Ffolkes,
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
~~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~~
Leelu at leisure….
Hajime…. I am in a position where it is becoming difficult to remain confident of ultimate success; since the article of contemplation under consideration is my life, this translates to some slight degree of danger, in that preserving life requires, at minimum, a confident interest in expending the effort to do so. Maintaining that attitude of interest can, I may now attest, become questionable, or, perhaps, questioned as to whether the effort is worth the result. In short, and, more clearly, there develops a decision to be made, as to whether maintaining the effort to live is worth the result….
I guess that’s a long winded way to say I’m tired of making the effort, only to encounter more, and yet more, obstacles or conditions which make that life less than pleasurable. I’ve just spent two days, and more, trying to assuage my body’s symptoms, only to arise today & find them unchanged to any appreciable degree. I’m still susceptible to extreme fatigue, lethargy, & pain, with the added fillip of occasional loss of blood to provide extra interest to an already too-interesting process. It’s disconcerting to spend a night sleeping hard, only to awaken tired, and still ‘out of balance.’ More than just a little disheartening, to be sure….
Ah, well, such is life for those of us who have lived fully, I suppose; there’s a price to be paid for continually going past the limits observed by those who cruise through life avoiding risks, in order to avoid injury, or emotional hurt, or other activities less than comfortable. Life lets us know very early there is a price for going beyond the normal; some of us are willing to pay it more readily than others, and who is to say who has the better way? Not me, though I have to say, I’d rather be scared and in pain, than bored, any day…..
There…. not too bad. I’ve related how unsettled I am, without going into tedious or graphic details sure to offend someone’s sensibilities. Perhaps it will suffice to explain how choppy the following Pearl turned out (well, it seems so to me, but, that’s probably because I’m seeing it from the inside…); then again, when have Pearls ever been easily explained? Never, I’d say. So, rather than belabor a non-point, I’ll just get on with it, before it gets any more maudlin, or incomprehensible altogether. I had hoped to finish the new poem, but, those pesky symptoms have kept me from any such comforting completion of a task, so, we’ll have to make do with what I’ve got so far, & be content with that. Or, not, as you wish….
As for me, I’m getting it done, as quickly as possible, so as to, once again, go deal with the aforementioned symptoms, which shall remain obscure, to save everyone’s breakfast. Rather than explore that notion, we’ll resort to one of our emergency techniques for getting us down the page…. It’s one you know well, as I’ve used it many times… it works like this….
Shall we Pearl?
“Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
We get very little wisdom from success, you know.”
~~ William Saroyan ~~
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Picture from http://blog.agaxtur.com.br via Google Images
A few days ago, in a re-blogged Pearl, I made mention of Cajuns, whereupon a friend asked me, “What about that lovely Cajun music?” She’s right, so, here is a mix of some pretty damn good Zydeco, as their music is so aptly named…. Enjoy, but, only if you really like to party….
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Cajun Music Mix
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Since I am battling my body, here is a poem I wrote a while back, while battling other internal demons. Different causes, but, similar battles, and the poem gives the correct flavor for today’s experience…. So be it….
Banishing demons….
Endless nights lead inexorably into endless days
while the battle for peace rages.
Lost arts find new meaning used in new ways;
to burn, yearn, and turn all the new pages.
Darkness falls heavily on bowed shoulders, contrite;
fireworks travel fast in nervous tissue.
The pace is kept, clean, but, never erudite;
such a pale tale of ancient issue.
Peering in terror down long, long halls of night
brings only confusion, destitute in sorrow.
Cannot time become our enemy, eager to fight
on the side which may never see tomorrow?
The longing gaze of passion, for reason to live,
must fall ever more faithfully into sedition,
else the clinging visions we claim to give,
shall not prevent reaching inevitable perdition.
Rising up, clarity of purpose shines the light of day
upon such a desolate landscape of absent release.
There is no escape, no furthering of the way.
Time never knows how to grant peace.
~~ gigoid ~~
11/23/2015
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Naked Pearls
To be, or….
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“A lizard ran out on a rock and looked up,
listening no doubt to the sounding of the spheres.
And what a dandy fellow! the right toss of a chin for you
and swirl of a tail!
If men were as much men as lizards are lizards
they’d be worth looking at.”
~~ D. H. Lawrence (1928) ~~
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“Where pain predominates, agony can be a valued teacher.”
~~ Frank Herbert ~~
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“If you want to build a ship,
don’t drum up people together to collect wood
and don’t assign them tasks and work,
but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
~~ Antoine de Saint Exupery ~~
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“How do the geese know when to fly to the sun?
Who tells them the seasons?
How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on?
As with the migrant birds, so surely with us,
there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it,
that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown.”
~~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~~
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“If you are distressed by anything external,
the pain is not due to the thing itself,
but to your own estimate of it;
and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
~~ Marcus Aurelius ~~
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“The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates
the mysteries of eternity,
of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
It is enough if one tries merely
to comprehend a little of this mystery every day.
Never lose a holy curiosity.”
~~ Albert Einstein ~~
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“All is flux, nothing stays still.”
~~ Heraclitus (540?-480? B.C.) ~~
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Having already sat longer than is wise, I’ll truncate this closing without mercy. That looks like this. See ya, ffolkes. Can’t say exactly when, for I’ve sat too much today already. I’ll be back when I can…..
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 
Good post today….Cicero had it right about books….okay who cares about their music a couple of hot women….LOL I find the older I get the more body battles i find…..the only joy I had yesterday was watching Ferrari win the Australian Gran Prix….I did manage to plant 4 blueberry bushes to add to my mini orchard…..hope you have a good day and I will look for you later my friend….chuq
Thanks; it came out fairly well for all it cost me… I agree; the girls are hot, and make the music hotter… Hope it’s cool enough to suit your berries… I’m getting a little caught up… gotta go walk now, though… See ya later…
gigoid
Nadia has a good post about olive trees today….give it a look….chuq
Thanks, I will… got the email, but, hadn’t worked down the list that far yet… Gonna dive back into catching up again in a short bit…
g
It is a good cause…the trees that is…Sunday continues and I have retreated to the “crypt”…LOL chuq
Off topic….have visited Doug’s new site..”Finding Political Sanity”? He has a 3 parter that I think you may appreciate….http://www.findingpoliticalsanity.com/index.php/using-your-head-over-emotion-or-how-to-not-sound-like-an-ignorati-idiot-part-1-critical-thinking/#more-2929
He is helping spread the concept of the “Ignorati”……chuq
Drain The Swamp! 😉 you might not like intro but check that banjo 2:30 in…wonderful. Might cheer you up! By the by embrace your demons don’t fight them…observe them.I know what you mean! ;-( they do pass…waste of energy demons.
Le Rue – swamp rat boogie.wmv https://youtu.be/hFbdj1g8y6k?list=PLJ6vFX_E_X5x3_p2Ppx-2b0NpcP6DAc8b via @YouTube
Enjoy,I’m off to play with Nelson again..yes I have him here again…after all that is what Mums are good for! He is asleep under the bed but not for long!
Pesky kitten/cats!
Actually, I like the entire cut…. and, the banjo player is damn good. If you’ve never heard him play, check out Steve Martin’s banjo work… (yes, that Steve Martin…) He’s a wizard on it…
Demons ARE a PITA, (literally, in my case…), but, I have been a demon warrior for a long time; I know they pass. They do tend to cause more discomfort than they’re worth, but, then, that’s a capitalist world for ya… Thanks for the cheer; I’m feeling a bit better, just not as quickly as I’d prefer…
Have fun with the kitten; they do keep one focused….
See ya, milady….
gigoid
Hello.. gigoid.. been a little busy in the
big blue room as you say today too..
and glad you are feeling well enough
to get out the four walls and floor
and ceiling/screen today
too.. although
sure..
business
can be a little
less comforting
than true re
creation..
anyWay.. with that sAid..
i’LL catch uP on two of
your currents that i am behind
on and see ya later after that FriEnd..:)
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
HaHA..
i AM
A
Book
with no Cover..;)
“Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
We get very little wisdom from success, you know.”
~~ William Saroyan ~~
Save
Ferris..
And WiLL..;)
(Very Loose
hmm.. Movie
Association..
Buehler too..
sKeYes2..:)
“A lizard ran out on a rock and looked up,
listening no doubt to the sounding of the spheres.
And what a dandy fellow! the right toss of a chin for you
and swirl of a tail!
If men were as much men as lizards are lizards
they’d be worth looking at.”
~~ D. H. Lawrence (1928) ~~
So ironic
truly it is
in Parable
way.. if only
we could be the Reptiles we
are as Lizard more than concrete..;)
“Where pain predominates,
agony can be a valued teacher.”
~~ Frank Herbert ~~
As aLL dARk Leads
to PoTenTiAL GreATeSt
liGht iF Dance is more than SonG..
And yes.. of course.. iF SonG is more than DancE..
in otHeR words..
more than
Square
Dance..heHe4..;)
“If you want to build a ship,
don’t drum up people together to collect wood
and don’t assign them tasks and work,
but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
~~ Antoine de Saint Exupery ~~
Be
Sea
more than
AD..;)
“How do the geese know when to fly to the sun?
Who tells them the seasons?
How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on?
As with the migrant birds, so surely with us,
there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it,
that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown.”
~~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~~
ISA noW..
I more than K..
Kiss of death alone.. KSA..
Innate
Instinct
Intuition
Fluid inTeLLigence
more than Crystalized fActs..
otherwise known as Standard IQ..
or
KnowLedge
alone verses allone
Gift oF aLL source BeinG noW..:)
“If you are distressed by anything external,
the pain is not due to the thing itself,
but to your own estimate of it;
and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
~~ Marcus Aurelius ~~
Sure.. easier said than
dONe wiTh Neuro-chemistry
in the miX.. howEver Free
ReLaTiVe
WiLL
once in
toucH aS miNd
and BoDy BaLanCinG
Force IS A Fluid Intelligence
thAT works over words
alone other than
guide
posts
to arrive at
Bliss now Free..
SAdly.. written
words have
taken
over
what’s real..
once one truly
leaves words behind..
and Finds withiN A BaLanCinG
under covered by Books oF ‘Fore..
And it reminds me aGaiN.. of my Great Aunt
Jettie at age 94.. Broken Back Bent
over from head to toe.. barely
moving step to step with
a walker..
and she
said
whenever
she had pain
she just told it
to go away.. And Poof.. yeah..
hmm.. a lifetime though.. of
finding
Healing
Powers
then..
within..
no different
R E a L L Y..
than an 18 year
old inside outside cat or
a Twenty Year old cat inside..
wHo rises unscathed after stepped
on by accident.. by over 200 Lbs..
And yes.. i can do that at hand
by WiLL now.. but
so much more
Heal
takes
than words alone..
A Lesson of Pain….
Heal
or
Not..
And nah..
never give up
unless one comes to enjoy Pain..
from the Numb of HeARt as
A worst pain oF aLL..
AFAIK.
@ LEAst..
iN Real Experience..
as there were no words
by my Great Aunt Jettie
that would have ever taken
me to heal then but experience and
years more.. practicing life to heal.. within..
Paths
sure..
Answers no..
@lEast noT iN words..:)
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates
the mysteries of eternity,
of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
It is enough if one tries merely
to comprehend a little of this mystery every day.
Never lose a holy curiosity.”
~~ Albert Einstein ~~
This is true.. as a friEnd.. Tahir..
sAid recently.. i like your
style of physical
pose..
and then..
another.. Glenn.. saiD..
Flex it while you can..
There is no question
thaT i WiLL and that my friend is why i CAn..
And after aLL.. Jack LaLanne did it until age 96..
tHeRe’s alWays a first for Curious George’s and Jack’s and Jill’s..
who continue
to go
uP
A HiLL..
never ever NoW
LoSinG A PAN oF LiFe..
oR A PAil oF Sands more nOw..
To Raise A Mountain oF Love isREaL..
iN GrAce and Strength WiTh WiLL do DO..
And nah.. these
words are
empty
sHells
without the
fiRe oF HeaLinG
LiVinG wiThin.. BlUe
TurtLe oR wHaTcHa MA cALL iT2..
Seek it Find it or now for all practical
intents and purposes of superwOmen
iT/ThAT neVer liVeS @leASt FoR NoW..:)
“All is flux, nothing stays still.”
~~ Heraclitus (540?-480? B.C.) ~~
Moves
WiLL
Moves
As always, a joy to read…. Dance on, brother….
gigoid
Thanks my friEnd..
Back from gym..
And off to your
Current post.. now..:)