arthur jaffa said something like, you take the most abject thing, and the most beautiful thing, and the place they overlap is you.

he talked about the image of ex-slave gordon with his back a topographical map of whip lines, an image both horrifying and beautiful, indelible. 

all the images he gleans from the web, so his responses are to the image not the reality. we feel some images with our gut, but they're images, so we respond aesthetically, to the image of horror or pain, and the beauty that may accompany. do we aestheticize the horror of the real? everything is translated, even presence, we're processing looking into images we retain and combine with others in memory and to follow. 

i don't look on the web scanning for images. i want the daily occurring primary images, many of them resulting from the act of simply walking around. 

but i was also thinking here i am between the dog and the cats, and it's a fragile peace, that they allow but that happens with me as go-between, caregiver. i'm the place they overlap.

we're all part of a continuous collage in time and space, sometimes tranquil, and sometimes cacophonous, sometimes both at the same time, overlapping in us.