Bi Polar People

секрет The Soviet Committee of State Security ( KGB ). Its main responsibilities are counter-intelligence , internal and border security , counter-terrorism , and surveillance . Its headquarters are on Lubyanka Square , downtown Moscow. Source: WIKI  Picture taken at children's recital.

Margret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind) lived in this house's basement apartment

Lolita away from her cage, perched in a tree. 

A person caught in a moment of youth.

Mark cooks the line between blues and jazz.  An Evening With The Blues by Mark Cook

He holds the sun in the palm of His hand. 

Ominous natural beauty and biblical reality

There has been a mosquito floating around here for what seems likes weeks. Google reports a life span from two weeks to two months.  The little critter is either not hungry or agressive enough to go for a meal.  In fact I rather enjoy the company.  Will miss him when he is gone, or I get lucky.  Culicidae "the little fly"

Chuck Mistretta's Poetry Page Philosophers Are Children telling truths. Adults finding persecution. Are of little faith, but chosen.   What It Is If wisdom is having outlived our mistakes. Then intelligence is the capacity to make them.   Poet Want to be a poet?                                                                      Let people dance                                               ...

1995 Corvette The car is mine everything else belongs to god.

Frog in a bird feeder. Eventually this blog will come together and it will acquire a self of its own!

Luke the lizard (iguana) suns himself on the deck after being away for years.

Early Ford in Savanahh

Just trees, skinny tress, no branches, funny looking leaves - just trees. 

My daughter's place - her space. 

Hey! Is anybody out there?

Downtown Tampa Florida

Unreal, a lucky telephoto shot of a  carousel.

Real or unreal?   This one is from my brother John who shot the rolling fog outside his window. 

Posing software is not what it seems to be because the result is not real, the rendered picture is digital, at no time is it ever human.  We see what the mind's eye sees.

The Person There-In    You visit the person there-in, and say to him...   Don't I know you from some far away place and time?   Didn't you collaborate in this rhyme? I don't think so friend, I have better things to do,          Like muse of the misery of man and his zoo. We barely speak much, nor chat or chatter,          I often wonder what's the matter. Strangers true we are! Why have you bothered to travel so far?     I must confess I'm lost without you,      and many things have cost me dearly.       For lack of talk with you is my most grievous sin,       and I repent from afar and from within. Do not snatch at me with remorse,          those lost days of foolishness are of course.            I've been here all along,          and...

"It is clear that counter-terror became the strategy of the Batista government. It has been estimated by some that as many as 20,000 civilians were killed." -wiki-

50's  Cuba

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Chuck's Blues      The Devil When the devil  Comes a court’n  He can hang  Beauty  On the threads  Of a scarecrow  Take your eyes  Where they shouldn't go  And walk you, walk you  Out your door... Yes!  She’s a tempt’n  N’ain’t no scary crow  Now c’mon, c’mon  Where's the door?  Vanity Is Hell

                              Handmade  by  Eternal Jazz Project  

Lost and hopefully found - reward for return of this guitar Hear the owner of this instrument here ! Good shot John!

House Select Committee on Assassinations ABC News: How many shots were fired at Dealey Plaza? Blakey: What we did is determine that there were in fact four shots. Our scientists looked at a tape we found, and they did a scientific analysis of it, and it indicated four shots in the plaza, three from the depository and one from the grassy knoll. That meant there were two shooters in the plaza, two shooters in the plaza equal a conspiracy. The first shot from the depository by Lee Harvey Oswald missed. The second shot about 1.6 seconds later, hit the president in the back of the neck. (The bullet exited Kennedy and) hit John Connally. It hit his wrist, hit his leg. Now six seconds from the second shot, we think a shot came from the grassy knoll. It missed the president. The shot from the grassy knoll missed. The X-rays, the autopsy, all of that indicates the president was not hit by a shot from any other direction. Seven-tenths of a second after that, the third shot, fourth in the row,...

                    The 2nd mortgage, the first boat ride. Terrific!

Destroyer Class Star Ship

When you grow up, look around you...

Source: Wiki  Increasingly concerned about the potential danger to humanity arising from scientific discoveries, Oppenheimer joined with  Albert Einstein ,  Bertrand Russell ,  Joseph Rotblat  and other eminent scientists and academics to establish what would eventually become the  World Academy of Art and Science  in 1960

Screwed! Is this art?

                                          Be patient. Dreams come true.                                                         

For 50 years I smoked.  Now I just complain when the smell of chemical laced tobacco burns away.  Wow, what a rancid stench.  Smokers don't know their clothes stink, their breath reeks, and if hell had a perfume it wood be Marlboro.  Loved it while it lasted but can't stand it now - Fickle.

In every way there is a wonder in the midst of thee In every way there is a season just to set it free In ways no one will know there is a land of free In days God only knows my name He'll take from me.

Blogging was suggested by a brother with the hopes I would stop pounding him and the others with email.  Writing is my way of escaping from unwanted thoughts and in a creative way venting my desire and ability to be creative.  

Cuba

There is no beginning to a story, nor is there and ending.  Story lives before you, with you and is here long after you're gone.  If your foolish enough to capture some of what went on, then you have a fragment of what went on, nothing more. The story is never fully, or accurately retold.  Story only reveals itself once. Can a story tell itself?  Well, lets see. You start with what you know.  That in itself is a story.  Logic will take you to places, people and things that mean something to you.  If you think you know something, the real world demands an explanation, or for better, proof by action.  This usually produces a tangible book, invention or idea that reduces the strife of mankind.  The movies are a form of mental edification…  an expensive production to entertain by appealing to one's wants, desires, and most important of all, our fantasies, whims, delusions, and vanities.  Oooh, the sacrosanct never appears unless i...

The Age of Reason When comes the age of reason, Blessed be the rightful season, Bow to unearned knowledge new. Give back only your just due. Less fortunate you say, Didn't life look your way? Amen to brothers all, Bright the light before the fall. 

THE AFGHAN AIR WAR

Tricyclic Antidepressants A drug may be classified by the chemical type of the active ingredient or by the way it is used to treat a particular condition. Each drug can be classified into one or more drug classes. Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) act by inhibiting reuptake of norepinephrine and serotonin by blocking the transporters responsible for reuptake of these neurotransmitters. This inhibition elevates the concentration of neurotransmitters in the synapses and triggers further neurotransmission. Tricyclic antidepressants are used to treat depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and other mood disorders. They are also effective as analgesics so are used to treat chronic pain and used for migraine prophylaxis. Source: drugs.com

River view Chicago

Shot in an Atlanta restaurant.  One of my favorites.  I term this picture, "The Apostle."  His concentration on something unknown is appropriate for a man of faith who has spirit but struggles to understand the  answers.

Normally I write my siblings.  This blog is were ideas should go to.  It can be the rant and rage page for people with special needs, or disillusioned outlooks.  The purpose for this page is an outlet for creative ideas. The title of this blog is my cross to bear.  If you find this comment self serving, then you are fortunate.  A beautiful mind can be a terrible thing, or a transient joy. 

Life is not over until the last page is read. Like it or not someone wrote those words. Another's fiction or not, the words tell a story. And there are no happy endings. Alzheimer's and dementia are kind folk. Insanity sits you in a corner and makes you watch, listen and remember. Growing old is a bitch, the she dog of humanity who brings us into the world of male dogs who nip at our heels until the day we die. In the end, if your not an animal, you've become one.

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French Impressionist

                                        The Hill of Pots The sand, wind blown, nothing said for thousands of years, Nothing dead for thousands of years, but the word of Him, Who was, and is, and will be the sand tomorrow. How can man ignore this and His dead who are not dead. Who was once them and continues to be, ever changing like the dunes. Who comes back from the hill and gives us warmth. In my simple mind and tangled life I know Him. But He knows me better, and we laugh together. The sand changes and is the same. It is here. It is here and we are the spun powder, moving and changing too. But all at once, to form and uphold the work of Him. Broken vessels spill the Word and no one knows. Why shouldn't we laugh together, the sand and I? Verily, nothing matters even when the sand spills again and again. From today and from tomorrow we live on. We die to become Hi...

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife. Cedric Hardwicke

Location Charleston - on vacation

Joseph Haydn - Masses by American Bach Soloists

"And when it is said to them, `Believe as other people have believed,' they say, `Shall we believe as the fools have believed ?' Remember ! it is surely they that are the fools, but they do not know." THE HOLY QUR'AN This link for criticism of a president who follows Islam . Exodus: 80   The multitude of the children of Israel... offered first-fruits to the lord with a most ready and devout mind.