Sunday, November 10, 2024

Psalm 146

 

Hallelujah! Praise the LORD, O my soul! * 
I will praise the LORD as long as I live; 
I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. 
Put not your trust in rulers, nor in any child of earth, * 
for there is no help in them. 
When they breathe their last, they return to earth, * 
and in that day their thoughts perish. 
Happy are they who have the God of Jacob for their help!* 
whose hope is in the LORD their God; 
Who made heaven and earth, the seas, and all that is in them; * 
who keeps his promise for ever; 
Who gives justice to those who are oppressed, * 
and food to those who hunger. 
The LORD sets the prisoners free; 
the LORD opens the eyes of the blind; * 
the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; 
The LORD loves the righteous; the LORD cares for the stranger; * 
he sustains the orphan and widow, but frustrates the way of the wicked. 
The LORD shall reign for ever, * 
your God, O Zion, throughout all generations. 
Hallelujah!




Pietro Cavallini, surviving fragment of The Last Judgement in Santa Cecilia in Trastevere in Rome, 
13th century

James Ensor


James Ensor, The Skeleton Artist in His Studio, 1896
 

R. Cumb





 

Polychrome Sunday

 


Colorado Wildflowers

Saturday, November 9, 2024

Brush Fire in New York.

 We've been in a drought for a couple of months, and now we're having a brush fire in Prospect Park. 
It started last night is now officially contained.  The whole city is now full of smoke.



Photo from the FDNY of the fire


My photos of the smoke in the city.


















The Frankfurt Synagogue

 


Max Beckmann, The Frankfurt Synagogue at Night, 1919
my photo from 2016





The Börneplatz Synagogue in Frankfurt shortly after it was completed.





Destruction of the Börneplatz Synagogue, November 1938, Kristallnacht.



Reruns

 Ethno-nationalism, social Darwinism, and even a return of antisemitism, the 21st Century so far looks a lot like a remake of the 19th Century.  The only real difference is a lot of technologically empowered bad faith and fakery in the service of the same old bigotry and superstition.