SLIVER, 32” x 48”, oil, enamel & shellac on canvas, 2012, by Samantha Keely Smith. (+ detail images)
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Why We Need to Fight Big Pharma’s Crusade to Turn Eccentricity Into Illness
Allen Frances, wired.comNature takes the long view, mankind the short. Nature picks diversity; we pick standardization. We are homogenizing our crops and homogenizing our people. And Big Pharma seems intent on pursuing a parallel attempt to create its own brand of human monoculture…
George Stubbs, The Anatomy of the Horse, 1766
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"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
// Grizzly Peak - Berkeley, CA
Walking in the fog.
