R.L. Swihart's Blog, page 79

From Chekhov's "Sakhalin"

 To decorate the walls they use sweet-papers, labels from vodka bottles and cigarette packets, and this deficiency does not tally at all with the substantial bed and painted floors. But what can be done about it? There is a high demand for artistry here, but God has not supplied the artists.

Bolsa Chica: Osprey

Morning at Bolsa Chica. Osprey perched at the tip-top of a 99% dead tree (above the water).

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Bolsa Chica: Red-tailed Hawk

 Morning at Bolsa Chica. Red-tailed hawk.

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Bolsa Chica: Juvenile Night Heron

Morning in Bolsa Chica. Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron. 

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Bolsa Chica: Reddish Egret

Morning at Bolsa Chica. Reddish Egret.

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Shestov on the Definition of Philisophy

 On the contrary: to us the most alluring questions are those to which there is no actual, no universally valid, answer. I hope that sooner or later, philosophy will be thus defined, in contrast to science:—philosophy is the teaching of truths which are binding on none.

Shestov on Dostoevsky

 All that he had to tell, Dostoevsky told us in his novels, which even now, twenty-five years after his death, attract all those who would wrest from life her secrets. And the title of prophet, which he sought so diligently, considering that it was his by right, did not suit him at all. Prophets are Bismarcks, but they are Chancellors too. The first in the village is the first in Rome. … Is a Dostoevsky doomed eternally to be 'on the eve'? Let us once more try to reject logic, this time perhaps not logic alone, and say: 'So let it be.'

To the Jetty and Back

 Long Beach. To the Jetty and Back Again. Parked just off 2nd, walked past the pickleball courts (maybe Friday), walked down the boardwalk (Seaside Walk) and out to jetty on the Peninsula.

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Too Comfortable

 Long Beach. Colorado Lagoon. This little guy is getting too comfortable on the playground -- or did my words scare him ...

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Poinsettia Tree

 Long Beach. Greenbelt. Forever Xmas. A poinsettia gone "arboreal."

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