I am proactive for: human rights, economic & social justice, and peace. Thanks to the Most High for the balm of music and the gift of humor.

PS Gosh, just bothered to read here (May 26, 2019) ben using my iphone many years now (from the 4 to the 6+ to my currently 8+) I think I still have my Leica ZS 25 but haven't used it in a long time. Remember one of them dropping during a shoot of a 'Fight for 15" minimum wage rally and finished w my iphone at the time. Gosh, still no 15$ here but did raise it to 12.50 ...

No photo shop; just iphoto.

from earlier in time here:

(My photos are either from my 35mm Nikon N75, my digital Panasonic Lumix LC-70 (4mp, 3x optical Leica lens), or a throw-away point and shoot film camera. As of May 2007, I also use my digital Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7 (6mp, 12x optical Leica lens 35-420).

No photo shop; just iphoto.

I hope my sets to scroll through or slideshow do justice to the essay subjects and craft-wise for any interested viewer.

Peace Up!

Hey! Fat Tuesday 2010 - my Panasonic Lumix DMC TZ5 arrived from ebay. Fits nicely in my pocket, 9.1 MP, 10 x opt (28-280) Leica lens. Great camera.

Now, Father's Day 2010, sending my great TZ5 to my niece as her carry in her pocket camera and will be using my new Panasonic Lumix ZS7 with the 25-300 Leica lens and all kinds of advanced tech built-in features for stabilization, and more .... - also pocket sized!)

CORPORATOCRACY/EMPIRE/MAFIA vs THE MOST HIGH

"The Politicians want to thank you Lord for letting them be able to lie with a straight face while the people die and the nations cry." - Lucky Dube (S. African musician) ... and that reminds me of the tale told by Paramahansa Yogananda (Self Realization Fellowship founder and author of Autobiography of a Yogi). A man was hired as sexton in the main church (temple, mosque, synagogue) in the city where the "prominent" citizens all attended. He was a regular working man (fill in an ethnic or class choice) and asked the head of the place of worship to let him worship with the folks on sundays. He was told over and over again: "sorry, you're not like these other folks; you're just the sexton." So the man prayed and prayed "Lord let me worship with the congregation." One day Christ Jesus appeared to him while he was praying and said: "don't feel bad My son; I've been trying to get into that church for over 200 years."

Man, what those think tanks of industry, military, finance, media and government dream up all these many many years! - plotting and planning and conspiring and spinning - ... and the ways they manipulate the public here to manufacture consent for their hidden agendas by announcing an as-if noble cause to accompany the fear mongering and hate mongering and war mongering they infect with to support their hideous greed and insideous lust for power.

Man, how with the carrot and the stick they act to bribe leaders of other countries while threatening assassination in the same breath (see Confessions of an Economic Hitman - Perkins) and also use the old tactics of economic strangulation with the WTO, IMF and World Bank about "old debts" as well as terrorist cells by proxy (ie SOA) to bend the will of the world's governments into policies against 80% of the world's 7 billion human population. And if that fails to subordinate them to Corporatocracy's wishes, then of course there is that great cash cow - War.

In effect, US led G8, whether Democrat or Republican, it is just one big Mafia operating worldwide and bamboozling decent citizens to think otherwise ("but our leaders are noble") - and all of these prominent citizens "worshipping" in a Church that Jesus can't get into.

Still, We, many of us, practice the presence of God as compassionate, wise, discerning, dissenting humane, human beings and say to them: "We are all human brothers; and know: there ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation."

Enough of these iniquities!

Give Thanks!