Monthly Archives: June 2020

After Two and a Half Months, Finally Finished!!!

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After 2½ months, the murals that Jesus Lopez Vega and son Eduardo have been painting on the outside of my house and studio are finally finished. Forgottenman asked to see the total results, so I’m sharing them with you as well. If you are interested in seeing more of his work, look at the gallery of previous work I have bought from him below and also see his website at: arteajijic.net. (More contact info below.)

(Please note that there are two separate galleries.
In both you can Click on photos to enlarge and read captions.)

Streetside entrance.
Murals above my bedroom.
Above studio door.
Street side of studio.
South side of studio.

When Bob and I bought our house in 2001, the first thing we did was to go out and buy one of Jesus’ paintings in a local gallery. Here is that and other paintings I’ve bought from him over the years and other mural work he’s done in my house:

The inside of my street entrance door, with pedestals that once held two large Precolumbian replicas of a man and a woman that Bob went out and bought in an antique store while I was waiting to sign the papers to buy the house. Both since tipped over by the kittens now turned cats–and turned into flower pots. ( The remaining parts of the sculptures, not the cats!)
Pedestal detail.
Other pedestal.
My garage door with embellishments by Jesus.
The ugly electrical post by the garage, made more beautiful by Jesus and Eduardo.
My house’s front door.
And this is one I bought a few months later when I moved to Mexico.
A Huichol motif
This is actually the etching plate of one of Jesus’ limited editions that I bought and asked him to paint as though it was one of the etchings.

If you want to contact Jesus about custom projects or to view his gallery, here is contact information:

Five Bombshells about Trump in Bolton’s Book

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https://judydykstrabrown.com/2020/06/17/five-bomshells-about-trump-in-boltons-book/?fbclid=IwAR2s3y85qKZntRGa6Ve3lTYlMSuMkVXq47nkLSegiDi-5ozDTTeB_WC4QEI

The Politicizing of the Coronavirus (Reblog of Thom Hartmann Article on Common Dreams)

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To read more click on link below:

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/06/16/what-should-punishment-be-crime-weaponizing-virus-political-purposes?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR35r231ItrqBpWiGoUmPh8lVgqSBxQXw5QcO3VEKpEb56asta0pfL0qHGc

 

 

Helpless: Scene Viewed Through the Locked Glass Front Door of the Kitchen

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Helpless:
Scene Viewed Through the Locked Glass Front Door of the Kitchen

There’s insurgent action at the rear kitchen door.
First one unrepentant rebel and now I see one more.
My houseguests didn’t secure the periphery completely
and now one paw has breached the screen and opened it completely!
A dog’s whole avarice is culinary. Now they seek it out.
That pork roast on the counter? Gone without a doubt!
That carrot cake I cherished? Demolished in a flash.
The potato salad vanishes. And now a furry dash.
They depart the opened doorway and soon they’re over yonder.
Their tummies adequately filled, I think they do not ponder
what the rest of us will dine on. Dogs are not endowed with guilt.
Should have factored in housebreakers when that sliding door was built!

Prompt words today are cherish, avarice, yonder, insurgent and potato.

Hibiscus: FOTD June 17, 2020

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ForCee’s FOTD

Noam Chomsky: Trump is Worse than Hitler (National Observer Article)

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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/06/15/analysis/noam-chomsky-post-covid-19-society-trump-worse-hitler-peasants-are-coming?fbclid=IwAR1Z01FiEcfa87uhRyRuykemktnvWV4SOwRnjzKTFTdu9V_NGVwqLviscGo

 

 

Lack of Willpower During the Coronavirus Sequestering: My First Two Excuses.

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Lack of Willpower During the Coronavirus Sequestering:
My First Two Excuses

I’ ve run out of storage for all the provender
I bought in advance, thinking chances were slender
that in a month there’d be staples enough.
I thought that the going was going to get tough.

So with my freezer full and no cupboard space free,
the only place left to store food in is me.
I forage on fudge and I’m gorging on chips—
storing them here on my waist and my hips.

Please come to my rescue. I’m tortured by guilt.
Last year at this time I was pleasantly built,
but this forced isolation obliterates “no”
as an answer to chocolate and cookie dough.

You may be amused by my failure at coping,
but I am not drinking and I am not doping.
It isn’t my fault. I’m a victim of fate.
It’s my body that’s yearning to assimilate

cookies and candies and pastas and pies.
It’s my body’s fault that I’ve grown a size.
With no one to stop me, I’ve just given in.
I guess you’d describe me as formerly thin!

Words for the day are rescue, torture, obliterate, assimilate and amused.

Blending in–Hibiscus: FOTD June 16, 2020

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I just noticed this cream-colored hibiscus with a red throat for the first time–two blooms in among a  bush with a profusion of bright coral blooms. It is on a good-sized bush that has woven itself into the fabric of the other even larger bush, so must have been there for a long time as I haven’t planted hibiscus along that wall for over ten years. Where has it been hiding all these years? Or is it I who have been hiding? This period of forced isolation has revealed some amazing secrets about my back garden and after all these years I am beginning to feel that instead of this house belonging to me that I belong to it.

For Cee’s FOTD

Water World

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This is my entry for Nancy Merrill Photography’s, A Photo A Week Challenge with the topic Water  and Jez’s Water Water Everywhere (WWE) #32 challenge.

Absolutely Delightful!!!!

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Trust me and watch this without sound, at least the first time. You’re gonna want to watch it more that once, I am willing to bet.