Here and Now...What's Happening?

[Jenci]

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)
“Animal Spirit Guides,” by: Steven D. Farmer, PhD. - (particle list)

If CAT shows up, it means:

- This is a period where self-sufficiency and trust in your own capabilities is necessary.
- Honor your sensuality by dancing slowly, with graceful and easy movements, and by enjoying touch and physical intimacy.
- Listen closely to your intuitive guidance, as it’s most likely an ancestor who’s one of your spirit guides trying to communicate with you.
- This is a period of magic and mystery for you, so pay attention to signs and omens that will guide and direct you.
- Whatever you’ve released - relationships, material goods, self-defeating habits - will soon be replaced with something or someone entirely roe suitable for you are presently.

Call on CAT when:

- You feel so wrapped up in someone else’s life that you’re not sure where you begin and the other ends.
- You’re in an intense period of self-reflection, exploring some new dimension of yourself.
- You’ve been working much too hard, and it’s time to play.

If CAT is your POWER ANIMAL:

- You’re introspective and listen to your own internal guidance more than others’ advice.
- You’re independent, sometimes to the point of doing exactly the opposite of what others expect or want you to do.
- Your most creative work is done at night.
Y- ou move gracefully and naturally, exuding a mysterious sensuality.
- At times you come across as rather self-absorbed, seeming oblivious to those around you.

L.
P’er

PS Use what fits & assists and chuck the rest.

I think I have been adopted by a local cat. It keeps turning up in the back garden. Sometimes it is sitting outside the front of the house. It comes up to me when I am in the garden although I have to shut the back door so it does not go indoors.......and I have told it that it can't go indoors

The other week I heard a noise in the front room. I went in and the cat was hanging up at the window trying to crawl in. Quite how it got up there I don't know but it must have been some jump !


It (I think it is a she) actually reminds me of one of my dogs who has passed......or it could be two of them. Hmmm.......


Jeanette

[Marianne]

Oh my dears ... I love you all so much. Meeradas, I have a leaf from your book, weepy today at all this beauty ... these connections.

Sierra, so happy you and David got 'fuzzy badness.' I read somewhere that the vibrations of cat purrs (in person) are healing to humans. It must be true, else why would we always be picking up the cat and trying to get him/her to purr?

Yesterday afternoon as Emily and I tried to motivate ourselves out of the chairs to go inside, a hummingbird buzzed around. I never saw it, they're so quick ... but I know the sound well. Like a mosquito on steroids, deep bass buzzing. WCBD, I loved your descriptions of what it means, it's perfect.

Also love your fav juice drink, sounds just yummy. Hurom juicer, awesome. I didn't know you could process an avocado? Do you extract juice then blend it with avocado in the blender?

VS and Carmody, love to see your posts. Auracaria, welcome. One, remember to breathe ...

Ulli, someday ...

And love to all,
Marianne

[PurpleLama]

I personally am of the opinion that a cat's purr is an inbuilt device for human mind control.

[araucaria]

To remember the difference between the two terms, a pleonasm is saying 'tautologically the same thing' (James Joyce). Borges gives examples of oxymorons in his story 'The Zahir': contradictions in terms like 'black sun'. ANd he describes as an oxymoron the situation where he comes away from a dear friend who has just died and then picks up a bad penny (the Zahir of the title). Read that story and you'll never forget the word again.

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by Sierra (here)
Darn! How could I forget! After we adopted our babies, we went to Petco to stock up on supplies. We stopped by Barnes and Noble for a bite, and I wandered over to SciFi and Fantasy (teen) and opened ONE book ... ONE book ... that turned out to be about Project MONTAUK! Hah! I did not dare peruse, I'm sure my brain would have gone kabluie and bam, trying to reconcile the truth of Montauk as spoken of by a teen age female protagonist heroine. (Did I just say an oxymoron?)

Eating out at Barnes & Noble, that's a new one on me, although I've devoured a few books myself in my time
Don't know about an oxymoron (teenage heroine?), but there was definitely a pleonasm or two in there...

pleonasm - This reminds me of another reason of why Project Avalon is good for me. Vocabulary words. Thank God, there's a dictionary with this computer. And spell checker...

Barnes & Noble I use to live there. Lots of my retirement money was redirected into mind power. And my dirty little secret? I use to read books for free and hide the current read on the bottom shelf of the little used section. I rationalize that I purchased several books a month and drank lots of expensive coffee while I was there. Which made me a really, really, really good speed reader. Ha!

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Funny synchronicity Araucaria, I just got through reading this in my email, from the "World Wide Words E-Magazine:

"2. Weird Words: Perissology
I come to this word in the hope that the piece you are about to read won’t be an example of it. Perissology means using more words than necessary to explain one’s meaning, a pleonasm. Since perissology is three letters longer than pleonasm but means the same, you may argue it’s an example of the related habit of using long words when shorter ones will do.
The word comes to us from the post-classical Latin of the fourth or fifth century AD. Romans of classical times knew it as a Greek word, perissologia, which came from perissos, beyond the usual number or size, redundant, superfluous. The prefix perisso- is known in two other very uncommon English words: perissosyllabic, a line of verse that has more syllables than normal, and perissodactyl, a grazing mammal with hooves made up of an odd number of toes, which sounds obscure but is a characteristic of horses as well as tapirs and rhinoceroses. Its opposite is artiodactyl, having an even number of toes, which refers to mammals such as pigs, deer, goats and cattle.
Perissology came into English at the end of the sixteenth century but was never anything more than an obscure literary word. In recent centuries it has mainly been exploited for humorous effect.
His inscience of avitous justicements, and of lexicology, his perissology and battology, imparted to his tractation of his cause, an imperspicuity which rendered it immomentous to the jurator audients.
Letters to Squire Pedant, by Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, 1856. This described a lawyer pleading his case. It says that his knowledge of old judgements and the nature of words, plus his unnecessary repetition, made his case so obscure the jury decided it was unimportant. Battology is another word for perissology; hair-splitting scholars find a distinction between battology, perissology and pleonasm, but we may let that pass us by."

Posted by araucaria (here)
To remember the difference between the two terms, a pleonasm is saying 'tautologically the same thing' (James Joyce). Borges gives examples of oxymorons in his story 'The Zahir': contradictions in terms like 'black sun'. ANd he describes as an oxymoron the situation where he comes away from a dear friend who has just died and then picks up a bad penny (the Zahir of the title). Read that story and you'll never forget the word again.

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by Sierra (here)
Darn! How could I forget! After we adopted our babies, we went to Petco to stock up on supplies. We stopped by Barnes and Noble for a bite, and I wandered over to SciFi and Fantasy (teen) and opened ONE book ... ONE book ... that turned out to be about Project MONTAUK! Hah! I did not dare peruse, I'm sure my brain would have gone kabluie and bam, trying to reconcile the truth of Montauk as spoken of by a teen age female protagonist heroine. (Did I just say an oxymoron?)

Eating out at Barnes & Noble, that's a new one on me, although I've devoured a few books myself in my time
Don't know about an oxymoron (teenage heroine?), but there was definitely a pleonasm or two in there...

pleonasm - This reminds me of another reason of why Project Avalon is good for me. Vocabulary words. Thank God, there's a dictionary with this computer. And spell checker...

Barnes & Noble I use to live there. Lots of my retirement money was redirected into mind power. And my dirty little secret? I use to read books for free and hide the current read on the bottom shelf of the little used section. I rationalize that I purchased several books a month and drank lots of expensive coffee while I was there. Which made me a really, really, really good speed reader. Ha!

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Jenci (here)
I think I have been adopted by a local cat. It keeps turning up in the back garden. Sometimes it is sitting outside the front of the house. It comes up to me when I am in the garden although I have to shut the back door so it does not go indoors.......and I have told it that it can't go indoors

The other week I heard a noise in the front room. I went in and the cat was hanging up at the window trying to crawl in. Quite how it got up there I don't know but it must have been some jump !

It (I think it is a she) actually reminds me of one of my dogs who has passed......or it could be two of them. Hmmm.......

Jeanette

It (I think it is a she) actually reminds me of one of my dogs who has passed......or it could be two of them. Hmmm.......

I vote...new puppy. Please see here.

Quite how it got up there I don't know but it must have been some jump !

The answer is in the name: Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NzlG28B-R8Y

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NzlG28B-R8Y

I've had way, way, way too much coffee. Going for a walk. I suspect it will be a speed walk. Downloaded, "Toss the Feathers," by The Corrs. They and Jonathan Livingston Seagull's music asked to come along. Oh, one more, the theme to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Marianne (here)
Oh my dears ... I love you all so much. Meeradas, I have a leaf from your book, weepy today at all this beauty ... these connections.

Sierra, so happy you and David got 'fuzzy badness.' I read somewhere that the vibrations of cat purrs (in person) are healing to humans. It must be true, else why would we always be picking up the cat and trying to get him/her to purr?

Yesterday afternoon as Emily and I tried to motivate ourselves out of the chairs to go inside, a hummingbird buzzed around. I never saw it, they're so quick ... but I know the sound well. Like a mosquito on steroids, deep bass buzzing. WCBD, I loved your descriptions of what it means, it's perfect.

Also love your fav juice drink, sounds just yummy. Hurom juicer, awesome. I didn't know you could process an avocado? Do you extract juice then blend it with avocado in the blender?

VS and Carmody, love to see your posts. Auracaria, welcome. One, remember to breathe ...

Ulli, someday ...

And love to all,
Marianne

I didn't know you could process an avocado? Do you extract juice then blend it with avocado in the blender?

You add the peeled and chunked avocado in with the rest a little at a time. The key with dryer items, you change it up with wetter ones. It makes for a creamy texture. I also soaked "Irish-Style Oatmeal" for another drink that had mostly fruits which made it creamy, too.

There's also a recipe that you soak almonds for 8 hours and add vanilla and maple syrup or honey for almond milk. I tossed in walnuts to soak too. They were calling me. I ended up eating them all.

Note to self: soak almonds and walnuts; shop for vanilla because I'm sure the other bottle has evaporated by now.

[PurpleLama]

Hmmm, my speech, not my writing, is quite often emblematic of perissology. Frequently, my response to the glazed over expression of others is to explain what I have said repeatedly, using different words to convey the same point, until even the glazed expression on the face of my victim takes on a particular, shall I say, wilted quality.

[Sierra]

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by Sierra (here)

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by Sierra (here)
Darn! How could I forget! After we adopted our babies, we went to Petco to stock up on supplies. We stopped by Barnes and Noble for a bite, and I wandered over to SciFi and Fantasy (teen) and opened ONE book ... ONE book ... that turned out to be about Project MONTAUK! Hah! I did not dare peruse, I'm sure my brain would have gone kabluie and bam, trying to reconcile the truth of Montauk as spoken of by a teen age female protagonist heroine. (Did I just say an oxymoron?)

Eating out at Barnes & Noble, that's a new one on me, although I've devoured a few books myself in my time
Don't know about an oxymoron (teenage heroine?), but there was definitely a pleonasm or two in there...

Protagonist heroine! (All the Barnes and Noble I've been to have a latte/sweets/quiche/sandwich deli with tables ...)

That's a pleonasm. And female heroine is another
My female bookshop is usually Amazon and they never serve more than an email even with a book on food

omg, I did TWO! Ack! I'm wordy I'm wordy!

Yeah, I buy most of my books on Amazon too, and they never feed me ... humph.

[ulli]

Posted by Jenci (here)

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)
“Animal Spirit Guides,” by: Steven D. Farmer, PhD. - (particle list)

If CAT shows up, it means:

- This is a period where self-sufficiency and trust in your own capabilities is necessary.
- Honor your sensuality by dancing slowly, with graceful and easy movements, and by enjoying touch and physical intimacy.
- Listen closely to your intuitive guidance, as it’s most likely an ancestor who’s one of your spirit guides trying to communicate with you.
- This is a period of magic and mystery for you, so pay attention to signs and omens that will guide and direct you.
- Whatever you’ve released - relationships, material goods, self-defeating habits - will soon be replaced with something or someone entirely roe suitable for you are presently.

Call on CAT when:

- You feel so wrapped up in someone else’s life that you’re not sure where you begin and the other ends.
- You’re in an intense period of self-reflection, exploring some new dimension of yourself.
- You’ve been working much too hard, and it’s time to play.

If CAT is your POWER ANIMAL:

- You’re introspective and listen to your own internal guidance more than others’ advice.
- You’re independent, sometimes to the point of doing exactly the opposite of what others expect or want you to do.
- Your most creative work is done at night.
Y- ou move gracefully and naturally, exuding a mysterious sensuality.
- At times you come across as rather self-absorbed, seeming oblivious to those around you.

L.
P’er

PS Use what fits & assists and chuck the rest.

I think I have been adopted by a local cat. It keeps turning up in the back garden. Sometimes it is sitting outside the front of the house. It comes up to me when I am in the garden although I have to shut the back door so it does not go indoors.......and I have told it that it can't go indoors

The other week I heard a noise in the front room. I went in and the cat was hanging up at the window trying to crawl in. Quite how it got up there I don't know but it must have been some jump !


It (I think it is a she) actually reminds me of one of my dogs who has passed......or it could be two of them. Hmmm.......


Jeanette

Time to open the front door. When cats decide to crash the party nothing can keep them out.
Right, PurpleLama?
I predict that everyone in your household will be dancing on the tables soon, including Kitty, and have a ball.

[araucaria]

Posted by Playdo of Ataraxas (here)
Funny synchronicity Araucaria, I just got through reading this in my email, from the "World Wide Words E-Magazine:

"2. Weird Words: Perissology
I come to this word in the hope that the piece you are about to read won’t be an example of it. Perissology means using more words than necessary to explain one’s meaning, a pleonasm. Since perissology is three letters longer than pleonasm but means the same, you may argue it’s an example of the related habit of using long words when shorter ones will do.
The word comes to us from the post-classical Latin of the fourth or fifth century AD. Romans of classical times knew it as a Greek word, perissologia, which came from perissos, beyond the usual number or size, redundant, superfluous. The prefix perisso- is known in two other very uncommon English words: perissosyllabic, a line of verse that has more syllables than normal, and perissodactyl, a grazing mammal with hooves made up of an odd number of toes, which sounds obscure but is a characteristic of horses as well as tapirs and rhinoceroses. Its opposite is artiodactyl, having an even number of toes, which refers to mammals such as pigs, deer, goats and cattle.
Perissology came into English at the end of the sixteenth century but was never anything more than an obscure literary word. In recent centuries it has mainly been exploited for humorous effect.
His inscience of avitous justicements, and of lexicology, his perissology and battology, imparted to his tractation of his cause, an imperspicuity which rendered it immomentous to the jurator audients.
Letters to Squire Pedant, by Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, 1856. This described a lawyer pleading his case. It says that his knowledge of old judgements and the nature of words, plus his unnecessary repetition, made his case so obscure the jury decided it was unimportant. Battology is another word for perissology; hair-splitting scholars find a distinction between battology, perissology and pleonasm, but we may let that pass us by."

Posted by araucaria (here)
To remember the difference between the two terms, a pleonasm is saying 'tautologically the same thing' (James Joyce). Borges gives examples of oxymorons in his story 'The Zahir': contradictions in terms like 'black sun'. ANd he describes as an oxymoron the situation where he comes away from a dear friend who has just died and then picks up a bad penny (the Zahir of the title). Read that story and you'll never forget the word again.

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by Sierra (here)
Darn! How could I forget! After we adopted our babies, we went to Petco to stock up on supplies. We stopped by Barnes and Noble for a bite, and I wandered over to SciFi and Fantasy (teen) and opened ONE book ... ONE book ... that turned out to be about Project MONTAUK! Hah! I did not dare peruse, I'm sure my brain would have gone kabluie and bam, trying to reconcile the truth of Montauk as spoken of by a teen age female protagonist heroine. (Did I just say an oxymoron?)

Eating out at Barnes & Noble, that's a new one on me, although I've devoured a few books myself in my time
Don't know about an oxymoron (teenage heroine?), but there was definitely a pleonasm or two in there...

pleonasm - This reminds me of another reason of why Project Avalon is good for me. Vocabulary words. Thank God, there's a dictionary with this computer. And spell checker...

Barnes & Noble I use to live there. Lots of my retirement money was redirected into mind power. And my dirty little secret? I use to read books for free and hide the current read on the bottom shelf of the little used section. I rationalize that I purchased several books a month and drank lots of expensive coffee while I was there. Which made me a really, really, really good speed reader. Ha!

Thanks for that Playdo. Lawyer's logorrhea (which means exactly what you think it means!) came from their written briefs being paid by the word, so the more the merrier, which naturally led to increasing levels of abstruseness as well as in-depth analysis. One legal case I was indirectly involved with took the search for legal precedent all the way back to the 15th century...

Of course this is a far cry from poetry. In French we have the saying 'Entre deux maux choisir le moindre' meaning choose the lesser of two evils. The poet Valéry writes 'mots' (words) instead of 'maux' (evils), so his poetic principle is to choose the smaller of two words. Which is pretty neat because he gets two mottoes for the price of one.

[Sierra]

Posted by PurpleLama (here)
Hmmm, my speech, not my writing, is quite often emblematic of perissology. Frequently, my response to the glazed over expression of others is to explain what I have said repeatedly, using different words to convey the same point, until even the glazed expression on the face of my victim takes on a particular, shall I say, wilted quality.

I've experienced that ...

When I was working, programmers would come up to me and ask me a question only they would put SEVERE LIMITS on how I could answer them, before I could answer them. (I swear, they thought I was throwing books at them). (Moi? How dare they ...)

[ulli]

Posted by PurpleLama (here)
Hmmm, my speech, not my writing, is quite often emblematic of perissology. Frequently, my response to the glazed over expression of others is to explain what I have said repeatedly, using different words to convey the same point, until even the glazed expression on the face of my victim takes on a particular, shall I say, wilted quality.

I find that perissology attracts glazey-eyed people anyway,
nothing to do with my verbal diarrhea.
Same way as it does spongy-eared people.

The universe withholds the ones who are like me,
so as to spare the world from tipping over.

If I have to attend a seminar where someone else is in front and is giving a discourse holding a microphone in their hands
I get an uncontrollable urge to grab it from them and take the center stage.

I have to expend so much energy on self control that I can never remember afterwards what they were talking about.
Been working on that by not attending seminars...oh well....

[Sierra]

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)

Posted by Sierra (here)
Chirp chirp is here, and while we were conversing a humming bird came and hovered next to Chirp chirp who proceeded to chirp even more madly at me lol.

Love, Sierra

HOW does one get three hummingbirds to hand?

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Sierra (here)

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)

Posted by Sierra (here)
Chirp chirp is here, and while we were conversing a humming bird came and hovered next to Chirp chirp who proceeded to chirp even more madly at me lol.

Love, Sierra

HOW does one get three hummingbirds to hand?

Photoshop? Boy, if that happened to me, I'd know I've reach where I'm intending to go.
Though, I believe there are people who have that unique gift.

[ulli]

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by Playdo of Ataraxas (here)
Funny synchronicity Araucaria, I just got through reading this in my email, from the "World Wide Words E-Magazine:

"2. Weird Words: Perissology
I come to this word in the hope that the piece you are about to read won’t be an example of it. Perissology means using more words than necessary to explain one’s meaning, a pleonasm. Since perissology is three letters longer than pleonasm but means the same, you may argue it’s an example of the related habit of using long words when shorter ones will do.
The word comes to us from the post-classical Latin of the fourth or fifth century AD. Romans of classical times knew it as a Greek word, perissologia, which came from perissos, beyond the usual number or size, redundant, superfluous. The prefix perisso- is known in two other very uncommon English words: perissosyllabic, a line of verse that has more syllables than normal, and perissodactyl, a grazing mammal with hooves made up of an odd number of toes, which sounds obscure but is a characteristic of horses as well as tapirs and rhinoceroses. Its opposite is artiodactyl, having an even number of toes, which refers to mammals such as pigs, deer, goats and cattle.
Perissology came into English at the end of the sixteenth century but was never anything more than an obscure literary word. In recent centuries it has mainly been exploited for humorous effect.
His inscience of avitous justicements, and of lexicology, his perissology and battology, imparted to his tractation of his cause, an imperspicuity which rendered it immomentous to the jurator audients.
Letters to Squire Pedant, by Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, 1856. This described a lawyer pleading his case. It says that his knowledge of old judgements and the nature of words, plus his unnecessary repetition, made his case so obscure the jury decided it was unimportant. Battology is another word for perissology; hair-splitting scholars find a distinction between battology, perissology and pleonasm, but we may let that pass us by."

Posted by araucaria (here)
To remember the difference between the two terms, a pleonasm is saying 'tautologically the same thing' (James Joyce). Borges gives examples of oxymorons in his story 'The Zahir': contradictions in terms like 'black sun'. ANd he describes as an oxymoron the situation where he comes away from a dear friend who has just died and then picks up a bad penny (the Zahir of the title). Read that story and you'll never forget the word again.

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by Sierra (here)
Darn! How could I forget! After we adopted our babies, we went to Petco to stock up on supplies. We stopped by Barnes and Noble for a bite, and I wandered over to SciFi and Fantasy (teen) and opened ONE book ... ONE book ... that turned out to be about Project MONTAUK! Hah! I did not dare peruse, I'm sure my brain would have gone kabluie and bam, trying to reconcile the truth of Montauk as spoken of by a teen age female protagonist heroine. (Did I just say an oxymoron?)

Eating out at Barnes & Noble, that's a new one on me, although I've devoured a few books myself in my time
Don't know about an oxymoron (teenage heroine?), but there was definitely a pleonasm or two in there...

pleonasm - This reminds me of another reason of why Project Avalon is good for me. Vocabulary words. Thank God, there's a dictionary with this computer. And spell checker...

Barnes & Noble I use to live there. Lots of my retirement money was redirected into mind power. And my dirty little secret? I use to read books for free and hide the current read on the bottom shelf of the little used section. I rationalize that I purchased several books a month and drank lots of expensive coffee while I was there. Which made me a really, really, really good speed reader. Ha!

Thanks for that Playdo. Lawyer's logorrhea (which means exactly what you think it means!) came from their written briefs being paid by the word, so the more the merrier, which naturally led to increasing levels of abstruseness as well as in-depth analysis. One legal case I was indirectly involved with took the search for legal precedent all the way back to the 15th century...

Of course this is a far cry from poetry. In French we have the saying 'Entre deux maux choisir le moindre' meaning choose the lesser of two evils. The poet Valéry writes 'mots' (words) instead of 'maux' (evils), so his poetic principle is to choose the smaller of two words. Which is pretty neat because he gets two mottoes for the price of one.

Society reaches it's limit when construction manuals are 5000 pages long. No wonder so many people want to live under bridges.
When it comes to complicating language I'm imaux-scent.

[araucaria]

Enough of the embedded quotes:

Society reaches it's limit when construction manuals are 5000 pages long. No wonder so many people want to live under bridges.

A dangerous place to live if the bridge construction manual was that long

[ulli]

Posted by araucaria (here)
Enough of the embedded quotes:

Society reaches it's limit when construction manuals are 5000 pages long. No wonder so many people want to live under bridges.

A dangerous place to live if the bridge construction manual was that long

Nah, the pillars were made from legal documents.

[ulli]

No one including me, noticed that this thread passed
600,000 views during the night.
Now stands at:
Replies: 19,637
Views: 601,470

What a pity we are not doing this on paper,
just think how many construction manuals we could produce, provided they accept our recycled posts.

[araucaria]

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by araucaria (here)
Enough of the embedded quotes:

Society reaches it's limit when construction manuals are 5000 pages long. No wonder so many people want to live under bridges.

A dangerous place to live if the bridge construction manual was that long

Nah, the pillars were made from legal documents.

If those are briefs (an oxymoron), it'll all end in grief.