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lovely, little, old, rectangular, green, French, silver whittling knife.
Saturday, August 19, 2023
Saturday, August 5, 2023
FLATWORM
https://caldwell.ces.ncsu.edu/2022/06/hammerhead-worm-sightings-are-on-the-rise/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipalium
Bipalium is a genus of large predatory land planarians. They are often loosely called "hammerhead worms" or "broadhead planarians" because of the distinctive shape of their head region. Land planarians are unique in that they possess a "creeping sole", a highly ciliated region on the ventral epidermis that helps them to creep over the substrate
When captured, earthworms begin to react to the attack, but the flatworm uses the muscles in its body, as well as sticky secretions, to attach itself to the earthworm to prevent escape.
To feed on their prey, species of Bipalium often evert their pharynges from their mouths, located on the midventral portion of their bodies, and secrete enzymes that begin the digestion of the prey. The liquefied tissues are sucked into the branching gut of the flatworms by ciliary action.[14]
B. adventitium reproduces sexually and creates egg capsules, which hatch around 3 weeks post-deposition. The egg capsules have a tough exterior and generally contain multiple juveniles.[6]
Currently, four invasive species of Bipalium are known in the United States: B. adventitium, B. kewense, B. pennsylvanicum, and B. vagum
Penn State
Land planaria are predatory on soft-bodied invertebrates, including earthworms and other annelid worms, molluscs such as snails and slugs, isopods, and insects.
Terrestrial flatworms are hermaphrodites, which means that every individual has both male and female reproductive organs. This makes sexual reproduction easier as each individual worm only needs to find another individual to mate rather than males and females needing to find the opposite sex. Land planarians can also reproduce through a procession called "binary fission" where an individual flatworm spontaneously breaks in half. Each half regrows then the missing half – the head regrows the tail and the tail regrows a head – in about a week, resulting in two flatworms instead of one.
Read more at: https://burke.ces.ncsu.edu/2022/06/hammerhead-worms/
It is called a
hammerhead because of its large, hammer-shaped head. They can grow up to
twelve inches long. And they have five black stripes running down their
body.
Read more at: https://caldwell.ces.ncsu.edu/2022/06/hammerhead-worm-sightings-are-on-the-rise/h
Read more at: https://caldwell.ces.ncsu.edu/2022/06/hammerhead-worm-sightings-are-on-the-rise/h
The hammerhead worm has
been found in NC since 1951. It is called a hammerhead because of its
large, hammer-shaped head. They can grow up to twelve inches long. And
they have five black stripes running down their body.
Read more at: https://caldwell.ces.ncsu.edu/2022/06/hammerhead-worm-sightings-are-on-the-rise/
Read more at: https://caldwell.ces.ncsu.edu/2022/06/hammerhead-worm-sightings-are-on-the-rise/
The hammerhead worm has
been found in NC since 1951. It is called a hammerhead because of its
large, hammer-shaped head. They can grow up to twelve inches long. And
they have five black stripes running down their body.
Read more at: https://caldwell.ces.ncsu.edu/2022/06/hammerhead-worm-sightings-are-on-the-rise/
Read more at: https://caldwell.ces.ncsu.edu/2022/06/hammerhead-worm-sightings-are-on-the-rise/
The hammerhead worm has
been found in NC since 1951. It is called a hammerhead because of its
large, hammer-shaped head. They can grow up to twelve inches long. And
they have five black stripes running down their body.
Read more at: https://caldwell.ces.ncsu.edu/2022/06/hammerhead-worm-sightings-are-on-the-rise/
Read more at: https://caldwell.ces.ncsu.edu/2022/06/hammerhead-worm-sightings-are-on-the-rise/
The semi-circular head
of flatworms in the genus Bipalium (and closely related genera) house
sensory organs and numerous tiny eyes, and also give rise to their
common name, hammerhead worms.
Read more at: https://caldwell.ces.ncsu.edu/2022/06/hammerhead-worm-sightings-are-on-the-rise/
Read more at: https://caldwell.ces.ncsu.edu/2022/06/hammerhead-worm-sightings-are-on-the-rise/
The semi-circular head
of flatworms in the genus Bipalium (and closely related genera) house
sensory organs and numerous tiny eyes, and also give rise to their
common name, hammerhead worms.
Read more at: https://caldwell.ces.ncsu.edu/2022/06/hammerhead-worm-sightings-are-on-the-rise/
Read more at: https://caldwell.ces.ncsu.edu/2022/06/hammerhead-worm-sightings-are-on-the-rise/
The semi-circular head
of flatworms in the genus Bipalium (and closely related genera) house
sensory organs and numerous tiny eyes, and also give rise to their
common name, hammerhead worms.
Read more at: https://caldwell.ces.ncsu.edu/2022/06/hammerhead-worm-sightings-are-on-the-rise/
Read more at: https://caldwell.ces.ncsu.edu/2022/06/hammerhead-worm-sightings-are-on-the-rise/
The semi-circular head
of flatworms in the genus Bipalium (and closely related genera) house
sensory organs and numerous tiny eyes, and also give rise to their
common name, hammerhead worms.
Read more at: https://caldwell.ces.ncsu.edu/2022/06/hammerhead-worm-sightings-are-on-the-rise/
Read more at: https://caldwell.ces.ncsu.edu/2022/06/hammerhead-worm-sightings-are-on-the-rise/
The semi-circular head
of flatworms in the genus Bipalium (and closely related genera) house
sensory organs and numerous tiny eyes, and also give rise to their
common name, hammerhead worms.
Read more at: https://caldwell.ces.ncsu.edu/2022/06/hammerhead-worm-sightings-are-on-the-rise/
Read more at: https://caldwell.ces.ncsu.edu/2022/06/hammerhead-worm-sightings-are-on-the-rise/
Monday, July 31, 2023
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
LOOKING BACK
July 2011
In 2011 Larry taught a short enrichment course in Blake at the Senior Learning Institute of the College of Central Florida. He concluded the course with this precis of Blake's Milton.
In the second half of his career Blake had largely dropped his preoccupation with the Old Testament God and in favor of the New Testament God. His first large prophetic poem, Milton begins with a famous poem called Jerusalem that latter became the theme song of the British Labor party; used to sing it as a hymn.
This material is autobiographical and written in the honeymoon phase of his new spiritual life. Blake's full meanings yields only to intensive study, but from the beginning there are thrilling lines to delight and inspire the reader. In his esoteric language Blake describes for us what has happened to him, and nothing could be more engrossing for the reader interested in the life of the spirit and in Blake. The relationship of this story to the myth described above should be obvious. But Milton is more real than the previous material because Blake has lived it and writes (and sketches) with spiritual senses enlarged and tuned by his recent experience of grace.
AUTOS
Chevy
Puff, DLF, Trumpkin
Mitsubishu
Pronto
Mercades
Deisel
Nissan Minivan
Grey Goose
Mazda 323
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Honda Civic
Red Car
Toyota Matrix
White Lightning
Mazda 3 HB
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Paul's truck
Monday, July 3, 2023
THESEUS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS
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Fitzwilliam Museum America Preludium |
I went to an organ concert with others from Arbor Acres. The concert was at Ardmore Baptist Church which was unfamiliar to me. When we were leaving the church Nancy saw a friend and left the group to speak to him. I waited for her at the door of the sanctuary while others went on to board the bus.
When we exited the building we did not see either the others in the group or the bus. We thought we saw the bus down some stairs a short distance away. Since Nancy wasn't comfortable with descending the stairs we cut through the parking lot which avoided the stairs. We passed a woman who was getting ready to get into her car. She accidentally dropped her glasses but didn't notice them lying at her foot. I alerted her to the fact that she was about to step on her glasses. She picked them up and commented that without them she would not have been able to get home.
When we got a better look at the bus we were headed for, we realized that it was a church bus and not the Arbor Acres bus. We did not see our bus but walked through the parking lot in the direction that we thought it might be waiting. Fortunately we were headed in the right direction. The rest of the group had boarded the bus which was parked beside the street. With our arrival the group was complete and our short drive back to Arbor Acres was soon accomplished.
Before I wrote this I had been thinking of Theseus' and the labyrinth as symbolic of the difficulties of approaching the unconscious with its unknown and threatening content.
My dream from a few weeks ago was about having lost my shoe on the way down a path on a rugged mountain. The depths to which I was headed was my unconscious and the shoe was the protection I needed along the way and to deal with what may be lurking there when I arrived. The dream alerted me to the journey I need to take and the necessity of having assistance along the way.
https://www.sunyatasatchitananda.com/shadow-work-minotaur-theseus/
Saturday, February 18, 2023
SCULPTURE
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Madonna and Child By Jacob Epstein 1953 |
"Now owned by The Kings Fund, the Dean’s Mews buildings were formally occupied by the Convent of the Holy Child of Jesus. The sisters had previously occupied cramped accommodation near Marylebone High Street but, needing more space for their teaching activities, they moved here in 1889.
Bombed in the Second World War, the convent commissioned the architect Louis Osman to restore the damaged buildings and also to create the linking bridge across the mews. It was his idea to include a statute of the Madonna and Child “levitating” against the bridge’s façade; the statue to be cast from roofing lead acquired from the bombed building. Osman independently commissioned Jacob Epstein to design the cast for the statue which caused a further artistic controversy.
This was due to people questioning whether it was appropriate for a Jew (Epstein) to create a Christian image and there were also requested alterations to the statue’s faces."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Epstein
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