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Rademedes the Cat

RADEMEDES


A former stray cat has  taken on the responsibility of helping care for injured and sick animals at an animal shelter in Poland.

‘He cleans them and sleeps with them and pays particular attention to those suffering from serious diseases'.

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Wigwam Burner

WIGWAM BURNERS  (updated)


I photographed this wigwam burner at a sawmill in Ashland, Oregon, in 1968. It represents a time when sawdust and other wood waste had no use, and few people were affected by the smoke from their incineration.

I found this map of all the sawmills in Ashland.  As I recall, the one I photographed was near downtown..  My guess is it was either the Workman or Lithia mill.

This may have been the one I photographed.

Thankfully, there a many pictures of wigwam (or behive) burners.

Here's a nice shiny new one.

I saw them in operation on my travels, but never at night.

It was only a matter of time before the cities grew and the smoke became intolerable.

Now they're relics and oddities in the landscape.

There was a wigwam burner in my town--that's it behind the smoke in this photo from the 1940's.

The mill is long gone, and the site has become a park.  Here are two pictures taken of informational signs at various places within the park. 

A recent photograph of  the mill site and the wigmam burner foundation. 

Looking towards Ruston Way (during a Fourth of July fair), the channels through which the ashes were removed at high tide are visible.

The Tilted Cone, which houses the glass Hot Shop at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, was inspired by the iconic shape of the wigwam burner.

Someone saw in wigwam burners what I saw.

A sketch of the tilted cone.

Sunrise, Mansion of Bahji

Sunrise, Mansion of Bahji, Acre, Israel

(T)he doings of men are all dependent upon Thy good-pleasure, and are conditioned by Thy behest. Shouldst Thou regard him who hath broken the fast as one who hath observed it, such a man would be reckoned among them who from eternity had been keeping the fast. And shouldst Thou decree that he who hath observed the fast hath broken it, that person would be numbered with such as have caused the Robe of Thy Revelation to be stained with dust, and been far removed from the crystal waters of this living Fountain.     --Baha'u'llah

Bahá'í month of `Ala'

Cookies---Hand Delivered!

Thank you, Tim and Deb.

Da Bes Kine

Eddie Aikau, round 1, heat 2, Waimea Bay.

"Been there! Air and water". --Josh

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Book and Candle

O SON OF DESIRE! The learned and the wise have for long years striven and failed to attain the presence of the All-Glorious; they have spent their lives in search of Him, yet did not behold the beauty of His countenance. Thou without the least effort didst attain thy goal, and without search hast obtained the object of thy quest. Yet, notwithstanding, thou didst remain so wrapt in the veil of self, that thine eyes beheld not the beauty of the Beloved, nor did thy hand touch the hem of His robe. Ye that have eyes, behold and wonder.

 Baha’u’llah, The Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah

Paul W. Ruiz

ART BY PAUL W. RUIZ

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Oil

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