Dr. David Pecotić

The artist's vocation is to send light into the human heart.

- #GeorgeSand

This I which is creating and always giving out something is not the 'small I'; it is the 'Big I'. As everything is originally one, we are, in actuality, giving out everything. Moment after moment we are creating something, and this is the joy of our life.

- #ShunryuSuzuki

I would set you free, if I knew how. But it isn't free out here. All animals, plants, minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken & reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.

- #ThomasPynchon, 'Gravity's Rainbow'

My view is higher than the sky, but my attention to actions and their results is finer than flour.

- #Padmasambhava

The Moment Margaret Atwood The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage you stand in the centre of your room, house, half-acre, square mile, island, country, knowing at last how you got there, and say, I own this, is the same moment when the trees unloose their soft arms from around you, the birds take back their language, the cliffs fissure and collapse, the air moves back from you like a wave and you can’t breathe. No, they whisper. You own nothing. You were a visitor, time after time climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming. We never belonged to you. You never found us. It was always the other way round.

A daisy growing out of the earth.

'The moment when, after many years
of hard work & a long voyage
you stand in the centre of your room,
house, half-acre, square mile, island, country...
& say, I own this,
is the same moment when the trees unloose
their soft arms from around you,
the birds take back their language' (Margaret Atwood)

TEN LINES My stomach churns. I close my eyes and see the prose. I needed to take the edge off and so now the edge is off. All my cells are whispers. Things become secretly irrelevant. Now, I'm---... and less enthusiastic. I finally understand nothing. Winter is coming. A dreaded neighbour in the night.

For #Smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social here is (are?) Ten Lines, by N. W. Lea:

A Rhyme for Hard Times Don't worry. Things will get much worse. You'll be older. Night will come, but you won't sleep. Death will come for you, but for your loved ones first.

"A Rhyme for Hard Times" for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social . First printed in @delicatezine.bsky.social y.social. Thanks to @dusti.bsky.social

Polymarket defends its decision to allow betting on war as ‘invaluable’ Everything is gambling now, even human suffering.

Polymarket defends its decision to allow betting on war as ‘invaluable’

Seraphim I. Artist: Dan Hillier. Date: 2022.

What a spiritual practice actually looks like:

Seraphim I. Artist: Dan Hillier. Date: 2022.

Me and my #daimon irl:

Seraphim I. Artist: Dan Hillier. Date: 2022.

They always come, the gods. They will descend
from their machines, and straightway liberate
some and as suddenly exterminate
others; and having reformed us, they will go—
And afterward, one will act so; and so
another; and in time the rest will do
as they needs must. And we shall start anew.

Votive offering of worshipers, Mesopotamia

THE INTERVENTION OF THE GODS
by #ConstantinePCavafy

We for the best will strive. And always more
defective, more perplexing than before,
shall all things fare; until, as in a mist,
we stray bewildered. Then we shall desist.
For in that helpless hour the gods attend.

Image of "Citipati", the skeletal protector deities of Tibetan Buddhism. Symbolizes impermanence, wisdom and liberation through eternal dance. Photo: Zhuang Xueben (1909-1984), Tibet, 1937-41

All that is acquired will be lost
What rises will fall
Where there is meeting there will be separation
What is born will be surely đie.

- #Udānavarga

Iron John is alright — his own poetry and the #poetry anthologies he edited are where its st

YouTube video by Poetry Docs WILLIAM STAFFORD & ROBERT BLY: A Literary Friendship (1994)

"For it is important that awake people be awake,
or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;
the signals we give — yes or no, or maybe —
should be clear: the darkness around us is deep."

- #WilliamStafford 1914-1993

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_P_...

AI expert warns Australia is unprepared for 'supercharged' harms Renowned AI expert Toby Walsh has used a National Press Club address to warn the Australian government about what he argues are inadequate approaches to regulating the technology.

'A leading artificial intelligence researcher has warned Australia's lack of guardrails on the technology is putting another generation of young people at risk of being "sacrificed for the profits of big tech".'

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

It is customary to under-value #theology in a secular history of philosophical thought. This is a mistake, since for a period of about thirteen hundred years the ablest thinkers were mostly theologians.

- #AlfredNorthWhitehead, 'Adventures of Ideas,' p. 129

I mean, this is honestly kind of antichrist-coded though

What I love about the “Donald Trump is the antichrist” theory is that basically every American goes to hell in this scenario save mainline Christian resist libs, which, you know, fair enough I guess.

Still from the documentary 'WILLIAM STAFFORD & ROBERT BLY: A Literary Friendship (1994)' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_P_aza4qVM

Your #existential PSA for the day, courtesy of #WilliamBlake

William Blake, Notebook 1808, p. 66; from 'The Poetical Works of William Blake, including the unpublished French Revolution together with the Minor Prophetic Books and Selections from The Four Zoas, Milton & Jerusalem,' edited with an introduction and textual notes by John Sampson, Hon. D.Litt. Oxon., 1862–1931. London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1908.

I give you the end of a golden string;
Only wind it into a ball,
It will lead you in at Heaven’s gate,
Built in Jerusalem’s wall.

- #WilliamBlake

... if you listen carefully, you can hear the first bird ...

Righy now is just healing in and of itself

YouTube video by Poetry Docs WILLIAM STAFFORD & ROBERT BLY: A Literary Friendship (1994)

' #WilliamStafford and #RobertBly: A Literary Friendship'– a wonderful documentary on the two #poets and their #poetry by #HaydnReiss

youtu.be/9_P_aza4qVM?...

YouTube video by Poetry Docs WILLIAM STAFFORD & ROBERT BLY: A Literary Friendship (1994)

I know they are old and I know they are white and I know they are only poets but goddamit this too was once and is still America and American masculinity and American friendship

youtu.be/9_P_aza4qVM?...

YouTube video by Poetry Docs RUMI: Poet of the Heart (1998)

"Rumi: Poet of the Heart" (1998) is an award-winning film featuring Coleman Barks, the preeminent contemporary translator of Rumi's poetry, in live performance and intimate conversation. Produced and directed by Haydn Reiss.

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Le Chiffonnier, 1917 #mariannevonwerefkin #werefkin

A highly complex website showing two betting accounts earning nearly $500,000 and $120,000 on a minimal number of positions.

In case you were wondering, Polymarket had yet another spate of likely inside traders betting that the US would strike Iran by February 28.

Per the due diligence investigation service Bubblemaps, the wallets used were created 24 hours earlier.

The Pentagon Pizza Index has been replaced.

ICE Moves Minneapolis Fleet to Williamsport Detention Warehouse As ICE builds out a detention infrastructure across the mid-Atlantic, equipment from its Minneapolis operation is heading to Maryland.

Roughly 100 ICE vehicles are on their way to a warehouse in Western Maryland, as signs mount of an impending operation here.

meanwhile, war rages on at home.