Ffolkes,
“In the moment between stimulus and response lies freedom.”
~~ Steven Covey ~~
Grrr….
Hajime…. Sometimes in the morning, one receives a lesson. Today is not such a day. Any lessons I might have learned this morning would have been fruitless, as my mind resembles nothing more than a colander; most everything is leaking right out. In order to successfully produce today’s Pearl, I will be shortening this intro unmercifully, since anything I write would be suspect. How merciless are we going to be? Well, I’ll show you….
Shall we pearl?….
All that is harmony for thee, O Universe,
is in harmony with me as well.
Nothing that comes at the right time for thee
is too early or too late for me.
Everything is fruit to me that thy seasons bring, O Nature.
All things come of thee, have their being in thee, and return to thee.”
~~ — Marcus Aurelius Antoninus — Meditations, iv, 23 ~~
Today, while appreciating this sentiment from our old friend Marcus, all I can say is, “I wish”….. Onward, he said, grimly….
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During the process of yesterday, (you know, getting by, getting through….), I had occasion to use one of Bob’s best lines, to wit: “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, …”, etc., (from “Redemption Songs), in a comment on FB. Since I have a touch of OCD about such, using it required looking up the exact wording, which took me to a page with ALL his video mentions in Google, i.e., the Google playlist for his work. I began to listen, naturally, whereupon I decided the mix of songs was perfect for today’s Pearl. Hence, Mr. Marley…. If you listen long enough, you’ll hear everything of his there is to hear, some more than once…. Excellent….
Following the music from Bob, I’ve included a video of an unknown street performer, somewhere unknown in the world, which I found while cruising You Tube. You will NOT believe how good this man is on the guitar, or why you have never seen nor heard of him…. Watch, and try to keep your jaw from dropping; you don’t even have to know anything about guitar to see what a genius he is….
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Bob Marley
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Choosing a Theme
Powerful words playing hide and seek in my mind,
teasing with subtle cruelty, pretending to be kind.
Grand visions and flowery verses of beauty and truth
evaded my inner eye all through the days of my youth.
Affable interludes interspersed with allegorical wit
softened the crimes, against all reason, to finally acquit.
Time became at once an enemy, and an ally
Never once compelled to provide an answer why.
Giving gifts of simple kindness are their own pay,
spreading ripples of compassion are felt far and away.
Love given freely is precious, we are ever told,
increasing love received, more than a hundred fold.
Living long and with passion has centered my soul,
allowing me room, and time, to choose my own goal.
Now that I’ve gone past any need to pretend
I love everything in life, even knowing it will end.
~~ gigoid ~~
10/21/2012
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Naked Pearls
Who knew?….
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“Reality is a cliche from which we escape by metaphor.”
~~ Wallace Stevens ~~
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“Who are you?”
~~ Curious Bee ~~
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“Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving till the right actions arises by itself?”
~~ Lao Tzu ~~
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“If you would hit the mark,
you must aim a little above it:
Every arrow that flies
feels the attraction of earth.”
~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~~
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“Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast,
for better far is gentle courtesy.”
~~ Homer ~~
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“Gli arcobaleni d’altri mondi hanno colori che non so.
Ma lungo i fiumi d’altri mondi nascono fiori che non ho.
[The rainbows of other worlds have colors I don’t know.
But along the rivers of other worlds flowers are born that I don’t have.]”
~~ Fabrizio De Andre ~~
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“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
~~ Leo Tolstoy ~~
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“What is man’s chief enemy? Each man is his own.”
~~ Anacharsis (f1. c. 600 B.C.), Scythian philosopher ~~
~~ Stobaeus, Flor., II, 43 ~~
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“In every enterprise consider where you would come out.”
~~ Publius Syrus — Maxim 777 ~~
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Following the prophetic words from Publius Syrus, we have come out precisely where we intended. Since the ruthlessness displayed in the intro was so effective, not to mention efficient, let’s carry on with that here. See y’all tomorrow, ffolkes, if I’m still breathing, and able to type….. good odds on that….
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….
gigoid 
Damn! He be good…..I wish I could say that I am a reggae fan but never got into the mood…..Marley is excellent just not an “Island Dude”….I guess….even Buffet got on my shit list…..he promised to write all his fans when they contacted him…my daughter did and spent 2 months looking for a letter that never came….his name is on toilet paper he broke my daughter’s heart….enough about me…Leelu looks like some mischief waiting to happen….have a good day my friend….chuq
Gotta agree; that performance is genius personified…. I like reggae, for a while, then it gets too repetitive… which is why we have classical music, as contrast…. *wink*
Sorry to hear Jimmy turned butthead instead of parrothead; not surprising, given his success level. To get that high, one must forgo quite a bit of their humanity, submerging it in ego…
Leelu was in self-play mode, meaning she was hunting, & gets aggressive…. lucky shot… but, you’re right about the mischief. She IS a cat, and wants to get into everything that isn’t hers… because, to her, it’s ALL hers…
You have a good one, too, bro; I’ll be by later to snark….
gigoid
I know… I have a Border Collie that thinks whatever I am doing she must be part of it…even writing….I need classical music…it is a great way to calm an evil mind…LOL chuq
UGHHHH I was trying to find out who and where that guy was… Tanie Czytanie shops, Matras shops, related videos………………………………………………………….
Here he is :
https://www.facebook.com/Vargall
Great find Gigoid and amazing pearls as always 😀
^_^
Cool, thanks…..
😆
Good morning gigoid.. three days late to comment i am arriving
as the last several days have been jam packed with mostly
blue sky and flesh and blood activities… including
seeing a new Psychiatrist with the usual
extra long version of a Fred-talk.. and
dancing.. floating.. as a winged
seagull in reverse with
Athletic shoes on
in deep sugar
white sands
for miles and
miles on endless
horizons of beach..
then home.. then dance with the usual
writing to accompany all of that accompanied
by a new world Fred record per se of only competing
against myself in replacing eight 45LB plates with
Four 100LB plates and adding a couple more 25
LB Plates on my parallel leg press with arms
raised in sky moving from 930LBS to
1020LBS now for 33 reps..
where the ‘fellow marines’..
didn’t make a sound
while finishing
this
feat
and when
i started out i heard
a strange popping noise
from underneath my feat
but thank Goodness.. hehe..
nothing broke.. and nothing hurts
after the high of that is over too with
accompanying ballet and martial arts dance
using all the Nautilus Machines as sparring partners
too.. anyway.. i make the best of what i came with
with no limits.. and a visit to a new psychiatrist
had been weighing heavily over me
now for 14 months.. as there
is always the possibility
in logical terms i could
go back to hell..
and sure..
i want to make
sure my life is still
saved if i ever go there
again.. although i personally
with no logic at all have 100% faith
i will not as long as i stay away from
the machine of the system that enslaves
the human heart away from human into
empty machine itself.. and there was
no psychiatrist in the range of 50
miles of home who would
even accept new patients
with my insurance until the
one i found that i visited this week..
most of them will not see a person with
Asperger’s as they have no drugs to fix the
problem.. whereas my new doctor after he heard
i had negotiated a dance for mind and body balance with
area public stores actually offered first and wrote me a prescription
for a somewhat license to dance within the realm of the laws that protect
Americans with Disabilities as an act to insure everyone can mainstream
with their accommodations into society.. including a wheel chair as
dance.. people in my area are surely ignorant not to understand
that our emotions and senses are regulated and integrated
respectively through the art of movement.. little autistic
children spin and flap as a form of dance to innately
instinctually and intuitively do this in a world
that is highly stimulating or not stimulating
enough depending on the kind of
Autism a person has
as its just
a label
like all others
for the neuro-diversity
and general bio-diversity of
the human condition.. anyway..
just catching up.. as i always look
forward to your art of wisdom here
to riff off of.. as creativity when set fully
free in stream of consciousness writing
from deeper within.. no different than so-called
holy prophets in biblical way.. just another kind of
human intelligence that machine cognition will not bring
alone as you surely know and feel.. a gift that comes greater
later in life too.. as we extinguish the requirements of machine
cognition in a world truly overall grown too complex and convoluted
to even be
human these
days in feeling and
sensory greater ways
of the tribe toGeThEr iN
smaller group units to forAGe
for Survival and even thrival toGether
as A Team of GreAtEst liGhtS iN fEarless
and smARt Unconditional Love noW for each
oThA togethA as a rap song might end/Begin for Now..;)
“In the moment between stimulus and response lies freedom.”
~~ Steven Covey ~~
And when the two
become one
and
contingencies
die alive foR Now..;)
All that is harmony for thee, O Universe,
is in harmony with me as well.
Nothing that comes at the right time for thee
is too early or too late for me.
Everything is fruit to me that thy seasons bring, O Nature.
All things come of thee, have their being in thee, and return to thee.”
~~ — Marcus Aurelius Antoninus — Meditations, iv, 23 ~~
Nature is seasons
Humans are seasons
i am A
son
of the
seaS Ocean wHOle..:)
SMiLes my friEnd.. love the
poem you shared and truly
it plays to A
Beauty
of GroWinG
Older as we
appreciate beauty
and the act of life..
and strive to share
LiFE in free acts of Creativity..:)
“Reality is a cliche from which we escape by metaphor.”
~~ Wallace Stevens ~~
As my new Psychiatrist
agrees.. metaphors are
forms for underlying essence
of EmoTions and SeNsory
FeeLingS..
not surprisingly
metaphors grow
greater as well as
the ability to understand
them when our EmoTiOns
and SeNSEs and SeNSuaLiTies
are sEt free.. away from PriSonS
of mechanical cognition as even science
shows that social empathic communication..
in terms of connection.. in moving.. creating
ways is inhibited by the reason of nuts and bolts
to
make
tools of
survival for
potential thrive
as long as the
essence of what
it means to be human
is not run over by a FuckInG Bus
in terms of nuts and bolts and tools..;)
“Who are you?”
~~ Curious Bee ~~
i AM
ours..:)
“Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving till the right actions arises by itself?”
~~ Lao Tzu ~~
Pebbles
make
waves
and sTill waters..
wait and see it’s true..
Patience makes stiLL waters too..:)
“If you would hit the mark,
you must aim a little above it:
Every arrow that flies
feels the attraction of earth.”
~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~~
No
Pain
no gain..
story of LiFe..
and deATh
and LifE..
and
Death.. ETc..;)
“Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast,
for better far is gentle courtesy.”
~~ Homer ~~
And if thee don’t find
an appropriate
place to
release
the inner beast
the’LL never be
all tHee can be either.. heHE..
in terms of conFident and FReED..;)
“Gli arcobaleni d’altri mondi hanno colori che non so.
Ma lungo i fiumi d’altri mondi nascono fiori che non ho.
[The rainbows of other worlds have colors I don’t know.
But along the rivers of other worlds flowers are born that I don’t have.]”
~~ Fabrizio De Andre ~~
KilLinG
wonder
iMaGining onLY
colors one can see..;)
“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
~~ Leo Tolstoy ~~
And A best
place oF all
is wHeRe
Patience
and Time
never exists @aLL
@iNFloW@iNZonE..:)
“What is man’s chief enemy? Each man is his own.”
~~ Anacharsis (f1. c. 600 B.C.), Scythian philosopher ~~
~~ Stobaeus, Flor., II, 43 ~~
No one can
adVocate
like
sElf..:)
“In every enterprise consider where you would come out.”
~~ Publius Syrus — Maxim 777 ~~
Without
enterprise
water swims
me and air flies me..:)
sMiLes gigoid.. sorry you are
feeling a little down as i remember
by your last of three blog posts i am
behind own and a fourth one to come
momentarily if not already i’m sure..
but hey.. there are two rides
on a bus back and forth
to the Biloxi
Casino’s
as i ready
for that next..
along with a Mullet
Festival of public dance
with whatever Band is playing
there in Niceville Florida after
church.. and the best part of all
is i will spend no money at all..
relatively speaKinG as usual it’s all free..
cheap thrills life is.. alWays for me my friEnd noW..
as crazy is as crazy does when alWays Happy now..
and the main Casino we are going to is named the
Golden Nugget.. when i walk in i Am A King of that
place
’cause
i Am
a naked
Golden
Nugget.. my FRiEnD..
and now a Bruno Mars
Song to accompany this too..;)
*grin*
My friend, it always makes me feel good to see your responses to my Pearls. This is because I know I’m doing something right (write?) when a mind such as yours, and Red’s, (my other friend who is autistic, in her way…a multi-savant evolutionary jump from your basic human), get stimulated by my musings.
With your’s, I almost always think of this pearl….
“I’m going to happydance among the stars and wear my stripes any way
I want to.” — Stripes the tiger
I can’t always keep up with you, or her, but, it’s good to take on that which makes us stretch to our limits…
See ya….Some day, I’ll say that in a literal sense. That’s a promise, & I don’t make those much….
Love
gigoid
AlWays
Enjoy
My FriEnd..
Thank You..:)
love given freely is precious 😊
Always..my friEnd..:)