Ffolkes,
“Well, it just seemed wrong to cheat on an ethics test.”
~~ Calvin ~~
Signs of Autumn in California….
Hajime…. I stayed up late last night, to finish a poem, which you will see below. In fact, all of today’s Pearl is freshly composed, so, that makes it special, at least for lately around here. I can’t say I feel much urge to create more this morning, so, I’ll forgo the usual sort of blather and foolishness you generally see in this section, in favor of a relatively efficient introductory section in the traditional style. Now, if I knew what sort of tradition had been established, we’d be in a better place. Since I don’t, you’ll have to take what you get, as will I….
Hmm… Having just spent a rather unproductive five minutes trying to find some worthy thoughts, or even singular thoughts, to fill in from this point, I am again perplexed, by my own lack of cohesion. Though all in my world is fairly settled, compared to most of the last week, the fires are not yet out, and my son is still displaced with his daughter, so, life remains a bit off its normally even course; there is little doubt much of the surrounding area’s inhabitants are in for a tough time for the next few months, as the massive destruction left behind by the fires is cleaned up & repaired. More than 5000 homes & buildings were burnt to the ground, so there is a lot of work to be done to replace and or repair the damages…. I’m only at the edge of the zone of destruction, but, have no doubt the local economies will suffer more before returning to anything like normalcy…. A hard rain’s a gonna fall, to use an appropriate metaphor…
But, I, and my family, have been fortunate; no one was hurt, and no one lost their home altogether; they all at least have a place to which they can return, once the fires are contained. But, the overall thrust of the local culture will be in recovery mode for quite a while to come, I am sure…. As soon as the fires are out, the news media will forget all about it, within a very short time, and the process of recovery the people here will undergo will include the difficulty of getting the aid needed from a government that simply doesn’t care about anything but its own status quo, and the agenda of cancerous growth, complete with destructive conflict, will continue on its path to armageddon…. Yes I know, cynical, but, hey, the evidence is pretty clear, I should say, so, if y’all feel differently, well, feel free to say so, as long as you have some actual evidence to support such short-sightedness….
I guess that’s about enough of a mini-rant for one day; I just don’t have the taste for it I once did. Instead, let’s go on, & see what I’ve managed to cobble together over the last few days. If I do say so, the poem is quite decent, the music is the same, and there’s a nicely obscure, yet relevant set of pearls in old-school format for your cogitative pleasure. What more could you ask for, except a shorter intro section? Nothing, that’s what. To make sure you get at least that much, let’s get on with it…. Hang on, we’re going in hot….
Shall we Pearl?….
“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be “happy.”
I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible,
to be honorable, to be compassionate.
It is, above all, to matter, to count,
to stand for something,
to have made some difference that you lived at all.”
~~ Leo C. Rosten ~~
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For the past two days, I’ve been listening to the following musical compilation, streaming it on You Tube while reading, or working on the computer, or just staring into space, thinking. Even Leelu seems to prefer it to some of the other genres to which I listen at times. I know one of my gentle readers will avoid listening, but, that’s because it brings back sad memories for him…. For his benefit, this one is a bit different than much of what reminds him; it’s more lively, and more basic than the style that he associates with such music… In any case, it’s good thinking music, so, please, enjoy….
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Traditional Irish Music
Instrumental
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Toward the dream….
At odd moments, idiosyncratic visions come
drifting up out of unconsciousness; I bleed life.
If proper doors have been left ajar, some
of all I am spills essential truth, a sharpened knife.
Hearing cries of fear, laying waste by rote,
wonder dies a sordid death, desolate at the very last.
Filling such empty spaces needs focus, so remote,
blankness stretches to infinity, a weekly fast.
Attractive illusions stand beckoning from the wings,
bright temptation for those without imagination.
The phoenix opens wide its beak, and sings
hoping for sweet harmony, with dignified anticipation.
Steadily, brightly, the music summons the dream
passion pales, held at bay in serenity’s gentle hand.
Intricate patterns, unsullied, visible by a soft gleam;
The poem, in song, dances lightly, brightly on the shifting sand.
~~ gigoid ~~
10/15/2017
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Naked Pearls
Notes on Life at Large….
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“Things are not always what they seem.”
~~ Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.), Book iv, Fable 2, 5 ~~
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“Remember there’s an “if” in the middle of life.”
~~ Subtle Bee ~~
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“Your vision will become clear
only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.”
~~ Carl Jung ~~
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
~~ Oscar Wilde, “Lady Windermere’s Fan” ~~
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“Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars,
blown about us by the wind,
and drink the universe in a glass of rain.”
~~ Ihab Hassan ~~
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“The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.”
~~ Keanu Reeves ~~
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“It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.”
~~ Anatole France ~~
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“Sometimes it takes great effort
to discover that life was meant to be effortless.”
~~ Anonymous ~~
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“How often have I said to you
that when you have eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”
~~ Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), ” The Sign of Four” ~~
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Well, there you have it, ffolkes. It’s late getting posted, but, it’s all as fresh as I can make it. I can’t say how soon I’ll have another one, but, I’ll try not to take too long…. The real world, complex and hard though it may be to live in, has been calling me to go walkabout more often than I feel the urge to write; the poem I finished has been the only compelling urge I’ve felt, & it’s done, so, I may find myself out in the BBR a lot, soaking up more experience to pour into the hopper of my mind, where it can, and will, take its own sweet time to find a way out, back into the light. When it happens, I’ll be back; I’d estimate two to three days. Until then, be well, be happy as you may, and stay alert. The fires may go out, but, the lightning can still strike, when and wherever it pleases…. See ya….
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 Afternoon coming evening
aGaiN here in the Florida Panhandle..
friEnd gigoid and in reference to Doomsday
Smells of Fires and Floods and Winds and
Automated Fix of Guns and sure.. Earth
Quakes too.. Doomsday surely
came for those directly
involved and glad
your family
is still alive
from the Sonoma County
and Santa Rosa City associated
Winery and Home and Business Fires too
with so much Forest going up in smoke too
And best wishes for the continuing use of their
Property too.. of course as it seems those fires
are dying out at least and perhaps not so many
Pockets of the World will continue to experience
this Frequency of Doomsday Like once in a
Lifetime or Country Events as it’s surely
been a hell of a ride since the Solar
Eclipse or so 8 weeks ago..
and strangely what i
personally named
as a Doomsday
Smell after my smell
went away from a virus cold
is coming back stronger and thank
Goodness not so much like ‘Soylent Green’..
funny how much we appreciate our emotions and
senses once we lose them or they are altered into almost
intolerable ways for us to live with and sure that includes all
forms of pain too.. in emotional and sensory way too.. hmm.. but
as always often there is some compensation where other human
potentials arise to the occasion for survive and then potential thrive..
even
greater
than before
for as long as i am
learning new feelings and
senses of life i am growing
younger in feel and sense even
if some of the other senses and feels
aren’t quite the way they used to be..
life an adventure for change always
from dARk Abyss through
sHades of Grey smells
and bEyond
Rainbow
Smells of
Cotton Candy Fair Fun..
hmm.. that’s coming soon to around
these Interstate Fair Grounds as well
as A Mullet Festival this weekend and always
the Forest Free of mY Back Yard with hopefully
never any fires like that there as long as we continue
to develop more of a Tropical Forest with year around
Indian Summer with a cool breeze break today at least
with 50 Degrees F at night more specifically about a low
of 53 degrees.. hmm… so much for small talk of Weather for an intro here
as i now move to riff off your too live efforts here too in Blog Post way of Wisdom you bring..
Yeah.. Weather talk has been a central discussion of life for sometime now and Doomsday too..
but who has
time to nuke
entire countries
when destruction
by Nature comes home first..
of course highly peppered by
the devil as virus of human cultures too..:)
“Well, it just seemed wrong to cheat on an ethics test.”
~~ Calvin ~~
Hmm.. to me ethics is what the heART.. SPIRIT AND SouL
within Naturally feels and senses and coMes to kNoW is Correct
and morality well that’s often the stuff of chopping off hands and
FGM per Female Genital Mutilation that some Women in countries
seem to be freely willing to lose for self-esteem to OMG that
20 Percent Member Discount they give to the youngest
of our Male Species too.. true too as we sit still at
our new cultural rule of glue to computer
screens as a common now new
bonding tradition too..
as the new
morality
as human
becoming tools
as any otherwise functionally
disabled person might have to do
with loss of mobility of getting out and
about in face to face flesh and blood smiles
and human inspiring dance and song in groups
of smiling friendly faces.. yes.. moral relativism
continues to carry the day as morals often
sit side by side for the devil disguised
as the Angel who takes the
left hand as somehow
inferior from the
right hand
now as
if God doesn’t
have a frigging left
hand or if God has a
Penis one must wonder
if God prepared a 20 Percent Member
Discount for himself after God Created
the Member first with protective covering
against harsh environmental elements like
Sticker Bushes on the Shores of Banks of Rivers
so harsh on the lower parts of the body that the town
is named hell as the place of my hometown literally was named at one
point that and then scratch ankle after than and i’m assuming they did wear pants..;)
“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be “happy.”
I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible,
to be honorable, to be compassionate.
It is, above all, to matter, to count,
to stand for something,
to have made some difference that you lived at all.”
~~ Leo C. Rosten ~~
To Dance and Sing after the successful
forage for a meal and drink and sure
the
work
of the
night
as far as
the so-called
Primitive People’s
saw giving and sharing
life as it was/is sort of a Given
of the Natural Act still to Survive
NoW togETHeR as any smART Group
of Wolves will do in Human Free SKin too..
And its’ true2 every single thing on the list
Leo provides is totally integral to that Basic
Human Survive and thrive of life with cultural
clothes loaded on or not and of course it’s obvious
where our culture is at as the top of the heap it is ruled
by the anti-purpose of all of that in character and integrity
that
does
spell
natural
human ethics
at work as mammals
who STiLL Have a Love FeeL anD
SenSE of Live iN Basic Survival and Thrive too..:)
“Things are not always what they seem.”
~~ Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.), Book iv, Fable 2, 5 ~~
Everytime.. yes.. so named Human CLock time
i turn the TV off and go in my Back Yard
with Sand and Sun And Forest Grass
Green i find this Truth to be
most self
evident
at
Nature
Core Ethics aLL LiGHT..
and yes in the dew of
the Midnight Moon too..
new or full it matters not..:)
“Remember there’s an “if” in the middle of life.”
~~ Subtle Bee ~~
Did ‘they’ say F..
no more T plEase..;)
“Your vision will become clear
only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.”
~~ Carl Jung ~~
iS iT mY iMaGiNaTioN or is it Synchronicity but it seems
For sure the quote above has is been aLL aBout mY toPic oF CoNverSation..:)
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
~~ Oscar Wilde, “Lady Windermere’s Fan” ~~
So Glad that Soylent Green Smell is moving away down below too..;)
“Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars,
blown about us by the wind,
and drink the universe in a glass of rain.”
~~ Ihab Hassan ~~
TruE DusT iN WinD FeelS and SenseS
Good to me as long as i float
WitH A
Greatest
Dance
Ease
Nn Terrestrial Air SonG..:)
“The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.”
~~ Keanu Reeves ~~
Particularly if one is not A Modern
Version of tHaT iN Gold Fish sKin Being Human..;)
“It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.”
~~ Anatole France ~~
As modernly affirmed confirmed by a Giant Shoe Company
SteaLinG A Goddess oF Victory aWaY iN Athletic StRings of Win..;)
“Sometimes it takes great effort
to discover that life was meant to be effortless.”
~~ Anonymous ~~
Middle Balance eye of A Hurricane the rest
Comes Naturally in Animal Homeostasis
Invisible Capturing Prey in will and
strength Energy and
escaping potential
Predator too
as Loving
Grace
creeps
but sadly
some folks
don’t understand
that the way to Heaven
Now in simple bliss of Harmony
and Peace after the forage of day
and night is done for now is as easy
as the animals who are not lost in words away from Live iN
HarMoNiEs
Chi
Qi
Ki
BaLanCinG
ForCE oF LiFE
And it’s true my Cat
did not have to go to the
Star Trek or Star Wars Academy
to rest easy in the Sun Shine and Moon Shade of Heaven now within.
“How often have I said to you
that when you have eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”
~~ Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), ” The Sign of Four” ~~
According to Science Before.. almost nothing i do now is possible for what is
Repeatable in Scientific Method Ways ‘then’.. Sure.. there is Systemizing
Science
Possibilities
and Human
Potential..
i choose
the second
with Relative
Free Will within all
inherited Naturally from
the Struggles of My Ancestors
Survive over Millions of years too..
but true.. Science is Catching up too.. as Modern ways
of Domestication overall now takes most of that away..:)
Fred…. Always good to see you, my friend, even when I am unable to return your visits…. I’m spending more time walkabout than at home, & tend to gravitate more toward writing than reading when here…. might be due partially, at least, to my eyes getting pretty bad for reading, an age-related thing, my eye doctor tells me… Any who, I always enjoy reading your responses to my Pearls, & hope you don’t mind my inability to return the favor…. I know I don’t have to tell you to keep on dancin’, for I know you will…. Give K a squeeze for me, & be well….
gigoid
SMiLes.. my friEnd.. zero contingencies from me for FriendShips For it
Is the FriEnd who Gives as you do so Graciously in the Time and Effort you put into sharing you with the world freely your writings here that is FriEnd enough for me for that spirit of giving free.. hell.. some folks see a friend in a story of Jesus.. mostly having no idea who wrote the stories.. People of integrity give praise to those who Bring wisdom no matter how hard truth can be to swallow a little bit more.. so.. thanks for all that you can and will do.. always enough for me.. my friEnd.. much rather see you enjoying People in the Flesh and Nature Same than reading the same basic essence i continue to bring In unlimited Housing of For Be Fearless and Kind with a Root of Courage that is Unconditional Love..:)