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"Four Trees" by Rick Amor, 2001. Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm. Image via Mutual Art. Australian artist born 1948.
"On the Rock 2 ~ ë°ì ì2" by Duri Baek ~ ë°±ë늏, 2022. Alternate title found later: "On the Rocks Suesong-dong Valley" In the Hwijowon series. Hwijowon translates to âa garden built out of light.â Acrylic on canvas. South Korean artist born 1984. Further info found later:
The artist uses the mesmerising effect of light passing through trees as an all-encompassing metaphor for âthe moment when two elements of o
© Whitten Sabbatini. From Another Day in Paradise, 2018 / The States Project: Mississippi. American photographer and photojournalist born 1990, in Jackson Mississippi.
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American photographer and photojournalist born 1990, in Jackson Mississippi.
"Evening on Lake Bainevskoe ~ ĐĐ”ŃĐ”Ń ĐœĐ° ĐаĐčĐœĐ”ĐČŃĐșĐŸĐŒ ĐŸĐ·Đ”ŃĐ”" by Dmitry Anatolyevich Belyukin, 2003. Russian artist born 1962.
© Matti Helin. "A beautiful evening watching the Moon and the clouds play." Lieto, Finland, 24 May '26.
"Fjordlandskap" (Fjord landscape), by Knud Andreassen Baade, 1851. Oil on canvas, 73 x 66 cm. Image via Facebook group Arnold Böcklin e gli Artisti del Sublime Norwegian artist 1808-1879.
© Markku Ruonala. Lunar pollen corona, Valkeakoski, Finland 31 May' 26.
© Mikko Peussa. Pine tree Pollen Coronas (aka Pollen Rings) at sunset in a Finnish forest, Nousiainen, Finland, 29 May '26. First image is in SpaceWeather as well as Taivaanvahti (Skywarden).
© Matti Helin. Pollen corona at sunset with bunny pausing below, Lieto, Finland, 29 May'26. Image 3 of 5. First 3 images contain the bunny. In 1 and 2 the sun is almost blinding. A commenter mentions the bunny: Ihanat ja hauskat nuo jÀnöjussikuvat! (Google Translate won't do it justice.)
"Sacrificed Beings to the Worship of Becoming Somebody" by Julia Soboleva, circa 2024. Used as the Fall 2024 cover on The New England Review. Painting and collage on found vintage photographic imagery. Image via Facebook. Latvian-Russian mixed-media artist, born 1990. Based in the UK.
"College of Animals" by Cornelis Saftleven, 1655. Includes cat with tennis racket. Image via Monster Brains.
"A Diablerie" by historical memester Cornelis Saftleven, circa 1660s. Note the cat with a tennis racket playing Trictrac, (related to Backgammon). Images via Reddit and Monster Brains. Dutch artist circa 1607-1681.
"The Sorcerer and the Cat" by Joe Petagno, 1972. Blacklight poster, Saladin Productions, 59 x 89 cm.
"Lunar Moth" by Joe Petagno, 1971. Blacklight poster, Saladin Productions, 56 x 86 cm.
I am once again posting this excerpt from Why Does He Do That?
"MYTH #4: He holds in his feelings too much, and they build up until he bursts. He needs to get in touch with his emotions and learn to express them to prevent those explosive episodes. My colleagues and I refer to this belief as 'The Boiler Theory of Men.' The idea is that a person can only tolerate so much accumulated pain and frustration. If it doesnât get vented periodicallyâ kind of like a pressure cookerâthen thereâs bound to be a serious accident. This myth has the ring of truth to it because we are all aware of how many men keep too much emotion pent up inside. Since most abusers are male, it seems to add up. But it doesnât, and hereâs why: Most of my clients are not unusually repressed. In fact, many of them express their feelings more than some nonabusive men. Rather than trapping everything inside, they actually tend to do the opposite: They have an exaggerated idea of how important their feelings are, and they talk about their feelingsâand act them outâall the time, until their partners and children are exhausted from hearing about it all. An abuserâs emotions are as likely to be too big as too small. They can fill up the whole house. When he feels bad, he thinks that life should stop for everyone else in the family until someone fixes his discomfort. His partnerâs life crises, the childrenâs sicknesses, meals, birthdaysânothing else matters as much as his feelings. It is not his feelings the abuser is too distant from; it is his partnerâs feelings and his childrenâs feelings. Those are the emotions that he knows so little about and that he needs to 'get in touch with.' My job as an abuse counselor often involves steering the discussion away from how my clients feel and toward how they think (including their attitudes toward their partners â feelings). My clients keep trying to drive the ball back into the court that is familiar and comfortable to them, where their inner world is the only thing that matters. For decades, many therapists have been attempting to help abusive men change by guiding them in identifying and expressing feelings. Alas, this well-meaning but misguided approach actually feeds the abuserâs selfish focus on himself, which is an important force driving his abusiveness. Part of why you may be tempted to accept 'The Boiler Theory of Men' is that you may observe that your partner follows a pattern where he becomes increasingly withdrawn, says less and less, seems to be bubbling gradually from a simmer to a boil, and then erupts in a geyser of yelling, put-downs, and ugliness. It looks like an emotional explosion, so naturally you assume that it is. But the mounting tension, the pressure- cooker buildup of his feelings, is actually being driven by his lack of empathy for your feelings, and by a set of attitudes that we will examine later. And he explodes when he gives himself permission to do so."
This book is a top recommendation of mine, as a therapist.
Re: the excerpt from Why Does He Do That? In my experience, a woman can be like that too. My mother is like that. But instead of an emotional explosion, it's a long slow relentless demoralizing barrage and siege of passive-aggressive dismissive derogatory comments - worrying at you, corroding you, grinding you down, competing with you, humiliating you, gaslighting and undermining you, depressing and distracting you⊠silencing you, or provoking you to scream or slam doors⊠or hurt yourself⊠My mother was abused as a child by her mother, who was also abused as a child by her guardians. These were mothers and guardians who were brainwashed into believing that girl children were undesirable and born to be used, as slaves, and emotional punching bags. Treated as sub-human. The girls sometimes evolved into people with narcissistic and antisocial traits, with little self-awareness, and with an inability to empathize, or even sympathize. Totally self-centred. Their feelings come first, and children are to be ground down, and mercilessly used and controlled, while the husband sometimes becomes like a trained puppy. My mother also lost her temper and pounded on us with her fists, while my father, tremblingly obeying her instructions, held us down. Myself and my siblings were all abused this way.
© Natsumi Hayashi (yowayowa diary). Today's Levitation: Ruiâan Street, Daan District, Taipei, Taiwan. Mon July 11, 2011. Japanese photographer born in Saitama Prefecture, 1982.
"Park with fountain in the moonlight" by Carl Gustav Carus. Black charcoal and white highlights on toned paper. Image via Amber Tree, Flickr. German artist and physiologist 1789-1869.
"Karma's Pas de Deux" by Hana Choi, 2025. Oil on linen 112.1 x 112.1 cm. South Korean artist born 2003.