Beautiful work,Art James, and your title is so encouraging to me .. I mostly liked your so right mention of "..I do not advocate drunk like behaviors..'Thank you for sharing..Best regards.

...Used to
... me too
... sunsets, landscapes, vivid details of nature
captured on Kodachrome 64 until
...one brilliant morning with a foot of snow on the ground at Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico,
I looked through the lens and
...realized I could never capture this moment
... nothing but a few snapshots ever since.

A Theory of Justice...

"Rawls develops what he claims are principles of justice through the use of an artificial device he calls the Original position in which everyone decides principles of justice from behind a veil of ignorance. "

"This "veil" is one that essentially blinds people to all facts about themselves that might cloud what their notion of justice is
"no one knows his place in society, his class position or social status, nor does anyone know his fortune in the distribution of natural assets and abilities, his intelligence, strength, and the like. I shall even assume that the parties do not know their conceptions of the good or their special psychological propensities."

"The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance."
According to Rawls, ignorance of these details about oneself will lead to principles that are fair to all. If an individual does not know how he will end up in his own conceived society, he is likely not going to privilege any one class of people, but rather develop a scheme of justice that treats all fairly."

"In particular, Rawls claims that those in the Original Position would all adopt a maximin strategy which would maximise the prospects of the least well-off."

I love the photos.. I take photos every day. i wish we cold go back to the darkroom where it would be like birthing a child.
HUGGGGGGGGGG

I love the photo of your son pruning the plums, I have been thinking about pruning some of my own useless branches so I can have fresh healthy growth.


How odd to come across the same name as a scary ex-husband of mine in your post. But he was not an author or lawyer I am relieved to say. I wish I could prune away bad memories. I'm grateful for words and photos that help wash them away.

Being a photographer is like creating irrefutable evidence of your own insane. Except, photoshop. Erase!

Isn't this spring wonderful! Your peepers are peeping, my cat is yowling, I saw Casablanca in a movie theatre tonight and it was 75 degrees on the drive home. Enjoy your peepers.

I can't articulate why but I enjoyed this Art. And as Jacob F notes, it's Rawls.

First read. Jacob Freeze. You may be psychic.
You got that noble ' noblesse oblige ' sense:
namely, that those that are more privileged
are . . .
Likely to acquire obligations tying them even
more
strongly to a scheme . . . of power structures.`
`
I read John Rawles book on `Natural Duties.
He's not an easy read. In the morning? Yawn.

I have underlines, a '*' mark, a '!' and ''wows'
I scribble on the pages of paperbacks. Gads.
You quote from the same section I scribbled.
*
Readers can read you twice. The book is a 'wow'
I read and reread while lawyers/bankers robbed.
*
Kim Doan.
Lawyers '"sold" her a laundromat and robbed 'it'
back.
After meeting with police and FBI agent `Sonny -
In Waynesboro, PA - the commonwealth - Shock!
I was arrested inside the Pilfering PA bank - Sigh -
`
I lost plenty - $10,000 in one day. No forestalls.
The seller (Martin) lawyer, and bank CEOs pals -
The solicitor (Crammer) for GOP Mike Fisher -
The scheme was to Trick Kim Doan & Rob her.
Kim/and still is the Grieving Victim. Justice?
Justice Based on Fairness? I'm weary spieling.

I didn't intend to bring up Bank Foreclosures.
Yesterday a blogger wrote ref Fairness. Yes!
I'm not mentally trained/equipped to argue.
Legal minds can stretch\linear parts in me.
Law fascinate me.
It's like Greek etc.
I get just a `Gist.
I can't speak law.
Interpreting law?
It makes me crazy?
I feel bonkers idiot?
*
I like how You summed it . . .
If I tried to convey it be pig latin.
It may sound like Peepers Peeping.
I have this Favorite Peeper Pond.
It's a Wonderful Place. Wonder.

Peepers Peep in a Great Chorus.
Last night a overhead airplane?
Thousand of Peeper Cease Peeps!
`
This comment of mine is going awry.
`
People (Peepers too) can Read You.
You can take your stand. You Upright.
I defer Argument (arugula too) to You.
`
`
Wendell Berry has a book Titled This
*
The Way of Ignorance. This quote:
`
"Leadership passes into empire;
empire begets insolence; insolence
begets ruin." - Paterson 1 -
William Carlos Williams -
`
I used that quote in a letter to retired,
Elizabeth Day O'Conner -
I shared the letter @ Atlantic Free Press.
It's old news. Lost money is well spent?
I guess . . . If we learned Great Wisdom.
Kim Doan's Family (still) suffers Great.
*
Wendell Berry's Title is . . . His words:
`
"I am afraid, is also risky. He's wise.
He's Not intending to recommend:
Ignorance or praise it. He intends:
`
To address "political gibberish" and
so-called professional error/fallibility,
and he request we people are limited.
*
Because ignorance is thus apart of our:
`
Creaturely definition. He stressed this:
`
Out duties - a way of Neighborly Love.
We People are limited creatures. Know.
The way of ignorance, therefore, is This:
`
To be carful, to know the limits and This:
`
Efficacy of our knowledge. It is to be`This:
`
To be humble. To work on an appropriate scale.
Mr. Berry admits he's a philosopher or scholar.
He admits his reading ref: philosophy is scant.
He believes in good library and good research.
Commonsense . . . Consistent. Honesty. Fair.
And, not contrived. Without humility . . . Well?
`
One mind alone, like one life alone, is perfectly -
Worthless, and not even imaginable. Let's Think.
He always feels indebted to Who test his mind.
I agree. Many thoughts are 'first drafts' `dare.
We must not suppose we agree on everything.
We people can agree on much. But, critical?
We 'ought' not say "What would John say?"
The critical questions . . . WE all have voice.
on and on . . .
For example:
`
Jacob Freeze etc helps me think more clearly.
Mr. Berry enjoys constructive criticism. Yes.
P.S.
He has a new about William Carlos Williams.
I only read a review of his latest book. Thanks.
I defer . . .
Thank you.
You awaken.
My brain tired.

Oops.
Wendell Berry writes he's Not a trained,
and skilled philosopher. He reads them.
He is appreciative to many he reads too.
He attributes, and incorporate others.
He mentions his neighbors, publishers,
editors etc.
-
STATHI STATHI
Thanks. Beautiful.
Your comment is:
Incredible. Wow.
I tease ref: Booze.
Hops help snooze.
O love sobriety . . .
I fear loopy pills.
Pain pills cause pain.
I believe in moderation.
You a great defense lawyer.
My son discourages me from:
`
I have a photo of me in Hanoi.
I take a 'hit' off a bamboo bong.
I'm puffing local grown tobacco.
Mu son insisted . . . You'll ruin?

"Ruin what" I ask. "Your reputation."
`
I retorted . . . "What reputation, huh?
He thinks . . . ay, I'll look stoned. Why?

You will look like blogger Jacob Freeze?
I must read STATHI STATHI. Thanks.

Let those peepers peep because spring is here and in this post that is so clear.

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jmac1949. What a comment. I never deleted anyone ever. I forget to take the lens cap off the camera. I remember some natural scenes that brought tears to my eyes. Yesterday I browsed my cellar-basement darkroom.
I've thousand of 35 mm negatives of a 1993 India Earthquake. There was enormous death.
Relief workers digging.
Dead bodies decompose.
People are removing stones.
Babies are uncover. It's sad.
Diggers wear those face mask.
Grief . .
Then -
I saw yellow mustard in bloom.
There were twin goats born too.
Acres of Brilliant Sunflowers too.
Sometimes I dared not photograph.
There are more gifted photographers.
Yesterday I filled with emotion. Time.

Nature changes. A 35- mm can capture.
The shutter speed and f- stop captures.
Yes, but, nature cannot be duplicated.
Beauty . . .
Nature heals.
I often tear up.
Thanks again.
`
on your birthday
enraged by a cheap gift
party end when flops
and you sit atop cake
`
huh
`
I mean?
I send you black balloons.
You flop on chocolate cake.
You 'ought' to sit in ice cream.
`
`

Linda S.
I agree.
It's close.
You can't help bumping into each other.
It's a dark Place You can spend a night.
I am not sure I'd want to birth a baby.
I know what you mean. It's details.
You ever want to develop photos?
I know you don't sip honey wine.
I may hide my jug if you come.

l' Heure Bleue.
Pruning is hard.
You gotta prune.
I am conservative.
I like wild and wispy.
But, fruit won't come.
My son studied botany.
He's great at plant science.
I like to save weeds with grub.
I no like mowing green grass.
I love witnessing seed bloom.
Other people can see Ya fruit.
People are known by de' fruit.
`
By their Fruit You Shall Know.
It's an analogy ref: We Humans.
Discernment is essential. Love.
I bet those around You see Love.
Discern the inner essence. Hate?
Dark?
That's to discern. Test de' Spirits.
We can be easily duped. Example.
A beautiful woman who's bi-polar:
`
convinced her fifth husband is Mr.
Perfect.
In bed a partner whispers:
`
I really hate your guts ...
`
tease
`
I know what your 'saying'
But, I bet your lovable.
Life is a great Mystery.
I think Nature Plays?
We get 'hitched' to:
A spouse who seems:
`
Crazy as a proverbial:
`
Bedbug. Stinkbug. Lice.
Irritable Crank. Grouch.
Loon. Kook. I wonder . . .

Bellweather Vance. No tell anyone, okay?
You tell `1' person - You tell the world.
If ever merry`gin - It be banker daughter.
`
Bankers are often thugs - You are not one.
Maybe a janitor's daughter - Coal miner?
Moonshine Distiller. I operator of the:
`
Local 'Dairy Queen' ice cream store. okay.
Maybe I'll become a Moron. I'll merry the:
`
Daughter of a Saudi Arabian oil tycoon.
Veterinarian. Botanist. Orthodontist.
Maybe I'll be a recluse. Behaved hermit.

Algis K. I saw You have a Aphrodite Post Up.

Merry a Greek Goddess Aphrodite in a nighty.
Never take nude photos. If you do photo her?
Leave the camera lens cap on. Thank you `gin.
I wish I was apart of your wandering journey.
I always think of Canadian photojournalist:
`
Larry Towel. He's Magnum. Amazing . . .
Google him?
He'll jump inside a dug grave and jump out.
I traveled with Larry T. and Benita Keller.
She taught photography at a college level.
She's `Shephard College, West Virginia.
I asked if Benita would critique photos.
I was to spend two-months in Vietnam.
She asked if she could come along tho.
She brought home a water buffalo skull.
She is a fun character. Photographer are

Phyllis45's Bright Eyes. Yes. I agree.
Beauty.
Once we were overrun with stray cats.
Cats 'do-it' on the porch. On the chairs,
and love-bite each other furry necks.
I had to call a cat veterinarian to spade.
One day I was telling a neighbor Vet.
Vietnam . . .
He said "What!"

"Where did she castrate the cats?"

I said:
On the kitchen table. He said:
`
Remind me to never eat here.
I ask:
`
"Why?"

He said:
`
"I hate spaghetti and meatballs."
`
apology
he said it
I didn't
`

gracious jane smithie.
I forgot to mention:

Tell phyliss45's Bright Eyes:
`
The skulls on my other post:
`
They are Ron's. Benita's shed.
He collect antlers, cow horns,
and one water buffalo skull.
`
Jane.
I remember that darkroom smell.
The smell seeped into your clothes.
Maybe darkrooms can be all naked
?

Abrawang.
That's a Comment!
The word can fail.
Often I just bow.
I bow just now.

How now brown cow.
Maybe you have cow-
brown eyes?
`
My granddaughter does.
`
I sing . . .
`
My darling Annabella -
If all the world could see -
What great Love in my heart -
For my dear darling Annabella.

She cover her ears with her hands.
She pretends she hates my singing.
This morning the birds are singing.

m.
Justice is: a communal aim of the State.
 Its foundation? “that no one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.
 Cicero, De Officiis
The public good? Sure, taking mr. rawls’ first principal of justice:
“ each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others. ‘
Alas, nebulous words in this fine statement.
Liberty? Where, oh where does it come from?
From a document? Ha.
No, from the freedom of the spirit, the soul, the human being, the human be-ing…
Liberty is based on this. But much is finagled, subtly, to deny this freedom of our species.
Liberty IS freedom, a form of it. Liberty is Freedom in the political realm.
Man, said Aristotle, is a political animal. Yes, he is. Man is part animal.
What is needed for a truly free life? Security.
So : we see they are NOT opposed, Liberty and Security.
The political realm is for safeguarding liberty. Freedom of itself!
Thus all forms of freedom are safeguarded: political freedom (Liberty), theological freedom , nihilistic freedom(unconditional right to decide w/o interference) , emotional freedom (inner peace & width, relief from tension & confusion) , and spiritual freedom itself….

Freedom of the spirit from the senses and the world.

One must take a bit of time , ha, away from creation. In order to become yet freer…
………………………….
If you deny freedom of the spirit, i.e the Will (a POWER of the spirit) then you deny liberty. You deny consciousness. We are deterministic debris of Evolution’s senseless multiplication of species. We are animals.

……………………………………………….
More later.

I dunno art, re this
“ artificial device he calls the Original position in which everyone decides principles of justice from behind a veil of ignorance. " it blinds you to yourself? Your self? Your Self?
No one ever knows their fortune etc. you gotta grow into that!
A little baby, he is kind of a bit of a sorry to say, narcissist. Everything is about him/her.
He learns his morality, his right & wrong, from Momma.

Then Daddy…
“Conceptions of the Good?” the Good is a living thing. It is a power of the free human spirit.
So is truth. and so is beauty.

The big three from way back!


Good comes from the freedom of the will, a spiritual power. Will… free will..
Truth is from the smarts, the reason, the neocortex, the brain, the soul, the mind in its role of solving problems.
Beauty is from what is called the Affections, the Feelings, the (arg) Emotions,, bastardized versions of Feeling.
Beauty is the key to it all. As u know well.
Human being, be-ing, is beautiful. It becomes myriad in its expressions. Many levels to it.
Spirit creates beauty.
Being is goodness BECAUSE it is beaty. That is why. Goodness is the self love of being. Being. Be-ing.

Love?ay.

James M. E. OS is the Place to Be.
Matt Paust hauls green weeds here.
We sure-Enough Learn good 'Stuff' `
`
a huh ay
creativity
I just learned:
a 'Kindle' book
We can buy one
We can sit down
by the Riverside
Learn war no at
all No more, huh
Download thee:
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The Riverside
Shakespeare
We read it
at Pond
of Perpetual
Peepers
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Thanks . . .
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Thanks for all who read.

Lovely photos
now I am curious
who are the Peepers
and why are they Peeping tonight
are they making a sound
like a baby chick
or are they going around
looking in windows
like Tom
rated with love

P.S.
I bet you would be adorable in a Hoodie.

Good morn. We'll all-day be mourning,
giggling, and peeping at people's bogs.
Peeper are tree frogs when they're big.
`
'Hyla crucifer' The have a dark cross on their back.
Males Peepers sing in Spring. Yea for Peeper Ponds.
I hear them them now. If I drive to a Peeper Pond, ah!
There are 1,000's a different sounds. Peeper Trances!
`
I ought to fix a black hooded cat up with the black poodle.
The farmers have a standard Black Poodle. Cats hiss nice.
Maybe I ask Beautiful Black Lu Lu to sport an Alpaca hat.
That's a long story about a hat, a gold lab, and a beagle.
Plan was: Lu Lu was to get pregnant. A Pop? Gold Lab.
Beagle Lilac gets to be pregnant Ma. Nature Amazes.
Lilac is small and always pregnant. Nice Pup Litters.
The next time tiny Lilac's pregnant I save You Two.
Puppies are black with small patches of White Hair.
Friends who get one say ` I wish I had gotten a Pair.
`
Yesterday was such a Mix` Sad/Joys. Potent Emotion.
Spring Peepers are Relief. I park my P.U. and Listen.
Peepers sooth. People in the Pub think I'm Kooky.
Then - I tell them `Bout OS & People Understand.

They say art is life but I say art is you.
And I say it with love, my friend.

I come and read ... and take in all you share ...
and find that ... tonight ...
I'd like just to stay ...
and take your hand ...

anna1liese. okay. We'll barter.
You give me your left leg calf?
I let to have my left hand. Deal?

I was eating a 3rd bowl of desert.
Desserts are too quiet. No sound.
We can wiggle waddle. Behave?
In the desert there is no sound.
`
I just 'kicked-out' the child Guest.
They were gorging on ice cream.
`
... Take my hand . . . You saw it.

You can get-one hand Manicure.
I save if I have one right leg foot.

Let's request Hair Salon discount.
If we are short one hand and leg?
Kerry (editor) give Core Member
Discount.
Faire . . .
Later . . .
Tomorrow
`
I may take some belly-button dance lessons.
I read hoola-hoops & belly dance is in vogue.
bunny . . .
You can do a one-legged Easter Bunny Hop.
I'll play . . .
You hop and I'll play a one-hand Piano Duo.
?
`
Good might
Gaud bless
Bless Ya
I'm serious
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obituary?