Moving To Philadelphia

A link to this week's photos. This week the urge to self-destruct is deconstructed as a desire to never experience the fragility of having cherished objects, people, and or situations that can be destroyed, go away, become soiled or ill, or die. The root of conservative political urges, conversely, is speculated as arising from an anxiety over having cherished objects and or situations that one is terrified of being co-opted or destroyed by alien invaders such as people from any other race, religious preference, or location. All this speculation is triggered by the disorder that has naturally taken over the home of first-time home-owners Cynthia and Jeff during their recent absence: a fairly nice rug probably irreparably destroyed by cat urine from angry cats; a yard completely over-grown with weeds so that it is like a jungle outside the boundaries of human civilization… Is it possible to preserve one's integrity while owning property? Can one care for a garden without resorting to chemical "weed"-killers th