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Comment on Where’ve You Been?: Monday, August 30, 2010 by Ray L

Ray L — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:41:34 +0000

Congratulations, Howard. As a four-time grandfather, I can tell you the best is yet to come.

Nice to have you back with us, Bob. I was beginning to think Sher and you had run away

Comment on Where’ve You Been?: Monday, August 30, 2010 by Bob S

Bob S — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:44:24 +0000

Beautifully stated Howard … thank you.

Comment on Where’ve You Been?: Monday, August 30, 2010 by Howard C

Howard C — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:43:45 +0000

Your writing is intensely effective; I swear that I’m inside your brain while reading it.

Sincerely, what you have written about is the perfect approach to and experience of contemplation. If my humble opinion is worth anything in the penumbra of that, I think you should mosey on down to get the doctor’s analysis and opinion–humble as a doctor’s should be–anytime you want to tomorrow.

That suggestion is worth a chuckle, eh? Anytime you want to…tomorrow.

My daughter gave birth to my first grandchild yesterday, a natural birth at home using the midwife’s birthing stool…and gravity. Can we believe that American doctors are still placing women on their backs and their feet in stirrups to give birth against gravity? Last evening on the network news, they reported about a very premature baby twin that was given up to certain impending death after a few hours of the best doctors’ efforts to save its life after birth. When they placed the baby upon the mother’s chest for mama to give a final goodbye, the baby came to life and is doing just fine, thank you, three months later. Duh, the doctors had kept the baby away from the mother–the mother of all medicines and the incubator of all miracles–for all that time after birth. Had they forgotten about the maternal heat of the maternal beat?

So I have my belief in the inherent deficiencies of the pathological approach to medicine that is being practiced in the United States. But I do also acknowledge its profound technological advances in diagnosis and treatment. Proton power! My thinking is that it is best to get the doctors’ “information” as soon as a serious symptom or change emerges, and then use your own judgment and your own woman to grasp the miracles and the Meanings.

Power, peace, and love to you.

Comment on One Year and Counting (Five Feet High and Rising): Wednesday, August 11, 2010 by Bob S

Bob S — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:26:24 +0000

Thanks Howard. A year into it and we’re doing pretty well considering.

Comment on One Year and Counting (Five Feet High and Rising): Wednesday, August 11, 2010 by Howard C

Howard C — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:27:19 +0000

Oh yeah, proton power! The Missouri River has been flooding all summer, and this week the Des Moines River overflowed some of its turns, but the land will come back as it has before…enriched. Ten foot tall, Shabby, that’s what you are in my mind’s eye.

Comment on Szechuan Pork and Bok Choy Stir Fry(Boa Technique): Saturday, July 24, 2010 by Bob S

Bob S — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:47:41 +0000

yes, I took these photos in our kitchen.

Comment on Update: Follow Up Scans – Friday, July 23, 2010 by Bob S

Bob S — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:49:51 +0000

Not bad indeed! I consider this a “winning” trip. Hopefully, I’ll be re-writing this same post again in 6 months

Comment on Update: Follow Up Scans – Friday, July 23, 2010 by Ray L

Ray L — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:40:41 +0000

Overall, it wasn’t a bad day, my friend. I realize that’s easy for me to say (I wasn’t inside that metal toilet paper roll) but the important thing is there was no growth of the tumor!

Comment on So let me tell you about my latest photography project: by Bob S

Bob S — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:51:55 +0000

Thank you Ray, you’ve pretty much grasped the idea/concept with your comments. It’s amazing how incredibly powerful a simple photograph can be. Especially self portraits. They play a huge role in the history of art.

Along with protraits of others I’m planning to produce several to go along with this series.
Thanks much for your kind comments.

Comment on So let me tell you about my latest photography project: by Ray L

Ray L — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:22:35 +0000

You and I joke a lot here but this time I am going to be serious. That photograph may not speak to anyone else who views it but it had a profound effect on me. Let me tell you what I saw.

I saw a man glimpsing into the future without being sure of how much of a future he has. I saw a man at peace with himself yet still yearning for more. His eyes are locked onto something no one else can see and we, the voyeurs, are unable to determine if what he is gazing at brings him peace. Maybe even he doesn’t know.

It may not have been your intention to expose so much of yourself with one simple photograph but you certainly touched my heart. I have said this before but it bears repeating. I believe you to be one of the most courageous and noble men I have ever known. You are, as my father used to say, “good people” and damn it, we need more of those kind, today more than ever.

I will conclude by saying something else I have said here many times before. I couldn’t love you more if you were my brother.

Peace and Love