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Safely ensconced in warm socks….
Ffolkes, Okay, so now I’m officially old. I can start using all those little tricks I’ve been practicing to take advantage of youngsters. Oh, wait, I don’t do that…. well, okay, so now I get to be...
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Echoes of apologetic mumbles….
Ffolkes, This post was written yesterday, on Thanksgiving Day, but I was unable to post it, due to foreseen difficulties I was unable to resolve. So, for the second time in history, I missed a post....
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Adequate portions will not be forthcoming….
Ffolkes, It is unclear to me, even when I most try to understand, just how I’m supposed to cope with the different issues that keep arising. Without getting detailed or graphic, allow me to just say...
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Milling around the foyer in fabulous shoes….
Ffolkes, Morning insinuated itself into my awareness slyly today, sliding past the pillars of sleep’s palace, to poke me in the proverbial ribs. Even before getting out of bed, there were signs that...
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Occasionally, it floated sideways….
Ffolkes, Boo hoo? Boo hoo? What a crock of crap!…. Oh, hi, sorry, didn’t realize we’d started…. When I woke up today, the best I could come up with was Boo hoo…. which, as is common knowledge, is no...
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Luring nuns back into the habit….
Ffolkes, Whereas, the production of this blog is essential to the proper functioning of my mind, and, hence, my life, and, whereas, producing said blog has saved my sanity on numerous occasions, and,...
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Baldly factual assertions, drying in the wind….
Ffolkes, Yesterday’s outburst, one would think, would have been enough to soothe the urge to rant that comes over me at the reading of these reports on the idiocy prevalent among the elected glitterati...
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Parabolic patterns, majestically arranged on tiles….
Ffolkes, We read of a certain Roman emperor who built a magnificent palace. In digging the foundation, the workmen discovered a golden sarcophagus ornamented with three circlets, on which were...
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Stealing a reflective moment….
Ffolkes, “For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.” ~~ Plutarch ~~ Life of Caesar Given the degree of dignity so obvious in the above photo, I...
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No, no, not the Toast Points!….
Ffolkes, “Kindness is my true religion.” ~~ The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet ~~ This coming Saturday is another of those days in one’s life that begins to assume a proportion of importance, and...
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Twisted versions of a flawed Reality….
Ffolkes, “History doesn’t repeat itself — historians merely repeat each other.” ~~ First Rule of History ~~ Last night, as Orion chased his prey across the winter sky, slowly, majestically pacing...
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The only universal solvent is Change….
Ffolkes, “Many men fancy that what they experience they also understand.” ~~ Goethe ~~ Image from Space.com Pictures of the Day, 3/23/2015 For close to four years now, I’ve maintained a routine which...
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It’s June; we’ll use the shaved version….
Ffolkes, “For a man needs only to be turned around not once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost…. Not ’til we are lost…. do we begin to find ourselves.” ~~ Henry David Thoreau, “Walden” ~~ Rock...
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Kindly inform the sublime Pasha his hot dog is done….
Ffolkes, “How could the drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.” ~~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~~ Europa’s Ice Wolf watching Pluto from Charon...
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C’mon, we’ll ask the elevator elf….
Ffolkes, “Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.” ~~ Garrison Keillor ~~ Leelu demonstrating some serious relaxation skills…. Hajime…. The battle begins anew, but,...
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Leftover bits and pieces of shattered sanity….
Ffolkes, “Failure to understand reality is not reality’s fault.” ~~ Bill Henneman ~~ Irish Cheese & Butter Factories, on break…. Okay, I have to admit, I’m tired. ‘Tis to be expected, I would...
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More chewy than pink….
Ffolkes, “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ~~ Abraham Lincoln ~~ Did you say ‘Tuna’? As the day begins, wet and cold, I sit to try once more to make sense of a world...
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Prized for their marshmallow sculptures…
Ffolkes, “Remember this,–that very little is needed to make a happy life.” ~~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus — Meditations, vii, 67 ~~ Choosing the next species of prey…. Hajime…. I shan’t apologize for...
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Exploring the color of sound….
Ffolkes, “I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.” ~~ John Burrough ~~...
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Percipience is helpful in such cases….
Ffolkes, “After the first death, there is no other.” ~~ Dylan Thomas ~~ Silver Path to the Golden Gate…. Hajime…. Ugh. It is now 0403 here in California. I’ve been up for a bit over an hour, having...
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