http://www.johnjmcguirk.com We've got some things to talk about/Here beside the rising tide/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4-_V__GUro Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:45:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I will have more to say on these things on Specularama, but Jung thought that symbols were the way to wholeness.  One of his great quotes was this: "The power of a symbol is that it exists in consciousness in and the unconscious simultaneously." Also a few pictures of Jung. http://www.johnjmcguirk.com/2009/12/01/some-mandala-images/ I am adding key word with the hope that Google will pick this up and Dell will take this paperweight back.  Dell sucks, Dell lies, Dell won't honor contract, Dell gave me a computer unsuited for what I wanted, Dell poor customer care, Dell salesman lied, Dell Customer Care stiffed ... http://www.johnjmcguirk.com/2009/10/03/dell-computer-sales-dell-customer-care-dell-computers-lied-to-me/ Email to CatholicCulture.Org, on their publishing of a mean-spirited article on Ted Kennedy's funeral, claiming that there should have been less praise and more praying for his salvation.  I quit their email list. This is really distasteful and unworthy.  The man spent a lifetime standing up for the rights of the underprivileged.  If this ... http://www.johnjmcguirk.com/2009/09/20/by-their-fruits-you-will-know-them/ It would be easy to say that we owe it all to the Bush family from Texas, but that would be too simplistic. They are only errand boys for the vengeful, bloodthirsty cartel of raving Jesus-freaks and super-rich money mongers who have ruled for at least the last 20 years, ... http://www.johnjmcguirk.com/2009/09/20/more-from-hst/ "I now fully realize that only the powers of the Presidency will reveal the secrets of my brother's death." —Robert Kennedy, June 3, 1968, two days before he was assassinated. In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed Executive Order No. 11652, which stipulated that assassination evidence be locked up in the National ... http://www.johnjmcguirk.com/2009/09/20/some-thoughts-about-the-kennedy-assassination-for-those-who-still-care/ Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era — the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part ... http://www.johnjmcguirk.com/2009/09/20/the-best-passage-from-hunter-s-thompson-the-wave/ I love Japanese woodblock prints, and especially those of Kawase Hasui. Here are some of my favorites. You can see more here. What fascinates me about them, other than their beauty, is that the artist is constrained by the number of woodblocks and the number of inks. But ... http://www.johnjmcguirk.com/2008/02/23/hasuis-images-from-the-floating-world/