Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
~on the ferry to Hyannis port

the Cape

lick this

Mad in Pursuit

"I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips."
~Violette Leduc

incantation

"Life is a pure flame,
and we live by an invisible sun within us."
Sir Thomas Brown

on mortal beings

you're so self~absorbed

time for vans

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
~Oscar Wilde

sanctuary

I bake cookies

extension = excuse

your strategy may change but the facts remain the same

Indomitable

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
Gandhi

"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light."
George Washington

I hope you have a good exit strategy.

not so straight and narrow

beyond the pale

happiness

Oscar Wilde:

"To live is the rarest thing in the world.
Most people exist, that is all."

nectar seeker

" In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch." ~ Louis Nizer

YOU have much to conceal... especially that supersized ego of yours

I have nothing to hide.

like a walk in the park perfection

bursting with confidence

image

no sugar coating necessary

Galileo

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."

multiple layers

more on discovery...

Heraklietos of Ephesos:

"Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Knowledge is not intelligence.
In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected.
Change alone is unchanging.
The same road goes both up and down.
The beginning of a circle is also its end.
Not I, but the world says it: all is one.
And yet everything comes in season."

this fog will lift in time

maybe you traveled by magic bus?

Blaise Pascal

"You always admire what you really don't understand."

getting your just desserts

lucid dreaming

gaining momentum

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."

-Robert Frost

peace for now

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,

while others judge us by what we have

already done."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Oh, what a wicked web we weave...when

we practice to deceive.

see the light

think outside the Bar (.)

A brilliant article appears in this issue of the SF Weekly about the many disgusting and dirty California Bar members. Author, Martin Kuz divulges some eye opening truth about the process of filing a complaint with the Cal Bar and what the victimized clients face when they do so. There is not much to look forward to. According to California records~ less than 1% of the practicing attorneys statewide are actually punished for their malfeasance.

When you consider that California is one of only 6 states that have this piss poor system where NO non-attorneys ever get to participate in the review process or in the discipline process of these accused law practicing super egos. In fact, California is one of the worst states in the nation to punish dirty lawyers.
“That’s what happens when attorneys are policing other attorneys,” says Suzanne Blonder (senior counsel for HALT) in this article. And she also notes that the clients are forgotten about. Excellent point.

Also, in this lovely state, the Bar protects attorneys whom complaints have been filed against, not only during the review process but if they are (and almost always will be), dismissed by the Cal Bar. These filed client grievances are basically a way for the money to circulate back to…umm the attorneys, as the 43 million a year spent by the bar on this bogus discipline process is mainly comprised of monies collected for their annual membership dues.

Dirty. Filthy dirty.

(Also this 43 million helps to pay for things like an addicted member’s substance abuse issues after he has had a little reprimand slap for his unethical behavior.) Nice, huh?

So, there are other things one can do when the California Bar fails them.
Think outside the Bar.

“When a man hangs from a tree it doesn’t spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.”
— E. B. White, American essayist (1899-1985)

"Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.”

~a Thomas Carlyle quote

bottlenose dolphins

surf life this

humming

#2 To be in a state of busy activity.

swing like this

crabby

she sells

Stinson beach beautiful