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Angel of the Resurrection

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This sculpture is the Pennsylvania Railroad World War II Memorial, featuring Walker Hancock’s statue, Angel of the Resurrection, inside Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station.

The main inscription engraved on the front of the black granite base reads:

IN MEMORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR OUR COUNTRY 1941 – 1945

“That all travelers here may remember those of the Pennsylvania Railroad who did not return from the Second World War.”

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Mindfulness

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Zen Keys

  • In Buddhism, mindfulness is the key. Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things. Mindfulness is at the base of all Buddhist practice.
  • The opposite of mindfulness is absentmindedness. Don’t be absent-minded.

Cemetery Blues

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must. Samuel Beckett, First Love

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TS Motherfucking A

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Jerusalem (1988)

Who packed your bag?

I packed my bag

Where was your uncle’s sister born?

Have you ever met an Arab?

-James Fenton

TS Motherfucking A

Philadelphia (2023)

Any electronics in your bag?

Yes.

Take it out.

Take that phone holder off.

Take your shoes off.

I don’t have to take my shoes off.

Why?

I’m 75.

You’re 75?

Yes.

Ok. Step aside through here.

Any metal on you sir?

Yes, on my hat.

Step through the scanner.

Ding ding ding…

Rescan him.

Why do you have to rescan me?

Rescan him.

Any soreness here?

No.

OK. I’m going to pat you down.

Pat pat patty pat.

Thank you.

Enjoy the rest of your day.

-Ghost Dog

Five Things my Grandpappy Used to Say

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Redux

  1. It’s not what you used to be that counts, it’s what you are now.
  2. He’s independent as a hog on ice.
  3. Boy, you need to take that camera and throw it in the river.
  4. Don’t make the other fellers living for him.
  5. Huh? Pigs say huh! Pinch their tails and they say un huh!

Gorillas in the Mist

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Thought of the Day

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In the final analysis, we are all just gorillas in the mist, flesh, and bone and a hank of hair, with weird personality traits and a funny thing called consciousness. I think Jung had it right, but we must remember the German language doesn’t distinguish between mind and soul. The mind does not perceive the mind just a sharp knife cannot cut itself, so it is with the mind, and ultimate reality is beyond the scope of the intellect.