Well It's Alright

Jake's, my basset, left check and neck are swollen. I think we are getting to the end of the line.

What is Love?

Today is St. Valentine's Day.  If I were from another planet‎.and dropped here, I'd think the day was about candy, flowers, red stuff, pink stuff, alcohol, and food.  That if I spend enough money, that someone will love me.  I might even get lucky.  To the casual observer, the day is not about love.

My facebook feed has been packed with sappy wishes and questions about how do you show love and can you fall in love at first sight and other romantic drival stuff.

But what is love?  I know the Bible has a great deal of things to say about love.  I don't know where to find the majority of the verses.  I only know the section in 1 Corinthians

Love is patient, love is kind.

It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous,

it is not inflated,
it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, 

it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.

It bears all things,

believes all things, 

hopes all things, 

endures all things

But what does this even mean?  How will I know it when I see it?  Of course, being into science, I was curious as to what science has to say on the subject.  Scientific American  did not disappoint and featured all kinds of articles.  Even Ph.D Comics got into the act as well as XKCD.  And How Stuff Works

St. Valentine was a martyr.  He died for his Faith.  That is love.  It is sacrificial.  To love something or someone so much as to sacrifice all for that thing or person.  And if necessary to let them go.

I wish I knew what love was.

Fall in Love

"Nothing is more practical than finding God, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, whom you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in Love, stay in love, and it will decide everything."

Pedro Arupe SJ

Reflection

Insert Awesome Quote About Reflection, the Cross and Baptism.

Color or B&W

Monday there was some fog.  I was in the wrong place for good fog but I took some photos, thinking that converting them to black and white might be the way to go.  Here are some images to compare.

I think the top is better....

Meh.

Strawberry Fields

I have come into the possession of 4 flats of strawberries or roughly 30 lbs.  Don't ask.  So I've been baking and freezing up a storm. Slice slice baby...

As I was making strawberry muffin loaves for Photo Buddy, I started crying.  Soon, I won't have anyone to bake stuff for.  Photo Buddy's planning on moving and since there appears to be no future for me here, I'm leaving as well.

I don't want to.  I don't want to start over again.  It took me 6 years to find a friend in the form of Photo Buddy.

I should be excited about having new opportunities.  I'm not.

Computer Guy is harrassing me to finish my CV and start looking.  It is incredibly hard.  I'm so sad and so depressed that I can't write any cover letters that have a good spin on them.  I look at openings and feel horridly unqualified.

Art History

wow.  These are Awesome!  Art with a science fiction slant!

My favorite:

I found more!  with Sesame Street!

Kermit and Miss Piggy! And here!

Oooo Original Muppet Art!