Brick Path to Square Herb Garden

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Polar Vortex vs. Dog

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Power Grid

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Illinois River from Cedar Street Bridge

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Train Cars in Pekin

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Lady Bradley U Students in Sub Zero Wind Chill

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Driving Into Pink Sky

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Light Layer of Snow

After much of the blizzard snow had melted,

a new layer is descending down upon us.
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Panera Bread Coffee on Pedastal

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Jewelry Sale Sign in Snow

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Wood Fence En Route

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Leo Tolstoy a confession

Today I bought Leo Tolstoy "A Confession".

Back Cover blurb:

This Buddhist-influenced treatise on living Christianity through each moment was Tolstoy's attempt to explain his own rationalist religious feelings. Although "A Confession" led to his excommunication, it also resulted in a large following of Tolstoyan Christians springing up throughout Russia and Europe.


Amazon review:

A Confession is Leo Tolstoy's memoir of midlife spiritual crisis. In 1879, having written War and Peace and Anna Karenina, the 51 year-old Tolstoy began to believe that his life was meaningless.

A Confession is his account of the limited satisfactions he derived from his aesthetic and intellectual triumphs, and of his first yearnings for real faith.

This book marks the turning point in his career as a writer: after 1880 he would write almost exclusively about religious life, especially devotion among the peasantry (in works such as The Death of Ivan Ilych and Resurrection).
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Jackson Pollack Telephone Pole

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Walking Alongside the Sidewalk

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Freedom Ink Tattoo Co.

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Woodpecker on Feeder

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Winter Scenes - January 2014

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Zen Blur, Zen Plaza

Claw and scratch 

your way to Nirvana 

-- at Zen Nail Lounge.

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Blue Winter Sky 2014

On University Street, the Metro Centre, Peoria, IL.

Smash Burger and Noodles restaurants.

No photo treatments, filters, effects, or color adjustments.

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Apple Pie

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Five Guys Burgers and Fries

Five Guys Burngers and Fries,
Westlake Shopping Plaza,
Peoria, IL


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One Way Through Parking Lot

This "One Way" sign makes no sense. 
It's in a parking lot.

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Books in my spiritual path

Many years ago, I engaged in an interior struggle, and I was losing fast. I searched the libraries for an extraordinary tool, some sort of path back to The Path. 

This book is the boon I needed look at, during that time, and no other hesychast psy-stronomy came anywhere close to the power and brilliance of this humble little instructional guide to ancient sojourning.

"Way of the Ascetics" by Tito Colliander. It was a mind-empowering experience. A series of jolts from the caves of austerity and optimized deprivation.

Other books that had significant impact and osmosis in my quest:

"Autonomous Technology"

Langdon Winner

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Rufus Teague BBQ sauce

I figured I could trust a BBQ sauce from a black guy named Rufus. This stuff, called Rufus Teague Made Some Sauce, is a dark BBQ sauce. I got the Touch O' Heat flavor, and it is rather hot, which I like. He also has a Blazin' Hot flavor I will try next.

Ingredients: Sugar, tomato paste, water, vinegar, molasses, salt, raisin paste, soy sauce, mustard, concentrated orange juice, dried onion, Worcestershire sauce, paprika, anchovy paste, chipotle powder, chili pepper powder, smoke flavor, dried garlic, ground celery seed, "and other spices you can't know about."

All natural. Gluten free. Made in Kansas City, MO, USA.

In a whisky flask type bottle.

It's now my favorite BBQ sauce.

Available at The Fresh Market.

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