16th Anniversary of Adalbert/ Xothique Blog

 Here we are -- today is the 16th anniversary of this blog, as we slither deeper into the third millennium. To mark today, I'll post a digital collage/ drawing -- Charleville Transmission -- which I concocted the other day. It's dedicated to the memory of blogger, and collage artist, Ray Wallis. #rimbaud  -JF 

15th Anniversary of Adalbert

 

This marks the 15th anniversary of my blog, Adalbert. Here's a recent digital collage/painting, of mine. -JF 💥

13 Year Anniversary

 

A digital collage I created recently, to mark the 13th anniversary of this blog, Adalbert. The background for the collage was a photo I took in 2004. 

Decennial Now

Ten years have drifted or dashed by, since my first blog post on this site. It's been real. 2008, when I began posting, had some outsized events; the global economic crash, the election of President Barack Obama in the U.S.; the Iraq War persisted, after the surge. Before, and since then, the globe has been engaged in a sort of drunkard's walk.

Above: Strange Life of Ivan Osokin, by P.D. Ouspensky. The novel revolved about the central enigma of spacetime. Ivan Osokin took a Mulligan, with the arrow of time...

Blog Anniversary

This post marks nine years since my first entry in this blog.

A day or two ago I grazed on some old posts, and surprised myself with a few items I'd forgotten putting on here.

Browsing is always welcome. 

 

 

Five Years

Here marks the fifth anniversary of the Adalbert blog.  Five years ago today I wrote my first three sentence post, and the first image I used in the blog was a deliberately mislabeled photograph of Aleister Crowley.  To suggest a circle, here are two images of the Master Therion from the time of the attempted summiting of K2 in 1902:

 

 

 

Frater Perdurabo is second from the right in the lower picture.

 

 

And here's a daruma doll someone gave me in Gunma-ken, Japan, years back.