Samsara Comics, tisane of pomegranate seeds and cinnabar needles

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Geranium Lake Properties, the nature of dragons and vice versa

© lcmt 2015

I am not claiming anything but a bizarre coincidence, but today's comic is about the wisdom of poking Nature with a stick.

The aftermath of posting panels from Jack Loki's Raindance:

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2015/07/19/3727296/summer-thunderstorm-hits-slo-county.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/20/424578657/rare-july-rain-washes-out-bridge-on-i-10-in-california

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/07/20/all-that-record-breaking-rain-in-california-still-isnt-enough-to-dent-the-drought/

Geranium Lake Properties, "Blue in Green"

Another panel from Jack Loki's Raindance series. By weird coincidence, it rained last night in my part of California.

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Samsara Comics, atoms of blood in a luckier soil, aka jazz

Geranium Lake Properties, The Rain Knot

Part of Jack Loki's Raindance

Geranium Lake Properties, the Return of the Jackalope

Jack Loki's Raindance

In the summer of 1992, golden California was baked brown and burnt from a drought that had lasted 5 years. Wm. Yost was a California resident at the time, living in a trailer park* near Oceano Beach. GLP's sporadic protagonist, the irrepressible jackalope named Jack Loki (or "Holmes Tuttle" to his close friends), lived in an undetermined desert that could have been the Sonoran, the Mohave, the Gobi, the Mongolian-Manchurian steppe, or the deserts of Barsoom. Yost, born in Wickenburg, Arizona, and Jack, a wild creature native to deserts, were both accustomed to drought as a natural cycle of their environment. Even so, the situation in California in 1992 seemed severe, almost dire. In response, Yost created a series of GLP panels called "Jack Loki's Raindance". That winter (1992-1993) the drought broke with rainfall totals that nearly reached record amounts.

California is suffering from another tremendous drought right now, so I thought it would be a good time to break out the raindance panels.

*The trailer park grew up around a Victorian-style mansion called the Coffee T. Rice House. Before the trailer park was built, the house was surrounded by a Christmas tree farm where my family would find and cut our tree when I was a child. Here are two encounters with the Coffee T. Rice House by bloggers writing about California's central coast:

https://newleafgarden.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/birds-and-beef/

http://diaryofamadbabyboomer.com/2014/10/15/pacific-coast-highway-day-1-la-to-pismo-beach/

Samsara Comics, known remediation and release

Samsara Comics, dualities of surface and turbulence

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Samsara Comics, the monkey with a magic lantern

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Samsara Comics, minor nodes of transition

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Samsara Comics, well-crafted linen plunged into a mystery

I feel a GLP panel breathing through this one.

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Samsara Comics, countless frustrations

“Hope abides; therefore I abide.
Countless frustrations have not cowed me.
I am still alive, vibrant with life.
The black cloud will disappear,
The morning sun will appear once again
In all its supernal glory.”

Sri Chinmoy

Samsara Comics, accepting the inhospitable object

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Samsara Comics, fourteen sheaves and the dogs of pestilence

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Samsara Comics, a sentient creature avoids peril

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Samsara Comics, your right, my left

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Samsara Comics, leaves uphold the tree

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Samsara Comics, water stood on the ground

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Samsara Comics, a blunt coincidence of hallway and door

Samsara Comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. I was on vacation last week and could not make Sunday's post, but with two panels today we are all caught up.

Samsara Comics, salt loss and thin acid