Vis a Vis Riders in the StormTouch Me and My Husband........ HA!

 drawing- collage by marguerita

Lately, I must admit, as I never would open my heart to the world, but considering that I have kidney failure,on dialysis and wondering if I will get a live donor to save my life,I become ever so more critical and intense.

My drawings,always betrayed my moods and beliefs,as I found always a refuge in my art to play with reality.....

So,this evening,after making for myself a little plate of pasta,

I come upon this story in todays's NYTimes..... quite apropos....

So the story I’d like to tell is this: Over the past half-century, society has become more individualistic. As it has become more individualistic, it has also become less morally aware, because social and moral fabrics are inextricably linked. The atomization and demoralization of society have led to certain forms of social breakdown, which government has tried to address, sometimes successfully and often impotently.

This story, if true, should cause discomfort on right and left. Conservatives sometimes argue that if we could just reduce government to the size it was back in, say, the 1950s, then America would be vibrant and free again. 

But the underlying sociology and moral culture is just not there anymore.

 Government could be smaller when the social fabric was more tightly knit, but small government will have different and more cataclysmic effects today when it is not.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/opinion/brooks-what-our-words-tell-us.html?hp

lyrics excerpts could apply........

 of Riders in the Storm

Light My Fire

 Touch me

Plant Cerebral and You,Ha!

                                                   
                                                   drawing by marguerita
                    An intriguing confirmation of deep similarities in brain chemistry across the animal kingdom.

Plants are known to go to great lengths to attract pollinators. 

They produce all sorts of chemicals that affect animal behavior: sugar in nectar, memorable fragrances, even substances in fruit than can act like laxatives in the service of quick seed dispersal.

Lars Chittka, who studies bee behavior at Queen Mary, University of London, and wrote a commentary on the research in the same issue of Science, said that in the marketplace of plants seeking pollinators, the plants “want their customers to remain faithful,” thus the sugary nectar and distinctive scents.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/science/plants-use-caffeine-to-lure-bees-scientists-find.html?hp

Wittgenstein,You ,All of us and Truth?

                                   drawing by marguerita

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written 

consisting entirely of jokes.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/was-wittgenstein-right/

Ratzinger, Pope Exitus Est

                                  drawing by marguerita

VATICAN CITY — What will he be called?
 Will he keep his white robes and trademark red loafers?

 And in the last absolute monarchy in the West, how does the dramatic resignation ofBenedict XVI, the first pope to step down willingly in six centuries,
 change a role long considered by the Roman Catholic Church to be that of God’s representative on Earth?
“From a theological point of view, how can a person be considered to be infallible
 and not be infallible anymore?” 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/18/world/europe/what-do-you-call-a-retired-pope-and-is-he-still-infallible.html?pagewanted=all

Der Blaue Engel Benedickt and the Vatican Folies....... d'apres

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Scandals and Intrigue Heat Up at Vatican

“based on judgments that do not typically capture the spiritual aspect of the moment that the Church is living.”

Note: Ever since.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaZDiKRT1is

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/world/europe/shadows-accompany-gathering-to-pick-pope.html?hphttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWI3QaHHGpY

Koch One week after ....

OF Doctors,Status Quo and SUFFRADISE

 Drawings /collages by marguerita

If you look hard enough at why  com
mon-sense approach doesn’t deliver, you find some clues to what might....... 

ONE: Doctors do not even look at the patient anymore.Or,worse 

do not touch the patient.

FIRST question:  DO YOU HAVE INSURANCE?

SECOND question : WHY ARE YOU HERE?

THIRD question : DID YOU BRING YOUR BOTTLES?

And doctor,all the time typing on computer........

Fourth question: BEST IS TO SEND YOU TO A SPECIALIST......??????

Fifth question : IF YOU HAVE PAIN, GO STRAIGHT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM.....

 Sixth question: ARE YOU ALLERGIC ??? 

TO ANYTHING?

Seventh question:   HOW LONG DO YOU HAVE THIS PROBLEM?

Eigth question:HERE A PRESCRIPTION (S)

  MAKE AN APPOINTMENT IN TWO WEEKS( check if I am back from vacation....)

And the list goes on.

Doc....Excuse me, by the way have you heard about Hypocrates ?

Hypo,who?

 Next!

 P.S. Read Lives of a Cell, by Dr.Lewis Thomas

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/opinion/keller-carrots-for-doctors.html?hpw&_r=0

Once Again: Oh! Obama, The Musical

http://thepoignantfrog.blogspot.com/2008/11/history-of-othe-world-looks-on-in-hope.html

Of Nature is Me, You, the Sun Moon, Stars and Beings

Sculpture in iron by marguerita

Bio design is not about merely taking cues from organic structures and operations.

 It’s about harnessing the machinery of the natural world to perform as nature does:

 storing and converting energy, 

producing oxygen, 

neutralizing poisons

 and disposing wastes

 in life-sustaining ways.

 “And when you’re done with this chair, unlike an Ikea chair, you don’t landfill the thing. 
You throw it in the garden 
and it feeds other creatures.
 It’s part of the web of life.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/garden/bio-design-in-the-home-the-beauty-of-bacteria.html

Of CONNECT-I-CUT,Gun Control versus US HELLTHCARE and Obama

                                                  drawing by marguerita

The more that we hear about gun control and nothing happens, the less we can believe it will ever come.

Note: Guns are are readily available, Healthcare and Life,
who cares?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/opinion/death-in-connecticut.html?hp