DISTANT HORIZON

"BLACKGROUND" - my original photo collection

2010-01-14T00:32:00.000-08:00

Broderick Boyd's Make Them Fall in Love With You Forever: How to Have Excellent Body Language

2009-10-19T22:49:00.000-07:00

From Broderick Boyd -- Make Them Fall in Love With You Forever: How to Have Excellent Body Language

ANIMA/ANIMUS

2009-10-18T20:21:00.000-07:00

Anima: The female aspect present in the collective unconscious of men.

Animus: The male aspect present in the collective unconscious of women.

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Anima: Is said to be characterized as a deep emotionality and the force of life itself.

Animus: Tends to be logical, often realistic, and argumentative.

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Anima and Animus, together, are called syzygy.

ANTIOXIDANTS

2009-10-13T23:05:00.000-07:00

Antioxidants are molecules that counteract the effects of free radicals. In the human body, free radicals are oxygen molecules that lack an electron. A free radical molecule causes damage to a healthy cell by "stealing" an electron from it. To counteract this, an antioxidant molecule donates an electron to the destructive free radical. Free radicals come from the food we eat, from pollution, among others. Antioxidants, on the other hand, comes from a wide array of fruits and vegetables. So aim for healthy living! Go green!

EROTIKA ART

2009-10-11T04:28:00.000-07:00

EROTICA:

[Greek erotika, plural of erotikos. Erotic: pertaining to sexual love, a derivative of erot-. Eros: sexual love.] Literary or artistic works having an erotic theme; especially, books treating of sexual love in a sensuous or voluptuous manner.

The word erotica typically applies to works in which the sexual element is regarded as part of the larger aesthetic aspect.

IMAGES DEPICTING WELLNESS and WELLBEING

2009-10-07T00:39:00.001-07:00

TRANSFORMERS IMAGES

2009-10-07T00:27:00.000-07:00

"There is more (to them) that meets the eye." - Optimus Prime

--More images @ fanpop.com!

Chedan: ETC

2009-10-07T00:19:00.000-07:00

ON BEING ARTISTIC

2009-10-07T00:11:00.001-07:00

QUOTATIONS

2009-10-06T23:58:00.000-07:00

Chedan Writes HAIKU

2009-10-06T23:39:00.001-07:00

HAIKU:

Plural haiku [Japanese] An unrhymed Japanese poetic form consisting of seventeen syllables arranged in three lines containing five, seven, and five syllables, respectively. Also, a poem written in the haiku form or a modification of it but in a language other than Japanese.

The term "haiku" is derived from the first element of the word "haikai" (a humorous form of "renga" [linked-verse poem]) and the second of "hokku" (the initial stanza of a renga). The hokku, which set the tone of the poem, had to contain in its three lines mention of such subjects as the season, the time of day, and the dominant features of the landscape, making it almost an independent poem. The hokku (often interchangeably called haikai) became known as the haiku late in the 19th century, when it was entirely divested of its original function of opening a sequence of verse; today, even the earlier hokku are usually called haiku. The form gained distinction in the 17th century, when the great master Basho elevated haiku to a highly refined and conscious art.

The subject range of the haiku was eventually broadened, but it remained an art of expressing much and suggesting more in the fewest possible words. Other outstanding haiku masters were Buson (18th century), Kobayashi Issa (18th and 19th centuries), and Masoaka Shiki in the late 19th century. It has remained Japan's most popular poetic form.

In English, the Imagist poets and others wrote haiku or imitated the form.