Visiopoetics

The Lupus Foundation of Virginia Charlottesville chapter’s regular monthly meeting will be NEXT Saturday, August 7 (the first Sat. of the month) at Cville Coffee at 12-noon. Spouses, friends, and family are welcome!

These are informal, open meetings where you can come for the creative ambiance of the only place in town with a climbable turtle and Galapagos Islands mural — and stay to discuss local/regional/larger rheumatology resources, problems, and solutions.

Autoimmunity affects more Americans than heart disease or cancer, and coordination of resources critical. That’s why these meetings are open to all people who suffer from or are otherwise affected by any autoimmune disorder. We are your community resource for information and support.

Ars longa,
vita brevis,
occasio praeceps,
experimentum periculosum,
iudicium difficile.
- Hippocrates

Breaking news, and the sound track for the moment.

Are you studying for a comprehensive exam in political theory? Have you been wishing and praying for a haiku summarizing ancient/medieval, modern, and contemporary political theory in three easy lines?

Pray no longer (unless you’re a medieval scholar)!

Obey authority. Question authority. What was the question?

“I am really mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, a fact like this [purchase of a scientificky publication] can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too, as an offense against religion; that a question about the sale of a book can be carried before the civil magistrate. Is this then our freedom of religion? and are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to dogmatize religious opinions for our citizens? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?” - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Dufief, 1814.

“Still, the regime of simple equality might work… But I suspect that difficulties will recur, and that at many points in time the only remedy for private privilege will be statism, and the only escape from statism will be private privilege. We will mobilize power to check monopoly, then look for some way of checking the power we have mobilized.” - Michael Walzer, Spheres of Justice

“a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen, philosophers and divines” - Emerson, “Self-Reliance.”

Also, this is probably not a monarch.

Wikipedia terms Mentha Piperita, a.k.a. M. balsamea Willd, invasive. I term it delicious. Pictured: possessed peppermint, taking over the thyme, basil, parsley, and marigolds.

Intrepid readers will recall the monster cilantro of yestermonth in the heyday of its youth. This is what happens when you live fast and furious, kids: you get husky (but in the corn way, not the Midwestern way), and grow little silver pearls. Stay in school.

This song is about my great great (if not good) Uncle Dan. The Italian crowd is laughing at the beginning because the Boss mispronounces city (”chee-TAH”) as summon (”CHEE-tah”) when he tries to say it’s good to be in their very beautiful city. Like “Hey guys, it’s good to be in your very beautiful lawsuit” — but not that smooth.

Also: reports indicate Tucker “died with a toothache in his heel.” Rattlesnake? Dermoid cyst? Damn genes.

(Artwork is oils on 16″ x 20″.)