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Seven Samurai (1954)

I get the hype and why its one of the quintessential movies now. Good first film for a year.

Honestly loved the slow, tense and deliberate pacing and the abundance of silent thoughtful moments. A lot of scenes respecting the viewer and telling a story without explicitly

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It is astounding what a loving gaze reveals about masculinity. Looking at men as objects of inherent beauty and passion, there emerges a different story about who they are, and about the tragedy they're suffering in an increasingly cruel world.
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Still ‘round the corner
There may wait
A new road or
A secret gate;
And though I oft
Have passed them by,
A day will come
At last when I
Shall take the hidden
Paths that run
West of the moon,
East of the sun.

~ J.R.R. Tolkien

#SmallPoemsSunday

Beautiful 🙏

#Haiku
#senryu
#poetry

soft threads
memories of my father
curl into my thoughts

Merry Christmas 🎄
European Robin by Theresa Catherine Ridgway in the UK. #EuropeanRobin #RedRobin #Robin #bird #birds #nature #wildlife #christmas #merrychristmas

An European Robin sits in a bush and looks to the right.

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #mostrecent 🪶

I just photographed this #HolidayRobin in the garden 🥰

#birds #FestiveDailyRobin #SensoryArt #Joy #FlyDay #photography #scape #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #nature #outdoors #thelittlethings #photohour #EastCoastKin

"Being in balance, together,
Is not a fixed state,
Not a battle over differences
Or bending to each other
But a slender cord of
Grace between you,
Tough and elastic,
That leaves you
Steady and free."

A #birddivination to help with the myriad complex balances of love. Find it as a solo print and part of the deck of 100, along with the story and process behind them, at almanacofbirds.org

‘Panopticon is not merely a prison design, but a metaphor for a new mode of power in modern societies-one that operates through psychological control and internalized surveillance rather than overt, physical punishment […] embodying the shift from external force to internalized discipline.’

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mock box art for Michel Foucault Monopoly special edition picutred is the French philosopher in profile with his hand on his forehead, the traditional spaces on a monopoly board have all been replaced with GO TO JAIL except for one square reading IN JAIL

game of the year

This looks interesting. So much work to be done in Mental health nursing on this subject. Not simply looking at men & expectation but the systems surrounding them & subject matters which can be more complex beyond the person. I feel the gov. is missing a trick here when it comes to the profession.

Commando (1985) with discussion on men's mental health - Buy tickets Screening of Commando at Dundee Contemporary Arts, hosted by Mental Health in Movies.

The 40th anniversary of 'Commando' (1985), shown in Dundee, for 2 quid, with proceeds going to charity, and a facilitated discussion on men's mental health following the film? 30th November 12pm, all of your dreams come true. www.citizenticket.com/events/scott...

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name “Despite what dictionaries would have us believe, this world is still mostly undefined.”

Long live The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows – uncommonly lovely invented words for what we feel but cannot name, such as maru mori (“the heartbreaking simplicity of ordinary things”) and apolytus (“the moment you realize you are changing as a person") www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/12/d...

Halloween - Lego Ghost & Haunted House

Lego

Halloween - Lego Witch Head

pebble thrown lightly,
pond moves mirrors reflections.
small wave distorts view.

#haiku #micropoetry #haikumicropoetry #haikupoetry
#haikusaturday

Emotional Prince William holds back tears as he discusses impact of suicide Prince William choked back tears as he discussed the devastating impact of suicide with a woman whose husband took his own life in a short film released by the British royal's office on Friday to mark World Mental Health Day.

Emotional Prince William holds back tears as he discusses impact of suicide reut.rs/4haefPa

Paragraph from p. 27 of Michel Foucault’s “Society Must Be Defended,” which reads, “Methodological precautions. Our object is not to analyze rule-governed and legitimate forms of power which have a single center, or to look at what their general mechanisms or its overall effects might be. Our object is, on the contrary, to understand power by looking at its extremities, at its outer limits at the point where it becomes capillary; in other words, to understand power in its most regional forms and institutions, and especially at the points where this power transgresses the rules of right that organize and delineate it, oversteps those rules and is invested in institutions, is embodied in techniques.”

“Our object is […] to understand power by looking at its extremities, at its outer limits at the point where it becomes capillary….” – From Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended,” p. 27.

Heed Your Daemon: Rudyard Kipling on Writing It is worth remembering that anything worth doing, anything bound to earn its keep in the house of tomorrow, takes a long time, takes riding the troughs of doubt with unassailable devotion, takes b…

Heed your daemon – Rudyard Kipling on writing www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/05/r...

Eight Takes: How to Tell a Truer Love Story “Mistake” is another word for a working draft we are unable or unwilling to revise, a draft that stands at odds with the story we wish to tell about who we are and what we want. It is a…

"Where you are tender, you speak your plural."

www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/03/e...

#haiku #micropoetry #haikumicropoetry #haikusaturday #haiku575 #haikupoetry #haikufeels

frog pauses and looks.
mayfly scates across water.
ripples as echos.

(5-7-5) mayfly

The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy “You’ll long for me when I’m gone… You’ll kiss the headstone of my grave… Kiss my face instead!”

The art of choosing love over not-love – on Rumi's birthday, his immortal antidote to our human tragedy www.themarginalian.org/2022/04/02/r...

#HaikuSaturday #haiku
5/7/5:
a hummingbird zips
to a wilting blue salvia--
last sips of summer

short form:
wilting blue salvia--
a hummingbird's last sips
of summer

Please add a version if you feel like it.

mirror is not eyes.
mine is not explanation.
me is not enough.

(5-7-5) mine beyond word

Thank you Susan

Thank you Teresa

#haikupoetry #haiku #haikufeels #haikupoem #575haiku #haikuwriter #micropoetry #haikumicropoetry #poetry #haikusaturday #dailyhaiku #Saturdayhaiku

liminality,
low mist hovers serenely,.
ghostly border place.

(5-7-5) mist