O man, take care!
What does the deep midnight declare?
"I was asleep,
From the deep dream I woke and swear.
"The world is deep!
Deeper than day had been aware.
Deep is its woe,
Joy deeper yet than agony.
Woe implores: Go!"
But all joy wants eternity,
Wants deep, deep eternity!"

    - Friedrich Nietzsche - 

from Thus Spoke Zarathustra

home

cocoon of a new white dwarf

from APOD, a site i'm always looking at .....

I circle around God, the primordial tower,
and I circle ten thousand years long;
and I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm,
or an unfinished song.

- Rainer Maria Rilke -

missing the future

i think this is my best photo .....
with 3 years old, at grandma's house ;-)))))))

Départ

Assez vu. La vision s'est rencontrée à tous les airs. Assez eu. Rumeurs des villes, le soir, et au soleil, et toujours.
Assez connu. Les arrêts de la vie. - O Rumeurs et Visions !
Départ dans l'affection et le bruit neufs !

- Arthur Rimbaud -
Illuminations

animation

Time is ...
by Theodore Ushev

i always loved animation movies and this one is great !!!

toni on the moon

© luisa brehm

Prisoners rebel against U.S. torture at Guantanamo
Check out this article from Workers World

Shall gods be said to thump the clouds
When clouds are cursed by thunder,
Be said to weep when weather howls?
Shall rainbows be their tunics' colour?

When it is rain where are the gods?
Shall it be said they sprinkle water
From garden cans, or free the floods?

Shall it be said that, venuswise,
An old god's dugs are pressed and pricked,
The wet night scolds me like a nurse?

It shall be said that gods are stone.
Shall a dropped stone drum on the ground,
Flung gravel chime? Let the stones speak
With tongues that talk all tongues.


- Dylan Thomas -

stick to the rock

© luisa brehm

U.N. Committee against Torture
Report 18 May 2006

homage

Jean Genet "Le condamné a mort" - 1952

a must listen !!! in french ......

So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

- Chief Tecumseh -
Shawnee Nation

25 years ago

Irish prisoners chose death over surrender
Check out this article from Workers World

a butterfly for my Love

 © luisa brehm

The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.

                   - American Indian proverb -

toni in dreamland

© luisa brehm

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

- William Blake -

Auguries of Innocence, 1863

universe is so small

 
© luisa brehm

trailer

i post both  .... in the one below we can see full screen .....
it's just beautiful !!!

"March of the Penguins" website:
http://www.marchofthepenguins.com/

March of the Penguins
http://movies.about.com/od/marchofthepenguins/a/penguins062005.htm

sea is red and rose

© luisa brehm

i like textures ... it's the way i touch and feel .....
ohhh this is portuguese nets ;-)))))

What is Life ?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass
and loses itself in the sunset.

- Crowfoot -
Blackfoot Warrior and Orator

"It's not working. It's not working."

"It don't work. It don't work."

article de Libération.fr.

Le supplice d'un condamné à mort relance le débat sur l'injection létale aux Etats-Unis
Joseph Clark a mis une heure et demie pour mourir • Son cas repose la question de savoir si les exécutés sont inconscients quand on leur injecte du poison •

http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=379237
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For immediate release

"It's not working. It's not working."

Barbarous Execution Shames Ohio

Jonathan I. Groner MD

Ohio, May 2, 2006: Today's execution of Joseph Lewis Clark, age 57, took nearly 90 minutes, making it one of the longest lethal injection executions in U.S history. The execution team struggled for 25 minutes to insert an intravenous line for the lethal injection, only to have Mr. Clark complain, "It's not working. It's not working" when the lethal chemicals began flowing. Prison officials then drew curtains and attempted to re-establish the intravenous line, while Mr. Clark could be heard "moaning and groaning" by witnesses. A new IV was established, the curtains were re-opened, and the drug infusion began again. Mr. Clark raised his head several times and breathed deeply before becoming still.

In response to this grisly execution, Jonathan I. Groner MD, national expert on lethal injection, commented: "The opaque curtain pulled across the execution chamber could not hide the fact that this man was tortured to death. Furthermore, the three drug injection used to extinguish his life is considered so inhumane that veterinarians are forbidden from using it in a similar fashion to euthanize animals.

"Today's execution demonstrates the terrible dilemma of lethal injection as medical charade. On the one hand, this 'medicalized' killing procedure, which uses IV tubing, anesthetic drugs, and other medical equipment, becomes torture in the hands of unqualified individuals. On the other hand, the involvement of medical professionals such as physicians and nurses in executions violates the fundamental ethics of these professions."

"No human, regardless of his or her crime, should be subjected to the torture that Mr. Clark faced. The barbarity of this execution is making news headlines around the world. I urge Ohio's political leaders to call for a moratorium on lethal injection immediately."

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Dr. Groner is an associate professor of surgery at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health. He has written and spoke extensively on lethal injection and the medicalization of capital punishment.

no words

The Memory Hole
www.thememoryhole.org/war/iraqis_tortured/

motionemotion

Vietnam: In Memoriam
http://www.visualgui.com/motion/VietnamInMemoriam.html

rebirth

www.zavaj.com/pictures/nature/embryo

may day

a good day to start !!!

there is no ending,
only beginnings ...........