Drowning Antinous

He lost his Antinous while sailing along the Nile and wept for him like a woman. Concerning this, there are various reports: some assert that he sacrificed himself for Hadrian, others what both his beauty and Hadrian's excessive sensuality make obvious." -from the Historia Augusta

Friday, November 14, 2008

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Designed by the fabulous Shepard Fairey, who also designed the amazing Obama campaign image, this magnificent poster was revealed today. His...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Dawn

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The sun is just rising over the mountains bordering the Tonto National Forest; which runs along our property line. The amazing wealth of wil...
Thursday, November 06, 2008

Discrimination Enshrined

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It is a sad day in our household for Prop 8 passed in California. I stayed in bed all of Wednesday, because even with Obama being elected, ...
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Potted

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Mark and I have beed sharing some gardening. It's been a great way to spend time together. Mark is a pro with the drip system, and keeps...
Monday, September 15, 2008

Memoir

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Dad was hurrying us as I  left my almost new portable radio cassette player on the trash heap of household items (we were unloading ourselve...
Saturday, August 23, 2008

Thundering Turtles

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So my spouse named us today as we drove the Rover over the bumpy two miles of dirt road to the Rio Verde highway! "Thundering what...
Saturday, June 14, 2008

A Christian's View of Same Sex Marriage

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Well, I haven't been here for awhile... The big news, of course, is he California Supreme Court's ruling to allow same sex marriage ...
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Sunday, March 23, 2008

The High Chaparral!

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There is something unexpected and even unexplainable in our recent location to the high desert chaparral. First, the desert has always previ...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Two More Angels

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These two little fur balls are always up to something cute. My angelic acrobat, Athenais, immediately set upon my easel, (recently put to us...
Sunday, March 02, 2008

L'ange

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I received a comment today on an older post regarding the Bethesda Fountain and its Angel of the Waters. Here are a few more photographs of ...
Friday, February 22, 2008

CLAUDE-NICOLAS LEDOUX

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The French architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux is associated with the late eighteenth centuries return to nature, exeplified in philosophy with ...
Thursday, February 14, 2008

To My Valentine

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It is twenty years, now, my Love. Twenty years of joy and heartache, of laughter and tears, of learning what love really means and of how it...

A Minimum of Dignity, Please.

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This is the most heart wrenching story, but it's not the only one.  A woman in Florida never got to see her partner before she died. The...
Sunday, February 03, 2008

Stranger in Paradise

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I don't know if I'm able to write about death without sounding either cloying or detached. The Spectre seems to be so very close the...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

You See, No One Ever Called Me Darling Before

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Bette Davis' magnificently delivered line in Dark Voyage is powerful because it is universal, this need to be loved. It is the desire w...
Sunday, January 27, 2008

Heath Ledger

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What can anyone say, and how can one even get it out, it chokes at you and you have to brush back the tears, the anger and rage, the stupefi...
Saturday, January 26, 2008

Homophobia Rampant

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The news is always filled with disturbing examples of the hatred instigated and perpetuated by those whom believe that Gays and Lesbians are...
Friday, January 25, 2008

Dieux du Hommes

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Men, men, men! I love men - in suits, in the buff, classical or contemporary - each has an often apparent appeal. The images I've chosen...
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