Zuky: Photos — Spring Afternoon

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Photos — Spring Afternoon

It's a glorious day in southwestern Connecticut, so I snapped these pics of sunlight, grass and flowers, towering trees, stone walls and steps, and of course, a rickety old basketball rim...

Posted by Kai at 06:08 PM | Permalink

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Oooh, lovely! Days like this are great for picnics.

Posted by: M | Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 06:45 PM

love the greeeeen. and i love the rustic beat up backboard, too.

Posted by: nezua | Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 07:30 PM

The light is amazing, especially in the 3rd one

Posted by: Tom | Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 07:46 PM

Oh, pretty! You're so far ahead of us up here in the North Country mountains o' Vermont. I love the clover (clover! soon!). Are those violets? Can't quite tell.

Posted by: Theriomorph | Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 10:58 PM

where are you from, zuky?

Posted by: mememe | Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 03:50 PM

Just stopping in and saying hello. I breathed in these pics - gorgeous.

Hope you're doing well and spring continues to sweep over us with fresh and new glimpses of its beauty.

Posted by: Sudy | Friday, May 02, 2008 at 12:28 AM

Thanks for stopping by, Sudy! Good to see you! Glad you enjoyed the pics...I love this time of year.

mememe, I'm on the CT/NY border.

Posted by: Kai | Sunday, May 04, 2008 at 02:06 PM

Reflection

Through holding together, restraint is certain to come about. The yielding obtains the decisive place, and those above and those below correspond with it. Strong and gentle; the strong is central and its will is done. This is called the Taming Power of the Small.
— The I Ching, hexagram 9: Hsiao Chu / The Taming Power of the Small

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Immigrant Dreams and Nightmares in the White Supremacist Cauldron (May-2007)
The tired, the poor, the huddled masses of dream-hungry immigrants coming across the Pacific — like those coming across the deserts and rivers along the Southern US border — have never been greeted by a Mother of Exiles.
President McKinney (Oct-2007)
The whole notion of "electability" is a profoundly misguided and anti-democratic concept. There's a reason elementary schoolteachers ask children to put their heads down on their desks before voting by show of hands: they're learning to make independent decisions. Asking which candidate is more "electable" pre-emptively marginalizes one's own value as a unique perceiver and one's agency as a democratic participant.
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It's axiomatic that good writing tends to avoid clichés, because clear thinking is a fresh response to living reality, not a tired repurposing of brittle brain-crust. A logical inverse to this axiom is that political commentary tends to brim with toxic portions of vapid clichés, because good writing is about as widespread in today's political discourse as it is in corporate accounting memos.
The White Liberal Conundrum (Oct-2007)
Many of my POC friends would actually prefer to hang out with an Archie Bunker-type who spits flagrantly offensive opinions, rather than a colorblind liberal whose insidious paternalism, dehumanizing tokenism, and cognitive indoctrination ooze out between superficially progressive words.

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Ink Not Pixels

The Outlaw Bible of American Essays
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Jennifer Gordon: Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights
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Joyce Carol Oates: On Boxing
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Louise Derman-Sparks: Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism: A Developmental Approach
Based on a solid pedagogical framework and informed by years of classroom experience, this dense educational guidebook is an invaluable contribution to the anti-racist toolbox.