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posted December 04, 2003 06:05 PM         

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Okay so here's my not so pro-forma introduction to the fray..I serendipitously stumbled upon this site the other day..and i gotta say i am just overwhelmed by all the variegation and projected glory. There is no way i'm going to injest all of it..but i am so enjoying sipping from these sacred estuaries of contemplation..walking into the anterooms of these shimmering soul cathedrals..Me personally, i've got a pretty simple faith..one that i am currently estranged from (ah the follies of my intransigent flesh)but still a pretty simple and clear path..to me at least. I've found that at least for me I've got to watch what I choose to lift up in my life..I can only injest so much at one time..and the constant head turning only serves to give me spiritual whiplash. But hey that's just me. Hit me up. Let me know what you think..or would that possibly constitute another round of attention defecit-itis of the soul again?...anywhooo...this is an initiating impulse for me..the inchoate yearning to know the heart of Peace, the heart of God..coming out of a truculent childhood and chaotic (and yeah me the architect of that prolonged pubescent, post pubescent chaos..) young adulthood..so..although I tend to see eternal truths everywhere..my perceptions ..they are not limited to the carraige of the western secular and spiritual/theological canon

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posted December 04, 2003 07:00 PM         

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My friends, I do not wield the brush as elegantly as Rembrandt, nor do I posess the blithe rhetorical virtuosic ease of say..Sir Willy with the Shakes, or any number of word wizards that span the ages..so without his brush, without the sages tongue..I unfurl these artifacts, these chaos bred and cauldron borne emblems of my not so remarkable experience..I stride the palmipests of my frailty, my open heart bleeding out loud upon the crenellations of the parchment page. So I am afraid there will be many malapropisms to come..seeker if you can sift through the ciruitous sprawl of my incontinant soul and find a few artifiacts, a few shining stones..then I hope you will not count it entirely futile in exhausting yourselves to seek out the few shimmering stalks..either way I would be gratified and humbled by your entirely serendipitous soulspray..whew! see what i said?..incontinance and circuitousness..Ah don't know of any udder way ta be..later

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posted December 04, 2003 07:43 PM         

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I've grown used to your unique stylings old friend! Welcome to Lindaland!

You are a light among light here, a rose among blooms and so well met and YEE HAW!

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posted December 04, 2003 08:41 PM         

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Welcome oldephebe

Um, whats a 'palmipests'

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posted December 05, 2003 12:16 AM         

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Hey daf - O prolific and profound One..thanx!

Juniperb - ..um i spelled it wrong..it's actually palimpest..just a pretentious word for parchment or tablet..very interesting quote..I've always believed the animals have been trying to share their primordial wisdom with us..and yet too many of us big brained bipedals will hear it..let alone listen to it..

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posted December 05, 2003 04:27 AM         

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Welcome, oldephebe.

You are certainly a curious one! Welcome to the club!

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posted December 05, 2003 11:46 AM         

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oldephebe, thanks for the definition. Even spelled right, I didn`t know what it ment

Glad you`re here and maybe I can learn something about shimmering stalks

Agreed, the four leggeds k-now the wisdom of the ages .... they sing a divine song that we two leggeds can`t even hum to.

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posted December 05, 2003 01:07 PM         

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Greetings oldephebe

Big Brained Bipedals!

You know, as soon as I read your 1st post I thought, "either this person already knows Daf or they're going to get along splendidly".

Looking forward to sifting through that "circuitous sprawl". I will keep my handy-dandy pocket dictionary withen arms reach.

Juniperp ~ you are so, so right. They remember things we have long since forgotton.

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posted December 05, 2003 01:13 PM         

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opps. withIn. I guess that dictionary isn't close enough after all. such a fool I was to sign up for that philosophy class instead of typing. I'll always regret it.

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posted December 05, 2003 06:39 PM         

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Ra - Do you mean curious as in ceaselessly questing for knowledge beyond oneself..or perhaps a more ambiguously, euphamistic kind of pejorative connotation..as in "That oldephebe..he is a strange bird." Either way
I recieve it with egoless indifferance. I ah just didn't want to erroneously attribute meaning and misinterpret your comment.

Tink - Thanx! Daf is a cosmos unto himself, I have been expanded by our interlocutory encounters. I wish I could say that I will try to pare down the prose..but, that'd be a lie. Clarity..brevity..the simple elegance of straight line geometry and all that..yeah and softly the scornful mouth awakes from it's repose..I suppose..I always feel naked without my layers of overt qualification, like if I were to stab straight into the heart of harrow and ache..I'd become undone.

Yes, the animals have much to share with us..much to teach us about our predatory natures, and about responding intuitively with that primordial wisdom to the progressions..the rhythyms of our planet.

Juniperb - Maybe I can learn something here about the promise that lies beyond the reach of our eyes and yet waits with love a hair's breadth from our hearts. Thankyou

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posted December 07, 2003 07:51 PM         

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Welcome oldephebe...totally groovy to have you here.

Oh, and I just noticed you're from the land of "Yunz guys," Pennsylvania. My home too.

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posted December 07, 2003 09:40 PM         

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"pare down the prose"! Never!! Would that everyone spoke more like you. The English language is so very rich and so terribly underused. I'm certain the Little Word Druids you are calling back into service are just tickled pink.

Keep it comin'
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posted December 08, 2003 01:12 AM         

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Right back at you Tink..

Tillian - heh heh Thanks a whole barrel of barnacled verbiage!

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posted December 08, 2003 01:14 AM         

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wait..Right back at your Trillian...

Tink - heh heh..Thanks a whole barrel full of barnacled verbiage.

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posted December 08, 2003 04:52 PM         

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*extends hand*

Fantabulous to meet you, friend.

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posted December 08, 2003 10:22 PM         

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Oldephebe, are you indeed a strange bird? Care to share any of your astrological make-up? What attracted you to Linda-land?

Rather than a strange bird I'm known as a curious cat, one who asks many questions. Don't be offended, it's a compliment.

Oh. Some people do see me as a strange bird. I don't mind. They still love me.

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posted December 09, 2003 01:18 AM         

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It is 7 am. On a cold late october morning in rural pa. The sod is as hard as granite. The ground is a white sheet of frost. I am thinking about Tillian's question and this is the only image that comes to mind. So I will leave it to you to draw your own conclusions w/r/t the whole curious thing. Feel like I'm sheathed in prophylactic right now. In the weeks to come my scrawl upon the wall will either intrigue you, infuriate you or make a pale colorless sound upon the pavements ear. I'm kinda in an indifferent mood this evening. What drew me to L-Land? It was an entirely serendipitous discovery. Astrology? To be honest.. at this point I'm still staring out at that rustic frozen field sheathed in frost. ...

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posted December 09, 2003 06:38 AM         

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I think we probably are all precieved as "Strange Birds"! hahaha

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posted December 09, 2003 09:12 AM         

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Annie, I think you are right, we have a menagerie of strange birds here. Love the little birdie!

"7 am...in an indifferent mood this evening..." I get it. You're enigmatic. Possibly quixotic. Or maybe that's just a psychic moment on my part. I had a similar frozen field outside my window this morning, it was quite lovely. I walked out in just my flannel pants and a t-shirt to smell the air at 6 a.m. and there were still stars twinkling.

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posted December 09, 2003 12:01 PM         

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Or perhaps astrologically, he is a moody, rustic field...sheathed in frost?

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posted December 09, 2003 01:30 PM         

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Sounds like a Scorpio, daf.

( I love Scorps...)

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posted December 09, 2003 05:16 PM         

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Sounds like the missus.

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posted December 09, 2003 05:17 PM         

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Bad daf.

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posted December 09, 2003 05:33 PM         

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Proxieme - A really ferociously mimed "Right back at Ya!" I'm sorry, that came out kinda sardonic..totally unwarranted..bleak rustic evocations and all..thankyou..and this time really right back at you sans the broad brittle smile, and the exclamation point and the eyes widened in fake exuberance.

AK - That's a really intriguing quote..really..and I'm being totally non-ironic and everything. I bring the last dregs of my sincerity you bring the profundity and wit.

Daf - Yeah, that's pretty much it..at least today..not that I know a hair's breadth about astrology though.. So here's the dreary dejeur:I like my peanut butter with the marmalaid of malaise. Yeah I'm shaped out of secrets too old, too ungentle to be spoken of now. (exasperated sigh)

Trill - psychic moment..yeah I'm quixotic and aspiring to be enigmatic..not a scorpio though. Liked the menagerie of strange birds line though..Wait..who said that..was it you or Prox or AK? Many, many moments of diffracted Blah. I'm in dire need of some glucose or caffeine. Now I'll go back to burnishing the walls of my cut out cave to corporate stratification with emblems of my completely conflicted ambivelence. There's a mist gathering in the corner that I've got to tend to after that.

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posted December 09, 2003 05:35 PM         

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I wish there was a way to excise that insipid

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