Okatani looking at Sasaki, getting ready for Shenanigans, and said Shenanigans.

5.1.2026

Demuth, CA

Modoc County is a county located in the far northeast corner of the U.S. state of California. Its population is 8,700 as of the 2020 census, down from 9,686 from the 2010 census. This makes it California's third-least-populous county. The county seat and only incorporated city is Alturas. Previous County seats include Lake City and Centerville. The county borders Nevada and Oregon. Much of Modoc County is federal land. Several federal agencies, including the United States Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, have employees assigned to the area, and their operations are a significant part of its economy and services. The county's official slogans include "The last best place" and "Where the West still lives".

More WIPs!!! Here's some more familiar faces from Chronicles of the Sword, Demuth and Hyle (and Leelia!).

What It Means To Be Born Of The Spirit

Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” Existence itself comes from a Divine source. We saw how Sophia acted as the canvas the Godhead painted existence onto. The Godhead exacted His will and imbibed Sophia with…

Happy birthday to Dorothy Norman, born in Philadelphia on this day in 1905. Norman committed her life to advancing both art and political action, dividing her time between photography, writing, curating, and social activism. She learned photography in the early 1930s from her friend and mentor Alfred Stieglitz. Her pictures are richly detailed and tender portrayals of the places and people she treasured, printed at the intimate scale of roughly three-by-four inches.