tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56354726516558961982024-03-19T01:48:09.239-07:00Naturalism - the Eighth SenseAbe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.comBlogger2083125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-87979984372081769212024-03-17T19:04:00.000-07:002024-03-17T20:11:50.618-07:00Evolving Art Series 1 to 15: ART AND NATURE IN OUR POSTMODERN WORLD <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Evolving Art Series 1 to 15</span></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">ART AND NATURE IN OUR POSTMODERN WORLD</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Dr Abe V Rotor</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. Capture Ephemeral Nature through Painting<br />2. Palette Board Speaks of Neo-Darwinism Evolution of Life<br /> 3. Living Prism in the Deep<br />4. Global Warming is creating a new Art Movement<br /> 5. Techniques in Impressionistic Paintings<br />6. Two Faces of our Planet Earth Chandelier <br />7. Evolving Art, ad infinitum<br />8. Make your own transforms for teaching and decoration<br />9. Two Paintings: Secret of the Heart and Innocence in Nature <br />10. Nature Paintings Revival</span></b><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>11. </b><b style="text-align: center;">Nature's distress call through art </b></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="text-align: center;">12. </b><b><span><span style="text-align: center;"><span><span>Nature's Message in Cryptobiology </span></span></span></span></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span><span style="text-align: center;"><span><span>13. </span></span></span></span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b><span>The Eye in the Coral Reef</span></b></span></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b><span>14. </span></b></span></span></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Capture and Enshrine Nature in Murals</span></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">15. Composite </span></b><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Wall Mural of Nature - </span></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="background-color: transparent;">A Glimpse into Our Living World</b></span></b></div><div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Evolving Art Series 1</span></b></div></b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Capture Ephemeral Nature through Painting</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr Abe V Rotor</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtAr4DlpAAfQuZFLbN-xcKJB1UWmSTdJV2C7nSaYg-msDMMhusltobzV4dYtwdQJKymY-YvGHWtiTTxZuafRQcprwj0Lys1QTpoFAceETK8cv4LL8hbCCtE2pujjr0R6GEw4sIQ1J-Sd73CZT58-QJltgQHiM_y5as2zK-t6s3WKenbCd7SMcPU3To6Hc/s608/High%20Rise%20ruin%20DSC09351.JPG"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtAr4DlpAAfQuZFLbN-xcKJB1UWmSTdJV2C7nSaYg-msDMMhusltobzV4dYtwdQJKymY-YvGHWtiTTxZuafRQcprwj0Lys1QTpoFAceETK8cv4LL8hbCCtE2pujjr0R6GEw4sIQ1J-Sd73CZT58-QJltgQHiM_y5as2zK-t6s3WKenbCd7SMcPU3To6Hc/w507-h640/High%20Rise%20ruin%20DSC09351.JPG" width="507" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Remnants of termites mounted on apocalyptic background painted </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">in acrylic by the author. On display at Living with Nature Center,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">San Vicente, Ilocos Sur</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">High rise in ruins cower</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">to time, pest and weather,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>their grandeur gone forever.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Will man ever remember?</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0h2midu4indhuAz5ZQ86vi41wzZ9NioEWMSltLRNFzA0em9rXrI_p5vTjzO-p0U_0tg_SzCX0fUq9pqvZ_n9h0I7NqJCoOsgWDhyphenhyphenyLL_3qvEUFzbMZ72LtQUBb6YMABd2KA7fH3FNtWmmgKJGKzNrHWWTx_QjzRMdC8p-qk-CjNpSMj8VyM1NiyBhk9k/s2304/DSC05042.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2304" data-original-width="1002" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0h2midu4indhuAz5ZQ86vi41wzZ9NioEWMSltLRNFzA0em9rXrI_p5vTjzO-p0U_0tg_SzCX0fUq9pqvZ_n9h0I7NqJCoOsgWDhyphenhyphenyLL_3qvEUFzbMZ72LtQUBb6YMABd2KA7fH3FNtWmmgKJGKzNrHWWTx_QjzRMdC8p-qk-CjNpSMj8VyM1NiyBhk9k/w346-h466/DSC05042.JPG" width="346" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Cave entrance reminiscent of Tabon Cave in Palawan, </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">relief painting in acrylic by AV Rotor. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Stalactite on the guard, </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">stained by a fiery past;</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>home of man long before</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>he became an outcast.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUQkwEmwDvnxTVnrPDLDJxO6ZQPe2jPhsDbceuJAabpRwIIJp74VrcY7QOSZS9hFEuZWFi6tojGkcNRjE4HgJl9ZERREHOrZo7WqW5Mwpb7Xk3GpA6c5IbqJ7snCFjsFkXxS_VOmQjkGeBBnTWPPY9i7M-auQB63fc7gZtxTSD-73SWseXFolj81HCebo/s2238/DSC05046.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2238" data-original-width="1566" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUQkwEmwDvnxTVnrPDLDJxO6ZQPe2jPhsDbceuJAabpRwIIJp74VrcY7QOSZS9hFEuZWFi6tojGkcNRjE4HgJl9ZERREHOrZo7WqW5Mwpb7Xk3GpA6c5IbqJ7snCFjsFkXxS_VOmQjkGeBBnTWPPY9i7M-auQB63fc7gZtxTSD-73SWseXFolj81HCebo/w344-h428/DSC05046.JPG" width="344" /></a></div><b style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Profile of a human face on our Milky Way galaxy, </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">acrylic painting by AV Rotor. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></b></div></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Images of human abound,</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>in living colors and sound;</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"> serendipity or providence,</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>captured as evidence. </b></span></div><br style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a 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Center</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Trees make a community of their own,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">they talk, sing, embrace each another;</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">designed by nature after they're sown,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>living in unity and harmony together.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a 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Nature Center</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's a world of the minutiae,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">thru the microscope we see,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> but a shade of its entirety, </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">much less its diversity.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a 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arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's counterpart of the sacred Cross;</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span>let's save Mother Nature </span></b><b>at all cost.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div></div><div style="font-weight: 400;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM26fcFA_KdEsjG4hRhEWPd_spxJWuVansfGn1TuL53zSB4SisR4lyDvmMqFxWoNAhXK9_maXS2D9lUvA9rinWugU0h-UgrJnfWptg3XRa67mVEUcpvgb0PVkr5Qql3p0811UyiMX4f5FUsM9BD2e9snrLTfKA5y5hNmCwLuRCugUloROt8KinvIITlf0/s2166/DSC05037.JPG"><img border="0" height="451" 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style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioV5qI7OSIZz0gGh91ToolNrsah8Z-1PZKsJP5eqS3_RoO2eqW0Ghfwyg-6Qf_1PDsqPwkjue2kSH-yTrVtvu3_AW_5Db9Oj1DqnZWpTK42lePhdljYaiqhyW9tfS73UIftTYboBWsAOC9ZzGEA13hMCZovjXmrsYt-kGhWL2370dfZLLK2DjMtWPuNcw/s2592/DSC05035.JPG"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioV5qI7OSIZz0gGh91ToolNrsah8Z-1PZKsJP5eqS3_RoO2eqW0Ghfwyg-6Qf_1PDsqPwkjue2kSH-yTrVtvu3_AW_5Db9Oj1DqnZWpTK42lePhdljYaiqhyW9tfS73UIftTYboBWsAOC9ZzGEA13hMCZovjXmrsYt-kGhWL2370dfZLLK2DjMtWPuNcw/w378-h400/DSC05035.JPG" width="378" /></a></div><div style="font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Edge of land and sea, detail of a wall mural by AV Rotor.</span></b></div><div style="font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Living with Nature Center, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur</span></b></div><div style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">"It's a reflection </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">of a scenery,</span></b></div><div style="font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> opposite of a sweet memory." ~</span></b></div><div style="font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="font-weight: 400;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Reference </b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><b>Philippine Literature Today<br />Copyright 2015 by C & E Publishing, Inc 237 pp<br />Abercio V Rotor and Kristine Molina-Doria</b></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></span></div></b><div><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Evolving Art Series 2</b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Palette Board Speaks of</span></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Neo-Darwinism Evolution of Life</span></b></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"></p></span></b><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2857273520971200449" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: left; width: 528.4px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><div class="post-header" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div></span></b><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5857011436335734013" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 528px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Paintings and Verses by </b><b>Dr Abe V Rotor</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a 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color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">though both exploit the secrets of the past, </span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">trace the beginning of human's civilization,</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">and Plato's allegory of the escaped outcast. </span></b></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFUh40aqZFCOVqE0hV0zNaZDMDF51BZsAnP3FUaGiyDNx0_eTVR4DqizEKx-NZvrva_7alPrysqou0SLHIDvFfsI1UxNA7vm0l9x2uAULxLRMRv4D9S7_8IGHRT0lGELGq2dt0Edy-NMgd/s1600/DSC04104+A.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFUh40aqZFCOVqE0hV0zNaZDMDF51BZsAnP3FUaGiyDNx0_eTVR4DqizEKx-NZvrva_7alPrysqou0SLHIDvFfsI1UxNA7vm0l9x2uAULxLRMRv4D9S7_8IGHRT0lGELGq2dt0Edy-NMgd/w375-h400/DSC04104+A.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="375" /></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Linnaeus, if alive today, would wonder, </span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">how he missed in his study </span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">organisms posthumously emerged </span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">from science and technology. </span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhclfcwPIFP5umGC7x7J4PmGsN04BF3zvF3Pl3QpQW9SvOzA85Exxna1YIPiA7pcib2YPpRW55J_lUnMUdYjNqKShPuPdN5t7ZJNyHUj3f89SRcv56KX0DBHdxaW_ZTpuGHXqdUbdFZ2H0I/s1600/DSC04105+A.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhclfcwPIFP5umGC7x7J4PmGsN04BF3zvF3Pl3QpQW9SvOzA85Exxna1YIPiA7pcib2YPpRW55J_lUnMUdYjNqKShPuPdN5t7ZJNyHUj3f89SRcv56KX0DBHdxaW_ZTpuGHXqdUbdFZ2H0I/w400-h300/DSC04105+A.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <b>Coral reef of deceiving beauty, </b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">red for warning, black for death;</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">white as skeleton; blue-green, </span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">invasion of the primitive scum</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">that once ruled the early earth. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwWtlNeOXM5v-CeiXaGs7Sj1s5CKMelWWGCgZUSx3SSZJPI1QpZU_nBPVRNvQjeVboCtPk2VG1yRXnoNpzIwJXI-qsBq8nmDXErpHRDWWDq1aQ0CCfyj_nPeXaJ1Ns1yO0cfecsDVQRIsI/s1600/DSC04101+A.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwWtlNeOXM5v-CeiXaGs7Sj1s5CKMelWWGCgZUSx3SSZJPI1QpZU_nBPVRNvQjeVboCtPk2VG1yRXnoNpzIwJXI-qsBq8nmDXErpHRDWWDq1aQ0CCfyj_nPeXaJ1Ns1yO0cfecsDVQRIsI/w400-h360/DSC04101+A.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">If you can decipher what life forms these are, </span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">you must be an artist, like Picasso or Matisse,</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">masters of abstract art - not the ideal, the real, </span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16.335px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="font-size: 14.85px;">the form and order of God's creation </b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>remised</b></span><b style="font-size: 14.85px;">. ~ </b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16.335px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16.335px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Evolving Art Series 3</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16.335px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span><b style="font-size: 14.85px;"><p style="color: black; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span> <span style="color: #333333; text-align: center;">Living Prism in the Deep</span></b></span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6225910138509461348" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: left; width: 528.4px;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""arial black", sans-serif">Painting and Poem by Dr Abe V Rotor</span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""arial black", sans-serif"><br /></span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSxVm9H0OEVMqI0_Qp7wVYkQ4SDFVAGH-3AcpREyboU4aTffLHlJQ5y6tAuo7snTL_Ys4-FNZcfRlujpnAOX1AUQNSeiEW2TpQdGtw4qHod-npww8VqCWWWLqG1LNWCpA5cegQqwQMcJE0/s1600/Photo0848.jpg" style="clear: right; color: #336699; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="922" data-original-width="1600" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSxVm9H0OEVMqI0_Qp7wVYkQ4SDFVAGH-3AcpREyboU4aTffLHlJQ5y6tAuo7snTL_Ys4-FNZcfRlujpnAOX1AUQNSeiEW2TpQdGtw4qHod-npww8VqCWWWLqG1LNWCpA5cegQqwQMcJE0/w505-h290/Photo0848.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="505" /></a></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i style="text-align: left;">Living Prism in the Deep</i><span style="text-align: left;"> in acrylic (24” x 43”) 2017</span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in;"><div style="margin: 0in;"><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Sunlight splits into colors, the rainbow,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> through droplets hanging in the sky,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>the deep among seaweeds where fishes play,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> letting time and the world go by.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Oh, how the seasons come and go at ease,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> ephemeral in our lifetime,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>yet fullest in awe and wonder and joy,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> in the living prism in our prime.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>In the golden years as the sun sets down,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""arial black", "sans-serif""> and into the deep its last rays soon die,</span><br /><span face=""arial black", sans-serif">lingers, flickers the light saved by the day</span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> into beautiful dreams to live by. ~</b></span></div></div></div></div></b></span></div></span></b><div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">Evolving Art Series 4</span></span></b></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Global Warming is creating a new Art Movement</b></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">Paintings and Verses by Dr Abe V Rotor</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGZpPvHPiC5Bp3ph7dm5Or0j8-JrlXK9PWEwELDP7swj3wXpuWnChL-SBOtQki5Jrd0uBdcaIshC9z8XvAaYZ7RIYoHJ4PCKnalzt2XCzDzxHsNqRHCoRnhAJc8jTTvKft5My5AF0R267A/s1600/DSC05770+A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGZpPvHPiC5Bp3ph7dm5Or0j8-JrlXK9PWEwELDP7swj3wXpuWnChL-SBOtQki5Jrd0uBdcaIshC9z8XvAaYZ7RIYoHJ4PCKnalzt2XCzDzxHsNqRHCoRnhAJc8jTTvKft5My5AF0R267A/w443-h328/DSC05770+A.jpg" width="443" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><span>Coral Reef Deforestation. Eye of the Coral Reef. </span> </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">When the sea rises and buries the shoals and sandbars,</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">the sea grass and coral reef;</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">when the sun bears hard on the fringes of sea and land,</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">requiem hums eerie and grief. </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Oh, Art - what gift do you bring in suffering and lament,</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">but catharsis however brief. </span></span></b></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6U3OtCDxH6kHpG6jMe67P3iw5dZM9rtjqZ0iUHWTHpg-qFjcDXhZ_mjNdwExRxX0fcZrNYxuBIF3S6ouKf-nCB5l02u4m0PoUCmkXlndRX6bQvTBhxnGPbOdG3e8p1SDrlYjX8G-MYaSu/s1600/DSC05774+A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6U3OtCDxH6kHpG6jMe67P3iw5dZM9rtjqZ0iUHWTHpg-qFjcDXhZ_mjNdwExRxX0fcZrNYxuBIF3S6ouKf-nCB5l02u4m0PoUCmkXlndRX6bQvTBhxnGPbOdG3e8p1SDrlYjX8G-MYaSu/w425-h393/DSC05774+A.jpg" width="425" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mountain Desertification </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">When the wind hot and dry sweeps over hills and mountains</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">all day long, freezing cold in the night;</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">and rain after a long absence brings gales and hurricanes; </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">the landscape turns into a pitiful sight. </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">What movement can a artist recall in the long history of art? </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">too far out romanticism and classicism;</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">realism lost to the lens, impressionism to varied abstract art - </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">welcome Dali-Miro'-</span></span></b><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Ernst</span></span></b><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"> surrealism. ~</span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKZtVGy2kuJer88kRIV6sgmz93sSgVtFGN9S1Yd49WUHtuNMVIDleeiUS1yqo90KD99Tu7cRA8KLnH1i920SNdekbu6XkQUAnV1F31n8H4iMNhOyhI3hK3jOF5z8m7SDTS1xyUBJuSl2KA/s1600/DSC06409+AB.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKZtVGy2kuJer88kRIV6sgmz93sSgVtFGN9S1Yd49WUHtuNMVIDleeiUS1yqo90KD99Tu7cRA8KLnH1i920SNdekbu6XkQUAnV1F31n8H4iMNhOyhI3hK3jOF5z8m7SDTS1xyUBJuSl2KA/w472-h250/DSC06409+AB.jpg" width="472" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> <span style="font-size: medium;"> I<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">s</span> it Summer or Autumn?</span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Global warming is destroying the orderly march of seasons, </span></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">worst it is destroying the setting of this magnificent drama of nature. </span></span></b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span><br /></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">N</span>either!</b></span></span></span></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Summer is when the sun is brighest</b></span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>to nourish the plants into full bloom;</b></span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>the fields transform green to golden, </b></span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>haystacks growing like mushroom.</b></span></span></span></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Autumn is when the wind gets chilly,</b></span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>birds in the sky migrate southward,</b></span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>among stars and kites and fireflies,</b></span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>and trees wear their brightest ward.</b></span></span></span></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">N</span>either! </b></span></span></span></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Never again will summer or autumn </b></span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>come, the march of seasons gone</b></span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>where once Paradise stood proud,</b></span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>prouder a rational wandering son.</b></span></span></span></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj72djrRbp7kMurzCjd6wIPZKDsdK3qgWl5rQHtNSJpUYvvkoJ7vruF5f7FAzv1oJffyTA98_z4x95snf4lBg9nM7uv3kR1c-PFjtU4h7lxMFHl96TwTnPIaTJAriFf-kY5diNZ1-RBCPAo/s1600/DSC06407+A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj72djrRbp7kMurzCjd6wIPZKDsdK3qgWl5rQHtNSJpUYvvkoJ7vruF5f7FAzv1oJffyTA98_z4x95snf4lBg9nM7uv3kR1c-PFjtU4h7lxMFHl96TwTnPIaTJAriFf-kY5diNZ1-RBCPAo/w418-h324/DSC06407+A.jpg" width="418" /> </a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Mutation (Mutilation) by Genetic Engineering</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Genetic engineering has put into man’s hands the path and nature of evolution, creating heretofore unnatural organisms leading to speciation (species formation) under the dictate of the new science. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the god in man is taking over God’s power over creation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this painting one can subjectively identify organisms fused into an unorderly fashion yet revealing basic identities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>It's a riddle, shocking, senseless and cruel,</b></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>seeking answer not only to <i>what</i> but <i>why;</i></b></span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>an elephant, a hog, a bull, save your guess,</b></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>science knows no limit like the endless sky.</b></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><br /></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>neither direction nor purpose, obedience </b></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>to sacredness of creation nor of humanity.</b></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Frankenstein's regret too late to destroy</b></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>what he created, a fiend to life's sanctity. </b></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><br /></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>It's a riddle, more than the Sphinx's threat,</b></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>the key to safe passage in ones journey;</b></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>move over robot, we may say to strangers,</b></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span><b>yet strangers we are seen too, by many. </b></span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span><b>Where now leads the path of evolution </b></span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span><b>of millions of years to what all the living</b></span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span><b>are today? Move over Darwin, Mendel <i>et al;</i></b></span></span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span><b>your time is up, it's genetic engineering!</b></span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span><b><br /></b></span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span><b>Did man destroy Eden on purpose then?</b></span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span><b>knowledge and disobedience on one table, </b></span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span><b>then to build and to destroy are also one;</b></span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span><b>beauty in his eyes and heart insatiable. ~ </b></span></span></span></blockquote></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Evolving Art Series 5</span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Techniques in Impressionistic Paintings</span></span></b></p><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr Abe V Rotor</span></b></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWVNklLsBsbO4wn4Nbc-24zSRNBI_NKS0DlpIzj2bEL9b7Fqf2ZsfoZHRE4eI8y_vNqzk5uprb5D1w6J8WhtFbSSwyk4KmUohJUDn9OUKcqfX3NDVXAqAAjsJeGxytz8g-7fr4xQtws7k/s1600/DSC01538A.jpg"><img border="0" height="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWVNklLsBsbO4wn4Nbc-24zSRNBI_NKS0DlpIzj2bEL9b7Fqf2ZsfoZHRE4eI8y_vNqzk5uprb5D1w6J8WhtFbSSwyk4KmUohJUDn9OUKcqfX3NDVXAqAAjsJeGxytz8g-7fr4xQtws7k/w491-h560/DSC01538A.jpg" width="491" /></a></span></b></div>Acrylic painting on glass in three dimensions: seaweeds, fish and the deep. There is apparent movement, yet there is peace among the creatures living in co-existence. Step 1: dark background. Step 2: fish and other red colors. Step 3: seaweeds, transferred from separate impression. Step 4: details like air bubbles. Step 5: fixing with lacquer spray. Step 6: framing, or "edging" (<i>liston</i>)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij5sYS0GoFuiUQVFEol9MvB24lv3nzF_VTQZIBaSIQqLFP75YUQ4q0p6d-NgKRTFJ4FZhGmwWLhmQVAiEX7ggWt_Tg5vqeApKImPbInZnzjJ7GYib4tvt66Xei2oIQmLzWfEAaQIu-Frs/s1600/04232010%2528001%2529.jpg"><img border="0" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij5sYS0GoFuiUQVFEol9MvB24lv3nzF_VTQZIBaSIQqLFP75YUQ4q0p6d-NgKRTFJ4FZhGmwWLhmQVAiEX7ggWt_Tg5vqeApKImPbInZnzjJ7GYib4tvt66Xei2oIQmLzWfEAaQIu-Frs/w443-h332/04232010%2528001%2529.jpg" width="443" /></a></span></b></div>Mural (5 ft x 10 ft) acrylic. Repetition has a powerful effect - it serves as boundary yet gives a sense of depth a feeling the viewer is at the edge of a forest. The source of light however, is from inside the forest. Step 1: stretch canvas on 2"x 3"x 10' kiln dry lumber. Step 2: use white latex to seal canvas surface. Step 3: use palette for the trees. Step 4: dub premixed yellow and blue for vegetation. Step 5: details like flowers, sunbeam, and red to break monotony. Note: Don't use fixative, let the painting as is, just protect it from direct sunlight.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyQoTs0IOm9qjKE5PVq4Ncy-9ZernJuP6_IcfKfJumHe6znoPykfZokd-5CZSixMJDRmiv8fMcjoJKsAo8MujB37cwXgFcax0LJW2G2ShKjMx6X8oQixQyrj9pZWHOdJwVKZorRGX3v8/s1600/DSC01545A.jpg"><img border="0" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyQoTs0IOm9qjKE5PVq4Ncy-9ZernJuP6_IcfKfJumHe6znoPykfZokd-5CZSixMJDRmiv8fMcjoJKsAo8MujB37cwXgFcax0LJW2G2ShKjMx6X8oQixQyrj9pZWHOdJwVKZorRGX3v8/w421-h440/DSC01545A.jpg" width="421" /></a></span></b></div>Fiery flowers emerge from below to meet the sun, only to wither soon after the bees have done their chores. Wither, one by one, younger flowers succeeding, a cycle of life and life giving, progenies born one after another. How could you paint such a cycle but by impressionism? Impressionism leaves much of what is to be said. For the mind is richer where it is left with space to explore, and meaning to seek. It is not easy to depict a phenomenon on a single canvas when it takes immeasurable time and innumerable stages to complete. Step 1: start with the flowers, large and unarranged. Step 2: apply thick dark green and light green in ascendant strokes, heaviest at the base. Step 3: Add flowers at the center to give focus. Step 4: add light green ascendant lines as foliage.</span></b><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzMOqGJpT2XghjsN2oXNlLQ3U2mn_n3EpsGrpM9UusOf1CZRKCyhQ8znw5NrZDkurwf_aXZcLV5eVKHTuJYaCXT3z35gyCsLUsgu72k3g_FRbLeJml4s_p5UVcOKhlbtAfYyaRZZZ5T3c/s1600/DSC00732.JPG"><img border="0" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzMOqGJpT2XghjsN2oXNlLQ3U2mn_n3EpsGrpM9UusOf1CZRKCyhQ8znw5NrZDkurwf_aXZcLV5eVKHTuJYaCXT3z35gyCsLUsgu72k3g_FRbLeJml4s_p5UVcOKhlbtAfYyaRZZZ5T3c/w482-h317/DSC00732.JPG" width="482" /></a></span></b></div>Hazy, light and soft to the eye and touch. How is this done in contrast with the still life previously explained above? Here the colors used are first mixed with white on the palette, never on canvas. Choose the hues and keep the contrast low so that the boundaries are smudged, with pleasing effect. There is a tendency to end up with muddy appearance. Maintain restraint, give that "cloud nine" look. It fits well on a wall where peace and quiet reign. It invites relaxation. ~</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">* Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-small;"> Wikipedia</span></b></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Evolving Art Series 6 </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Two Faces of our Planet Earth Chandelier</span></span><span class="eop"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span></b></span></p><p align="center" class="paragraph" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;">Indigenous Chandelier by Dr Abe V Rotor</span></span><span class="eop"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"> </span></span><a name="_Hlk66125063"></a><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="paragraph" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span class="eop"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><b><span><span class="eop"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjk7mjjLp98ndD8a5v71aMJRAb2n1Hu2UND992trU6_WUaX182G1yQPMrLUxeyf5g-OSTM3DFeFWvycxmcJSjuOBQoGRSP7bCgZ4tQDQgPxebnD6P9nOrNYFKLfCz5zhmL5cDsRkySbBGOpqTU_U9-FTqB7S-fjmZHWi8f2zFFf6Z5ZiTTbBCX3CBS0EQ/s486/Chandelier%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="486" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjk7mjjLp98ndD8a5v71aMJRAb2n1Hu2UND992trU6_WUaX182G1yQPMrLUxeyf5g-OSTM3DFeFWvycxmcJSjuOBQoGRSP7bCgZ4tQDQgPxebnD6P9nOrNYFKLfCz5zhmL5cDsRkySbBGOpqTU_U9-FTqB7S-fjmZHWi8f2zFFf6Z5ZiTTbBCX3CBS0EQ/w400-h400/Chandelier%201.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Pristine Face of our Planet Earth</i> in acrylic</span></b></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">on wood scrap by the author 2020</span></b></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></b><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuTVX0Dex58Sx3NC9lab9b2ppbmK4SttOQOLmGhdXbIudh_un7ycjaRgoKrnV1RgQdmpADCVUMSMX3r88Gp52cgYdHSW0prADTbpNzqctdHKFqE7xzUO9noEyqo2a9UmOll1R3Ep1MNqd_fT8SmtLVSxcW6lqOhPC8Y7GxBzggQhjujISgazYRQknOsg8/w400-h326/Chandelier%202.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> </i><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Defiled Face of our Planet Earth </i>in acrylic</span></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">on wood scrap by the author 2020</span></b></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div></span></b><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Light in the air, swaying with the wind;</span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Heavy in the air dull, still;</span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pristine, natural in the absence of man, </span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Defiled, dead, can't humans feel?</span></b></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p class="paragraph" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I</span>ndigenous art, ecological in message, this piece of art tells to viewers looking up to this hanging <i>parol</i> and chandelier. No candles, no light, no chime, except the natural radiance and music of the pristine face of our Planet Earth. </span></span><span class="eop"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></b></p><p class="paragraph" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;">So rare today this happy face beams, so commonplace the sad face shrouds cities where more than half of the world's population of 8 billion souls are ensconced in the so-called <i>Good Life,</i> the "ultimate" aim of civilization. </span></span><span class="eop"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></b></p><p class="paragraph" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;">What is the Good Life in the current Corona Virus pandemic? Good life in global economic depression? Good life in widespread poverty? Good life in inequity and injustice? Global breakdown of institutions, from marriage and family, threatening to destroy the pillars of human society? </span></span><span class="eop"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></b></p><p class="paragraph" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"><b>What is Good Life with the Israel war in Gaza? Russian war in Ukraine? And in other critical spots, civil wars and drug wars, notwithstanding? Cities burgeoning into metropolises and megapolises? Growing widespread depression leading to suicide? Hopelessness spreading among the young and old alike? </b></span></span></span></p><p class="paragraph" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="font-family: arial;">What is the Good Life in a "floating continent of garbage" twice bigger Texas, thrice that of France? Unabated rise of sea level as a result of continuing global warming? Acid rain ruining productive farms? Radiation emanating from transmission and communication towers, and from millions of computers and </b><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>smartphones</b></span><b style="font-family: arial;">?</b><b style="font-family: arial;"> </b></p><p class="paragraph" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;">What is the Good life in science and technology gone wild? Good life in the explosion of knowledge, grain and chaff mixed up? Good life in erosion of values? Good Life in the failure of governance - local, regional, global? </span></span><span class="eop"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></b></p><p class="paragraph" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;">We have yet to learn from "<i>the glory that was Greece, and the grandeur that was Rome,</i>" and the Dark Age that enveloped the world thereafter. We have yet to learn from the Renaissance that followed a millennium after. If only man's rationality can save him from his own destruction. ~</span></span><span class="eop"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></b></p><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Evolving Art Series 7</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Evolving Art</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>(ad infinitum)</i></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Art works and verses by Dr Abe V Rotor </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFUd3BnjJXW_A5hlZWTemYos0SuNUoRKE7Wm0dX9wG_BPa0jKMjbyqo2E7Ud6Sdg2YOxyBZCjGDrSheScJIOclq0AcETD-7-xnTKk7tldkvcZENkWF0-Fa4nZ5-NnUGzoTQHVJDWGdqazotVqZdOSnUi3pAse4tgdL7C5E6Y9gbUcxHr6-DGlcu0bZhyphenhyphenv2/s2592/Paining%20web%202%20DSC05170.JPG"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFUd3BnjJXW_A5hlZWTemYos0SuNUoRKE7Wm0dX9wG_BPa0jKMjbyqo2E7Ud6Sdg2YOxyBZCjGDrSheScJIOclq0AcETD-7-xnTKk7tldkvcZENkWF0-Fa4nZ5-NnUGzoTQHVJDWGdqazotVqZdOSnUi3pAse4tgdL7C5E6Y9gbUcxHr6-DGlcu0bZhyphenhyphenv2/w512-h384/Paining%20web%202%20DSC05170.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Splash Painting</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Who needs brush and canvas</span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Only colors, if you must.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">On the floor, just s</span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">plash, splash,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">to create stained glass! </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhY778InRXAztAvw7yOV-Fy595ySoBhmnRvzE-mC8QGpMBR0OCkgecf49PLMhwkmS26-iiE0wkJF65aJvqBm0rKSKrKVahtXtbNbWp-_DGAGk1FTnvozibCSZKLthKgKFRvnjxB1Iy3vmZtYMrNv_7y18PtPp1-kfxSKLDqGFVSyK2j-TprdIybLEGTLNrm" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="243" data-original-width="340" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhY778InRXAztAvw7yOV-Fy595ySoBhmnRvzE-mC8QGpMBR0OCkgecf49PLMhwkmS26-iiE0wkJF65aJvqBm0rKSKrKVahtXtbNbWp-_DGAGk1FTnvozibCSZKLthKgKFRvnjxB1Iy3vmZtYMrNv_7y18PtPp1-kfxSKLDqGFVSyK2j-TprdIybLEGTLNrm=w426-h306" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Noah's Black Dove </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">I found a fossil entombed,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> of a story in driftwood. </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" height="453" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdqqzXOJnp5tZJVjml9qP4Wk-uvfo6m2S3UAOPB21TNns50kvB9IDFu9-cMdW8b0o_AVL_3xEz634tbEb1xN-bHMb0mPUiwyIaokDyzD8sMntdtFFqLrOm2ZxP71FVZL9L4Fi0JEwxTE8/w353-h453/cryptozoology+DSC00984.JPG" width="353" /> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Duck Head Figurine</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Once hunted on water and in air,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">now figurine, a grim reminder. </span></b></div><div><br /></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPHHCPRiZeMTOy9EsZlk2FCbpzQboHQb-7Lb0OIBp10ZlxFhlo7sfdVVGd7bovze3e7xsKB75rA_DOpURZvcq_YtRLLHXHn7FlZITeHvsI0zE2NYg2Vg4n78mpyGsHpY3hUtOA2vOUU4mxBIDU_7ZpajWsOyTRx1HToq81nPLVe9NlK2IGLOVSqAVr524/s2064/DSC06498.JPG"><img border="0" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPHHCPRiZeMTOy9EsZlk2FCbpzQboHQb-7Lb0OIBp10ZlxFhlo7sfdVVGd7bovze3e7xsKB75rA_DOpURZvcq_YtRLLHXHn7FlZITeHvsI0zE2NYg2Vg4n78mpyGsHpY3hUtOA2vOUU4mxBIDU_7ZpajWsOyTRx1HToq81nPLVe9NlK2IGLOVSqAVr524/w352-h372/DSC06498.JPG" width="352" /></a> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Broken Jar Alive</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">A lease for life indeed</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">through art we bid;</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">talent put to the test</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">at its very best.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcrUSFlEEE-vEvsvzNLOcnbEoyDYuLjkJtIpV49PZfQu1pb9Ey9fUNp8iNR0JqFTsgAaWtIfRM5FxTkchXHOAM1Zg1Btk2SvNbh-ove6B6P-aAkCETabCS5UzwIWtEWcyzRZNpmDCPQxjjmA-tncJBurf7QNz4aqJ6PiwdsA1lAOgTeRbyaIMdjlK2qkWx" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="457" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcrUSFlEEE-vEvsvzNLOcnbEoyDYuLjkJtIpV49PZfQu1pb9Ey9fUNp8iNR0JqFTsgAaWtIfRM5FxTkchXHOAM1Zg1Btk2SvNbh-ove6B6P-aAkCETabCS5UzwIWtEWcyzRZNpmDCPQxjjmA-tncJBurf7QNz4aqJ6PiwdsA1lAOgTeRbyaIMdjlK2qkWx=w352-h494" width="352" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Driftwood </span></b><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Trophy</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Why gold or silver a trophy:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">why not remnant of a tree,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> shells forgotten and empty,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">to wake us up to reality?</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></b></div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwM6Dr6NrcN9BL7mWEC_RlzYJRac81zv95EMC2CResKXLr0dqApaBzzgRs5g7XSBPt3zbzb58X7ta4J30AyQmiKv4PX4EawZ0J-do16iQ7pXUiu2SR2RnqpZv6yCbhLASJLvxK9sJU40_ynmkRINiSiMuMFDc3BR84vqWg99PbXie3iczkpQbkOVq9EK61/s3616/DSC01073%20-%20Copy.JPG"><img border="0" height="559" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwM6Dr6NrcN9BL7mWEC_RlzYJRac81zv95EMC2CResKXLr0dqApaBzzgRs5g7XSBPt3zbzb58X7ta4J30AyQmiKv4PX4EawZ0J-do16iQ7pXUiu2SR2RnqpZv6yCbhLASJLvxK9sJU40_ynmkRINiSiMuMFDc3BR84vqWg99PbXie3iczkpQbkOVq9EK61/w342-h559/DSC01073%20-%20Copy.JPG" width="342" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Driftwood Table Decor</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Wasteland in the hall,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> a dreaded scene,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> aftermath of the Fall, </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">of man's first Sin.</span></b> ~</div></div><div><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Evolving Art Series 8 </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Make your own transforms for teaching and decoration</b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1515374773528209243" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 528.4px;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: start;">Museum of Natural History, UPLB </b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: start;">Mt Makiling, Laguna </b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: start;">Dr Abe V Rotor</b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha-cpqIZxEQ17Lnhi2CdiMOSdKF-A-ef2veXyeG-2ywoImjETGjw8XkDhEbzSysfAB1-gqk_nlDnWDvTcf1-KwtfMnEEbGJmsREC7ohWp9t9SQMcHF0RlgTdYGY98OUrb6WHxcXr1mE_4/s1600/IMG_1703.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha-cpqIZxEQ17Lnhi2CdiMOSdKF-A-ef2veXyeG-2ywoImjETGjw8XkDhEbzSysfAB1-gqk_nlDnWDvTcf1-KwtfMnEEbGJmsREC7ohWp9t9SQMcHF0RlgTdYGY98OUrb6WHxcXr1mE_4/s1600/IMG_1703.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="425" /></a></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"> Replica of whale attracts teachers on field trip. On the left is a painting of the blue whale</b><br /><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg67EtsHOJWexZzLJruWChDNfD6kkeF3CUS8-9qTmG60xpdkIhP7zLzqwhBjgn2F0rq_kUeBkS8eoitlj2X6_W6AlPWvi4602FZkhLp2E_ruSi-yG2BgeDDIf1xG7W9dWeJHUUx4gt1oTo/s1600/IMG_1719.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg67EtsHOJWexZzLJruWChDNfD6kkeF3CUS8-9qTmG60xpdkIhP7zLzqwhBjgn2F0rq_kUeBkS8eoitlj2X6_W6AlPWvi4602FZkhLp2E_ruSi-yG2BgeDDIf1xG7W9dWeJHUUx4gt1oTo/s1600/IMG_1719.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="212" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxZD_yqG_yGDgWpjdbsPe60zbxp-oq__S9TfHfiucQHXjecme6pvbDT_uyBsNE5KSk77W9RhsId3mv800xm4BJk6iJJkGkZhocqyXU8n_trE9ro9916bXp1OArC31cR8oywVIRvASCdiM/s1600/IMG_1721.jpg" style="color: #336699; 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color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b> Scorpion on the wall; wooden exoskeleton of insect.</b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDw9gIvaNwTExkF1zbt_quQwT4jwFdvalays5O6xq3Fysky572bsbHOgA7POyjmugRWZgYcCxcn_EN1B71ILd1xH84XWODz5tfhg1JLP0KRavqYqvsy5yNV6WVMHkW4p_N1M3udrYjLm8/s1600/IMG_1727.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDw9gIvaNwTExkF1zbt_quQwT4jwFdvalays5O6xq3Fysky572bsbHOgA7POyjmugRWZgYcCxcn_EN1B71ILd1xH84XWODz5tfhg1JLP0KRavqYqvsy5yNV6WVMHkW4p_N1M3udrYjLm8/s1600/IMG_1727.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b> Modern sculptural representation of an insect's exoskeleton </b></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRWU7TPIw-O9cmf5Oo8GK8Ur2v_Wdkc-PVXt4cx4LACZEjDlvBKngg0P7PN-55_7iQ9A1HLXSfPFrbr6yHsD3KZYA8DDES_kh84E6nfQ1cS9dMqu3WTa3NdW7wjxbt0L3UyWJugeQJ8qQ/s1600/IMG_1735.jpg"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRWU7TPIw-O9cmf5Oo8GK8Ur2v_Wdkc-PVXt4cx4LACZEjDlvBKngg0P7PN-55_7iQ9A1HLXSfPFrbr6yHsD3KZYA8DDES_kh84E6nfQ1cS9dMqu3WTa3NdW7wjxbt0L3UyWJugeQJ8qQ/w213-h320/IMG_1735.jpg" width="213" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQX4L4N7iy9sSkqhMqIJy9ZzjWnYlxWzle2dRJRvt1yVfcAIDllhmdqPhQBR29N22sxjEJcEpoHqahEmMjS3Ki9-wh7-d7hwc4-QRKAFUt5H8hyphenhyphennL-Rhts_fQyDZhUu7HyF1gfJwe2tVg/s1600/IMG_1756.jpg"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQX4L4N7iy9sSkqhMqIJy9ZzjWnYlxWzle2dRJRvt1yVfcAIDllhmdqPhQBR29N22sxjEJcEpoHqahEmMjS3Ki9-wh7-d7hwc4-QRKAFUt5H8hyphenhyphennL-Rhts_fQyDZhUu7HyF1gfJwe2tVg/w213-h320/IMG_1756.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b>Fairy tale mushroom; anatomy of a tree</b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdRn1JkBTt85yaFy6luuiNs0vSkge1SeWUyKl3GdG-trWaecOQBVuoi1l2npk7GHeJKemaZVXz26BJ9pU6Ih_pvF586osv-N74jOiagwpDa1yAX1yVst76RUiFm4D0DaFaeqZNPMEd8AY/s1600/IMG_1758.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdRn1JkBTt85yaFy6luuiNs0vSkge1SeWUyKl3GdG-trWaecOQBVuoi1l2npk7GHeJKemaZVXz26BJ9pU6Ih_pvF586osv-N74jOiagwpDa1yAX1yVst76RUiFm4D0DaFaeqZNPMEd8AY/w422-h280/IMG_1758.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="422" /></a></div><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b> Sowbug, a relative of the insect - a terrestrial crustacean</b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihYzriniLDZQM-qdOHMNzbTH0li41_pzG2ymUhULzTP_j5K5kYwLbu2vgXNl-5f_ofyUjsQwnXXmIyuGYr12bkcscOQGmqKE4wiJefPTH0osPOkg0bpbbp9eJVb6e3W7Ob00V4XHgQUBA/s1600/IMG_1762.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihYzriniLDZQM-qdOHMNzbTH0li41_pzG2ymUhULzTP_j5K5kYwLbu2vgXNl-5f_ofyUjsQwnXXmIyuGYr12bkcscOQGmqKE4wiJefPTH0osPOkg0bpbbp9eJVb6e3W7Ob00V4XHgQUBA/s1600/IMG_1762.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="427" /></a></div><div class="MsoTitle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>A representation of a "new" species of lizard.</b></div></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400;"> </span></span></span></span></b><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: center;">Evolving Art Series 9 </b></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><b style="font-size: 24px;">Two Paintings: </b></span><b style="font-size: 24px;">Secret of the Heart and Innocence in Nature </b></span></p><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Paintings and Verses by Dr Abe V Rotor</b></span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face=""arial black" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">SECRET OF THE HEART</span><span face=""arial black" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Mt3hwQ7Nufn48NAU2477bvPAhneoEHJfj_c6Fq_UOO-wl8wZGp4ldwDgM-P4b6ha3I2o6DU5-l03B5U2o6yXKjmWYXAT-hEd1TGgyXzEOclQfQ5SHdLEP1-uDJf_VJt9TFwHaTtUEgU/s1600/DSC01409.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1519" data-original-width="1600" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Mt3hwQ7Nufn48NAU2477bvPAhneoEHJfj_c6Fq_UOO-wl8wZGp4ldwDgM-P4b6ha3I2o6DU5-l03B5U2o6yXKjmWYXAT-hEd1TGgyXzEOclQfQ5SHdLEP1-uDJf_VJt9TFwHaTtUEgU/w440-h369/DSC01409.JPG" width="440" /></b></span></a></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Painting in Acrylic (13.5" x 13.5")</span></b><b style="font-size: 11pt;"><!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11pt;"><b><br /></b></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.4in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.4in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Hidden, the heart throbs</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.4in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.4in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"> in deep silence;</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.4in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.4in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"><b>two nails embedded,</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.4in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.4in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"> unseen in pretence</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.4in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.4in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"><b>of living, loving, caring,</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.4in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.4in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"> the highest art, </span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.4in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.4in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"><b>filling the five chambers</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.4in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.4in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"> of the heart. </span></b></span></div></blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.4in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.4in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>INNOCENCE IN NATURE</b></span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF_ofUHIQ2MR42zxFs_MzybW0aDox5KMhqGEbVC0d3FZXZNzIAXm5AXdE-KDPydVcb84wOJvbtS2h1ayYlb_za1LTU5ZZmCMreOpSpGhJx0HznWK_i2kPnQSEnzUHoWWqC3X7laqReQBo/s1600/DSC01425.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1290" data-original-width="1600" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF_ofUHIQ2MR42zxFs_MzybW0aDox5KMhqGEbVC0d3FZXZNzIAXm5AXdE-KDPydVcb84wOJvbtS2h1ayYlb_za1LTU5ZZmCMreOpSpGhJx0HznWK_i2kPnQSEnzUHoWWqC3X7laqReQBo/w385-h326/DSC01425.JPG" width="385" /></b></span></a></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><v:shape id="_x0000_i1040" style="height: 167.25pt; mso-wrap-style: square; visibility: visible; width: 207pt;" type="#_x0000_t75"><v:imagedata blacklevel="-2621f" gain="68267f" o:title="DSC01425" src="file:///C:\Users\DRABER~1.ROT\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image008.jpg"></v:imagedata></v:shape></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">Painting in acrylic (17.5" x 21.75") </span></b></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">Abstract over realism can you paint innocence,</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"> move over classics, you are too pure</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">to be true, and impressionism too assuming,</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"> with apologies to Monet's azure sky. </span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">Oh! abstract indeed is a child's innocence,</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"> buds in early spring, grains ripening;</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">heart of a true friend, pledge of real love,</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"> growing in the passing of time. </span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">Colors are mere symbols, wanting to behold,</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"> the magnificence of mind and heart,</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">triumph of the human spirit over our frailty,</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"> the most challenging of all art.~ </span></b></span></div></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"> <b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Evolving Art Series 10 </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Nature Paintings Revival</span></b></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span><b>Paintings and Verses by Dr Abe V Rotor</b></div><p><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7PdwjQnIkCGY4xlSD_UsYZ5moOCCfGP6hTL76EYEUQunRKEqZPJAQKbLctITHRMVQYwrorePktXS9e2scnrNr8AlXDjXbZJ10lvVbOm3e1QI4Y9vnL1bEgalv8bY-fYYaSUK2izPXvs/s1600/DSC01407.JPG" style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"><img border="0" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7PdwjQnIkCGY4xlSD_UsYZ5moOCCfGP6hTL76EYEUQunRKEqZPJAQKbLctITHRMVQYwrorePktXS9e2scnrNr8AlXDjXbZJ10lvVbOm3e1QI4Y9vnL1bEgalv8bY-fYYaSUK2izPXvs/w400-h354/DSC01407.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b><span><i>Grass </i></span></b><b>in acrylic (18" x 21")</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br />Sway with the breeze, </b><b>dance with the wind;</b><br /><b>Greet the sun with dewdrops </b><b>clinging;</b><br /><b>In summer turn golden, </b><b>and bow,</b><br /><b>And die sweetly to feed </b><b>the world.</b></span></div></span><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitnCtgddTPUpi36Ut8aXnSEvAYk5BS8KeQuTVYB4oMzXehNZiKCyt5NRNxWMjQqbWLSN6NJQ06MNVCWzjMqX7AsdxMjOaPUYFIVqJTd5FUSRRIiSuevJ8QwYQf-4tsILBVdmicKkl4VPk/s1600/DSC01420.JPG" style="font-weight: bold;"><img border="0" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitnCtgddTPUpi36Ut8aXnSEvAYk5BS8KeQuTVYB4oMzXehNZiKCyt5NRNxWMjQqbWLSN6NJQ06MNVCWzjMqX7AsdxMjOaPUYFIVqJTd5FUSRRIiSuevJ8QwYQf-4tsILBVdmicKkl4VPk/w400-h295/DSC01420.JPG" width="400" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span>A LOVELY PAIR IN A BOWER</span></b><br /><b>Painting in acrylic (11.5" X 16")</b><br /></span><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Let the world go by in their bower,</b><br /><b>lovers blind to the busy world,</b><br /><b>away from the maddening crowd;</b><br /><b>fleeting moment is forever,</b><br /><b>to this pair in their lair.</b><br /><br /><b>Wonder in our midst who we are,</b><br /><b>blind to each other, but the world,</b><br /><b>strange this crowd we are in;</b><br /><b>where's this lovely pair,</b><br /><b>where's their bower?</b><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM4GBha2jSfFEgo-mOxLJ6cZWsExbzkeC0ir2irlTWmpUcpjFFF4rMNi5c-ZVxrKKTJjFpVCC49KJ6pvsBW8I5ZGy079jlD0KrN477xYHVnVi-rSnd-f305qkfk7UJViFPNMebCt6qW-o/s1600/DSC01417.JPG" style="font-weight: bold;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM4GBha2jSfFEgo-mOxLJ6cZWsExbzkeC0ir2irlTWmpUcpjFFF4rMNi5c-ZVxrKKTJjFpVCC49KJ6pvsBW8I5ZGy079jlD0KrN477xYHVnVi-rSnd-f305qkfk7UJViFPNMebCt6qW-o/w320-h400/DSC01417.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b><span>SYMBIOSIS </span></b><b>Pisces and Echinoderms</b><br /><b>Painting in acrylic (8" X 10")</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Distant in phylogeny, yet live they together</b><br /><b>in one community we call ecology,</b><br /><b>ever since the beginning of our living world,</b><br /><b>millions of years ago before man was born</b><br /><b>to rule, to reign supreme over all creation;</b><br /><b>wonder what <i>Homo sapiens</i> means</b><br /><b>to true peace and harmony</b><br /><b>beyond his rationality.</b><br /><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJ4mNn__ECB6enhRFSLTRuFUlj7aprYT_5J_EKKp__6de0armnh1STT8QhtfQYt9PEu6FVMSDnxOLBUT2MmBZSbgu0qxKNvS0L3KIRY-M8uBVwiI5jj_GMeo2ULXhTki7-0-SWuBmRrM/s1600/DSC01405.JPG" style="font-weight: bold;"><img border="0" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJ4mNn__ECB6enhRFSLTRuFUlj7aprYT_5J_EKKp__6de0armnh1STT8QhtfQYt9PEu6FVMSDnxOLBUT2MmBZSbgu0qxKNvS0L3KIRY-M8uBVwiI5jj_GMeo2ULXhTki7-0-SWuBmRrM/w400-h303/DSC01405.JPG" width="400" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span>TOO SOON THE BUD OPENS </span></b><b>Painting in acrylic (12" x 17")</b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>ou come in springtime and autumn,</b><br /><b>too eager a bud ahead of your time;</b><br /><b>what promise of life awaits tomorrow</b><br /><b>from where you've broken through?</b><br /><br /><b>Whichever path you take from now,</b><br /><b>you'll miss the adventure of youth</b><br /><b>in summer, and stillness of winter,</b><br /><b>Oh, how could you live to the full?</b><br /><br /><b>"For having lost but once your prime,</b><br /><b>you'll always tarry," so says a poet;</b><br /><b>"It's now or never," so sings a bard,</b><br /><b>and I, I've neither a poem nor a song.</b><br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdjVfTVaTF4dmSJmBTgdNj2T3pUgoYZhsf5EY6Eks4l92_1Q2Ub2VP2YGMQ3d_-qqyeLyg-0dc_gqlhOTIS2cOSjI2264wIs1Ge7oZwlYcih1mQpHGZcnfG1KSjzqsdaaZgvBRnwIgJ0k/s1600/DSC01413.JPG" style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"><img border="0" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdjVfTVaTF4dmSJmBTgdNj2T3pUgoYZhsf5EY6Eks4l92_1Q2Ub2VP2YGMQ3d_-qqyeLyg-0dc_gqlhOTIS2cOSjI2264wIs1Ge7oZwlYcih1mQpHGZcnfG1KSjzqsdaaZgvBRnwIgJ0k/w409-h364/DSC01413.JPG" width="409" /></a></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span>SEA URCHIN </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;">Painting in acrylic ( 11" x 13.5")</b></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><b>You're all made of spikes,</b><br /><b>I can't see the real you;</b><br /><b>in your invincible armor</b><br /><b>in any view.</b><br /><br /><b>Wonder how many of us</b><br /><b>live like the urchin</b><br /><b>in silent, unknown ways</b><br /><b>and never seen.</b><br /><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI6GGNH8VVEiviX6XQ0CvYZeJcuhkMQdZ7IyUaGKGSoSGKfRg3bxzaRTreMYORSdDqKUbTLUNrabtqToXnkGZL0jdQc-Yj1GldkCp1G16Gob6qUhRnTR1LKh5n8CHjDlQ_YCbFzXsHebQ/s1600/DSC01418.JPG" style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"><img border="0" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI6GGNH8VVEiviX6XQ0CvYZeJcuhkMQdZ7IyUaGKGSoSGKfRg3bxzaRTreMYORSdDqKUbTLUNrabtqToXnkGZL0jdQc-Yj1GldkCp1G16Gob6qUhRnTR1LKh5n8CHjDlQ_YCbFzXsHebQ/w400-h322/DSC01418.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ART OF THE CATERPILLAR </span><b>Painting in acrylic (11” x 14”)</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Caterpillar, when you are gone</b><br /><b>two things come to mind:</b><br /><b>the butterfly you have become,</b><br /><b>and the damage you have done</b><br /><b>and left behind.</b><br /><br /><b>Art, art, whatever way defined,</b><br /><b>the subject on the wall,</b><br /><b>or dripping on the floor,</b><br /><b>art, art you aren't hard to find</b><br /><b>after all. ~</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><b style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQeT1NED1AvDFPigHPLY5T2VPlfclreGwfBEYR5ZoVMbJRHtxfwZTmVUjoRbYWnKlXEFK_taorFUizDmnT67mXg2qGFCTnizn0ZRKoxVfQKgtntM48NrGjljGAAUApBNNp17X018w-b0Q/s1600/DSC01411.JPG"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQeT1NED1AvDFPigHPLY5T2VPlfclreGwfBEYR5ZoVMbJRHtxfwZTmVUjoRbYWnKlXEFK_taorFUizDmnT67mXg2qGFCTnizn0ZRKoxVfQKgtntM48NrGjljGAAUApBNNp17X018w-b0Q/w364-h400/DSC01411.JPG" width="364" /></a></b></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b><span>WEANING </span>Painting in acrylic (8” x 10”)</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>A trio in adventure weaned out<br />of their nest too soon;<br />to explore the world beyond,<br />like the Prodigal Son.<br /><br />What lies in the deep and dark<br />cavern with many eyes,<br />but monsters real or imagined<br />lurking for a prize.<br /><br />It’s inevitable stage of life,<br />all creatures undergo;<br />weaning - crossing the bridge<br />and cutting it, too.<br /><br /></b><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXeTscrpnWTTWDh1amqX0iShgfysXdE8uLP7E_6vqZZlOF3uta9XnrcF8sCrnNoiYe_cUzepdp-2VxSlcK5uarqAZZ5nZyj4ki2dqncW4uT884TgNdHDEAm5MVcRNqOxaAx5tDoco9rO8/s1600/DSC01423.JPG"><img border="0" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXeTscrpnWTTWDh1amqX0iShgfysXdE8uLP7E_6vqZZlOF3uta9XnrcF8sCrnNoiYe_cUzepdp-2VxSlcK5uarqAZZ5nZyj4ki2dqncW4uT884TgNdHDEAm5MVcRNqOxaAx5tDoco9rO8/w400-h277/DSC01423.JPG" width="400" /></a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b><span>FISH SWARMING </span>Painting in acrylic (9” x 17”)</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>I’ve seen jellyfish swarming,</b></span></div><div><b style="font-family: verdana;">plankton in coral reefs glowing;</b></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>a myriad fireflies mingling<br />with the stars, linking us all<br />to a Supreme Being. ~</b></span></div></div><p> <b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Evolving Art Series 11</span></b></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Nature's distress call through art</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Paintings by Dr Abe V Rotor</b></span></div><div> <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkXoEF6z3K3BwCzK4ZfntveOGaM2EsgvWSN0N1vK-fBHZRU4IhjVjMRrYk-7bfrEy4QN9zKbqFPm8_yFVSXkEcRE4uXkXdQQ-18HorPWJVUxGC29bZibcg85lWR43DBkVzFXnK6wVD45E/w391-h289/DSC02145.JPG" width="391" /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Satellite image of the Earth showing the major biomes - forest, coral reef, grassland, tundra, savannah, being consumed by wildfire and desertification, both induced by man's unscrupulous activities. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgsLN5gG83s1aLECHKHD2rZbAJKInl9V67u-gNQ8HCk-AbyqBvX5PNS2uLhi50vJ77sXznuRqB33qbkk5_GCX76KqOsrK-8J_3zublpyOWB49hN17PCJLRNhRjk3QN26Z-51tEk6hHN8M/w246-h313/DSC08794.JPG" width="246" /></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Water pollution and global warming are destroying our coral reef, and consequently its productivity as an ecosystem. Destruction of the coral reef is likened to the destruction of the rainforest. Intrusion of settlements and farming on waterways and shorelines which we call reclamation exacerbates the loss of this ecosystem, indeed a requiem to nature. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3qQWNOyJbZlraLrPcrfMCcGU9pQqpIpuyrSucpPIrrwjfutNOBBTISJxvYalcanhFUj19pk_Ecjx5uxSBc4RkN-1jePLtUg4mkTZ5S3WqQQ41tqDoGjv7sf-Z-596OcH0vbfakZufz1U/s1494/DSC08772.JPG"><img border="0" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3qQWNOyJbZlraLrPcrfMCcGU9pQqpIpuyrSucpPIrrwjfutNOBBTISJxvYalcanhFUj19pk_Ecjx5uxSBc4RkN-1jePLtUg4mkTZ5S3WqQQ41tqDoGjv7sf-Z-596OcH0vbfakZufz1U/w263-h330/DSC08772.JPG" width="263" /></a></div><div><br /></div> <b><span style="font-family: arial;">Skeleton of a tropical rainforest after a wildfire. Deforestation permanently destroys the forest, more so with the deleterious effect of slash-and-burn or <i>kaingin</i> farming on the clearing. As a consequence the soil is stripped away by erosion, siltation and flood. Production falls below the marginal level, and ultimately the land is abandoned. Rivers dry, floodwater causes tremendous damage to life and properties of unimagined proportion - a fact that is happening today in many places of the world. </span></b></div><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><br /></blockquote></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzuvJ8voGTy51Z1jvGm4MLUr1GtkeByfLwq-ThwAwUtlE9lmtWQc3i00RJoJ3FiTaJNRZEQfrd_CPHit5bLAG9EtSpmH_7Ts9pNo-qMZ7SNV5jdytW9rJP7Pqj4vQIZHdQRRgbERMTMnvC/s1600/DSC06931+A.jpg"><b><img border="0" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzuvJ8voGTy51Z1jvGm4MLUr1GtkeByfLwq-ThwAwUtlE9lmtWQc3i00RJoJ3FiTaJNRZEQfrd_CPHit5bLAG9EtSpmH_7Ts9pNo-qMZ7SNV5jdytW9rJP7Pqj4vQIZHdQRRgbERMTMnvC/w342-h231/DSC06931+A.jpg" width="342" /></b></a></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> Where have all the Gardens Gone?</b></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> Insipient stage of a dying garden</b></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJzy-0g1_0-Z7SDQvx5itlHoPDoBxUX9f0j-l2pJVqYvGF2O7rAgb-_b-6pL2-67cVuKoOJFjcfTl9KXbFIrw0QVk8ivn3KY_AWP0o-8SukuqZQKysPZf-3xIcZKex0NtSABWM_sJSUUry/s1600/DSC06925+A.jpg"><b><img border="0" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJzy-0g1_0-Z7SDQvx5itlHoPDoBxUX9f0j-l2pJVqYvGF2O7rAgb-_b-6pL2-67cVuKoOJFjcfTl9KXbFIrw0QVk8ivn3KY_AWP0o-8SukuqZQKysPZf-3xIcZKex0NtSABWM_sJSUUry/w345-h232/DSC06925+A.jpg" width="345" /></b></a></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> Final stage and consequent death of a garden.</b></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> Acrylic paintings by the author, 2015</b></span></blockquote></blockquote><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></blockquote></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">W</span>here have all the gardens gone,</b></span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>the butterflies and honeybees,</b></span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>dancing and riding on the breeze,</b></span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>dewdrops sparkling in the sun?</b></span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Where have all the children gone,</b></span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>reminiscent of old Pied Piper,</b></span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>lured to a new land somewhere,</b></span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>and never again to be found?</b></span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Where have all the ladies gone,</b></span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>in "loves-me-loves-me-not" game,</b></span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>though lose or gain it's the same,</b></span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>flower and love knitted as one?</b></span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Where have all the good life gone,</b></span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Nature's gift to the living world</b></span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>bound by a collective accord.</b></span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Lo! to man the lost prodigal son. ~</b></span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Evolving Art Series 12 </span></span></b></p><p><b><span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Nature's Message in Cryptobiology</span></span></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; line-height: 17.12px;"> </span></span></b><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;">Cryptobiology is </span><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">the study of <span class="jpfdse"><g-bubble data-ci="" data-du="200" data-tp="5" jsaction="R9S7w:VqIRre;" jscontroller="QVaUhf" jsshadow=""><span data-enable-toggle-animation="true" data-extra-container-classes="ZLo7Eb" data-hover-hide-delay="1000" data-hover-open-delay="500" data-send-open-event="true" data-theme="0" data-ved="2ahUKEwiIk6L17KWCAxW6xDgGHSUeBDMQmpgGegQIEBAD" data-width="250" jsaction="vQLyHf" jsname="d6wfac" jsslot="" role="button" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;" tabindex="0"><span jsaction="click:sKUsF" role="tooltip" style="outline: 0px;" tabindex="0"><span data-bubble-link="" data-segment-text="cryptids" jsname="ukx3I" style="border-bottom: rgba(4, 12, 40, 0.5);">cryptids</span></span></span></g-bubble></span>, creatures around which myths exist but whose current existence has never been verified</span><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;">. Some famous cryptids include bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, Abominable Snowman, the Kapre,* and not the least, the biblical Dragon.</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr Abe V Rotor</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTuz7ZYVfm5i5LB7-xUP5mE4VXVcHHj3AQQGxzUSIkIAabyhCSmHc_J_auLD0Qm8FsEatoJI1HZQaWkn4C34Bo_vQpDOE0Oqcj3rJIn8tJCgI58wjK1vcMemvyjJrLlDbhwsltOvNZo87LrA0odJXEp0n8bJHwaTuFC7mwqec-ZeIoO2dDOuLrFsSZ-F0/s2592/DSC01199.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="1944" height="616" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTuz7ZYVfm5i5LB7-xUP5mE4VXVcHHj3AQQGxzUSIkIAabyhCSmHc_J_auLD0Qm8FsEatoJI1HZQaWkn4C34Bo_vQpDOE0Oqcj3rJIn8tJCgI58wjK1vcMemvyjJrLlDbhwsltOvNZo87LrA0odJXEp0n8bJHwaTuFC7mwqec-ZeIoO2dDOuLrFsSZ-F0/w497-h616/DSC01199.JPG" width="497" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Cryptobiology items on display at the Living with Nature Center,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> San Vicente, Ilocos Sur</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Organisms are alike or different. It's biological and natural, </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">but man has taken evolution into his hands, playing the role of God through science and technology, creating <i>Dolly the Sheep</i>, and many more Genetically Modified Organisms or GMOs. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Strange creatures when we first see them, tame them the second time around, re-creating them next on film and on screen in the likes of <i>Godzilla</i> and <i>King Kong</i>, </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">and now through robotics and make-believe versions for more entertainment and profit. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">We are changing the conditions of life on earth, polluting the air, land and water, in effect modifying the way organisms live through induced mutation, forced migration, disturbing their natural interactions in the food web, worst their very existence as species. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhziFwIVzb6P-PTm8l4xCbOAcAg_rvu6aI6lmo94KhRdTRiXxwo_8-SurcMz9nSdiOqrFfQs4xCynBpEka9A8tK6zZtvO2dDvB-U-V0zWRrI30FtaesFnF5KIbadYv1RwXSKHkqbyZNA2VAWWzoUkP2jBW1J52actFnRpzlz-zYEagOukqb3N01rL-kbUk/s2064/DSC01200.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2064" data-original-width="1572" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhziFwIVzb6P-PTm8l4xCbOAcAg_rvu6aI6lmo94KhRdTRiXxwo_8-SurcMz9nSdiOqrFfQs4xCynBpEka9A8tK6zZtvO2dDvB-U-V0zWRrI30FtaesFnF5KIbadYv1RwXSKHkqbyZNA2VAWWzoUkP2jBW1J52actFnRpzlz-zYEagOukqb3N01rL-kbUk/w305-h400/DSC01200.JPG" width="305" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Dimorphism in Nature</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Phenomenon, not the least, </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">past and present,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>plant </b><b>or animal or </b><b>protist,</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">same though different. </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAJORoQj4f5P6ZpPGwjbfymnUg1xBtjloMQghJaYSNKnsQAUK5odtRCNsBfJyV2zJyB0VvW_PeN_lA9bOhGX9NqFCoKJFaMciOrdIIglxcdQPhSsqA3XiyAkRQVCMWqQQSZIht5waykHb_-q4GUUW6oYcHC-1T5nM6ZafF6vcm_uNrW0B91IhZmUi3zq4/s2592/DSC01202.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="1944" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAJORoQj4f5P6ZpPGwjbfymnUg1xBtjloMQghJaYSNKnsQAUK5odtRCNsBfJyV2zJyB0VvW_PeN_lA9bOhGX9NqFCoKJFaMciOrdIIglxcdQPhSsqA3XiyAkRQVCMWqQQSZIht5waykHb_-q4GUUW6oYcHC-1T5nM6ZafF6vcm_uNrW0B91IhZmUi3zq4/w300-h400/DSC01202.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Sea Urchin Tree</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Take a close look at the thorny cherry;</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">it's a sea urchin, part of tree,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">a hybrid creature you may not agree; </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">a living specimen to see. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGX-nRPfmDWKJD6wf6AESUj_BpVTsMwYghoL7u-RYNFDFrvnvZcrTRUPtiL59foXPj2CgiXvZi3Ar3vD6Mv2DSIbxbyF5C1EUqn-CqxBamy_fjR082lNDf3nDxqbf-NUPLNxLJ2mckxDGiH1PHduOp9lTXa8Ri6EuvRuVI14zQTHAKoLkOfLeeVXg9VQw/s2485/DSC01210.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2485" data-original-width="1688" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGX-nRPfmDWKJD6wf6AESUj_BpVTsMwYghoL7u-RYNFDFrvnvZcrTRUPtiL59foXPj2CgiXvZi3Ar3vD6Mv2DSIbxbyF5C1EUqn-CqxBamy_fjR082lNDf3nDxqbf-NUPLNxLJ2mckxDGiH1PHduOp9lTXa8Ri6EuvRuVI14zQTHAKoLkOfLeeVXg9VQw/w271-h400/DSC01210.JPG" width="271" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Womb of a Tree</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Si Malakas at Maganda</i> in Philippine mythology</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">is a popular folktale and children's story;</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">the tree as habitat in the realm of biology, </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">now twisted into false and horror movie. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><b><span style="font-family: arial;">*Kapres are said to dwell in big trees like acacia, bamboo, and the balete. Some say they are the spirits of trees, protecting them in effect.</span></b></p><p> <span style="font-size: medium;"> <b><span style="font-family: arial;">Evolving Art Series 13</span></b></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Eye in the Coral Reef</span></b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b>Dr Abe V Rotor</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b>Living with Nature - School on Blog (avrotor.blogspot.com)</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb9xARlXlHRbfT1VZXcSgjZXShQYvKC3KygwDJwQNMaDDQKltuy8sTaIh5gpAze5BkkMiO0vZBnOBOoLfOWLLMCr68dMXWXPmpQDnbU9Ko94HOVDaf2PWiE01IKLX_T0qtkWmWHYtQIMtY/s1600/DSC05770+A.jpg"><img border="0" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb9xARlXlHRbfT1VZXcSgjZXShQYvKC3KygwDJwQNMaDDQKltuy8sTaIh5gpAze5BkkMiO0vZBnOBOoLfOWLLMCr68dMXWXPmpQDnbU9Ko94HOVDaf2PWiE01IKLX_T0qtkWmWHYtQIMtY/w423-h314/DSC05770+A.jpg" width="423" /></a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">The Eye in the Coral Reef</i><span style="font-weight: bold;">, Acrylic Painting by the author 2015</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">The eye! The eye!</span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">among the corals watching.</span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">conscience of the sea,</span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">over Homo sapiens fishing.</span></b></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">It never winks, it's alive,</span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">guarding against man's folly,</span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">whose eye, not of man,</span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">disgraced guardian of the sea. ~</span></b></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Evolving Art Series 14 </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Capture and Enshrine Nature in Murals</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Capture sweet memories of nature,</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">relive, enshrine;</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">capture time, brief as it may -</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">it's yours and mine.</span></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"> Murals and Poem by Dr Abe V Rotor</span></span><br /><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZpOyuXagUaZ0jVt4OVnCInChGAm_B3CSDoxSi4pFaVEIN4Cobi-wqEBNjV6V22kpKxlaJ0dplQDpxXF3q6U_SZ-2adVhC-sUOtR6uUKkap3c6al2KR0c0UiDwzuAmv6c_0EQeecCF6s4RT_sh07QdkPtuvnlKrrMEZE8rkFcxBayo-8PlVyyKFj80OS0/s4656/Mural%20SV%20M&M.jpg"><img border="0" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZpOyuXagUaZ0jVt4OVnCInChGAm_B3CSDoxSi4pFaVEIN4Cobi-wqEBNjV6V22kpKxlaJ0dplQDpxXF3q6U_SZ-2adVhC-sUOtR6uUKkap3c6al2KR0c0UiDwzuAmv6c_0EQeecCF6s4RT_sh07QdkPtuvnlKrrMEZE8rkFcxBayo-8PlVyyKFj80OS0/w484-h272/Mural%20SV%20M&M.jpg" width="484" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Living with Nature Mural, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur</span></b></div><div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.85px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicECndVXWPt4Mx24YETsHUlczLolNvBFII0pcPEe3kxw95KZekn6NSGP95MsJYtmrXim1gKLdWCf4r0yZwWWKs6sWb35bEem0jniEGTl-srMKBqqOraLYxlhgpKJZmsYBlcQss9vARV6Cl0FM-o_rbNou44YEdUxqPuL3Dhq7z_kuPLpTQw_i_D_nAnLw/s2592/DSC02056.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="2592" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicECndVXWPt4Mx24YETsHUlczLolNvBFII0pcPEe3kxw95KZekn6NSGP95MsJYtmrXim1gKLdWCf4r0yZwWWKs6sWb35bEem0jniEGTl-srMKBqqOraLYxlhgpKJZmsYBlcQss9vARV6Cl0FM-o_rbNou44YEdUxqPuL3Dhq7z_kuPLpTQw_i_D_nAnLw/w394-h296/DSC02056.JPG" width="394" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Wall mural at EA Apartelle, San Vicente, Ilocos SurI</span></b></div></b></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuzKGB3jJE2-XJ5C-UVCARAls5q_13D9pB471QCZmpAWEyEMqTAJQzBPlE5Yw9y4srRrCpt0fwTJORV1g67WDJX4SNE-L-Y4Gm6pWZGw5r9DIwmnIqFwqedfSgn9rbM_Gn5sJAHN2pYNMk5muxDGaFj6EgLEhv3g-PhR_yje3KuKiTnjku3ZH9_sMJDr4/s5152/nfa%20museum%20mural%202%20DSC00326.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="285" 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"helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipDjkEblvbNZAQHSST5Vw5RXT3P3kMeNl3otHAbsgd5GmoF32g1pZ9b1l8uHgMyngsLfIw1b6sHJT2GowqOERGq9kmcjRPdE0GZb9Wp0t3_WqOUiVunsgR4WA9Iaj4d_7BSVokQrjcvis/s1600/e0211AB.jpg" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701336882787742098" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipDjkEblvbNZAQHSST5Vw5RXT3P3kMeNl3otHAbsgd5GmoF32g1pZ9b1l8uHgMyngsLfIw1b6sHJT2GowqOERGq9kmcjRPdE0GZb9Wp0t3_WqOUiVunsgR4WA9Iaj4d_7BSVokQrjcvis/s320/e0211AB.jpg" style="border: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 244px; margin: 0px auto 10px; position: relative; text-align: left; width: 377px;" /></a></span></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Author poses with his work, Forest Stream, SPUQC</b></span></div></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Capture nature in murals,</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">as big as screen;</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">capture creation from imagination</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">as it has been;</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">capture sunrise and sunset,</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and the moonbeam;</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">capture the breeze passing over</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">a lovely stream;</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">capture the lilies in the pond rising</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">with the sunbeam;</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">capture the clouds becoming nimbus</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">before the rain;</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">capture the rivulets from the hills</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">writhing in pain;</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">capture the creatures talking,</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">sing and scream;</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">capture the essence of the gods</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">into a theme;</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">capture silence away from where</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">you have been;</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">capture the throb of the heart</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">away from sin;</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">capture the world in a grain of sand,</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">pure and crystalline;</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">capture nature through the arts,</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">classic and fine;</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">capture sweet memories of lost nature,</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">relive, enshrine;</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">capture time, brief as it may -</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">it's yours and mine. ~</span></span></b></blockquote></blockquote><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"></b></span><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2620" data-original-width="4162" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj0SvJqKujiShtiQDi34fHa1YrQO6LYVBFQUU4M36D4xkplktgM5lum766DSdXpgw6U8QUJK4vMqtAdU8KO-7jxxNYk0RpdPxeBbQ40aFWfC9DKqY6xD9bF-cPmPbuH-ZAZa9PseH6sTTpNFQRCuWvnqzq4CQY4PI_Fy_FK9CZYOUf_L41eyKgT7v6kFY/w415-h261/Guests%20Mural%201%20(3).jpg" width="415" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Floor-to-wall-to-ceiling mural at author's residence</span></b></div></span></b></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> San Vicente, Ilocos Sur.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr8jh36xd4wqa1D4QQ0gmHPZVcWMxlGazz_A1Lb5O_Oj05QYFkaYcGGHbL0kVGAlNYVPVQR0szporvLsSNNVInGEgzuETsXoApSKC_4LmRzxR4e5EpgZlrre9t9fmh3K7q7ADEbWBmGY57WRYUM-jr8glxqPo9KXWyToUMtk_LYyHRYHWkkNhCXfScQpC4/s610/Nature%20revival%201.jpg"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr8jh36xd4wqa1D4QQ0gmHPZVcWMxlGazz_A1Lb5O_Oj05QYFkaYcGGHbL0kVGAlNYVPVQR0szporvLsSNNVInGEgzuETsXoApSKC_4LmRzxR4e5EpgZlrre9t9fmh3K7q7ADEbWBmGY57WRYUM-jr8glxqPo9KXWyToUMtk_LYyHRYHWkkNhCXfScQpC4/w355-h400/Nature%20revival%201.jpg" width="355" /></a> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTcuv3gH2yblyLDoR-LJEO37eaxNRZv38NqQT7bfFZJ2_C43FRywN29qhWPRdW_NhnTQaN74sQG474mTZq2TvtV6Og_TdkvtTA4ssKpPP_TmNfzdquWvN_cIVMzwZ8onnOIC0Xg_7WGHwPHLFLgwU7EJjInVVyLqZyEfM3b4McLUEgViJSPL_1NEVHDzMX/s456/Nature%20revival%202.jpg"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTcuv3gH2yblyLDoR-LJEO37eaxNRZv38NqQT7bfFZJ2_C43FRywN29qhWPRdW_NhnTQaN74sQG474mTZq2TvtV6Og_TdkvtTA4ssKpPP_TmNfzdquWvN_cIVMzwZ8onnOIC0Xg_7WGHwPHLFLgwU7EJjInVVyLqZyEfM3b4McLUEgViJSPL_1NEVHDzMX/w400-h300/Nature%20revival%202.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small; font-weight: 700;"><div style="text-align: center;">Make-believe Seashore scape mural painting by the author at his residence, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur </div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Reference: <i>Don’t Cut the Trees, Don’t</i></span></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Abercio V Rotor and University of Santo Tomas, Copyright 2010</span></b></div></b></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Evolving Art Series 15</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Composite Wall Mural of Nature</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A Glimpse into Our Living World</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Wall Mural Paintings by Dr Abe V Rotor </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Living with Nature Center</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">San Vicente, Ilocos Sur</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Wonder how our world looks like when the sky, land and sea are combined into one piece like a jigsaw puzzle, the trees becoming part of the sky, the clouds merging with the sea, the mountains and hills flowing down the valley, and all things living and non-living are arranged into one peaceful network. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiblixy7dWJASIqYZ-ZlPGphTCHqdx6JA18Qt8ZLn0ETIgJ18fUwlMQEU_VgXp9LGUM-WxhketW-Y0Pji2ArRYpiCLbIGk2p5hVtnl2vEJfgM3e8O3TpJuvQMJtaNpbUtatpBXHQ0aa5SzII3yzynxVAxaE7Y6SS2IGORHwoqImGYRcsmxskAqVjgDB2YU/s2592/DSC05676.JPG"><img border="0" height="617" 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understand.</b></span><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLpFA1GG42jOgK346vDiJeJ8-xknSIBcyuooK5z139eKozR9wGiFaLTehb_LAZnz3jYITYYjelKVka59Dahy6OR-r1KnVrGRMFjOECg2j5UcBbSEO8Qbl4dYKgTBksKvMzi3-s3Xox4NofX0g3wA9JfmGs3fctU5OJxplBGX0-cvmzFYSRCmmTpkTc4uE/s2592/DSC05663.JPG"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLpFA1GG42jOgK346vDiJeJ8-xknSIBcyuooK5z139eKozR9wGiFaLTehb_LAZnz3jYITYYjelKVka59Dahy6OR-r1KnVrGRMFjOECg2j5UcBbSEO8Qbl4dYKgTBksKvMzi3-s3Xox4NofX0g3wA9JfmGs3fctU5OJxplBGX0-cvmzFYSRCmmTpkTc4uE/w233-h320/DSC05663.JPG" width="233" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo6woXhbLDIMOXGoOTGdCmX9_itr97zF1_qDfZJFOvPC2L1jeMeAZc493bniacofGKlz6gg3PWw014tp34tUU8f1uUNaCQsxhGZJ00oKjJNeAYGLXI-ce7C0aXOr7pIplWH2Cox6mM493V9EMtGu4bzKmtGGpTg6vLXaPg7bp8kKz2a9A-b1HEk0K1jbE/s2368/DSC05666.JPG"><img border="0" 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style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>And when we find silence in its deepest expression, it is the breeze passing, birds chirping, crickets fiddling, gecko calling, mist turning into dewdrops, or the silence on the distant hills and meadows, that inspire man to create his greatest compositions in colors, music and literature, albeit a child drawing the clouds, or sailing </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">on a stream </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">with a leaf adrift. </b><b style="font-family: verdana;"> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMIbvbKd_PEl9Zv0MPr11dNkoN8Fx5LktYLvjR7jo6XRVATXU9Mg47PT4GSbLUI2R7_w9rN1pNrJ0gbQkIunBE-_Y6S3opYXARU88KQMrbROfpaUh7mHQWVn-eIgBy3LYx1bgwh2rPfd94gJieiWuWwcudos9bZw1-pwt0YCGA4YwjebrBVoaTRfcY1E4/s2592/DSC05669.JPG"><img border="0" height="185" 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtKKMfwaVtnR3qXPkriaFqmpuGH7PuFQ3-QKhCgcJI54g1wy7Mf6BIS2VzCbE37J9b_yXaHumIXQPx5QkoViqDiJkcNwnoXMR2BX2qG8FJB21NtjZZKT_xwINKbMBP-vyP1A1AjZo34Hgoe30Qsr75Ev2-ZvC3k8uHScnaj4HFrbQ-V9TSyDrFzR0xyPw/s1785/DSC05704.JPG"><img border="0" height="477" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtKKMfwaVtnR3qXPkriaFqmpuGH7PuFQ3-QKhCgcJI54g1wy7Mf6BIS2VzCbE37J9b_yXaHumIXQPx5QkoViqDiJkcNwnoXMR2BX2qG8FJB21NtjZZKT_xwINKbMBP-vyP1A1AjZo34Hgoe30Qsr75Ev2-ZvC3k8uHScnaj4HFrbQ-V9TSyDrFzR0xyPw/w477-h477/DSC05704.JPG" width="477" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">How little do we understand the mystery of Creation </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">no mortal could possibly share, even with the genius of man we extoll to be the apex of rationality. Now and then we are reminded of our frailty, our folly and lofty dreams, to conquer darkness in the way we attempt to fill the emptiness of our lives, offer the fullest reverence to the One responsible of everything in our world and the whole universe, through the arts in its holistic expression, the Humanities. ~ </span></b></div></div></div></div></div></div>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-19763254040881260612024-03-17T18:59:00.000-07:002024-03-17T18:59:10.664-07:00 Evolving Art Series 12: Nature's Message in Cryptobiology<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">Evolving Art Series 12 </span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Nature's Message in Cryptobiology</span></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; line-height: 17.12px;"> </span></span></b><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;">Cryptobiology is </span><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">the study of <span class="jpfdse"><g-bubble data-ci="" data-du="200" data-tp="5" jsaction="R9S7w:VqIRre;" jscontroller="QVaUhf" jsshadow=""><span data-enable-toggle-animation="true" data-extra-container-classes="ZLo7Eb" data-hover-hide-delay="1000" data-hover-open-delay="500" data-send-open-event="true" data-theme="0" data-ved="2ahUKEwiIk6L17KWCAxW6xDgGHSUeBDMQmpgGegQIEBAD" data-width="250" jsaction="vQLyHf" jsname="d6wfac" jsslot="" role="button" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;" tabindex="0"><span jsaction="click:sKUsF" role="tooltip" style="outline: 0px;" tabindex="0"><span data-bubble-link="" data-segment-text="cryptids" jsname="ukx3I" style="border-bottom: rgba(4, 12, 40, 0.5);">cryptids</span></span></span></g-bubble></span>, creatures around which myths exist but whose current existence has never been verified</span><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;">. Some famous cryptids include bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, Abominable Snowman, the Kapre,* and not the least, the biblical Dragon.</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr Abe V Rotor</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTuz7ZYVfm5i5LB7-xUP5mE4VXVcHHj3AQQGxzUSIkIAabyhCSmHc_J_auLD0Qm8FsEatoJI1HZQaWkn4C34Bo_vQpDOE0Oqcj3rJIn8tJCgI58wjK1vcMemvyjJrLlDbhwsltOvNZo87LrA0odJXEp0n8bJHwaTuFC7mwqec-ZeIoO2dDOuLrFsSZ-F0/s2592/DSC01199.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="1944" height="616" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTuz7ZYVfm5i5LB7-xUP5mE4VXVcHHj3AQQGxzUSIkIAabyhCSmHc_J_auLD0Qm8FsEatoJI1HZQaWkn4C34Bo_vQpDOE0Oqcj3rJIn8tJCgI58wjK1vcMemvyjJrLlDbhwsltOvNZo87LrA0odJXEp0n8bJHwaTuFC7mwqec-ZeIoO2dDOuLrFsSZ-F0/w497-h616/DSC01199.JPG" width="497" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Cryptobiology items on display at the Living with Nature Center,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> San Vicente, Ilocos Sur</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Organisms are alike or different. It's biological and natural, </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">but man has taken evolution into his hands, playing the role of God through science and technology, creating <i>Dolly the Sheep</i>, and many more Genetically Modified Organisms or GMOs. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Strange creatures when we first see them, tame them the second time around, re-creating them next on film and on screen in the likes of <i>Godzilla</i> and <i>King Kong</i>, </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">and now through robotics and make-believe versions for more entertainment and profit. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">We are changing the conditions of life on earth, polluting the air, land and water, in effect modifying the way organisms live through induced mutation, forced migration, disturbing their natural interactions in the food web, worst their very existence as species. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhziFwIVzb6P-PTm8l4xCbOAcAg_rvu6aI6lmo94KhRdTRiXxwo_8-SurcMz9nSdiOqrFfQs4xCynBpEka9A8tK6zZtvO2dDvB-U-V0zWRrI30FtaesFnF5KIbadYv1RwXSKHkqbyZNA2VAWWzoUkP2jBW1J52actFnRpzlz-zYEagOukqb3N01rL-kbUk/s2064/DSC01200.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2064" data-original-width="1572" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhziFwIVzb6P-PTm8l4xCbOAcAg_rvu6aI6lmo94KhRdTRiXxwo_8-SurcMz9nSdiOqrFfQs4xCynBpEka9A8tK6zZtvO2dDvB-U-V0zWRrI30FtaesFnF5KIbadYv1RwXSKHkqbyZNA2VAWWzoUkP2jBW1J52actFnRpzlz-zYEagOukqb3N01rL-kbUk/w305-h400/DSC01200.JPG" width="305" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Dimorphism in Nature</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Phenomenon, not the least, </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">past and present,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>plant </b><b>or animal or </b><b>protist,</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">same though different. </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAJORoQj4f5P6ZpPGwjbfymnUg1xBtjloMQghJaYSNKnsQAUK5odtRCNsBfJyV2zJyB0VvW_PeN_lA9bOhGX9NqFCoKJFaMciOrdIIglxcdQPhSsqA3XiyAkRQVCMWqQQSZIht5waykHb_-q4GUUW6oYcHC-1T5nM6ZafF6vcm_uNrW0B91IhZmUi3zq4/s2592/DSC01202.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="1944" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAJORoQj4f5P6ZpPGwjbfymnUg1xBtjloMQghJaYSNKnsQAUK5odtRCNsBfJyV2zJyB0VvW_PeN_lA9bOhGX9NqFCoKJFaMciOrdIIglxcdQPhSsqA3XiyAkRQVCMWqQQSZIht5waykHb_-q4GUUW6oYcHC-1T5nM6ZafF6vcm_uNrW0B91IhZmUi3zq4/w300-h400/DSC01202.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Sea Urchin Tree</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Take a close look at the thorny cherry;</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">it's a sea urchin, part of tree,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">a hybrid creature you may not agree; </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">a living specimen to see. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGX-nRPfmDWKJD6wf6AESUj_BpVTsMwYghoL7u-RYNFDFrvnvZcrTRUPtiL59foXPj2CgiXvZi3Ar3vD6Mv2DSIbxbyF5C1EUqn-CqxBamy_fjR082lNDf3nDxqbf-NUPLNxLJ2mckxDGiH1PHduOp9lTXa8Ri6EuvRuVI14zQTHAKoLkOfLeeVXg9VQw/s2485/DSC01210.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2485" data-original-width="1688" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGX-nRPfmDWKJD6wf6AESUj_BpVTsMwYghoL7u-RYNFDFrvnvZcrTRUPtiL59foXPj2CgiXvZi3Ar3vD6Mv2DSIbxbyF5C1EUqn-CqxBamy_fjR082lNDf3nDxqbf-NUPLNxLJ2mckxDGiH1PHduOp9lTXa8Ri6EuvRuVI14zQTHAKoLkOfLeeVXg9VQw/w271-h400/DSC01210.JPG" width="271" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Womb of a Tree</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Si Malakas at Maganda</i> in Philippine mythology</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">is a popular folktale and children's story;</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">the tree as habitat in the realm of biology, </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">now twisted into false and horror movie. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">*Kapres are said to dwell in big trees like acacia, bamboo, and the balete. Some say they are the spirits of trees, protecting them in effect.</span></b>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-80939894464420625932024-03-16T01:55:00.000-07:002024-03-16T01:59:25.677-07:00 Evolving Art Series 11: Nature's distress call through art<p style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Evolving Art Series 11</span></b></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Nature's distress call through art</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Paintings by Dr Abe V Rotor</b></span></div><div> <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkXoEF6z3K3BwCzK4ZfntveOGaM2EsgvWSN0N1vK-fBHZRU4IhjVjMRrYk-7bfrEy4QN9zKbqFPm8_yFVSXkEcRE4uXkXdQQ-18HorPWJVUxGC29bZibcg85lWR43DBkVzFXnK6wVD45E/w391-h289/DSC02145.JPG" width="391" /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Satellite image of the Earth showing the major biomes - forest, coral reef, grassland, tundra, savannah, being consumed by wildfire and desertification, both induced by man's unscrupulous activities. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgsLN5gG83s1aLECHKHD2rZbAJKInl9V67u-gNQ8HCk-AbyqBvX5PNS2uLhi50vJ77sXznuRqB33qbkk5_GCX76KqOsrK-8J_3zublpyOWB49hN17PCJLRNhRjk3QN26Z-51tEk6hHN8M/w246-h313/DSC08794.JPG" width="246" /></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Water pollution and global warming are destroying our coral reef, and consequently its productivity as an ecosystem. Destruction of the coral reef is likened to the destruction of the rainforest. Intrusion of settlements and farming on waterways and shorelines which we call reclamation exacerbates the loss of this ecosystem, indeed a requiem to nature. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3qQWNOyJbZlraLrPcrfMCcGU9pQqpIpuyrSucpPIrrwjfutNOBBTISJxvYalcanhFUj19pk_Ecjx5uxSBc4RkN-1jePLtUg4mkTZ5S3WqQQ41tqDoGjv7sf-Z-596OcH0vbfakZufz1U/s1494/DSC08772.JPG"><img border="0" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3qQWNOyJbZlraLrPcrfMCcGU9pQqpIpuyrSucpPIrrwjfutNOBBTISJxvYalcanhFUj19pk_Ecjx5uxSBc4RkN-1jePLtUg4mkTZ5S3WqQQ41tqDoGjv7sf-Z-596OcH0vbfakZufz1U/w263-h330/DSC08772.JPG" width="263" /></a></div><div><br /></div> <b><span style="font-family: arial;">Skeleton of a tropical rainforest after a wildfire. Deforestation permanently destroys the forest, more so with the deleterious effect of slash-and-burn or <i>kaingin</i> farming on the clearing. As a consequence the soil is stripped away by erosion, siltation and flood. Production falls below the marginal level, and ultimately the land is abandoned. Rivers dry, floodwater causes tremendous damage to life and properties of unimagined proportion - a fact that is happening today in many places of the world. </span></b></div><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><br /></blockquote></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzuvJ8voGTy51Z1jvGm4MLUr1GtkeByfLwq-ThwAwUtlE9lmtWQc3i00RJoJ3FiTaJNRZEQfrd_CPHit5bLAG9EtSpmH_7Ts9pNo-qMZ7SNV5jdytW9rJP7Pqj4vQIZHdQRRgbERMTMnvC/s1600/DSC06931+A.jpg"><b><img border="0" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzuvJ8voGTy51Z1jvGm4MLUr1GtkeByfLwq-ThwAwUtlE9lmtWQc3i00RJoJ3FiTaJNRZEQfrd_CPHit5bLAG9EtSpmH_7Ts9pNo-qMZ7SNV5jdytW9rJP7Pqj4vQIZHdQRRgbERMTMnvC/w342-h231/DSC06931+A.jpg" width="342" /></b></a></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span> Where have all the Gardens Gone?</span></b></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> Insipient stage of a dying garden</b></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJzy-0g1_0-Z7SDQvx5itlHoPDoBxUX9f0j-l2pJVqYvGF2O7rAgb-_b-6pL2-67cVuKoOJFjcfTl9KXbFIrw0QVk8ivn3KY_AWP0o-8SukuqZQKysPZf-3xIcZKex0NtSABWM_sJSUUry/s1600/DSC06925+A.jpg"><b><img border="0" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJzy-0g1_0-Z7SDQvx5itlHoPDoBxUX9f0j-l2pJVqYvGF2O7rAgb-_b-6pL2-67cVuKoOJFjcfTl9KXbFIrw0QVk8ivn3KY_AWP0o-8SukuqZQKysPZf-3xIcZKex0NtSABWM_sJSUUry/w345-h232/DSC06925+A.jpg" width="345" /></b></a></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> Final stage and consequent death of a garden.</b></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> Acrylic paintings by the author, 2015</b></span></div></blockquote></blockquote><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></blockquote></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">W</span>here have all the gardens gone,</b></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>the butterflies and honeybees,</b></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>dancing and riding on the breeze,</b></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>dewdrops sparkling in the sun?</b></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Where have all the children gone,</b></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>reminiscent of old Pied Piper,</b></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>lured to a new land somewhere,</b></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>and never again to be found?</b></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Where have all the ladies gone,</b></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>in "loves-me-loves-me-not" game,</b></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>though lose or gain it's the same,</b></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>flower and love knitted as one?</b></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Where have all the good life gone,</b></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Nature's gift to the living world</b></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>bound by a collective accord.</b></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Lo! to man the lost prodigal son. ~</b></span></blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-83856954699924877452024-03-15T06:30:00.000-07:002024-03-15T06:30:07.393-07:00Evolving Art Series 10: Nature Paintings Revival<p style="text-align: center;"> <b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Evolving Art Series 10 </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nature Paintings Revival</span></b></p><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span><b>Paintings and Verses by Dr Abe V Rotor</b></div></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7PdwjQnIkCGY4xlSD_UsYZ5moOCCfGP6hTL76EYEUQunRKEqZPJAQKbLctITHRMVQYwrorePktXS9e2scnrNr8AlXDjXbZJ10lvVbOm3e1QI4Y9vnL1bEgalv8bY-fYYaSUK2izPXvs/s1600/DSC01407.JPG" style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"><img border="0" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7PdwjQnIkCGY4xlSD_UsYZ5moOCCfGP6hTL76EYEUQunRKEqZPJAQKbLctITHRMVQYwrorePktXS9e2scnrNr8AlXDjXbZJ10lvVbOm3e1QI4Y9vnL1bEgalv8bY-fYYaSUK2izPXvs/w400-h354/DSC01407.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b><span><i>Grass </i></span></b><b>in acrylic (18" x 21")</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br />Sway with the breeze, </b><b>dance with the wind;</b><br /><b>Greet the sun with dewdrops </b><b>clinging;</b><br /><b>In summer turn golden, </b><b>and bow,</b><br /><b>And die sweetly to feed </b><b>the world.</b></span></div></span><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitnCtgddTPUpi36Ut8aXnSEvAYk5BS8KeQuTVYB4oMzXehNZiKCyt5NRNxWMjQqbWLSN6NJQ06MNVCWzjMqX7AsdxMjOaPUYFIVqJTd5FUSRRIiSuevJ8QwYQf-4tsILBVdmicKkl4VPk/s1600/DSC01420.JPG" style="font-weight: bold;"><img border="0" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitnCtgddTPUpi36Ut8aXnSEvAYk5BS8KeQuTVYB4oMzXehNZiKCyt5NRNxWMjQqbWLSN6NJQ06MNVCWzjMqX7AsdxMjOaPUYFIVqJTd5FUSRRIiSuevJ8QwYQf-4tsILBVdmicKkl4VPk/w400-h295/DSC01420.JPG" width="400" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span>A LOVELY PAIR IN A BOWER</span></b><br /><b>Painting in acrylic (11.5" X 16")</b><br /></span><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Let the world go by in their bower,</b><br /><b>lovers blind to the busy world,</b><br /><b>away from the maddening crowd;</b><br /><b>fleeting moment is forever,</b><br /><b>to this pair in their lair.</b><br /><br /><b>Wonder in our midst who we are,</b><br /><b>blind to each other, but the world,</b><br /><b>strange this crowd we are in;</b><br /><b>where's this lovely pair,</b><br /><b>where's their bower?</b><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM4GBha2jSfFEgo-mOxLJ6cZWsExbzkeC0ir2irlTWmpUcpjFFF4rMNi5c-ZVxrKKTJjFpVCC49KJ6pvsBW8I5ZGy079jlD0KrN477xYHVnVi-rSnd-f305qkfk7UJViFPNMebCt6qW-o/s1600/DSC01417.JPG" style="font-weight: bold;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM4GBha2jSfFEgo-mOxLJ6cZWsExbzkeC0ir2irlTWmpUcpjFFF4rMNi5c-ZVxrKKTJjFpVCC49KJ6pvsBW8I5ZGy079jlD0KrN477xYHVnVi-rSnd-f305qkfk7UJViFPNMebCt6qW-o/w320-h400/DSC01417.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b><span>SYMBIOSIS </span></b><b>Pisces and Echinoderms</b><br /><b>Painting in acrylic (8" X 10")</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Distant in phylogeny, yet live they together</b><br /><b>in one community we call ecology,</b><br /><b>ever since the beginning of our living world,</b><br /><b>millions of years ago before man was born</b><br /><b>to rule, to reign supreme over all creation;</b><br /><b>wonder what <i>Homo sapiens</i> means</b><br /><b>to true peace and harmony</b><br /><b>beyond his rationality.</b><br /><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJ4mNn__ECB6enhRFSLTRuFUlj7aprYT_5J_EKKp__6de0armnh1STT8QhtfQYt9PEu6FVMSDnxOLBUT2MmBZSbgu0qxKNvS0L3KIRY-M8uBVwiI5jj_GMeo2ULXhTki7-0-SWuBmRrM/s1600/DSC01405.JPG" style="font-weight: bold;"><img border="0" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJ4mNn__ECB6enhRFSLTRuFUlj7aprYT_5J_EKKp__6de0armnh1STT8QhtfQYt9PEu6FVMSDnxOLBUT2MmBZSbgu0qxKNvS0L3KIRY-M8uBVwiI5jj_GMeo2ULXhTki7-0-SWuBmRrM/w400-h303/DSC01405.JPG" width="400" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span>TOO SOON THE BUD OPENS </span></b><b>Painting in acrylic (12" x 17")</b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>ou come in springtime and autumn,</b><br /><b>too eager a bud ahead of your time;</b><br /><b>what promise of life awaits tomorrow</b><br /><b>from where you've broken through?</b><br /><br /><b>Whichever path you take from now,</b><br /><b>you'll miss the adventure of youth</b><br /><b>in summer, and stillness of winter,</b><br /><b>Oh, how could you live to the full?</b><br /><br /><b>"For having lost but once your prime,</b><br /><b>you'll always tarry," so says a poet;</b><br /><b>"It's now or never," so sings a bard,</b><br /><b>and I, I've neither a poem nor a song.</b><br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdjVfTVaTF4dmSJmBTgdNj2T3pUgoYZhsf5EY6Eks4l92_1Q2Ub2VP2YGMQ3d_-qqyeLyg-0dc_gqlhOTIS2cOSjI2264wIs1Ge7oZwlYcih1mQpHGZcnfG1KSjzqsdaaZgvBRnwIgJ0k/s1600/DSC01413.JPG" style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"><img border="0" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdjVfTVaTF4dmSJmBTgdNj2T3pUgoYZhsf5EY6Eks4l92_1Q2Ub2VP2YGMQ3d_-qqyeLyg-0dc_gqlhOTIS2cOSjI2264wIs1Ge7oZwlYcih1mQpHGZcnfG1KSjzqsdaaZgvBRnwIgJ0k/w409-h364/DSC01413.JPG" width="409" /></a></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span>SEA URCHIN </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;">Painting in acrylic ( 11" x 13.5")</b></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><b>You're all made of spikes,</b><br /><b>I can't see the real you;</b><br /><b>in your invincible armor</b><br /><b>in any view.</b><br /><br /><b>Wonder how many of us</b><br /><b>live like the urchin</b><br /><b>in silent, unknown ways</b><br /><b>and never seen.</b><br /><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI6GGNH8VVEiviX6XQ0CvYZeJcuhkMQdZ7IyUaGKGSoSGKfRg3bxzaRTreMYORSdDqKUbTLUNrabtqToXnkGZL0jdQc-Yj1GldkCp1G16Gob6qUhRnTR1LKh5n8CHjDlQ_YCbFzXsHebQ/s1600/DSC01418.JPG" style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"><img border="0" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI6GGNH8VVEiviX6XQ0CvYZeJcuhkMQdZ7IyUaGKGSoSGKfRg3bxzaRTreMYORSdDqKUbTLUNrabtqToXnkGZL0jdQc-Yj1GldkCp1G16Gob6qUhRnTR1LKh5n8CHjDlQ_YCbFzXsHebQ/w400-h322/DSC01418.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ART OF THE CATERPILLAR </span><b>Painting in acrylic (11” x 14”)</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Caterpillar, when you are gone</b><br /><b>two things come to mind:</b><br /><b>the butterfly you have become,</b><br /><b>and the damage you have done</b><br /><b>and left behind.</b><br /><br /><b>Art, art, whatever way defined,</b><br /><b>the subject on the wall,</b><br /><b>or dripping on the floor,</b><br /><b>art, art you aren't hard to find</b><br /><b>after all. ~</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><b style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQeT1NED1AvDFPigHPLY5T2VPlfclreGwfBEYR5ZoVMbJRHtxfwZTmVUjoRbYWnKlXEFK_taorFUizDmnT67mXg2qGFCTnizn0ZRKoxVfQKgtntM48NrGjljGAAUApBNNp17X018w-b0Q/s1600/DSC01411.JPG"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQeT1NED1AvDFPigHPLY5T2VPlfclreGwfBEYR5ZoVMbJRHtxfwZTmVUjoRbYWnKlXEFK_taorFUizDmnT67mXg2qGFCTnizn0ZRKoxVfQKgtntM48NrGjljGAAUApBNNp17X018w-b0Q/w364-h400/DSC01411.JPG" width="364" /></a></b></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b><span>WEANING </span>Painting in acrylic (8” x 10”)</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>A trio in adventure weaned out<br />of their nest too soon;<br />to explore the world beyond,<br />like the Prodigal Son.<br /><br />What lies in the deep and dark<br />cavern with many eyes,<br />but monsters real or imagined<br />lurking for a prize.<br /><br />It’s inevitable stage of life,<br />all creatures undergo;<br />weaning - crossing the bridge<br />and cutting it, too.<br /><br /></b><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXeTscrpnWTTWDh1amqX0iShgfysXdE8uLP7E_6vqZZlOF3uta9XnrcF8sCrnNoiYe_cUzepdp-2VxSlcK5uarqAZZ5nZyj4ki2dqncW4uT884TgNdHDEAm5MVcRNqOxaAx5tDoco9rO8/s1600/DSC01423.JPG"><img border="0" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXeTscrpnWTTWDh1amqX0iShgfysXdE8uLP7E_6vqZZlOF3uta9XnrcF8sCrnNoiYe_cUzepdp-2VxSlcK5uarqAZZ5nZyj4ki2dqncW4uT884TgNdHDEAm5MVcRNqOxaAx5tDoco9rO8/w400-h277/DSC01423.JPG" width="400" /></a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b><span>FISH SWARMING </span>Painting in acrylic (9” x 17”)</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>I’ve seen jellyfish swarming,</b></span></div><div><b style="font-family: verdana;">plankton in coral reefs glowing;</b></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>a myriad fireflies mingling<br />with the stars, linking us all<br />to a Supreme Being. ~</b></span></div></div>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-28103168410552792812024-03-15T06:11:00.000-07:002024-03-15T06:15:21.148-07:00Evolving Art Series 9 Two Paintings - Secret of the Heart and Innocence in Nature <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Evolving Art Series 9 </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="font-size: 24px;">Two Paintings: </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 24px;">Secret of the Heart and Innocence in Nature </b></p><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Paintings and Verses by Dr Abe V Rotor</b></span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face=""arial black" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">SECRET OF THE HEART</span><span face=""arial black" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Mt3hwQ7Nufn48NAU2477bvPAhneoEHJfj_c6Fq_UOO-wl8wZGp4ldwDgM-P4b6ha3I2o6DU5-l03B5U2o6yXKjmWYXAT-hEd1TGgyXzEOclQfQ5SHdLEP1-uDJf_VJt9TFwHaTtUEgU/s1600/DSC01409.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1519" data-original-width="1600" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Mt3hwQ7Nufn48NAU2477bvPAhneoEHJfj_c6Fq_UOO-wl8wZGp4ldwDgM-P4b6ha3I2o6DU5-l03B5U2o6yXKjmWYXAT-hEd1TGgyXzEOclQfQ5SHdLEP1-uDJf_VJt9TFwHaTtUEgU/w440-h369/DSC01409.JPG" width="440" /></b></span></a></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Painting in Acrylic (13.5" x 13.5")</span></b><b style="font-size: 11pt;"><!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11pt;"><b><br /></b></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.4in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.4in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Hidden, the heart throbs</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.4in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.4in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"> in deep silence;</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.4in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.4in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"><b>two nails embedded,</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.4in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.4in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"> unseen in pretence</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.4in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.4in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"><b>of living, loving, caring,</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.4in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.4in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"> the highest art, </span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.4in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.4in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"><b>filling the five chambers</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.4in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.4in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"> of the heart. </span></b></span></div></blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.4in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.4in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>INNOCENCE IN NATURE</b></span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF_ofUHIQ2MR42zxFs_MzybW0aDox5KMhqGEbVC0d3FZXZNzIAXm5AXdE-KDPydVcb84wOJvbtS2h1ayYlb_za1LTU5ZZmCMreOpSpGhJx0HznWK_i2kPnQSEnzUHoWWqC3X7laqReQBo/s1600/DSC01425.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1290" data-original-width="1600" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF_ofUHIQ2MR42zxFs_MzybW0aDox5KMhqGEbVC0d3FZXZNzIAXm5AXdE-KDPydVcb84wOJvbtS2h1ayYlb_za1LTU5ZZmCMreOpSpGhJx0HznWK_i2kPnQSEnzUHoWWqC3X7laqReQBo/w385-h326/DSC01425.JPG" width="385" /></b></span></a></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><v:shape id="_x0000_i1040" style="height: 167.25pt; mso-wrap-style: square; visibility: visible; width: 207pt;" type="#_x0000_t75"><v:imagedata blacklevel="-2621f" gain="68267f" o:title="DSC01425" src="file:///C:\Users\DRABER~1.ROT\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image008.jpg"></v:imagedata></v:shape></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">Painting in acrylic (17.5" x 21.75") </span></b></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">Abstract over realism can you paint innocence,</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"> move over classics, you are too pure</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">to be true, and impressionism too assuming,</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"> with apologies to Monet's azure sky. </span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">Oh! abstract indeed is a child's innocence,</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"> buds in early spring, grains ripening;</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">heart of a true friend, pledge of real love,</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"> growing in the passing of time. </span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">Colors are mere symbols, wanting to behold,</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"> the magnificence of mind and heart,</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">triumph of the human spirit over our frailty,</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"> the most challenging of all art.~ </span></b></span></div></blockquote>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-64963799136842012872024-03-15T06:04:00.000-07:002024-03-15T06:04:05.276-07:00Evolving Art Series 8 Make your own transforms for teaching and decoration<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Evolving Art Series 8 </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Make your own transforms for teaching and decoration</b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1515374773528209243" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 528.4px;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: start;">Museum of Natural History, UPLB </b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: start;">Mt Makiling, Laguna </b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: start;">Dr Abe V Rotor</b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha-cpqIZxEQ17Lnhi2CdiMOSdKF-A-ef2veXyeG-2ywoImjETGjw8XkDhEbzSysfAB1-gqk_nlDnWDvTcf1-KwtfMnEEbGJmsREC7ohWp9t9SQMcHF0RlgTdYGY98OUrb6WHxcXr1mE_4/s1600/IMG_1703.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha-cpqIZxEQ17Lnhi2CdiMOSdKF-A-ef2veXyeG-2ywoImjETGjw8XkDhEbzSysfAB1-gqk_nlDnWDvTcf1-KwtfMnEEbGJmsREC7ohWp9t9SQMcHF0RlgTdYGY98OUrb6WHxcXr1mE_4/s1600/IMG_1703.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="425" /></a></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"> Replica of whale attracts teachers on field trip. On the left is a painting of the blue whale</b><br /><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg67EtsHOJWexZzLJruWChDNfD6kkeF3CUS8-9qTmG60xpdkIhP7zLzqwhBjgn2F0rq_kUeBkS8eoitlj2X6_W6AlPWvi4602FZkhLp2E_ruSi-yG2BgeDDIf1xG7W9dWeJHUUx4gt1oTo/s1600/IMG_1719.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg67EtsHOJWexZzLJruWChDNfD6kkeF3CUS8-9qTmG60xpdkIhP7zLzqwhBjgn2F0rq_kUeBkS8eoitlj2X6_W6AlPWvi4602FZkhLp2E_ruSi-yG2BgeDDIf1xG7W9dWeJHUUx4gt1oTo/s1600/IMG_1719.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="212" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxZD_yqG_yGDgWpjdbsPe60zbxp-oq__S9TfHfiucQHXjecme6pvbDT_uyBsNE5KSk77W9RhsId3mv800xm4BJk6iJJkGkZhocqyXU8n_trE9ro9916bXp1OArC31cR8oywVIRvASCdiM/s1600/IMG_1721.jpg" style="color: #336699; 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color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b> Scorpion on the wall; wooden exoskeleton of insect.</b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDw9gIvaNwTExkF1zbt_quQwT4jwFdvalays5O6xq3Fysky572bsbHOgA7POyjmugRWZgYcCxcn_EN1B71ILd1xH84XWODz5tfhg1JLP0KRavqYqvsy5yNV6WVMHkW4p_N1M3udrYjLm8/s1600/IMG_1727.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDw9gIvaNwTExkF1zbt_quQwT4jwFdvalays5O6xq3Fysky572bsbHOgA7POyjmugRWZgYcCxcn_EN1B71ILd1xH84XWODz5tfhg1JLP0KRavqYqvsy5yNV6WVMHkW4p_N1M3udrYjLm8/s1600/IMG_1727.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b> Modern sculptural representation of an insect's exoskeleton </b></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRWU7TPIw-O9cmf5Oo8GK8Ur2v_Wdkc-PVXt4cx4LACZEjDlvBKngg0P7PN-55_7iQ9A1HLXSfPFrbr6yHsD3KZYA8DDES_kh84E6nfQ1cS9dMqu3WTa3NdW7wjxbt0L3UyWJugeQJ8qQ/s1600/IMG_1735.jpg"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRWU7TPIw-O9cmf5Oo8GK8Ur2v_Wdkc-PVXt4cx4LACZEjDlvBKngg0P7PN-55_7iQ9A1HLXSfPFrbr6yHsD3KZYA8DDES_kh84E6nfQ1cS9dMqu3WTa3NdW7wjxbt0L3UyWJugeQJ8qQ/w213-h320/IMG_1735.jpg" width="213" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQX4L4N7iy9sSkqhMqIJy9ZzjWnYlxWzle2dRJRvt1yVfcAIDllhmdqPhQBR29N22sxjEJcEpoHqahEmMjS3Ki9-wh7-d7hwc4-QRKAFUt5H8hyphenhyphennL-Rhts_fQyDZhUu7HyF1gfJwe2tVg/s1600/IMG_1756.jpg"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQX4L4N7iy9sSkqhMqIJy9ZzjWnYlxWzle2dRJRvt1yVfcAIDllhmdqPhQBR29N22sxjEJcEpoHqahEmMjS3Ki9-wh7-d7hwc4-QRKAFUt5H8hyphenhyphennL-Rhts_fQyDZhUu7HyF1gfJwe2tVg/w213-h320/IMG_1756.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b>Fairy tale mushroom; anatomy of a tree</b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdRn1JkBTt85yaFy6luuiNs0vSkge1SeWUyKl3GdG-trWaecOQBVuoi1l2npk7GHeJKemaZVXz26BJ9pU6Ih_pvF586osv-N74jOiagwpDa1yAX1yVst76RUiFm4D0DaFaeqZNPMEd8AY/s1600/IMG_1758.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdRn1JkBTt85yaFy6luuiNs0vSkge1SeWUyKl3GdG-trWaecOQBVuoi1l2npk7GHeJKemaZVXz26BJ9pU6Ih_pvF586osv-N74jOiagwpDa1yAX1yVst76RUiFm4D0DaFaeqZNPMEd8AY/w422-h280/IMG_1758.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="422" /></a></div><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b> Sowbug, a relative of the insect - a terrestrial crustacean</b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihYzriniLDZQM-qdOHMNzbTH0li41_pzG2ymUhULzTP_j5K5kYwLbu2vgXNl-5f_ofyUjsQwnXXmIyuGYr12bkcscOQGmqKE4wiJefPTH0osPOkg0bpbbp9eJVb6e3W7Ob00V4XHgQUBA/s1600/IMG_1762.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihYzriniLDZQM-qdOHMNzbTH0li41_pzG2ymUhULzTP_j5K5kYwLbu2vgXNl-5f_ofyUjsQwnXXmIyuGYr12bkcscOQGmqKE4wiJefPTH0osPOkg0bpbbp9eJVb6e3W7Ob00V4XHgQUBA/s1600/IMG_1762.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="427" /></a></div><div class="MsoTitle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>A representation of a "new" species of lizard.</b></div></div></div>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-70766237619330333982024-03-15T05:59:00.000-07:002024-03-15T05:59:55.277-07:00 Evolving Art Series 7: Evolving Art (ad infinitum) <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Evolving Art Series 7</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Evolving Art</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>(ad infinitum)</i></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Art works and verses by Dr Abe V Rotor </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFUd3BnjJXW_A5hlZWTemYos0SuNUoRKE7Wm0dX9wG_BPa0jKMjbyqo2E7Ud6Sdg2YOxyBZCjGDrSheScJIOclq0AcETD-7-xnTKk7tldkvcZENkWF0-Fa4nZ5-NnUGzoTQHVJDWGdqazotVqZdOSnUi3pAse4tgdL7C5E6Y9gbUcxHr6-DGlcu0bZhyphenhyphenv2/s2592/Paining%20web%202%20DSC05170.JPG"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFUd3BnjJXW_A5hlZWTemYos0SuNUoRKE7Wm0dX9wG_BPa0jKMjbyqo2E7Ud6Sdg2YOxyBZCjGDrSheScJIOclq0AcETD-7-xnTKk7tldkvcZENkWF0-Fa4nZ5-NnUGzoTQHVJDWGdqazotVqZdOSnUi3pAse4tgdL7C5E6Y9gbUcxHr6-DGlcu0bZhyphenhyphenv2/w512-h384/Paining%20web%202%20DSC05170.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Splash Painting</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Who needs brush and canvas</span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Only colors, if you must.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">On the floor, just s</span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">plash, splash,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">to create stained glass! </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhY778InRXAztAvw7yOV-Fy595ySoBhmnRvzE-mC8QGpMBR0OCkgecf49PLMhwkmS26-iiE0wkJF65aJvqBm0rKSKrKVahtXtbNbWp-_DGAGk1FTnvozibCSZKLthKgKFRvnjxB1Iy3vmZtYMrNv_7y18PtPp1-kfxSKLDqGFVSyK2j-TprdIybLEGTLNrm" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="243" data-original-width="340" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhY778InRXAztAvw7yOV-Fy595ySoBhmnRvzE-mC8QGpMBR0OCkgecf49PLMhwkmS26-iiE0wkJF65aJvqBm0rKSKrKVahtXtbNbWp-_DGAGk1FTnvozibCSZKLthKgKFRvnjxB1Iy3vmZtYMrNv_7y18PtPp1-kfxSKLDqGFVSyK2j-TprdIybLEGTLNrm=w426-h306" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Noah's Black Dove </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">I found a fossil entombed,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> of a story in driftwood. </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" height="453" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdqqzXOJnp5tZJVjml9qP4Wk-uvfo6m2S3UAOPB21TNns50kvB9IDFu9-cMdW8b0o_AVL_3xEz634tbEb1xN-bHMb0mPUiwyIaokDyzD8sMntdtFFqLrOm2ZxP71FVZL9L4Fi0JEwxTE8/w353-h453/cryptozoology+DSC00984.JPG" width="353" /> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Duck Head Figurine</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Once hunted on water and in air,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">now figurine, a grim reminder. </span></b></div><div><br /></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPHHCPRiZeMTOy9EsZlk2FCbpzQboHQb-7Lb0OIBp10ZlxFhlo7sfdVVGd7bovze3e7xsKB75rA_DOpURZvcq_YtRLLHXHn7FlZITeHvsI0zE2NYg2Vg4n78mpyGsHpY3hUtOA2vOUU4mxBIDU_7ZpajWsOyTRx1HToq81nPLVe9NlK2IGLOVSqAVr524/s2064/DSC06498.JPG"><img border="0" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPHHCPRiZeMTOy9EsZlk2FCbpzQboHQb-7Lb0OIBp10ZlxFhlo7sfdVVGd7bovze3e7xsKB75rA_DOpURZvcq_YtRLLHXHn7FlZITeHvsI0zE2NYg2Vg4n78mpyGsHpY3hUtOA2vOUU4mxBIDU_7ZpajWsOyTRx1HToq81nPLVe9NlK2IGLOVSqAVr524/w352-h372/DSC06498.JPG" width="352" /></a> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Broken Jar Alive</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">A lease for life indeed</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">through art we bid;</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">talent put to the test</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">at its very best.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcrUSFlEEE-vEvsvzNLOcnbEoyDYuLjkJtIpV49PZfQu1pb9Ey9fUNp8iNR0JqFTsgAaWtIfRM5FxTkchXHOAM1Zg1Btk2SvNbh-ove6B6P-aAkCETabCS5UzwIWtEWcyzRZNpmDCPQxjjmA-tncJBurf7QNz4aqJ6PiwdsA1lAOgTeRbyaIMdjlK2qkWx" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="457" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcrUSFlEEE-vEvsvzNLOcnbEoyDYuLjkJtIpV49PZfQu1pb9Ey9fUNp8iNR0JqFTsgAaWtIfRM5FxTkchXHOAM1Zg1Btk2SvNbh-ove6B6P-aAkCETabCS5UzwIWtEWcyzRZNpmDCPQxjjmA-tncJBurf7QNz4aqJ6PiwdsA1lAOgTeRbyaIMdjlK2qkWx=w352-h494" width="352" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Driftwood </span></b><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Trophy</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Why gold or silver a trophy:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">why not remnant of a tree,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> shells forgotten and empty,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">to wake us up to reality?</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></b></div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwM6Dr6NrcN9BL7mWEC_RlzYJRac81zv95EMC2CResKXLr0dqApaBzzgRs5g7XSBPt3zbzb58X7ta4J30AyQmiKv4PX4EawZ0J-do16iQ7pXUiu2SR2RnqpZv6yCbhLASJLvxK9sJU40_ynmkRINiSiMuMFDc3BR84vqWg99PbXie3iczkpQbkOVq9EK61/s3616/DSC01073%20-%20Copy.JPG"><img border="0" height="559" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwM6Dr6NrcN9BL7mWEC_RlzYJRac81zv95EMC2CResKXLr0dqApaBzzgRs5g7XSBPt3zbzb58X7ta4J30AyQmiKv4PX4EawZ0J-do16iQ7pXUiu2SR2RnqpZv6yCbhLASJLvxK9sJU40_ynmkRINiSiMuMFDc3BR84vqWg99PbXie3iczkpQbkOVq9EK61/w342-h559/DSC01073%20-%20Copy.JPG" width="342" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Driftwood Table Decor</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Wasteland in the hall,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> a dreaded scene,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> aftermath of the Fall, </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">of man's first Sin.</span></b> ~</div></div>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-31642886440651475642024-03-15T05:53:00.000-07:002024-03-15T05:53:36.445-07:00 Evolving Art Series 6: Two Faces of our Planet Earth Chandelier<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> Evolving Art Series 6 </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Two Faces of our Planet Earth Chandelier</span></span><span class="eop"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span></b></span></p><p align="center" class="paragraph" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;">Indigenous Chandelier by Dr Abe V Rotor</span></span><span class="eop"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"> </span></span><a name="_Hlk66125063"></a><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="paragraph" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span class="eop"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><b><span><span class="eop"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjk7mjjLp98ndD8a5v71aMJRAb2n1Hu2UND992trU6_WUaX182G1yQPMrLUxeyf5g-OSTM3DFeFWvycxmcJSjuOBQoGRSP7bCgZ4tQDQgPxebnD6P9nOrNYFKLfCz5zhmL5cDsRkySbBGOpqTU_U9-FTqB7S-fjmZHWi8f2zFFf6Z5ZiTTbBCX3CBS0EQ/s486/Chandelier%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="486" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjk7mjjLp98ndD8a5v71aMJRAb2n1Hu2UND992trU6_WUaX182G1yQPMrLUxeyf5g-OSTM3DFeFWvycxmcJSjuOBQoGRSP7bCgZ4tQDQgPxebnD6P9nOrNYFKLfCz5zhmL5cDsRkySbBGOpqTU_U9-FTqB7S-fjmZHWi8f2zFFf6Z5ZiTTbBCX3CBS0EQ/w400-h400/Chandelier%201.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Pristine Face of our Planet Earth</i> in acrylic</span></b></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">on wood scrap by the author 2020</span></b></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></b><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuTVX0Dex58Sx3NC9lab9b2ppbmK4SttOQOLmGhdXbIudh_un7ycjaRgoKrnV1RgQdmpADCVUMSMX3r88Gp52cgYdHSW0prADTbpNzqctdHKFqE7xzUO9noEyqo2a9UmOll1R3Ep1MNqd_fT8SmtLVSxcW6lqOhPC8Y7GxBzggQhjujISgazYRQknOsg8/w400-h326/Chandelier%202.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> </i><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Defiled Face of our Planet Earth </i>in acrylic</span></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">on wood scrap by the author 2020</span></b></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div></span></b><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Light in the air, swaying with the wind;</span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Heavy in the air dull, still;</span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pristine, natural in the absence of man, </span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Defiled, dead, can't humans feel?</span></b></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p class="paragraph" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I</span>ndigenous art, ecological in message, this piece of art tells to viewers looking up to this hanging <i>parol</i> and chandelier. No candles, no light, no chime, except the natural radiance and music of the pristine face of our Planet Earth. </span></span><span class="eop"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></b></p><p class="paragraph" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;">So rare today this happy face beams, so commonplace the sad face shrouds cities where more than half of the world's population of 8 billion souls are ensconced in the so-called <i>Good Life,</i> the "ultimate" aim of civilization. </span></span><span class="eop"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></b></p><p class="paragraph" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;">What is the Good Life in the current Corona Virus pandemic? Good life in global economic depression? Good life in widespread poverty? Good life in inequity and injustice? Global breakdown of institutions, from marriage and family, threatening to destroy the pillars of human society? </span></span><span class="eop"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></b></p><p class="paragraph" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"><b>What is Good Life with the Israel war in Gaza? Russian war in Ukraine? And in other critical spots, civil wars and drug wars, notwithstanding? Cities burgeoning into metropolises and megapolises? Growing widespread depression leading to suicide? Hopelessness spreading among the young and old alike? </b></span></span></span></p><p class="paragraph" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="font-family: arial;">What is the Good Life in a "floating continent of garbage" twice bigger Texas, thrice that of France? Unabated rise of sea level as a result of continuing global warming? Acid rain ruining productive farms? Radiation emanating from transmission and communication towers, and from millions of computers and </b><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>smartphones</b></span><b style="font-family: arial;">?</b><b style="font-family: arial;"> </b></p><p class="paragraph" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;">What is the Good life in science and technology gone wild? Good life in the explosion of knowledge, grain and chaff mixed up? Good life in erosion of values? Good Life in the failure of governance - local, regional, global? </span></span><span class="eop"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></b></p><p class="paragraph" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;">We have yet to learn from "<i>the glory that was Greece, and the grandeur that was Rome,</i>" and the Dark Age that enveloped the world thereafter. We have yet to learn from the Renaissance that followed a millennium after. If only man's rationality can save him from his own destruction. ~</span></span><span class="eop"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></b></p>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-17991706427526722772024-03-15T05:42:00.000-07:002024-03-15T05:44:48.547-07:00Evolving Art Series 5: Techniques in Impressionistic Paintings<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Evolving Art Series 5</span></b></p><p><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Techniques in Impressionistic Paintings</span></span></b></p><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr Abe V Rotor</span></b></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWVNklLsBsbO4wn4Nbc-24zSRNBI_NKS0DlpIzj2bEL9b7Fqf2ZsfoZHRE4eI8y_vNqzk5uprb5D1w6J8WhtFbSSwyk4KmUohJUDn9OUKcqfX3NDVXAqAAjsJeGxytz8g-7fr4xQtws7k/s1600/DSC01538A.jpg"><img border="0" height="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWVNklLsBsbO4wn4Nbc-24zSRNBI_NKS0DlpIzj2bEL9b7Fqf2ZsfoZHRE4eI8y_vNqzk5uprb5D1w6J8WhtFbSSwyk4KmUohJUDn9OUKcqfX3NDVXAqAAjsJeGxytz8g-7fr4xQtws7k/w491-h560/DSC01538A.jpg" width="491" /></a></span></b></div>Acrylic painting on glass in three dimensions: seaweeds, fish and the deep. There is apparent movement, yet there is peace among the creatures living in co-existence. Step 1: dark background. Step 2: fish and other red colors. Step 3: seaweeds, transferred from separate impression. Step 4: details like air bubbles. Step 5: fixing with lacquer spray. Step 6: framing, or "edging" (<i>liston</i>)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij5sYS0GoFuiUQVFEol9MvB24lv3nzF_VTQZIBaSIQqLFP75YUQ4q0p6d-NgKRTFJ4FZhGmwWLhmQVAiEX7ggWt_Tg5vqeApKImPbInZnzjJ7GYib4tvt66Xei2oIQmLzWfEAaQIu-Frs/s1600/04232010%2528001%2529.jpg"><img border="0" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij5sYS0GoFuiUQVFEol9MvB24lv3nzF_VTQZIBaSIQqLFP75YUQ4q0p6d-NgKRTFJ4FZhGmwWLhmQVAiEX7ggWt_Tg5vqeApKImPbInZnzjJ7GYib4tvt66Xei2oIQmLzWfEAaQIu-Frs/w443-h332/04232010%2528001%2529.jpg" width="443" /></a></span></b></div>Mural (5 ft x 10 ft) acrylic. Repetition has a powerful effect - it serves as boundary yet gives a sense of depth a feeling the viewer is at the edge of a forest. The source of light however, is from inside the forest. Step 1: stretch canvas on 2"x 3"x 10' kiln dry lumber. Step 2: use white latex to seal canvas surface. Step 3: use palette for the trees. Step 4: dub premixed yellow and blue for vegetation. Step 5: details like flowers, sunbeam, and red to break monotony. Note: Don't use fixative, let the painting as is, just protect it from direct sunlight.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyQoTs0IOm9qjKE5PVq4Ncy-9ZernJuP6_IcfKfJumHe6znoPykfZokd-5CZSixMJDRmiv8fMcjoJKsAo8MujB37cwXgFcax0LJW2G2ShKjMx6X8oQixQyrj9pZWHOdJwVKZorRGX3v8/s1600/DSC01545A.jpg"><img border="0" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyQoTs0IOm9qjKE5PVq4Ncy-9ZernJuP6_IcfKfJumHe6znoPykfZokd-5CZSixMJDRmiv8fMcjoJKsAo8MujB37cwXgFcax0LJW2G2ShKjMx6X8oQixQyrj9pZWHOdJwVKZorRGX3v8/w421-h440/DSC01545A.jpg" width="421" /></a></span></b></div>Fiery flowers emerge from below to meet the sun, only to wither soon after the bees have done their chores. Wither, one by one, younger flowers succeeding, a cycle of life and life giving, progenies born one after another. How could you paint such a cycle but by impressionism? Impressionism leaves much of what is to be said. For the mind is richer where it is left with space to explore, and meaning to seek. It is not easy to depict a phenomenon on a single canvas when it takes immeasurable time and innumerable stages to complete. Step 1: start with the flowers, large and unarranged. Step 2: apply thick dark green and light green in ascendant strokes, heaviest at the base. Step 3: Add flowers at the center to give focus. Step 4: add light green ascendant lines as foliage.</span></b><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzMOqGJpT2XghjsN2oXNlLQ3U2mn_n3EpsGrpM9UusOf1CZRKCyhQ8znw5NrZDkurwf_aXZcLV5eVKHTuJYaCXT3z35gyCsLUsgu72k3g_FRbLeJml4s_p5UVcOKhlbtAfYyaRZZZ5T3c/s1600/DSC00732.JPG"><img border="0" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzMOqGJpT2XghjsN2oXNlLQ3U2mn_n3EpsGrpM9UusOf1CZRKCyhQ8znw5NrZDkurwf_aXZcLV5eVKHTuJYaCXT3z35gyCsLUsgu72k3g_FRbLeJml4s_p5UVcOKhlbtAfYyaRZZZ5T3c/w482-h317/DSC00732.JPG" width="482" /></a></span></b></div>Hazy, light and soft to the eye and touch. How is this done in contrast with the still life previously explained above? Here the colors used are first mixed with white on the palette, never on canvas. Choose the hues and keep the contrast low so that the boundaries are smudged, with pleasing effect. There is a tendency to end up with muddy appearance. Maintain restraint, give that "cloud nine" look. It fits well on a wall where peace and quiet reign. It invites relaxation. ~</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">* Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-small;"> Wikipedia</span></b></div>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-76908006481266017092024-03-15T05:33:00.000-07:002024-03-15T05:33:11.891-07:00Evolving Art Series 1: "Capture Ephemeral Nature through Painting"<p> <span style="text-align: center;"> </span><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Evolving Art Series 1</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">"Capture Ephemeral Nature through Painting"</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr Abe V Rotor</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtAr4DlpAAfQuZFLbN-xcKJB1UWmSTdJV2C7nSaYg-msDMMhusltobzV4dYtwdQJKymY-YvGHWtiTTxZuafRQcprwj0Lys1QTpoFAceETK8cv4LL8hbCCtE2pujjr0R6GEw4sIQ1J-Sd73CZT58-QJltgQHiM_y5as2zK-t6s3WKenbCd7SMcPU3To6Hc/s608/High%20Rise%20ruin%20DSC09351.JPG"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtAr4DlpAAfQuZFLbN-xcKJB1UWmSTdJV2C7nSaYg-msDMMhusltobzV4dYtwdQJKymY-YvGHWtiTTxZuafRQcprwj0Lys1QTpoFAceETK8cv4LL8hbCCtE2pujjr0R6GEw4sIQ1J-Sd73CZT58-QJltgQHiM_y5as2zK-t6s3WKenbCd7SMcPU3To6Hc/w507-h640/High%20Rise%20ruin%20DSC09351.JPG" width="507" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Remnants of termites mounted on apocalyptic background painted </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">in acrylic by the author. On display at Living with Nature Center,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">San Vicente, Ilocos Sur</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">High rise in ruins cower</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">to time, pest and weather,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>their grandeur gone forever.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Will man ever remember?</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div 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text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">relief painting in acrylic by AV Rotor. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Stalactite on the guard, </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">stained by a fiery past;</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>home of man long before</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>he became an outcast.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUQkwEmwDvnxTVnrPDLDJxO6ZQPe2jPhsDbceuJAabpRwIIJp74VrcY7QOSZS9hFEuZWFi6tojGkcNRjE4HgJl9ZERREHOrZo7WqW5Mwpb7Xk3GpA6c5IbqJ7snCFjsFkXxS_VOmQjkGeBBnTWPPY9i7M-auQB63fc7gZtxTSD-73SWseXFolj81HCebo/s2238/DSC05046.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2238" data-original-width="1566" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUQkwEmwDvnxTVnrPDLDJxO6ZQPe2jPhsDbceuJAabpRwIIJp74VrcY7QOSZS9hFEuZWFi6tojGkcNRjE4HgJl9ZERREHOrZo7WqW5Mwpb7Xk3GpA6c5IbqJ7snCFjsFkXxS_VOmQjkGeBBnTWPPY9i7M-auQB63fc7gZtxTSD-73SWseXFolj81HCebo/w344-h428/DSC05046.JPG" width="344" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Profile of a human face on our Milky Way galaxy, </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">acrylic painting by AV Rotor. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></b></div></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Images of human abound,</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>in living colors and sound;</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"> serendipity or providence,</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>captured as evidence. </b></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a 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Center</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Trees make a community of their own,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">they talk, sing, embrace each another;</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">designed by nature after they're sown,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>living in unity and harmony together.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a 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Nature Center</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's a world of the minutiae,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">thru the microscope we see,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> but a shade of its entirety, </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">much less its diversity.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHa0zliimtNVBIRF04Tb6oC-ljCNHTv-1geLFH8mCV-DPSHssIQAxQPu2H8C94okenUwXYJj4BOxcbMd7nX-l6lH6JpeimVIvm2nmJz0sr7i97kuhSolvCEI0Fo8WVHWDY-_EX07dvEAk9NVhzRcqGH_tdHgLyrxMPwX2smMz-TYCL8dyC5u9Pclep0LA/s2000/DSC05043.JPG"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHa0zliimtNVBIRF04Tb6oC-ljCNHTv-1geLFH8mCV-DPSHssIQAxQPu2H8C94okenUwXYJj4BOxcbMd7nX-l6lH6JpeimVIvm2nmJz0sr7i97kuhSolvCEI0Fo8WVHWDY-_EX07dvEAk9NVhzRcqGH_tdHgLyrxMPwX2smMz-TYCL8dyC5u9Pclep0LA/w380-h400/DSC05043.JPG" width="380" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Tree skeleton clinging on a rock cliff, by AV Rotor</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Living with Nature Center</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's counterpart of the sacred Cross;</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span>let's save Mother Nature </span></b><b>at all cost.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM26fcFA_KdEsjG4hRhEWPd_spxJWuVansfGn1TuL53zSB4SisR4lyDvmMqFxWoNAhXK9_maXS2D9lUvA9rinWugU0h-UgrJnfWptg3XRa67mVEUcpvgb0PVkr5Qql3p0811UyiMX4f5FUsM9BD2e9snrLTfKA5y5hNmCwLuRCugUloROt8KinvIITlf0/s2166/DSC05037.JPG"><img border="0" height="451" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM26fcFA_KdEsjG4hRhEWPd_spxJWuVansfGn1TuL53zSB4SisR4lyDvmMqFxWoNAhXK9_maXS2D9lUvA9rinWugU0h-UgrJnfWptg3XRa67mVEUcpvgb0PVkr5Qql3p0811UyiMX4f5FUsM9BD2e9snrLTfKA5y5hNmCwLuRCugUloROt8KinvIITlf0/w372-h451/DSC05037.JPG" width="372" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">The Last Deer, wood carving against a dying waterfall </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">mural </span></b><b><span style="font-family: arial;">by AV Rotor, </span></b><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Living with Nature Center</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Two symbols on the wall,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">neither the fairest of all."</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioV5qI7OSIZz0gGh91ToolNrsah8Z-1PZKsJP5eqS3_RoO2eqW0Ghfwyg-6Qf_1PDsqPwkjue2kSH-yTrVtvu3_AW_5Db9Oj1DqnZWpTK42lePhdljYaiqhyW9tfS73UIftTYboBWsAOC9ZzGEA13hMCZovjXmrsYt-kGhWL2370dfZLLK2DjMtWPuNcw/s2592/DSC05035.JPG"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioV5qI7OSIZz0gGh91ToolNrsah8Z-1PZKsJP5eqS3_RoO2eqW0Ghfwyg-6Qf_1PDsqPwkjue2kSH-yTrVtvu3_AW_5Db9Oj1DqnZWpTK42lePhdljYaiqhyW9tfS73UIftTYboBWsAOC9ZzGEA13hMCZovjXmrsYt-kGhWL2370dfZLLK2DjMtWPuNcw/w378-h400/DSC05035.JPG" width="378" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Edge of land and sea, detail of a wall mural by AV Rotor.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Living with Nature Center, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">"It's a reflection </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">of a scenery,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> opposite of a sweet memory." ~</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Reference </b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><b>Philippine Literature Today<br />Copyright 2015 by C & E Publishing, Inc 237 pp<br />Abercio V Rotor and Kristine Molina-Doria</b></span></div>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-21684060568365007252024-03-15T05:24:00.000-07:002024-03-15T05:34:42.783-07:00 Evolving Art Series 2: Palette Board Speaks of Neo-Darwinism Evolution of Life <p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> Evolving Art Series 2</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Palette Board Speaks of</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Neo-Darwinism Evolution of Life</span></b></div><p></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2857273520971200449" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 528.4px;"><div class="post-header" style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5857011436335734013" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16.335px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 528px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Paintings and Verses by </b><b>Dr Abe V Rotor</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1JouZnrOJRLrBExn9Z29PSsriKwPXHtpj6M2cQHNwFnNhAlaFhOajmxYwv5ZQkoDubqPMtzE9MUCZ61v2DNU3z0OW65Yp-r1fR50dx0oFN3MHUpn2BNiQ2ooo_KSZLgwktGn932Wc4ZyL/s1600/DSC04109+A.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1JouZnrOJRLrBExn9Z29PSsriKwPXHtpj6M2cQHNwFnNhAlaFhOajmxYwv5ZQkoDubqPMtzE9MUCZ61v2DNU3z0OW65Yp-r1fR50dx0oFN3MHUpn2BNiQ2ooo_KSZLgwktGn932Wc4ZyL/w492-h330/DSC04109+A.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="492" /></span></a></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Speleology and tourism, what a combination;</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">though both exploit the secrets of the past, </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">trace the beginning of human's civilization,</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">and Plato's allegory of the escaped outcast. </span></b></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFUh40aqZFCOVqE0hV0zNaZDMDF51BZsAnP3FUaGiyDNx0_eTVR4DqizEKx-NZvrva_7alPrysqou0SLHIDvFfsI1UxNA7vm0l9x2uAULxLRMRv4D9S7_8IGHRT0lGELGq2dt0Edy-NMgd/s1600/DSC04104+A.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFUh40aqZFCOVqE0hV0zNaZDMDF51BZsAnP3FUaGiyDNx0_eTVR4DqizEKx-NZvrva_7alPrysqou0SLHIDvFfsI1UxNA7vm0l9x2uAULxLRMRv4D9S7_8IGHRT0lGELGq2dt0Edy-NMgd/w375-h400/DSC04104+A.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="375" /></span></a></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Linnaeus, if alive today, would wonder, </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">how he missed in his study </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">organisms posthumously emerged </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">from science and technology. </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhclfcwPIFP5umGC7x7J4PmGsN04BF3zvF3Pl3QpQW9SvOzA85Exxna1YIPiA7pcib2YPpRW55J_lUnMUdYjNqKShPuPdN5t7ZJNyHUj3f89SRcv56KX0DBHdxaW_ZTpuGHXqdUbdFZ2H0I/s1600/DSC04105+A.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhclfcwPIFP5umGC7x7J4PmGsN04BF3zvF3Pl3QpQW9SvOzA85Exxna1YIPiA7pcib2YPpRW55J_lUnMUdYjNqKShPuPdN5t7ZJNyHUj3f89SRcv56KX0DBHdxaW_ZTpuGHXqdUbdFZ2H0I/w400-h300/DSC04105+A.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <b>Coral reef of deceiving beauty, </b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">red for warning, black for death;</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">white as skeleton; blue-green, </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">invasion of the primitive scum</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">that once ruled the early earth. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwWtlNeOXM5v-CeiXaGs7Sj1s5CKMelWWGCgZUSx3SSZJPI1QpZU_nBPVRNvQjeVboCtPk2VG1yRXnoNpzIwJXI-qsBq8nmDXErpHRDWWDq1aQ0CCfyj_nPeXaJ1Ns1yO0cfecsDVQRIsI/s1600/DSC04101+A.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwWtlNeOXM5v-CeiXaGs7Sj1s5CKMelWWGCgZUSx3SSZJPI1QpZU_nBPVRNvQjeVboCtPk2VG1yRXnoNpzIwJXI-qsBq8nmDXErpHRDWWDq1aQ0CCfyj_nPeXaJ1Ns1yO0cfecsDVQRIsI/w400-h360/DSC04101+A.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">If you can decipher what life forms these are, </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">you must be an artist, like Picasso or Matisse,</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">masters of abstract art - not the ideal, the real, </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="font-size: 14.85px;">the form and order of God's creation </b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>remised</b></span><b style="font-size: 14.85px;">. ~ </b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div></div></div>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-36103094193122497362024-03-14T08:44:00.000-07:002024-03-14T08:44:57.008-07:00Bromeliads form a unique aerial ecosystem<p> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bromeliads form a unique aerial ecosystem</span></b></span></p><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr Abe V Rotor</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Bromeliads include the pineapple (<i>Ananas comosus</i>), </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">the only edible member of Family Bromeliaceae.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div></b><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiAoeE3fzIDluSnJKtAjUFs0M6VPh6-4cSS1yKStvvlbhTw02-vnuhzPJyTCwpZ2PAX2AHfXI2qbkTDTJyzhX_mecNBuS2o0M7eLuTZmonagE7dxvqfNIyZjejbc2eqkkJSC9Xsb0SOO4/s1600/Bromeliad+IMG_7965+A.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiAoeE3fzIDluSnJKtAjUFs0M6VPh6-4cSS1yKStvvlbhTw02-vnuhzPJyTCwpZ2PAX2AHfXI2qbkTDTJyzhX_mecNBuS2o0M7eLuTZmonagE7dxvqfNIyZjejbc2eqkkJSC9Xsb0SOO4/s640/Bromeliad+IMG_7965+A.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="426" /></span></b></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif6Tvp-89dxcznKlUQ92LyNR_fa-ayAN0NLnJvRl8vLxgz6y2MMc9_gif_N1Pb_QOHX18Xq6arJiVdhjSS0xcAUHFDA2ICTgUvNHC2upB4ofP_yu_KsY3nB2VB4UsV7ERlaQrlvQi35xw/s1600/Bromeliad+IMG_7988+A.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif6Tvp-89dxcznKlUQ92LyNR_fa-ayAN0NLnJvRl8vLxgz6y2MMc9_gif_N1Pb_QOHX18Xq6arJiVdhjSS0xcAUHFDA2ICTgUvNHC2upB4ofP_yu_KsY3nB2VB4UsV7ERlaQrlvQi35xw/s640/Bromeliad+IMG_7988+A.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="427" /></span></b></a></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="text-align: center;"><div><b><br /></b></div>Brightly colored false petals of bromeliad attract insects and other organisms to fertilize its shy, short-live flowers. The bright pseudo flowers serve as markers in the dense and vast forest high up in the trees. Here bromeliads form colonies with connecting rhizomes, and with other epiphytes - ferns, orchids and lianas - make a unique aerial ecosystem. </span><br /></span></b><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-IJK0oCQNysw9s6p0vyomzS4X4E-HV4bmg73RqIXoE32DIlgyxqrzRgE-PQJZw5C6qLMztJTOs2tHWT1Dsik0dhOfPz9qibHd0af_zf1ky4mZqnh7fePk5len8Jjnsi-PSb3T0eWD8pA/s1600/Bromeliad+IMG_7958+A.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-IJK0oCQNysw9s6p0vyomzS4X4E-HV4bmg73RqIXoE32DIlgyxqrzRgE-PQJZw5C6qLMztJTOs2tHWT1Dsik0dhOfPz9qibHd0af_zf1ky4mZqnh7fePk5len8Jjnsi-PSb3T0eWD8pA/s400/Bromeliad+IMG_7958+A.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></b></a></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxPcKWbw4T2HKSXLKI_DudtzX5jCCp2OhG-_PpM40lt1AMcnoK5dGOl5OwaX8I4h1bNkxQJHIQimqnX-UbhexjXK-rWfE1Ezcw6o-Z2VFElxFan-J7g7_dWtfKk1QVaVahJqgRq6HWN9A/s1600/Bromeliad+IMG_7967+A.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxPcKWbw4T2HKSXLKI_DudtzX5jCCp2OhG-_PpM40lt1AMcnoK5dGOl5OwaX8I4h1bNkxQJHIQimqnX-UbhexjXK-rWfE1Ezcw6o-Z2VFElxFan-J7g7_dWtfKk1QVaVahJqgRq6HWN9A/s400/Bromeliad+IMG_7967+A.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></b></a></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></b></div>Domesticated bromeliads are popular ornamental plants in gardens and around homes. One disadvantages though is that it becomes a breeding place of mosquitoes and other vermin. It is because we have detached them from their natural habitat where they are part of a complex food web. Here mosquito wrigglers are preyed upon by naiads of Odonatans (dragonflies and damselflies), while the adults are trapped in spider webs. Tree frogs have their fill of flies and other insects. Fish live in the axil ponds and can even transfer to nearby bromeliads and even to the water below to hunt and to mate. While reptiles occupy the top of the food pyramid, hawks and eagles come to prey on them. Like a chain, just one link broken, and the system fails. </span></b><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig6jAVFmxSfrENOjhw9reA-yDkU514rdsIuzgk07TozGxX3uudu9SafQvOQddBsPkIp7fQO7J6M1laorjCnORCg8hyPbj65eQaLpnUZNX8AFtkk0buBjX-raEBY6dYC14y3hRX-TpPmAg/s1600/Bromeliad+DSC04414+AB.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig6jAVFmxSfrENOjhw9reA-yDkU514rdsIuzgk07TozGxX3uudu9SafQvOQddBsPkIp7fQO7J6M1laorjCnORCg8hyPbj65eQaLpnUZNX8AFtkk0buBjX-raEBY6dYC14y3hRX-TpPmAg/s400/Bromeliad+DSC04414+AB.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSbBQpufXt0w7lgoQh4wS_kF62Dn4SjIskxk895NXJ97wA8oR9qSWNxoyFrQ7rRylQGVJkJEKiidpeds3dnFHVWdb4SSZrhjNBo83wFH2boes0vktdoJQEZCIey64KPAtzCK2CHeQUi9U/s1600/Bromeliad+DSC04425++A.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSbBQpufXt0w7lgoQh4wS_kF62Dn4SjIskxk895NXJ97wA8oR9qSWNxoyFrQ7rRylQGVJkJEKiidpeds3dnFHVWdb4SSZrhjNBo83wFH2boes0vktdoJQEZCIey64KPAtzCK2CHeQUi9U/s400/Bromeliad+DSC04425++A.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Bromeliads, which includes the pineapple (the only edible member in the family), are nature's reservoir of miniature ponds that provide abode to many organisms from insects to fish. The central receptacle collects water from dew and rain which spills over to the adjoining leaf axils, making a continuous pond. The sequence, like a series of terraces, makes water collection and retention efficient, giving chance for the various resident organisms to complete - and repeat - their life cycles. And for transient organisms to have their regular visit.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">In this pond system, detritus accumulates and fertilizes the bromeliad as well as other plants around and below it, including its host tree, in exchange for its foothold and other benefits. And being epiphytic and colonial in growing habit on trunks and limbs of trees, bromeliads form a unique aerial ecosytem other epiphytes, and the surrounding trees.~ </span></span></b></div>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-53202361075398223842024-03-14T08:37:00.000-07:002024-03-14T08:37:08.575-07:00Early Sunset of a Landscape<p> <b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> Early Sunset of a Landscape</b></p><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Landscape - but whose landscape?</span></b></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">robbed from people, robbed from Nature..."</span></b></div></span></b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-family: verdana;">Dr Abe V Rotor</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtqR_Ua7lCpXzaRNu5EdgicUxTiknN27846c28fGrMAkDCp6fX3vtu0AGNif9qLqag4uwfpXE8-OexpS58w5jGhkqVCIH4drZeIooSih8Ooe96daGCevs04nV9QtCofIZWOD9JkR3GGXA/s1600/Philit++Early+Sunset.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtqR_Ua7lCpXzaRNu5EdgicUxTiknN27846c28fGrMAkDCp6fX3vtu0AGNif9qLqag4uwfpXE8-OexpS58w5jGhkqVCIH4drZeIooSih8Ooe96daGCevs04nV9QtCofIZWOD9JkR3GGXA/s400/Philit++Early+Sunset.png" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="margin: 0in;"></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">View from a hill in Antipolo, Rizal, June 1, 2013</span></b></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 85.5pt;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-family: verdana;">Afternoon and it's already sunset,</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 85.5pt;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-family: verdana;">behind gray clouds the sun's shining,</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 85.5pt;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-family: verdana;">wearing a red veil over the horizon,</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 85.5pt;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-family: verdana;">with dust stirred into the air floating.</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 85.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 85.5pt;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-family: verdana;">Beauty in birth and death - and life,</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 85.5pt;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-family: verdana;">in between - clinging to final fate</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 85.5pt;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-family: verdana;">in man's hand - and oh! how lonely,</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 85.5pt;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-family: verdana;">how sad, nil of hope and losing faith.</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 85.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 85.5pt;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-family: verdana;">Landscape - but whose landscape?</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 85.5pt;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-family: verdana;">robbed from people, robbed from nature,</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 85.5pt;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-family: verdana;">from beauty sublime, to one's design</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 85.5pt;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-family: verdana;">for gain and power, not for the future. </span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 85.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 85.5pt;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-family: verdana;">And he speaks on behalf of progress,</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 85.5pt;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-family: verdana;">measured by concrete and steel,</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 85.5pt;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-family: verdana;">by the amenities of the Good Life,</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 85.5pt;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-family: verdana;">in unending want, incessant fill. ~ </span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 85.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 85.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></div>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-19780927103738048592024-03-14T08:27:00.000-07:002024-03-15T05:36:12.806-07:00Evolving Art Series 3: Living Prism in the Deep<p> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> Evolving Art Series 3</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: center;">Living Prism in the Deep</span></b></span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6225910138509461348" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 528.4px;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""arial black", sans-serif">Painting and Poem by Dr Abe V Rotor</span><br /><span face=""arial black", sans-serif"><br /></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSxVm9H0OEVMqI0_Qp7wVYkQ4SDFVAGH-3AcpREyboU4aTffLHlJQ5y6tAuo7snTL_Ys4-FNZcfRlujpnAOX1AUQNSeiEW2TpQdGtw4qHod-npww8VqCWWWLqG1LNWCpA5cegQqwQMcJE0/s1600/Photo0848.jpg" style="clear: right; color: #336699; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="922" data-original-width="1600" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSxVm9H0OEVMqI0_Qp7wVYkQ4SDFVAGH-3AcpREyboU4aTffLHlJQ5y6tAuo7snTL_Ys4-FNZcfRlujpnAOX1AUQNSeiEW2TpQdGtw4qHod-npww8VqCWWWLqG1LNWCpA5cegQqwQMcJE0/w505-h290/Photo0848.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="505" /></a><br /><i style="text-align: left;">Living Prism in the Deep</i><span style="text-align: left;"> in acrylic (24” x 43”) 2017</span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in;"><div style="margin: 0in;"><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Sunlight splits into colors, the rainbow,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> through droplets hanging in the sky,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>the deep among seaweeds where fishes play,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> letting time and the world go by.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Oh, how the seasons come and go at ease,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> ephemeral in our lifetime,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>yet fullest in awe and wonder and joy,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> in the living prism in our prime.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>In the golden years as the sun sets down,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""arial black", "sans-serif""> and into the deep its last rays soon die,</span><br /><span face=""arial black", sans-serif">lingers, flickers the light saved by the day</span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> into beautiful dreams to live by. ~</b></span></div></div></div></div>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-81054361000890470632024-03-12T18:05:00.000-07:002024-03-13T14:17:15.364-07:00Forest on a Wall Mural:: Bringing Nature into the City<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Forest on a Wall Mural</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Bringing Nature into the City</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr Abe V Rotor</span></b></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0hHLBfat1aIOanErVzAkUtFYRhGGJ5na-dJ0nFy_TQ85ID4o8ZLjHBFxxUDap-au6KXkO8yoECqSlmRdkq8rwveBc2YRt15wMQYaOvnJCT_EYLzYScRhkkDqN_bm1__1BEKnZ8Ce3WfY/s1600/DSC05700+AB.jpg"><img border="0" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0hHLBfat1aIOanErVzAkUtFYRhGGJ5na-dJ0nFy_TQ85ID4o8ZLjHBFxxUDap-au6KXkO8yoECqSlmRdkq8rwveBc2YRt15wMQYaOvnJCT_EYLzYScRhkkDqN_bm1__1BEKnZ8Ce3WfY/w535-h331/DSC05700+AB.jpg" width="535" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzqyfuNBuQQOLb7Lf66QzLy2XZRNqlfWSIufQajU61ofN4-QXutScmDEwNDK2oHHVwOzEZsE36asIZfuVTOhJTQ9MaYPfDS2HAL9z7kYsji-xN-BPGkNAIBZFOnbLhDEfp_QGt1lg2vAU/s1600/DSC05698+A.jpg"><img border="0" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzqyfuNBuQQOLb7Lf66QzLy2XZRNqlfWSIufQajU61ofN4-QXutScmDEwNDK2oHHVwOzEZsE36asIZfuVTOhJTQ9MaYPfDS2HAL9z7kYsji-xN-BPGkNAIBZFOnbLhDEfp_QGt1lg2vAU/w464-h244/DSC05698+A.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSakxPeO7j5XvCHkoE8_Fjg74aFg37YuvdJlhqMVAoHfUGkZ6EyABFxfGg3kQeZ252WcCHzemQhRcHOInEW73Qy4t1tWIKtbA-J7qnhMclYSi2-euLutHb7CPhvH7chRmM7TauwsGLFwE/s1600/DSC05705++A.jpg"><img border="0" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSakxPeO7j5XvCHkoE8_Fjg74aFg37YuvdJlhqMVAoHfUGkZ6EyABFxfGg3kQeZ252WcCHzemQhRcHOInEW73Qy4t1tWIKtbA-J7qnhMclYSi2-euLutHb7CPhvH7chRmM7TauwsGLFwE/w460-h257/DSC05705++A.jpg" width="460" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">A Tropical Rainforest Wall Mural (3.5 ft x 15 ft) in acrylic by Dr Abe V Rotor at his residence in Lagro, corner Kudyapi St and Lam-ang St, 2015. The mural is an integral part (3rd panel) of a larger mural (7 ft x 30 ft).</span></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The mural is made up of three sections as shown in the above photos: </span></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Emergent trees and their tenants (top);</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Exploring a forest stream (middle),</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Food web and energy flow (lowermost)</span></blockquote></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipzVp6Fz-8UZ690-G9zJkNeYJJrcGD__25kuzu7uXgElgMjSSBiX21k5gtsnvU0DuPSsRHXMm-izOBvJAVAmU2g8pTQdJG4sA8Y7qJkYkfoWtgT2TBQbNz_Nu-gY9dpHrF9Nn9LvN20Zo/s1600/DSC05717+A.jpg"><img border="0" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipzVp6Fz-8UZ690-G9zJkNeYJJrcGD__25kuzu7uXgElgMjSSBiX21k5gtsnvU0DuPSsRHXMm-izOBvJAVAmU2g8pTQdJG4sA8Y7qJkYkfoWtgT2TBQbNz_Nu-gY9dpHrF9Nn9LvN20Zo/w220-h293/DSC05717+A.jpg" width="220" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ActAaILmwW3b36Z12FkNBi_fYEIzA189wSdHar4o7uzNNngcxKH3xl6jtDh5LhTFz6VUdcj-hoZw-40xEy1d0nQIS5YKJ1gYNFT67J7T3w84tr8nRZXxk9gOdJa6d6oVEIUEeC1AL_8/s1600/DSC05720+A.jpg"><img border="0" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ActAaILmwW3b36Z12FkNBi_fYEIzA189wSdHar4o7uzNNngcxKH3xl6jtDh5LhTFz6VUdcj-hoZw-40xEy1d0nQIS5YKJ1gYNFT67J7T3w84tr8nRZXxk9gOdJa6d6oVEIUEeC1AL_8/w209-h293/DSC05720+A.jpg" width="209" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsgOQ-kedwsN6r3jsy_iWFNf5DPqc91AgWV2qnEDyx0OVhdxevOm5QOZLdHD_mv0TwpEoi0ugvk8tp9svN-7lpdGzFRpmU0EC86KgwiKckR9CSBpdtnJ1-NUD7iw5KIzdfULbG9avGEiY/s1600/DSC05721+A.jpg"><img border="0" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsgOQ-kedwsN6r3jsy_iWFNf5DPqc91AgWV2qnEDyx0OVhdxevOm5QOZLdHD_mv0TwpEoi0ugvk8tp9svN-7lpdGzFRpmU0EC86KgwiKckR9CSBpdtnJ1-NUD7iw5KIzdfULbG9avGEiY/w429-h264/DSC05721+A.jpg" width="429" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisEnBLjfVmtXdbz1cI33z8vHHFGY0RFxjhTqadHEL05TPQALdhd6V2j97tnZxEtfNd8RAePwbUMf6WR6DcbiMo6ptXQGUuV3lQMNxB7eEQ2_q0463Zdz9le5oDoJcdigVYz4uvmUIADUU/s1600/DSC05709+A.jpg"><img border="0" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisEnBLjfVmtXdbz1cI33z8vHHFGY0RFxjhTqadHEL05TPQALdhd6V2j97tnZxEtfNd8RAePwbUMf6WR6DcbiMo6ptXQGUuV3lQMNxB7eEQ2_q0463Zdz9le5oDoJcdigVYz4uvmUIADUU/w223-h372/DSC05709+A.jpg" width="223" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgorqhDBtv1WNbHQKFG_H9nXDREZfQE_MYC7ZezqeEoHaOqDiwSUBxM9pR3S-dtE60ruhSWhkehO2qVtdnhPf8gt-GPkw-57QKZ32NVL9uhXGFpYkAFbR85BT-dsQeNU6CsSyJ_8esnaWA/s1600/DSC05716+A.jpg"><img border="0" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgorqhDBtv1WNbHQKFG_H9nXDREZfQE_MYC7ZezqeEoHaOqDiwSUBxM9pR3S-dtE60ruhSWhkehO2qVtdnhPf8gt-GPkw-57QKZ32NVL9uhXGFpYkAFbR85BT-dsQeNU6CsSyJ_8esnaWA/w208-h372/DSC05716+A.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Among the countless creatures of the tropical rainforest that comprise its rich biodiversity are: a rat, giant among its kind in the lowland, lives in a hollow of a tree; boa constrictor adapted to arboreal life, transient gulls adapted to both sea and forest life; tree iguana that branched out of marine iguanas, and those that live in dry conditions; chameleon the master of camouflage and mimicry; sloth, mother and young, clinging on a tree motionless and sleeping most of its life.</span></b></div><span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI8kHdB47s5fkoN7KlgeVgpbrvcaFSYA1qzgj-Rv-ex6ZPEfWcdXxMS3MYp78sJRRiaxpskhyphenhyphenuEqFICCN6RzEmk44vCJ7n-r6HxhVvwq4QQX9rSa72hLum6VMXmtukphlf5xw_pOuZx3c/w289-h169/DSC05707+A.jpg" width="289" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8gzUzJr8vxplnAxFrjHdNNBTFZaDFriFRHa3XxWKvYuKl5ojlQ8gIOjGVh_GUTlHcisvEY0YU0jYfJeTNC4LUjrCnS0Dyy8k1aSQoeuGMqqGpnEHDASVCqgskzJCDF3koACNQK9kfIrU/s1600/DSC05714+A.jpg"><img border="0" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8gzUzJr8vxplnAxFrjHdNNBTFZaDFriFRHa3XxWKvYuKl5ojlQ8gIOjGVh_GUTlHcisvEY0YU0jYfJeTNC4LUjrCnS0Dyy8k1aSQoeuGMqqGpnEHDASVCqgskzJCDF3koACNQK9kfIrU/w182-h169/DSC05714+A.jpg" width="182" /></a></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">My grandson, Markus Andrei, 6 months old then, and his nanny ~</span></div></div>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-58853236010130904812024-03-10T23:50:00.000-07:002024-03-12T17:59:57.783-07:00THE LAMP - Man's Beacon of Wisdom, Peace, Love and Reverence in 5 Articles<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">THE LAMP - </b><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Man's Beacon of Wisdom, Peace, Love and Reverence</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Dr Abe V Rotor</span></b></div><div><br /></div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Part 1 - "I am looking for an honest man." - Diogenes <br />Part 2 - Florence Nightingale - The Lady with a Lamp</span></b><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><b style="text-align: center;"><span><span><span>Part 3 - </span></span></span></b><b style="text-align: center;"><span><span>The Lamp of Knowledge -</span><span> </span></span></b></span><b><span><span>Light your Lamp and Keep it Bright</span><span> </span></span></b></span></div><div><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span>Annex A - </span></span></span><span> </span><span><span>Light up your life w</span></span></span></b><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">hen life seems to come to a stop </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Annex B - Old Lighthouse of a Rocky Cove</span></b><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Part 1 - <span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">"I am looking for an honest man." - Diogenes </span></span></b></span></p><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="font-family: arial;">Dr Abe V Rotor</span></span></b></div></b><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXkP253XukxmqnCD9u7nWxLaE5U0E5f6s1IGn6yii1Ez8yoa2gATvrvuyczMU3jLw9Zcncid-6OEAUQf5Y_vkVn5O9uQS27J2Cl-LuPnKKFMq5w8wnsfRzFTalKlIIKiM_GbSRZPZ-XPA0/s1600/Diogenes_looking_for_a_man_-_attributed_to_JHW_Tischbein.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><img border="0" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXkP253XukxmqnCD9u7nWxLaE5U0E5f6s1IGn6yii1Ez8yoa2gATvrvuyczMU3jLw9Zcncid-6OEAUQf5Y_vkVn5O9uQS27J2Cl-LuPnKKFMq5w8wnsfRzFTalKlIIKiM_GbSRZPZ-XPA0/s400/Diogenes_looking_for_a_man_-_attributed_to_JHW_Tischbein.jpg" width="400" /></b></span></a></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Diogenes used to stroll about in full daylight with a<span class="apple-converted-space"> lamp. W</span>hen asked what he was doing, he would answer, "I am just looking for an honest man." <span class="apple-converted-space">Diogenes looked for a human being but reputedly found nothing but rascals and scoundrels. </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Oh, Diogenes, don't despair,</span></b></span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">put off your lamp at midday;</span></b></span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">save it for the darkest hour,</span></b></span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">when people rage than pray,</span></b></span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span>storm the Bastille, cry the trilogy:</span></b></span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><i><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Liberte', Egalite', Fraternite'.</span></i></b></span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><i><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></i></b></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">and if that dawn be spilled </span></b></span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">with crimson then let it be</span></b></span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">in the halls of true justice,</span></b></span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">for heads to roll in ignominy;</span></b></span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">if so few make no difference</span></b></span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">light again your lamp at midday. ~ AVR </span></b></span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNO5A3gjsa-B0er-CFXEaiIH_x0d2FzeRMhLCc0SCAYseXxHLwpdLJxv-on22cP3PkQs6kgvhOD9Z9XVjpCgzt9ClYjhlgCgt39qJHZUwKckTHKQivL2u4wbUCy64eOeZkr4FT-jMa-2Qv/s1600/Diogenes-and-Alexander.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNO5A3gjsa-B0er-CFXEaiIH_x0d2FzeRMhLCc0SCAYseXxHLwpdLJxv-on22cP3PkQs6kgvhOD9Z9XVjpCgzt9ClYjhlgCgt39qJHZUwKckTHKQivL2u4wbUCy64eOeZkr4FT-jMa-2Qv/w381-h314/Diogenes-and-Alexander.jpg" width="381" /></a></b></div></span></b></span><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>It was in Corinth that a meeting between Alexander the Great <span class="apple-converted-space">and Diogenes is supposed to have taken place.<span style="color: #0b0080;"> W</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space">hile Diogenes was relaxing in the sunlight in the morning, Alexander, thrilled to meet the famous philosopher, asked if there was any favor he might do for him. Diogenes replied, "Yes, stand out of my sunlight". Alexander then declared, "If I were not Alexander, then I should wish to be Diogenes.", to which Diogenes replied "If I were not Diogenes, I should also wish to be Diogenes."</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> In another account of the conversation, Alexander found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, "I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave. (Wikipedia)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhga7ujtLRx5dG7MWBdMab9b0bCXbxV08J3hzVI6Ma2vwNddoSCW9LsdfIQ0vKZR5ZjnqgGBGqizSbqIoM56h6bwFI7V9N6dlmjiPzrqEQIvnrDR0vABnInco2TBNHybqdNvVRmIVqnX0S8/s1600/Diogenes+images+(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhga7ujtLRx5dG7MWBdMab9b0bCXbxV08J3hzVI6Ma2vwNddoSCW9LsdfIQ0vKZR5ZjnqgGBGqizSbqIoM56h6bwFI7V9N6dlmjiPzrqEQIvnrDR0vABnInco2TBNHybqdNvVRmIVqnX0S8/w380-h278/Diogenes+images+(1).jpg" width="380" /></a><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Diogenes preferred to live a simple life and had no permanent home, but in public places. Here he lives in a discarded jar, holding the proverbial lamp that made him famous. Pictures from Wikipedia.</span><br /><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Diogenes Quotes </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /><br />1. Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.</span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">2. I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /><br />3. Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.<br /><br />4. I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.<br /><br />5. We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.<br /><br />6. The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.<br /><br />7. As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.<br /><br />8. I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.<br /><br />9. The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.<br /><br />10.. When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.</span><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></b></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo:Diogenes looking for a man - attributed to JHW Tischbein.jpg; picture of painting from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; quotes from BrainyQuote Internet. Diogenes of Sinope (also Diogenes the Cynic) was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. Also known as Diogenes the Cynic, he was born in Sinope, an Ionian colony on the Black Sea, in 412 or 404 BCE and died at Corinth in 323 BCE</b></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Part 2 - </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Florence Nightingale - The Lady with a Lamp</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Dr Abe V Rotor</span></b></div><div class="post-header" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4088686058043540567" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 528.4px;"><span style="background-color: white; clear: left; float: left; font-family: verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYQcYnGHNp8BzyObA5W6WaEzVuVxebxAAcA1PvbhJ2geGJl6gc67NbXyGJ7CKAAShyhDAiYHU8f7q-0VjQvb9sxq0GnFnjU1Gin2y4iq-wcr_ugSR_UB9vE24GUKs_RlJaztItIvWLIHl5/s1600/florence-nightingale.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="320" /></span><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Lamp is symbolic of Life; it is the light of divinity, wisdom, intellect, and good works. It is the pinnacle symbol of self-sacrifice, as it consumes itself to offer light to the world. So does the lamp of Florence Nightingale, the lamp of Diogenes searching for an honest man at midday, the torch of the academe that spread the light of knowledge and wisdom.</span></b><b><span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> Light a Candle<br /></span><br /></span></b></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 528.4px;"><b><span><span style="font-family: arial;">In the dark look at the sky and the stars</span></span></b></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 528.4px;"><b><span><span style="font-family: arial;">They’re living gems, a thousand eyes;</span></span></b></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 528.4px;"><b><span><span style="font-family: arial;">They soothe the soul, heal wounds into scars –</span></span></b></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 528.4px;"><b><span><span style="font-family: arial;">They come to mingle with fireflies.</span></span></b></div></blockquote><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: left; width: 528.4px;"><b><span><br /></span></b></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: left; width: 528.4px;"><b><span><span style="font-family: arial;">Short is life; man is but a living dust,</span></span></b></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: left; width: 528.4px;"><b><span><span style="font-family: arial;">But many great things come to pass.</span></span></b></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: left; width: 528.4px;"><b><span><span style="font-family: arial;">Someday you shall learn from the sages,</span></span></b></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: left; width: 528.4px;"><b><span><span style="font-family: arial;">Those who live through the ages.</span></span></b></div></blockquote><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: left; width: 528.4px;"><b><span><br /></span></b></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: left; width: 528.4px;"><b><span><span style="font-family: arial;">Not for glory, they fill the emptiness;</span></span></b></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: left; width: 528.4px;"><b><span><span style="font-family: arial;">Go light a candle in gladness.</span></span></b></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: left; width: 528.4px;"><b><span><span style="font-family: arial;">Fireflies and stars in the night are one,</span></span></b></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: left; width: 528.4px;"><b><span><span style="font-family: arial;">Like flowers that bear the sun. </span></span></b></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: left; width: 528.4px;"><b><span><span style="font-family: arial;"> - avrotor</span></span></b></div></blockquote></blockquote><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: left; width: 528.4px;"><b></b><b><span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Who is Florence Nightingale? She is one of the most famous women of the world. She is the founder of the nursing profession</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Her first patient was a dog. And this is the story.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: left; width: 528.4px;"><b><span><span style="font-family: arial;">One day when she was a girl she happened to pass by a wounded sheep-dog on the roadside. The shepherd told her that his dog met an accident and broke a leg. The wound was so bad that the dog would have to be killed since this was the custom in those days.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">She did not delay; she made splints and bandaged the wound, and not for long the dog was running about again. The shepherd was very thankful to Florence, and when she became famous he would tell people that her first patient had been his dog, Cap.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">In 1854 war broke in Crimea in the southern part of Russia. It was fought between Russia on one side and Turkey, helped by Britain and France, on the other. Florence was then 34 years old, and had convinced her rich parents to let her become a nurse.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">The conditions prevailing in the Crimean War were getting worse. There were no hospitals, or if there were, they were poorly managed. There were few doctors and nurses were more of housekeepers of hospitals. It is not like the hospitals we know today. There were as many wounded soldiers dying due to lack of proper medical attention, as there were in the battlefield, a condition the British soldiers were experiencing.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">On receiving this news the Minister of War in England wrote a letter to Florence requesting her to organize a team of nurses to go to Crimea, which is more than a thousand miles away, and would take weeks to reach through poor roads and rough seas.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">She accepted the challenge and immediately set forth with 38 women volunteers, most were devoted nurses from religious hospitals. They braved the stormy sea, and when they were on the way, the Battle of Balaclava was being fought. This is the famous battle in British history known as The Charge of the Light Brigade.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">This is how a survivor described the battle.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">“Because of the mistake about what they were supposed to do, these six hundred men galloped along a valley more than a mile long, with Russian cannon shooting at them from all sides. Many of them were killed and wounded, but they never stopped until they had ridden right up to the cannon and captured them.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">The wounded soldiers from the Battle of Balaclava were among the first patients of Florence and her volunteers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">The life of nurses was very hard in those days. They attended to many household and kitchen works. There was very little time to rest. What made the condition worse was because women in those days were not equally treated with men. There was discrimination, especially by the doctors who were all males.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">But Florence persevered, so with the remaining volunteers and new nurses she trained. The hospitals became very clean and orderly. She established a system of management. There were enough supplies. Gardens were cultivated to supply the hospitals with fresh fruits and vegetables. There were fewer patients dying than before and they were recovering much faster.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Florence would be holding a lamp in the middle of the night, or into the wee hours in the morning, just to check the conditions of the patients. This scene became the symbol of the modern nursing profession.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Here in our country we have many battles to be fought. But these battles are not those in Crimea many years back. The enemy is different yet the objective is the same – the welfare of the people. We need fighters against poverty, disease and hopelessness. We need fighters who give themselves unselfishly, voluntarily without fear.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">We have leaders in the Philippines in the like of Florence Nightingale. One of them is Dr. Fe del Mundo, a medical doctor who founded the hospitals for children. These hospitals are among the best managed government hospitals in the Philippines today. Because of these hospitals thousands and thousands of children have been saved. Many more patients were given proper medical attention in the last fifty years or so. Many doctors and nurses have been trained to follow the example set by Dr. Del Mundo.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">People who have apparently lost hope find the lamp in the middle of the night burning bright. Florence Nightingale and Fe del Mundo are making their rounds. ~ </span></span></b></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: left; width: 528.4px;"><b><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 528.4px;"><b><span><span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Part 3 - </span></span></span></b><b style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Lamp of Knowledge</span></span></b></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 528.4px;"><b style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span> Light your Lamp and Keep it Bright</span><span> </span></b></span></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div>Teaching is an art. It is an art of the masters - Aristotle, Plato, Christ, and many great teachers of the Renaissance that brought the world out of the Dark Ages. While we have developed modern techniques in teaching, it is important to look back into the past.</span></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr Abe V Rotor</b></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisMAXhjqdcLYrDaoUfvqVR5dcenS_WfWo6p3_q21NGPDQEDdgwl4aMjcbvVz8sqnljf8HugdJP2TzyzNH7FKC9RNvxoJkC-bWphpNsSh8GMFXLEkjE92zhxyYwnJrge8bv8lbZG9muDk0/s1600/socrates.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisMAXhjqdcLYrDaoUfvqVR5dcenS_WfWo6p3_q21NGPDQEDdgwl4aMjcbvVz8sqnljf8HugdJP2TzyzNH7FKC9RNvxoJkC-bWphpNsSh8GMFXLEkjE92zhxyYwnJrge8bv8lbZG9muDk0/s1600/socrates.jpg" /></a><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Socrates, father of Philosophy, on his deathbed. He was condemned to die by drinking hemlock, a poison, for corrupting the minds of the youth. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The Lamp of Knowledge</span></div><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></b></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size: small;">It is looking back at the lamp that enabled our national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, to write his last masterpiece, the lamp Florence Nightingale held over her patients at the warfront, the lamp that made Scheherazade’s “one thousand and one nights” stories, the lamp a Greek philosopher held high at daylight “searching for an honest man.” Or the lamp fireflies make and glow with the spirit of joy and adventure to a child. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">But why do we look back and ponder on a tiny light when the world basks in the sunshine of progress and development, of huge networks of learning, of high technologies in practically all fields of endeavor? I’ll tell you why – and why we teachers must.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">But first let me tell a story of a computer enthusiast, who like the modern student today relies greatly on this electronic gadget, doing his school work so conveniently like downloading data for his assignment. So one day he worked on his assigned topic – love. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">He printed the word and set the computer to define for him L-O-V-E. Pronto the computer came up with a hundred definitions and in different languages. Remembering his teacher’s instruction to ask, “How does it feel to be in love?” again he set the computer to respond. And you know what?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">After several attempts, the computer printed on its screen in big letters, “I can not feel.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Where is that main ingredient of human relations – <u>feeling </u>– today?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• Where is the true feeling between teacher and student?</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• Where is the feeling of joy at the end of a teaching day, in spite of how hard the day had been?</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• Where is that tingling feeling of the student for having recited well in class? </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• Where is that feeling in singing the National Anthem, the school hymn?</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• Where is that feeling Rizal felt when a moth circled the lamp in his prison cell while he wrote, Mi Ultimo Adios? </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• Where is that burning desire that drove Michaelangelo to finish single-handedly the huge murals of the Sistine Chapel?</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• That drove Vincent Van Gogh to madness – madness the world learned a new movement in the art – expressionism - years after?</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• That kept Florence Nightingale, the founder of the nursing profession, make her rounds in the hospital in the wee hours of the morning?</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• The lamp that strengthened Plato’s resolve to change the way people should think in the light of truth and justice.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Feeling. There is a song Feelin, and the lyrics ask a lot of questions about human nature changing with the times. I do not think human nature has changed. It is as stable as Nature herself and the natural laws that govern the universe. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">What we are saying is that our ways are changing. The conformity of our actions is more with the rules we set rather than the philosophies on which they are founded. It is our quest for want above our needs that has blinded us and benumbed our feelings, that has taken us to the so-called fast lane so that we no longer see objects as they are, but abstracts, that has made us half-humans in the sense that we spend half of our lives dealing with machines – who have no feelings. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">What then is modern man? I am afraid we have to review some of our references on the Janus-like character of man, like - </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• The Prince and the Pauper</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• The Princess and the Frog</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• The movies - Mask, Superman, Batman, Spiderman </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• Cartoons and animated movies </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">The doubling of characters in man has led him away from permanence. Today, the biggest crisis in man is his impermanence. Impermanence in his domicile, nay, his nationality, political party. Affiliation in business and social organizations, and most disturbingly, with his marriage and family.</span></b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><br /><span style="font-size: small;">When was the last time we said to ourselves – or experienced - the following. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• It’s a weekday for my family and nothing else.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• How I wish I can help my child of his math assignment.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• I’ll teach only this year and will find a more rewarding job after.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• I think it’s time to settle down.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• I want to go to a concert and enjoy the fine art of music.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• Can’t I put all my ideas in a book?</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• It’s always meeting – can’t we just talk?</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• This dizziness, it must be the pressure of my work.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• Maybe I can concentrate on my thesis this time.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• I have not finished reading “Da Vinci Code”. </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• This summer I’ll be with my parents.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Here are ways by which we can brighten up our lamp amidst the factors that test our dedication of our profession as teachers. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">1. Be yourself. Be natural. </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">2. Keep on learning </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">3. Be a model of your family and community</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">4. Relax</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">5. Use you faculties fully and wisely </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Be Natural</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Naturalness is a key to teaching. I saw a film, Natural with then young award-winning Robert Redford as the principal actor. It is a story of a baseball player who became famous. The central theme of his success is his naturalness. Naturalness in pitching, batting - in the sport itself, above all, in his relationship with his team and fans. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Our students can easily sense our sincerity. They shun from us if we are not. They cannot fully express themselves, unless we show our genuine love and care for them. Develop that aura that attracts them, that keeps relationship easy to adapt or adjust.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">“Who dares to teach must never ceases to learn.”</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">- John Cotton Dana </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Be a Model</span></b></span><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe9XED7bB_VbHd7Gm_tBvQK2FZOqh_77Tr9VBZAeRWx6Rqq1cozRPfZc6BZCflxo3PgPtpZwvN_kTZojthhGX-PxAjnoCmlskw5DumAN_GLxBx5WuqB0Leensxs-h2HqOp-ZkdzQUyBRo/s1600/Nightingale_monument_London_closeup_607.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe9XED7bB_VbHd7Gm_tBvQK2FZOqh_77Tr9VBZAeRWx6Rqq1cozRPfZc6BZCflxo3PgPtpZwvN_kTZojthhGX-PxAjnoCmlskw5DumAN_GLxBx5WuqB0Leensxs-h2HqOp-ZkdzQUyBRo/s320/Nightingale_monument_London_closeup_607.jpg" width="240" /></b></span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Florence Nightingale Lady with the Lamp - founder of the nursing profession </span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size: small;">A teacher must have more time for himself and for his family. Teaching is an extension of family life. And this is the primordial stimulus that makes your family a model family and you as a model teacher – because you cause the light of the lamp to radiate to others. </span></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></b></span></span></div><div><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">And it is not only the school that you bring in the light. It is the community because you are also lighting the lamp of others, including the tiny glow in your young students. When they get home, when they interact with their community in whatever capacity they can, even only among their playmates, relatives and neighbors, they are in effect sharing that light which is also the light of understanding and unity. </span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Relax</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Great achievements are usually products of relaxed minds. Relaxation allows the incubation of thoughts and ideas. Churchill found time to paint during the Second World War. In his relaxed mind he made great decisions that saved </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Great Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: small;"> and countless lives. Or take Einstein for instance. His formula which explains the relationship of energy and matter in E=mc2 was drawn out from casually observing moving objects - train, heavenly bodies, marbles. Galileo watched a huge chandelier in a church sway with the breeze and later came up with the principles of pendulum movement. </span><br /><br /><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Darwin</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: small;"> studied biology around the world as if he were on a leisure cruise, and summed up his findings that founded the most controversial Theory of Evolution by means of natural selection. An apple fell on </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Newton</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: small;">’s head when everything was still. Examine closely the parables of Christ. How relaxed the Great Teacher was in telling these stories to the faithful. The lamp shines the brightest when there is no wind. When held high with steady hands and given time to examine things around, views become clearer, and the more certain we are along our way. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Use Your Faculties Fully and Wisely</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Our brain is made up of the left hemisphere, the thinking and reasoning part, and the right hemisphere, the seat of creativity and imagination. Together they reveal an enormous capacity of intelligence, which are pictured in eight realms. These are </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">1. Logic </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">2. Languages</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">3. Music </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">4. Spatial</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">5. Interpersonal</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">6. Intrapersonal </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">7. Kinesthetics </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">8. Naturalism </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">From these realms the teacher draws out his best qualities. He explores, decides, adapts, entertains, leads, and stands courageously to lead the young. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Here he sows the seed of knowledge. And in the young the seed grows, and grows, which the educator Henry Adams expresses in this line.</span><br /><br />“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”</b></span></span><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: left; width: 528.4px;"><b><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 528.4px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><span><span><span> ANNEX A - </span></span></span><span> </span><span><span>Light up your life!</span></span></b></span></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">When life seems to come to a stop </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Dr Abe V Rotor</span></b></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5DCf_ygGWcFyCSl7OGr3pLXBzOLN_YBoVAozMGvifXbHptF-YMMC5Ge-HEO-bT-kowalpZDrdoYj_hkqWPhVvMmhyW-dM87kHiPoTIuk9WQ1r30RzaSPuYzpWg6dAcRUDiYVIsnwselU/s1600/Philit+Anna+parrots.jpg"><img border="0" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5DCf_ygGWcFyCSl7OGr3pLXBzOLN_YBoVAozMGvifXbHptF-YMMC5Ge-HEO-bT-kowalpZDrdoYj_hkqWPhVvMmhyW-dM87kHiPoTIuk9WQ1r30RzaSPuYzpWg6dAcRUDiYVIsnwselU/w306-h243/Philit+Anna+parrots.jpg" width="306" /></a> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkslAjnHGynKEBTRIt9ZJcO5go5oNZwqShXhX48bol9CamHSILQoros8oG0HuyGZeRIjFCUgTrURx8H7cIWyMFSOmN3oT9QjdE3dRXyD___Kh47mVu7-X42GHyKJRdWtAHlmurU7ObKcQ/s1600/Basi+label+h.jpg"><img border="0" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkslAjnHGynKEBTRIt9ZJcO5go5oNZwqShXhX48bol9CamHSILQoros8oG0HuyGZeRIjFCUgTrURx8H7cIWyMFSOmN3oT9QjdE3dRXyD___Kh47mVu7-X42GHyKJRdWtAHlmurU7ObKcQ/w193-h246/Basi+label+h.jpg" width="193" /></a></span></b></div></span></b><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Get close to Nature, befriend her creatures.</span></b></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Birds sing not only for their own kind,</span></b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> but to the world that shares their joy,</span></b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">in melodies notes may not capture,</span></b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> but the heart and spirit they buoy.</span></b></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaQL528rk5tSObKscaPzL_aFVCFS2v9nMqqb5V8g3gxj_x_Eif2oY-ob0Gn98oNu7z0T5bgKAv9-dYIOvKnw_38xiLTSrIlwTkZaUpBviI18_6Iqkg9lVhj9-u8KvQePRgE-CJND57_qY/s1600/Mackie+lola+venie.jpg"><img border="0" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaQL528rk5tSObKscaPzL_aFVCFS2v9nMqqb5V8g3gxj_x_Eif2oY-ob0Gn98oNu7z0T5bgKAv9-dYIOvKnw_38xiLTSrIlwTkZaUpBviI18_6Iqkg9lVhj9-u8KvQePRgE-CJND57_qY/w421-h264/Mackie+lola+venie.jpg" width="421" /></a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">F</span><span style="font-family: arial;">i<span>nd joy with a baby and bring back the joyful years of life.</span></span></b></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">Love the word child for it never dies;</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"> it may sleep as we grow old;</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">it wakes us up like The Little Prince,</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"> when we're lost and troubled.</span></blockquote></blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsO4tnWR7NhXpDxdl_EUuHAe9lzS3y73og7KYqbPGzBSarvwFlEROeLkqEz_CK1PvBHYkDnjHsyJoapTDDJGxwBqaapCkVDv1akiQGR9-r8cVLIdD8cghy6QpIeo96a3Ncbeq0PGg04gc/s1600/IMG_4544.jpg" style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsO4tnWR7NhXpDxdl_EUuHAe9lzS3y73og7KYqbPGzBSarvwFlEROeLkqEz_CK1PvBHYkDnjHsyJoapTDDJGxwBqaapCkVDv1akiQGR9-r8cVLIdD8cghy6QpIeo96a3Ncbeq0PGg04gc/w267-h179/IMG_4544.jpg" width="267" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw8yRGeN25s7-_-jy6kQ2tdE4mfBnJhd92MiR5CjgND2oidLxUxDrImHRQQxBejGJ8dFQ7ZGWUbdUwLv-vtZIe3A448ac0dQxUVkIdcY1oAY6yE0CQTshThMqhU2htvDE3G4hnuItU9VY/s1600/IMG_4606.jpg" style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"><img border="0" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw8yRGeN25s7-_-jy6kQ2tdE4mfBnJhd92MiR5CjgND2oidLxUxDrImHRQQxBejGJ8dFQ7ZGWUbdUwLv-vtZIe3A448ac0dQxUVkIdcY1oAY6yE0CQTshThMqhU2htvDE3G4hnuItU9VY/w235-h157/IMG_4606.jpg" width="235" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When the head seems too heavy to carry... </span></span><b><span style="font-family: arial;">when life seems to come to a stop,</span></b></div><div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">give yourself a break before you break down.</span></b></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Have you walked the sea floor at its lowest ebb,</span></b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> on the shoal and coral reef?</span></b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's Nature's way of cleansing and renewing life</span></b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> in a cycle of joy and grief.</span></b></blockquote></blockquote><div><b></b><b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_nWaq7eBZ1r0c1r-sxeruPoXWhquMoihNJPyfS64gGgCnejn-Nl65VcGvx99etOBxIiu8T-Uv47AWve62A2QWOid8CoO8Eo-8vbMJBkf-Gts3InKQTBm8CTVKKwveSRtkwgQhgPVEZLw/s1600/IMG_7786-213.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_nWaq7eBZ1r0c1r-sxeruPoXWhquMoihNJPyfS64gGgCnejn-Nl65VcGvx99etOBxIiu8T-Uv47AWve62A2QWOid8CoO8Eo-8vbMJBkf-Gts3InKQTBm8CTVKKwveSRtkwgQhgPVEZLw/s400/IMG_7786-213.jpg" /></a></span></b></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Get out of your shadow...</span></b></div></span><br /></b></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">There is a girl afraid of her own shadow,</span></b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> she tried to run away from it in panic.</span></b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">She outgrew the trauma and even talked</span></b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> to her shadow when lost and sick.</span></b></blockquote></blockquote><div><b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYKOTUDJZkkhT_tgGp3WaJj1gjXM5fZRA4ufLj9bH3vxWREWMb24c7Xh22eTJs9TRxnJRo_a4Sj2id3gGTbmItMAm-t6jJ6LcAiZtTCmElMAP4Wn5eswo48AGfhVWCxX_UNQFIskViJW8/s1600/IMG_7653-87.jpg" style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYKOTUDJZkkhT_tgGp3WaJj1gjXM5fZRA4ufLj9bH3vxWREWMb24c7Xh22eTJs9TRxnJRo_a4Sj2id3gGTbmItMAm-t6jJ6LcAiZtTCmElMAP4Wn5eswo48AGfhVWCxX_UNQFIskViJW8/w444-h296/IMG_7653-87.jpg" width="444" /></a></b></div></b><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Catch butterflies and friends...</span></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">(Author, third from left, with his students at UST Graduate School, </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">on an educational field trip in Amadeo, Cavite)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><b><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggOJmUHe0FRWEE174eAAtCOXfk5WEqObXWvUuF-c1Ujp_1qFIkWKZe9oavdQmlQ9a5rF8W9go0NHG4gUX7u3LWznMSyZ_AgHEg1ReLmo2Rzk1bNNql2arXqu_fRJ1w2Pped6H56KoA4022/s400/10112008(001).jpg"><img border="0" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggOJmUHe0FRWEE174eAAtCOXfk5WEqObXWvUuF-c1Ujp_1qFIkWKZe9oavdQmlQ9a5rF8W9go0NHG4gUX7u3LWznMSyZ_AgHEg1ReLmo2Rzk1bNNql2arXqu_fRJ1w2Pped6H56KoA4022/w250-h188/10112008(001).jpg" width="250" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrzUF7yghcPc6ULRXz8M7dJ551PviYZ6W4qYMngFtD_Hs2VB221btarUybrAtV46nvY6g8lu3X8_Nz5Q0vCPfRet8e1wXjdx1H1MUA8YpdESkoIa7dUa5kpHOmO15iSBumWkxKmaZO4yM/s1600/Philit+avr.png"><img border="0" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrzUF7yghcPc6ULRXz8M7dJ551PviYZ6W4qYMngFtD_Hs2VB221btarUybrAtV46nvY6g8lu3X8_Nz5Q0vCPfRet8e1wXjdx1H1MUA8YpdESkoIa7dUa5kpHOmO15iSBumWkxKmaZO4yM/w239-h188/Philit+avr.png" width="239" /></a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Puppet show time - you the actor and subject.</span></b></div></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGcuW235jl36VLbg_b5B9HyW_4yKb1dSvsHkO0bOIod0Yj5uDY3118zH9_8TXmAkjmh_hDx0ivrEtW_5-ZUWSYJeZk72yEPFmvYpvXOT8qvPujo-qWbnePHEV6FnY4X3qeTvSReQvpR8Q/s1600/IMG_2744-8.jpg"><img border="0" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGcuW235jl36VLbg_b5B9HyW_4yKb1dSvsHkO0bOIod0Yj5uDY3118zH9_8TXmAkjmh_hDx0ivrEtW_5-ZUWSYJeZk72yEPFmvYpvXOT8qvPujo-qWbnePHEV6FnY4X3qeTvSReQvpR8Q/w250-h166/IMG_2744-8.jpg" width="250" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRY1oWomEipScF0CecFcA9w2DnX0eBXX_F5FrqaVkHtrG4ZlK0cELPNOZqdFBRKWUcZEjNTUV4swHY7P-ZwZeNBQei_FOZTMObVAgJSPNu8DbKSl-tuzEpgjo5iBut3K-6OSit1IDh9bc/s1600/IMG_2768-32.jpg"><img border="0" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRY1oWomEipScF0CecFcA9w2DnX0eBXX_F5FrqaVkHtrG4ZlK0cELPNOZqdFBRKWUcZEjNTUV4swHY7P-ZwZeNBQei_FOZTMObVAgJSPNu8DbKSl-tuzEpgjo5iBut3K-6OSit1IDh9bc/w247-h166/IMG_2768-32.jpg" width="247" /></a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Make happy faces...lean on a strong shoulder</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">(Author and his family in their light moments)</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"><br /></div></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOiMwYA7-Hp0umyebEv2BpbhXU102cJav6D3gayJ0PmSfigvX7Lx5zjFMqUaD1dGhzZEkXzJ_m5z-wmNz4bksfV67QWbdjSK8uqdLC9VBRZCr7B1Gd8O40garT_KffNJtFJwHJnpKN1Xc/s1600/IMG_8550.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOiMwYA7-Hp0umyebEv2BpbhXU102cJav6D3gayJ0PmSfigvX7Lx5zjFMqUaD1dGhzZEkXzJ_m5z-wmNz4bksfV67QWbdjSK8uqdLC9VBRZCr7B1Gd8O40garT_KffNJtFJwHJnpKN1Xc/s400/IMG_8550.jpg" /></a> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Get out of your box. Be the real you.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Author and daughter Anna, Avilon Zoo, Rizal</span></b></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPbAOgav_HuWvJhIYTh1NKeQQJaIEGL0M13tY3DanZI0mMCMYv8sKL-LN5_kl-WEpg-mnOtJ3ANrHjnnl4hGda8M2qKfqohzlbWsvJJ0MIt0ME-5ji9ETTm_hMNS_wBMXXggrbXdj2EyQ/s1600/IMG_4559.jpg" style="font-weight: bold;"><img border="0" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPbAOgav_HuWvJhIYTh1NKeQQJaIEGL0M13tY3DanZI0mMCMYv8sKL-LN5_kl-WEpg-mnOtJ3ANrHjnnl4hGda8M2qKfqohzlbWsvJJ0MIt0ME-5ji9ETTm_hMNS_wBMXXggrbXdj2EyQ/w145-h218/IMG_4559.jpg" width="145" /></a> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJmrnPrvl_6zOfJiPEDmGOoaEfXPh_rNuzYwBgGbCqebQOFt3wFD1Eu88ukSWAtbOHEsQa9FW-XB3XeHyFguJzN9y3tzmKONmSZOg_NVBL-zHE3z5Ii7jLArIkIFwz_XDMU4rfKKqkfq4/s1600/Flowers+gone.jpg" style="font-weight: bold;"><img border="0" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJmrnPrvl_6zOfJiPEDmGOoaEfXPh_rNuzYwBgGbCqebQOFt3wFD1Eu88ukSWAtbOHEsQa9FW-XB3XeHyFguJzN9y3tzmKONmSZOg_NVBL-zHE3z5Ii7jLArIkIFwz_XDMU4rfKKqkfq4/w309-h206/Flowers+gone.jpg" width="309" /></a></div></span><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Be a dear or deer ... flower girls the second time around.</span></b></div></b><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">Get out of your box before it's too late;</b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"> prison disguised in comfort and care;</b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">it's all yours to act and no one else will,</b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"> to open its door or break its walls. ~</b></blockquote></blockquote><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 528.4px;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 528.4px;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">ANNEX B - Old Lighthouse of a Rocky Cove</span></b></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Dr Abe V Rotor</span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><br /></b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_s8ejuynGJlB3JNV4kjTRV5AdnKsPTK1ybbwsSkeMTds64tsgfnUEER7G3LHJK4DKGBtsVHro5jbrAxrWi4XSuJk1BqY1m3dF_9GL8Dg3Qp-O-lSMuS8lCjFQjM1uCrSF9YzP0hTNaHk/s1600/DSC05380.JPG" style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_s8ejuynGJlB3JNV4kjTRV5AdnKsPTK1ybbwsSkeMTds64tsgfnUEER7G3LHJK4DKGBtsVHro5jbrAxrWi4XSuJk1BqY1m3dF_9GL8Dg3Qp-O-lSMuS8lCjFQjM1uCrSF9YzP0hTNaHk/w412-h378/DSC05380.JPG" width="412" /></a></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><i>Old Lighthouse of a Rocky Cove </i>in acrylic by AVRotor (50" x 47")</b></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><br /></b><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">You had your days of the sailing ships,</span></b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> guiding them all away from danger;</span></b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">and the rocks had grown passive and kind</span></b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> unyielding though to time and wear.</span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"></blockquote><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">I used to climb your spiraling staircase,</span></b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> and gaze the horizon on your deck;</span></b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">waiting for sunset and glow of your lamp,</span></b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> or catch your waning light at daybreak.</span></b></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"></blockquote><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">But that was many, many years ago,</span></b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> brave sentinel of sea and sky,</span></b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">bright and wonder to far, far away land,</span></b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> perhaps even to angels passing by.</span></b></blockquote></blockquote><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">I came home one sunset, and you asked,</span></b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> where in the world I have long been;</span></b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">standing tall still, oh, my dear old friend,</span></b></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> light beams coming out of your ruin.~</span></b></blockquote></blockquote></div>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-18379784409854933112024-03-10T21:30:00.000-07:002024-03-10T21:30:45.443-07:00Verses to Reflect and Meditate about Life<p><b> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Verses to Reflect and Meditate about Life</span></b></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr Abe V Rotor</span></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. We do not have the time, indeed an alibi<br />to indolence and loafing, letting time pass by.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZhiTOjqWSqVt47e6J0fVMA4hdzK6MV59rTmR4ZV610nFZeSMIizU7BmQ4n-esXtDpBkB4Yxy5qrdX0nY8etlKCYkt-gYgen3TaAHAets3F2XJSSXCXY86rUnX1xK6J6cb7voAvg4dSXc/s1600/IMG_0474.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><img border="0" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZhiTOjqWSqVt47e6J0fVMA4hdzK6MV59rTmR4ZV610nFZeSMIizU7BmQ4n-esXtDpBkB4Yxy5qrdX0nY8etlKCYkt-gYgen3TaAHAets3F2XJSSXCXY86rUnX1xK6J6cb7voAvg4dSXc/w279-h272/IMG_0474.jpg" width="279" /></span></a></div><div><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Sun on a hazy day</span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">2. As we undervalue ourselves, so do others<br />undervalue us. Lo, to us all little brothers.<br /><br />3. Self-doubt at the start is often necessary<br />to seek perfection of the trade we carry.<br /><br />4. What is more mean than envy or indolence<br />but the two themselves riding on insolence.<br /><br />5. The worst kind of persecution occurs in the mind,<br />that of the body we can often undermine.<br /><br />6. How seldom, if at all, do we weigh our neighbors<br />the way we weigh ourselves with the same favors?<br /><br />7. Friendship that we share to others multiplies<br />our compassion and love where happiness lies.<br /><br />8. Evil is evil indeed - so with its mirror,<br />while goodness builds on goodness in store.</span></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZdNY6ObFVb2f2KL1Pu_rrfG2FknwqBkv-aBJ_FYQcCbxbygq500GLl2ApjKv4q3ZIYfgq_F8EdJifTN7zo4JFTBap0x-J3l_Y3661wDQJNa2wbT7zGs3QVohttIb03-Iv4OkO4je41WMhD5_CHIeHCAFtdj7WWS09fyZC2ux7FdG7xmayUW-tjlk0/s400/rainbow%201.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="203" data-original-width="400" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZdNY6ObFVb2f2KL1Pu_rrfG2FknwqBkv-aBJ_FYQcCbxbygq500GLl2ApjKv4q3ZIYfgq_F8EdJifTN7zo4JFTBap0x-J3l_Y3661wDQJNa2wbT7zGs3QVohttIb03-Iv4OkO4je41WMhD5_CHIeHCAFtdj7WWS09fyZC2ux7FdG7xmayUW-tjlk0/w348-h223/rainbow%201.jpg" width="348" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Morning rainbow, Bamban, Tarlac </span></span></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">9. That others may learn and soon trust you,<br />show them you're trustworthy, kind and true.<br /><br />10. Kindness and gladness, these however small<br />are never, never put to waste at all.</span></span></h3>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-70254515690275140282024-03-10T13:09:00.000-07:002024-03-10T13:59:19.167-07:00 Animals light up our world <p style="text-align: center;"> <b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Animals light up our world </span></b></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>"Animals are a blessing to God's creation. He created them to assist mankind in many ways." - </b>John Stange, <i>What is Heaven Really Like?</i></span><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Dr Abe V Rotor</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" height="378" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_OBvJ5vFfa4/UTGUfLCHXmI/AAAAAAAAcDc/ViYUhHz9fjw/w504-h378/DSC06315.JPG" width="504" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">"Fly me to the moon" on a sled. San Vicente, Ilocos Sur</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">A sled on to the moon,</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> airplane and ship aboard;<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">a travelogue for kids<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> to conquer the world</b>.</span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" height="288" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MSKxov5lpQw/UTGTHL33wRI/AAAAAAAAcCU/_z5bUdYAyWw/s400/DSC08562+animals+A.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Lakeside leisure at UP-Ayala Park, QC</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Strolling by the pond she's greeted </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> with quaint sound and stare;</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">a member she soon felt in return </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> to some crumbs to share. </span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BG8o-tdCenU/UTGTIoaXVwI/AAAAAAAAcCc/Nx-S6HbkWLw/s1600/DSC02309+fish+A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BG8o-tdCenU/UTGTIoaXVwI/AAAAAAAAcCc/Nx-S6HbkWLw/s400/DSC02309+fish+A.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Babysitting with </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">aquarium fish, Lagro, QC</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Can fish sing lullaby, too?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> Oh, how I wish they do, </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">and be babysitters too,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> for baby and fish in duo. </span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-33mPOTTZ1X8/UTGTNBBr2iI/AAAAAAAAcCk/zlOh3qTj5SA/s1600/Dog%252520Lassie.jpgA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="286" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-33mPOTTZ1X8/UTGTNBBr2iI/AAAAAAAAcCk/zlOh3qTj5SA/s400/Dog%252520Lassie.jpgA.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b>Job well done, indeed. QC </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>This faithful errant though over eager,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> his job done just too well;</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>to earn admiration from his master</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> to say, all's well at the end. </b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" height="317" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WR4af6-6F64/UTGTgnyNxII/AAAAAAAAcC0/XQeNblsPj8g/s400/Animal%252520pig%252520leoCopy%252520of%252520e0968.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b>Greeting a boar in its pen. Baliwag, Bulacan. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Greeting a boar in its pen,</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> a wall away to the open:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">freedom and duty,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> fate and destiny. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wZdhRT0_3dI/UTGTqwbSxoI/AAAAAAAAcC8/1laaQUZgQ6I/s1600/Animals%252520bato%252520bato.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" height="271" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wZdhRT0_3dI/UTGTqwbSxoI/AAAAAAAAcC8/1laaQUZgQ6I/s400/Animals%252520bato%252520bato.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold;">A friendly pigeon, San Pablo, Laguna</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">A wild pigeon submits to friendship</span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> but briefly in a cage;<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">freedom she seeks by an ancient gene<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> that will never age. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dodeGwNJ8Lo/UTGT3kfgw4I/AAAAAAAAcDE/f8p4QU9HVyk/s1600/Animal%252520carabo%252520n%252520girl.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dodeGwNJ8Lo/UTGT3kfgw4I/AAAAAAAAcDE/f8p4QU9HVyk/s400/Animal%252520carabo%252520n%252520girl.jpg" width="387" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Girl passes a herd of carabaos basking in Guiginto, Bulacan</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">An errand walks by a carabao herd</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> on lazy stream and hour;</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">a bread she carries for her grandmother;</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> fairy tale is true after all. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YkT9Z2cipZo/UTGUK7j10KI/AAAAAAAAcDM/D8PenC3ny54/s1600/Animae%252520painting.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" height="377" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YkT9Z2cipZo/UTGUK7j10KI/AAAAAAAAcDM/D8PenC3ny54/s400/Animae%252520painting.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b>Composite cartoon characters of animals. QC </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><i>Animae,</i></b><b> triumph of art and technology,</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> birth of many a queer specie(s);<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">biodiversity of imagination and fantasy,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> enigma of truth and reality.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BLFPkBA4bbg/UTGUK4YLrtI/AAAAAAAAcDQ/G7qrPJAPM0k/s1600/Batangas-FOB%252520165A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BLFPkBA4bbg/UTGUK4YLrtI/AAAAAAAAcDQ/G7qrPJAPM0k/s400/Batangas-FOB%252520165A.jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>King Kong,</i> false image of the kind, </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> shy and the sublime animal,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">misunderstood by evolution </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> for not being rational. </span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dAmEtQBQFDg/UTGUx8t_QDI/AAAAAAAAcDk/zuUJuWX0i6I/s1600/Animal%252520baug%252520c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" height="237" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dAmEtQBQFDg/UTGUx8t_QDI/AAAAAAAAcDk/zuUJuWX0i6I/w357-h237/Animal%252520baug%252520c.jpg" width="357" /></span></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Resurrection from Armageddon</span></b></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> from poison and waste it hid,</b></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>this <i>ba-ug </i>frog a prodigal son </b></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> of man's folly and greed.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hzl9pA5in2E/UTGVERjAF8I/AAAAAAAAcDs/uCgQXWSKUAw/s1600/Animal+turtle+baby.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" height="245" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hzl9pA5in2E/UTGVERjAF8I/AAAAAAAAcDs/uCgQXWSKUAw/w352-h245/Animal+turtle+baby.jpg" width="352" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">A new world bigger than their shell they greet,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> yet shrink and hide in it,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>not when alone and happy, or abandoned</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> but when failed to compete. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rQ14z-c7ox4/UTGVKwiavuI/AAAAAAAAcD0/smajS3QSroY/s1600/Animal+Earthworm+e.jpg"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rQ14z-c7ox4/UTGVKwiavuI/AAAAAAAAcD0/smajS3QSroY/w150-h200/Animal+Earthworm+e.jpg" width="150" /></a> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rNQunrgM0dM/UTGVfPMAA0I/AAAAAAAAcEE/BiUbfknu0Gw/s1600/Animal+earth+a.jpg"><img border="0" height="165" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rNQunrgM0dM/UTGVfPMAA0I/AAAAAAAAcEE/BiUbfknu0Gw/w220-h165/Animal+earth+a.jpg" width="220" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">A living factory works under our feet,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> its product glistens in the rising sun:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>detritus for the garden and farm.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> Who really has the Green Thumb?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dXEcexbZDbg/UTGTbChE5wI/AAAAAAAAcCs/bCPzMdhh-mI/s1600/Animal%252520bunny%2525201.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" height="309" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dXEcexbZDbg/UTGTbChE5wI/AAAAAAAAcCs/bCPzMdhh-mI/w384-h309/Animal%252520bunny%2525201.JPG" width="384" /></span></a></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Hug a bunny when the sky's gray,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> or at the end of a hard day;</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Talk to her, she can understand</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> more than those in a band. </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V72Phu9-JjY/UTGS8QN2uQI/AAAAAAAAcCM/6QOkr76z0Mk/s1600/DSC08359+dog+A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" height="346" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V72Phu9-JjY/UTGS8QN2uQI/AAAAAAAAcCM/6QOkr76z0Mk/s400/DSC08359+dog+A.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Where skill above risk builds confidence,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> takes the two to places they go;</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">What kinship master and pet do make, </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> heads turning to admire and to awe. ~</span></b></div></div></div></div>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-49251521657285237402024-03-09T10:40:00.000-08:002024-03-10T13:00:59.464-07:00Waterfall on a Wall <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial black" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Waterfall on a Wall </span></span></b></span></p><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"The academe would be dry and silent,</span></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial black" , "sans-serif""><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span>if the waterfall doesn’t meet the sea.</span>"</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> - avr</span></span></span></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Dr Abe V Rotor</span></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face=""arial black" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYtGIhPdP21RiAI7OsUh3iMpFO_md9331RL5mYPQMh3lQuW_7so5zRrUeRjAr-Q9o9c0DN2VpLcugXS1BpYkzsxuYFUbShREJaqdC8cqjrhOOYAbsmDjpHyaG3AskTmCtipkmEDgv0NPdl8YN3ekOcMzG0ddXhK1BGFiIoprhQen_Jp8jdzKFoI4gm2A/s320/visit%20gallery%204z.JPG" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="264" data-original-width="320" height="339" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYtGIhPdP21RiAI7OsUh3iMpFO_md9331RL5mYPQMh3lQuW_7so5zRrUeRjAr-Q9o9c0DN2VpLcugXS1BpYkzsxuYFUbShREJaqdC8cqjrhOOYAbsmDjpHyaG3AskTmCtipkmEDgv0NPdl8YN3ekOcMzG0ddXhK1BGFiIoprhQen_Jp8jdzKFoI4gm2A/w411-h339/visit%20gallery%204z.JPG" width="411" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Waterfall on a Wall, </i>mural painting by the author, </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Living with Nature Center, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 124.65pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b>A teacher is likened to a waterfall,</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 124.65pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it links the sky, land and sea;</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 124.65pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b>catches rain, feeds rivers and lakes,</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 124.65pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>keeps Nature’s bounty and beauty.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 124.65pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 124.65pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b>So does a teacher nourish the young,</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 124.65pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>his mind, heart, body and soul,</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 124.65pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b>With lessons in school and of life itself</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 124.65pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that he grows wise and whole.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 124.65pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 124.65pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b>It talks and sings, in full or in ebb,</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 124.65pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>whispers, humbles the bold,</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 124.65pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Like Danube, Santa Maria and their kind<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 124.65pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>awe both the young and old.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 124.65pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 124.65pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Wonder if waterfalls don’t exist,</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 124.65pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>so with their awesome scenery;</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 124.65pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b>the academe would be dry and silent,</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 124.65pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>if the water doesn’t meet the sea. ~<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></b></span></div>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-86528987862112647172024-03-08T14:34:00.000-08:002024-03-08T16:01:41.039-08:00Take heed of the Indicators in assessing health of older adults. <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Take heed of the indicators in assessing health</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">of older adults.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Researched by Dr Abe V Rotor</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYBbCezJ_vrjzjtnhBKdjyCAnYemz28sdB0cnw8roTgJ40JgZ1nR79cFOWzfoSL1civrPDvbzFyoUiLslYq5ZpptW8LKugoO5HqPHY3CtMatGHMeNzWIOH1MwrIB2a_EXOcrkzlCY473U/s1600/aging-population1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><img border="0" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYBbCezJ_vrjzjtnhBKdjyCAnYemz28sdB0cnw8roTgJ40JgZ1nR79cFOWzfoSL1civrPDvbzFyoUiLslYq5ZpptW8LKugoO5HqPHY3CtMatGHMeNzWIOH1MwrIB2a_EXOcrkzlCY473U/w425-h432/aging-population1.jpg" width="425" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBGRGgOX67tHM390osCaFHpImetDnNdmP6yFO14J4onreAN1cBfKbV8qbF5cqeOxQ2aH6cGXEIL99BBs0Om9JOwG3FfgBQNO2qnQsNOs5XfqynK9ezBMWTN9rlrlnscsJnszzm0xqbaJY/s1600/AgingPopulationGraphic.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b><img border="0" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBGRGgOX67tHM390osCaFHpImetDnNdmP6yFO14J4onreAN1cBfKbV8qbF5cqeOxQ2aH6cGXEIL99BBs0Om9JOwG3FfgBQNO2qnQsNOs5XfqynK9ezBMWTN9rlrlnscsJnszzm0xqbaJY/w430-h322/AgingPopulationGraphic.jpg" width="430" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMoe_7eU6ppE2ZjYcie52s92cOk18V8WsAozKaRqTbkmWHIvkMZ_qH1kbb82QonO-ksWmWz_sjy_I21bETTal5ELq673MBa84LUQcLDsUi2wpFWrvhTYrZx_0raOeUoa7Z5Mf1MqUEivM/s1600/agriculture+extension+download.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><img border="0" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMoe_7eU6ppE2ZjYcie52s92cOk18V8WsAozKaRqTbkmWHIvkMZ_qH1kbb82QonO-ksWmWz_sjy_I21bETTal5ELq673MBa84LUQcLDsUi2wpFWrvhTYrZx_0raOeUoa7Z5Mf1MqUEivM/w391-h276/agriculture+extension+download.jpg" width="391" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: center;">Revival of home and school gardening program in support of the </div><div style="text-align: center;">government's thrust on food self-sufficiency involving the young and </div><div style="text-align: center;">senior citizens alike.</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5635472651655896198" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_u1oS4LdqD5YEGSmbbWs1bh8ceNhnH14MH_C0UUyKHOsdlDU80r0QJbyknC1mkKpQDG24m7y9B1N68y_8pH5B4Q32YszG48af7I6evOBAkH623MVVi9XYlIGmOYq2MIxz6SMzH3gWqd0/s1600/IMG_1495.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><img border="0" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_u1oS4LdqD5YEGSmbbWs1bh8ceNhnH14MH_C0UUyKHOsdlDU80r0QJbyknC1mkKpQDG24m7y9B1N68y_8pH5B4Q32YszG48af7I6evOBAkH623MVVi9XYlIGmOYq2MIxz6SMzH3gWqd0/w369-h246/IMG_1495.JPG" width="369" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: center;">Author (right) discusses with then president of ARDF (Agricultural and Rural Development Foundation) Miss Zeny Ubaldo (center), on strengthening the role of senior citizens in food production and environmental conservation in the presence of Cecille Rotor (right) and guest.</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqFVNF6pvvOPUDwHRzkT54n4EMHPRZ45XTDiceiBNwotwokjJCe5cHNOdpVaS_osAehibDW7-5oXqD-ASS0jBLoCu28nE4Sbl7b3C5C7PVNIw4WDtZinP6IWVfQacOVMqD6vHvJr6hUlc/s1600/Blog+Dell+Tapiador.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqFVNF6pvvOPUDwHRzkT54n4EMHPRZ45XTDiceiBNwotwokjJCe5cHNOdpVaS_osAehibDW7-5oXqD-ASS0jBLoCu28nE4Sbl7b3C5C7PVNIw4WDtZinP6IWVfQacOVMqD6vHvJr6hUlc/w374-h280/Blog+Dell+Tapiador.jpg" width="374" /></b></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Author (left) examines model of a floating jeepney transport for senior citizens invented by Dr. Domingo Tapiador retired UN-FAO official (right), in the presence of the late veteran journalist Dell H Grecia.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: large;">A</span><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">ccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), indicators that can be used to help a</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">ssess health of older adults. </span></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: verdana; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">These indicators are related to health status, health behaviors and compliance with preventative care recommendations and include the following:</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>Number of physically unhealthy days reported per month (due to illness or injury)<br />· Frequent mental distress (depression, stress, anxiety or emotional problems</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> reported on 14 or more days per month)<br />· Complete loss of natural teeth<br />· Current smoking status (smoker or non-smoker)<br />· Lack of leisure time/physical activity<br />· Regularly eating fewer than 5 fruits and vegetables per day<br />· Obesity (body mass index [BMI] of 30 or greater)<br />· Reported disability (physical, mental or emotional) that limits activity or requires</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> special equipment (cane, walker, wheelchair, hearing-impaired telephone)<br />· Hip fracture<br />· Receiving a yearly flu vaccine<br />· Following routine health care / screening procedure recommendations </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> (cancer, high cholesterol)</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="border: 1pt none; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">General health care recommendations</span><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> in your 70s and older include the following:</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>Blood pressure screening—every 2 years or as recommended<br />· Bone mineral density test—as recommended to screen for osteoporosis </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> (bone loss)<br />· Cholesterol screening—every 5 years or as recommended<br />· Colorectal cancer screening—as recommended<br />· Dental exam—every 6 months or as recommended<br />· Diabetes screening—every 3 years or as recommended<br />· Eye exam—every 1 – 2 years or as recommended by an ophthalmologist<br />· Hearing test—yearly or as recommended<br />· Immunizations—yearly flu vaccine, herpes zoster vaccine (to prevent shingles;</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> if not previously vaccinated), pneumonia vaccine (as recommended, if not</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> previously vaccinated), tetanus (every 10 years)<br />· Mammogram (women)—as recommended by your health care provider<br />· Pelvic exam (women)—yearly or as recommended<br />· Pap test (women)—as recommended by your health care provider </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> (Most women over the age of 65 usually do not need this test.)<br />· Prostate cancer screening (men)—as recommended by your health </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> care provider<br />· Thyroid test (TSH)—as recommended by your health care provider</b></span><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><b><br />Sources: <a href="http://nihseniorhealth.gov/category/healthyaging.html">National Institutes of Health</a>, <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/aging/aginginfo/index.htm">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)</a>, <a href="http://www.helpguide.org/topics/healthy_aging.htm">Helpguide.org</a>; Remedy Health Media<br /></b></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-29301167451816980772024-03-08T14:25:00.000-08:002024-03-08T14:25:53.342-08:00 International Women's Day and Month (March 8, 2024): Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta - Doyen of Philippine Poetry<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <b style="font-family: arial;">Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta, Doyen of Philippine Poetry</b></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><b>In memory of Dr </b></span><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif""><span>Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta (1932-2010)</span></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif">Requiem for a Dying Poet</span></b></span><br /><b style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif""><span>By Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif""> </span></b><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-family: arial;"></span></b></div><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="font-family: arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJAQ37iIY2JFxN12kQJNNHS5IzuLsmYb9RFJ5q9PjwMH6xwekAOPBB4DZ1r32DkOmjxCmZTeHBLiDxZHBNSJ2etoX-7xu-t0LQeutewvaOtY0SmKWdNfp5FOtnvevT_eFnBH1iIzVxcLEb/s1600/Ophelia+Dimalanta+2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJAQ37iIY2JFxN12kQJNNHS5IzuLsmYb9RFJ5q9PjwMH6xwekAOPBB4DZ1r32DkOmjxCmZTeHBLiDxZHBNSJ2etoX-7xu-t0LQeutewvaOtY0SmKWdNfp5FOtnvevT_eFnBH1iIzVxcLEb/s1600/Ophelia+Dimalanta+2.jpg" /></span></a><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">S</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">oon you will finally lay<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">To rest this poet dying<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Of a broken quill for already<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">In the heart of the hearth<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Of his mind no longer fire<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">But ashes flick about randomly.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">For he has already been consigned<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">To the ignominy of little moments,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Shifting along margins of experience<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Feet lagging behind senses<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">And senses dragged behind his will,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Ready to go. To be puffed out<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Like a guttering candle.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">He is finally dying well unto his death<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Panic coming easy now, afraid<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">To trip lest he breaks his leg.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">To love lest his ligaments tear,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Deaf to sounds darkness makes<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Upon an inner centering; sad that<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Life has settled into a dreadful,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Cold, cold calm, a scurry of little<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Needs, faceless minutiae and<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Timorous appeasements and<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Upheavals, like skies have become<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Too timid to dip riverward and<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Clouds afraid to gather into a storm,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Baring but slightly one part,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Touching but gingerly, surfing<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Nets of cursory interactives, bios<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Anonymous, no collision of parts<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">To ignite a blinding, no lines<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Nor loins burning, no treads on<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Grounds plundered into one<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Cataclysmic shaking.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">No flames charring this limp wood<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><b><span>Into possible deep <o:p></o:p></span></b><b>limning.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><span>The poet as </span>petite<span> is dead<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Long live poetry. ~</span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif""> </span></b><b><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif""> </span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0-Hemd9RjCBKBDHRLdSzpjWMWMIBGG8NfC__IS0ez_-XqA2pddyzM8BmtOmSdl99e7FTLjgeYtR0uD0X6QLJtAh_P-6Pm-wyBhUwTpTPUcqCcjFt18bVxEapAT0OtsmFcH_QdxX9Ciiw/s1600/Don't%2BDimalanta%2B1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0-Hemd9RjCBKBDHRLdSzpjWMWMIBGG8NfC__IS0ez_-XqA2pddyzM8BmtOmSdl99e7FTLjgeYtR0uD0X6QLJtAh_P-6Pm-wyBhUwTpTPUcqCcjFt18bVxEapAT0OtsmFcH_QdxX9Ciiw/s400/Don't%2BDimalanta%2B1.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="mso-no-proof: yes;"></span><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><b><span>A</span></b> rare photo of Dr Ofelia Dimalanta with Dr Abe V Rotor (left) who won two awards for his books, <i>Living with Nature</i> Series the <i>Gintong Aklat Award, </i>and the <i>National book Award. </i>At her left are Fr, Joseto N Bernades OP and Dr Armando F De Jesus, regent and former dean respectively, of the Faculty of Arts and Letters of UST<br /><br /><b>The late Dr Ophelia A . Dimalanta was all of poet, critic, academician. As poet, she published six books of poetry, namely: <i>Montage, The Time Factor, Flowing On, Lady Polyester, Love Woman and Passional.</i> Aside from collections of poetry, she published a book on literary criticism, The Philippine Poetica, play in two acts, Lorenzo Ruiz, Escribano, five textbooks on literature. </b></span><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><b>She was widely anthologized not only in the Philippines but also in the United States, Russia, Germany, Taiwan, Japan, and Thailand. She won almost all literary awards in the country, and among, a lecture grant at the prestigious Modern Languages Association in Chicago, and the prominently, the SEA WRITE award given to Outstanding Southeast Asian Writers. </b></span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><b>She was chosen one of the one hundred outstanding women of the country, as part of the Centennial celebration. As critic, she was a founding member of the Manila Critics Circle which gives out the National Book Awards annually. Professor Dimalanta was dean of the Faculty of Arts and Letters of UST for nine years, while concurrently holding the position of Director of the UST Center for Creative Writing and Studies. Full Professorship at the UST Graduate School.</b></span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b>NOTE: This poem was published in <i>Tomas</i>, the Literary Journal of the UST Center for Creative Writing and Studies, Issue 1, Vol, 1 February 2000</span></div>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-29741737139981731782024-03-05T16:53:00.000-08:002024-03-05T17:11:04.620-08:00The Return of the Lawin <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Return of the Lawin</span></b></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr Abe V Rotor</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxmbDL0Vkx8CNKVLzRI5cO_JKWFaNVgRMDzdYYiuMBbRLGt47DA4339SF3gKZO51Zin0qEwyOPD5bDNmj6vetpSZFAqPtqQtTPU2dGRcU9VDZOz6NzlOmDAXjUq6h-hEEXdLpp1CGraLHsCyz1VWBStc1iegXagAEg14wSc5ko6SY15kVCqbA0bBeCs3w/s5152/DSC01345.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3732" data-original-width="5152" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxmbDL0Vkx8CNKVLzRI5cO_JKWFaNVgRMDzdYYiuMBbRLGt47DA4339SF3gKZO51Zin0qEwyOPD5bDNmj6vetpSZFAqPtqQtTPU2dGRcU9VDZOz6NzlOmDAXjUq6h-hEEXdLpp1CGraLHsCyz1VWBStc1iegXagAEg14wSc5ko6SY15kVCqbA0bBeCs3w/w503-h365/DSC01345.JPG" width="503" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><i>The Return of the Lawin</i>, d</b></span><b><span style="font-family: arial;">etails of a painting by Dr AV Rotor, 2024</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> From the blue sky came a tired and weary</span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> hawk</span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">,</span></b></div></div></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">In silence and song, its color gray and white,</span></b></div></div></div></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">This emissary came in a most beautiful sight,</span></b></div></div></div></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">With a message from the Ark, a song of a lark.</span></b></div></div></div></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">But the town was asleep and the air was sultry,</span></b></div></div></div></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">And old eyes blurred and saw instead a kite,</span></b></div></div></div></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dangling in the jungle throughout the night,</span></b></div></div></div></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Until a breeze came in and set it free.</span></b></div></div></div></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">And the children saw the bird, its song they heard,</span></b></div></div></div></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">In joyous mood they all begged it to land</span></b></div></div></div></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">But it flew over their heads 'til it was gone,</span></b></div></div></div></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Leaving a feather like a flag unfurled.</span></b></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><p><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">* Adapted from <i>A Dove Flies </i>by AV Rotor, Sunshine on Raindrops, Megabooks 2000 </b></p><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-21060950242096150862024-03-05T04:29:00.000-08:002024-03-05T17:30:41.406-08:00My Best Photographs 5th of a Series (Article in Progress)<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">5th of a Series</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <b><span style="font-family: verdana;">My Best Photographs </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr Abe V Rotor</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana;">– Ansel Adams</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLLIgzsKy42lnf5Bj3Qgb8sUuuDdn9mIHMUyUqss2YS4Y29JAlxKmvtqFIglQyixXiOZfsze5yzuheX-k325a3FZrI6az5J76D1gLEwJMdn0m-T-wtvLqmsBJH2nSsq8uCOO-DcjpiIhkwOj6Rhtoq8TE8XtplEH_yEqidMB0E-YEo7Svinbgzr0hJ5po/s4367/DSC00880%20-%20Copy.JPG"><img border="0" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLLIgzsKy42lnf5Bj3Qgb8sUuuDdn9mIHMUyUqss2YS4Y29JAlxKmvtqFIglQyixXiOZfsze5yzuheX-k325a3FZrI6az5J76D1gLEwJMdn0m-T-wtvLqmsBJH2nSsq8uCOO-DcjpiIhkwOj6Rhtoq8TE8XtplEH_yEqidMB0E-YEo7Svinbgzr0hJ5po/w450-h352/DSC00880%20-%20Copy.JPG" width="450" /></a> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span>even when the people in it do.” </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;">– </b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Andy Warhol</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOGJ3XlkaI7tHnNayndx_tnPgp4qex9TSzabsZxopIRSmM_KurIBTVsqRAlhOSBjyLbKdalpP0C-1sguKSZYY5JGUK0blyr0F5hrTHkXb9v5RexMHsFIBHZM0MfkGfsXePJSkRegLbOzEg6wF7FjsB5Tu-_xyipa30Z48rg9YUNs1yQ84yR-OLD5SpPNc/s3856/DSC00424.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3856" data-original-width="3588" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOGJ3XlkaI7tHnNayndx_tnPgp4qex9TSzabsZxopIRSmM_KurIBTVsqRAlhOSBjyLbKdalpP0C-1sguKSZYY5JGUK0blyr0F5hrTHkXb9v5RexMHsFIBHZM0MfkGfsXePJSkRegLbOzEg6wF7FjsB5Tu-_xyipa30Z48rg9YUNs1yQ84yR-OLD5SpPNc/w397-h425/DSC00424.JPG" width="397" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">“With creating, we are literally bringing something into </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">existence </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span>that didn’t exist before.” </span></b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>– </b>Montana Dennis</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu4Qi1OoAO9iekK2ciMOpLRTkG1UXsi3hQQqQfOAEJbvObyC8JHCAg6JRB7Ueci0D0zHwe_G6EnqwcEiELNSpLAhrb46hV3iYwwoFy7lFoxK3MyZ-ND4VdCLU-0XNnf6UyLO5Mw9v8va2OPPu00MOGVzwf99Vy8XMDDX-8cnLLEfn04fCoqzurPE6GTpo/s3120/DSC00852.JPG"><img border="0" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu4Qi1OoAO9iekK2ciMOpLRTkG1UXsi3hQQqQfOAEJbvObyC8JHCAg6JRB7Ueci0D0zHwe_G6EnqwcEiELNSpLAhrb46hV3iYwwoFy7lFoxK3MyZ-ND4VdCLU-0XNnf6UyLO5Mw9v8va2OPPu00MOGVzwf99Vy8XMDDX-8cnLLEfn04fCoqzurPE6GTpo/w216-h197/DSC00852.JPG" width="216" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMQcKMJHWsFBSUI5wBG88lY5jifDIklHbn4LcAhvjgkf9sY6cuqIlKn4X6ZcW4FpE5k1lsH_3-FNS4zqnuCqPHAcCHkflNQLYTqcFgKKFxQPGZwiJOlOoV1vI9Ahen056O1zNFS0HmD5hLZXyShscPsijH-MOqR_EZW-mpNYijtEVBqoBGgu2F4hiUljs/s3916/DSC01383.JPG"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMQcKMJHWsFBSUI5wBG88lY5jifDIklHbn4LcAhvjgkf9sY6cuqIlKn4X6ZcW4FpE5k1lsH_3-FNS4zqnuCqPHAcCHkflNQLYTqcFgKKFxQPGZwiJOlOoV1vI9Ahen056O1zNFS0HmD5hLZXyShscPsijH-MOqR_EZW-mpNYijtEVBqoBGgu2F4hiUljs/w188-h200/DSC01383.JPG" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">“Great photography is about depth of feeling, </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">not depth of field.” </span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">– Peter Adams</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwk1OyBskjdlkwkyMwZ0kLbAuF2O0wGUfe62PVGYreccOWpO1q8OYjRX1hkg8pjOzCKyqszeb3TKqgzmr5qwVAy0D9zjVE6kj0hOnfu7Rr9Cni75LWB13IJqVH_Ra7C4xFPXN31Pjtr3sE472u8ApqGIopbBJ4FDVSJBbZtAZI7bJINGZoj4LkzZe3GiQ/s5152/DSC01283.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwk1OyBskjdlkwkyMwZ0kLbAuF2O0wGUfe62PVGYreccOWpO1q8OYjRX1hkg8pjOzCKyqszeb3TKqgzmr5qwVAy0D9zjVE6kj0hOnfu7Rr9Cni75LWB13IJqVH_Ra7C4xFPXN31Pjtr3sE472u8ApqGIopbBJ4FDVSJBbZtAZI7bJINGZoj4LkzZe3GiQ/w400-h300/DSC01283.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">“Photography helps people to see.”</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">– Berenice Abbott</span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2TAVKT-ypS4YODLC0cRBglIysk9Xwtn4nTScevzP3k9od5jnDmbzXyTJa2Q3fEKkFNm2Bryy3Ypa7Dr7WZndVrFRoib47J3djWOLN295_h_QAqgjrDUx9jcQAqJakbdGcEjqaHS0sh7KaJXnLoFBz1LQ1nKBTeB52nFTjI5fJqTKHB-Nq3-vMWOzACAY/s4907/DSC00411.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3505" data-original-width="4907" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2TAVKT-ypS4YODLC0cRBglIysk9Xwtn4nTScevzP3k9od5jnDmbzXyTJa2Q3fEKkFNm2Bryy3Ypa7Dr7WZndVrFRoib47J3djWOLN295_h_QAqgjrDUx9jcQAqJakbdGcEjqaHS0sh7KaJXnLoFBz1LQ1nKBTeB52nFTjI5fJqTKHB-Nq3-vMWOzACAY/w406-h289/DSC00411.JPG" width="406" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">“Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">which counts, </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span>no matter how it is achieved.” </span></b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>–</b> Bill Brandt</span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitK_kRqlW1_HYb2Ge4XOQbCBe8FvDpclph5RHy5sXXzdv8faTHb4OzGSNmHKfl_uJ7uANpfGMQv8rdZSxjZ_n7e0UKYJxvaGzAeMrRdCpt9j7EOM96nUOtYTrVFbRFwfC4u74zGwl7TE7sLVe52GXUJYhye4qz5H41DWSLgghi2jbDWGPLIv8mjvunobc/s4402/DSC00415.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3144" data-original-width="4402" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitK_kRqlW1_HYb2Ge4XOQbCBe8FvDpclph5RHy5sXXzdv8faTHb4OzGSNmHKfl_uJ7uANpfGMQv8rdZSxjZ_n7e0UKYJxvaGzAeMrRdCpt9j7EOM96nUOtYTrVFbRFwfC4u74zGwl7TE7sLVe52GXUJYhye4qz5H41DWSLgghi2jbDWGPLIv8mjvunobc/w406-h290/DSC00415.JPG" width="406" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>– </b>Dorothea Lange</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvL_KMkOAtd7CdtyWetS1WVjbWDqs8LBohhnql9IBuurvzBOJiHQFT05bXsPwgsTxkik6zDPGNciL5ZNeMLHjLC6PpwVkioy_Zz8jfoaEHuV4gy2k5WXEWgmJp8zwEFJja3NMh42JJnmLHENeNjTpunBmUpoDXmrjxrjlC0d62E3sAa7Zt5o6fJ0rkMN4/s5152/DSC00570.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvL_KMkOAtd7CdtyWetS1WVjbWDqs8LBohhnql9IBuurvzBOJiHQFT05bXsPwgsTxkik6zDPGNciL5ZNeMLHjLC6PpwVkioy_Zz8jfoaEHuV4gy2k5WXEWgmJp8zwEFJja3NMh42JJnmLHENeNjTpunBmUpoDXmrjxrjlC0d62E3sAa7Zt5o6fJ0rkMN4/w413-h310/DSC00570.JPG" width="413" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span>that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” </span></b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>– </b>Karl Lagerfeld</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglEKB_UKWuYnxbxUPkskCYEl4sSwzmC3sgakJFf8Jc3vR87-3tMMBdWrHDJSLabu3zL0Ch7q62HqjA5QFr9ob9S5Y9WoR_5VpwTuuFe5dgm2bfsnWE2EVkf8NjO-vY3szVt0_p7iCPMsc_VjZn7KdNrZrULlUq5GvT2RrG80RZXWFACqexDkQ_A3zhj_I/s5152/DSC01180.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3350" data-original-width="5152" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglEKB_UKWuYnxbxUPkskCYEl4sSwzmC3sgakJFf8Jc3vR87-3tMMBdWrHDJSLabu3zL0Ch7q62HqjA5QFr9ob9S5Y9WoR_5VpwTuuFe5dgm2bfsnWE2EVkf8NjO-vY3szVt0_p7iCPMsc_VjZn7KdNrZrULlUq5GvT2RrG80RZXWFACqexDkQ_A3zhj_I/w438-h285/DSC01180.JPG" width="438" /></span></a></div></div></div></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The photo that you took with your camera is the imagination </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">you want to create with reality.” </span></b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">–<span style="font-weight: normal;"> Scott Lorenzo ~</span></span></span></div>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-65981743273920655072024-03-04T04:01:00.000-08:002024-03-04T05:03:48.959-08:00The Lighter Side of Human Nature in 5 Parts: Witty Humor - Key to Cheerful Disposition and Longer Life<div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Lighter Side of Human Nature </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Witty Humor - Key to Cheerful Disposition and Longer Life</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Researched and edited by Dr Abe V Rotor</span></b></div><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;">[avrotor.blogspot.com]</span></b></span></span></b></span></span><div><b style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: arial;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span>Activity: Write down jokes you can recall. They should be witty, clean and meaningful. Avoid vulgar jokes. </span></b><b style="font-size: large;"><span>Give credit to the source, if any. </span></b><b style="font-size: large;"><span>Compile them into a collection or book. It could be your masterpiece of a lifetime. ~</span></b><span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"> </span></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span>Part 1 -</span></span> <span style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Lighter Side of Life - Slip of the Tongue</span></span></span></b></div><span style="font-family: arial;">P<b><span>art 2 - Witty Humor - Key to Cheerful Disposition <br />Part 3 - "Marriage is the only war where one sleeps with the enemy." </span></b></span><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> And other jokes about marriage.<br /></span></b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span><b>Part 4 - </b></span></span></span><b style="text-align: center;"><span>Religious Humor and Wit </span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span>Part 5 - My Boss and I: The Lighter Side of Life in an Organization</span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><b>Tidbit: </b></span></span><b><i>Likuan U and Lee Kuan Yew</i></b><span><span><b><br /></b><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><b><span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span>Part 1 - </span></span> <span style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Lighter Side of Life - Slip of the Tongue</span></span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><b><span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dr Abe V Rotor </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><b><span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTxc56EEbaGt5rKA9XxRrZxKWSPicNf-5BsFqVpI6sxhEVTq-gIWHfe5cW94pangdvMW_vLK8GHEBxmPNOHhGpKOpSULq79-AuPAAVMoh6NhwU7K_EJlHjkwO2b-5VE9Y2Ps3_oMropHg/s1600-h/dolphy-wm.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="320" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392396814708262466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTxc56EEbaGt5rKA9XxRrZxKWSPicNf-5BsFqVpI6sxhEVTq-gIWHfe5cW94pangdvMW_vLK8GHEBxmPNOHhGpKOpSULq79-AuPAAVMoh6NhwU7K_EJlHjkwO2b-5VE9Y2Ps3_oMropHg/s640/dolphy-wm.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px;" width="225" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_GDFv9ftpahT-X_G-ORsbStxB9BpxfAMr4EPVr7tdNi1GaK4cyTACuNqyvaq_tNQGujkNDUsk5CWm_zRpAq2wFqUG0Q7PSO734bwZfKfceo1DCKPlgA0dYQFo6DkZbmaBureWR84Bdbk/s1600-h/Charlie_Chaplin.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="200" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392396800078148530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_GDFv9ftpahT-X_G-ORsbStxB9BpxfAMr4EPVr7tdNi1GaK4cyTACuNqyvaq_tNQGujkNDUsk5CWm_zRpAq2wFqUG0Q7PSO734bwZfKfceo1DCKPlgA0dYQFo6DkZbmaBureWR84Bdbk/s200/Charlie_Chaplin.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px;" width="160" /></a></div><b><span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dolphy, Philippine legend in comedy</span></span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Charlie Chaplin, pioneer in cinema comedy</b></span></span></div><ul style="font-size: medium;"><li><span><b>Chairs! I mean Cheers!</b></span></li><li><span><b>How are you to die? You mean, How are you today?</b></span></li><li><span><b>How do I love three, let me count the ways. (From a favorite English poem by Robert Browning). You mean thee. Wrong spelling may be fatal.</b></span></li><li><span><b>It was raining cats and dogs, and there were poodles in the road. Puddles, you mean.</b></span></li><li><span><b>Joseph, the Dreamer came all the way from Canada. Canaan, you mean.</b></span></li><li><span><b>"Name two pronouns." Inattentive student: Who? Me?</b></span></li><li><span><b>Genetics: Cross an elephant with a fish. Swimming trunk. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Heh</span>! <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Heh</span>!</b></span></li><li><span><b>What are your parents' name? "Papa and Mama." Baby talk.</b></span></li><li><span><b>A quorum is a place to keep fish in. You mean aquarium.</b></span></li><li><span><b>Elizabeth Aye, Aye Aye! You mean, Elizabeth III.</b></span></li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizuX4a97opcWKmDXG9H4k0skgDwTUP6j8a-fQjkG7ddG51PBFcexnDPZH__jgm7rJvtQlYh8683EEtPwU6vVSRcKA2_XQ8-gMJv59Y_ROYzsSqKra6m78stDfP3JF0m4z-0F4GGlIIWJfa/s1600/Mr+Bean.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><span><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizuX4a97opcWKmDXG9H4k0skgDwTUP6j8a-fQjkG7ddG51PBFcexnDPZH__jgm7rJvtQlYh8683EEtPwU6vVSRcKA2_XQ8-gMJv59Y_ROYzsSqKra6m78stDfP3JF0m4z-0F4GGlIIWJfa/s1600/Mr+Bean.jpg" width="188" /></span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Mr Bean</b></span></div><ul style="font-size: medium;"><li><span><b>Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. Of course not; it was hemlock, a poisonous plant. Respect the fodder of philosophy. Again, please - father.</b></span></li><li><span><b>In mathematics, Persia gave the dismal point. It would be dismal indeed without the decimal point.</b></span></li><li><span><b>William Tell invented the telephone. Of course, not. It was Graham Bell. And the bell was invented long before him.</b></span></li><li><span><b>Home wasn't built in a day. So with Greece.</b></span></li><li><span><b>"Here lies my captain, fallen cold and deed." You may perfect in reciting "Oh, Captain! My Captain!" yet fail to get the audience <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">accolyte</span> just for one mispronounced word. Accolade, sorry.</b></span></li><li><span><b>A good reader should not rob the people who erected him. (A Japanese commenting on leadership).</b></span></li><li><span><b>"<span style="font-style: italic;">Ako'y palopalo, burakrak naman ako.</span>" Chinese and Japanese mixed up in singing a popular Philippine song. [I am a butterfly (paroparo); and I am a flower bulaklak)]</b></span></li><li><span><b>All about corn: <span style="font-style: italic;">Mais</span> (mother corn), <i>corny</i> (baby corn),<i> pop</i> corn (father corn), <span style="font-style: italic;">maestra </span>(teacher corn)</b></span></li><li><span><b>Spouse is not the singular of spice, but mouse is to mice. Child – children; chicken-chickens. Queer English.</b></span></li><li><span><b>Capillary is a little caterpillar. Parasite is a kind of umbrella. Collective noun – garbage can</b></span></li><li><span><b>I liquidate you from all blame. The marriage was illegible. She dresses very auspicious. She is related to me by animosity.</b></span></li><li><span><b>Who likes history? Do you have a copy of “Caesar’s Garlic Wars?” Louis XVI was <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">gelatined</span>. (Gaelic, guillotined). Feminine of history – <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">herstory</span>. Women’s Lib!</b></span></li><li><span><b>An enthusiastic chef to customers: “Try our new menu. It is a real threat.”</b></span></li><li><span><b>“I hope I don’t protrude.” A fellow who knows little English was apologetic on learning only ladies were invited to a party. He is, but the right world is intrude.</b></span></li><li><span><b>A minister wanted to sell six second-hand organs which had just arrived from Germany in order to raise fund for his church. So during the homily he announced, “I have sex organs. They are slightly used…” He <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">didn</span>’t sell any.</b></span></li><li><span><b>Elderly teacher: "Pedro, I am beautiful - what is the tense." Looking at his teacher innocently, "Past tense, ma'am."</b></span></li><li><span><b>"Spell egg." "E-egg-egg." Necktie? N-e-c-ki-ti-hi-he Elephant? "e as in elephant, el as in elephant, e as in elephant again, .... I forgot ma'am"</b></span></li><li><span><b>"Chemical formula of water?" "H2O, ma'am." Teacher to inattentive pupil: "What is H2O?" "HIJKLMO, ma'am." </b></span></li><li><span><b>Psychologist: "Please tell me, it looks like you depressed?" Patient: "No Doctor, I am the priest."</b></span></li><li><span><b>And here are some overused double bladed words. <i><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">noisepaper</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">tongressman</span>, </i><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><i>democrazy</i></span> "Government <i>off </i>the people, <i>buy</i> the people and <i>poor</i> the people."</b></span></li></ul><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>References: <span style="font-style: italic;">Living with Nature</span> 3, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">AVR</span>; <span style="font-style: italic;">Jokes, Quotes and One-Liners for Public Speakers,</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Prochnow</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">HV</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">HV</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Prochnow</span> Jr, 1897, 1931</b></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Part 2 - Witty Humor - Key to Cheerful Disposition </b></span><br /><b style="text-align: center;"><br /></b><b style="text-align: center;">1. <u>Authorship </u></b><br /><b>An English teacher, having read some of John Milton's poetry to her young class one day, mentioned to them that the great poet was blind. One question asked on the examination the next day was:<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggvSP4CTGsvFnNCC2g2viUNWsqMJ4s14eZfFe9HbuF5GZW2HfHgzB6vFq1-gDEO8fNXdpmB-CiUzO3F2UBnYTBg4Z_ijqlSQMDkoN3yQjxvidhkcb2zS_Z1a-zqPTSPj9n7CdVtUZdXEc/s1600/milton+english_history-literary_figure-british_history-english_literature-gbrn542_low.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1247" data-original-width="800" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggvSP4CTGsvFnNCC2g2viUNWsqMJ4s14eZfFe9HbuF5GZW2HfHgzB6vFq1-gDEO8fNXdpmB-CiUzO3F2UBnYTBg4Z_ijqlSQMDkoN3yQjxvidhkcb2zS_Z1a-zqPTSPj9n7CdVtUZdXEc/w144-h224/milton+english_history-literary_figure-british_history-english_literature-gbrn542_low.jpg" width="144" /></a></p></b></span><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>"What was Milton's great affliction?"</b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>On one paper was scribbled, simply: "He was a poet."</b></span><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span><b>2. <u>Statistics</u></b><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU2Vf6QsAh0C6tZXgX9glmq9XFNFNLWoe3fT-dZn88QEYaVzoFl94apO1yeNj03Fz4zA5GoBvwlLK9cLUSFLio5Voc5nMARm9IkAMbHD1oWm5Sxp1qR6OXGZ7sTpPbwIczrePhbbFZbgA/s1600/Doctor.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU2Vf6QsAh0C6tZXgX9glmq9XFNFNLWoe3fT-dZn88QEYaVzoFl94apO1yeNj03Fz4zA5GoBvwlLK9cLUSFLio5Voc5nMARm9IkAMbHD1oWm5Sxp1qR6OXGZ7sTpPbwIczrePhbbFZbgA/s200/Doctor.png" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><b></b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b> "What are the chances of my recovering, doctor?" </b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>"One hundred per cent. Medical records show that nine out of ten die of the disease which you have, Yours in the tenth case I've treated. The others all died. So you see, you're bound to get well. Statistics are statistics."</b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>3. <u>Romance</u></b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>A shapely young girl had just married a man of wealth who was more than twice her age.</b></span><br /><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>"I don't believe in these May and December marriages," declared a critical friend.</b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>"Why not?" asked the bride.</b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>"Well, said the friend. "December is going to find in May the youth, beauty and freshness of spring, but what is May going to find in December?"</b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>The bride's logical answer was, "Santa Claus."</b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>4. <u>A Fisherman's Lament</u></b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>A three-pound pull, and a five-pound bite; an eight-pound jump, and a ten-pound fight; a twelve-pound bend to your pole - but alas! When you got him aboard he's a half-pound bass. </b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>FISHERMAN: "I tell you it was THAT long! I never saw such a fish."</b></span><br /><b>FRIEND: "I believe you."</b><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><u><br /></u></b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>5. </b></span><b> <u>Age</u></b><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9abi7lkFFx8mAH9mI06DgevsgridR8PV6xQK8zecWcJ_VEgzyk8XBXcLUxm11BdPRRI4LTxBSSoPOoCTgeiDwr-Dm3YHSfJQHd4w4ywuUj4F3dVCbVTlFpVIwFyy4z68Vv__G0AhAL9c/s1600/Old+man.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="305" data-original-width="165" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9abi7lkFFx8mAH9mI06DgevsgridR8PV6xQK8zecWcJ_VEgzyk8XBXcLUxm11BdPRRI4LTxBSSoPOoCTgeiDwr-Dm3YHSfJQHd4w4ywuUj4F3dVCbVTlFpVIwFyy4z68Vv__G0AhAL9c/s200/Old+man.png" width="108" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>The young co-ed brought a friend home from college, an extremely attractive curvaceous honey-blonde. </b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Introducing her friend to her grandfather, the girl added: "And just think, Beverly, he's in his nineties.</b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>"Early nineties, that is," the old gent added. </b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>6. <u>Importance of Punctuation</u></b></span><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUX_iX_w8gocThi1dHgzk6bdW4xnDBeBLyOI6MYQmeq19hp7JC1uuq1EDrxGPfeuh0WgWMQxN6QoYL0aUxoqFrdhCPYgiNlhCKGzrWoh8AaXJ-FpOWHAdj7gtD9NPLMZ_k1C4KUpQCmrY/s1600/teacher+5718471524_69f43e68f7_b.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1023" data-original-width="704" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUX_iX_w8gocThi1dHgzk6bdW4xnDBeBLyOI6MYQmeq19hp7JC1uuq1EDrxGPfeuh0WgWMQxN6QoYL0aUxoqFrdhCPYgiNlhCKGzrWoh8AaXJ-FpOWHAdj7gtD9NPLMZ_k1C4KUpQCmrY/w154-h225/teacher+5718471524_69f43e68f7_b.jpg" width="154" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>A grade school student was having trouble with punctuation. </b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>"Never mind, Sonny," said the visiting school board president, consolingly. "It's foolish to bother about commas; they don't amount too much, anyway." </b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>"Elizabeth Ann," said the teacher. "Please write this sentence on the board: <i>The president of the board says the teacher is misinformed</i>." </b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>"Now," she continued, "put a comma after the <i>board</i>, and another after <i>teacher</i>."</b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>7. <u>Big Fish Caught</u></b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>A fellow in a lunatic asylum sat fishing over a flower bed. A visiting doctor, wishing to be friendly asked.</b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>"How many have you caught?"</b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Answered the not-so-dumb fisherman, "You are the ninth."</b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>8. <u>Maximum Punishment</u></b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>A judge in sentencing a criminal recently said, "I am giving you the maximum punishment - I am letting you go free to worry about taxes, inflation, and everything else, just like the rest of us."</b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>-------------------------------</b></span><br /><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>TOASTS </b></span></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="800" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTdZal0XB9aq4sk_kzWd0-qlhcon1jTsB4LpfwkEFO_Rim96cLeSw7L2AP8-eWzQo7v8MScB8qfosNBNdq6M5kPx0nnW-tW6i2lF-BQKW8dlP_2DJJdrL3oLYOq0B9vX1jRo7qDxDPNe8/w309-h201/Toast+bottom_up-toast-toasting-prost-class_differences-pubs-bars-CC138446_low.jpg" width="309" /></span></div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Drink! for you know not when you come, nor why;</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where. </b><b> - </b></span></span><span>Omar Khayyam</span><b> </b><span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><b>Here is to Life! The first half is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> </b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /><b style="font-size: small;">Acknowledgement: Speaker's Encyclopedia of Humor by Jacob M Braude; Philippine Literature Today, by Rotor AV and KM Doria</b><br /><br /><span><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Part 3 - "Marriage is the only war where one sleeps with the enemy." And other jokes about marriage.</span><br />(According to Great and Popular Leaders) </b></span><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYtJ42v3AMRpFLUV2DcExtm3tl94iXxP63LVR2zehYmFHVkpyVlkRkc6Xj2LCz1Gr68fOlwOS3-GjivHAK1vFcCM7rSNZRtpPm8eRbt9WxlOBtnVIAEefxT6_dOg68YLhopQ4ZETMLy3Yt/s1600/husband+and+wife+mar3.gif" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYtJ42v3AMRpFLUV2DcExtm3tl94iXxP63LVR2zehYmFHVkpyVlkRkc6Xj2LCz1Gr68fOlwOS3-GjivHAK1vFcCM7rSNZRtpPm8eRbt9WxlOBtnVIAEefxT6_dOg68YLhopQ4ZETMLy3Yt/w400-h319/husband+and+wife+mar3.gif" /></a><span><b><div><span><b><br /></b></span></div>Researched and Complied by Dr Abe V Rotor<br /><br />1. “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”—Benjamin Franklin<br /><br />2. "After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together." - Al Gore<br /><br />3. “Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.”—George Bernard Shaw<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgo-qRsmGZSkngnPSzfGRvYPC5rzf3111i3TeZZBN4GjbmY903D5nVBWRCDQzY3_2yiOdascGXl4BW9wh5XTa5unwuEEyI1mpvqT9c7VkJLYY_JuBD0fDivn0KczPa5eRBVTbrd5BX2f54b9O3YbXKz9zguXOOiThSFMtgE5DqjPTIAmrO4lvkW_hgPD1Q" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="577" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgo-qRsmGZSkngnPSzfGRvYPC5rzf3111i3TeZZBN4GjbmY903D5nVBWRCDQzY3_2yiOdascGXl4BW9wh5XTa5unwuEEyI1mpvqT9c7VkJLYY_JuBD0fDivn0KczPa5eRBVTbrd5BX2f54b9O3YbXKz9zguXOOiThSFMtgE5DqjPTIAmrO4lvkW_hgPD1Q=w352-h400" width="352" /></a></div><br />4. "My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met." - Alec Baldwin<br /><br />5. "A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong."- Barack Obama<br /><br />6. “Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted the whole day.”—Mickey Rooney<br /><br />7. "By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates<br /><br />8. "I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me." - Bill Clinton<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>9. "Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays." - George W. Bush<br /><br />10. "I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years." - Rudy Giuliani<br /><br />11. "There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage." - Michael Jordan<br /><br />12. “Marriage is the bond between a person who never remembers anniversaries and another who never forgets them.”—Ogden Nash<br /><br />13. "I've had bad luck with all my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn’t.” The third gave me more children!" - Donald Trump</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgog8mBfINK2Rj2tgqv2pErxjD-QIaaweaid2jLGWe1ybVJh_gqOLR9JN9v9QR5mskO94-HYJEUUwuKraxsfCBkfAn5r_XbIPrkhhfG4xVLmpGYHzIfGna08FMB5lKrGtdOYFM72tG-oJPnL5fUWRMUGjYQUG0gYTgDWFaLqH-__625op0-Ns9zgv8g3VE" style="clear: left; float: left; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgog8mBfINK2Rj2tgqv2pErxjD-QIaaweaid2jLGWe1ybVJh_gqOLR9JN9v9QR5mskO94-HYJEUUwuKraxsfCBkfAn5r_XbIPrkhhfG4xVLmpGYHzIfGna08FMB5lKrGtdOYFM72tG-oJPnL5fUWRMUGjYQUG0gYTgDWFaLqH-__625op0-Ns9zgv8g3VE=w332-h400" width="332" /></a><span><b><br /></b><b>14. Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and visit now and then.”—Katherine Hepburn<br /><br />15. “Some mornings I wake up grouchy. Other mornings I just let him sleep.”—Unknown. Marriage humor of great men and women.<br />-----------<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">“The most important four words for a successful marriage: ‘I’ll do the dishes.’”—Anonymous<br /><br />“I now pronounce you man and wife. You may now change your Facebook status.”—Anonymous ~</span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Acknowledgement: Internet cartoons</b></span></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span><b>Part 4 - </b></span></span></span><b style="text-align: center;"><span>Religious Humor and Wit </span></b></span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Researched by Dr Abe V Rotor</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: center;">Living with Nature - School on Blog</div></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGNW9al8thVHMd4lXmuUEH8DL54zIgaYXp21iSTqsXIGuHATpTAOVBjKZ7q6NJuy52Y0i4DcV3bxg0RbAQydx2wJL2w4MlK_JiJYMnFGDVwGCrzHb33nMnywlhKZutbCvfecME8tSJwYvm/s1600/Ten-Commandments_qr_codes.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGNW9al8thVHMd4lXmuUEH8DL54zIgaYXp21iSTqsXIGuHATpTAOVBjKZ7q6NJuy52Y0i4DcV3bxg0RbAQydx2wJL2w4MlK_JiJYMnFGDVwGCrzHb33nMnywlhKZutbCvfecME8tSJwYvm/s1600/Ten-Commandments_qr_codes.png" width="316" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>1. </b><b>Rewrite the Ten Commandments </b><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> The editor of the local paper queried the new applicant for the job of rewrite man. "Well," said the editor, "are you good?"</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> "Sure was the reply.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> "All right, then fix this, and cut it short," instructed the editor, handing him a list of the Ten Commandment.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> The applicant gave a glance and seemed a little nonplussed. But then he stepped over to the desk, quickly marked the copy, and handed it to the surprised editor, who studied the paper for only a moment before saying. "You are hired!"</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> The rewrite on the paper was, "Don't."</span><br /><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>2. Greeting the day with Good Morning</b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Somebody has said there are two kinds of people in the world. There are those who wake up in the morning and say, "Good morning, Lord," and there are those who wake up in the morning and say, "Good Lord, it's morning."</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>3. Breakable mail</b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">There was a very gracious lady who was mailing an old family friend Bible to her brother in another part of the country.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> "Is there anything</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> breakable in here?" asked the postal clerk</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> "Only the Ten Commandments</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">." answered the lady</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>4. Snake Salvation didn't work</b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">A snake-handling preacher featured on <i>Snake Salvation</i> died soon after being bitten by a rattlesnake during the service. </span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>5.Depressed priest </b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">A priest went to a doctor for checkup. He looked very sad.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> "Are you depressed? "asked the doctor.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> "No, I am the priest." replied the absent-minded patient. </span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>6. </b></span><b>Good news, bad news</b><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">There is the story of a pastor who got up one Sunday and announced to his congregation: "I have good news and bad news. The good news is, we have enough money to pay for our new building program. The bad news is, it's still out there in your pockets.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>7. Seemed Appropriate</b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> The new chaplain wanted very much to entertain as well as instruct his men, and so, on one occasion, he arranged for an illustrated lecture on Bible scenes and incidents.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> One seaman was detailed to play appropriate music between pictures. The first of these represented Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The sailor cudgeled his brain and ran through his lists, but could not think of no music exactly appropriate to the picture.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> "Please play up." whispered the chaplain.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> Then an inspiration came to the seaman, and to the consternation of the chaplain and to the delight of the audience, he played, <i>There's Only One Girl in This World for Me.</i> </span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><b>8. Dad first</b><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Young Johnny was late for Sunday school, and the minister asked the cause.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> "I was going fishing, but Dad wouldn't let me." announced the lad.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> "That's the right kind of father to have," replied the reverend. "Did he explain the reason he would not let you go?"</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> "Yes, sir. He said there wasn't bait enough for two."</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><b>9. Identify Yourself</b><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The young army recruit was a victim of so many practical jokes that he doubted all men and their motives. One night while he was on guard duty, the figure of one of the officers loomed up in the darkness.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> "Who goes there?" the recruit challenged.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> :"Major Moses," was the reply</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> The young recruit scented the joke. "Glad to meet you, Moses," he said cheerfully, "Advance and give me the Ten Commandments."</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>10. Statement of Costs</b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The painter was required to render an itemized bill for his repairs on various pictures in the church. The statement was as follows:</span><br /><br /></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Corrected and renewed the Ten Commandments </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> $50 </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Embellished Pontius Pilate and put a new ribbon on his bonnet 60</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Put a new tail on the rooster of St. Peter and mended his bill 45</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Put a new nose on St John the Baptist and straightened his eyes 25</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Replumed and gilded thee left wing of the Guardian Angel 65</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Washed the servant of the High Priest & put carmine on his cheeks 25</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Renewed heaven, adjusted 10 stars, gilded the sun, cleaned the moon 85</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Reanimated the flames of Purgatory and restored some souls 45</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Revived the flames of Hell, put a new tail on the Devil and mended </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"> his left hoof, and did several odd jobs for the damned 65</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Put new spatter-dashes on the son of Tobias and dressing on his sack 30</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Rebordered the robe of Herod and readjusted his wig 45</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Cleaned the ears of Balaam's ass, and shod him 35</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Put earrings in the ears of Sarah 70</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Put a new stone in David's sling, enlarged Goliath's hand </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"> and extended his legs 30</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Decorated Noah's Ark 20</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Mended the shirt of the Prodigal Son, and cleaned his pigs 15 </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span> Total $710</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;"><b>Acknowledgement: Jokes, Quotes and One-liners for Public Speakers bu HV Prochnow and HV Prochnow Jr</b></span></p><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Part 5 - My Boss and I:The Lighter Side of Life in an Organization</span></b></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Researched by Dr Abe V Rotor</span></b></div></div></div><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhy21A1M3yKcnBZ_6P9tXB4RP91TJpwAdT8yk0FF1WfxkK1nyKHj55hoAzxXKlvSffn75xW6i_iQ0lfxCM41X8l4zzNEYx30UEqCjgxjAn-Y9acZuPTlN4KYtXjTIxUyJuacbICaC4jFpVfc_-E1NQnGbfOcW5SaD8ex-NjOOBtpi12cAVA5W8vMxz3" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="360" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhy21A1M3yKcnBZ_6P9tXB4RP91TJpwAdT8yk0FF1WfxkK1nyKHj55hoAzxXKlvSffn75xW6i_iQ0lfxCM41X8l4zzNEYx30UEqCjgxjAn-Y9acZuPTlN4KYtXjTIxUyJuacbICaC4jFpVfc_-E1NQnGbfOcW5SaD8ex-NjOOBtpi12cAVA5W8vMxz3" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />Human Nature takes us to view an otherwise serious matter on relationship between <i>boss</i> and <i>subordinate</i> in the context of wit and humor, a rationale in solving conflicts, and in handling anger and feeling of inequality. </span></b><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>I found in my old file an article, </b><i style="font-weight: bold;">Handling Organizational Conflict,</i><b> written by Professor Angelita C Cruz, a co-faculty member at St. Paul University QC. A footnote reads, "From a seminar given to the top management of Uniwell Technologies Corporation, December 1998." That's 25 years ago today. A rather serious topic then, now an entertaining piece to reminisce serious moments, on reaching the golden years of life.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span> My Boss and I</span></span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>When I take a long time, I am <i>slow</i>;</b><br /><b>When my boss takes a long time, he is <i>thorough</i>;</b><br /><b>When I don't do it, I am <i>lazy</i>;</b><br /><b>When my boss doesn't do it, he is too <i>busy</i>; </b><br /><b>When I do something without being told, I am trying to be <i>smart</i>;</b><br /><b>When my boss does the same, he has <i>initiative</i>;</b><br /><b>When I please my boss, I am <i>apple-polishing</i>;</b><br /><b>When my boss pleases his boss, he is <i>cooperating</i>; </b><br /><b>When I do good, my boss n<i>ever remembers</i>;</b><br /></span><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">When I do wrong, my boss <i>never forgets</i>.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Of course, these are not to be taken literally if you wish to stay with your</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">organization. There's a limit though. Somewhere, they say, at the end of a rainbow lies a beautiful world. Others are just as romantic, there is silver lining of a dark cloud. Live the lighter side of life if you wish to be happy. ~ </span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>LESSON on Former<i> Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid </i>(People's School-on-Air)<br />738 DZRB AM Band, 8 to 9 evening class, Monday to Friday [www.pbs.gov.ph]</b></span></span></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</i></b></span></span></div><div><div><span><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>Likuan U and Lee Kuan Yew</i></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>With apology to the late Prime Minister who made Singapore a modern city state. </b><br /></span><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpOpGW09oYMRmIJ5venLlpeFoluDRxOf2W6tgmendT5svFP84rJ2iSG4qyl9e7c6Wyxst-7oriMRFTasWeBBmfFjfFREUrlhbP8bWQolFSr523xKgOej2FLthMAKEmadViS4IVZs4hw0sm/s1600-h/DSC02391.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369450331508834082" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpOpGW09oYMRmIJ5venLlpeFoluDRxOf2W6tgmendT5svFP84rJ2iSG4qyl9e7c6Wyxst-7oriMRFTasWeBBmfFjfFREUrlhbP8bWQolFSr523xKgOej2FLthMAKEmadViS4IVZs4hw0sm/s400/DSC02391.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 374px;" /></a><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Filipinos are fond of witty expressions. This is one of them - a road sign along Quezon Avenue near the Lung Center of the Philippines, Diliman, QC. I saw a similar one near the Fort. Creative minds can go far, and trivial, too.<br /><br />For those who have no inkling of the homonym similarity, Lee Kuan Yew is Singapore's living legend - father of this modern city state. You pronounce his name the same way you read in Pilipino, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">U-turn</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">.<br /><br />By the way, somebody has removed the sign. I miss it now whenever I make a u-turn in that busy intersection. ~ </span></span><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span></div>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635472651655896198.post-15067622697319454922024-03-04T03:57:00.000-08:002024-03-04T03:57:07.384-08:00Filipino Literary Giants: Masters of the Art of Unity and Harmony of Nature and the Human Spirit<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Filipino Literary Giants</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Masters of the art of Unity and Harmony of Nature and the Human Spirit</b></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> <br /> Dr Abe V Rotor</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuBy91tOSaKD4QWLI7sDkQ3bD2E7BcH4ocgQl1SWX8feMFdLXUtw5bIqdZU4xfNdJoWymQwdy7HDZHGFZRGTtbkscjHAr9kwgqAjVhLNDqsIA6mhhj7d5-y-tglsQcunoGIIcOytUqSg8/s1600/CANON+PHOTO+CONTEST+96+AsiaPacif0001.JPG"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuBy91tOSaKD4QWLI7sDkQ3bD2E7BcH4ocgQl1SWX8feMFdLXUtw5bIqdZU4xfNdJoWymQwdy7HDZHGFZRGTtbkscjHAr9kwgqAjVhLNDqsIA6mhhj7d5-y-tglsQcunoGIIcOytUqSg8/s400/CANON+PHOTO+CONTEST+96+AsiaPacif0001.JPG" /></span></b></a></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">This is a memorable photograph of some of our own literary giants: (left to right) the late poet and author of Life Cycles, Sedfrey Ordoñez (Justice Secretary and permanent representative to the United Nations); doyen of Philippine contemporary poetry Ophelia A Dimalanta, Hortencia Santos Sankore, Larry Francisco, and the late national artist and poet Jose Villa.<br /><br />I have had the opportunity of meeting and working with a number of Filipino writers in the field of communication and literature. Among them was Dr Ophelia Dimalanta, writer in residence and director of the Center for Creative Writing, and also former dean of the UST Faculty of Arts and Letters. As my critic Dr Dimalanta inspired me to write books in poetry, such as <i>Don't Cut the Trees, Don't. </i><br /><br />Justice Secretary Sedfrey Ordonez used to visit the St Paul University Museum where I was faculty curator, and we would write and read poetry together with faculty members and students. He wrote the beautiful foreword of my book, <i>Sunshine in Raindrops.<br /></i><br />National artist Jose Villa's style in poetry broke away from the classical-conventional style, like in the field of painting seeking release to impressionism and abstract, a great influence to many writers, I among them.<br /><br />I also acknowledge the giants in Philippine journalism who were my professors: Ka Doroy Valencia, Dean Jose Lansang, Prof Ernesto Franco, Rodolfo Ragodon, and Amando Doronilla. Special mention to Dean Armando F de Jesus, Dean Magdalena Villaba, and Dr Florentino Hornedo of UST Arts and Letters, and the Graduate School; and Fr James Reuter SJ of the Office of Media Affair. Fr Reuter wrote the inspiring message of my first book in poetry, <i>Light in the Woods.</i><br /><br />As a tribute to them, and many others more, I am expressing my deep gratitude and pride as a Filipino. ~</span></b></div></div>Abe V. Rotorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09163591655638418481noreply@blogger.com0