I suppose, if I weren’t retired, this blogging idea would be at best, hard work, and at worst, impractical as a means of supporting one’s self in the  style and/or comfort to which I’ve accustomed myself. As in most of the world’s “jobs”, unless one is at the very top of the heap, the rewards are, shall we say, less than stellar?…. No, let’s go with what they actually are, which is shit…. No sense in calling a spade a spade, if you’re not going to do it when it counts….

The snakeheads who have the rest of the word in thrall have arranged matters so that the entire structure of recompense for labor is bass-ackwards, rewarding the leaders completely outrageously, with more money than they could ever spend, far more than the effort they expend is worth, while those who sweat and labor with their body, rather than with the mind, are rewarded with a wage that is, quite frankly, not enough to support the physical effort, much less enough live on, and certainly much less than it is worth, both in and of itself, as well as in relation to the efforts of the management types….

This inequity mirrors the overall imbalance under which society labors, because the people who make the decisions know, if they once gave in, and allowed the world to begin operating in a balanced, even-handed fashion, where all the levels of society were equal to each other, in an economic sense, they themselves would not only no longer be in charge, but would probably have been chased into the mountain fastness, to lose themselves in the wilderness, in order to save their sorry asses, from the VERY ANGRY people who finally realized how badly they had been fooled and manipulated for so long.

That society, however, is just a dream…. We’ll never see that world, so, I’ll just carry on with my personal quest to educate the ffolkes I can who drop in to read, hoping that what I write may stimulate some thought, which would eventually lead to action. It’s no doubt a futile dream, but, it keeps me typing, so, I’m good with it…. Besides, I AM retired, so what else would I be doing, except driving myself crazy, with no outlet for all this dross and drivel that spills and spews out of my head all the fucking time…..

Okay, throttle it back a little there, partner, let’s not get away from ourselves….. yet. That only works when the audience is fully engaged, and, at this point, we’re lucky if I  am fully engaged….. We’ll worry about the rest of the ffolkes later…. For now, I think I’m going to make an executive decision, to get us safely, and quickly, out of this intro, which is threatening to get away from me again, as it does each morning…. Luckily, today, I noticed, so we can just use the old hip-bump defense, and slide right over into the rest of today’s experiment in psychological self-abuse….

Shall we Pearl?…..

“It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.” — Algernon Sidney (1622-1683) — Discourses on Government, Chap. ii, Sect. xxiii

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Ffolkes, I can’t do this anymore today…. For some reason, my physical state is rapidly deteriorating, and I’m going back to bed for awhile…. I’ll get back to you when I can…. Today’s Pearl, then, is a wash, though it DOES have ONE redeeming factor to its credit, which is the poem below…. That, and the closing are all you get today….. but, given the power of Mari’s poetry, it may just carry the whole load….

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Since I’m really a nice person, here is a poem to clear your palate, so to speak…. This poem is by a poetess of great power and beauty, not only in her work, but in her persona. You can find her work on her WordPress site….. Whenever I need to spend some time in a place in my head, where I can find inspiration, reading her work never fails to bring me there….

The web address where she writes is at:  http://starsrainsunmoon.com/2014/04/06/perhaps/    Unless your soul is already dead, there you will find LIFE, PASSION, PAIN, JOY, and BEAUTY, all in wonderful, incredible abundance…. Enjoy!…..

Nothing to see here, you can go on to the final section….

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Okay, that’s it for today…. Sorry, ffolkes, I didn’t even have the energy to look for archived material to put in today…. I’ll do better tomorrow, unless I still feel under the weather…. No telling now what THAT might look like…. See ya, ffolkes….

Y’all take care out there,
and May the Metaphorse be with you;
Blessed Be, dearest  Carole, Mark, and Theresa…
and everyone else, too…

When I works, I works hard.
When I sits, I sits loose.
When I thinks, I falls asleep.