PERFECT Self Portrait

"I loathe my own face ..." sayeth Francis Bacon.

PERFECT Purification

During WWII, kamikaze pilots drank sake before going kaboom!

PERFECT Speech

We few, we happy few ...

PERFECT Sweet

Also called a Fairy Cake. Small and sweet.

PERFECT Ondine

Elementals - as interpreted by Jordan and Rackham and me.

PERFECT Hermes

As above, so below.







(photo of Hudson River)

PERFECT Circle

Symmetry in nine circles: global brain communicating? Theories abound.

PERFECT Wisdom

Prefacing the following quote, Huston Smith says, "sickness and health suddenly seemed beside the point of what it means to be human":
"What is sickness? What is health? Put aside both and go forward. Goto Roshi

PERFECT Creature

A cat has nine lives. How many do you have?

PERFECT SOB

Star of Bethlehem as antidote to modern times.

PERFECT Ending

It doesn't get more visually poetic than this.

PERFECT Smile

The one with the last laugh wins!

PERFECT Word

Gimcrack

First heard this in the excellent 1947 film noir Out of the Past.

PERFECT Quote

"While it seems to be good to get what one desires, the greatest good is not to desire what one does not need."

Guillaume Bude was a 16th century humanist responsible for founding the library at Fontainebleau.