tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64885507817542716252024-03-14T09:42:47.819-05:00Can't Learn LessTom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.comBlogger395125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-34868542683615878412023-06-19T15:13:00.002-05:002023-06-19T15:13:43.260-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxWyMDbmbW9hIHvxRhNt2zTbrsu76CxCNHJCYYSOTvwhojY-BQTs7zUJ4eB6Wmutcn4LEPfLjSp3gSY-2ixx2pk4mT0c2JmqfXZwK99c3VwnNsgikDpuSmZKzki55wchlBFdQWWZyzDotL1W0AlujkJwYahTO1XVYMxe7Up4E1AldUMIqu2-gIVEIs812-/s2898/AIA.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="2231" data-original-width="2898" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxWyMDbmbW9hIHvxRhNt2zTbrsu76CxCNHJCYYSOTvwhojY-BQTs7zUJ4eB6Wmutcn4LEPfLjSp3gSY-2ixx2pk4mT0c2JmqfXZwK99c3VwnNsgikDpuSmZKzki55wchlBFdQWWZyzDotL1W0AlujkJwYahTO1XVYMxe7Up4E1AldUMIqu2-gIVEIs812-/s320/AIA.jpg"/></a></div>Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-16508239499204785842023-06-19T15:07:00.001-05:002023-06-19T15:07:17.560-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfjbL9uzQgYUeH7vvmCRt7Twgn_OIXOLQUibzxqnnYS1KGTMzSubMokmZ1JelkDj454dIA66K-rW4k0jkSvJ0SeuVQAOkR_JSXXAXTtiK9AI-zgwX9XJt703oqGGj2OxtoDeAyYn4MhFQ5P6AFcMvhgvtH6n9NfrfiUSVY5qBTvcbdlovvPKvzZHmMoa_4/s3209/IMG_5745.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="3209" data-original-width="2436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfjbL9uzQgYUeH7vvmCRt7Twgn_OIXOLQUibzxqnnYS1KGTMzSubMokmZ1JelkDj454dIA66K-rW4k0jkSvJ0SeuVQAOkR_JSXXAXTtiK9AI-zgwX9XJt703oqGGj2OxtoDeAyYn4MhFQ5P6AFcMvhgvtH6n9NfrfiUSVY5qBTvcbdlovvPKvzZHmMoa_4/s320/IMG_5745.jpg"/></a></div>Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-45126467099749722352023-06-19T15:00:00.001-05:002023-06-19T15:00:56.739-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_5jgKN_FiDM54yRiy1-jvsCgCJPYY3arij9T9t6y3DrBioNcr4A0P_5Ntk_EtTCcuQpNY0_Z73sfz3pZ2-iy9bmHe5AjLmdrdS_ichH3mJcPXL1qYPfCiw1oWA9GT-vBtA6wfc0TjjoHRBGSBpZjLcbB7AlndumYqLipY4_F5lnW6YUEUZCB9jbVH37u5/s3573/burnin%27%20down%20the%20woods.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="2541" data-original-width="3573" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_5jgKN_FiDM54yRiy1-jvsCgCJPYY3arij9T9t6y3DrBioNcr4A0P_5Ntk_EtTCcuQpNY0_Z73sfz3pZ2-iy9bmHe5AjLmdrdS_ichH3mJcPXL1qYPfCiw1oWA9GT-vBtA6wfc0TjjoHRBGSBpZjLcbB7AlndumYqLipY4_F5lnW6YUEUZCB9jbVH37u5/s320/burnin%27%20down%20the%20woods.jpg"/></a></div>Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-38013241309045414252023-06-14T17:42:00.002-05:002023-06-14T17:42:14.730-05:00<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC1xyAIPiu-qtPHiRudllDzFbZg_EnVDPtm547QP9XrFPnS67Fi1dAloX7806_fSk-WSPV9v_lS9d-eGQ2UpdaLYA84V2vUnbJm_tiObRygneSWag76LfzmZXHNQYyVrEQKVSuJVqlD4IfQaQzNMf2wu8PxMf9wUbCk4c8rIkcMNUcKLlCmmSpzDUTUA/s3598/best%20nude%20so%20far.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2505" data-original-width="3598" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC1xyAIPiu-qtPHiRudllDzFbZg_EnVDPtm547QP9XrFPnS67Fi1dAloX7806_fSk-WSPV9v_lS9d-eGQ2UpdaLYA84V2vUnbJm_tiObRygneSWag76LfzmZXHNQYyVrEQKVSuJVqlD4IfQaQzNMf2wu8PxMf9wUbCk4c8rIkcMNUcKLlCmmSpzDUTUA/s320/best%20nude%20so%20far.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Study</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p>Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-24097855777483373472023-06-14T17:40:00.000-05:002023-06-14T17:40:11.009-05:00<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7jlvyIa0svT9ENJ9V-pDsvBLAju8xbZiSIw5stZXfH_JAJEeeQNFPlEQKqLQQTm0FynhgOiDNv1vmBZG9LWw2JwQVLH7FWHOYYzURgOHZHTHM2XJkStcJKX6kbTKwIma3zhkn_lDesPiK6xa1gBEMXZ2z7V6Q2Av1tmgC2W256Y-QpMdHdEgT9SHGjA/s2874/jimi%20for%20rachel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2874" data-original-width="2850" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7jlvyIa0svT9ENJ9V-pDsvBLAju8xbZiSIw5stZXfH_JAJEeeQNFPlEQKqLQQTm0FynhgOiDNv1vmBZG9LWw2JwQVLH7FWHOYYzURgOHZHTHM2XJkStcJKX6kbTKwIma3zhkn_lDesPiK6xa1gBEMXZ2z7V6Q2Av1tmgC2W256Y-QpMdHdEgT9SHGjA/s320/jimi%20for%20rachel.jpg" width="317" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jimi</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p>Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-55492919548685607242023-06-14T17:38:00.002-05:002023-06-14T17:38:52.940-05:00<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEVW7RjJHbfJL_HV4lx-sTU6Wxxq4BQvpE8sqUC4tGFjd870AV6MIu8z7Z36vECQhEYk2_l4ytXdI_NthlapDsbSALyIyCw_4lGtRTr_7-7gBgnrRE5n24fmH2DpVybSB5xtoTOGdzsFd_CUcuE9NaMf1KirFHWNDjo8aHLLuMGShyYM9mQIVGdlp3Uw/s4032/acrylic%20nebula.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEVW7RjJHbfJL_HV4lx-sTU6Wxxq4BQvpE8sqUC4tGFjd870AV6MIu8z7Z36vECQhEYk2_l4ytXdI_NthlapDsbSALyIyCw_4lGtRTr_7-7gBgnrRE5n24fmH2DpVybSB5xtoTOGdzsFd_CUcuE9NaMf1KirFHWNDjo8aHLLuMGShyYM9mQIVGdlp3Uw/s320/acrylic%20nebula.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Acrylic Nebula</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p>Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-74658482118273027062023-06-14T17:24:00.000-05:002023-06-14T17:24:02.529-05:00<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6UB2HAyMGgbfi3UVmTWGvVM2yKkPR2mc0m6pcPp2Efl3i6XZxTRMR5a5C9LMkCb70TRSuOwArWLTzJjNKGsCnHFmmd6wIVTPtr3f6yzCqmIAznpll2XRLIXx-vub4l4P-ckQINa5p5txTfqvyDRjt1nOyyR4B8mTjkMFBJWKwCpgeOMaFnzAWmsdCtw/s3735/IMG_5739.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3735" data-original-width="2719" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6UB2HAyMGgbfi3UVmTWGvVM2yKkPR2mc0m6pcPp2Efl3i6XZxTRMR5a5C9LMkCb70TRSuOwArWLTzJjNKGsCnHFmmd6wIVTPtr3f6yzCqmIAznpll2XRLIXx-vub4l4P-ckQINa5p5txTfqvyDRjt1nOyyR4B8mTjkMFBJWKwCpgeOMaFnzAWmsdCtw/s320/IMG_5739.jpg" width="233" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">La Guitarra/Patty Larkin</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p>Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-59595739608352533262023-06-14T17:17:00.004-05:002023-06-14T17:17:33.824-05:00<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGx_OfN5FGCfXB4c8gSmRm5E5YM9j-1d815Mhes3MGsifXoKsPBdt7IZQUGuKkR1Pofong6dFzDPtQVsLA0Q00qghGiemfK9jfKVzaPZYqZ-T1A2ALBmGJVmWqukQrXB2gxWhu9wLAK14N26aQ5vz882FYusqzrRAV4Rci_p494MVlf-hyOTQK3nxqqA/s2865/gooseneck%20seranade.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2865" data-original-width="2213" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGx_OfN5FGCfXB4c8gSmRm5E5YM9j-1d815Mhes3MGsifXoKsPBdt7IZQUGuKkR1Pofong6dFzDPtQVsLA0Q00qghGiemfK9jfKVzaPZYqZ-T1A2ALBmGJVmWqukQrXB2gxWhu9wLAK14N26aQ5vz882FYusqzrRAV4Rci_p494MVlf-hyOTQK3nxqqA/s320/gooseneck%20seranade.jpg" width="247" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meloan at Gooseneck Hollow</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p>Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-35427663191775683342023-06-14T17:13:00.002-05:002023-06-14T17:13:17.253-05:00<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZLm7L9ZsfcFCCJE0OD8Cpot8IbTfF0V4lg3C4kccdYCKzLTzkhjPfoCSS25iW2l-Q4M9D39AripeJFIaawG4ec1R7QtK7d8LK_xRAjLKL67moJpCxVez03jvEpUGauilrGEQ6r76gutRV2Us5ZznPYhW4_5qJdWy-Cy0PMSUTxChbaOc0M7doZunFtg/s1237/tetrahedral%20planet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1237" data-original-width="951" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZLm7L9ZsfcFCCJE0OD8Cpot8IbTfF0V4lg3C4kccdYCKzLTzkhjPfoCSS25iW2l-Q4M9D39AripeJFIaawG4ec1R7QtK7d8LK_xRAjLKL67moJpCxVez03jvEpUGauilrGEQ6r76gutRV2Us5ZznPYhW4_5qJdWy-Cy0PMSUTxChbaOc0M7doZunFtg/s320/tetrahedral%20planet.jpg" width="246" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tetrahedral Planet, Acrylic, Lost</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p>Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-57750002120149747032023-06-14T17:04:00.001-05:002023-06-14T17:04:06.215-05:00<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyVSGWMm-ZGJtL4L4aHDFaUPg0FNT5dj-V56rIosFl7A0DeM5kg4xJnZLzIwIjPKSVPFsUiiAYSNGd2Bb9z4JW0p-PkVsaBl2xOc9Nf5dxMXRYN5I_aOD052mCMZ3j3y9xdesnfvSBoNhQys8basxBSImCZDyT15jwBFnulD3NhOxht1Yeb-vci-pPsQ/s4032/ishwari%20just%20the%20head.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyVSGWMm-ZGJtL4L4aHDFaUPg0FNT5dj-V56rIosFl7A0DeM5kg4xJnZLzIwIjPKSVPFsUiiAYSNGd2Bb9z4JW0p-PkVsaBl2xOc9Nf5dxMXRYN5I_aOD052mCMZ3j3y9xdesnfvSBoNhQys8basxBSImCZDyT15jwBFnulD3NhOxht1Yeb-vci-pPsQ/s320/ishwari%20just%20the%20head.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Study, Oil</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p>Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-29867775011782477882023-06-14T17:02:00.003-05:002023-06-14T17:02:34.866-05:00<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLcu2SjmHVhpUOVvRCbq54olRlLfsoZ3Q5i75FAUbaTmvhGDi_PAR8YEBlgSQjm3SDIXLnjUoDr-GDwAsr_NEk5KwI97mSzMAYqEAaGKnJTcG08DUmHKta6cXk05tFXerakVgmDXBa9ewLSdYM7RECB8Hi9XS91JvWCyp85QDtBA_q4J7VdARbElyQBw/s3353/IMG_9316%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2544" data-original-width="3353" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLcu2SjmHVhpUOVvRCbq54olRlLfsoZ3Q5i75FAUbaTmvhGDi_PAR8YEBlgSQjm3SDIXLnjUoDr-GDwAsr_NEk5KwI97mSzMAYqEAaGKnJTcG08DUmHKta6cXk05tFXerakVgmDXBa9ewLSdYM7RECB8Hi9XS91JvWCyp85QDtBA_q4J7VdARbElyQBw/s320/IMG_9316%20(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Creation Myth, oil</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p>Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-90912669615274696062023-06-14T17:00:00.003-05:002023-06-14T17:00:58.932-05:00<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJWaRmp9KJMkGDYsKx4PMqWFWQXt89RG0HghpuM0wide11OTFJ_gIKpVmV7VFZaFCNI_swHvYkRXxWbIdS52QS-l0Ye7W76lzKxOqqTJbEn45qw6qpx13LAKLN16SyVtD0v76I5PcmdSNpcDoNwWrM9BPv9A43HyoKYMnysQkyMDy3a8_XOusmyCsI1A/s3785/IMG_6251.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3785" data-original-width="2648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJWaRmp9KJMkGDYsKx4PMqWFWQXt89RG0HghpuM0wide11OTFJ_gIKpVmV7VFZaFCNI_swHvYkRXxWbIdS52QS-l0Ye7W76lzKxOqqTJbEn45qw6qpx13LAKLN16SyVtD0v76I5PcmdSNpcDoNwWrM9BPv9A43HyoKYMnysQkyMDy3a8_XOusmyCsI1A/s320/IMG_6251.jpg" width="224" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Debris</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p>Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-8616275534806751952023-06-14T16:59:00.002-05:002023-06-14T16:59:23.330-05:00<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7YqkSa6qdyNIMPUav08zMRVV752AuyJr84UfGQHwBh5fnZAjJ_Uzxqzb5FEAo_pC9BrItz_uO135KAHrsSHTJqtitQy-kJEIMnyUTubx7b637XQUeHRcWI33Cqq298VExb6myVNMF-CrID18SuNs9XmnFRcverq6lIEW332FzdYGkB5sahdyURzzPwQ/s4032/jil%20vignette.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7YqkSa6qdyNIMPUav08zMRVV752AuyJr84UfGQHwBh5fnZAjJ_Uzxqzb5FEAo_pC9BrItz_uO135KAHrsSHTJqtitQy-kJEIMnyUTubx7b637XQUeHRcWI33Cqq298VExb6myVNMF-CrID18SuNs9XmnFRcverq6lIEW332FzdYGkB5sahdyURzzPwQ/s320/jil%20vignette.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Study</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p>Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-67063092366357007242023-06-14T16:57:00.002-05:002023-06-14T16:57:50.446-05:00<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLnR_twKUyOFFA1mb8_C7hjanD2CovoXEsIoJncwRMo_-u-82patRQhLd8EfzbewSheLxerF0B78tHyJ3TIVUVXUqXxjLvH3Veg2OfZcLboN8O1xv62RFATDuTm_zRFe4rvmCznikRl8IF8OUCg0fFKD361EBsaiseW2DgKZ0e_tlZWmGqJqyCwgkkew/s4032/IMG_1484.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLnR_twKUyOFFA1mb8_C7hjanD2CovoXEsIoJncwRMo_-u-82patRQhLd8EfzbewSheLxerF0B78tHyJ3TIVUVXUqXxjLvH3Veg2OfZcLboN8O1xv62RFATDuTm_zRFe4rvmCznikRl8IF8OUCg0fFKD361EBsaiseW2DgKZ0e_tlZWmGqJqyCwgkkew/s320/IMG_1484.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sam, oil</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p>Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-69866632284551368532023-06-14T16:56:00.003-05:002023-06-14T16:56:35.520-05:00<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvMkfTwBH0o2mVjM4C6Nx2kHKzhvT-8s-w0U6-WkSFh8xwtwPnr4134ypaa82ybg7JnK0Jx06tn8bmuA70Am4H__I8cnQ5QQw13EXz1l2Ga_Ty8JLvLfeY-2mhhVPQHmXmOeSylHkAXXIknfBXeWHW_buKVDKJScqjX1ZyHqkAdLWT0bvLYL2fQ5yYlg/s4032/golden%20nude.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvMkfTwBH0o2mVjM4C6Nx2kHKzhvT-8s-w0U6-WkSFh8xwtwPnr4134ypaa82ybg7JnK0Jx06tn8bmuA70Am4H__I8cnQ5QQw13EXz1l2Ga_Ty8JLvLfeY-2mhhVPQHmXmOeSylHkAXXIknfBXeWHW_buKVDKJScqjX1ZyHqkAdLWT0bvLYL2fQ5yYlg/s320/golden%20nude.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oil Study</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p>Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-39606862814430516212023-06-14T16:53:00.001-05:002023-06-14T16:53:14.599-05:00<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxsvFH1iaypkcD34TD1OaRO8MGNXmOLFXx0QsSCkpOarkhQYqaohbqMUujismfcZbSGIK_JuC5exRXPrCdk1DMqbQFr0l6gRP0WaryC6zDHax-7p80x8653V1Vj7OwGuXptUi3B8XNJreBOAj5P59RMvfVzpHewF-c1HrZ873b1pkbAd070aoaib8tPQ/s4032/Coates%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxsvFH1iaypkcD34TD1OaRO8MGNXmOLFXx0QsSCkpOarkhQYqaohbqMUujismfcZbSGIK_JuC5exRXPrCdk1DMqbQFr0l6gRP0WaryC6zDHax-7p80x8653V1Vj7OwGuXptUi3B8XNJreBOAj5P59RMvfVzpHewF-c1HrZ873b1pkbAd070aoaib8tPQ/s320/Coates%202.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ta-Nehisi Coates</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p>Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-32501889637998012322023-06-14T16:49:00.002-05:002023-06-14T16:49:38.217-05:00<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTJM2EnR-jDfGV4aWMuzWCKpU4EmaDcu_1Cl2sapaLNgEDoHmGeB4EbF15L8DuBWZwalq62LU1dJiesdjDuFLNhWXge96U07X2ugXWwKVfq3P1SC0qzosG6wPvZ77psX5RV__gYFc5ZflJVOThNNS2IU6drlgXWMRb3DnSUhhlNmn5OKlFFrcbDs73Sg/s3919/IMG_5595.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3919" data-original-width="2821" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTJM2EnR-jDfGV4aWMuzWCKpU4EmaDcu_1Cl2sapaLNgEDoHmGeB4EbF15L8DuBWZwalq62LU1dJiesdjDuFLNhWXge96U07X2ugXWwKVfq3P1SC0qzosG6wPvZ77psX5RV__gYFc5ZflJVOThNNS2IU6drlgXWMRb3DnSUhhlNmn5OKlFFrcbDs73Sg/s320/IMG_5595.jpg" width="230" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Study</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p>Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-83965746126052180552023-06-14T16:47:00.003-05:002023-06-14T16:47:52.835-05:00<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgNkfJEcMEGDXsbj771WCCuI_S_3gQItuANfiF2pZqVlLRSkB1oWvzHHn4aJ-QYgOtU2mQoP71RCANFs_-4gSe69lXpHMK4xtkZ36uuhMpqr53kWyEH2Use-iiZSgsoiDrYbpmpExOyb7Ljx5lpc3zZAc5SU_6iEEKMwDQTkzgKJVAPpOUzTPIcRaCYg/s3400/IMG_5169.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3400" data-original-width="2355" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgNkfJEcMEGDXsbj771WCCuI_S_3gQItuANfiF2pZqVlLRSkB1oWvzHHn4aJ-QYgOtU2mQoP71RCANFs_-4gSe69lXpHMK4xtkZ36uuhMpqr53kWyEH2Use-iiZSgsoiDrYbpmpExOyb7Ljx5lpc3zZAc5SU_6iEEKMwDQTkzgKJVAPpOUzTPIcRaCYg/s320/IMG_5169.jpg" width="222" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Menhir by Moonlight</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p>Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-61231367742949713292023-06-14T16:41:00.001-05:002023-06-14T16:41:22.232-05:00<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnG7H7lLPeUb5oD2A-PFQBWyJCbMKD5vlrx1--g_BA3gnRcJYJHbHRs_4vWFL7d57e7zQykSzzNAa6v3zXli4ubsLxJ3bzRNFJsJ9zSBbcJH0y36rYNXOnylgSQ9ykwmIaT2vVsD2l5EXoe-FEV84d3CeHnUPOfayq-R-RTYL1TwqcOTq6WavmV-SrTA/s3695/IMG_9318.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3695" data-original-width="2560" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnG7H7lLPeUb5oD2A-PFQBWyJCbMKD5vlrx1--g_BA3gnRcJYJHbHRs_4vWFL7d57e7zQykSzzNAa6v3zXli4ubsLxJ3bzRNFJsJ9zSBbcJH0y36rYNXOnylgSQ9ykwmIaT2vVsD2l5EXoe-FEV84d3CeHnUPOfayq-R-RTYL1TwqcOTq6WavmV-SrTA/s320/IMG_9318.jpg" width="222" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Airless Void</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p>Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-9381615222704559422013-04-17T14:43:00.000-05:002013-04-17T14:43:10.582-05:00Gun Violence: Where We Ought To InterveneIt's taken me over a month to get to this post. Scared, I guess.<br />
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Donella Meadows said that every model is a simplification, but the shooter-weapon model is too simplified to give us enough leverage to reduce the carnage of mass shootings.<br />
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On the other hand, if I'm going to broaden the model to the point where we can make a difference,<br />
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* Somebody's going to think I'm nuts;<br />
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* I'm going to talk about an area in which my understanding is shallow;<br />
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* What it will take might be harder than rounding up all the ARs and forty-round clips in the US.<br />
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I just wrote a profile of Heinrich Himmler for <em><a href="http://zenithcitynews.com/directory.htm">Zenith City (semi-) Weekly</a></em>, because Himmler, the 3rd Reich's top cop, was the all-time world-champ mass shooter. And he was raised according to an idiotic pedagogy in which, for the sake of his soul, "the child should be permeated by the impossibility of locking something in his heart."<br />
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They gave children enemas before bed, and ice baths, both to keep them from masturbating. They tied them to their beds for the same reason, and to keep them from curling up and getting comfortable.<br />
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There were other insanities, and when little Heinrich and his contemporaries grew up, they thought it was okay to murder millions.<br />
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For contrast I included information about James W. Prescott's 1975 <em><a href="http://www.violence.de/prescott/bulletin/article.html">Body Pleasure and the Origin of Violence</a></em>. Prescott did a cross cultural survey of pre-literate societies. Societies which were physically affectionate with their children were usually peaceful. If a society was neglectful, they could still avoid violence by being sexually permissive. Cuddle babies, and let teenagers cuddle each other, and everybody got along. Prescott said that violence and pleasure are inversely related. If you had one, you didn't have the other.<br />
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Put that in your peace pipe and smoke it.<br />
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There's another couple or three things I want to throw into the mix.<br />
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* The shooters are usually young and aggrieved; they're seeking some warped version of justice.<br />
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* Researchers believe that schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, autism, ADHD, and major depression are genetically linked.<br />
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* Autism, schizophrenia, and depression seem to be common among mass shooters.<br />
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* Gregory Bateson's double-bind theory of schizophrenia says that what's happening with schizophrenics is that they got paradoxical communication ("Come here and give me some sugar, why are you always so clingy?") from somebody important when they were little. Consequently, they tend to mistake direct statements for metaphor, and vice versa. Their own conversation can be bizarrely metaphorical. In my sample of one schizophrenic acquaintance, this has been true. It's also true that this friend will perceive himself as attacked or slighted by surprising things, and acts out in what he calls "street theater" -- usually over environmental issues -- but which can look like the threat or beginning of violence.<br />
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Maybe what happens is that a baby's genetic tendency is shaped into one form of confusion or another by a welcome to the world that's contrary to what this individual organism -- who is smarter than we are, albeit entirely ignorant -- needs.<br />
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Bottom line: cuddle your kids, and don't jerk their chains. Make sure they understand about sexually transmitted diseases and contraception, and let them go.Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-10490863178297115162013-03-04T14:23:00.000-06:002013-03-04T14:23:00.306-06:00Gun Violence And Positive FeedbackPositive feedback is a cycle in which something's happening makes its happening again more likely.<br />
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Example: Compound interest. When you put a dollar in the bank, the bank is renting your money to invest by loaning it out at interest. So the first year, they put another penny with your dollar. You leave it there, and the second year the bank adds one and one hundredth pennies. In seventy years, you have two bucks, courtesy of positive feedback.<br />
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Donella Meadows offers several other examples:<br />
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Eroded soil increases erosion because the thinner, poorer soil supports fewer erosion-stopping plants;<br />
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"The more high-energy neutrons in the critical mass, they more they knock into nuclei and generate more;"<br />
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The more flu sufferers, the more the flu spreads;<br />
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The larger the population, the more offspring, which in turn produce even more offspring;<br />
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Income from production and trade invested in building more capital to allow the production of more goods for trade.<br />
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There are a couple of examples I like, and that Meadows didn't include in this section.<br />
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There's methane, a greenhouse gas, frozen in the arctic tundra. As the climate warms, the tundra thaws and releases the mathane, accelerating warming.<br />
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The other is the Tom Baker Dr. Who, trying to explain positive feedback to an evil, giant spider that is running some kind of power through some science fiction gadget to get more, more, more, mwahahahaha, unlimited power. Fortunately the Doctor wises up, and bails before the spider goes nova.<br />
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Usually a negative feedback loop kicks in, and slows the positive feedback, but Meadows says that we can get quicker results, less threatening to ourselves by slowing the positive loop. Back off the gas before you slam on the brakes. She says this give the existing negative loops time to work. (Meadows was probably thinking of her predictions from the <em>Limits to Growth</em> study.)<br />
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She tells us to "look for leverage points around birth rates, interest rates, erosion rates, 'success to the successful' loops, any place where the more you have of something, the more you have the possibility of having more."<br />
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What does this have to do with gun violence? It took me a while to get around to writing this, because I was hoping something would come to me. I don't think we get more guns because we have more guns, and I don't believe that conceal-carry laws are adequate or desirable negative feedback. You can't buy a gun in Chicago, but there are high schools there with multiple shootings every year. There was an armed guard at Columbine, and you know somebody in the audience was packing in the Aurora Batman shooting.<br />
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We have to intervene in some related system to end mass shootings. Meadows write about five more leverage points, but the next post will be me, going off about what I think is going on.<br />
Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-1902087359296917262013-02-27T16:30:00.001-06:002013-02-27T16:30:52.640-06:00Sequestration Proximate Cause Of The Next RecessionNext Donella Meadows/Mass Shootings post will be "Driving Positive Feedback Loops." I'm struggling with this one a little; I understand the difference, can give examples, and Meadows explains them both successfully, but I don't have a handle on how to work with positive feedback in general, much less in respect to violence. It seems like Meadows is continuing her discussion -- at least practically -- of negative feedback.<br />
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In the meantime, the thought struck me while listening to the news about Congress and "sequestration," that the consumption business cycle is said to take five to seven years, and the recession hit a little more than four-and-a-quarter years ago. The burst housing bubble was the proximate cause, but it was time for a recession, and something had to trigger it.<br />
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Predicting whether this particular cycle will be a long or short one is over my head, and I have pretty conflicted thoughts about the federal austerity. Still...Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-59654430180770000182013-02-25T10:31:00.000-06:002013-02-25T10:31:12.220-06:00Mass Shootings And Regulating Negative Feedback LoopsDonella Meadows writes, "Now we're beginning to move from the physical part of the system to the information and control parts, where more leverage can be found."<br />
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In the few times I've heard the phrase "negative feedback" spoken, the speakers have usually meant criticism or psychology's negative reinforcement. Meadows is using the phrase to mean that something a system does has a slowing effect on itself. Think of foxes as negative feedback for field mice. The more the mice breed, the more food there is for the foxes, making more foxes, which reduce the mouse population.<br />
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What Meadows was saying was that we can get better results from a kind of system jiu jitsu than from concentrating on a problem's hardware.<br />
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She uses the thermostat example to illustrate negative feedback. You want a certain temperature, and you set the thermostat. There's a furnace in the basement that comes on when the house temperature drops below the setting. The fire in the furnace would keep heating the house until it became uncomfortable, except for the thermostat's also being an off switch. The negative feedback is that the more heat the furnace puts out, the more likely it is to turn itself off.<br />
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Meadow' other examples include:<br />
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Emergency cooling in nuclear power plants,<br />
Sweating and shivering,<br />
Rest,<br />
Recreation,<br />
Meditation,<br />
Socializing,<br />
Markets (provided they get accurate information).<br />
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She says that the real leverage related to markets is in ways of getting them accurate, unambiguous information.<br />
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One paragraph that I took to be encouraging, in thinking about gun violence, says, "The strength of a negative feedback loop is important relative to the impact it is designed to correct. If the impact increases in strength, the feedbacks have to be strengthened too. <br />
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"A thermostat system may work fine on a cold winter day -- but open all the windows and its corrective power will fail."<br />
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The reason this is hopeful is that the phenomenon of mass shootings -- even gun violence in total -- is a minor blip in the system of our society. Horrific as it is.<br />
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If we can figure out what's happening, we ought to be able to correct for this painful phenomenon without strong negative feedback.<br />
Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-25472279966984167692013-02-20T12:02:00.000-06:002013-02-20T12:02:02.416-06:00Systems Within SystemsIn <em>Environment, Power, and Society</em>, Howard Odum wrote something to the effect that systems are limited in what they can do by what the larger systems of which they are parts will allow, and by what their own subsystems can provide for.<br />
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Thinking about gun violence, particularly inane mass shootings, in terms of systems, can be frustrating because the system is much larger and more detailed than individual, weapon, and victims. Where do you draw the line?<br />
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Adam Lanza, the reported Sandy Hook killer, was an un-photogenic twenty-year old <a href="http://www.aspergers.com/">Aspergers</a> sufferer, with another learning disability, and divorced, affluent parents. That's somebody who had to have been part of a bullying system, who didn't have the internal system that would let him understand, cope, or avoid. He may have been alienated from his parents, or they from him. "Who knows what's going on in the kid's head. I don't know what to do with him. Listen, the child support's late again. When are you going to realize that you have a responsibility here too."<br />
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And yet, there are a million kids that fit that description.Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488550781754271625.post-30863810663714945112013-02-20T11:15:00.002-06:002013-02-20T11:15:25.235-06:00Liberals Excuse Child KillingYesterday I made up a story that might be taken as excusing wicked behavior. It was about a local man who killed a child and injured two women while shooting at random vehicles. The man really did shoot into traffic and kill a child. The part I made up was the story of his life, and that might be taken as my saying, "You poor put-upon murderer. I understand. it's alright."<br />
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It's been my experience, for about as long as I've been conscious of the news, that people who try to understand vicious behavior are trying to excuse it. "The bully comes from a broken home," etc.<br />
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It's certainly true that there's a large area of intersection between understanding and compassion, but, with me at least, the impulse to understand comes from a desire to protect myself by accurately understanding what's going on.Tom Roarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902738158937981782noreply@blogger.com0