Para Los Dos Archives

An archive with old books and old filing cabinets

The Blood Does Not Run Hidden

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An artistic rendering of a path through the woods.

Quick

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A colourful artistic rendering of some steps leading out of a building onto a cobblestone path. The exit is a round opening in the wall that is framed by curtains drawn and tied.

The Curtain Sets On Laughter Rising

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A colourful artistic rendering of an angel/knight standing behind a fierce little girl who is holding a sword and looks determined.

Once Forever

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A colourful artistic rendering of a woman standing in an open doorway looking out on to the sea. It's a very happy and full of life image.

The Doorman Abstracts

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An artistic rendering of two people shaking or holding hands. They could be facing either way, or different ways. There is a huge moon in the background enveloping them.

If You Only Know One Word

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A colourful artistic rendering of a boy and his dad walking out towards an open doorway.

Enter The Wobbler

in other words

An artistic rendering of a happy old man peacefully holding a violin.

Because Of Harold McKinley

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An artistic rendering of figures walking down a road in a crumbling city. They are walking towards and past two huge, decaying, statues of severe looking men.

Once There Was Trade

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An artistic rendering of colourful tents on a path in the woods.

Whatever Means Goodbye

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An artistic rendering of a colourful scene of a lane between 6-story townhouses. The view is up, that of a small child.

A Fading Crack

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A colourful artistic rendering of a sea of people surrounding an empty stage with a podium on it. They are all facing towards a clear blue sky that looks like it is on fire in the center of the image.

Free To Disagree With Stupidity

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An artistic rendering of a fire at the bottom of a mountain. The fire seems to be floating on a lake. A figure sits in a canoe on the very calm lake and watches.

Perilous Half-Truth

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Cloud Cover

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An artistic rendering of a small figure in the foreground that is paused in front of a jungle temple.

Wu Wei

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A man is walking towards a fire. From the back, he looks like he could be Keanu Reeves.

A Quick Word About Neo

in other words

An artistic rendering of a race car travelling through the jungle.

I Can’t Cure You

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An artistic rendering in black and white of a figure in black watching over a figure in white.

A Knight Cannot A Mourning End

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A colourful artistic rendering of a person in a canoe on a river in the woods.

Fate Is at the Mercy of Whim

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An very colourful artistic rendering of a woman walking walking through light and shadow.

Do Unto Others

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A colourful artistic rendering of a figure sitting in a chair in a room. The figure is facing an open door and looking out onto a bright, colourful courtyard.

Should We Meet Again

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An artistic rendering of a colourful figure is dancing in the middle of a hall. Bright light is pouring in through arches and from the ceiling.

A Wheel Round Will Turn

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A colourful artistic rendering of a person standing under an arch looking out onto worlds.

The Elegance Of Existence

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An artistic rendering of a blue room is telescoping away, there is a door or window, that is bathed in bright white light, at the end. The ceiling looks like it might be made of water.

Clearly Somewhat Cloudy

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An artistic rendering of a home that has grown into the trunk of a tree.

A Pulse

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An artistic rendering of a majestic tree in a desert setting. The sun shines through and on it.

A Grateful Ode To The Sun

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Two people are looking out a doorway toward a bright day, the sun makes everything hazy. Beside them is another doorway to another bright day bathed in blue light.

My Muse

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Rain falls on an empty theatre stage. The curtains are open.

The Cousins Apathy and Ennui Will Attend

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An older man stands beside a large gravestone in a field. He is staring off into the distance.

On The Creation Of Sadness

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A beautiful, abstract, colourful painting of Cuban people and fruits

Where Is Cuba Now?

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A side view of a person's head, the head has morphed into a tree which has an opening at the top. Branches run throughout like veins. The eyes are closed and the person look contemplative and content.

A Silky Breeze

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A young woman stands on top of a mountain looking into the sunset over a valley.

Not Just A Girl

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An artistic rendering of two ants chatting.

Two Ants Lament

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A village with lots of colourful houses going from a dirt road up a small mountain. The sky is filled with balloons with baskets attached.

What Noises We Make

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A festive, happy lane with colourful buildings. Waiting for the people to arrive.

We Gather What We Feel

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A beautiful, peaceful lane under a canopy of tress in winter. Everything is covered in snow. The scene is bathed in a yellowish, calming light.

Within The Math

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A blind man is hiking in the mountains.

The Line Between

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Two people walk together on a path on a beautiful autumn day.

The Corporeal Waves

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A peaceful and inviting old house is nestled into trees in a colourful grassy valley.

My Savage Would Say

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A woman in a long colourful dress appears to be walking out of a ground fog in an old market street. She is following a crowd.

How Have We Been Led?

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A young person stands staring out of a brightly lit doorway

Upon The Way

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A big brother has his arm around his little brother. Protecting and loving. They are facing a colourful futuristic looking arch.

My Cousin, My Brother, My Friend

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A figure is standing on the bottom of the sea, looking up towards the water's surface and the light.

Vast and Curious

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An old upright piano sits in a cave to the right. Rays of light from the top left angle down onto the piano bench.

These Cave Walls

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A woman walks along a path with large trees on the right and buildings on the left. The scene is hazy, but light filled. Very peaceful, almost ghostly.

The Tribal Hymn

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A lone mountain in a valley has grown around grandfather clock. There is a small waterfall spilling water into a pool at the clock mountain's bottom.

Time Is Death’s Valet

in other words

A large cat or dog is sitting behind a figure in a brimmed hat and long coat. They are both in a see through cube. The box of Schrödinger's cat. Sepia tones but with light rays coming from the top left corner. The cat is watching the kids from the logo walk away.

Neither Math Nor Myth

in other words

A weird image of a human like creature that appears to be growing from a tree and suspended in the air. A light shines from behind the creature's oversized head. There is a tree growing from the head and a figure appears to be getting shade under the tree.

One Sun Among Many

in other words

Two figures face each other across a reflecting surface. There are mountains reflecting each other in the background and some sort of glass and mirror structure between the figures and the mountain.

We Are Mirrors

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A man and two children stand in a doorway. They are looking down into a village set into hills.

Assistant Parents

in other words

A golden woman appears to walk on water towards the light

OLOY

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Sleepy dog rest head and paws on desk

Why So Tired?

in other words

A young woman without a mouth, unable to speak

Listen

in other words

An image of a fedora on a chair with a book and a guitar off to the side.

An Artist Dies

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The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are standing to the left of a third alien. The third alien has one eye. The caption reads: “Well, we aren’t in the land of the blind, are we, Mr. Thinks He's King.”

Thinks He’s King

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien is getting away from the ocean fast with a worried look. Behind him is a weird human looking figure emerging from the water. The caption reads: York wasn't hanging around. Everyone knew the humanish couldn't cause much damage in the water. But once they hit the beach, look out.

Hit The Beach

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. A building with one door in the front has a CCTV camera on the roof. The camera is bigger than the building. The caption reads: The newly installed CCTV camera was negatively affecting attendance at the Privacy Matters clubhouse.

Privacy Matters

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are standing beside each other. One is tall and skinny and the other is short. The tall one looks proud of himself and the short one looks surprised. The caption reads: Ollie knew he was no genius, but Stan's claims of dominating Sumo training didn't seem right.

Sumo Training

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien with glam makeup on is walking out to meet his friends. The caption reads: It was Stefon's opinion that every occasion called for a little glam.

Glam

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. A big alien bird is sitting in, and overflowing, a nest. The caption reads: Three squares, a bed, no rent. There wasn't going to be any empty nest syndrome on Dave's watch.

Empty Nest

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien is standing in a dramatic Kung Fu pose. The caption reads: Abe felt the key to strong Kung Fu was a dramatic pose.

Kung Fu

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien is standing in grass up to his waist, and one hand is in the grass. The caption reads: Stu had two thoughts at once: 'It's time to cut the grass' and 'I hope that's the neighbour's dog I'm petting.'

Cut The Grass

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. A little alien is standing beside a huge seated alien. The little alien is wearing an outrageously large and loud hat. The caption reads:"Yes, I do think your cousin will be upset if you wear the new hat to her wedding."

New Hat

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Three aliens are posed in a singing fashion on a hillside. The caption reads: Fortunately for the Simpson Sisters, a group of unknown mountain yodelers, they didn't require an audience.

Yodelers

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien has a turtleneck on that is squeezing his head at the neck so that he looks like a balloon. The caption reads: There was no question in Dan's mind that the dry cleaners had shrunk his favourite turtleneck.

Turtleneck

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens that look like scientists stand facing each other at a party. The caption reads: In an awkward moment at the party, the two scientists realized they were both mad.

Mad Scientists

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are looking at litter. The caption reads: "See, this is what I'm talking about. If you can't clean up after your humans, then you shouldn't have one."

Clean Up

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien is approaching another alien carrying a plate with a head sitting on it. The caption reads: It was becoming clear that the new partner didn't understand when he said: "Prove to me you have what it takes to get ahead."

Get Ahead

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien is looking at smaller aliens close to and a bit in front. SOmething is off about the smaller aliens, you can't tell if it is one or two or what you are really seeing. The caption reads: Biff couldn't quite put his finger on it, but there was something wrong with this picture.

This Picture

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. A big alien is talking to a little alien who is standing on his desk. The caption reads: "Johnson, how many times do I have to say it, 'It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.' Now, get off my desk."

My Desk

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien is striking a very confident, attitude filled pose. The caption reads: Steve was a big believer that if a thing was worth doing, it was worth doing with attitude.

With Attitude

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are sitting at desks directly across from, and facing each other. The caption reads: Both Bert and Ernie now realized that, 'Join Us To Get In Front Of Your Peers,' was a misleading hiring campaign.

Your Peers

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two figures have met in the middle of the image. They are both wearing helmets with air being piped in through hoses attached, like tethers. The caption reads: "I don't want to hear your complaints, Mr. Let's Move To A New Planet. 'Atmosphere, shmatmosphere,' that's what you said."

Atmosphere

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. A very weird looking alien is sitting on the ground, looking very reflective and a bit sad. The caption reads: Nobody ever knew why, but this was the moment Burnish realized he might need a fake photo on Tinder.

Tinder

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two angry and scary looking aliens are staring out of the window of a food truck. The caption reads: The Anderson Brothers had not appreciated the importance of personality when planning their failing food truck.

Food Truck

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An tired and decrepit looking alien kind of resembles the Lorax. If you use your imagination. The caption reads: Retirement had not been kind to the Lorax.

The Lorax

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien is siting at a restaurant table, two waiters are approaching him with food that looks like it has already been chewed. The caption reads: While he appreciated the hustle, Dino didn’t want his food pre-chewed.

Pre-chewed

I carry the books with me always, knowing now they were filled with  descriptions of things seen and unseen, of things waiting to be looked upon.

The Lurker

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are facing each other over a distance. The alien on the left has extended his tail towards the one on the right. It looks very weird. The caption reads: “I’m telling you as a friend, you have to stop doing that, nobody wants to shake your tail.”

Shake Your Tail

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. A giant alien is holding a squid in her hands, with her arms extended towards a little alien sitting on the ground. The caption reads: Barry didn't know much, but he knew this: When Sue said, "Take the squid," you took the squid.

The Squid

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Three aliens are standing together, the one in the middle has no left ear. The caption reads: "I am more comfortable sleeping on my left side. How did you know that?"

Left Side

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien has just reached the top of a mountain. He is looking at another alien seated at the top The caption reads: "Look, I know it's a two day climb and you're disappointed, but the sign says: 'This Way To A Wiseman.' That's me, Andy Wiseman."

A Wiseman

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien is wearing awful, big and blocky boots. The caption reads: Nobody had the heart to tell Gus that his new boots were not cool.

New Boots

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. A giant smug-faced alien is standing between two mountains. There is a small alien looking up at him The caption reads: Ed's smugness prevented him from knowing that everyone referred to him as "That smug dude who hangs out smugly up on Smug Mountain."

Smug Mountain

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien that is just a head and a neck is floating in the mountains. The caption reads: Aimlessly floating about, Ivan now realized that, "Take your best shot buddy," was the wrong thing to say to a powerful wizard.

Powerful Wizard

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are sitting at a bar. The caption reads: "Great. I told you not to look. All he ever talks about is the time he got drunk and buzzed Earth in his Dad's saucer."

Dad’s Saucer

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An evil villain looking alien is standing in front of three other aliens. The caption reads: After calling a meeting to discuss his plans for world domination, Jerry was beginning to see that he may have fewer followers than social media had led him to believe.

Followers

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are standing together in front of an open portal to the sky. One of them has a huge, magnificent red and orange afro. The caption reads: "C'mon now, really? You don't use any product at all?"

Product

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. A very scary, imposing, looking alien is staring intensely straight ahead. The caption reads: It troubled Margo that nobody knew she was funny.

She Was Funny

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien son is talking to his alien dad. The caption reads:"So, your considered argument for being allowed to borrow the saucer is: 'Yo, Pops, Earth be bangin.'"

Earth Be Bangin

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. A giant alien is walking past two smaller aliens standing on a hill. The giant alien is looking down at a phone in his hand while he walks. The caption reads: Jimmy hadn't looked up since he got the new Stupid Things Earthlings Do app.

Earthlings App

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are facing each other, they are standing on different small mountaintops. The caption reads: "Yeah, I'm pretty confident in saying that you did not 'follow me all the way up here, exactly in my footsteps.'"

In My Footsteps

Can anyone outrage you more than a sibling? I don't remember how I came to be running up the stairs, pursued by wrath, but in the moment it felt like life or death I know I expertly pushed a button, we knew where all the buttons lay hidden, and when you see a button, on occasion, you must push it No one really knows why this is so, known only is the truth: the sibling can be a ruthless beast

The Twins

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Three aliens are on the beach, one of them is just standing in the water. The caption reads: Mikey was beginning to think that binging 'Shark Week' last night was a mistake.

Shark Week

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An odd looking alien is watching a human baby. The alien is making a goofy face. The caption reads: Giovanni wasn't going to lie, human babies freaked him out.

Human Babies

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. A green alien child is standing in front of an adult alien. The caption reads: "No, I'm not concerned that you might 'Hulk out with a side of Wednesday Addams' on me if I take away your phone again."

Hulk Out

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens that look vaguely like dogs are chatting. The caption reads: Phil and Parker were discussing why Earthlings kept asking, "Who's a good puppy?" just before they died.

Good Puppy

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien with ears that look like lightening bolts is climbing a mountain. The caption reads: Years of constantly being told that he had the ears of a runner was starting to erode Herb's confidence as a climber.

Not A Runner

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An extremely tall alien is looking at a very small alien who is hovering over the ground. The caption reads: "Well, Mr. Big Shot, maybe you can levitate, but you still can't dunk."

Can’t Dunk

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. A very unfortunate looking alien child is standing between two alien adults. The caption reads:"Yes dear, you were a beautiful baby, breathtaking in fact. Why would I lie about that?"

Breathtaking

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien parent is talking to two alien children. The caption reads: "Well kids, there is no way to explain how some of them can think the Earth is flat and still feed themselves."

Flat Earth

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are holding hands and facing each other. The caption reads: "I know I said yes, but if you suggest a destination wedding on Earth one more time I'm calling it off."

Destination Wedding

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien is bowing low before another alien. The caption reads: "That's all well and good Steve, but pledging allegiance to me isn't going to get my car out of the river."

Allegiance

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are talking. The caption reads: "So you said: 'Hey sexy, I bet you're happy to get with this', then she left? I don't know how we will ever puzzle out what happened there."

Date Fail

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien is taking a selfie, and behind him another alien has sneaked into the picture. The caption reads: What Stu called photobombing, Irma called 'making your stupid selfie interesting.'

Selfie

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are facing each other. one of them is shaped remarkably like a comfy chair. The caption reads: "Yuk it up buddy, everyone loves a comfy chair."

Comfy Chair

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two very similar looking aliens are mirroring each others pose. The caption reads: "Well, how do I know you're not the simulation?"

The Simulation

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. A weird looking alien with a crazy long, super thin neck and huge ears that have big holes in the middle is staring bug-eyed forward. There is a strong looking alien just visible in the left of the image, beside the first alien. The caption reads: After seeing the other fellas getting ready, Andy was beginning to think he wasn't going to be good at rugby.

Rugby

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. One alien is ahead of other aliens, just entering a forest. His eyes have started glowing, and his head has started growing branches the same colour as the branches in the forest. The caption reads: "See guys, I told you that enchanted forest stuff was nonsense."

Enchanted Forest

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two skinny aliens are posing on a podium outside wearing superhero costumes. The caption reads: "I'm starting to think we undervalued the muscles part of the superhero look."

Superheroes

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are at a table talking. They are green with big heads and big eyes. The caption reads: "The whole 'big headed, big eyed alien' thing is such a cliché. I don't even know where they get it from."

Big Head, Big Eyes

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are sitting cross-legged beside each other. Hovering over them to the left of the image is a giant alien chicken head. The caption reads: "How many times do I have to say it? I can't meditate while your weird chicken watches."

Chicken Watching

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. A huge alien with no arms is looking down at a tiny human figure. The caption reads: "C'mon man, don't be like that, give me one good reason why I can't be a great guitar player."

Guitar Player

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens that look like eggs are hovering in the air above an egg on the ground. The caption reads: "I'm telling you, the shadow is all wrong. It's a trap, that's a rotten egg."

Rotten Egg

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two cute little aliens are chatting. The caption reads: “Yes, I do feel that using ‘fierce warrior' on your dating profile is a bit misleading.”

Fierce Warrior

An alien whose lower body has a Segway look to it is on a path. The caption reads: Maureen had no idea what a Segway was, but the next Earthling who called her that was getting melted.

Segway

Three aliens are walking in a valley. One of them has his head stuck in some kind of thing that looks like a tap. The caption reads: "No, I wouldn't be amazed at how dark it is in there."

Dark In There

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two small aliens are standing to the right of a tall alien who has a head like a light bulb. The caption reads: "He says you're hilarious, that no one has ever asked him if he has 'any bright ideas' before."

Bright Ideas

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. A flying alien is ferrying a human passenger in the skies. The human is upside down and the alien is hanging onto the human's feet. The caption reads: This was the last time Al was giving a human a ride home, all they did was complain.

Ride Home

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien, who appears to be a giant head on a long thin neck, is stationed in a desert under a scorching sun. The caption reads: After 20 years on the job, Carl couldn't believe he left his hat at home, again.

Hat

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are hanging out. One looks like a green polar bear in an astronaut costume. The other is wearing a scary hockey goalie mask. The caption reads: "I'm hearing the plan is to invade Earth on on some day they call 'Halloween'. Weird."

Halloween

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien with two necks growing from it's shoulders. One head is parallel to the ground and has eyes. The other head has only ears and is up high. It also has oblong wings. The caption reads: Bob couldn't help but feel that nature had provided him with inefficient tools.

Inefficient Tools

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are hanging out. One looks like a bird, the other is a big brain with no arms. The caption reads: "No doubt, if I was you I'd trade some brains for some arms too."

Brains

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are walking together, one is weird looking and the other is clearly part human. The caption reads: "Well, you know what they say, half human is better than all human."

Half Human

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two giant aliens are looking down at a very wee human. Above the giant aliens, the head of an even bigger bird is hovering. The caption reads: "I know I owe you guys a lot of money, but, before you get mad, I have to warn you, I brought my bird."

My Bird

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are facing each other, they are very weird and scary looking. The caption reads: "I see what you mean. Smiling really does make us look nonthreatening."

Nonthreatening

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Three figures are on the ground. Hovering above them is a large red creature with three eyes.. The caption reads: "Well, I beg to differ, I feel like it very much does matter what it eats."

What It Eats

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien that has a kind of chicken head is walking away from another alien. The caption reads: "Why does everyone keep telling me to 'cluck off'?"

Cluck

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two weird looking aliens are standing on either side of a very weird looking sculpture. The caption reads: "I don't get modern art."

Modern Art

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are standing talking. They have elongated paddles for arms. The caption reads: "I have to agree, we would be lost without racquet sports."

Racquet Sports

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. A small human figure with crazy white hair is standing in front of a big seated alien. The caption reads: "Listen, Einstein was it? I'm not sure how you got here, but it's all relative isn't it?"

All Relative

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. A small alien is standing between two aliens who are mostly just giant heads. The caption reads: "All right, all right, simmer down. Nobody is getting a head start."

Head Start

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Three aliens with heads that look vaguely like a hairless dolls are sitting together. The caption reads: "Well, 'creepy doll head' doesn't seem like a compliment to me."

Doll Head

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two odd looking aliens are hanging out. They look incapable of achieving anything. The caption reads: "Realistically, I feel like, between the two of us, there isn't much we can do."

No Can Do

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien who has the look of a wannabe western gunfighter is facing forward with a menacing look. The caption reads: No matter how hard he tried, Bernie couldn't get any work as an outlaw in the westerns.

The Westerns

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two really weird looking aliens are hanging out. The caption reads: “No question, you are my weirdest friend.”

Friends

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two metal aliens are hanging out. They look like they have seen better days. The caption reads: "Yeah, I'm having one of those 'thrown together from old parts' kinda days too."

Old Parts

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. A humongous alien ship is about to pass an alien fort.The caption reads: To the eternal shame of the Outpost, they didn't see the enemy ship until it was too late.

The Outpost

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Four aliens are standing together, above them on a u-shaped dune is an enormous video surveillance camera. The caption reads: "For sure, I definitely feel like the video surveillance is getting out of control."

Surveillance

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien is standing on a hill facing a huge alien walking towards the hill, we only see the huge alien's head and shoulders. The caption reads: "Nah, c'mon, why would I lie? The tan really suits you."

Tan

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are facing each other. The one on the right has a friend standing behind him and to the right. The one on the left has a huge t-rex looking creature with him. The caption reads: "I feel like you're not acting in the spirit of what 'bring a partner to the hotdog eating contest' means."

A Contest

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two alien kids are standing on either side of their mother. They have different shaped heads and bodies than their mother. The caption reads: "Now boys, for the last time, you got my eyes."

My Eyes

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An being wearing an astronaut uniform is standing before a round object mounted on a pole. The caption reads: For the umpteenth time, Phil stood wondering how a sphere became his boss.

Boss Sphere

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien child is standing in front of his alien mother. The caption reads: "Yes dear, that's true, being 1/8 human does disqualify you from being Climate Minister."

A Bit Human

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are sitting together. One of them has one wing growing out of one side of herms body. The caption reads: "No, I don't think you can fly now."

Fly Now

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. A small human figure is on a road looking up at a giant alien figure shaped like a stalk with eyes attached to the top of tendrils coming out of the top of it's body. The caption reads: "How would I know where you are?"

Lost

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are on a date. There is an alien drone hovering closely in the background. The caption reads: "I gotta say, our dates haven't been the same since your parents got the drone."

Date Drone

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Four aliens are sitting in a row on a rock. Three look similar. The fourth is second from the right and is completely different and super weird. The caption reads: "Who invited this guy?"

This Guy

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are leaving a spaceship hand in hand. We see them from behind at the opening of the ship. The caption reads: "Finally, Earth, I'm so excited......are those guns?"

Hello Earth

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are walking away from a big horse looking alien. One of the aliens is very bow-legged. The caption reads: "Ya, I think he's a good guy too, but I have to find another ride to work."

New Ride

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien mother and daughter are standing in front of a field of what look like toes. The caption reads: "Let's go dear, we don't have all day, pick a toe."

Pick A Toe

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Three aliens are trudging through the dessert. The caption reads: "What do you mean you didn't bring the water?"

Water

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Three aliens are in a haunted looking library, one of them is talking. The caption reads: "Yeah, it is spooky in here."

Spooky

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An adult and two alien children are standing on a platform. Above them and to the right is a giant metallic object that looks like a breast. The caption reads: The Wellington children were intimidated by their wet nurse.

Wet Nurse

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. A field of roundish purple statues, the one in the foreground looks like a bum. The caption reads: The expression 'that's a bummer' originated on Uranus.

Bummer

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. A car is travelling on a road towards a giant alien head with big eyes staring in the car's direction. The caption reads: "Just stay calm, maybe he won't see us."

Stay Calm

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Some weird aliens are standing around a table watching a bunch of creatures fly out of a sunlit opening in the ceiling. The caption reads: "Personally, I thought they were never going to leave."

Leaving

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Three completely different aliens are standing in a row. The caption reads: "The lesser known Smell No Evil, Taste No Evil, Touch No Evil."

No Evil

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Aliens are running through a field being followed by a giant ant-like creature. The caption reads: "I don't feel like we should make friends with him, no."

Field

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. A giant alien is stretched out in a dive about to catch what looks like a big rock. He is going to land on a home. The caption reads: "While the Glorks agreed it was a nice catch, they still wanted to know who was paying for their house."

Nice Catch

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two weird looking chicken-like creatures are facing each other. The caption reads: "Who you calling a chicken?"

Chicken

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien with a weird, awkward smile is looking at another alien. The caption reads: "What do you mean my smile looks shifty?"

Shifty

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien with a big head that resembles an owls is walking away from a group of three other aliens. The caption reads: "Go ahead, one more owl joke, see what happens."

Owl

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are sitting at a table. A robot with one big eye and it's ear pressed to the ground is in the ceiling above them. The caption reads: "I just feel like something is always listening to us."

Always Listening

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two human looking aliens are standing beside a robot. There are four moons in the sky. One of the moons has a vague face in it. The caption reads: "C'mon, how can you not see the face of the man in the third moon from the right."

Moon Face

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Three completely different aliens are standing together. The sky is full of moons, or planets. The caption reads: "Well, I feel like we're all on the spectrum."

Spectrum

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. A big alien head is in the background to the right, this alien is turned slightly to the left and has a huge right ear. In the foreground to the left is an alien. The caption reads: "You can't hear me? Seriously?"

Whispering

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two huge aliens with sharp teeth are standing on the beach.Between them, at about mid shin height, is a human. The caption reads: "This is why I hate going to the beach, these things are everywhere. And they bite."

Beach Bite

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien with an incredibly long neck is standing with a group of aliens. The caption reads: "Yes, as a matter of fact, it is difficult to find a good scarf."

Scarf

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien Dad is standing beside an alien child whose round head has floated away. He is handing her a new round head. The caption reads: "Ok, but this is the last time, you're gong to have to stop losing your head."

Lost Head

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are standing on a beach with a human between them. There is a giant planet in the background. The caption reads: "No, you guys would not 'fit right in'."

Fit In

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two moons are in the background, the shoulders and head are visible of a giant figure that looks like batman. He is looking at a small figure in front of him. The caption reads: "Man, who you calling a bat? "

A Bat

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens are standing on the beach. Giant weird creatures are in the water in front of the aliens. The caption reads: " I don't like going in the ocean, I'm always afraid of what might step on me."

Stepped On

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An alien that looks like a pez dispenser is standing in a field. The caption reads: Stan could not understand why Earth children kept tipping his head back.

Pez

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Two aliens with one humongous eye each are standing side by side looking at something weird. The caption reads: "You seeing what I'm seeing?"

Seeing

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. An Alien adult is meditating while two alien kids are hovering. They all have three eyes but the adult has the middle one closed. The caption reads: "Darcy found that it was almost impossible to open the third eye with the kids around."

Third Eye

The Alien Life one panel Comic. An Alien is looking at a kid and the caption says: "So...you want me to believe that once a year a fat man comes down your chimney with presents?"

Santa

The Alien Life, one panel Comic. Aliens are standing around chatting. One is much bigger than the rest. He has a very weird mustache. The caption reads: "So I said to him, 'What the hell Bob, I like my mustache.'"

Mustache

The Alien Life, one panel Comic.Three aliens are standing in hip hop clothes, the one in the middle is much bigger. The caption reads: "I swear to Grodon, if I lose one more battle rap I'm going to freak out."

Battle Rap

High up in the mountains among the clouds a bird soars through the clouds. Text reads: Do you think every bird, at least once, wants to know how it can fly?

To Fly

A microscopic image of a DNA segment. The background is a dark colour with gold highlights. Text reads: Imagine in the top left corner and 'the foundations of all change' in the bottom left.

Imagine

A picture of a bookshelf from the perspective of a hamster. The camera has been positioned on the floor and pointed up towards the top of the bookshelf.

Hamsters

An adult hand is holding a cell phone while a baby uses both hands to try to take it away. The hands are superimposed on a galaxy.

Cell Baby

A bird rides on the top of a tiger's head while the tiger wades shoulder deep through a river.

Friends

A concord jet is flying left to right in the image with the word faster in text above it. A hummingbird is pictured hovering below the jet with the word faster beside it. The hummingbird and the jet are the same size visually and are superimposed on a background that fades from sunset orange to a purple from top to bottom. As always, the two Para Los Dos kids can be found holding hands somewhere in the image.

Faster

An old-fashioned phone on a table with the receiver off the hook

Ghosting

A turtle is being watched by a crocodile that is very close

Turtles

Los Dos walking up a hill towards two portals representing completely different choices.

Choices

An artistic rendering of a figure, that could be organic or mechanical, in the foreground of a vast space. The background is three planets, one of which is enormous. The quote reads: "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." Sign in Albert Einstein’s office

Counted

An artistic rendering of a figure standing in a reddish grass field. There is a long hill rolling in the background and two solitary trees. The quote reads: "The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them." Charles Bukowski

The Free Soul

An artistic rendering of a figure on a narrow city street walking towards one end of a huge rainbow. The quote reads: "We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter." Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Rainbows

An artistic rendering of a doorway in front of a very old floor. The door has a glowing world in it. There is no wall behind the door, just space and the hint of a forest. The quote reads: “What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” Werner Heisenberg

Questioning

An artistic rendering of a figure standing on the edge of a canyon and looking out at a sunrise. The quote reads: “Bullshit is everywhere. There is very little that you will encounter in life that has not been, in some way, infused with bullshit.” Jon Stewart

Bullshit

An artistic rendering of a figure on a village path walking towards a light filled gap in a woods. The quote reads: “Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.” Peter Thiel

Rare

Bias

A fantastical artistic rendering of a figure at the bottom of the image bathed in light. There is a line going from the figure's head up to a circle at the top of the page. The quote reads: “You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.” Leonardo da Vinci

Understand

A fantastical artistic rendering of a small figure in the foreground facing a clearing in the forest. There is a huge round portal suspended in the air, there is a path leading into the distance in the portal. The quote reads: " Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. " Harper Lee

Conscience

A fantastical artistic rendering of a figure on a hill looking at himself standing on another hill in the distance. The further hill has a red tree on it with a glowing greenish light in it's trunk. The quote reads: "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage." Anaïs Nin

Courage

A fantastical artistic rendering of a figure stranding on a disk suspended in space. The figure is looking towards an earthlike planet. The quote reads: "Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all." Douglas Adams

Ineffable

An artistic rendering of a small figure standing on a large open book. The background is an arch of dim light, behind that is dark space with a sun rising over the arch. The quote reads: "A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books." Andrei Tarkovsky

A Book

An artistic rendering of a spotlit stage on a small mountain plateau. The quote reads: "Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice." Wislawa Szymborska

Improvised

An artistic rendering of a figure on a hill looking at a huge moon. The quote reads: "You have to be wise enough to know when you are living in your dream, and you have to be humble enough to accept when you are in someone else's." Dave Chappelle

Wise Enough

A fantastical artistic rendering of a figure facing a column of light. The quote reads: Tell me I’m clever, Tell me I’m kind, Tell me I’m talented, Tell me I’m cute, Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I’m perfect– But tell me the truth. -Shel Silverstein

Tell Me

An artistic rendering of two figures before a doorway of light, They are on another world. The quote reads: "The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." Eden Phillpotts

Sharper

An artistic rendering of a candle floating in a liquid and seen through an oval portal. The quote reads: "There is no better, there is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy, than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle." Michael Faraday

Phenomena

An artistic rendering of A figure on a sailboat becalmed on the sea. There is a beautiful sunrise/sunset. The quote reads: “All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't.” Richard P. Feynman

I Could

An artistic rendering of a doorway or portal in the forest. A figure stands contemplating the doorway. The quote reads: "Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance" Bertrand Russell

In Thought

An artistic rendering of a piano beside a waterfall. The quote reads: “Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century.” Helen Thompson Woolley

Music

An artistic rendering of path leading to stairs and an object on a platform in a backlit, golden woods. The quote reads: "The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?" Edgar Allan Poe

The Divide

An artistic rendering of spirits walking on a lamplit and treelined path. The quote reads: " The beautiful truth burst upon my mind — I felt that there were invisible lines stretched between my spirit and the spirits of others. " Helen Keller

Spirits

An artistic rendering of a lone figure walking down the middle of a street in a big city. The quote reads: "I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." John Locke

Actions

A fantastical artistic rendering of an upright rectangular portal in the desert. The quote reads: “Mathematics is not the art of finding the right answer, and it is the art of understanding why the answer is correct.” — Ali Nesin.

Math

An artistic rendering of a figure seated in a room that opens on to a sunlit forest. The quote reads: "All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room." Blaise Pascal

Sit Still

An artistic rendering of a large marijuana plant in the foreground and a hazy figure in the midground left. The quote reads: "When I was a kid, I inhaled. Frequently. That was the point." Barack Obama

Inhaled

A fantastical artistic rendering of a figure being watched by a huge stone carving of a head. The quote reads: “Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful” Albert Camus

Absurdity

An artistic rendering of a figure waiting to walk into the light from out of a woods. The quote reads: “It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in the retrospect.” Robert Louis Stevenson

Inevitable

A fantastical artistic rendering of a figure standing on the shoulders of a giant. The quote reads: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Isaac Newton

Giants

An artistic rendering of a village with a backlit doorway to the left and a backlit opening at the top of some stairs to the center right. The quote reads: “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” William Shakespeare

Doubts

An artistic rendering of a figure in a shadowy woods about to walk into the light. The quote reads: "I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am." Paulo Coelho

Pretending

An artistic rendering of a misty waterfall descending into a shallow lake in a beautiful forest. There is a woman in walking in the lake. The quote reads: "I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.“ Hermann Hesse

Dreams

A fantastical artistic rendering of the head of a human like creature peeking out of the ground mischievously. The quote reads: “Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.” Frida Kahlo

Laughter

A fantastical artistic rendering of a creature flying above a lake. The quote reads: “I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.” Richard Feynman

Knowing

A fantastical artistic rendering of a round object in front of a round portal in a forest.

Doors

An artistic rendering of a small cabin on the edge of a forest lake. The quote reads: "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." Søren Kierkegaard

Free To Speak

A fantastical artistic rendering of a majestic bird flying above a lake, while a disk of grass floats in the air. The quote reads: "Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for." Immanuel Kant

Happy Rules

An artistic rendering of a big tree beside a small tree. The quote reads: "Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours." - Voltaire

Opinions

An artistic rendering of an owl sitting on a ledge.

A Soul

A fantastical artistic rendering of a figure standing in a shaft of light that looks like a slot in a portal. The quote reads: "And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world." – John Steinbeck

Free Mind

A fantastical artistic rendering of an alien-like ethereal cave. The quote reads: "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost." J.R.R. Tolkien

Deep Roots

An artistic rendering of a figure standing on a very small, bare, island. There looks to be some sort of alien craft in the sky. The quote reads: “Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.” Joseph Conrad

Swim

An artistic rendering of a doorway surrounded by a halo of light. The quote reads: "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable." Helen Keller

Daring

An artistic rendering of people walk in a sombre place. It could be a prison courtyard, it could be a pedestrian path between commercial and business buildings. The quote reds: “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

Prisoner

An artistic rendering of a city that appears to be flooded. A quote reads: “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” - Mahatma Gandhi

Greed

An artistic rendering of a sailboat is safe up against the shore in a bay. It is a beautiful day. The quote reads: “An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field." Niels Bohr

Expert

An artistic rendering of a figure is standing on a small outcropping high up on a mountain, silhouetted by a moon. The entire image stand s upon an open book. A quote reads: " “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” — Henry David Thoreau

Stand

An artistic rendering of a mountain village. There is a lake in the foreground, and in the late stands a figure in a portal.

Norm

A figure appears to stand on a lake. It is a dreamy scene artistically rendered.

Truth Beats All

An artistic rendering of a forest. There is an overgrown bridge in the middle of the image that has trees growing up from it. A quote reads: “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell

The Truth

An artistic rendering of a waterfall in a park with a big city in the background. The quote reads: "You can fail at what you don't want. So you might as well take a chance on doing what you love." Jim Carrey

A Chance

A being with a shining light in its head. The quote reads: “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.” ― Stephen Hawking

Look Up

A cartoonish rendering of a samurai from the back. The quote reads: "Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” Dr. Seuss

Youer

A figure in a brightly lit forest is standing still in the sunlight. The quote reads: "A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance." - Hunter S. Thompson.

Circumstance

A person stands beside and touching a candle as tall as a house. A quote reads: “All the darkness of the world joined together cannot put out the light of one small candle.” Reza Deghati

A Candle

A fantastical forest in mostly orange/purplish hues. A figure stands on an outcropping facing the sun. The quote reads: “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Uplift

A figure stands bathed in light from an opening between two mountains. The figure is walking toward more mountains in the foreground. A quote reads: “Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds." - Malcolm Gladwell

Success

Colourful artistic rendering of a cave with sunlight coming in from the left. In the bottom left is an opening leading somewhere.

Cave Art

A figure stands on the top of a hill. A hazy sun in the distance creates a halo around the figure. The quote by Joseph Campbell reads: "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”

Who You Are

A small figure is bathed in light on a hillside. Above the figure in the sky hovers a disc. The quote by Thoreau reads: "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”

What You See

A figure is in the bottom left of the image standing on desert-like ground facing towards a beautiful bright sun. The sun shines on the horizon, which is near the bottom of the image. The sky is blue and full of clouds. A quote reads: "The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition."

Universe

An odd spaceship hovers high above an obelisk on the ground. A slim beam of light travels between them. A quote reads: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Magic

A colourful image has a figure standing on the edge of a cliff beside a tree. To the left of this figure and below it stands another figure on a separate cliff.

Don’t Argue

A small sailboat in a calm sea is pointed to the horizon. The sky is a purplish colour and there is a big blurred sun in the foreground. The water is an orange-purple colour and the soon to be setting sun is reflected in it.

Ships

A woman watches the kids disappear on the other side of a slope, they are walking ahead and to her left. There are mountains in the background and the whole scene is a light purplish/pink colour.

You Feel

An odd, giant green creature stands up to her kness in calm reflecting water. In front of her is a horizon and above her is a second horizon with a sun setting, or rising. She could be facing either forward or backward. There appear to be two very small people, maybe, standing to her right. The whole scene is in an aquamarine-ish hue. Text reads: "I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific." Lily Tomlin

Somebody

A bench sits unused in a forest by a path. A quote reads: mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things. Arthur Schopenhauer

Loss

A bench sits unused in a forest by a path. A quote reads: mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things. Arthur Schopenhauer

Sing

A small figure walks into a sunset. The image has a very low horizon and is predominantly a purple colour.

That Road

A rendering of a big weird bird carrying a basket with the Para Los Dos in it. The bird is flying above a person in a field and there is a mountain in the background. The picture is lit by sunlight from above.

Trade

A man stands looking forward into the light. Above and in front of him is a suspended ball, like a pendulum.

Sense

A person standing in front of a circle of trees opening unto the sun

Tomorrow

An old man runs joyously on a path

Ageless

A man is standing in an open archway overlooking a city. He is posed in the manner of a conductor leading an orchestra.

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