A Miracle on Alameda Street….
Ffolkes, “The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” ~~ Eden Phillpotts ~~ Simen Johan ~ National Geographic ~ Peacocks Today’s title is somewhat...
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Ffolkes, “Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get.” ~~ Lazarus Long ~~ White Buffalo Calf Woman Image from Google Stock Images This one is going to be strange; there’s no way around it. I...
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Ffolkes, “All you need is love.” ~~ Lennon/McCartney ~~ Gratuitous image by gigoid As consciousness reluctantly returns, reality assumes its normal 3 AM look, a rather fuzzy, amorphous vision, darkly...
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Ffolkes, “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” ~~ Epictetus ~~ The International Space Station I’m so late getting up, this will never be posted on time;...
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Ffolkes, “Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.” ~~ Mark Twain ~~ No flies on gigoid. This is why. ‘Twill be sufficient unto the day to say this: Axiom # 2 is more right than...
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Ffolkes, “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.” ~~ Oscar Wilde ~~ Natural Symmetry In previous posts, for a long time, this intro would be quite long, as I thrashed...
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Ffolkes, “Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.” ~~ Plato ~~ Afternoon sun shines brightly through the pepper tree. Beauty strikes at will. ~~ gigoid ~~ Oh, no! Just when I thought I had...
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Ffolkes, “The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.” ~~ Cicero (B.C. 106-43) ~~ OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Site of Aristotle’s School, Mieza, Macedonia Image from...
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Ffolkes, “Mankind… The public enemy’s not the man who speaks his mind.” ~~ Anthrax ~~ Can you tell me when the next shuttle blasts off for Mars? This place is TOO crazy! Image from SFGATE.com Pictures...
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Ffolkes, I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There’s more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line. The less I seek...
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Ffolkes, “Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.” ~~ Amelia Burr ~~ Scenes from a train II…. Good morning…. To aid in the attempt to make that official, we’re diving right in,...
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Ffolkes, For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: “It might have been!” ~~ John Greenleaf Whittier, Maud Muller, st. 53 ~~ Sunset on Mars Image by NASA’s Curiosity Rover Good...
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Ffolkes, “If at first you doubt, doubt again, and again …” ~~ Smart Bee ~~ Dancing Ferryboats, Victoria Harbor, B.C. Good morning…. Or, actually, wait! I was wrong. The meter doesn’t read “good”...
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Ffolkes, “Das, was mich nicht tötet, macht mich fremde!” “That, which does not kill me, makes me stranger.” ~~ SB’s variation of Friedrich Nietzsche’s classic affirmation ~~ A cold morning at the...
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Ffolkes, “Do you believe in reason?” ~~ Smart Bee ~~ Pluto Image by NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft, on flyby of Pluto 7/14/2015 Good morning…. Gird your grids for a big one, ffolkes…. This one got away...
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Ffolkes, Our subjectivity Is a mirrored, Spiked casket. ~~ Deng Ming-Dao ~~ Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem Image from the UK Telegraph, 7/18/2015 Good morning…. In sooth, I really can’t tell whether the...
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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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Ffolkes, “Ward, I’m worried about the Beaver.” ~~ June Cleaver ~~ Foxy Stump Good morning…. Wait! Scratch that…. Reverse it…. Morning. Good…. I guess. Perhaps, if it hadn’t begun at 0133, my greeting...
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Ffolkes, “The more I learn, the less I know.” ~~ Smart Bee, stealing Truth from history ~~ Mars Colony Artist’s rendition by Ville Ericsson via Gizmodo.com Good morning…. Fabulous! What’s fabulous? Oh,...
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Ffolkes, “Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.” ~~ Cicero ~~ The Survivor Bonsai ~ 100+ years old, survived Hiroshima Atomic Blast Image from UK Telegraph on the...
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