Ffolkes,
“There will come a time when you think everything is finished.
That will be the beginning.”
~~ Louis L’Amour ~~
La Montaña del Diablo….
Hajime…. Some folks, (as opposed to ffolkes….), might see this blog, & think the creation of what they see isn’t particularly difficult to come up with each day. They are, as you might imagine, living in a dream world, of their own making; it certainly has no relation to the reality I face every morning, when I sit down, coffee at hand, but, without anything resembling coherent thought, or for that matter, a reasonable degree of sanity, making its presence known anywhere inside my head. Generally, what is happening there has a stronger likeness to chaotic confusion. The ffolkes who consistently patronize the Daily Mess we call Pearls of Virtual Wisdom are quite aware of this, having witnessed it any number of times. They know better, having explored Reality with us numerous times, and know just how slippery is that slope at this time of day.
However, to demonstrate any awareness of the type of reader who may stumble upon our efforts is tacky, not to mention fraught with ambiguity so great, it sweats bullets. It also tends to cause a ripple in the narrative we so carefully construct; it’s hard to merge the concept of insane prattle with the sort of prose the reading public expects. Plus, it doesn’t do to allow any awareness of such distinctions into the thought process needed to create worthwhile literature; they can affect the outcome outrageously, turning it away from snarky wit to pedantic whining. Go figure….
Thus, we’ll take another path, one I’ve discovered works quite well to distract both the regular readers who drop in, and those who may be less familiar with the relative lack of structure so prevalent in our daily ramblings. It’s not particularly complex; hell, it’s damn simple, if you’re watching closely. It is also, however, quite tricky to pull off, as the timing is critical. So critical, there are times it sneaks up on ME, like today, when all I have left to do is this….
Shall we Pearl?
“Fear teaches us in the most graphic terms just what it is we value.”
~~ Limon ~~
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Go figure, eh? As I did not relate above, distracting myself with literary tricks, I am late getting started, which always tends to put me in a place I don’t particularly enjoy, where guilt jostles the elbow of panic, all because of my damned sense of duty to self. Music such as this will usually sort me out, so, that’s why it is my default choice. I’m old, I’m grumpy, and I don’t like having to deal with either of those states. Let’s see if the choice today will fill the bill…. I’ll go with the man considered both the father of modern classical guitar, and, by many, the best to ever play it…. Andres Segovia….
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Classical Guitar Music
Dedication ~ Andrès Segovia
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Savory
Blown across steppes of imagination, a spore
finds a niche, takes root,
tries to live longer than now, before
chaos/peace descends, and desire is moot.
Feathered into fecundity, another possibility
builds a nest, hatches kin,
aims at immortality, sans responsibility,
chance manifests, as it does, again.
Leading toward peril, entropy saves creativity,
making tools, and lazy time;
solid signs imply such simple nativity,
as another snitch drops his dime.
Subtle compassion billows, passion to unfold,
covering hearts bloodied by time,
burning flesh made valid, unwaveringly bold,
turning love to brilliant rhyme.
Years weigh lightly, supported by youth,
gaining weight with each year,
only the old men know the actual truth,
peace comes only when we lose our fear.
~~ gigoid ~~
4/9/2013
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Naked Pearls
Points to ponder….
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“He took his vorpal sword in hand
Long time the manxom foe he sought
Till rested he by the tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought”
~~ “Jabberwocky”, by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) ~~
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“Patience, and shuffle the cards.”
~~ Miguel de Cervantes ~~
~~ Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iii, Chap. xxiii ~~
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“Without fear there would be no courage.”
~~ Robert Puller ~~
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“Man is not the creature of circumstances.
Circumstances are the creatures of men.”
~~ Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield)~~
~~ Vivian Grey, Book vi, Chap. vii ~~
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“It is only when we forget all our learning that we being to know.”
~~ Henry David Thoreau ~~
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“It is the ability to choose which makes us human.”
~~ Madeleine L’Engle (Walking on Water) ~~
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“So what else is new?”
~~ Walter Cronkite ~~
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I’ve done it, haven’t I? I’ve finished another Pearl, just in time to keep myself from falling into the abyss, which abides, ever near, calling me in a siren’s voice, to join the demons who wait for me there…. But, that’s a story for another day; today, I’m free, to find my inner balance out in the real world, away from the darkness which dogs my existence when I stay too long in my mind. Clearly, I will be back tomorrow; I have a feeling I’ll need to do this again, to keep the demons chained…. It’s not a threat; it’s just the way it is…. See y’all then, ffolkes….
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 
Lewis, Benjamin and Madeleine… just yes.
I may challenge your chauvinism because I can. See, the stride for immortality often is the cause of the burn, in at least two of three immediately possible connotations. The validity proper is dousing the flame. Ejaculate is largely inflammable, especially when properly aimed.
Bright blessings with your giggles.
Xxx
Bwahahahaha! Thank you! Nice having you stop by, especially when you speak in my tongues…
*grin*
xoxoxo
Segovia! The perfect music for me today….thanx. Interesting pearls…FEAR….something that has gripped the populace for 10 years…..”It is the mind killer”….and I refuse to succumb. Having a good Sunday…will return later….chuq
Glad you enjoyed today’s mess, amigo. I thought of you when I picked Andrès for today….
Yep, fear is our Achilles Heel, for sure; if people ever figure out how it’s handled, things can actually change… Sadly, fat chance o’that…
You have a good one, too; I’ll be by later…
gigoid
“Sipping the bright tan plastic….”
Tripping the Light Fantastic ~ Ha Ha Haaaaaa 🙂
xoxoxo
*grin* So far, you’re the only one to spot it….
Ned
sMiLes gigoid.. enjoying
an actual typical close
to Winter
and
Solstice
Day with temperatures
of high near 40 instead
of what has been 70 to 80
in historically hottest 2016
Global year of heat.. hmm..
i can handle the heat and the cold
but sadly not at all can and that presents
a problem along with low lying areas and
high lying politicians same.. greaTesT pressing
problem along with Escalator coming noW iN ChiEf..
iF only
it were
a movie
it would be
a ridiculous laugh
but this shit is as
real as fleeced sheep
who vote naked lone
in their own sheep stuff
to put it lightly as fluff and SS can come
war world three species extinction double
priced smart phones and folks who would
love to grab cats that turn their noses up at litter box
stink stank Grinch
stunk
now
as grimm
tales come true..
anyway back to
dive for pearls and
oThEr stuff too.. hehe..;)
“There will come a time when you think everything is finished.
That will be the beginning.”
~~ Louis L’Amour ~~
Yep.. tHeiR is alWays
A poTenTiaL of Intelligent
And Loving liFE on oThEr plaNets.. too..
@leASt as..
i’m alWays
amused to see
movies like Star
Wars based on war
like they would have
ever got off tHeir own
planet without
destroying
so-called
apex predators tHerE/Theirs
would definitely have to be
anotHEr hiGher evolved
Loving species than
what we prove
ourselves
overall
as
cultural
by product
STUFF hUmans
all virus aS Sucks..;)
“Fear teaches us in the most graphic terms just what it is we value.”
~~ Limon ~~
Valuing iT aLL
makes
fearless
iSreal @leASt iN paRt..;)
BrowSing through the Gander Store
yesterday the super store for gLocks and
every other gun imaginable i could imagine
myself as
a tiny
woman
in a bar
parKing
lot needing one
of those weapons
as an equalizer of
course.. lots of
middle
aged
financially
independent
law enforcement
looking dude privilege
i have based on the genetic
potential gifted by a Father
surviving law enforcement for
46 years with his dad literally
as dining partner with Einstein
in the social circles
of the socialist
party in
the 20th
century as
such then.. iN
New York.. N Y..
my father spotting
the girl voted to have
the best figure in high school..
hour glass figure destined for
big headed children.. yes.. like my
father too.. fulfilling that potential
was the hardest pARt.. seeing that
poTenTial and finding out why i did not
achieve it much earlier was both the hardest
and most fun pARt.. as latent poTenTial can
last for decades in Epigenetic way.. and spring
to life as humans in cocoons can do too.. in other
words fear is an issue that is both innate and environmentally
produced.. easier lost in hopes that what it takes to be Bond cool
like
my
daddy
who never
sweat a brow
that i saw at least
and rarely ever lost
his cool cigarette poised
in fingers of never ending steady..
let’s put it this way.. i’M Good friEnds
WiTh my
Shadow
sELf noW..;)
“He took his vorpal sword in hand
Long time the manxom foe he sought
Till rested he by the tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought”
~~ “Jabberwocky”, by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) ~~
Alice and Wonderland
and human language
in general.. even in most
Traditional Queen Victoria
Style form
is sTiLL
an
iNk Blot
test as leASt
and most for
humans
who
naturAlly
colors in the lines
from experience ‘fore..:)
“Patience, and shuffle the cards.”
~~ Miguel de Cervantes ~~
~~ Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iii, Chap. xxiii ~~
And iF it’s
Tarot.. the iNK
BloT even means more
as the more complex
the picture
the
more
likely
to paint more
colors between
Lines and iMages sAMe..:)
And interestingly as science
sHows a certain percentage
of folks on the Autism Spectrum
and the Schizophrenia Spectrum
cannot do this
as tested
by
optical
illusions wHeRe
the mind does
not fill
in
the blanks..
of past and future..
and that my friEnd is
most often a deficit of
EmoTioNal INtelligence
too.. wHere basic cognitive
executive functioning does
not work well without the
memory glue of EmotioNs well
experienced as well as expressed..:)
And interestingly enough they suffer
more for this in percentages of suicides
than folks with severe
functional
disabilities
with Standard
IQ and EMoTions
STiLL in
FuLL
plAy of
Humanity’s Food
and Drink of LiFE..:)
“Man is not the creature of circumstances.
Circumstances are the creatures of men.”
~~ Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield)~~
Yes.. humans make their own environments
and their children are born into those environments
and those environment become more complex as
added to more by the next children of children
born until next thing
yA kNow
yA
forget
how to even
live as innate
instinct and
intuition
could
teach each
other in yes.. relatively
small naked groups like
Bonobos do.. without becoming
pre-made tools from ancestors
directing and producing yA pLay oF LiFe now..:)
“It is only when we forget all our learning that we being to know.”
~~ Henry David Thoreau ~~
Thanks for
the assist
Mr.
Thoreau..
wRite oN baby..;)
“It is the ability to choose which makes us human.”
~~ Madeleine L’Engle (Walking on Water) ~~
And the loss
of all natural
innate.. instinctual
and intuitive WiLL
thaT makes
us
tools..
for sale fools..;)
“So what else is new?”
~~ Walter Cronkite ~~
Everything under the
Sun except for
those
stuck
in
ugh..
windowless
buildings.. cogs
in machines F88KinG
priSon stAnding iNfinity
double alWays noW sLaVe..;)
Now to neXt..;)