image link Fandango’s Provocative Question #2 is: “What do you think is more useful: intelligence or wisdom, and why do you feel that way?” Intelligence and wisdom are human attributes. One is fixed (unchanging) and one is dynamic (changing) . From my view, intelligence is a fixed, or unchanging aspect, much like eye or hair color;…
Month: November 2018
Guilty
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. ~Jonathan Swift, A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind, 1707 * Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels;…
One Liner Wednesday — It’s Time
It’s time to give up the sham of Christopher Columbus “discovering” America and Thanksgiving being a holiday to celebrate (invaders coming to paradise and taking over), and instead use it as a time to gather with loved ones — not required to be biological family! — and give thanks for enjoying this thing called life….
Temple of Desire
image link Dverse topic of the night is desire and sexuality and our personal views on it. If you haven’t checked out the exceptional poetry going on over at dverse, hightail it over there by clicking on the link! here lies fleshly temple living archive within which are held sensory etchings intertwined orientations…
The Tale of the Owls and the Wee Folk
image link Once upon a time, in the days of mighty trees and nights of magical forests, the owls chose to live among humans. I’m here to tell the tale of how that came to be. At one point, owls were solely the servants of the Wee Folk, transporting them to their own frolickings, especially…
Military Mushrooms
image link These rings or semi-circular arcs show up in the lawn with regularity, but usually in the back yard. This fall a sizeable bough from one of the willows fell and laid there for a month or so. It was finally cut into pieces and hauled away, but it left behind what the photo…
A beautiful shambles
image link The haphazard way she put the fan back on the box of kindling caused it to crash to the floor and bend. The haphazard way she threw the pieces of kindling together and lit it guaranteed it wouldn’t continue to burn. The haphazard way she stacked the wood in the pile caused it…
Tao Talk 