Sadko In The Underwater Kingdom

I am a big fan of Symbolist Art. This painting of "Sadko in The Underwater Kingdom" (1876) is by Russian artist, Ilya Yefimovich Repin. It predates the Symbolist-era but is categorized under that style.

The Book Surgeon

This is seriously one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Art made from old books carved with surgical scalpels... Click HERE to see 15 full-size images

The Divinity Of Wonderful Things

"In the Perfect, would familiarity ever destroy wonder at things essentially wonderful because essentially divine? To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace -- the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us."

~George MacDonald, The Hope of the Gospel

Amazing Yoga Demonstration!

Quotes For The Day

"Once a man has set his foot upon that path to power, little will stop him save his own death. He will always strive to be the greatest, and he lives in constant fear that somewhere another is greater than he and will topple him. And of course this will happen, because everything that has a beginning has an ending."

~ Heaven's Net Is Wide, (Tales of the Otori), Lian Hearn

"God, devil, and the world all wish to enter me; Of what great lineage my noble heart must be."
~ Angelus Silesius

"One time I was so drunk I gave someone a back adjustment. I'm not a chiropractor -- you have to go to a weekend of school for that!"
~ Doctor at AA meeting on Family Guy

‎"I'm a vampire and I'm in love with this unattractive girl. Grrr! I'm a werewolf and I am also in love with this unattractive girl. Boy, she sure can act, though, can't she? Nope."

~ Chris, playing with Twilight puppets, on Family Guy

The Tanuki Song

Today I learned about the Japanese animal called a Tanuki, or "Raccoon Dog." It is famous for the disproportionately large size of its, ahem... testicles. I also learned that there is a schoolyard song that jokes about the Tanuki's testicles: "There isn't even any wind but they still go swing-swing-swing." But even better still, Japanese children sing this song to the melody of the American Baptist hymn, "Shall We Gather At The River." No joke.

Human Skull And Mastodon Bones Found In Flooded Mexican Cave

A fascinating story with hauntingly beautiful photography from National Geographic about cave divers in Mexico who found what are quite possibly the oldest human remains ever found in the Americas -- probably pre-Mayan as they were found alongside the bones of mastadons and other Pleistocene megafauna...
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