.

Setting cool standards for a Ninja near you

Ok, Let’s get this shit straight. This ninja likes his style and thinks you probably wish you were cool too. So here you go this is your guide to cool.

Hair = keep it simple and put some body in it, personally I like Slept In Texture Crème by Short Sexy Hair, it’s great when you wear hoods all the time

Shoes = Adidas, especially black Adidas running shoes. These are great for support on back flips and being quiet while doing sweet Ninja things

Pants = Carhartt, black work pants. Anyone who’s scooped pounds of horse poop knows that Carhartt is the best working man’s clothes whether you’re workin’ the farm or doin’ sweet ninja moves

Gloves = Dainese Guanto Speed Knuckle Gloves. Sure these are for motorcyclists but think about how tough you’ll look in these no matter what you’re doing. Those knuckle guards are awesome.

Cologne = Don’t wear cologne unless you want someone to smell you. I don’t like people smelling me. period.

Jacket = FRANK THOMAS LAURENZO LEATHER JACKET – black of course. Sweet for jumps off buildings and rolling. May seem like an untraditional Ninja outfit, but do you see football players wearing the same small leather helmets they wore 90 years ago? Ninjas evolve too. More cool to come. Peace.

Adidas, Gucci, Versace, or Bugle Boy clothes don’t make you

It’s amazing how certain cultures feel they’re superior. This is especially true for urban cultures. Being more “cultured” somehow seems to lead to thoughts of superiority. That’s really bullheaded and small-minded for someone so enlightened. It’s similar to racial inequality in the sense that you use a simple designator…where someone is from, the color of their skin, their native language, the clothes they wear…to judge their position relative to your own. Let’s set us up a formula gosh darn it:

A = where you are from
B = your favorite meal
C = your favorite musician
D = IQ
E = religion
F = how many books you’ve read in the last year
G = knowledge of pop culture (1-10)
H = vocabulary skill (1-10)
I = skill at monopoly (1-10)
J = which is better, Napoleon Dynamite or Fight Club?
K = Hick or Hipster?
L = Republican or Democrat?
M = Rush Limbaugh or Michael Moore?
N = Organic or engineered?
O = judging someone when you really get down to it is really bloody complicated and it’s stupid to base it on banal facts or background info
P = judging is a bad idea to begin with though hard to resist
Q = I love to judge because it supports my vulnerable ego
R = It’s just easier to think less of someone OK?
S = I have no interest in understanding people who aren’t like me
T = Why understand them anyway, they’re just not like me and they don’t understand me so back off and leave me alone
U = America is a sovereign country and I’m sovereign too, I like to keep my people close to me and have no interest in mixing with people not like me
V = Sports or Drama?
W = All people from small towns listen to country and drive pickups
X = Let country folk have NASCAR and Christian rock
Y = Let city folk have their gays and ballet
Z = Tolerance is for sissies.

Ok, if A+D = X or Y and B+C/G

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Seattle has a program known as the Ghostcycle project that places bikes painted ghost white at locations of bicycle accidents. The program exists to raise public awareness of bike riders. Whenever you see one, like the one to the left, it’s a talisman of sorts. The object is meant to force a magical cultural awareness of bicycles.

Wouldn’t it be interesting if “ghost mannequins” would be placed in a rural community in the Midwest to represent all the missing people who up and left? Wouldn’t that be an amazing talisman to remind you where so many roots come from? Wouldn’t it be a reminder of all the George Bailey’s who decided to leave Bedford Falls? Just a thought. Peace

the start of a modern almanac

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.” Edward Everett -1847

“The best liberty is to serve God and mind your business. Read newspapers, but consider before you believe; for common report is often a great liar.”

“Believe not half you hear; and how to believe of what you read in the newspaper is not in my power to tell or imagine, in these wild party time. But if you read at all, I advise you to read both sides.”

The word “newspaper: is derived not from the word new, but from
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W….E
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which it was usual in old times to put at the head of a periodical publication, indicating that the information was derived from the four quarters of the globe.

“Devil on My Shoulder” a review

I listened to
This American Life Episode 213 “Devil On My Shoulder” from 5/24/02 this week. It has part of it that speaks with Faron Yoder from the Amish Country of Indiana. It’s a really interesting example of an individual from a rural culture being caught between the tradition of the community and his own ambitions and desires.

There’s something rather socialist in nature about the community he grew up in. It’s socialist in the sense that the good of the whole is considered the best good for every individual. When one stretches away from that only pain and torment will follow. It’s strange how Christian teachings have so many socialist manifestations and the older groups that may be more true to The Word stick true to those. Yet, somehow Christianity has turned into a very capitalistic tool for America. We pray nationally together for all kinds of goals. Maybe we’re praying for the wrong things?

I have a lot of respect for the Amish way of life and to hear a young man so torn by splitting from it is really intriguing. When he talks of the reasons he left you have to wonder is it really worth it? This is a very pure cultural formula with the Amish culture being such a pure rural variable. Such pure rural cultures are few and far between as they have been slowly taken over by our culture of individuality. There’s a lot to think about relative to this. Peace. RN