Ffolkes,
“If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs
that doesn’t involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head. -“
~~ Pooh in Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne ~~
The bar at Shelbourne Public House, Cork, Ireland…
I missed posting again for another day, but, it (mostly) wasn’t my fault. Smart Bee, my database of quotes, was acting a bit fractious, & it took until late in the afternoon before I assembled sufficient pearls to make up the final section. As they say across the pond, c’est la vie, amis; or, as they say downtown, too bad, so sad. Or, more aptly, as I have been known to say, so be it. At this juncture, I’m just happy it’s done, even if I still have yet to write anything resembling a rant, or discussion of anything more than the immediate needs of the moment. And, right there, it’s another ‘so be it’…..
In fact, I’m going to continue in the current vein, & just get on with the posting process, before I lose either my nerve, or the prevailing wind. ‘Tis simple enough to accomplish, as you may or may not know. All I have to do is this….
Shall we Pearl?
“For a man can lose neither the past nor the future;
for how can one take from him that which is not his?
So remember these two points:
first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting
and comes round again in its cycle,
and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things
for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time;
second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man,
when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.”
~~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, ii, 14 ~~
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Celtic Symbol
This is one of my default musical choices, to which I generally retreat two or three times per week, to listen to while puttering, or working at something constructive (a rare occasion, admittedly… SIGH). It always serves to give me the best chance to think…. well, I think it does. I hope you enjoy it as well…
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Illusory Time
Viewed from askance, the river is long;
deep, uncompromisingly intent, swift and strong.
In duality, perception creates our only reality;
such faux metaphoric paradox enforces mutability.
By two we perceive, both zero, and one;
digital, binary, on or off, such fun.
Separate, melded, we exist, knowing not what we know
ego, striving to be solitary, looking above, seeing below.
Furiously asleep, cultural anomaly claims a victim of choice;
validly unconscious, nobody speaks, nary a voice.
Potential escapees stir in dreams, fighting to wake,
until taking the wheel, for their own bloody sake.
Pots boil in due time, when the fire’s hot,
time exists to our advantage; or, not.
The solitary warrior, head bent in pain,
fights on, with, or without gain.
Night fell, day after day it persisted;
of those who knew, none showed any care, or resisted
Angels, ministers, none had any defense, nor grace;
all that remains is a face.
~~ gigoid ~~
10/22/2016
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Naked Pearls
Ponderous points….
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“Any idiot can face a crisis.
It’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
~~ Anton Checkov ~~
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“All our decisions are made
in a state of mind
that is not going to last.”
~~ Marcel Proust ~~
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“If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.”
~~ Baba Ram Dass ~~
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“We shall never cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
~~ T. S. Eliot ~~
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“In comparison with heaven and earth, man is like a mayfly.
But compared to the great Way,
heaven and earth, too, are like a bubble and a shadow.
Only the primal spirit and the true nature overcome time and space.”
~~ Lu Yen (fl. 800 A.D.) ~~
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“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision
for the limits of the world.”
~~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~~
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“Around existence twine,
(Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!)
ropes of twisted vine.”
~~ Basho ~~
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See? That didn’t hurt at all, did it? What’s more, it may have even been beneficial, in some abstruse fashion. Rather than dwell upon what cannot be altered, or even fully defined, let us move on to the rest of this fairly fine morning, just as if we had some silly reason to do so. I shall try to post again soon; I may even write something more than the usual drivel. As it always does, time will tell, the blabbermouth…. Y’all be well, happy as you may be, and, for goodness sake, be as strange as you can be; it really is your best defense against the world’s own version of strange,…. See ya, 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….
Good March the 11th to ya gigoid as i am Moving today
into a 7th Year of Blogging Wrapping up 6 from Yesterday
Fingers Still Working for Song Feet Still Working For Dance So Long
For Now Still Moving Forward Ahead Still Evolving Some New Fun For Life True
other than
that Standard
Procedure as
Usual
Embracing
Change with
Praise that nothing stays the Same..:)
“If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs
that doesn’t involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head. -“
~~ Pooh in Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne ~~
Escalator continues to move so much farther
above than anyone told me is possible below..:)
“For a man can lose neither the past nor the future;
for how can one take from him that which is not his?
So remember these two points:
first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting
and comes round again in its cycle,
and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things
for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time;
second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man,
when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.”
~~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, ii, 14 ~~
Now How
Sad when
Folks do Not
Face the Reality
of Now and Realize
to Make the Best of Now is Eternally Now Best
So in other Words i Color Now Always More
for Now is as Good as Now
Gets Colored
or Drab
in the
Same
Old Shades
of Grey Scale Shorter
Than Longer in Vibrations
And Frequencies of Human Energy mined
Canaries in Coal ‘Minds’ Do Come out and Play..:)
“Any idiot can face a crisis.
It’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
~~ Anton Checkov ~~
Unless Recreation Becomes Our Play
Dancing Singing Directing Producing
Acting Play all the way Now..:)
“All our decisions are made
in a state of mind
that is not going to last.”
~~ Marcel Proust ~~
True Fast As Our Emotions First ReaSon PreTends to KNow..:)
“If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.”
~~ Baba Ram Dass ~~
Better Understand Prison Free..:)
“We shall never cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
~~ T. S. Eliot ~~
Dancing In a Spiral
Always Same
ALways Different
AlWays
Dancing
iN A
Spiral Now..:)
“In comparison with heaven and earth, man is like a mayfly.
But compared to the great Way,
heaven and earth, too, are like a bubble and a shadow.
Only the primal spirit and the true nature overcome time and space.”
~~ Lu Yen (fl. 800 A.D.) ~~
Primal Spirit When Neo-Cortex Goes
to the Back Porch and the Rest of our
Inheriting Nature is Resurrecting Free
From: Head to:
Toe Mind
And Body
Balancing Soul
Force of Spirit Heart
Comes Back to Play As Child..:)
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision
for the limits of the world.”
~~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~~
True Some Folks Are Dogs
And Some Folks Are Cats too..
Truly
Both
Smell Better..:)
“Around existence twine,
(Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!)
ropes of twisted vine.”
~~ Basho ~~
As Left Hemisphere Metaphor Reasons
of Brains Joins now with Right Hemisphere
Metaphor Arts of Brains as two 1’s Become
Alphanumerical K11 Bridging as Alphanumerical
H8 Standing Tall Sentient Star Dust Us Beyond
Infinity as Incarnate Love.. As Art Now.. True too..
Two Become one Dualities Go Away Separate and
Part Become One and Ocean Whole.. Ships we may be
As Blogs Captains Navigating Messages of Bottles Around
the World Connecting Hands of Self-Actualizing H8 Humans
Across the Globe Spreading Ascending Transcending Agape Love
For All.. As Left Hemisphere And Right Hemisphere of Earth Join Hands
in Longitudinal and Latitudinal Ways East and West and North and South
As Both the
Individual
And
Group come
More to Find an
Ascending and Transcending
Way of Agape Love to give and share
even more True Tree Of Life on Earth Comes Whole again..:)