Welcome to the rt tulley photography blogIt features photos, text, and poetry.November 10Homeostasis
I am thankful for homeostasis. Homeostasis is derived from the Greek words for similar and standing still. Homeostasis is when self regulation occurs as a result of checks and balances. Homeostasis is key to human life in that life requires a fine regulation of biochemical and physiological systems. Homeostasis results is normalization of these factors should they stray a little. An example is body temperature. Should the body get a little cold, adjustments occur which will bring the temperature back to normal. The opposite is true for elevated body temperature. Other systems regulated well include pH and blood levels of biochemicals such as glucose (sugar). Homeostasis is basically regulation of the status quo and an attempt to maintain it.
Using the word homeostasis in our personal relationships is taking the analogy a step further. When we get in an argument with a loved one, if we have good homeostatic mechanisms in place, we will do what is required to bring that relationship back to normal. Therefore we should try to mimic biological processes in our interactions with others.
This is a photo of the gauges and valves on a firetruck I saw in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. These guages inply the necessity for monitoring and adjustment. That is why it made me think of homeostasis.
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my control center flashed out a warning weather control indicated storm clouds were forming chance of negative interactions between me and you i’ll have to intervene and figure out what to do homeostatic mechanisms turn to me and say you’ve got to take counter measures somehow and some way so i put my tail between my legs and walk up to you tell you it was all my fault that i love you true a little patching and kissing up that homeostasis requires it beats the alternative that a relationship expires. © rt tulley November 9Autumn
I am thankful for autumn. The change in temperature and humidity is welcomed after a long, hot, humid summer. Autumn brings milder days and sometimes bright oranges and reds. Fall festivities are the most beloved holidays of the year. The closing of the year leads us to anticipate a new year around the corner and gives us time to tie up knots to bring a successful year a last final hurrah. But it's not over yet. Some of the best is yet to come.
This is one of the two cypress trees on the circle outside my house. Although pretty rare in Louisiana, as you can see, autumn colors sometimes give us a real jolt!
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autumn time of harvest time of falling leaves time of cool days and cold nights time of shorter days and less light
time of aging nearing grandeur nearing the summit the pinnacle near the peak celebrate accomplishments time to seek. © rt tulley
November 8Equality
I am thankful for equality. Everyone was not necessarily created equal with regard to social status, skills, monetary status, health, etc., but everyone was created with the freedom to be who they can be and that should be without regard to discrimination based on race or other factors. Slavery has existed for thousands of years. It was prevalent in biblical days and, as you know, through the early history of our own country. It took the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution in 1865 to do away with people owning other people. Imagine what it is like to be bought and sold into slavery and to be another person's property until death. Not a pleasant thought. These days we hear about human trafficking for sexual slavery or other reasons. So slavery is not entirely dead in this world. Unfortunate.
This is a photo taken in the Louisiana State Museum of a re-created slave market. This is the first time I had been to this museum. It is two floors jam packed full of Louisiana history and Louisiana culture. I definitely recommend it to everyone.
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i am a slave to myself bought and paid nobody else can use me for trade good or bad for better or worse i belong to me good fortune or curse whatever occurs nobody else to blame it’s all on my own shoulders every day the same but if i need a little help i can ask above sharing the burden and pain through patience and love. © rt tulley November 7Trouble
In all honesty, I cannot say that I am thankful for trouble. But I am thankful for what trouble can teach us and for the opportunity to recover from trouble, and even rise above it. Adversity is often required for us to shake the status quo. Often, trouble follows certain people around. That is either by no fault or cause of those people or, more often than not, because of what those people do. In other words, in those cases, trouble happens because of their foibles. These people usually do not understand that trouble is of their own making. They believe it is because of other people or just bad luck. But those of us who can truly analyze trends and continue to have repeating troubles often realize what needs to be changed to prevent further troubles. And thus we learn.
This is another author I met at the Louisiana Book Festival this past Saturday. Her name is Gwen Carriere and the name of her book is Trouble Comes in on Horseback & Leaves Out on a Snail. Gwen was a wonderful, energetic, and inspirational woman. She told me that the title of her book came from a saying of her mother's. Isn't it true how trouble comes zooming in and takes its time about leaving!
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trouble follows us like a balloon on a string no matter which way you turn to you that balloon does cling why oh why or why does trouble continue to stay you turn left and right but you cannot keep it at bay but the secret of beating trouble is learn your lesson learned bring with you a needle and pop it ‘til it’s spurned. © rt tulley November 6Writing
I am thankful for writing. This may not be true for everyone, but I think writing is my most natural mode of communication and creativity. Verbally, I tend to get all tongue-tied and don't have the confidence to deliver a soliloquy. But with writing, I just start and it flows. I suppose with speaking, it is difficult to go back and edit but with writing, editing is so easily done with computers that there are plenty of opportunities to go back and correct your mistakes or try to make clearer those things which were not so clearly expressed initially. There are many opportunities to use the eraser!
As I mentioned in yesterday's Blog, I attended the Louisiana Book Festival in downtown Baton Rouge on Saturday. It was a lot of fun for me to talk to the exhibtors, many of whom were self published authors. There are many people with great creativity in the publishing arena. These people were so inspirational: children's story authors and illustrators, authors of novels, authors of inspirational and funny books, and biographical books. Writing is what makes all this possible.
Pictured in today's blog is one of the authors, Stephanie Judice. She is an English teacher from New Iberia who has written two fantasy books for teens, The Saga of the Setti (Rising, Resistance). She explained how teaching youth is very helpful in learning about the way they speak to each other and the little sayings and nuances of teens. In the photo, she is autographing her books for my daughter Beth. Sorry about the stray hairs in the photo: the wind was blowing pretty strongly. Check out Stephanie's page on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=la_B004Z1C94U_B004Z1C94U_sr?rh=i%3Abooks&field-author=Stephanie+Judice&sort=relevance&ie=UTF8&qid=1383705226.
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words spoken fall out of an unrehearsed mouth scrambled and jumbled they zoom out and turn toward the south those few words could cause me very very much harm gotta do a little damage control preserve my reputation for charm damage control arrived quickly to do their undercover work try to suck back those words before they think that i’m a jerk they turn on their machine and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks trying to pull those words back but this time the words must have stuck for damage control just shakes their heads and say it is unrecoverable junk they pack up and back up after putting their machine in the trunk so i might as well admit the damage has been done i just wish speaking was editable like the words of this poetic fun. © rt tulley |
