Recondite

abstruse - obscure - secret - deep

 A  L  O  H  A !

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Secret Places

A  L  O  H  A !

 " Such, such were the joys
When we all, girls and boys,
In our youth time were seen
On the Echoing Green ."

Blake

 “ All truly great thoughts

 are conceived

 while walking ”

 Friedrich Nietzsche

" Today was good. 

 Today was fun. 

Tomorrow is another one."
Dr. Seuss 

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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin
conducted an experiment 

with girls ages 7 to 12
in which they exposed the girls

 to the stress of speaking
to a group of strangers.
Afterward, a third of the girls

 were hugged by their mothers,
a third spoke to mom on the phone,
and a third 

watched a film.
While measured stress rose

 in the movie watchers,
the stress in both other groups
dropped equally.
"That a simple phone call
could have this 

physiological effect on oxytocin
is really exciting."
Co-investigator Seth Pollak 

told Scientific American.

Your visits make me feel

 wonderful,
and that's a scientific 

FACT!

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Lady Ambienta

A  L  O  H  A !

“ I believe in the imagination. 

What I cannot

 see

 is infinitely more

 important
than what I 

can see.”

Duane Michals

" Being alive 

is 

the meaning. "

  Joseph Campbell

" Irresponsibility

 is part of the pleasure

 of all art;
 it is the part 

the schools 

cannot recognize. "

James Joyce

  =^..^=   

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So I Wander

A  L  O  H  A !

Every moment,

every second,

so full of 

fullness,

questions, insight

musing,

drifting,

and visceral beauty-

No wonder

I get nothing

done.

The light of 

eternity

gilds all

like afternoon

Action

in this climate of

seems worse

than useless-

“The struggle itself towards the heights
 is enough to fill a man's heart.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
 Albert Camus

“ Few tasks are more like
the torture of Sisyphus
than housework, with its endless
 repetition:
the clean becomes soiled,
the soiled is made clean,
over and over,
day after day ”
 Simone de Beauvoir

Lovely couple!

the bickering

of intellectual

giants;

No wonder she founded

feminism.

So I wander

the halls of 

Blogdom

visiting so very

many

different places -

Finding comforts

of real companionship -

- true friends - 

whose voices

I never hear,

just your

hearts.

  =^..^= 

Your kind visit

 adds an irreplaceable

 element

 to my day: 

YOU!  

Thanks pal

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Noctilucent

A  L  O  H  A !

" A man travels the world over
 in search of what he needs
 and returns home
 to find it. "

George Moore

" Sometimes 

you have to play
 a long time
to be able to play
like yourself. "
  
 Miles Davis

" A Bird came down the Walk--
He did not know I saw--
He bit an Angleworm in halves "


Emily Dickinson

" When I'm sleeping

 I do a lot of 

living.  "

David Johansen

" We can destroy

 ourselves 

by cynicism

 and disillusion,

 just as effectively

 as by 

bombs. "

Kenneth Clark

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Barefoot on the Road Less Traveled

A  L  O  H  A !

 "  We inhabit ourselves 

without valuing ourselves,
unable to see

 that here, now,
 this very moment
is sacred;
 but once it's

 gone -
- its value is

 incontestable. "

Joyce Carol Oates

" Just cause you got 

the monkey off your back
doesn't mean the circus

 has left town. "

George Carlin

" People are like
 stained-glass windows.
 They sparkle and shine
 when the sun is out,
 but when the darkness sets in
their true beauty
 is revealed only
 if there is light
from within.  "

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

=^.^=

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Gift of Pessimism

A  L  O  H  A !

" To be always

 fortunate,
and to

 pass through life
 with a soul
 that has never

 known
sorrow,
 is to be 

ignorant
 of one half 

of nature. "

    Seneca

“ If you have

 a garden

 and a library,

 you have 

everything 

you need. ”

 

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Beautiful sunsets

 need 

Cloudy Skies. "

 Paulo Coelho

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Disclaimer:

Pessimism can poison

your entire life.

 

BUT

when you have come up

like I have:

expecting

- often receiving -

FAR from life's

 best;

When things have

been

very difficult,

and survival

 the paramount

virtue,

year

after year;

Well,

what other people

consider

"just normal stuff"

like hot water,

a place to cook,

great weather,

love & care

in place of

neglect

(and worse)

enough

to pay the bills

- that

 "normal stuff"

is received

with grateful

delight.

Nuclear war

didn't happen.

I didn't die

young.

I've been

happily married

for 25 years.

B I N G O !

Looks like winning

to me.

And to those

who had magical

childhoods,

who never really

feared,

lost a friend,

or went hungry:

You have my

 condolences.

And this parting

gift:

One day

YOU

will be

No More.

So take

a "get real"

pill

if you need to,

and stop worrying

about tomorrow.

You already

are a winner-

just collect,

and enjoy

Your Winnings!

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Yes Please! 

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