Ffolkes,
“Believe nothing,
no matter where you read it, or who said it–
even if I have said it–
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.”
~~ The Buddha ~~
Great Famine Victim’s Memorial, Galway, Ireland
Hajime…. It’s been said, with some elegance by Mr. Pope, hope springs eternally in the human breast. At this moment, I can tell you, that is NOT a consistent event, by any means. In fact, in my breast this morning, hope is non-existent; moreover, it seems completely out of the realm of possibility. Yesterday, about half-way through the day, I dropped into a hole I didn’t see, and have been ‘in the dumps’ ever since, mostly, with short periods of distraction, never lasting long enough to establish any sort of direction pointing out of the hole…..
In order to get this done at all today will require a bit of cheating; in and of itself, that’s nothing out of the ordinary. The only real bad part of that is the guilt I feel for failing to create something fresh, since there is certainly no lack of material in the real world upon which to focus my attention. Hell, what with the post-Brexit mess over in Europe, the email scrum going on over here, and the general state of chaos all over the world, there is a plethora of issues to examine with a critical eye. None of it interests me in the least today, as my sole task for today has narrowed down to keeping myself from committing homicide….
It helped to speak with my friend in Europe; she always brightens my day, if only to know there is at least one person out there who is on the same page; that’s a powerful motivator for those of us who limit our intake of other humans. So, I’ll quit whining about stuff I can’t currently change, and get on with trying to put this Pearl together into a consumable format, with something worthwhile to consume. I guess we’ll just have to trust the process, and see how it turns out. Since I can’t think of any more blather, or nonsense, or sense to put here, I guess we’ll just go do the best we can…. After all, all you can do is all you can do…. You may have heard that before….
Shall we pearl?….
“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving,
it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe.”
~~ Thomas Paine ~~
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Norah Jones
Image from http://www.last.fm.com via Google Images
Todays musical selection needs little introduction; her fame in today’s world is secure. Here is a live concert, from not too long ago…. Enjoy!….
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Norah Jones
Live in New Orleans
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There is no point in waiting.
The train stopped running years ago.
All the schedules, the brochures,
The bright-colored posters full of lies,
Promise rides to a distant country
That no longer exists.
~~ Linux Songs Poems no. 570 ~~
Since I’m not in a ranting mood, here is an archived pearl from a day on which it seems I was in the mood…. Enjoy!….
From 4/18/2014:
As noted above, I am in the mood to rant…. However, the depth of my anger today is beyond all reason; I’m feeling extremely homicidal…. It will take ALL of my will power to NOT become proactive…. Think about that, and you’ll see I’m not in a very good mood at all; in fact, it’s been hard to keep myself from casually booting the cat through the window, or some other powerful release of what is bubbling and churning in my head and gut…. To go there, in a real sense, I would have to have already purchased the weaponry that is part of my ultimate plan, which, sadly, I haven’t completed yet…. It’s harder than it seems to find just the “right” weapon(s) for the purposes to which I plan to put it/them….
“Frankly,” he said, “I’m just trying to get to the end of my life without becoming an asshole again.” The Buddha couldn’t have said it better. — Slomo, aka John Kitchin, San Diego, last lines of the Mark Morford column, 4/16/14…. ( http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2014/04/15/the-saddest-job-in-the-world/)
“Me, too”, he said…. The above article is a good one; it kept me from killing anyone for three whole days, before I had to replace the old restraining thought patterns that keep me from breaking down, & carrying out one of the many fantasies that parade through my head whenever I start thinking about the BRC, the Asininnies in general, or the state of the world at large…. It makes me positively homicidal….
Every time I look at the big picture, extrapolating what I perceive out into the future, I see our species ending its short stay on Earth in the all-too-near future, ignominiously choking out our last painful breaths of a now toxic atmosphere, dying in sheer agony, in a world gone mad, broken and sad, from trying to contain our common insanity….. I see the real world, full of uncaring, selfish, avaricious thieves who prey upon the rest of mankind, to the detriment of all, knowing, but not caring how much pain and misery they cause others….
When I look at these images in my mind this morning, I am enraged…. so much so, I must go take a short break…. When I return, I’ll put together an old-school pearl…. Maybe that will allow me to calm down enough to make them fit just the way I like…. I’ll be right back, ffolkes, after I calm down a bit…. God! I HATE adrenalin….. I spent way too much of my life under its influence, and it just pisses me off when it rears its ugly head again…. Ah well, I’ll be back….
“… And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.” — Plato (428-348? B.C.), “The Republic”, Book II. 369C
There! I feel better already…. finding a good pearl, that describes reality so closely in our current state, is always a good thing, in my book…. For the remainder of this group, let’s see what rant-like material regarding my favorite targets we can find today…. Enjoy…. and you can thank me later for not ranting….
“Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.” — P. J. O’Rourke, Parliament of Whores (1991)
“Democracy can learn some things from Communism: for example, when a Communist politician is through, he is through.” — Jacoby Smirnoff
“In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.” — George Bernard Shaw
“Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin; the victim can’t help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.” — Robert A. Heinlein — Lazarus Long
“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.” — Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
“Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.” — John Updike, Couples
“I am Porky of Borg. You will be assim…bdeh…assim…I’m takin’ over!”– Smart Bee
This is, perhaps, the strangest pearl I’ve ever composed….. I like it….
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Visible life
Forty-two days of pressure and internal rain,
leave marks of salvation, often in pain.
Such sharp reminders of yesterday’s remorse
fight heavily to keep a straight course.
Rash moments, bright, and routinely immense
Give us pleasure, bereft of common sense.
Still the night comes soft and eternally dear
to bring out wishful dreams so vitally clear.
Life’s myrmidons give freely in protest
lifting with skill, soul pieces first to infest,
Loudly brash, with no such voices to remain
Sealed in infamy, branded ugliness all too plain.
Now come brave signs of chapter and verse
Shielded by ignorance, irritable and terse.
Gravid portions of in-between retaliation
leave only pale marks of initial gestation
With hope even pallid warriors grow brave
Leading all humanity, to a warm, stale grave.
Hope never falters, nor leaves any trace
Yet lingers forever in a welcoming space.
Cheerful faces yet shine out of time
for tricking and fumbling sweet melody sublime.
Fill in the spaces with a long, strong retort
life is ever visible, if only as last resort.
~~ gigoid ~~
6/6/2015
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Naked Pearls
Fun
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“Dreams have wings,
And other things
That smile like butterflies.”
~~ Bobby Matherne ~~
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“The miracle is not to walk on water.
The miracle is to walk on the green earth
in the present moment,
to appreciate the peace and beauty
that are available now.”
~~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~~
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“There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.”
~~ Han Suyin, “A Many Splendored Thing” ~~
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“A merry heart lives long.”
~~ William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Act II, Sc. 5 ~~
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“The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals.
The struggles within yourself —
the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us —
that’s where it’s at.”
~~ Jesse Owens ~~
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“I haven’t a clue as to how my story will end.
But that’s all right.
When you set out on a journey and night covers the road,
you don’t conclude that the road has vanished.
And how else could we discover the stars?”
~~ Nancy Willard ~~
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“YOW!!! I am having fun!!!”
~~ Zippy the Pinhead ~~
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It came as something of a surprise to find myself here at the end, yet, when I went back to look, there it was, a complete Pearl. Not too shabby, either, if I’m any judge. I’ll go post it, and we’ll see what Consensual Reality has to say about that….. For now, it means we’re outta here, as I’ve certainly caused enough damage for one day. See y’all tomorrow, ffolkes; who knows? Maybe there will be something new and fresh…. never can tell….
Y’all take care out there,
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….
“There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.”
~~ Han Suyin, “A Many Splendored Thing” ~~
😉
Solid truth….
😉
Nora Jones what a great voice……she became one of my faves after Ronstadt stopping recording….she is Ravi Shankar’s daughter……great choice…..sorry to hear about that hole…sux huh?
I am depending of drafts for my posts this week….not a good one either…..hope you feel better and see ya a little later….chuq
Thanks, amigo; I hope you feel better, as well…. I’ll do my best to get by later….
gigoid
I shall look forward to it….
“Believe nothing,
no matter where you read it, or who said it–
even if I have said it–
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.”
~~ The Buddha ~~
Well.. ain’t that the
tRuTh/liGht and onLY iF
tHat were the preface
of every sage.. guru..
pastor and
priest
same
as sAges
of ages different..
okay.. i’LL go back
uP and read the rest..
but trUly.. mY fRiend i need
KnOW nothing but that piece
oF greaTest advice now.. juSt now..;)
Yeah.. as i add Norah
Jones and i don’t know
why.. FeeLinG iT aLL
noW then STiLL
noW on
a Barefoot
Beach of Love
ONE ForeverMoReNoW..
but don’t believe iT.. heHe..
until you try iT true for you too..;)
“There is no point in waiting.
The train stopped running years ago.
All the schedules, the brochures,
The bright-colored posters full of lies,
Promise rides to a distant country
That no longer exists.
~~ Linux Songs Poems no. 570 ~~”
Man.. i wish i could remember the name
of the movie.. but this reminds me of
the one about the artificial intelligence
robot of human being that waits
for ever with a Virgin
Mary Statue
at the bottom
of an ocean
with no need
to breathe
air.. then..
as of course
Robots can do that
forever as long as tHeir
battery works free sealed
at the bottom of the ocean
never even needing to swim
up top to escape to another
day of existence different
than the one before..
Anyway.. so the
Robot
young
Boy then now..
stays at hand
with Statue of
same Virgin Mary
waiting for Jesus to
come back as programmed
and the little boy is still waiting
there as girl as well in flesh and
blood churches all over the world
still today.. Meanwhile Norah
and others live aS Barefoot
Heaven on/iN/as beaches
free.. wHere the
path of new
continues
to Branch
and tHeir
IS A alWays
AneW greater
SonG to SinG than
the one beFore noW..
wherever NoW was bEfore
then.. imagine human beings in
the realm of Infinity eventually coming
back and never finding heaven now as
they listened to the programming of someone
else.. and never seek.. or find that common sense
barefoot beach of heaven Free as Kingdom of so-called
God now.. no different than Sea Gull.. Sea Turtle.. or even
Sea oats that brave storms of wind.. only humans are saddled
with a virus of culture that take us away from An Inheritance
Free.. but of course i don’t expect anyone to believe that
unless they free
themselves
from the
dARkeSt
Ocean Brain
Wash from the rulers
STiLL of Aeons of Minions
who refuse to come to surface
OF Ocean wHOle.. does it matter
i can’t remember the name of that
movie.. no.. not reALLy as iT
oNly
LiVes
fuLL noW
InFinity ever
more Free or
prisoner of written
words.. collective so-called
human Standard IQ and a plate
of that all served up from prison
birth away from
Nature
real
in foot prints
only as We in
LiFe’s a Beach
and never same
day as Bitch ever
aGaIN for at least
most nowS Real ISREAL..:)
And smiles.. my friend.. Vengeance
never solves anything but a selfish soul..
and just a thought iF infinity is real there
is no stopping the potential of coming back
as a grasshopper and being stepped on
for a thousand times if that
is the way
the negative
energy flows..
at least that thought
for REAL IS WHAT TOOK
me away from the same thoughts
you express up there that thank
God never came to fruition
for me.. not uncommon..
only real
fools
take
action
on Vengeance..
anyway.. glad i’m not
hearing those words from
you current anymore.. but
it is of concern that they come
back more when you are down..
no personal judgement here.. as
i’VE been tHeRe beFore.. but remember
a Grasshopper may have more lives than just
one.. or perhaps a grain of sand.. or dust or
just energy
sAMe.. NoW..
wE are all in this
gAMe ToGeTHer
and tHere is aLways
room for change
for the
better
thAt much
i know as tRue..
but perhaps i AM
juSt a grasshopper
and none of this ISREAL..
anyway.. like the Buddha says..
don’t take my word for it.. until
you too.. have lived a life of
a grasshopper who
has been squashed
by life dead in life
for 66 months long..
Karma is real.. DEADLY
REAL AS LIFE iN noW
or
LifE as
LiFE as
only Victory
over Vengeance can BRinG
in fearless unconditional Love
as Kind and Courage sAMe..:)
And finally.. i’LL end/stARt with this..
“The miracle is not to walk on water.
The miracle is to walk on the green earth
in the present moment,
to appreciate the peace and beauty
that are available now.”
~~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~~
Neither of those impress me..
i find the miracle of life is moon
dance walking in deep sands of
beach with athletic shoes on
floating with the wings
of seagulls same
as patterns of Golden
Spiral shores no different
then the patterns of these
words in form of symbol here..
my Friend.. or perhaps the first
time i tried moon dance walking backwards
underwater as feet become one with sands
under water shores.. and the wife video taped iT..
but it was only my first try.. perhaps i’LL share it
later when the moves twirl underwater above
as same like any ballet artist without lessons
WiLL do when unleashed and released from
expectations bEfore.. yeah baby.. hell
no Jesus didn’t walk on water..
but providing the reality
that folks would
do more..
whoever said
that is the same reaLiTy
of the Buddha who said don’t
take my word for it that this is the
last word either for what you find as
True and liGht noW.. True iS that no two
human beings are different and no two human
beings are same.. all are multi-Universe mini
me’s of God whOle one beYond what is seen
and feLt of beYond Universe InfiniTy FREe..
but don’t believe me my friend until
you try iT first..
i would walk
on water too..
but someone would
accuse me of being a
copy
cat2.. oh
the irony oh
the sweet irony
of TrUth and liGht
in Victory way now..
totally ignoring the Vengeance
mind set that rules this world now..
Come away.. with me friend.. the water is great..
and when one becomes the Beach.. the God.. the water
one all Balanced iN ONE.. the beach can drive
in a car oN a desert and sTiLL bE Beach ONE..
yeah.. my wife doesn’t understand why i’m
so happy when she curses the green
liGht turned red.. and i say
what in the hell are you in
a rush for babe..
don’t you know
this is heaven now..
problem is unless one
FeeLs it.. It never existed
@
ALL..
words are
nothing without
the substance of
FeeLinG and SeNsinG
that WiLL alWays beat
only words written as
so-called collective
intelligence
aka
smARt
beLow
common sense..
and FeeLInG aLL oNE
caN as beach over bitch now..
i can only Hope i pReach to the choir.. mY FRiEnD..:)
How sad!
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On the 4 July 2012 the Galway Famine Ship Memorial was dedicated at the Celia Griffin Memorial Park at Grattan Beach, Galway. According to the Galway Independent, “The unveiling of the monument will be Galway’s tribute to Celia Griffin and the many thousands of children like her who perished in the Famine, and also to the ships and crews which carried so many of our people to safety … [as] … Celia Griffin has come to symbolise all the children who lost their lives in the Great Famine.”