Oatmeal is multi-talented….
Ffolkes, “The Soul is born old, but it grows young; that is the comedy of life. The Body is born young and grows old; that is life’s tragedy.” ~~ Oscar Wilde ~~ Church window, Galway, Ireland… Hajime…....
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Ffolkes, “Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.” ~~ Albert Einstein ~~ Identifiably California…. Hajime…. I can’t...
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Ffolkes, “Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.” ~~ Oscar Wilde ~~ Why did we stop?…. Hajime…. Isn’t that the greatest little grin you ever saw? I met this little lad yesterday on a walk...
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Ffolkes, “The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.” ~~ Robert Anton Wilson ~~ Tacking for...
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Ffolkes, “Murder is always a mistake…. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.” ~~ Oscar Wilde ~~ Midsummer colors…. Hajime…. Though I know ‘hope’ to be, in general, a...
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Ffolkes, Today’s Pearl is a stealth re-blog; it’s from December of 2012, & I didn’t feel like finding it online, so, I went to my draft archives & pulled it out. Here then, for your viewing...
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Ffolkes, “He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world.” ~~ E. R. Eddison, “The Worm Ouroboros” ~~ Neighborhood...
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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,...
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Ffolkes, “Food, sleep, fear, propagation; each is the common property of men with brutes. Virtue is really their additional distinction; devoid of virtue, they are equal with brutes.” ~~ The Hitopadesa...
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Ffolkes, “A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.” ~~ Oscar Wilde, “Oscariana” ~~ Shop Street, Invergordon, Scotland…. If you called me irresponsible, it wouldn’t be particularly...
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