DURO 6 Arias, Constitution Day 2009 and the Paper Czar

 
 
   We the editors of  The Heron Report present the preamble of the United States Constitution and some items donated by the Paper Czar.
   Our own day begins with a kind of preamble. We walk along the creek. We come to the studio and office and and convene with our in-house representatives, including the Paper Czar. We [...]

Sign of the Times, Reading PA

   Our stance is neutral.  This is a visual of interest that we photographed on a three day and put in the bitemyhorse.com digital image savings account to ripen and mature.

hello kitty

Sharpshooter heron on the toppled tree.
humid. what is this?
Curtis reports finding young raccoon curled up in trash barrel. Sleepy eyed.
Library lecture last night. Keyword: Empire.
Curse of drinking class calls.
Distract with trivia, enrich with trivia.
Obsess with celebrity, cherish celebrity.
Fascination with the fertile couple. Fascination with life.

Spotted: MESSED THAT UP!

   Proclamation on railroad car that’s hauling eastward this morning: MESSED THAT UP! Sprayed initials and a smiley face. The smiley face catches my eye first.
    This makes us think of Schlemiel, outlined in transactional analysis: Eric Bern M.D.’s Games People Play. The pleasure of messing. Some artists are messy. Some of the best artists, Warhol and [...]

lizness katthundheit!

  
 
   Cherchez le chat?  God bless the animals!
   July’s edition of Furry Friday at the  Humane Society of Berks County www.berkshumane.org unleashed the work of Liz Hess, a bilingual Lancaster, Pennsylvania artist who speaks the language of Sweden, where dog is hund and cat is katt.
    Behind every great artist is a fine fuzzy friend or two; Hess’s [...]

Overheard in Reading, PA

  Sunday morning.
 Cloud cover.
 God is an Awesome God foreplate.
 Fisherman with cart and accoutrements for a week’s worth of fishing.
Vitamin water bottle, capped, with half a swig left, left on the wood footbridge,
 Predetermined I would pick up a foil shape today: a Six day for metal and helpful people and travel. It looks like bunny with ears, [...]

POS Frog Rescue

 
 A wheat receipt sticks up out of the grass at the park this morning. Actually, it is a Visa sales slip from Bell Mawr, New Jersey, dated May 7 for $30.90 with Central Atlantic Merchant Services of Vineland New Jersey printed on the back. POS Merchant specialists.
   Because my notebook is off on its own somewhere, this [...]

Spotted: On Cherry, On Washington

A woman walking on Cherry Street in the Thursday afternoon rain. She carries an umbrella of cherry-printed fabric.
A grade school bus: girl in the front seat above the stairwell standing holding her artwork across the window pane like a handsome transom.

A little night reading

   Question for pondering, posed in the book The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel:

From the Office of the Vice President

   I have been sent another book in the mail, upon which are written the letters OVP. It is a paperback in Erin Hunter’s cat tales series, called Forest of Secrets. OPV.  Text messages are three letter words.
   OVP. Office of the vice-president. Also a something something venture partners. Ohio Valley.
This may be an initial Rohrshach [...]