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“You have power over your mind...
Not outside events. Realize THIS!"
(so said Aurelius)
"And you will find new Strength!”

~RusHouR~

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Chocolate is exquisite__!
What a pity it isn't... Illegal?
~ Voltarie ~

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"Be not afraid of life!
Believe that life is worth living__
And your belief... will help create the fact."
~ Henry James ~
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Alas'il STING!

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"First you forget names__
Then you forget faces.
Next you forget to pull your zipper up__
And finally... you forget to pull it down!"
~ George Burns ~

Hydro-poni.clone

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Abash’d the devil stood:
And felt how awful goodness is and saw...
Virtue in her shape. "__ How lovely!"
Paradise Lost. ~ Book IV-l.846

Treasure's Bag:

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"Time occupies our full attention__ so blotting out Eternity?
The idea seems to be that our lives have been taken over:
So totally by invasive and pervasive communications technologies
- television, e-mail, cell phones and whatever -
That we are no longer able to engage...
In any kind of meaningful inner life." so saith ~ Gary Eberle.

(Enlarge to see the after storm's beachcomber.)

Ginger.blu roots

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Reverend Charles Kingsley once said:
"When I walk the fields, I am oppressed now and then
With an innate feeling that everything I see has a meaning:
If I could but understand it__
And this feeling of being surrounded by truths, which I cannot grasp
Amounts to indescribable awe__ sometimes?"

Pelican Bill

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"Transport of the mails,
Transport of the human voice,
Transport of flickering pictures,
In this century as in others... our highest accomplishments:
Still have the single aim of__ 'Bringing Men Together'".
Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~ 1944

Soltic's Profusion

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"It is clear to everyone:
That astronomy (at all events) compels the soul,
To look upwards and so draws our soul,
From the things of this world... to the Other!"

Fleur-de-Plea

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Einstein said: (picture Albert in his car)...
I think also: he did NOT know how to drive?

"Any man who can drive safely__

While kissing a pretty girl?

Is simply not giving the kiss__

The attention it deserves!"

Out.hOUSE flame

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"The happiness of your life depends:
Upon the quality of your thoughts!
Take care that you entertain NO notions__
Unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."

cLOSE cRITICOS

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To criticize is: (according to Henry James)

1. to appreciate,
2. to appropriate,
3. to take intellectual possession,
4. to establish in fine_ a relation with the criticized thing,
5. to make it... one's own!

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Metaphoric Vision:
The primary substance of the poetic imagination.
A metaphor is not merely a clever embellishment of the poet's truth.
It is often the only precise embodiment of that vision!
Nor is it a riddle to be solved or a semantic obstacle to be leapt over;
before the poem's meaning can be discovered?
It is in itself: a solution, a leap, a meaning, and a discovery!
~M. Haley, The Semeiosis of Poetic Metaphor~

ol'Flop Rosie

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"You are always new!

The last of your kisses__

Was ever the sweetest."

~John Keats~

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"Individuality is founded in feeling;

& The recesses of feelings!

The darker... blinder strata of character:

Are the only places in the world__

In which we catch real fact in the making;

& Directly perceive how events happen;

& How work is actually done!"

so said Bill James ~ Henry's younger Brother.

Manikin Ringed:

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"Each player must accept the cards life deals:
But once they are upon our hands,
We alone must decide... just how to play___?
In order to win the game!"

Sofa.bone

~mmE~

"Dreams are true while they last__
And do we not live in dreams?"
~Tennyson~

Gracious Wind's Rider

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The grandest of operations (both in nature and in grace)
are the most silent and imperceptible:
A shallow brook babbles in passage & is heard by every one;
yet the coming on of the seasons is silent and unseen!
A storm may rage and alarm but its fury is soon exhausted;
and its effects are partial and soon remedied!
The dew, though gentle and unheard, is immense in quantity;
so for the very life of large portions here on earth!
These are pictures of the operations of grace___,
in the church and in the SOUL. ~Richard Cecil~

Smokie Coal-Moon

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He ate and drank the precious Words,
His Spirit grew robust!
He knew no more that he was poor___,
Nor that his frame... was Dust.

#197 ~ / D O N E

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"All things appear and disappear because:
Of the concurrence... of causes and conditions!
Nothing ever exists entirely alone__
Everything is in relation to everything else!"