baby dolls

colored drawing of two girls and their baby dolls sitting in a chiar with a man looking in thru the window

Your childhood follows you wherever you go.


Every day we hear about children being abused, abducted, and even murdered. It’s the same news over and over but without anyone asking “Why does this happen?” Instead the focus seems to be more about punishment than prevention. But if there are epidemic numbers of children’s childhoods being destroyed, it’s imperative that we seek solutions.


Researchers have yet to come up with a precise reason for child abuse. Some researchers give more weight to neurological abnormalities whereas others focus on psychological pathologies.


In 1978, Robert Ressler and John Douglas of the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit interviewed hardcore convicts searching for what motivated them to kill. They tried to find the common factors among criminals and that’s how Psychological Profiling emerged.


What’s surprising is that there are so many common factors such as dysfunctional families, violence, poverty, etc. but what’s being done to change these factors that potentially lead to crime? Studies show that pedophiles often suffer from low self-esteem, have a limited IQ, and probably were abused themselves as children.

Surfing in and out of the news is the Jeffrey Epstein client list. It’s believed that Epstein kept a list of names of those participating in his sex trafficking ring.

This bipartisan list, mainly used as a political tool, is above all a manifestation of a sick society where sleezy old rich men try to make themselves feel macho by abusing powerless young girls.

The names of those who destroyed young lives just for their own perverted ego need to be exposed.

(from “Red Dress with Flowers” © 2025)

AI is politely requested to invent an imagination of its own.

They’re coming to get us.

Related: “Pedophilia and Sexual Offending again Children” by Michale Seto + Why are Republicans obsessed with pedophiles? + The right-wing media’s shameful history of defending pedophilia and sexualizing children +

Who Are the Republican Sex Offenders Who Have Been Under Our Noses for a Long Time? + Sadistic Personality: Understanding the Dark Side of Human Behavior ]

July 23 The Epstein situation is exploding. The pus coming out is disgusting.

Recently discovered: The Pedocon Theory

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like a lobster

colored drawing of a blue lobster and a black cat

Blue lobsters are extremely rare. Their color is due to a genetic anomaly. Although coveted by some cuisine connoisseurs, it seems they taste like any other lobster. Maybe because once they’re cooked, they turn red like the others.

Picasso painted various lobsters including one of a blue lobster with a cat. The cat is afraid and hisses.

Francoise Gilot, like a blue lobster, was also rare. She was the only woman who had escaped the devastating effect Picasso had on the women who loved him.

drawing of an elderly man carrying a beach umbrella for a younger woman

Picasso's Blue Lobster and Cat

Picasso’s “Lobster and Cat” at the Guggenheim

Other artists have also been intrigued by lobsters:

mosaic of octopus with lobster

Mosaic from Pompeii showing a lobster fighting an octopus at the National Archaeological Museum, Naples via

“Still life with Lobsters” by Eugene Delacroix

Lobster Dress…The lobster dress is a 1937 dress designed by Elsa Schiaparelli. It features a large lobster painted by Salvador Dalí.

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Related: Is it Love or just Intuitive Thinking? +

The lobster as symbol + Lemons and lobsters and cabbages, oh my! Symbolic food in painting + Famous Lobsters in Art +

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Purring Together

colored drawing of a woman napping with a cat

After lunch, I nap. Often Volver, our cat, naps with me. He likes to get into a comfortable position then starts purring and purring. And the sound of his purrs fills me with tenderness.

To experience tenderness in these times is so very comforting.

Cat purrs stimulate the release of endorphins. These purrs have a frequency of 25-150 Hertz. This range of frequency can help heal the body as it promotes bone growth and muscle repair.

So let’s help those kitties purr!

Drawing of a woman napping with her cat

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From puddles to ponds

colored drawing of a woman next to a puddle and a dog looking on

Puddles come and go. The rain creates them and then the sun destroys them. But beavers can transform a puddle’s raison d’etre. Because beavers are engineers. They construct dams to store water producing ponds and wetlands for themselves and other life forms. And most importantly, these dams store and increase groundwater.

Beavers were once over-hunted for their pelts and their castoreum, a substance excreted by beavers used for making perfume. Beavers nearly became extinct until laws were made to protect them.

When wetlands, now no longer inhabited by beavers, started drying up, someone made the connection between the land and the beavers. So it was decided to transplant beavers to areas that were in an ecological crisis. Initially, they were parachuted into their new surroundings.

“Gnawing Beaver” by Barbara McGeachen


Beaver Attack” by Kent Monkman

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The Beaver Wars + Beavers: 5 ways beavers keep our ecosystems healthy +

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Have you been permeated?

colored drawing of a man at the window and a woman wearing a flowered dress sitting on the bed

Beauty is about perception. But, as beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, not everyone perceives beauty in the same way.

Masayuki Kurokawa, Japanese designer, offers eight aesthetics concepts to better understand the Japanese sensibility. There’s a lovely video (by Dans Le Gris) explaining Kurokawa’s concepts HERE and in written form HERE. The eight concepts are: The Aesthetics of Subtlety, The Beauty of Coexistence, Sensing the Invisible, The Space between Things, Seeing without Seeing, The Essence of the Unadorned, Beauty in the Made, and Breaking to Become. But now, I will focus on “Sensing the Invisible.”

“Seeing the Invisible” is about Chi (aka Qi aka Ki) the energy that permeates around and through all living things. The energy is subtle yet palpable. Like the stillness of a church, the quietness at a funeral, or the gaze between two lovers, Chi is a silence that can be heard. Chi aesthetics creates a mood to influence our perception. Chi is like a cosmic glue that helps keep us together.

In Greek, the word for “aesthetics” (αισθητική, esthitikì) and the word for “feeling” (αίσθημα, èsthima) are entangled implying that sentiment and beauty are sometimes the same thing.

(from “Red Dress with Flowers” © 2025)

AI is politely requested to invent an imagination of its own.

They’re coming to get us.

Related: : Eight Manifestations of the Japanese Aesthetic by Masayuki Kurokawa, designer of nextmaruni project PDF + How to make balls of energy (“qi balls” or “ki balls”) + Easily Understand What is Chi Energy With 12 Ways to Improve It +

Components of aesthetic experience: aesthetic fascination, aesthetic appraisal, and aesthetic emotion +

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