Posts Made By: Christine Canelos Welsh

Yep! or Johnny Jump-up, depending on whose grandma you talk to! Outstanding shot!
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I had no idea they were so fuzzy!
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James, Yes, Gus is my dad. Otherwise knows as Megalo-Gus, or Constantine the Great. Quite the philosopher and nature lover.

Interesting idea on themes. You go first!
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"Once in a golden hour,
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, "a weed."
--Source unknown

"A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place."
--My Grandma

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Way, way cool!
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Nice composition!
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That's a pretty fancy bug, Tyler, and a great shot of it!
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Hmmm. Back to the original "madman" question, I find it very interesting.

My son had complex partial seizure disorder up till he was about 10 y.o. the seizures were characterized by bizarre behavior, including staggering around, talking legibly but nonsensically. Prior to seizing he would experience aural and visual disturbances including flashing lights and colors, and voices that no one else heard.

I am thankful that he was born the time and place he was. In a different time or different culture he might have either been vilified and demonized, or honored as a shaman. Thank goodness for modern medicine, which brought him relief from his symptoms.

I bring this up because as I was studying this disorder I came across a rather good dissertation that proposed that many of the so-called prophets may have had complex partial seizures, or at the very least migraine syndrome, including Paul, Joan of Arc and others. Wish I could find it now.

Having experienced some of the visual effects of migraines myself, I find it very plausible. The brain is an interesting landscape. Things can feel very real that simply are not.

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::groan::

Okay, fine. I was just outside breaking up ant nests in my yard and as I was poisoning the hell out of them I did my best Pink Panther impersonation:

Dead-ant. Dead-ant. Dead-ant dead-ant dead-ant!

(easily amused)
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Very nice, Robert - where were these taken?
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