Sabbatical - June 2013

Sabbatical – June 2013

Please root around a bit while I am away with some friends on a brief summer sabbatical. See you at the end of the month… Thank you for visiting.

Contemplation of pigs in the rain

Contemplation of pigs in the rain

Currents of thought are a common result of rainy days. Weather walking amongst it or listening to it from a chair or the door of a pig sty, rain inspires recollection and retrospection, contemplation and consideration.

The ecstasy of children with animals

The ecstasy of children with animals

The concentration of a child can be easily and immediately led astray by the lure of animals. Even the most sincere attentions of a loving relative are usurped by the licks and squeals of some piglet or puppy. It is a natural reaction of children to trust any animal on earth more than man.

The Pig Chef - a sinister advertising icon

The Pig Chef – a sinister advertising icon

The Pig Chef – a smiling swine, mouth a-watering, offering up choice preparations of the flesh of his own kind – is one of the more sinister icons of American signboard art.

Frolicking swine enjoy the sunshine

Frolicking swine enjoy the sunshine

The frolicking and the gentle creatures of the world, even unto the swine, are often blessed by the sun pouring warm attention and animal energy down upon them. And as their day declines, they rest weary but satisfied, with a day spent well and in exuberance.

Cannibal, man and pig

Cannibal, man and pig

Think about this next time the pork is savory and your appetite keen… Human flesh is generally reported by the cannibal to taste quite a bit like pork, so that means that the pork we enjoy so much tastes like we are eating humans.

Wreath of pigs

Wreath of pigs

To bear and nourish guiltless and ambivalent beings into maturity is an accomplishment of motherhood that seldom earns a wreath of laurel.

Pigfish

Pigfish

Pigfish… When is a pig like a fish? When it is a Medieval Latin porcus (pig) piscis (fish), or porpoise, of course.