Ramblin Rose

Goblins, Mutated Slugs Arthurian Swords, Dinner and Hope!

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 19:47:00 +0000

Why does the third of three brothers, who shares his food with the old woman in the wood, go on to become king of the country? Why does James Bond manage to disarm the nuclear bomb a few seconds before it goes off rather than, as it were, a few seconds afterwards? Because a universe where that did not happen would be a dark and hostile place. Let there be goblin hordes, let there be terrible environmental threats, let there be giant mutated slugs if you really must, but let there also be hope.
It may, be a grim, thin hope, an Arthurian sword at dinner, but let us know that we do not live in vain" Sir Terry Pratchett (sunset picture taken and edited 2015 December18)

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Jimmy Carter: Why I believe the mistreatment of women is the number one ...

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 21:35:00 +0000

Human Rights Explained In One Beautiful Two Minute Animation

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 17:44:00 +0000

The Price of Shame

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 15:11:00 +0000

Road of Samsara: Going Nowhere

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Sun, 14 Jun 2015 17:33:00 +0000

Road of Samsara: Going Nowhere:

"Going nowhere, as Leonard Cohen would later emphasize for me, isn't about turning your back on the world; it's about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply."

FB Locked Me Out Twice But You Can Still Visit With Me!!

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 23:08:00 +0000

Love you peeps! I've been locked out of Facebook twice now. Despite the fact that almost everyone knows me as Patchwork Quilt. I've been "Patch" for a very long time and I know some of you don't know me as any other person. Facebook claims they are looking for my "authentic" name. They don't qualify that they don't require it at signup, nor do they state what they are really looking for is your legal name. I have various reasons for not posting as my real name. I've used my real name on Facebook in discussions with my friends about the pride I have for it. If I've friended you, have seen me talk about my real name. But if I haven't friended you chances are I don't actually want you to know my legal name. There are reasons I have chosen to use Patch and I owe no one an explanation as to why I'd like to keep a bit of confidentiality. Perhaps, I'll rejoin FB. I am not going to hide from stalkers. That's victim mentality. But having all of you know me as Patch was a bit of a safety buffer for me. Same thing with my nickname cebelina, and now Samsara Rose. But I'll be honest, I haven't missed FB much. My mission has been singular. I have and always will share and push forward two concepts I believe in above most all others:

Soulshine and Lovelight!!

That's why I participate on the internet. If Facebook doesn't feel that is "authentic" enough well...then it isn't really actually possible for me to prove that. And I don't really want to. I feel it's beyond invasive and counterproductive. I'm not the only person I know locked out. Each one of us locked out peeps aren't clicking on ads anymore, either, eh? There are a couple of things that I consider wicked. I can't delete my own page. So that means I get tons of notifications from a regular base of friends who don't know me as anything other than Patch. What's that all about?! Yep, I've been kicked out but they're still gonna make money off me by pushing that data, eh? And all those pics I posted...albums, vacations...well, folks watermark your pics...Facebook owns that image just as you posted it and your work is prolly owned by them but perhaps you've also maintained a bit of ownership yourself. Weird, eh? A person should be able to delete their account even if Facebook says and does happen to own that page. I've been shoved out the front end and yet the backdoor is still open. I personally don't find that very "Authentic" at all. Also, all of my accounts were linked to FB at their encouragement. Seriously after 5 years...I figured FB was on the up and up. Ruthless, but adhering to a sane business model. All for free? That seemed cool. There is a song called "What Is Hip?" and Facebook isn't feeling so hip to me anymore. And yea...that's sour grapes. They encouraged my relationship with them just as it was. Now they want more information from me than I think is sane or reasonable. Unlinking has been quite a tangle. Beats, Instagram, blah, blah...

Be aware Google is pretty invasive as well. As much as I loved both of these platforms I have been as of late left with a bitter taste of corporate sourness. I understand the need to make money. But I don't understand the need to play "dirty." t's feeling It feels all "Patriot Act" down my neck now. And none of us feel that the corporate world or or country's defense is actually straightforward. They feel like two different branches of the same thing owned by the richest people in the world and not even in our country anymore. None of this is new. In fact, the internet giants morphing into everything folks feared the internet would be. Remember when we all held so much possibility? When we actually loved these platforms because they lacked the overworked corporate pushiness? They seemed free. Full of possibility. Now the fences close in. I'm locked out as Patchwork Quilt and Samsara Rose. And well when folks lock me out...I don't linger too much. Best peeps!

Iridiscent Day Dreams on The Dirty Boulevard

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Mon, 25 May 2015 19:08:00 +0000

Magic can be found anywhere...it isn't always easy but sometimes, even disgusting things can look quite beautiful. Oil, Pavement and Rain. The drifting clouds in reflection. Credit for sound goes to j1987 for light chimes on freesound.org, on freesound.org, Solfeggio Wind Chimes Mi 528 Hz single-cut by the_very_Real_Horst on freesound.org, and chimes_c3_pp_1.wav by samulis and again on freesound.org. Just a minute and a second of contemplation - full of color and sound. And so life goes.

The Brain That Changes Itself ~ Pure Science

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Wed, 06 May 2015 08:00:00 +0000

Paul Broca, Sigmund Freud, Aleksandr Luria, Donald O. Hebb, Paul Bach-y-Rita, and Eric Kandel

Curiosity

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Tue, 05 May 2015 20:31:00 +0000

Curiosity

This is pretty cheesy. It's a funny thing. Animals always want to visit me...and kids always want to say "hi" and I consider it an honor and also just awesome. So I'm minding my own business and taking pics a bit quickly on this break...and I'm against the fence of this garden a bit off from the kids. Who I am actually trying to avoid (ah...the masses!!) this time...but the kids see me taking pictures and get curious so they end up coming right towards me...checking me out...there was no sound to this stitching of photos. Rather, I've added a sound track of kids that I found on freesound. org by stifa10. Like I said it is cheesy as ever but it does bring a cute memory back to me! Critters and kids can make me happy..

— at Denver Botanic Gardens.

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Tue, 05 May 2015 10:00:00 +0000

"Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves."
- T. S. Eliot
commonplace

I Made You an Electric Garden

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Fri, 01 May 2015 13:35:00 +0000

I Made You an Electric Garden...because I could. Because Memories come in all Colors.

Because I love you. Because I want you to smile! Because I want you to look!

ramblin rose...

Here's Looking At You Kid...

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 22:51:00 +0000

Ascension Le Film

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 01:16:00 +0000

Ascension from Ascension Le Film on Vimeo.
"Well, the movie is first of all a black humor movie : we wanted to make laugh with the bad situation of a crippled man doing a traditionnal ascent. And to make everything even worse, we wanted the movie to loop. A sisyphean, perpetual struggle. Therefore, this is also about all the struggles and the perpetual fights in life and about beliefs.
It was not meant to be, as I have seen in a comment somewhere, "a judgment from an atheist over the stupidity of the religion". It would be actually the exact opposite, but in a more personnal way.
But, again, our main purpose was to make laugh.
Hope it helped :)" ~ Ascension Le Film

A Flower For You ~ As if Mother Nature Ever Needed Any Help

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 00:31:00 +0000

Shrodinger's Cat

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 05:40:00 +0000

Symmetry, Reality's Riddle...

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 18:53:00 +0000

Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 19:08:00 +0000

"There will come a time when everybody
Who is lonely will be free...
To sing & dance & love

There will come a time when every evil
That we know will be an evil...
That we can rise above

Who cares if hair is long or short
Or sprayed or partly grayed...
We know that hair ain't where it's at
(there will come a time when you won't
Even be ashamed if you are fat!)
Wah wah-wah wah
There will come a time when everybody
Who is lonely will be free...
To sing & dance & love (dance and love)
There will come a time when every evil
That we know will be an evil...
That we can rise above (rise above)
Who cares if you're so poor you can't afford
To buy a pair of mod a go-go stretch-elastic pants...
There will come a time when you can even
Take your clothes off when you dance"
Frank Zappa

This Train Don't Stop There Anymore

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:04:00 +0000

"I used to be the main express
All steam and whistles heading west
Picking up my pain from door to door
Riding on the storyline
Furnace burning overtime
But this train don't stop,
This train don't stop,
This train don't stop there anymore"
Bernie Taupin

photo credit: train_tracks_2_by_batsforlashes1

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:12:00 +0000

The Horsehead Nebula from Blue to Infrared
Image Credit & Copyright: Optical: Aldo Mottino & Carlos Colazo, OAC, Córdoba; Infrared: Hubble Legacy Archive

as posted verbatim from Astronomy Picture of the Day website:

Explanation: One of the most identifiable nebulae in the sky, the Horsehead Nebula in Orion, is part of a large, dark, molecular cloud. Also known as Barnard 33, the unusual shape was first discovered on a photographic plate in the late 1800s. The red glow originates from hydrogen gas predominantly behind the nebula, ionized by the nearby bright star Sigma Orionis. The darkness of the Horsehead is caused mostly by thick dust, although the lower part of the Horsehead's neck casts a shadow to the left. Streams of gas leaving the nebula are funneled by a strong magnetic field. Bright spots in the Horsehead Nebula's base are young stars just in the process of forming. Light takes about 1,500 years to reach us from the Horsehead Nebula. The above image is a digital combination of images taken in blue, green, red, and hydrogen-alpha light from the Argentina, and an image taken in infrared light by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.

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noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 19:16:00 +0000

“You tell me I can't fly, but then you watch me soar.”

― Golden Sky

Isn't It About Time ~ Stephen Stills and Manassas

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:22:00 +0000

Don't look now, don't heed the warning
It's really of no concern
Don't hear the sound, they're only just bombing
Anything left to burn

Isn't it about time
Isn't it about time we learned
Isn't it about time
Isn't it about time we learned

Fire, flood, familiar, famine
The jungle so far away
Blood baked into blackened soil
How many tons a day

Isn't it about time
Isn't it about time we learned
Isn't it about time
Isn't it about time we learned

Isn't it about time
Isn't it about time we learned
Isn't it about time
Isn't it about time we learned

Why, does it take so long
Is it easy not to care
Seems to me that enemies are fantasies
Somebody else's living nightmare

Who gonna live, who gonna die
Do you want to know
Does it give you a sense of power
To say yes or no

Isn't it about time
Isn't it about time we learned
Isn't it about time
Isn't it about time we learned

Isn't it about that time
Isn't it about time we learned
Isn't it about time
Isn't it about time we learned

Isn't it about time
Isn't it about time we learned
Isn't it about time
Isn't it about time we learned

Stephen Stills - Isn't It About Time

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"Isn't It About Time" lyrics provided for educational purposes and personal use only.

Touch Me

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 07:19:00 +0000

"Yeah! Come on, come on, come on, come on
Now touch me, baby
Can't you see that I am not afraid?
What was that promise that you made?
Why won't you tell me what she said?
What was that promise that you made?

Now, I'm gonna love you
Till the heavens stop the rain
I'm gonna love you Till the stars fall from the sky for you and I"

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"Touch Me" lyrics provided for educational purposes and personal use only.

Rhinestone Eyes

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 02:59:00 +0000

"When the paralytic dreams that we all seem to keep
Drive on engines 'til they weep
With future pixels in factories far away

So call the mainland from the beach
All parties now washed up in bleach
The waves are rising for this time of year
And nobody knows what to do with the heat
Under sunshine pylons we'll meet
While rain is falling like rhinestones from the sky"

The Sky Was Yellow And The Sun Was Blue!

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:00:00 +0000

The Sky Was Yellow and The Sun Was Blue...

The Sunset Itself

noreply@blogger.com (cebelina) — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 23:38:00 +0000

"And the sunset itself on such waves of ether

That I just can't comprehend

Whether it is the end of the day, the end of the world,

Or the mystery of mysteries in me again.”

Anna Akhmatova