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I’ve seen love come and
I’ve seen love walk away
So many questions
Will anybody stay
It’s been a hard year
So many nights in tears
All of the darkness
Trying to fight my fears
Alone so long alone
I don’t know who I’d be
If I didn’t know you
I’d probably fall off the edge
I don’t know where I’d go
If you ever let go
So keep me held in your hands
I’ve started breathing
The weight is lifted here
With you it’s easy
My head is finally clear
There’s nothing missing
When you are by my side
I took the long road
But now I realize
I’m home with you I’m home...
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Lennon Stella & JP Saxe -
Golf On TV
__________________________
I woke up to the bed made
And you're downstairs
Doing the dishes
And my mom's there
She's kind of obsessed with you
I think that I might be too
She thinks that you're good for me
That's not something I'm used to
I keep getting overwhelmed
When I talk about us out loud
'Cause I want you and only you
It's simple as you want me too
Some people wanna switch it up
Like just one love could never be enough
But some people watch golf on TV
And neither of those things make sense to me
Some people think it's supposed to hurt
Like it couldn't be real if it's putting you first
But some people watch golf on TV
And neither of those things make sense to me
You just been so consistent
That stability
It's so healthy
It's confusing me
I'm done with romanticizing
Dysfunction and compromising
You treat me so well, it's weird
But I love how much I like it
Some people wanna switch it up
Like just one love could never be enough
But some people watch golf on TV
And neither of those things make sense to me
Some people think it's supposed to hurt
Like it couldn't be real if it's putting you first
But some people watch golf on TV
And neither of those things make sense to me
If the old me met the new me
She'd probably try to stop me
But I want you and only you
It's as simple as you want me too
Some people wanna switch it up
Like just one love could never be enough
(Never be, never be, never be enough)
But some people watch golf on TV
And neither of those things make sense to me
Some people think it's supposed to hurt
Like it couldn't be real if it's putting you first
(Putting you, putting you, putting you first)
But some people watch golf on TV
And neither of those things make sense to me
“Or do you mean like she might have some sort of chair-related dysfunction?" Her eyes lit up and she leaned in conspiratorially. "Or maybe the chairs offend her, because all chairs are imperfect shadows of the Platonic ideal of a chair. And so she's disinclined to sit. Philosophically.”
― Casey Matthews, The One Who Eats Monsters
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Medano Creek seasonally flows on the south side of the dune field at Great Sand Dunes National Park. By early August when I visited, it was near the end of its active season.
Some info: www.nps.gov/grsa/planyourvisit/medano-creek.htm
Note: Due to the severe dysfunction of our national politics, some national park services are currently unavailable. During the government shutdown, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve will remain open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, as it always is. However, the visitor center and entrance station will remain closed and no visitor services will be available.
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* May 12 marks the ME/CFS awareness day, which is a global event part of the ME awareness month. During the month of May and especially on May 12 people around the world focus on raising awareness about the disease and funds for the research to find a cure.
**
ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) is a debilitating and complex disease characterized by severe, debilitating fatigue that is not improved by rest and is made worse by physical or mental activity. But that is not all. Patients suffer from many other debilitating symptoms in addition to this, for example pain, muscle weakness, cognitive dysfunction, sleep disorders and more. Many people with Long COVID are now being diagnosed with ME/CFS. An estimated 20 million people are affected worldwide. It’s important to note, ME is underdiagnosed and underreported, meaning that the actual number of people living with the condition is likely much higher than the estimate. Sadly, this number is growing every day.
Visit the links below for more information about raising awareness and funds for research of ME/ CFS:
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19th October 2022.
Opposite the Conservative club, life in Wellington goes on as the government gets ready to implode.
Speaking of the government, a senior Conservative said today -"The dysfunction is too profound, the outrage among Conservatives too loud for any sense of serenity to return".
A prime minister who had already shredded her programme for government and sacked her first chancellor, then, in just one day, loses a home secretary, a senior adviser is suspended.
Speaking privately; a very senior Conservative whose analysis was brutal said Liz Truss's actions have been "unforgivable," "terrible" and "appalling".
"She has stuffed the party, the country, and there'll be a general election."
20th October 2022. Update Liz Truss resigns as Prime Minister.
A tumultuous 44 days.
Who next?
In which my garden robins refuse to indulge in Christmas spirit and share.
We're Here: Christmas Dysfunction
Another shot of an old northern Illinois barn past its prime. Barns as this one have long past seen their usefulness in modern farming. Modern farm machinery, the advent of large scale production, and the general decrease in family farms are all reasons. Also the decrease of livestock farms, which barns were mostly built for,is now done more on large scale feedlot operations. All these factors make for more efficient, albeit more "boring" farming....
But if we don’t do that spiritually, then we’re not understanding the cross; we’re not understanding redemption, salvation—that we’re healed by this downward journey of the Son of God, but he goes with us. There’s Dante now; there’s the journey downward through all the levels of our dysfunction until you find—and I think he’s dead right about that—some originating dysfunction: the Satan whose wings beat the air and create the atmosphere of hell. There’s something in me that’s generating all the different levels of dysfunction. But until I find that, I’m not going to solve it. I’ve got to go all the way down.
--Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity: The Search for a Meaningful Life
By Chris Kaczor and Matthew Petrusek, Bishop Barron Interview
"Mom is enthralled by the Joshua tree she sees in the desert, which has grown in the direction of the wind rather than standing up straight. The Joshua tree symbolizes the strength and beauty that can arise from dysfunction. the tree'sstruggle is what gives the tree its beauty."
CN L586 crosses the Mississippi River into Iowa with the IANR 4101 leading in phenomenal afternoon light, which for this job is almost unheard of.
These guys had a surprising amount of work across the river on the BNSF side, and they were ready to come back home about 1:00. After they ran around, it was quickly realized the 4101 wasn’t in BNSF’s PTC system. It took them about 3 hours to try everything possible to not run PTC-exempt, and they eventually just did instead.
Meanwhile, on the Iowa side, M338 had come to work Dubuque, but couldn’t due to otherwise blocking L586, who had 33 cars for him. The solution was to let M338 sit at Wood until it was back in the yard. CPKC K39 also showed up during this time, also looking to work Dubuque, and the CN denied them as well.
L586 finally crossed the river at 4:15 PM, 3 hours after they tried to come back. 338 finally began working almost immediately after, which would then prevent L565 from leaving for a few hours, despite that crew being on duty for over an hour. Talk about a mess.
"I'm devoted to destruction
A full dosage of detrimental dysfunction
I'm dying slow but the devil tryna rush me
See I'm a fool for pain, I'm a dummy
Might cut my head off right after I slit my throat
Tongue kiss a shark, got jealous bitches up in the boat
Eating peanut butter and jelly fishes on toast
And if I get stung I get stoked, might choke
Like I chewed a chunk of charcoal
Naked in the North Pole
That's why my heart cold, full of sorrow, the lost soul
And only Lord knows when I'm coming to the crossroads
So I don't fear sh! t but tomorrow"
As Luna said under my last pic I should do more fun edits. So here you are Luna :P
Little Dicku. did a pic of us and I was only a model...promise..but during waitingtime I started playing around with windlights and it turns out ...okay let me say it was really bad! Haha...but in the last 5 days I worked on this pic just to calm down in my breaks ..so..Thanks for take a look. And a big THANK YOU to ʟɪᴛᴛʟᴇ ᴅɪᴄᴋᴜ. for the amazing pic you did!!!!! I love it so much...maybe you wanna visit ʟɪᴛᴛʟᴇ ᴅɪᴄᴋᴜ.´s stream to see his pic and much more amazing artworks. :)
I´m really busy at the moment but will answer all your comments on this and the last pics in the next few days. Thank you for your wonderful support...I read every single word and saw every of your favos and ..I´m so greatful for them! <3333
Hope you had a wonderful weekend guys!
Systemstörung - disfunción
Haus in der Nähe des Hafens von Orzola (Lanzarote)
House near the port of Orzola (Lanzarote)
Celebrating Christmas Dysfunction.
In Austria and across the German-speaking Alpine region, the demonic Krampus character is a crucial part of the holiday season. For some people the holidays are scary enough without throwing a demon beast with a penchant for physical assault into the mix. But if you’re the kind of person who goes to extra-scary haunted houses at Halloween, take heart: That terror doesn’t have to stop just because we’ve entered a season of togetherness and joy.
www.mentalfloss.com/article/71999/9-facts-about-krampus-s...
Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0 provided my Krampus, here: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2019-11-24_Sundays_Medal_...
Thanks also to NASA for the texture I borrowed from Astronomy Picture of the Day here: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221130.html, Credit & Copyright: Anthony Quintile
Background/foreground is my own work, and additional processing with ParticleShop and Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
Entered in Winter Mystery Challenge, here:
www.flickr.com/groups/challenges_community_group/discuss/...
Big Up! – Dove il caos ha senso
Nel cuore improbabile di Fukuoka, una facciata slabbrata sembra sfidare ogni logica. Scatole ammucchiate, porte di fortuna, scritte scolorite, tubature esposte, eppure… tutto sembra stare esattamente dove deve stare.
Non c’è alcun tentativo di compiacere, nessuna ricerca estetica, ma una verità che trasuda dalla disfunzione apparente.
È questo il fascino: un equilibrio disordinato, una bellezza che non chiede permesso, un invito silenzioso a entrare anche se non sai bene dove ti porterà.
Big Up！– 混沌に意味がある場所
福岡のありふれた一角に、まるで論理を無視したような外観が立っている。積み上げられた箱、即席のドア、色あせた看板、むき出しの配管——それでも、不思議とすべてがあるべき場所に収まっているように見える。
誰に見せようとしているわけでもなく、飾り気のないその佇まいは、混沌の中の真実を語る。
この不思議なバランスこそが魅力だ。美しさは、整っていなくても成立する。
Big Up! – Where chaos makes sense
In the unlikely heart of Fukuoka, a frayed storefront defies logic. Stacked boxes, makeshift doors, faded signs, exposed pipes—and yet… everything seems right where it should be.
There’s no effort to impress, no curated aesthetic—only a raw kind of honesty pouring out of apparent dysfunction.
This is the charm: a disordered balance, beauty that doesn’t ask permission, a silent invitation to enter even if you’re not sure where it leads.
The four seasons are distinctly charted on the calendar. However in real life there is often considerable overlap. Yesterday morning I was out raking leaves and even mowing portions of the lawn. By midday a snowstorm moved into the area, instantly transforming the village into a winter wonderland. There's a certain magic in the first snowfall of the season. It's been that way since childhood. As an adult I've come to appreciate that magic even more. Each year I make it a point to interact with it as much as possible. I love the feeling of excitement and the creative burst that seems to occasion it.
The magic quickly erodes as the season progresses. Each successive winter storm induces a mental beat-down effect that can result in all sorts of mental dysfunction. Winter just makes the outdoor aspects of daily life more tedious. I'm not immune from this, but for now anyway, I'm starting off with a fresh slate mentally speaking. I watch the Doppler radar with fascination as the display is inundated with blue, the color representing snowfall. I head out just as the darkest shade of blue approaches the village. I want to be out in the thick of snowfall, with the sky filled with flakes like a real life snow globe. I love challenging nature like this, avoiding the human tendency to take refuge, and facing my dislike and anxiety about winter head-on. Plus the magic thing. The storm did not disappoint. Wet heavy snow pelted down even though the air temperature remained just above freezing. Snow blanked most of the landscape except for sections shielded by trees, many still filled with leaves. There I found wonderfully conflicted scenes like this, vibrant autumn leaves abutting early winter. The line of demarcation sharply defined, magic intact!
The forecast called for snow last night, so it was no surprise to see it arrive, falling gently and reaching the 3 inches (7 cm) or so predicted as I went to bed. "Amazing," said I, the cat nodding in agreement. Little did we expect that it would continue throughout the night depositing another 10 in. (25 cm). Perhaps they changed the forecast, but I had no way of knowing since the satellite dish is apparently horribly frightened by the slightest mention of weather, typically going into dysfunction mode at even the first drop of rain.
In any event, just when much of the snow had finally and rapidly begun to dissipate, a fresh layer now coats the landscape, heavy and wet with temps right at the freezing mark, providing what may be a final look at a winter wonderland which has admittedly worn a bit heavy this year. However, with temps heading into the 50s (10C) by the end of the week, it should quickly vanish, allowing appreciation of what is always a dramatic and beautiful scene.
(Sky provided by Vintage Findings...and yes, Karen, it is what we used to call "good packing" for snowballs/snowmen)
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This gloomy evening, the jealousy of my heart leads to my mistakes.
And yet,
the sky is with me
even if I lose all the wishes of my life, the sky is with me
Encompassing the burden of my heart and the dysfunction of my thoughts, the fragrance of its loneliness surrounds me
The management at my apartment complex gave everybody a $5 Starbucks giftcard. I joined everyone else with no place else to go this morning, celebrating Christmas Dysfunction with the “We’re Here!” Hereios this morning.
Some of the most interesting things occur when I might think nothing is happening at all. The predawn and twilight hours in the desert are often the best shooting moments, but at the time in the moment, it feels like I'm actually preparing for the pinnacle to come. What's ironic about that is that I'm sitting on top of the pinnacle and don't even know it.
This is a story of lack of sleep, coupled with an ambition to maximize a short period of time in a spectacularly beautiful place. This night we caught sunset, and shot Astro. We pulled into camp with 3 hours until the wake up call, and I planned to cowboy camp. On the way to the bathroom a scorpion and spider with 10 legs the size of my hand was discovered which ruled out cowboy camping. The spider I could deal with, but the scorpion was small, and I know those are the worst kind. Coupled with my experience on the Pacific Crest Trail I was almost positive this was a bark scorpion, which is the most venomous scorpion in north america. It's venom causes severe pain for up to 72 hours, temporary dysfunction in area stung, convulsion, loss of breath, and the sensation of electrical jolts... I think not.
My tent is ultralight and has no mosquito netting, and I had left my bivy at home, so the only option was to empty out the Jeep and sleep in the back. This was quite a chore, but it was useful because we needed to organize the chaos that was our transport anyway. We rolled out of camp, and hiked to our destination in darkness, hoping for some great sunrise lighting. The sunrise was mild at best, but arrived early enough to capture the faint blue glow of light reflecting off the rocks as the looming sunrise mixed with night.
Can we chat a minute? Friend to friend?
I've had a little thing on my heart for awhile that I really wanted to talk about so I'm taking a stab at it.
I've been a Christian my whole life. I know a lot of people hear that word and immediately cringe, break into hives or avoid direct eye contact. It's developed a bad connotation over the years, huh?
I get it.
I grew up in a very legalistic church that believed women shouldn't wear pants and that submission to a man meant doing whatever they tell you to do. Fraternizing with people who were not Christian was frowned upon as if you'd somehow contract their sin like the Black Plague. 'Burning in hell' was a phrase I heard more times than "I'd like to buy a vowel, Pat" and hate was most people's spiritual gift.
So, naturally... I grew up with issues. Major issues. Some might even label it religious trauma from the rigid dogma that was spewed from the pulpits I sat under.
I could tell you stories of people I grew up with and in my extended family who were abused physically, verbally and emotionally but told to keep quiet to 'save face' or thought speaking up wasn't submitting. It still happens today.
And it breaks my heart.
Don't get me wrong, my parents were great. Some of the kindness most thoughtful people on the planet who didn't buy completely into all that. They had their issues that they passed to me because their parents passed it to them but I've done everything I can to break that pattern in my own kids (a post for another time) and in my own heart.
But this isn't a post about the danger of religion or the dysfunction of a family. This is a post about Love.
If you're read this far... stick around for the good part. :)
Man has corrupted religion. Many have taken a book written by the God of the Universe and weaponized it to scare people into doing what they are told. It's not about love, it's about control.
But Jesus wasn't about that.
In fact, Jesus rebuked the Pharisees REPEATEDLY for worrying more about laws and rules than the people who were in need and hurting around them.
He SAW them. And He sacrificed himself for them.
He has always been for US.
Jesus doesn't care how you dress or how you look.
Jesus doesn't care about the color of your skin, nails or hair.
Jesus doesn't care where you live, or whether you bathed today.
He NEVER shied away from the sick, the hurting, the lame, the blind, the broken, the criminals... He SOUGHT them out.
And He loved them. Just like He loves you and me.
If you're a victim of religious trauma, I am so sorry. My heart absolutely breaks for you. That someone would take the Greatest Love of All and use it against you.
I know what it is like to lay in bed at night terrified by the words echoing in your head that you will never be good enough. To be frozen in fear that God was going to punish you for any infraction big or small. To be scorned for being female and looked upon as less.
Its wrong. It's cruel. And it is in NO WAY what Jesus would do.
So I guess I came here to say this...
It's not about church or religion.
It's about a relationship with Jesus. You and He.
And if you need someone to talk about that with, I'd love to chat.
Because He does love You for who you are. He looked down at His creation and thought the world needed one of you.
Think about that.
I didn't write this to preach - in fact, quite the opposite. The world is full of hurting, unseen, broken people who need to know that they are genuinely loved by God. And you really, truly are.
Love y'all.
A dutiful Mom returns to her two chicks after chasing off a juvenile Eagle who had the audacity to encroach upon her territory. Dad was more than happy to watch the action from the comfort of a nearby tree which makes me think Mom is probably rethinking her choice of mates.
Along the banks of the Potomac just a wee bit downstream from Dysfunction Junction (Washington, DC)
2022 = 6 in numerology
6 = Symbol of Love & Romance, the symbol of luck and is the highest number of the dice!
Bible interpretation is a mammoth number representing the creation of Man - man was created on the 6th day. Symbolizing man and our human weakness
Interestingly the satanic number is the triple 6! = 666 = Mark of the Beast.
The next few years we will witness Quantum Leap forward for humanity on a scale never witnessed before.
Buckle down, be prepared for rapid changes - something most of us are not adept to coping with.
In the year 2022 it is a time for transformation from within, sometimes not of our own free will.
Remain in touch with your feelings and emotions, listen to what your body is telling you.
Whilst the world around us continues to spin out of control now is the time for each of us to draw on our own STRENGTH - to rise above the dysfunction we will witness.
It will be a time for much more awakening for humanity. More and more light will shine on humanity exposing the dark.
It will be a time when the shadow is truly exposed both on a world scale and at an individual level.
It may be a time of great upheaval for many as systems, foundations we have believed to be real suddenly become clear to us are crumbling from beneath us.
Challenging yes absolutely, and with this may come a great deal of personal grief longing for how things used to be. Hold your light it is returning like never before into the hearts and minds of humanity.
This will be a great time for Transformation from within sometimes voluntarily, sometimes we will be shaken into it and at other times we will be stirred into transformation - but TRUST, as always through these times when it is easy to focus on the dark - always there is TRANSFORMATION that takes place.
At these times nurture yourself in whatever way you can, laugh, meditate, listen to music, reach out - help is there like never before for humanity.
Grief is always a great transformer. We will witness collective grief along with personal grief. Become like water, fluid, flowing, allowing and embrace the light and the Love that will help to transform you on a quantum scale.
Collectively we are each shifting consciousness and this shift is more LOVE, more LIGHT for new and better ways of being in this world.
We will see more justice new ideas birthed forward to benefit humanity - the old is being dismantled, the corrupt, the wicked, the dysfunction, conflict and separation will no longer be sustained on our beautiful earth.
Humanity will become more united, we will feel it, we will see it clearly we will be supported spiritually, emotionally as the Christ Consciousness expands into the minds of men. We will be asked to find more patience, more compassion with others who may be resistant to change.
Focus on what you require for yourself in the new year of 2022, set your intentions and whilst it is so easy to focus on the negatives of this world. It is time now to focus on all that we are grateful for.
The year 2022 (all those 2's!) representing UNITY - it is the year when we have the opportunity to make quantum leaps in transformations individually and come truly into our inner Strength and become a stronger Light force of Love on the planet.
WOW no more powerful emotion than LOVE
If faced with Grief - please remember this - when we grieve either individually or collectively - whilst it may feel like our hearts are broken, it too shows us an insight into the great LOVE we have in our hearts. I am always amazed even in the darkest days of grief the overwhelming LOVE that is felt within and from others.
That is the gift and the blessing in GRIEF - an opening of our hearts. That may sound strange to many, but it is very real.
As Val xox posted recently in a photograph: ⳽ᖾᥲttᥱɾᥱᑯ ɠꙆᥲ⳽⳽
"I guess sometimes things don`t break, they shatter, but when you let the light in, shattered glass will glitter."
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I wish you strength, courage, Love and Light for 2022.
Happy New Year everyone
“I rose from marsh mud
algae, equisetum, willows,
sweet green, noisy
birds and frogs.”
― Lorine Niedecker
An exhibit by Simon Henselmann: "Bad Gateway" at the Bellevue Art Museum until August 11th, 2019
©️All art credit and Copywrite to Simon Henselmann, Do not attempt to copy or use this photo without the artist's permission.
How is it that these sponsored ads keep popping up with the cure for everything from erectile dysfunction to weight loss to hair resoration, and neuropathy? Do people really believe this shit?
Mr. Dagwood Smith #7 is in the cube! I hadn't had these out for awhile, and a few of the kids are having fun with the cubes.
Unfortunately I believe Dagwood has developed Senile Cognitive Dysfunction, sometimes called dementia. Phew .... outcry, Father, outcry!
PS Just adding, maybe he had a stroke like Chloe did? I don't know, he's not doing so well and has lost a lot of weight.
impressions @ lost place
former spring factory, demolished in 2016
more stuff like this in: 'The W.O.S.-Series'
Photography legitimizes all sorts of weird behavioral patterns. At least that's what I tell myself. Someone sees a strange dude creeping around in a cemetery and it might be time to summon the authorities. But give him a camera and he's suddenly rendered harmless in the observer's eye. I've come to reason that mental dysfunction and creativity go hand in hand. An artist takes license in reimagining the world into their own view. Some quite literally, others with a fair amount of interpretation. The more imaginative, the less inhibited and the less connected to reality. I believe that is the heart of what some might consider dysfunction. It all comes down to how you channel it.
One of my many odd proclivities is an attraction to the wilted floral arrangements left at gravesites. Not a mere fantasy, but one that has me out regularly inspecting and photographing them. It's inexplicable in the sense that I cannot tie it to any particular past event in my life. It's just there. And I act on it more as a compulsion than a desire. Each time I spot one I tell myself to keep on walking, even though I know I must approach. Visually it's tied to the concept of extracting beauty from scenes of grimness and decay. I thrive on the tension of that dichotomy. As for the floral arrangements, the attraction peaks in the days immediately following the internment, just as the flowers begin to pass from the life phase into death...the moment when they are not yet firmly in either realm. It's yet another realization of the boundary lines I constantly find myself straddling, both physical and metaphorical. And I find the beauty most overwhelming at a point where others see only dead flowers.
voila, losy! my napkins live in a basket becuz i use the napkin holder for art...no dysfunction here....
Not sure if this is a Russian bear or if the old saw is completely accurate, but I will say that the state of the union at this point is completely insane, both sides contributing with increasing vehemence to the nonsense. It's pathetic and painful to watch such dysfunction within a political system that clearly is and has been broken for years, regardless of party control.
Based on the “The Misfits” Movie CLIP - Everything Keeps Changing (1961). Both characters Gaylord and Roslyn are having difficulty - divorce. The clip from the movie illustrates their dysfunctions, but also points toward possible healing or more pain. Love the movie.
aka HFF - Erectile dysfunction [#75 in Explore]
insert your own knob joke . . . .
(pun intended)
HFF to y'all, peeps. :)