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Dean Cain is just a 60-year old version of Kyle Rittenhouse

2007 - radical prostatectomy

2007-2016 no detectable PSA on annual tests

2016 to 2020 and my PSA level started to rise albeit slowly

2020 to now and my PSA level has tripled

Two Pet-scans show no lesions.

My cancer journey is a ghost story

This was also my Dad’s view. He was Canadian 27th Armoured Regiment

Artist Jason deCaires Taylor builds underwater sculpture parks. His Museo Atlántico off Lanzarote features life-size human figures walking toward a wall, caught mid-step, colonized by coral. A gallery where the ocean curates. #WyrdWednesday

Saw ours yesterday!

Play La Marseillaise
(Head nod)

Secret Details Hidden at 7 American Landmarks You know these sites, but have you noticed these details?

My latest for HISTORY just dropped: "Secret Details Hidden at 7 American Landmarks." From whispering walls to symbols hiding in plain sight, this one digs into the overlooked oddities, mysteries, and quirks built into some of the nation’s most iconic places.

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YouTube video by spiritualarchive Gavin Bryars - The Sinking Of The Titanic (1975, Obscure)

See also Gavin Bryars’ “Sinking of the Titanic” in which he portrays the last song played by the Orchestra on deck as echoing throughout the ocean and gradually diminishing (I know it was not “nearer my God to thee”

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GREAT account for folklore folk

Holy foo,
I immediately thought about Debussy’s “the drowned cathedral” (“ La Cathédrale Engloutie”)
Reading this.

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The submerged cathedral In the legend of Ys, a mythical Breton city which lies below sea level is submerged by water when the daughter of the king, blinded by love, opens the gates for

Holy foo,
I immediately thought about Debussy’s “the drowned cathedral” (“ La Cathédrale Engloutie”)
Reading this. Forgot the Escher painting

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According to Norse sagas, the draugr were undead sailors who haunted the seas around Norway and Iceland. Some were said to guard treasure aboard sunken ships. Fishermen feared them so much they avoided certain waters entirely. #FairyTaleTuesday

Art: Theodor Kittelsen

And to whoever wrote that, you first buddy

Holy Larry Niven! The organjackers are on the way!

When will the smoke go away? Michigan again sees statewide advisory on Aug 4. Map, forecast Canadian wildfire smoke is still lingering across Michigan, causing hazy skies. Another air quality advisory has been issued.

Y’all can keep yelling to me. The climate change ain’t real, but I’m 71 and got COPD right after there was a huge fire at an industrial chemistry plant here and I’m looking at the air quality in upper Michigan.

It’s happening in front of your eyes, dudes

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I can’t decide if that would increase viewership or decrease it if we applied that today

It’s one of about a half dozen 80s type movies that I still go back to and think “man, this is really good!”

Then again, I used to stay up after midnight so I could watch
“Krull”

Can you don’t?

In Eastern European folklore, a woman with calloused hands and dirty fingernails was considered a blessing in the harvest season. She had the touch. The wheat bent to her. The pumpkins fattened when she walked by. #FolkloreSunday

Art: van Gogh

Harvest moons are so bright they cast shadows. Farmers once said if your shadow was taller than you during the full moon, your luck would stretch through winter. If it was smaller, plant garlic. And pray. #FolkloreSunday

Art: Billy Jacobs

#DailyHaikuPrompt #red #leaves

summer ends
with a cold wind
red maple leaves

“On the moorlands crystal clear streams run between boulders. Small waterfalls and rapids empty into pools”
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Summer, 1960)

Appalachian farmers sometimes left the first tomato or ear of corn in the field “for the haints.” A small price to keep spirits fed and fields blessed. The first bite wasn’t yours. It belonged to whatever watched from the tree line. #FolkloreSunday

Art: Debra and Dave Vanderlaan

8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth’s Rapid Drying and the Loss of Its Groundwater Decades of NASA satellite data reveal how quickly the planet’s underground stores of fresh water have been depleted and how their use is contributing to rising sea levels. Here are the key takeaways.

The continents are rapidly drying out and the earth’s vast freshwater resources are under threat, according to a recently released study based on 20+ years of NASA satellite data.

Here are the report’s key findings and what they portend for humankind.

Corn dolls weren’t just cute decorations. In ancient custom, they housed the soul of the field. Kept through winter, burned or buried come spring. The harvest lives on, not in barns, but in braids of straw. #FolkloreSunday

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