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Oddly enough, snakes HATE apples…
Ffolkes, Truth be told, getting up when I do to write these Pearls is becoming more of a chore than it ever has in the past….. While fighting the pre-coffee, pre-magic cream kick-in, and the lethargy...
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Doling out a measure of peace….
Ffolkes, Always be curmudgeonly. Don’t ever forgive. Go home infrequently. Just keep loose. Mostly, never opine. Pick quirky relatives. Stay tough underneath. Vote. Watch xenophobia, you zealot....
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Several times several is more than just a few….
Ffolkes, “Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.” — Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) This is a picture from NASA, of Galaxy NGC4258-M106 (translation: National Geographic...
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Some new bruising along the jaw….
Ffolkes, “As the saying is, I have got a wolf by the ears.” ~~ Terence (185-159 BC) ~~ Today’s opening pearl is perfectly descriptive of how I feel…. I just don’t have it today…. I thought,...
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Soliciting salsa for the homeless….
Ffolkes, “An Irishman is not drunk as long as he can hang onto a single blade of grass and not fall off the face of the earth.” ~~ Irish “wisdom” ~~ One might think I’d lost my mind, if there were...
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In my left ear, sir….
Ffolkes, Pearls should… Long, deep thoughts always bring truth to the eyes of man, and light into dark. ~~ gigoid ~~ Today’s Pearl will be, to some extent, similar to the above picture, in that,...
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Illuminating me softly with his bhang….
Ffolkes, “Ask of friends only what is honorable.” ~~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~~ (106-43 B.C.) I’d never do that….. in fact, I’m going to apply this sentiment to myself. The routine I have established...
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It was planted only yesterday…..
Ffolkes, “Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.” ~~ Aldous Huxley ~~ Reader’s Digest, 1956 Essentially, I am still an unskilled photographer; I’m never...
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Subtle as a slap in the face…..
Ffolkes, “Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.” ~~ Mark Twain ~~ I could not resist the picture; somehow, the hat gives the chicken a rather insouciant air, though the expression does show a...
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Dorothy, this is DEFINITELY not Kansas!….
Ffolkes, “A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles...
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Paltry remnants of boldly patterned briefs….
Ffolkes, “I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.” ~~ Seneca ~~ I obtained today’s picture on Space.com, from an article reporting the latest information regarding our...
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Eleventeen of one, twelve dozen of the other….
Ffolkes, “Brigadier, a straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting.” ~~ Doctor, The Time Warrior ~~ No, the picture has not been...
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Perhaps he’ll wait for the proper moment….
Ffolkes, “Whenever a thing changes and alters its nature, at that moment comes the death of what it was before.” ~~ Lucretius ~~ What you see above is a digital map, with colors added to provide...
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No more effective than a blank stare….
Ffolkes, “Safety is on the shore, but the pearl is in the ocean.” — Chinese Proverb Well, damn! That must be why I keep getting wet! Who knew? I did, of course…. but, since the pearl was about...
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Here, we hold Doubt to be sacred….
Ffolkes, “I see from your coat, my friend, you’re from the other side. There’s just one thing I’d like to know: Who won?” ~~ David Crosby ~~ This gorgeous picture is from Space.com, an artist’s...
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The myrmidons could be burlier….
Ffolkes, “To be “matter of fact” about the world is to blunder into fantasy…. and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.” — Robert A. Heinlein Aw, aren’t they cute? And...
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Turning, he calmly walked into the door….
Ffolkes, “Alexander [the Great] asked Diogenes if there was anything in the world he wanted. Diogenes, without looking up, replied: `Yes. Get out of my light.'” ~~ Plutarch ~~ No way, Jose…....
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Officer, that rhinoceros is winking at me!….
Ffolkes, “Earth has it’s boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.” ~~ Flaubert ~~ I’m thinking Mssr. Flaubert was in a bit of a stinky mood when he wrote the above aphorism…. It does have the...
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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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Born at sea, he gets nauseous on land….
Ffolkes, “I sometimes think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.” ~~ Oscar Wilde ~~ While I cannot fully agree with Oscar’s premise, as it is in opposition to a certain set...
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