Without Lifting A Finger

More Antics with the Kids: Burrowing Owlets @ Play. #rlswihart13 #ontarioca #burrowingowls #thekids #streetsmart #adorable #owlsofinstagram #nature #beauty #poetry #readmorepoetry2022 #ukraine

I wish I'd seen them earlier (they've lost some of their muppet-ness but they're still cuties), but I saw two guardian males down the road standing at other holes, so maybe the fun is just beginning.:) #rlswihart13 #kidsatplay #kidswillbekids #ontarioca #owlsofinstagram #burrowingowl #nature #beauty #poetry #readmorepoetry2022 #ukraine

 “I said, among other things,” the prisoner answered, “that every form of authority means coercion over men, and that a time will come when there shall be neither Caesars, nor any other rulers. Man will come into the kingdom of truth and justice, where there will be no need for any authority.”

Ash-throated Flycatcher in Naples (a "fly by" while I was checking the heron rookery). #rlswihart13 #naplesca #naplesisland #flycatchersofinstagram #ashthroatedflycatcher  #nature #poetry #beauty #flybys #readmorepoetry2022 #ukraine

That’s what happens when you study men: you find mare’s nests. I happen to believe that you can’t study men; you can only get to know them, which is quite a different thing.

Red-whiskered Bulbul @ Huntington Arboretum in San Marino CA. Not bad: Got 'em the first visit (in the Herb Garden). Thanks for the tip @mathquark.:) #rlswihart13 #sanmarinoca #huntingtonarboretum #bubulsofinstagram #redwhiskeredbulbul #nature #beauty #poetry #readmorepoetry2022 #ukraine

Memory passes through the womb and hovers in the air. The Muse is a real thing. A faint breath, as Virgil says, reaches even the late generations. Our mythology is based on a solider reality than we dream: but it is also at an almost infinite distance from that base. And when they told him this, Ransom at last understood why mythology was what it was—gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on a jungle of filth and imbecility. His cheeks burned on behalf of our race when he looked on the true Mars and Venus and remembered the follies that have been talked of them on Earth. Then a doubt struck him. “But do I see you as you really are?” he asked. “Only Maleldil sees any creature as it really is,” said Mars. “How do you see one another?” asked Ransom. “There are no holding places in your mind for an answer to that.” “Am I then seeing only an appearance? Is it not real at all?” “You see only an appearance, small one. You have never seen more than an appearance of anything—not of Arb...

Eared Grebe (in Beautiful Breeding Plumage) @ Colorado Lagoon. Took me a while (days) to find him, but then I lucked out and had to myself for 20 minutes.  #rlswihart13 #longbeachca #coloradolagoon #grebesofinstagram #earedgrebes #breedingplumage #nature #beauty #poetry #readmorepoetry2022 #ukraine #goodfriday