Looking for the Tipping Point

"What we pay attention to grows, so I'm thinking  about how we grow what we are all imagining and creating into something large enough and solid enough that it becomes a tipping point." adrienne maree brown

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This is quoted quite early in the library book I'm reading. "All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis." edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson. Published by One World, Random House, 2020.

I'm reading a digital version from Libby, the library's on-line free edition. It's full of wonderful organization, and focuses on female voices. But I can't cut and paste, as I just tried to with the quote from Ms. brown. So I will just absorb what I can.

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 Would this be part of a tipping point?

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But I also want to learn through reading this book, what exactly would the new world order look like beyond that tipping point? When climate crisis has either dumped our culture on its ears, or there are actually armies of people working to change the wrongs humanity is doing to our planet. 

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 Just wanted to recommend this video, which was available through Prime. Another way of looking at our dear blue planet.

“What is needed to launch our societies along the humanistic path is some sort of evolutionary compass. Some way of guiding our efforts so that they are in tune with, aligned with, the general evolutionary processes of which we are a part… So rather than seek to dominate the planet, the quest becomes one of dynamic harmonization, of evolutionary consonance, in short, of syntony. The evolutionary compass, then, would be one that points our way toward syntonious pathways for future creation.”

Alexander Laszlo

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Syntony: the state of being normally responsive to and in harmony with the environment

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“You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.” ~Eckhart Tolle

Covered Bridges (part 2)

I was interested in finding out some history of covered bridges after posting my first blog in this series. Wikepedia shares this... 

The oldest surviving truss bridge in the world is the Kapellbrücke in Switzerland, first built in the 1300s. Modern-style timber truss bridges were pioneered in Switzerland in the mid-1700s.^[9] Germany has 70 surviving historic wooden covered bridges.^[10]

Spreuer Bridge in Lucerne

• The Holzbrücke Bad Säckingen spans the river Rhine from Bad Säckingen, Germany, to Stein, Switzerland. It was first built before 1272, and has been destroyed and rebuilt many times.
• Switzerland has many timber covered bridges,^[11] including Kapellbrücke, Spreuer Bridge, and Neubrügg.
• The Ponte Coperto in Pavia is a stone and brick arch bridge over the Ticino River in Pavia, Italy. The previous bridge, dating from 1354 (itself a replacement for a Roman construction), was heavily damaged by Allied bombing in 1945. A debate on whether to fix or replace it ended when the bridge partially collapsed in 1947, requiring new construction, which began in 1949.

About 14,000 covered bridges have been built in the United States,^[13] mostly in the years 1825 to 1875.^[2] The first documented was the Permanent Bridge, completed in 1805 to span the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia.^[14][15] However, most other early examples of covered bridges do not appear until the 1820s. Extant bridges from that decade include New York's Hyde Hall Bridge and Pennsylvania's Hassenplug Bridge, both built in 1825, and the Haverhill–Bath Covered Bridge and the Roberts Covered Bridge, in New Hampshire and Ohio respectively, both built in 1829.^[5]

The vast majority of America's remaining covered bridges can be found in the eastern states with the notable exception of Oregon, which possesses a collection of around fifty.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covered_bridge

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Baltimore

Bartram-Goshen Covered Bridge

The following are taken from the two directions of this covering over a roadway, named Blue Ridge, Georgia. I don't see any indication that it is really a bridge, nor goes over a waterway of any kind. Can it be considered a covered bridge?

Bridge of Dreams - Brinkhaven, Ohio

Someone is thinking along more modern lines for this bridge.

Brinkhaven, Ohio

It seems someone else liked that name...

Another view for Brinkhaven, Ohio

Bridge On The Kal-Haven Trail by Michael Kucinski

Unknown red wooden bridge. I tried to increase contrast and darken the photo...can you read whatever the sign says?

That's all the bridges labeled with "B" or one without a label. There are a few more in my folder...

Being single or being in a relationship are both valid options for living life and one is not better than the other.

Auguste Rodin, sculptor said, “I invent nothing, I rediscover,” and “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

Sharing with Tom's Tuesday Treasures

Memorial Day

 A holiday here in the USA.

An original American Flag in a doorway in Old Salem NC

Sometimes I'm so sad when I have to admit that I live here, at this time. We as a nation have certainly had better times, worth remembering. More times when we could be proud of those who gave their all for the freedom, liberty, justice and democracy which the US used to represent.

But this is what most citizens of the US are most concerned about today, one way or another...

Tuskegee Airmen in front of their P-40

Veteran's Cemetery, Black Mountain NC

 

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I don't think that combat has ever been written about truthfully; it has always been described in terms of bravery and cowardice. I won't even accept these words as terms of human reference any more. And anyway, hell, they don't even apply to what, in actual fact, modern warfare has become. 

-James Jones, novelist (1921-1977)

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The Borowitch Report: "Heather Cox Richardson Predicts The End of Trump"

PS, Veterans for Peace posted the following!

Poppies

 

Afloat Poppy by Under my Umbrella blog

By Amanda Richardson...British fabric/textile artist....Penberth Valley..land's end.. Cornwall, England UK

Oriental Poppies (2021) by Northumberland-based British watercolour artist, Mary Ann Rogers

by Mihai Olteanu

Iceland Poppies by Roulette

Georgia O'Keeffe's Poppy VI

Canyon Poppies..hand dyed and painted silks and cottons...by Karel Hendee...American quilt artist..silk painter..educator

Georgia O'Keeffe 1927 Red Poppy - two views with different shades of red reproduced.

Photo from Facebook

Poppy Platter, after O'Keefe, by Barbara Rogers, ceramic

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I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.”  

American journalist, Ida Tarbell, best known for The History of the Standard Oil Company, in 1902 that exposed the questionable business practices of the Standard Oil Company.

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Sharing a bit late to Floral Friday Fotos

Art, with some animals

 

by Andrea Kowch

An Invitation, 2019 by Andrea Kowch

By Andrea Kowth

Andrea says this:

"I do see myself as a storyteller on several levels," says Kowch. "Telling stories through my work is something that comes very natural to me. It’s one of the main reasons I chose to study Illustration in college.

"While I usually begin work on a painting with a particular thought and message in mind, there are times when I see an image in my mind’s eye first, without any sort of specific literal meaning attached at that moment.

"Sometimes the meaning comes to light upon its completion, when I sit down to figure out why I painted it. The concepts and imagery that often come about on their own tend to be ignited by the simplest thing: the way a curtain moves in a hot summer breeze, for instance, might create a scenario in my head. I may imagine myself in an old farmhouse, feeling that same breeze rolling in over the surrounding fields just beyond the window. The canvas is where I am able to bring all these personal, imaginative musings to life, and realise them.

"I loved fairy-tales as a girl, and still do. They were an escape into a romantic, mysterious, and magical world. The classic tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm were the first to charge my imagination as a child. I later discovered and fell in love with the art of Arthur Rackham and Howard Pyle, and Pyle’s written work, such as The Wonder Clock and Pepper and Salt.

"I’ve always been drawn to and intrigued by stories that are a bit twisted; the ones containing strange characters and a prevailing sense of impending danger. Perhaps that’s why my paintings often carry a similar feeling. There’s always an aspect of something unknown about to happen. The story is never fully revealed, it simply continues on, each painting serving as the next page or chapter."

In My Mind (2017)by Andreaa Kowth

Sharing with Saturday's Critters

We arrive on this planet empty handed and we will all soon leave empty handed. So then, how and in what spirit do we want to spend the time in between?

NIMO PATEL