Certain doubt, or, doubtful certainty?….
Ffolkes, “I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together!” ~~ (The Beatles) I Am The Walrus ~~ A well-earned rest…. Hajime…. Apparently, the muse responsible for stimulating my creativity...
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Ffolkes, “If it’s a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.” ~~ Kahlil Gibran, 1923 ~~ Bougainvillea blooming…. Hajime…. I made it. The holiday is past,...
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Ffolkes, “True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.” ~~ Lord Halifax (1633-1695) ~~ Willamette River, Oregon Scenes from a train…. Hajime…. Living in today’s complex world...
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Ffolkes, “People do not lack strength, they lack will.” ~~ Victor Hugo ~~ No way you’re leaving without me…. Hajime…. There are days here at ECR when the process by which the Pearls you see posted can...
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Ffolkes, “The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray.” ~~ Robert Green Ingersoll ~~ Spring in full bloom…. Hajime…. In the past six years, or so, I have spent many hours contemplating...
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Ffolkes, “And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” ~~ Erica Jong ~~ Winter vines, Sonoma Valley, California Hajime…. As the old man sat, pondering how to begin, his resident...
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Ffolkes, “Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.” ~~ Albert Camus ~~ Sleeping Gaia…. Can you see her?…. Hajime…. Words flow, at times, like a melodic brook falling softly down a forest...
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Ffolkes, “In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.” ~~ Rachel Carson ~~ Off for a sail on the Bay…. Hajime…. Without going into...
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Ffolkes, “If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?” ~~ Epictetus, Discourses,...
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Ffolkes, “Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too self-ful to seek other than itself.” ~~ Kahlil Gibran ~~ 221 B Baker Street, London…. As may or may...
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