Bel Homme

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

Hare Décor

Images: B. Meyers.

Handsome in Pink

Pictured above is one of the millions of men who stood in solidarity today with women in the Women's March movement – a movement that saw hundreds of marches take place on all seven continents, including Antarctica. These marches were aimed at both protesting U.S. President Donald Trump’s positions and statements on women’s rights, immigration, the environment, and climate change and offering hope and alternatives to Trump's political agenda and to what has been described as his "sordid immorality" – his bigotry, ignorance, misogyny, and vulgarity.

This handsome young man in a pink scarf was one of an estimated 100,000 people who gathered today on the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol for the Minnesota Women's March. His girlfriend was also present . . . as was the Leveret – "fierce feminists" all!

Images: The Leveret.

Morning Light

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

Unexpected Snow

Writes Max Angus: "As an artist, I try to capture 'that' moment in time that makes your heart jump. The light in the trees. The weather. The pleasure of timeless British holidays by the sea. North Norfolk and its nature reserves. The way home. The wild birds and everything around me that pleases."


Image: "Unexpected Snow" by Max Angus (linocut print).

The Privileged Lovers

The moon has become a dancer
at this festival of love.
The dance of light,
this sacred blessing,
this divine love
beckons us
to a world beyond
only lovers can see
with their eyes of fiery passion.

They are the chosen ones
who have surrendered.
Once they were particles of light
now they are the radiant sun.
They have left behind
the world of deceitful games.
They are the privileged lovers
who create a new world
with their eyes of fiery passion.

– Jalal al-Din Rumi
(translated by Deepak Chopra and Fereydoun Kia)
from The Love Poems of Rumi

Image: Niko Wirachman and Davide Zongoli (Photo: Joan Crisol)

Into the Dark Woods

Image: "Into the Dark Woods" by Catherine Hyde.

Bel Homme

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

Let the Spiral Turn and Turn . . .

. . . Wind will blow and fire will burn.
Water flows upon the earth,
As we dance from death to birth.

Midwinter, the longest night, falls at the time when the sun is farthest from the earth. . . . Like many winter festivals, the Winter Solstice is a time of lights and candles, of bread-baking and gift-giving as we await the birth of the sun. We rise before dawn on Solstice day to sing up the sun and welcome the new light.

– Starhawk
Excerpted from The Pagan Book of Living and Dying

Image: The Leveret.

See also the previous posts: Winter Solstice | Sol Invictus | Running Hare VI

Related Off-site Link: The Magical History of Yule, the Pagan Winter Solstice Celebration – The Huffington Post (December 20, 2016).

In the Arena

See also the previous posts:
• In the Arena
• In the Arena II
• In the Arena III
• In the Arena IV
• Wrestling: "The Heterosexually Acceptable Form of Homosexual Foreplay"
• The Domain of Eros
• Olympic Male Beauty
• Olympic Male Beauty II
• Ball[s] Sports

Autumn Hare IV

See also the previous posts: Autumn Hare (2008) | In Autumn Snow | Song in Autumn | Autumn Hare (2011) | Autumn Hare II | Autumn Hare III | Autumn Beauty

Image: "Autumn Hare" by R. Miles.

A Means of Making Contact

The penis is a means of making contact, literally "reaching out" for the other, not to hurt or invade, but to pleasure and delight – mutually! . . . Not just me, and not just the other, but both simultaneously. Is that not an ideal metaphor for what all human relationships should be?

– Source

See also the previous posts:
Not a Weapon or a Mere Tool | Body and Soul | Phallus | Penis | Hard | Soft