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Sabbatical – June 2013

Dan — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 04:09:02 +0000

Sabbatical – June 2013

Please root around a bit while I am away with some friends on a brief summer sabbatical. See you at the end of the month… Thank you for visiting.

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Contemplation of pigs in the rain

Dan — Thu, 30 May 2013 04:42:53 +0000

Contemplation of pigs in the rain

Currents of thought are a common result of rainy days. Weather walking amongst it or listening to it from a chair or the door of a pig sty, rain inspires recollection and retrospection, contemplation and consideration.

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The ecstasy of children with animals

Dan — Wed, 15 May 2013 04:18:10 +0000

The ecstasy of children with animals

The concentration of a child can be easily and immediately led astray by the lure of animals. Even the most sincere attentions of a loving relative are usurped by the licks and squeals of some piglet or puppy. It is a natural reaction of children to trust any animal on earth more than man.

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The Pig Chef – a sinister advertising icon

Dan — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:11:42 +0000

The Pig Chef – a sinister advertising icon

The Pig Chef - a smiling swine, mouth a-watering, offering up choice preparations of the flesh of his own kind - is one of the more sinister icons of American signboard art.

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Frolicking swine enjoy the sunshine

Dan — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:10:11 +0000

Frolicking swine enjoy the sunshine

The frolicking and the gentle creatures of the world, even unto the swine, are often blessed by the sun pouring warm attention and animal energy down upon them. And as their day declines, they rest weary but satisfied, with a day spent well and in exuberance.

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Cannibal, man and pig

Dan — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 04:31:34 +0000

Cannibal, man and pig

Think about this next time the pork is savory and your appetite keen... Human flesh is generally reported by the cannibal to taste quite a bit like pork, so that means that the pork we enjoy so much tastes like we are eating humans.

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Wreath of pigs

Dan — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:51:16 +0000

Wreath of pigs

To bear and nourish guiltless and ambivalent beings into maturity is an accomplishment of motherhood that seldom earns a wreath of laurel.

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I know you want to eat me… So bite me!

Dan — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 04:19:43 +0000

I know you want to eat me… So bite me!

You don't expect to hear “bite me” from a pig, but frustrated with that part of Nature’s plan that says humankind will appreciate and eat our pals the pigs, "Que Sera, Sera" seems weightless. And yet, revenged somewhat, pigs competently remember what humankind discounts...Man has predators as well - disease, indulgence, each other and that one other pervasive and poignant thing that hunts us all...

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Livestock or pal

Dan — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:40:03 +0000

Livestock or pal

We do not consider the complex relationship of pigs and humans with near the attention or scrutiny that we consider the doneness of our pork chops. Nor do we consider human-pig interaction with anything like the almost religious devotion we have when discussing barbeque techniques. Who is missing out in this inattention the most, the pigs or the humans?

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Pigfish

Dan — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 04:09:53 +0000

Pigfish

Pigfish... When is a pig like a fish? When it is a Medieval Latin porcus (pig) piscis (fish), or porpoise, of course.

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