Thu 30 Aug 2012
Lord have mercy
Posted by PJ under beauty, men, pictures, sex
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Rudolph Valentino at the shore. Pass me my fan.
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Thu 30 Aug 2012
Personification
Posted by PJ under evil, fiction, good, writing
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Random quote of the day:
“Nothing is so beautiful and wonderful, nothing is so continually fresh and surprising, so full of sweet and perpetual ecstasy, as the good. No desert is so dreary, monotonous, and boring as evil. This is the truth about authentic good and evil. With fictional good and evil it is the other way round. Fictional good is boring and flat, while fictional evil is varied and intriguing, attractive, profound, and full of charm.”
—Simone Weil, Morality and Literature
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Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Wed 29 Aug 2012
The second random quote of the day
Posted by PJ under dogs, quote of the day, sacredness
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Random quote of the day:
“Outside the sacred temple, a dog is pissing to the skies.”
—Zen saying
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Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Wed 29 Aug 2012
The first random quote of the day
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, science, skepticism, spirituality, wonder
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Random quote of the day:
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“The spirit [is] the pattern of information of which we are made—our genes, proteins, memories, and personalities. In this sense, spirituality is the quest to know the place of our spirit within the deep time of evolution and the deep space of the cosmos. Although there are many paths to spirituality, I believe that science gives us the deepest possible sense of grandeur and wonder about our place in time and space.”
—Michael Shermer, “The Value of Skepticism: Is Skepticism a Negative or a Positive for Science and Humanity?â€
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Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Tue 28 Aug 2012
God’s eye view
Posted by PJ under conscious and subconscious, gods, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“A God forms our subjective visions so that we see the world according to its ideas.”
—James Hillman, Revisioning Psychology
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Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Mon 27 Aug 2012
Unknown
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, unknown
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Random quote of the day:
“It’s in the unknown that we live and breathe and move, all the time pretending it’s the known.”
—Deepak Chopra, Iconoclasts
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Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Thu 23 Aug 2012
This morning morning’s minion*
Posted by PJ under my poetry, poetry
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Fresh off the brain this morning:
Poetry is a dance with fans that scarcely covers your nakedness.
Poetry is an inverted dance, spinning on the top of your head.
Poetry is a one-legged dance, balancing on the end of a peg.
Poetry is a dance of wholeness, never fragments of movement.
Poetry is a tumbling dance, made up as you go.
Poetry is an evasive dance, never long pinned down in one spot.
*The Windhover, Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Thu 23 Aug 2012
Wholeness
Posted by PJ under health, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
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“Heal yourself first before you heal others.”
—African proverb
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Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Wed 22 Aug 2012
The thousand names of ___
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, the universe
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Random quote of the day:
“The unnameable is the eternally real.”
—Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching, No. 1, tr. Stephen Mitchell
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Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Tue 21 Aug 2012
Observations
Posted by PJ under character, darkness, observations, politics
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 2 Aug
I’ve fallen out of love. It can’t be helped. Time and distance will do that.
 3 Aug
Sometimes it is important to know when not to be a smart ass. I’ll let you know when I’ve learned that lesson.
4 Aug
If you have to hold the hem of your skirt as you walk to keep it from riding up over your ass it’s too short. Some of the men might disagree.
5 Aug
Sometimes people who yell the loudest about injustice are the ones who don’t think the rules apply to them.
6 Aug
Bought a ceramic hand jewelry stand, something I’ve wanted since I was a teenager. I realized a second later I got it mostly for that teenager.
9 Aug
Saw a crew card with “Blind Decker” posted in Venice earlier in the week. I’d swear I saw one just like it posted last year (season?). I don’t watch the show so don’t know if he repeatedly goes blind or if it’s a continuation, but it was posted in the same exact neighborhood.
11 Aug
Dear Paul Ryan: The law of nature is kill or be killed, eat or be eaten. I guess I know which side of that law you’re on. Thems that gots.
13 Aug
There’s a world of difference between thinking up dark things to do to your characters and understanding the dark.
19 Aug
It’s tough when you Know Everything and someone comes along who knows a little more and calls your bluff.
21 Aug
I never thought I’d be this person. Life catches you unawares.
21 Aug
She considers herself a good Christian, espouses Christian values with great passion and eloquence. Yet when she gets judgmental and gossipy (which is frequent) her body gets tight and twitchy, unable to stay quiet, her voice constricted and strained, as if her spirit, her better angels, and her mind are waging a fierce struggle with each other.
