this troublesome monster

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion — and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion, which then becomes that of the majority, i.e., becomes nonsense by having the whole [mass] on its side, while Truth again reverts to a new minority.
In regard to Truth, this troublesome monster, the majority, the public, etc., fares in the same way as we say of someone who is traveling to regain his health: he is always one station behind. Soren k.

halal

Blaise Pascal [1623-1662]---, “Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.”

The truth is that when we try to shine the spotlight on ourselves, we only set ourselves up for humiliation.

 It is typically better to give than to take praise. The word for praise is halal from which we get the word hallelujah. Richard J. Clifford

Perspective

Perspective, that comet out there, one, someday, one of these will slam into the planet.
Where will your god be then, nature doesn't care about you. 99℅ of the life that has been on this planet is extinct.

The Skankuary, toronto, queen st. w

Taranto

SOMEthang green

Peterborough, ON, Canada, my bike, yesterday

“All Heaven and Earth
Flowered white obliterate...
Snow...unceasing snow” 
― Hashin, Japanese Haiku

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SOMEthang green

the visceral aspect

Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full of choice free to visit the stately pleasure domes make love in the morning sketch a bell tower read a history of Byzantium stare for one hour at the face of Leonardo da Vinci’s Madonna dei fusi. You open as in childhood and – for a time – receive this world. There’s the visceral aspect too – the huntress who is free. Free to go Free to return home bringing memories to lay on the hearth.” ― Frances Mayes, A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller

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Buffalo, USA, snow @ 6 1/2 feet, 

the damned things

“No one here gets out alive.” ― Jim Morrison

“The only difference between me and a madman is I'm not mad.” 
― Salvador Dalí

“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.” ― Frida Kahlo

ROOM

THE Smart-phone camera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ULVQOneeZE

Today we landed on a comet

“Something very strange is going on in the depths of space.” 
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.”― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

cheap as chips mate!”

“Habit rules the unreflecting herd.” ― William Wordsworth

 “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect” ― Mark Twain

FACEbook=PHASEbook-[1100 posts]

2 be unannoying, a Facebook status typically has to be one of two things:
1) Interesting/Informative 
2) Funny/Amusing/Entertaining
You know why these are unannoying? Because things in those two categories do something for me, the reader. They make my day a little better.
Ideally, interesting statuses would be fascinating and original (or a link to something that is), and funny ones would be hilarious. But I'll happily take mildly amusing -- at least we're still dealing with the good guys.
On the other hand, annoying statuses typically reek of one or more of these five motivations:
1) Image Crafting. The author wants to affect the way people think of her.
2) Narcissism. The author's thoughts, opinions, and life philosophies matter. The author and the author's life are interesting in and of themselves.
3) Attention Craving. The author wants attention.
4) Jealousy Inducing. The author wants to make people jealous of him or his life.
5) Loneliness. The author is feeling lonely and wants Facebook to make it better. This is the least heinous of the five -- but seeing a lonely person acting lonely on Facebook makes me and everyone else sad. So the person is essentially spreading their sadness, and that's a shitty thing to do, so it's on the list.
Facebook is infested with these five motivations -- other than a few really saintly people, most people I know, myself certainly included, are guilty of at least some of this nonsense here and there. It's an epidemic.

REFlectz-RED

A chronically leaking boat

“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” ― Warren Buffett

The trent-tug boat, trent canal, Peterborough, Ontario,

Usually looked at [20,000-hits]+ A ?

“A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.” ― Ansel Adams

A ?, if you saw a guy, in a clear plastic suit, walkin down the street, would u see he's Nuts?

was Canadian, EH!

“Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.” ― Chuck Barris, You and Me, Babe

the unknown comic was canadian, EH!

I was a different

“I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Paintings by friend Shelly Newman

: it goes on

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” ― Robert Frost

Niagara Falls, fall, 2014