Ffolkes,
~~ Plutarch (46-120 AD) ~~
~~ Of the Training of Children ~~
A Garden Path in Galway
Hajime…. We take drugs very seriously at my house… Now, before anyone goes off on some weird tangent, I’ll say this: first, I found the statement in Smart Bee, and it fit so well, I had to steal it…. Second, it’s perfectly true, but, not in the way most folks would think it might be construed. What I mean by such a statement is exactly what it says; we take them, and very seriously.
That being said, we may now proceed on to more important things, such as getting this fucking Pearl done, as it didn’t get done yesterday, thanks to some levels of pain I haven’t experienced in over a decade…. What great fun we had, remembering back to those days of yesteryear, when life was shit, with no cherry, on top or anywhere else….. ‘Twas indeed a day to remember to forget…..
Fortunately for us all, pain, like any memory, fades in time, and, though this morning bodes ill for another such day, I have my plans to deal with it, involving yet more drugs…. But, don’t worry, they’re legal in this state. I mean, OF COURSE, they’re legal, if reluctantly. I’m quite sure, if the Big Pharma companies had their way, it wouldn’t be, for the use of these “drugs”, which have been used my mankind since the time we lived in trees and caves, promises, in time, to put them out of their very lucrative business, which involves keeping everyone sick, so they can sell them more poisons.
End of mini-rant. Let’s go on to the rest of today’s mess, shall we? It promises to be a little more pleasant, at least in tone, if not quality. But, then, if you wanted quality, you’d be somewhere else, now, wouldn’t you? Yep. Don’t worry, I know exactly how good all this is, compared to the general run of things online, so, don’t worry you’ll hurt my feelings. Besides, me and pain, we’re old friends…. For now…..
Shall we Pearl?….
“Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate -and quickly.” — Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein’s “Time Enough For Love”
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Yep, you know what that picture means, don’t you? Yep. Classical music, which is all I can think of to play right now…. might have something to do with the Grateful Dead jam I’m listening to, which sounds much like a long classical, bohemian piece….. until now, as they begin to break into a jauntier tune, (I Know You Rider), in a famous jam from 1979 or so….. Ah well, you can’t hear it, anyway, unless you’re a Deadhead, and go download it yourself…. But, you can enjoy this collection of great older stuff…. Your choice, as always…..
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I don’t have it in me to rant, but, given the above statement from Albert, I think we can put together an old-school pearl to show just how the world has been put into the position we now find ourselves, as well as who is to blame, and, how we can make the necessary changes…. Quite a lot for a few quotes, isn’t it? Well, you’ll see…. Enjoy….
“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde
“The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.” — H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
“You cannot conquer a free man, the most you can do is kill him.” — Lazarus Long
“Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.” — Elbert Hubbard
“As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.” — Christopher Dawson, “The Judgement of the Nations”
“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.” — H. L. Mencken
“For every disease that doctors cure with medicine, they produce ten in healthy people by inoculating them with that virus which is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.” — Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
“The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.” — Edward Abbey
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Since yesterday was one of my worst days ever, I thought a poem written on a very similar day might work. You tell me….
Consciousness devolves in pools of gripping fears
holding hostage any hope of serenity,
sharp stabbing motions and greedy tears
nary a moment passes without common calamity.
Always a surprise, nothing soothing ever found,
leaving only breathless clinging pain,
salvation seemingly absent, it muffles all sound,
bringing ever more sadness and rain.
Solitude is ever present to claim my time,
lonely hours and relentlessly long days,
no radio plays such music in secular rhyme
happy, vibrant voices belong to elder ways.
Life can be justified it seems to say,
by hopeful favored moments of pleasure,
seemingly friendly, pointing out the only way,
to bring back happiness in minimal measure.
Days of horror and embarrassing tears
serve ever to drive wretched hours to withhold
promising naught but sorrow in coming years,
black, bitter memories that never grow old.
Cold, cold the days fly by,
can it really be our only token?
Never to say, or know just why
the pain never stops, even when spoken…
~~ gigoid ~~
(Yes, yesterday was NOT a good day…. why do you ask?…..)
Griefe brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,
For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.
~~ John Donne ~~
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I’m somewhat surprised at how this pearl turned out; it was mostly serendipity at work, I believe, which dictated the icon you see adorning the top of this final section. It’s a long pearl, with 13 gems shining out with some brilliance. The opening from Keats, and the close by Bryant may, at first seem out of place with the rest of the pearls, but, in truth, the form the perfect bookends to the ideas between, marking a section with some of the more off the beaten track when it comes to advice on living life with some style to go along with the virtue we all seek…. (Sure we do..) Enjoy!
Too happy, happy tree,
Thy branches ne’er remember
Their green felicity.
~~- John Keats ~~
~~ Stanzas ~~
“A priest advised Voltaire on his death bed to renounce the devil. Voltaire said, “This is no time to make new enemies” — Attribution unclear
“A gift of flowers will soon be made to you. Don’t eat them this time.” — Cute Bee
“First, learn to love yourself, and then you will learn to love others.” — Chen-It Ong
“Waiting is.” — R.A. Heinlein, ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’
“Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.” — Sir Thomas Browne
“Smile, but sharpen your knives.” — Found without attribution; probably a Fremen proverb (the original would have said “chyrsknife”)
“None but a fool is always right.” — Hare
“It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
“Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.” — Marcus Aurelius Antoninus — Meditations, iv, 17
“Character is a victory, not a gift.” — Our old friend, Anonymous
“Courage conquers all things.” — Ovid
Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
~~ William Cullen Bryant ~~
~~ The Death of the Flowers ~~
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It’s done. In the final analysis, that is all that can be said of it, as it should be. Having fulfilled my self-imposed duty for the day, (while making no claims of quality, lest we find ourselves in court), I’ll take my leave, post-haste, to go begin the process of consuming sufficient herbal oils and essences to mitigate my agony…. Wish me luck, ffolkes, I’ll need it…. See y’all tomorrow, come Hell, or High Water…. I’ve been through both of late, so, that’s no empty promise….
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 
LOL! Legal! Got me laughing my head off! Take a look at this link.
https://missiongalacticfreedom.wordpress.com/2015/11/16/research-reveals-the-amazing-benefits-of-marijuana-and-hemp-they-may-shock-you/#like-40157
Thumbup….I agree…
However, I would never advocate that kids whose brains are still growing to smoke as much as I have seen…there is nothing sadder than a skunk head…
I do not agree that smoking continuously from an early age (12/13) is conducive to well being….
Mind you neither is alcohol…
Seen too many people fuked up and have wasted their entire lives..
For wot?
Being stoned morning noon and night?……. and getting used to that state?
No,not my idea of liberation ..quite the reverse in fact.
They are running away from reality…at least mine….
and as a mother I was concerned….
All in moderation….
The Dalai Lama agrees with medical marijuana..
Sure! The same with alcohol.
Another perspective 😉
The Champs Live – Tequila
https://youtu.be/LMmRlgFe0cU via @YouTube
Sir you have an excellent blog.
Thank you, sir; always nice to hear…. and, welcome to ECR’s comment section…
gigoid
“According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult.”
~~ Plutarch (46-120 AD) ~~
~~ Of the Training of Children ~~
Intermittent Gratification Cures the Heal
Instant Gratification Heals the Cure
“Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind;
it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate -and quickly.”
— Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein’s “Time Enough For Love”
Nice Wins
Longer Breaths
“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
— Oscar Wilde
Yeah Pretty Much Group THinK SucKS Unless ‘Orgies Are Mutually Consensual.. Hehe..;)
“The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true.
It is the chief occupation of mankind.”
— H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
FiGnorance
CuLTuRaL CLoTHeS
“You cannot conquer a free man, the most you can do is kill him.”
— Lazarus Long
Dance Naked Fearlessly Loving With Least Harm What Is THeRE to Take..:)
“Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may
add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.”
— Elbert Hubbard
Spoon-Fed-Truth
Often Means Digesting Lies
oF CoURSE SPiTTiNG THeM uP
“As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil,
then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.”
— Christopher Dawson, “The Judgement of the Nations”
Let’s Make A Deal
Whoops That’s Richard
Dawson Money Spins ‘THE EViL..:)
“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth
when you know that you would lie if
you were in his place.”
— H. L. Mencken
EYeS Out
Side iN Sees
“For every disease that doctors cure with medicine, they produce
ten in healthy people by inoculating them with that virus which is
a thousand times more powerful than any microbe:
the idea that one is ill.”
— Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
Nocebo Is As Real As Placebo
Real Potential Difference Self-Prophecy oF iLL to Death
“The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness
of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.”
— Edward Abbey
Harbinger
of Balance
Currently
Circulating Nature’S OMen iN Deed…
Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,
For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.
~~ John Donne ~~
Yes Tears
Heal NoW
Words File
Cabinets
Posted
As Soul
Lets Go oF oLD Notes
In a drear-nighted December,
Too happy, happy tree,
Thy branches ne’er remember
Their green felicity.
~~- John Keats ~~
~~ Stanzas ~~
“It Was A Stormy Night”…
Doesn’t Matter ‘Snoopy’ Writes For Joy
“A priest advised Voltaire on his death bed to
renounce the devil. Voltaire said, “This is
no time to make new enemies”
— Attribution unclear
Note: Yes It Works to Love Enemies Love Is It
“A gift of flowers will soon be made to you.
Don’t eat them this time.”
— Cute Bee
Ah.. i’ll SToP-N-SMeLL..;)
“First, learn to love yourself,
and then you will learn to love others.”
— Chen-It Ong
Mirror Mirror on the
Wall Fearless Most
Beauty of Them Do
“Waiting is.”
— R.A. Heinlein, ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’
Best Is Do
“Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.”
— Sir Thomas Browne
Do LiVE
“Smile, but sharpen your knives.”
— Found without attribution; probably a
a Fremen proverb (the original would have said “chyrsknife”)
Tongue on Fire Whoops That’s Fremen Not Fireman
“None but a fool is always right.”
— Hare
At Least A Fool Knows..:)
“It’s not true that life is one damn thing
after another; it is one damn thing over and over.”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
Just Wait ‘Till The ‘Thing’ Is too Small To see..:)
“Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live;
death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.”
— Marcus Aurelius Antoninus — Meditations, iv, 17
Inhale Exhale Tides In Waves Out Ocean Whole
Water Be So Just FLoW Be NoW iS ALL NoW Is..:)
“Character is a victory, not a gift.”
— Our old friend, Anonymous
Don’t Be Stuck on 5th Avenue
“Courage conquers all things.”
— Ovid
Tears Heal
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
~~ William Cullen Bryant ~~
~~ The Death of the Flowers ~~
Ya Ain’t Seen NoTHiNG YeT RoSE Bud..;)