My To Do List

 at the moment

walk Kaleb √, go to Mike's Bikes (rear basket, skewers) √, revise √/stationery √/print letter to CNRG√, credit, daily poem and 1440, write blog, check it 4p, exercise (body rok, jog, yoga, stretch, dumbbell, jumprope, tennis), meditate, music, trivia and research (WAG: wikipedia, Alexa, google), fix bird feeder√, buy mochi/Turkish delights√, Karen's oven √, buy velcro √/ water/ birdseed/ waffle iron√/ jelly beans √/ jumprope √/ frisbee/ mop√/ toilet seat√/ glue stick√/ scotch tape √, label breakers√, check email (case sensitivity) √, eat leftover sushi √, move car √, go to Napa (storage), read (Gabo, Lev, Neil, Terry, Pynchon, Wallace, J!), dentist √/ denti-cal/ psych/ glasses, etc.,  bfp (Berkeley food pantry) √, Calfresh, dmv, insurance, AAA, buy car parts, ATT √, meetup groups, GV/VS (Victoria's Secret and good vibrations),  ride the bus, open bank account, go to Cal library reading room, publish, flash drive, campanile, go to saree store, leather punch (tool lending library)√, indian rock...

$: Toaster, can-opener, waffle-iron, toilet seat, glue stick, Frisbee, Shirts, labels, mop, Birdseed, Gv, Vs, Wf, helmet light, leather punch, Italian restaurant...

Cal fun:

Morrison library reading room is open M-F 10a-5p

Tickets to women's gymnastics are $18, Haas Pavilion, 2p vs. Clemson, today (Su)... (but I was thinking the meet (match?) against Stanford on 2/7 (Friday) at 7p, might be more fun)

Campanile hours are 10-1, 3-5 on Sundays (10-4 M-F and 10-5 Sa).  Sather tower is 307 feet tall, with 38 stairs.   $5, payable by Apple Pay or credit card only.   Named after Jane K. Sather.   No relation to the candy.   Sather blather.

Plus some fun:

Bart train, Doe library, and of course Simpson (Marge, Sideshow Bob, Snake, God, Eddie the cop, Ned Flanders).     And Selma and Patty, to be Precise and Specific, like the S&P500.

wag:  Walgreens (stock ticker symbol), Wag! (dog walking, sitting), well and good, white and great, wikipedia alexa google, what a guy, writing a greeting, wash all greens, wit and games, walls and gates, work and gym, wives and girlfriends, widely attended gathering, wager a guess, wild-ass guess, will and grace, women's artistic gymnastics, weapons attack guide, woman Aggie, wise ass grin, wide/world area grid...

k:  jury duty, doc, car (parts, aaa, dmv, insurance), da (Douglas Adams), 1616, 1440, poem, Berkeley horticultural nursery, ..  E! : entertainment (coming up), ecstasy, ellen erin cummings...   LN, snakehead hooves, (ellen, lenore, helen, kelli) weird.

nursing nurse at the nursery (as pro-life as it gets?);   authentic author;   authentic goth chic/moth tick;  facetious face;  Jedi from Jeddah (Saudi Arabia);   witch whore from Norwich;  energy and empathy;  the barbarity and ruthlessness of Barbara and Ruth;  break the spell, eek the smell, speak and tell;  jury duty deejay is a Juris Doctor;  waffles on the beach in Sandy Eggo (lol);  loss Anne jealous?;  hibiscus biscuits; Tacos in Taos; gay can-opener; finding 'out' about homosexuals; about a bout;  abecedarian anointed bride of christ at the acme bread company; your choice of voices; the adoption option;  a possible loss; nutational wobble is NUTS! said Liz the dizzy physicist; dungeon dudgeon; pudgy from fudge; djinn bludgeons crips and bloods!;  bludgeon blood; blood-gin (getting drunk);  throw your head back and pass the salt and toss the salad!; stick a spike in your spine; take off your clothes and take off!; private investigator investigates your privates;  unstable unhealthy and unwell; objects stuff and things; I'm thinking the thing-king objectively objects!; objectionable objects: materialism (tear) is a grave matter; Spiro Agnew and Wanda Sykes and Solange Knowles are made of spirit and psyche and soul, but Matt is made of matter;  the death of your body and the death of your spirit, soul, psyche, anima, ghost, or whatever;  Cold lives, like Frosty the snowman?  The "heat death" of the universe;  Is absolute zero gravity funny?;  the parrish shall perish, like a pair of pears; cinema about a sinful evil wicked synagogue; buzz off and butt out;  cigarette buds and buddies;  general tso and colonel sanders and captain crunch and corporal punishment and lieutenant governor and private practice; a mug of hot cocoa on a wintry day on the bearskin rug by the fireplace in the study, stud; I ain't gunna use no gun.  bang!;  bang me at the bank, baby; ice cubes are hot;  a cup of hot tea would be cool;  my high school flame's account was frozen;  frosty's wife said, I'm burnin' for you, hot stuff;  fired with a cold steely stare;  chilled to the bone by the use of a blood-chilling flamethrower;  The Heat is a synonym of the polICE.   You can be full of shit and still tell the truth!   Full of piss and vinegar, vim and vigor.   Full of it.  Full of I.T., full of life, full of beans.   Fill it to the rim with brim.  Fill Phil with my fille Filipina (eat a daughter?!)/ Or, fill the fille with Phil!; get in bed (you mean get ON the bed?);  I said tear out the wall, not tear out your balls!;  ouch a couch! not the comfy chair!;  ow says cow; cows and crows and crowds and crowns and clowns and clouds and Clyde :-) ; yikes, there are no bikes for tikes at Mike's; SEWing is so sinful, evil, wicked;  dispelling witchcraft spells, like witchery butchery; a babbling blob of blubber; the conversion to conservation conversation;  are persons with dwarfism dwarves?;  pay for pie to pee?;  schizophrenics (all of us?) have their own privately-tailored interactive radio station(s) in their head (in other words, we all march to the beat of our own drummers, and hear talk shows, too);  Props to proper proportions in my coffee cup, cutie!  (grounds:water, milk:cup o' java, sugar:mug); water wattage;  the bum-bomb is bomb-ass;  explosive diarrhea and blowing up the room (flatulence in the flat);  talk to the hand, talk to the bomb;  tick talk and tik-tok;   suckers and bugs and just noise ("good" or "bad", sound and fury, signifying nothing);  insects are people too, just as "Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find himself transformed into a giant dung beetle" -The Metamorphosis, Kafka; smoke a roach and suck it;  Squirrel-girl and squeal like a rat (rat on);  Raton, New Mexico;  Teshara - anagram of 'he's a rat' (and also 'as earth', 'as heart', 'as hater');  hating rats and hating yourself?;  all life, on the same plan, TUBES;  alimentary canals, from mouth to anus, that reproduce (sometimes);  "I am but a worm" -both Jesu and The Kurgan (in the movie Highlander); You are what you eat less excrete, so fish eat worms; All sentient beings seek pleasure (like food and sex), avoid pain (everything from discontent to torture): the brotherhood of man; humans are animals, like rats, or elk and their ilk, sometimes beastly, sometimes dove-ish;  Ingest, in jest, in Jess T :-)

deodorize your toilet with bleach - baking soda- rock salt - and x (white vinegar? no, rubbing alcohol). -k  

is all witchcraft done by witches?  is all evil demonic, and done by demons?  is all virtue of God?  Is absolutely everything neutral?   It is what it is?  

not listening doesn't care not responding.        (you are boring / trivial, I am doing something important/ interesting.    Or you're annoying, and I'm ignoring.   Maybe I'm even punishing you.)

introverted, more comfortable working alone, can interact and communicate well tho!  (to be great is to be miss understood)

evil wickedness sin corruption assault brutality barbarity cruelty turpitude vice crime bullying depravity corruption rottenness torment torture witchcraft theft murder rape lying cheating rudeness violence unkindness meanness viciousness savagery spite malice anger hatred rage wrath fury ire pain agony suffering misery anguish despair hopelessness depression

devil demonic depraved death destruction disease decay despair depression disaster darkness dire division dickheads dipshits dimwits and dorks, danger dizzy dumb.....dour.   (WC WC WC:   WC Fields doing witchcraft in a water closet!  The working class using Wilson Combat firearms.  Debussy?)

Reasons to Have a Bank Account:    1. Safety!  don't carry around a ton of money;   2. Security!  a. banks are insured / b. won't get stolen, one less thing to worry about, no money in your room;  3. Checks!  paper checks are convenient;   4. Electronic Transfers!   a. Zelle or cash-app/ b. between banks/ c. Atm cards - convenience and everyday purchases;  5. Checking and Savings accounts - good to squirrel away money for future needs in Savings;  6. Loans - banks offer lots of services;  7. Credit- credit cards and paying your bills to create trust (with a bank!) that you can capitalize on;  8. RECORDS - going back, as well as: Current Balance and Budgeting and Bookkeeping, so you know what you have and can spend and need;   9. Employment - Direct Deposits and taxes; 10.  You earn interest!; 11. For HOUSING.

old school beauty and fashion, retro styling, classic sensibility, and vintage aesthetics

seer, sister christian, anointed bride of christ, daughter of god, vessel-body, high holy priestess, mother of the eternal, beyond a god in heaven, already in heaven, a member of the heavenly host, "in my heaven."

heaven is a state of bliss (anywhere).   Or, some dimension, some plane of existence, some dream-world.   Where God lives.   The (shared) mind of couples in love.    Astral plane?  Paradise, California?  Hell, Norway?  Home is where the heart is.  Heaven vs. Hell vs. Earth - it's all Earth! (unless you're an astronaut).  The "heavens" (more than one blissful experience, more than one person in bliss, more than one happy place).  Which side of the predator-prey equation are you on?  If you're a sadist, a dungeon could be heavenly, not just Disneyland.  "Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens" - Talking Heads.   Heaven is not being in hell.   Some say it's all in your head, it's an attitude, it's pleasure, or it's space (the "heavens").  I say heaven, as conventionally understood, is wishful-thinking delusion, because eternal bliss is impossible (no-one lives forever), space is a dark cold boring vast hellhole, and souls don't even exist in the first place.  So enjoy life and make it heavenly.   Appreciate the one life you've got / been given.  One man's hell is another's heaven.  Live in your own heaven!   Make your head a fun place to be.  Stay out of hell.   Torment, torture, torah, and torque?  Anyway, nothing lasts forever.   Hell is a wishful-thinking delusion, too.  But sure as hell, pain and suffering exist, and things CAN get worse.   I don't think anybody should be fantasizing about hell (for anyone).   Wish the world well, and karma spits back good vibes, good will, good times.   Amen.  (but the concept of hell serves its purpose).

Some may never live, but the crazy never die - Hunter S. Thompson

why are people 5150'd and medicated?   because they're different, and "need" to conform (they have weird behavior, strange beliefs, unusual appearance, or abnormal ideation);  because it's a crazy world; because they're a danger to self or others (or perceived as threatening);  or, they are sick, i.e. mentally ill (that is to say, psychotic (having psychosis), which is hallucinations and/or delusions (is everybody crazy?).   Hallucinations are false perceptions, and delusions are false beliefs.   So not in touch with Reality.  "reality".   Some think everything is true.   the Bible states only God is good, and that God is love, and also love believes all things.   SO...

different systems:  "beast-system: (predator and prey?  Nature red in tooth and claw?) and in-love (in God).    Devouring meat and making love.   Same system.   Sister system.   STEM, space time energy matter / science technology engineering math.    brain stem.   (does the devil say we're living in God's cartoon?  animated by virtue!) anima, soul.   Your soul is whatever animates you??  okay, I believe.

Speaking of Reality.   Is Time forever?  Is existence itself eternal?   Is the good book telling us to believe any and all and each and every assertion ever made?? (!) If life is a game, is happiness zero-sum?  If there is the Good Life, is there also a Better Life, or a Best Life?   Who has lived the best life possible?  Blippy? lol.

I ain't gonna use no double negative, two wrongs don't make a right, redundant repetitive pleonasm, evil and wicked, sin and crime, all eternity, now and forever (it's always now), forever and always, forever and ever, the heavens and the universe.

"Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I'm gonna eat some worms" -kid song.  (well, we're all wormfood; the worms are going to eat you, too).  her-bivores and his-bivores!  carnivores eat cars.  America is Erica.  Now she only eats guitars! get up!  gooey tar, baby.  devil lived, and dog god and rat tar.   snake snack.  a mouse in the house.   eat my seat, Pete.   I'd rather eat meat, or wheat.   chow on a chow-chow.  a fluffer.  eucharistic dogmeat.   you a christ. dogma.  catma.  a catholic dog.  a dogmatic cat.  a holy hologram.  a wicked candle.  an unholy goal.  blessed bliss.  sacred ache.  seeking sick psych for sex sake?   happy hippies and miserable misers and depressed journalists and overjoyed Rover!   rhyme time.   rhyme crime?  murdering birds and killing bill and the cannibal that ate Gates.   I'm rhyme!  De-husk Musk!  There is happiness in authenticity.   But also, medication, if necessary.

Best way to spend money for happiness?  Save the world (warming, pollution, sickness - planetary survival).   Save individuals (homeless, starving, diseased and dying).   Save yourself (variety, food and drugs, humor, love, your body, entertainment, service, hobby/passion).   Look within, and love life.  Do what you gotta do, and do what you want, and do what you should.   

Supreme Being is Somebody is (any) Sentient Being (we All want good);   everything is interconnected, and all in all is all we are, and, as Dr. Bronner likes to say, All-1!    (unified system, shared planet, ecosystem, United Nations, goods money services people diseases, one world is enough for all of us), humankind and kindness and community and communion and one giant corporate entity, like an ant colony, with shared mind and goals.

God has furious anger of righteous judgment, visiting vengeance upon thee, oh wicked Babylon!  (Babylon is a place devoted to materialism and sensual pleasure); the mind, the spiritual, the internal, you could say is as or more important to Happiness as things.   Evil sinners (criminals) go to jail and prison.   People who deserve punishment but get away with it?  THEY receive eternal hellfire judgment.    Sometimes the punishment is worse than the crime.  And therefore a type of crime, itself.  Sometimes crimes are forgiven or understood or turned a blind eye to, because they are just(ice).   Sometimes psy war is all you can do.  

life is messy; so maybe disorganized thought and speech is therefore rational.   I think you need to clean up the mess in your head, myself.  Says the spotted hyena with the spotless mind, according to Messy Jesse.  Zombies like word salad and brain stew.   Chuy + Stu eating Wendy + Jack.   You can't dance the polka without wearing polka-dots?   lol, they are unrelated, except for the fact they were both popular at the same time.   Ahmed?  Medicate, meditate, and a trip to the Mediterranean!

Smarties and Sharpies

candy and pens, (the penitentiary is mightier than the lord?)

immature, insecure, and impure;     an essay on solutions and answers (SA);  question your quest;  science does three things: Describe, Predict, and Explain;  in the pee queue (pq);   a dogwood is named after 'dogs' which means skewers made from the wood, used by butchers, (nothing to do with man's best friend, despite trees having "bark");  winning or whining?;  she's quiet private and internal;  footing the bill and kicking Bill's ass;   the Vulcan Hulk;  Lon's lawn;  rats and cats and snap traps;  yearnin' and burnin' for Vernon;  bikin' for bacon;  fungi and punji sticks and fungo bats;  archipelago grant;   kewpie dolls (qp) and questions/problems;  Katrina collects Navajo kachina dolls;  a dollop of sour cream and a screaming doll;  Dagwood (deputy attorney general and secondary xylem) and Blondie (heart of glass, rapture);  Cute hirsute and destitute;  Stevie Wonder, Axl Rose, and the Serpent (slimy, slithery, and sibilant);  graffiti from Fiji;  Playing with your Toyotas;  Knights who say Nissan;  Scallions scallops and so-called So Cal;  a moorish blessing (where bless is moor);  Trent Reznor likes tresor;  Don't let me down / don't let me go/ don't let me! ;  Gay queer weird freakish unusual and unnatural;  Armando's armada;  Spirits and spurts at the meat market;  Smuggling and snuggling;  Juggling bugs for muggles; (Doug, Kerri Strugg is on your rug, and needs a hug, so glug chug-a-lug her jugs or she'll be ugh!);  Atlee finds his atlas at last;  unwell under an umbrella;  willed to be well against a wall;  Crazy Josie says, I made mead, and I'm as mad as mud (wet and dirty);  Stolid and stupid, dimwit dipshit;  the sexual prowess process;  insects wear six socks; an airhead who blows your brains out;  a blockhead with a thick skull who bashes your brains in with a brick;  a squealer in squalor;  AK assassin killer and M16 murderer of six teens;  the kraken has a crick in its neck;  licked by luck and a lack of locks;  prelude and salud (spanish for health) and quaaludes (so lewd);  speed bumps on methamphetamine and heroin; croak creek and pine pond;  I like Leak Lake, Luke;  the high society upper-crust of the elite aristocratic illuminati;  TEA,  Taking advantage of Exploiting Abusing;  COFFEE, raising money to pay for the cost (fee) for a coffin;   Running around to earn money to pay for the gas and car you run around in;   Buddha's body under the bodhi tree.

a yucca tree can be arboreal or a bush - and can be pronounced yuck-uh or you-kuh (spanish/español)

if your power goes out, leave the breakers alone, says one source on internet.   Also, if you overload a circuit, and a breaker flips, and you lose (partial) power, then only flip individual breakers if you suspect a specific circuit is causing the outage;  (unnecessary flipping of breakers can be damaging and is not recommended).  So only flip necessary breakers. 

12 full moons, one a month, each with its own name (one a month, on average; sometimes there are more than 12 in a year, because the calendar year is not perfectly aligned with the moon cycle):   January (Wolf moon), February (Snow moon), March (Worm moon), April (Pink moon), May (Flower moon), June (Strawberry moon), July (Buck moon), August (Sturgeon moon), September (Corn/Harvest moon), October (Hunter moon), November (Beaver moon), December (Cold moon).

warm worms, punky pink/ punky monks, flower power, slobbery strawberry, bike for bucks, surgeon performing surgery on sturgeon, runt stunt, beaver with fever, I told the golden oldie about boldly removing the mold, but he coldly just said something about being sold folded gold. 

I can't grasp the complexity of a single mind, much less the mass psychology of millions!  (but you can treat the microcosm as a macrocosm, an individual as the entire global society).    Endearment, affection, love, compatibility, attraction, pleasure, enjoyment, respect, gratitude, appreciation, trust, awe, satisfaction, fun, play...   Positivity, kindness, compassion, mutuality, synergy, sharing, shared interests, smiles, laughter, birds of a feather.    Sex, massage, intimacy, touch, ecstasy, bliss, rapture.   Goodness, sacredness, holiness, virtue.    Commitment, hard work, effort, discipline, focus, clarity, curiosity, engagement.

cops need submission, deference, and respect (vs. hostility, confrontation, and disobedient, noncompliant, uncooperative recalcitrance)....  but you can say, excuse my French, fuck that, and be froward, recusant, insubordinate, pertinacious, contumacious, and refractory!  you subversive renegade!   fight the power!  (but cops are people too, and they have bad days, and you don't know what they've just been through).

a chip on your shoulder vs. CHIPS (California highway patrol), a chip off the old block, the paint chip, chips and salsa, fish and chips, chip shot / cheap shot, and chipper chipmunks.

Dalai Lama quotes

from my page-a-day calendar (filtered and processed by Yours Truly)

selfish altruism, be a friend to have a friend;  justice, equality, and nonviolence; anger bad (deceptive); critical thinking good (reflect on dharma, make it your own); all sentient beings have commonality, and share things like desire for happiness and aversion to pain; basic goal: alleviate suffering and promote well-being (decrease misery, increase bliss); your country and your home are where the friends and love are; this small blue dot is all we got (earth is our shared little home); cultivate kindness, self-awareness, and self-discipline; emotional problems are temporary, superficial, and removable/fixable; prayer can be helpful, strengthening, and cause good feelings; dukkha and discontent are not always solved by the superficial pursuit of happiness; love and kindness need not be religious values, merely human values of goodness, virtue, and wellness;  peace and harmony, the absence of anger and violence, the presence of respect and compassion, exists within and between people, animals, and the environment; warmheartedness is both exterior actions and interior motivation; meditation transforms your mind, and with your mental qualities, your attitude and your life; injustice and repression are counteracted by the forces of freedom, democracy, and moderation;  true friends are forever, sharing closeness and intimacy despite changes and fluctuating fortunes; rational decision-making and proper judgment requires composure and not losing your temper, so don't become impatient or mad with anger; share what you've learned, one person can truly make a difference and be effective; we are not necessarily better than insects (humans, for example, have Guile-Deception); channel your mind and focus; criticize yourself, not others (look within); the best relationship has love exceeding need (for "each other"); inner peace, tranquility, and calmness effect personal (and social) happiness, equanimity in the face of external problems;  loving-kindness and care, affection, warmth - good, really good; we are all brothers and sisters, the oneness of humanity is not merely conceptual: people are the same in fundamental, basic ways - e.g. we all suffer; global education and training should teach us to have courage and be unafraid, and to use reason and analysis against destructive emotions like fear and suspicion that stem from self-centeredness; everyone needs love; be cool, calm, composed, and collected; be contemplative and content; jealousy is lousy; acceptance, tolerance, forgiveness, mercy, and compassion!; do not be deluded and embrace truth, science, facts, and reality; think less about yourself and more about others, to be happier; take helpful, meaningful actions and effort to make a better world and serve self and society; honesty, truthfulness, and self-confidence; attachment to things you are not willing to part with leads to suffering and should ideally be wished to be eventually given away...; friendship :-);  responsibility, sincerity, example, engagement, simplicity, patience, human welfare, cooperation, merit, faith and devotion, hope, trust, community, listening, generosity, humility, integrity, pleasant, beauty, vs. ignorance, exploitation, discrimination, bigotry, disrespect, resentment, deceit, humiliation, loneliness, conflict; the human right to happiness; we are all interdependent; vigorous, prosperous, skillful; ways and means to contentment, joy, happiness, bliss; love kindness compassion vs. anger hatred rage wrath fury spite malice revenge; self-actualization of already-existing internal wisdom: Enlightenment; all life can be perceived as a friend; mutual support and compassion (sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings and misfortunes of others) is reasonable; small is big (change yourself to change the world); life is a mix of failure and achievement; thoughts, words, and actions can be negative or positive, and are karmic (you get back what you give); the mind is most alert and clear in the morning; renunciation is non-attachment to the things of the world (not separation from it); all sentient beings can be perceived as equals - and the best of friends!; your brain and heart can be your temple, your religion/philosophy, kindness; no matter what language we speak, we all recognize and appreciate a smile; just as there is physical hygiene, there is also emotional hygiene (love and affection, not anger);  compassion goes beyond empathy as an active striving to free others from suffering; humanity should be humane;  Nirvana is freedom, liberation, cessation of dukkha, dissatisfaction, discontent, pain, agony, suffering, torment, misery, anguish, despair, ire, spite, malice, hostility, persecution, unwholesome patterns; The Ending of rebirth is the end of identification with/attachment to all ideas, thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions; hardship is an opportunity to learn and grow; gratitude is the most important quality to have toward your day; respect comes from both intelligence/knowledge and gentle kind altruism and compassion; don't care what others think (if you have self-respect, and are doing the right thing); marriages, even the best ones -perhaps especially the best ones- are an ongoing process of spoken and unspoken forgiveness; goodness, freedom, and happiness are linked; prayer, though tangibly psychologically beneficial, is no match for the achievements of science; contentment and satisfaction with what you have is a good state of mind to be in; meditation changes "thought-habits"; why be unhappy about something if it can be remedied?   And what is the use of being unhappy if it cannot be remedied?; bravery, courage, strength, righteousness, determination, and risk; every day is your birthday: every day is a new opportunity to begin again; (dare to) share and care; "know that just as the waves of the ocean are made of water, thoughts are made of the luminous, knowing nature of the mind"; meditation, reflection, and contemplation;  poverty and inequality, whether abject squalor or uncomfortable comparison, can be a source of discontent; disparity is a problem of dignity; (un)happiness depends on attitudes, perspectives, and reactions; we all have vulnerability; today's enemy may become tomorrow's friend; bdsm (buddha dharma sangha, mm); spiritual progress is potentially limitless; nature, the environment, conservation, stewardship, respect for life; seeking virtue and charity without reward; you can transplant a heart but you can't transplant a kind heart; the enemy is within (like pride); meet need (help happiness happen!); head and heart must be in balance; have a strong ego to be constructively of service to help all beings, without being egotistical; pursue noble goals without regret;  there are many many mysteries: science explains Reality only partially; leadership influences causes and conditions (of, say, conflict); disturbance and retaliation are your choice; bodhisattvas do not cherish self over others; if you are content you are truly rich, while a discontented billionaire remains unhappy; your perspective and meaning you give to things changes how you feel;  ideals and goals and objectives to strive for are important; use wealth well for welfare; challenges and tragedies can be opportunities to find your inner strength; peace starts with all of us, not just appointed or elected leaders; an open heart feels more pain but also more joy; buddhists strive to uproot the causes of suffering; sadists, the bloodthirsty, troublemakers are met with values (not necessarily academic education);  the causes and conditions (for suffering, or bliss) may be recent or ancient; obsession about getting or avoiding what you want or don't is a recipe for misery; we're all equal (self-importance is delusional) - that is to say, we're all equally (un)important; the antidote to a scattered mind is meditation; stability, focus, joy, wisdom, clarity, gentle abiding;  CIA: compassion in action (creative innovative ability) (closeness intimacy affection) (clinging ignorance aversion);  concentration, discipline, ethics, impermanence, emptiness;  it's not about mantras and rituals (it's about teachings, discipline, and practice);  laughter, humor, jokes, satire, comedy, fun, play, games, smiles - light hearted enlightenment :-) ; faith is not blind (faith say, in human nature, or the persistence of life to find a way); "sleep is the best meditation" (champion meditator?); confrontation and condemnation can heat up a situation and become explosive, whereas harmony comes from respect and cool heads; good qualities usually come in conjunction with other people;  willpower, effort, discipline, commitment, hard work;  knowledge, wisdom, understanding; optimism feels better; trust and friendship vs. anger, judgment, separation, loneliness, and alienation; future and past lives?;  gratitude to society and all the faceless individuals providing goods and services; buddhas, bodhisattvas, teachers, gurus, masters, and mentors; all beings have Buddha-Nature (the seed or potential for perfection); doubt, discouragement, self-hatred, hesitation are unwholesome and dangerous; "your enemy is your best friend"; silence is sometimes the best answer; accurate insights, not distortions; "learn the rules so you know how to break them properly"; endearment toward lovers, friends, neutrals, and even enemies; not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of luck; focus on gratitude over hassles; individual happiness is a component of greater social progress; the past is memory and the future imagination.  

JC

(52 of 'em) Jesus Christ in Junior College,  just chilling

Julius Caesar, James Cook, John Carpenter, James Cameron, Jay Cutler, Jimmy Carter, Juan Carlos I, Jackie Chan, Jack Clark, Jose Canseco, Jim Carrey, John Cena, Johnny Carson, John Candy, John Cusack, Jim Croce, Joe Cocker, Johnny Cash, Jose Carreras, Jesse Camp... 

Just curious, just checking, just chatting

Judeo-Christian, Jedi Council, Job Corps, Judicial Custody, just cause, jinn cryptid

Jersey City, Jose Cuervo, Jimmy Choo, J. Crew, jheri curl, Jim Crow,  Jenny Craig, Jed Clampett, John Connor, Joe Chill, Jesse Custer, Joe Camel, Joe Cool (Snoopy).

J-Cool, J. Cole, Jim Costa, Jim Clyburn, Jackie "cougar" crow, Jean-Claude Calegari

The JCV (JC virus: John Cunningham Virus) is usually harmless, but can be fatal.

I see

 IC said the blind man

What's the difference between an Idea and a Concept?

Eye Sea, aqueous humour, haha

An idea is a basic, often vague, thought or mental impression, while a "concept" is a more developed and structured understanding of an idea, usually involving a more well-defined set of characteristics and relationships, making it a more concrete representation of something;  essentially, an idea is an initial spark, while a concept is the refined version that has been more carefully thought out and developed.

-google

idea from intuition, inspiration;  concept from analysis (CIA?  conceptual idea analysis!)

funny humours and liquidity:  blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile (a laugh riot);  a "liquid" asset can be turned to cash easily (like blood donations?  sperm donations? water and wine/ oil and coke/ perfume and cologne/ etc. ).  I know, I know.    A liquid asset doesn't have to be a liquid.   It can be a solid or gas, lol.    

speaking of witch-

ex, why do eye see you pee?  oh gee, Jay, Idunno.  (xyicup? ogj..)

Geo rhymes

 For Starters

Hong Kong, San Fran, Mai Lai (sing sing and walla walla)

Managua Nicaragua, Afghan in Japan (afghanese in japanistan?)

Sparta and Jakarta, Cuba and Aruba, Boston and Austin, Romania and Tasmania, Alaska and Nebraska, Algeria and Nigeria, Indianapolis and Annapolis

black swan in Kazakhstan, collie in Bali

turn 80 in Haiti, Allah in Guatemala, atomic bomb in Vietnam, lemon in Yemen, canoe in Peru

in control in Seoul

Career Path Musings

 Things I Enjoy and am Good At

dog walking

helper, conversationalist, to old folks or the blind, and the like: summarize the news, share dictionary words, read the poem of the day, teach origami, do/lead in exercises, ask/read/research trivia questions, research any topic at all, yoga (I have 4 books of it)...   ND POETRY (News/ Dictionary/ Poetry/ Origami/ Exercises/ Trivia/ Research/ Yoga).

fitness and masd (teach exercises and martial arts/self-defense), one on one

writer, published

read aloud (recordings)

user interviews (side-hustle)

Nature hike leader (research fauna and flora)

play with kids (teacher, sitter)

researcher (write books, essays)

teach spanish

(physical therapist, walk dogs together, yoga and stretches and exercises, look good (model?)). (I can organize rooms and papers and do budgets like crazy).   I like to just toss a frisbee around.  

 I want to have a hobby as a blogger (different blog than this) of day-by-day history and news (starting I guess 1/01/2026), drawing on the daily news, this day in history (history channel book/wikipedia page), the grim reaper's book of days, the day's poem (poetry foundation), and my page-a-day calendar.

Like everybody else, I like sex, sleep, reading, eating, exercise, music, and meditation... plus writing and research.   (read the same book together (aloud?), and discuss)

About Humanity

Bipedal Monkeys who Talk

 Humans are animals.  Naked apes.   Our scientific name is homo sapiens sapiens.   This means 'wise man'.     Homo means 'man', not gay.   Homo means 'same', also.   Man is from latin, and same is from greek (different roots).  We are the only species of homo now living.   There were 8 other (now non-existent) species living along side us 300,000 years ago (homo neanderthalensis, homo erectus, homo heidelbergensis, homo floresiansis, homo naledi, homo rhodensiensus, homo luzonensis, and The Denisovans).  The Smithsonian recognizes at least 21 species of homo (human).   There's a rudolfensis, for example.   Everybody is derived/evolved from Australopithecus.   You can buy a 'bone clone' (osteological reproduction) of an Australopithecus skull ('Lucy'), I saw, online, for $336.   The cradle of all humanity is scientifically understood to be in Africa.   So we're all Africans.   Even the whites.   (In fact, modern Africans include whites, such as the South Africans).   There's also N. African Arabs as well as the melting pot situations of the many immigrants into Africa, too.   The motto of the African Union is in fact, "U.S.A."  (A United and Strong Africa).   The etymology of the word 'Africa/Afrika' by the way, is Afru-ika (egyptian for 'motherland'), aphrike (greek for 'without cold'), and aprica (latin for 'sunny').   Afrique is the French, if you wanna get freaky :-)

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Book Topics:

  Vampires

  God

  Heaven and Hell

  Good and Bad, Virtue and Evil

  Poetry and Wordplay

  Stories

  Essays

  Money and The Good Life

EVERYTHING

Little Stories

 How did the oceans get salty?   The whales wailed, and filled the seas with their tears.  Big as a wail.    Although the Blue Oyster Cult says it was the oysters.  People say a whale of a time and as happy as a clam, but they have feelings and are multidimensional.  I'm skeptical of the clam claim.  The weeping willows dripped into the streams, which emptied into the rivers, and then the ocean, of course.  But mostly the cries of the animals being eaten and hunted and slaughtered and dying have filled the air with the rain clouds that have poured down upon the earth and seas, providing us all with water to drink and a place for fish!

Why is the sky blue? The sky is blue because God has blue eyes and the water from his tears are blue, and the blue iris flower sprouted from the drops of his tears, when he mourned and cried over the death of His water-daughter, Keli Jean of Heaven, and drank Skyy vodka to drown His sorrows, and his weeping and anguish inundated the earth and seas and skies, leaving the world stained blue.

Why is the world round?  The world is round because the Goddess likes music, and She has a large record collection, and She wanted a planet to keep it all on, so She decided her planet should be a gigantic spinning record, full of music to fill the air, vibrant with song and tunes and dance and singing and clapping and merry-making, night and day.   The Goddess wanted to be the belle of the ball, so she made her planet a huge giant orb, with a Song Dynasty and everything happening in concert.

Why are people mean?  People are mean because people are animals, and come from the trees, and everything in Nature is connected.  We have pets, and dogs chase cats and bark at other dogs, cats toy with mice, and mice eat insects.   Humans are carnivores, and we are at the top of the food chain.   Dominance and power come with cruelty and force, and the humans who rule are often the beasts who are most cruel.  Our hundreds of thousands of years of history have made dominating societies conquer other, less brutal ones, with guns and steel.  People are full of spite, hatreds, resentment, and malice for personal and historical perceived injustices, real and imagined.  God has inflicted terrible fates, such as disease and famine and war, upon civilized and mostly harmless peoples.   Life is unfair.   People want blood.   People need justice and revenge and payback.  People are mean because of culture, chemicals, traumas, and triggers.  Life is a shit-show, full of ignorance and incompetence and misery and poverty and suffering and sadness and grief.  If people are mean to you, it is difficult for you not to be mean to others.  It is self-perpetuating.  You have an evil wolf inside of you that devours everyone, and you have a gentle lamb, too... which one takes over your personality?  answer: the one you feed!  When all of Nature is eating each other, the real question is why are some people kind? 

Why do dogs have tails?  So they can wag, of course!  But why do they wag?   They can't talk!   And dogs are notoriously flatulent!   They need to scatter their farts around, so their owners won't kick them out, and so other dogs far and wide can smell their brethren, which is their way of communicating, along with pee-mail, and duping the stupid puppies with goopy poop.   Woop woop!   It throws them for a loop.   Poop is like rupees to Snoopy!  But farts are the finest smell in the dog kingdom, and wagging spreads the love, spreads the joy, and spreads the gas.   The next time your dog wags, he's diminishing his scent for you, and scattering his odor to the ends of the earth to stay in touch (in smell, you could say) with his or her dog-buddies, whose sense of smell far surpASSes ours.   Dogs without tails have the finest farts, and its concentrated essence is sublime.   Remember, to a dog, farts are like perfume!   Poop is like a fine piece of art.    And pee is the nectar of the gods, splattered down from on high!  Woof!

I had a vision in prison, while dizzy and diseased, that Christ is risen!, said Liz from the mizzenmast (but Liz in prison is risible).   A pacing person with passion was pissin' poison in prison.

Does the Bible apply to everyone?   No,  child.   It's whatever you believe.  Nothing applies to anyone!   The world is chock-full of spells, and some people believe some things, and others others.    Why do people believe what they believe?   It's whatever sticks!   There are libraries full of ideas, and some are stickier than others.    It's a big, messy, sticky world!!   You can write your own bible :-).  the Bible says only God is good, God is love, and love believes all things.   That's one crazy spell, no?!

Why do we eat pigs but have dogs as pets?  Well, son, pigs, while intelligent and clean, are basically too delicious not to eat.   If humans tasted like pigs, the whole world would be cannibals, and everyone would be busy eating each other.  Dogs, on the other hand, are ideal pets, who guard and defend, play and give us exercise, snuggle and keep us warm, perform tricks and entertain, and are, as they say, man's best friends.  And they taste like shit.  

Why is the moon sometimes big and sometimes little, waxing and waning?  Sometimes the Moon is a circle and sometimes a crescent because, as everyone knows, the Moon is made of cheese, and God loves cheese, so he takes bites out of the moon every month.   This ball of cheese is like a beach ball, and God inflates it back up every time he gets hungry.   The Moon is like a cheese soufflé that puffs up and gets eaten, every so often.   Why are there so few astronauts going to the moon?  The cheese industry has a lock on aerospace, and keeps a tight lid on the secret of the vast planet of delicious cheese lurking in our sky.   If the secret got out, the whole world would be feasting on cheap delicious godly cheese, and your supermarket cheese section would become completely unprofitable.   If you love cheese, become an astronaut!   But tell no one, or the cheese goons will come get you!

God's will is inscrutable.   Do you really believe the universe is orchestrated by a loving God?   That everything makes sense?   Or is life unfair, random, unkind, and even meaningless?   Or....does God want life to be meaningless?!?  Different lives are radically divergent, and everyone plays the hands they are dealt.   Life is beautiful.   Life is a shit-show.   Life is a beautiful shit-show.   Amen.

Why are there colors?  Actually, there are no colors.  Everything is purple.   Human eyes are weird, and our big brains turn every shade of purple into what we call the rainbow (or the box of crayola crayons).    Black is purple.  White is non-purple.   What is purple?   Purple! 

Personal Rhymes, done Right

 If you want something done right, do it yourself  - Napoleon Bonaparte.  Well, I guess I'm doing Everything, then...   dominate everybody and submit to no one?  well, no, not exactly.   Put it all out there, and let the universe take care of the rest.   I'm a Teshara that shares.  Not a guy with guile, like Kyle, smile.  State my case, explain my values, and let Reality rearrange, with whatever sticks! 

In heaven, the bread is leavened (unless you like un-), and at Kelli's deli they have free jelly-bellies!   Kelli's cellie Nelly, however, was helly with zealous smelly yelling!  (In the cell-hell of prison, zealous Nelly exclaimed, "Christ is Risen!", but this was intolerable hollering, recalled Kelli, who preferred silent solitude with a telly, to a yelly and smelly cellie named Nelly).

(Unlike Bess, Hess, and Tess) Dressy Jesse, who can be messy, (JessT if you jest), passes tests and all the rest, because "JessT has zest in his quest (to be/for) the best!"  Jess confesses stress from obsessing about -guess- this infestation (yes) of incest, and other things, like, I guess, being a lessee, or Plessy vs. Ferguson, or fleshy and vests (and vestments and investments).   The essence of Jesse is press lessons about  blessings taken from this western cesspool of a mess that we all must address, yes?

The Teshara-era and Harrah's (car collection) and (Ethiopian) injera and a pair a' rare Teshara's and verities about where-uh (a lair?) they care and scare and dare and faire and do their hair and Nair and use aloe vera.  Tesharas share about Yogi Berra and Cher and Kara and Farrah and Larry and Mare and Sara(h) and Tara.  : "The pair of Teshara's ate injera, and then used nair on their hair where they wanted to be bare, because they care and want to scare the demonic bears, and enjoy the state faire, if they dare, or truth! (veritably)."

Brainstorming, mind mapping, and prewriting!  Boo-ya!

SFR (spirit-fogging/rapture);  (Instrument of, tool for) Forebearer of people crossing into the light of heaven, to be at the feet of Jesus (in God's/His presence).

The spiritual authority to manage Hell, and the status of "Beyond a God in Heaven"

My mom likes Charter Club and Laura Ashley nightgowns.

The Veronica's "You Ruin Me"   was written by someone I know.

I won tickets to see Anus-Chewer (lol)

trust-frustration

candy treats are "Sweedli-deets!"

IDA likes Information, Data, and Answers

Mom and Pop like Mambas and Popsicles