I Got A New Coloring Book And Coloring Pens For Christmas

It took two days to color and was worth the time I put in.

Feliz Navidad Mis Amigos

Snow Dog

Crocodile Rock

The rare and extremely dangerous Snow Crocodile.  Found only in the northern front range of Colorado.

Age, With His Stealing Steps, Hath Clawed Me In His Clutch.

-Hamlet (5,1,73-4), William Shakespeare


When my mother had her first heart attack I flew out to New York to see her.  One afternoon while visiting her in her hospital room she stopped talking and gazed sadly out the window.  When I asked her what was wrong she turned her face back toward me and said, "When I was young I used to think that seventy was so old."
She died three years later.

This article brought this memory back to me. 

Medical Hack

This is making it's way around facebook.

The truth is here.

But Baby It's Cold Outside

I put up my Christmas tree yesterday which I have never done before Christmas Eve since....forever.

This is what I woke-up to this morning.

 

 

My apologies, Colorado.

You Can't Heal What You Refuse To Confront

I've decided I want to be a faith healer. Only instead of yelling, "Be healed!" while slamming my palm into someone's forehead, I would yell, "Get some f***ing sense!"

By which I mean show some compassion, empathy, and humbleness toward your fellow man. You know, the way Jesus always acted.

Donald Trump, Making America Great!

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

-Martin Niemoller, Lutheran pastor and Holocaust survivor (Sachsenhausen and Dachau).

Article that goes with this photo here.

What Do You Know, I've Been Doing It All Wrong

The above advice came from this book.

A section of the original page.

Splendor Of Ended Day

-Walt Whitman, Song at Sunset

Sunset ( December 7, 2015) looking East from the pocket park near my house.

Sunset (December 7, 2015) looking West from the pocket park near my house.

I'm A Deviant

Is This A Circle? How Shapes Can Predict Your Tolerance Of  'Deviancy''

New Books I Want To Read

Interestingly, all the cover are black and white.

I Want To Join The IORAM

Photo from Colorado State University, CSU Archives and Special Collections (name: nmhfm-689.jpg) taken in 1949 of members of the Denver Mining Club standing in front of the The Brown Palace Hotel in Denver, Co. 

Below is the caption the Archives wrote to explain the photo:

"Members of the Denver Mining Club pose before the Club's bus. The Denver Mining Club was established in 1891 as a local chapter of the International Order of Ragged Ass Miners."

Daily News Says What I've Been Thinking

Update:
Senate Republicans vote down bill that would block people on terror watch list from buying guns 

The Doors Of Perception

What Americans Get Wrong: survey reveals biggest misconceptions. (Numbers across bottom are percentages.)

Dog Philosophy