Reflections Concerning Art, Nature, and the Affairs of Humankind (also some gardening anecdotes)
Outside the pages of literature (or ancient history) Ferrebeekeeper has no love for monarchs/tyrants/autocrats/warlords. Hopefully you have similar feelings and enjoy the opportunity to go out and speak openly of why life was never meant to be lived in subjugation to suchlike despots! Yet one of our most popular categories here at ye olde blog [ ]
Usually I post a Crucifixion-themed artwork on Good Friday, but this Easter, there were many chores, but also the cherry tree was blossoming (more about this later!) and with one thing or another, I missed posting a crucifixion work. So I thought I would write a post about Christ after his crucifixion and ascension and [ ]
What is best in life? It is an ancient question—the most ancient question!—posed by philosophers, kings commoners, masters slaves, children, adults, and dotards since the beginnings of language (and since before then!). Great literature and art of every sort has has probed this fundamental question: what do we need in order to become [ ]
Happy April Fools Day! In the interests of maintaining reader sanity which is already fraying thanks to the catastrophic antics of global mega fools we are not going to feature any of the practical jokes which generally typify the holiday. These days America s economy already runs 24/7 on scams, conspiracy, nasty tricks, and humiliating traps, anyway . However [ ]
Japan! Mysterious archipelago of samurai, Pokémon, and Godzilla! Who can say what unfathomable mysteries are to be found in the brooding seas which circle the Land of the Rising Sun? Well, actually professional divers are there all the time, and they have indeed found some underwater mysteries! Back in the unimaginably distant year of 1995 [ ]
Between 2022 and 2025 I (largely) took a sabbatical from blogging but I did not stop working on making toys and artworks! Allow me to present what I was working on back then Sky Perverts a line of satiric flying kite people meant as a send-up of people s ridiculous hierarchical pretensions of being so far above everyone [ ]
Sure and begorrah! ‘Tis nearly Saint Patrick’s Day, when Ferrebeekeeper celebrates all things Irish Gaelic Celtic in a great suffusion of green and gold! Over the years, we have done a fine job highlighting the green of the green land with a series of articles about colorful Irish myths, dark spirits, Kelly green [ ]
Well here in America, things seem pretty bleak. A felonious fascist has taken over the country. He is breaking our laws, dismantling our government, and destroying the continent s life-giving natural ecosystem (and as an added bonus he is defunding fundamental scientific research and harassing scientists out of the country). Gah! This may be the last time you [ ]
As of this date at the end of February, Anno Domini 2025, the United States of America is swiftly becoming a totalitarian failed state. One of our two political parties, the conservative (Republican/GOP) party has abandoned all political, personal, legal, and moral scruples and set out to install a narcissistic cretin as dictator for life. [ ]
Back during World War II (a distant time when Americans believed fascism was wrong), American GIs added their own distinct humorous graffiti to walls, billboards, and conquered enemy outposts. The most characteristic tag of that age was the enigmatic Kilroy was here which pictures a strange bald, big-eyed character peering over a fence. Kilroy s long, [ ]