"Wounded Love"

I cheated on the Collage Obsession challenge, by using the color as a tint. I feel guilty. So, here is another response, with the true color -- although I didn't use very much of it -- as the blood of Aphrodite.

The new Collage Obsession challenge has been posted and it is ... the color "honeysuckle." It's a shade of pink, and pink is not one of my favorite colors. However, pink is for girls and it fits in with something that's been on my mind. Another rock star has come to the end of the line before the age of thirty. That's a sad waste of talent and life.

The Lady is For Burning

The new Collage Obsession challenge is "The other side of the sunset," represented by the bright glow of the sun sinking behind the hills, which I found very evocative. The sun is a ball of fire, of course, and that led me to thinking about other sources of fire.

Life Without the Internet Sucks

I have just recovered from two weeks without internet service, "on account of not my fault." I first became involved in the net world when I worked for the Xerox Corporation, in the 1970s. That was the era of Arpanet, an early network used mostly by defence contractors. In forty years network service has become a utility that most of the Western world uses without thinking much about it. Those two weeks reminded me how much I have come to depend on the net for social communication, shopping, information, and news. It amazes me, it really does.