Ffolkes,
that word is love.”
~~ Sophocles ~~
Defiant Beauty
Good morning…. According to Princess Irulan, beginnings are a time to take particular care in our actions, for they can affect the course of the future. Though not quoted exactly, it remains true by all evidence to be found. Hence, I am taking care with this Pearl, for it is a special one to me.
I was going to explain in the ranting section, but, a sort-of rant grew into that space, so, we’ll cover it here…. This Pearl will be, possibly, the last you will see for a period of approximately two weeks, with a few exceptions, should I find the time while moving from place to place. Yep, I’m hitting the road. as I’ve threatened to do for a while now. I leave tomorrow morning early to catch a flight to Europe. where I’ll be exploring the places I’ve wanted to see for a long time….
I’m so jazzed, I can barely think, much less write, but, duty is duty, once chosen. I’m going to show extreme discipline today, by NOT fussing around at all here in the intro. Business done, we’ll go directly to today’s effort/mess, after telling you the only posts you might see are some photo essays of my travels…. Keep your eye on this space for more news. If all goes as planned these Pearls will resume on approximately September 18, the day after my return flight. Given my age, it might be the 19th; I don’t recover as quickly as when I was younger…. For now,
Shall we Pearl?….
“The hour is striking so close above me, so clear and sharp, that all my senses ring with it. I feel it now: there’s a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world. I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has needed me. My looking ripens things and they come toward me, to meet and be met.” — Rainer Maria Rilke, from Book of Hours
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This song is an iconic folk/rock song, written by a legendary songwriter who never made it big in the mainstream, but, was known and loved by all his musical peers. The song Seven Bridges Road has been covered by a huge number of artists, including the biggest, most well known version by The Eagles… Following the link to the page where the video is kept will show you a number of other covers, of this song, and his other works…. I’d forgotten all about him, until a friend sent me the song as a quiz…. Enjoy!….
Seven Bridges Road
Steve Young
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[From an announcement of a congress of the International Ontopsychology Association, in Rome]:
The Ontopsychological school, availing itself of new research criteria and of a new telematic epistemology, maintains that social modes do not spring from dialectics of territory or of class, or of consumer goods, or of means of power, but rather from dynamic latencies capillarized in millions of individuals in system functions which, once they have reached the event maturation, burst forth in catastrophic phenomenology engaging a suitable stereotype protagonist or duty marionette (general, president, political party, etc.) to consummate the act of social schizophrenia in mass genocide. — Random Smart Aleck
I LOVE this! It’s an absolutely irrefutable statement of the human condition; it’s a bit sticky to get through, but, if one is able to follow the convolutions and anomalies inherent in such a gem of gobbledygook, one finds it is absolute truth. In essence, when boiled down into its simplest expression this says, and, I quote: “People fight, kill each other, lie, cheat, steal, and, in general, have a history of mad violence because they are, incontrovertibly, bat-shit crazy.”
“The subject of a sentence and the principal verb should not, as a rule, be separated by a phrase or clause that can be transferred to the beginning.” — Writing Rule 44
Oh, shoot! I had this really cool thought process all worked out to use, with the help of the above quote, which, on first look, has little to do with this rant. But, I was going to amaze y’all with the brilliance of the connection, before using the switch to demonstrate the point to be made…. However, my excitement for the upcoming trip has completely obliterated it. Nowhere to be found….
Ah well, I guess I’ll just perform another chameleon-like color change, and move toward a lesson of ethics…. Ah, I know…. Instead of worrying about all the other bat-shit crazy denizens of the planet, let’s just consider the words of the Buddha…. Here are two of my favorite of his aphorisms, both a huge part of my own philosophy of life… You can take these as given, for anyone wishing to life with honor and peace…. See ya down the page….
“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it… Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings — that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” — Buddha
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Dreaming the way home, lost, unseen,
from the dance, where
he felt so free, and clean.
Sorrow couldn’t find him there.
Waiting, filling up the hours, hoping,
some connection can be found
keeping busy as bees, coping.
Love creeps in, without a sound.
Fat days, skinny nights, passionate
visions of semi-conscious entities,
cannot seem to fully illuminate
or hide our innermost frailties.
Resolute, find the perfect sense, codify
simple rules with every breath
never waiting, anxious to modify.
fear nothing in life, not even Death.
~~ gigoid ~~
Written 5/13/2013.
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Thankfully, today’s final old-school pearl came together fairly smoothly. It’s another group of good advice; pay heed to these, and your life could very well go a lot smoother than heretofore possible…. Really…. Or, not. Up to you, actually…. Enjoy!….
“Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.” — Albert Einstein
“It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.” — Aeschylus (525-456 BC) — Agamemnon, 584
“To use words but rarely is to be natural.” — Lao Tzu
“Ya gotta be subtle!” — Mike Hammer
“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To philosophize is to doubt.” — Montaigne
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” — Leo Buscaglia
The innumerable caravan which moves
To that mysterious realm where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
~~ William Cullen Bryant — Thanatopsis ~~
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There will be one more Pearl, tomorrow morning, right before I pack the final items, including the computer, to bid thee a fond adieu…. Until then, I won’t bother with the usual penultimate nonsense. I’ll just say, see ya tomorrow, ffolkes. Count on it one last time, for the nonce….
and May the Metaphorse be with you;
Blessed Be, dearest Carole, Mark,Theresa, & Richy
and everyone else, too…
When I works, I works hard.
When I sits, I sits loose.
When I thinks, I falls asleep.
Which is Why….
Sometimes I sits and thinks,
and sometimes,
I just sits.
gigoid, the dubious
The *only* duly authorized Computer Curmudgeon.
PLEASE STOP READING THIS MESSAGE NOW.
“SCRAM!!!!!!!!!!”- Oscar the Grouch
À bientôt, mon cherí….
gigoid 
Bon vol👍 and have a safe trip.😊
Thanks… but what fun would safe be? Gotta leave the comfort zone to find new lessons… I will do my best to stay safe, but, I intend to get very random, which is seldom entirely in a secure state… S’okay, I enjoy randomness… and, thanks for the good wishes…
😉
Okay👍
Lou, once said I was a harsh critic…
I very much liked your poem.
“that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” — Buddha…..
I wish not to cling to anything ,not even a straw…
I am a cussed creature….spit.
“Always do what you are afraid to do.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always done that even if it gave me the shits…
Have a good trip funny bones…
Townes Van Zandt – No Place To Fall
https://youtu.be/m2lge0ZnSEI via @YouTube
Thanks; I’m glad you like it, it’s one of my personal favorites of my own. I don’t think it’s so much harshness, as being fiercely moral, unwilling to assume the weight of NOT speaking out… To me, that is a form of compassion.
Deciding NOT to cling is a choice, letting your belief in ‘letting go’ guide you… The Buddha was subtle, is he not? 😉
I think I knew you weren’t one to make the easy choices from the first; part of your shininess…
I will indeed, especially with Townes to see me off; I’m looking forward to all of it, especially from Friday on…. Maybe we’ll both discover a place to fall… 😉
Thanks for the song…I do love TVZ’s music’ me & my buddy Tom have played his stuff for more than 45 years now….starting around 1967…. Good memories….
gigoid
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
that word is love.”
~~ Sophocles ~~
As Long as Love is Essence and not just Form as Essence of 4 Letter Word..:)
“The hour is striking so close above me, so clear and sharp, that all my senses ring with it. I feel it now: there’s a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world. I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has needed me. My looking ripens things and they come toward me, to meet and be met.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, from Book of Hours
True all Life is Illusion We Co-Create with all our Experiences NoW iN Relative
Free Will of MaGiC as the Whole Shooting Match IS A Miracle When Essence of
Four Letter Word Named LoVE..:)
[From an announcement of a congress of the International Ontopsychology Association, in Rome]:
The Ontopsychological school, availing itself of new research criteria and of a new telematic epistemology, maintains that social modes do not spring from dialectics of territory or of class, or of consumer goods, or of means of power, but rather from dynamic latencies capillarized in millions of individuals in system functions which, once they have reached the event maturation, burst forth in catastrophic phenomenology engaging a suitable stereotype protagonist or duty marionette (general, president, political party, etc.) to consummate the act of social schizophrenia in mass genocide.
— Random Smart Aleck
True.. Don’t Just Spell And Mouth Love JusT Do iT too as A Warm Embrace
of no Words at all From A to Z and Beyond Bible Study in SuNDaY School too..:)
“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it… Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings — that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.”
— Buddha
Love SPeaks Gives Shares WithiN ReaL..:)
“Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me,
it is enough to wonder at the secrets.”
— Albert Einstein
Squirrels With Wings On Terrestrial Land.. Yes Some Squirrels Fly too..:)
“It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Yes Stand YouR LoVE GRound Abe..:)
“Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.”
— Aeschylus (525-456 BC) — Agamemnon, 584
SouL WiTHiN LoVE iNSidE OuTSiDE ABoVE
BeLoW aLL Around LoVE LiVES YouNG no ‘outer’ age..
For WiTHiN oF YouTH
LoVE
SPRinGS
FReED AGaiN..;)
“To use words but rarely is to be natural.”
— Lao Tzu
Yes Dance JusT Dance too..
Leaving No Stone oF UNused HuMaN PoTeNTiaL NoW ReaL..;)
“Ya gotta be subtle!”
— Mike Hammer
Ya gotta be Kitten me a Human Named Hammer who is Subtle.. heHA..;)
“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Amen And Actually Do Do it..:)
“To philosophize is to doubt.”
— Montaigne
UnlesS oNe iS LoVE..:)
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile,
a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the
smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
— Leo Buscaglia
Languages oF LoVE Do Heal With Size Matters Not..:)
So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan which moves
To that mysterious realm where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
~~ William Cullen Bryant — Thanatopsis ~~
UsE A SamE TrusT at Death As Birth Endless Beginning NoW..:)