I arrived at my analyst’s office and found a couch on the curb in front of her house. Analyzable?
Café, by Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita, 1949
A reproduction of this painting hung in my college dorm rooms and subsequent residences from 1972 to the 1980’s. I spent many, many hours in silent conversation with this woman. She wasn’t very talkative but I more than made up for that.
You have to watch the whole 8:34. I didn’t at first, because I couldn’t take any more of seeing UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike (530-752-3989, japikeiii@ucdavis.edu) pepper-spray a row of peaceful students like they were cockroaches.
But watching the nonviolent crowd (I never believed that nonviolence is a morally superior tactic, but it is effective) shame the pigs pointing rifles at them, and force them to retreat and leave (“You can go!”), might be the most inspiring thing you see all year.
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Carina nebula above Chile’s Chiliques volcano. The reddish hues occur from the interaction of hot hydrogen gas with ultraviolet radiation from its young stars.
