Ayrshire cows are very pretty

Baby cows:

Weekend trip to Mt Barker.

The Sound of Waves

The Sound of Waves, Yukio MISHIMA 1954

velvet and velcro

figures in the landscape

old one of fremsley and moiya

artwork by CHRISTINA MAZZALUPO

Diagram of a Worker Ant

mary iverson

http://design-milk.com/mary-iverson/

Why is that baby crying?

Why is this baby crying?

Bertrand Russell on teaching

1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/05/02/a-liberal-decalogue-bertrand-russell/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+brainpickings%2Frss+%28Brain+Pickings%29

fish with hands

My Funny Valentine

My kinda world

http://50watts.com/

A Story of Books Becoming a Mountain

A replacement for the photo on page 49.

Walking Round in Circles

today's object

votes for women

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I am angry that I have to mow my 'grass'.

Things I do when I could be doing nothing.

#1: messing around in photoshop.

"Darwin says your mother is a whore."

Today's Science Show lecture by Christopher Ryan and the following discussion is interesting in its retelling of the biological story of female sexuality:

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2012/02/ssw_20120218_1205.mp3

(If the link doesn't work, go to the Science Show on Radio National website and podcast Is monogamy unnatural? broadcast Saturday 18th Feb 2012.)

It's an interesting discussion not just for the biological rethink of human sexuality but also for the commentary on social control, in particular of female sexual desire. "One of the best ways of controlling female sexuality is to deny it even exists..."

What my emotional response to this talk (relief) reminded me yet again is that any resistance that creates a negative emotion to a belief or story, no matter how repressed that resistance is, indicates something wrong with the belief. If you feel tired with life, then there is something wrong with your belief about what life is. Simple? I've experienced this sense of relief over and again in talking therapy, talking to friends, and in so many important readings of fiction and theory. It feels like a physical reordering of thoughts, a shaking down dropping sense, where what isn't needed falls away, and what remains is brought into better order, as if "the penny dropped" through the slot machine. It's difficult to explain such a how I hear and feel my thoughts falling, but perhaps you've felt it to, and know what I mean. This simaltaneously proves to me that thoughts are of the mind and of the body. The body is thought, thought is physical. Etc! It is hearing new information that removes the pain of falsity that existed in the received or coveted history.

The book this lecture is framed around is called "Sex At Dawn" Does anyone have a copy I can borrow?

http://sarahillenberger.tumblr.com/

Nathan Ford paintings

Have a look at this lovely selection of images, on a nice, simple blog.

gallery1.1.htm

Mullet Dress

I really don't get this style of clothing - short in the front and long at the back. I spent hours shopping for clothes today and not buying anything because so many of them have this half-arsed propensity. I'm not going to cut my hair like a bogan and I certainly don't want to wear a dress that looks like it's designed by a biker's sister.

Yes I know its shallow to discuss fashion, but I like the way talking about such things reveals my hidden prejudices.

The home office.

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