Good Morning Digital Neighbors! Happy Sunday Refugees, Phamily & Triggeratti! Hello again all you Early Birds, Dawn Patrol, Merry Bigots, Fascinating People, Day Walkers and Later Dayers, you happy Supporters, Members and shy Lurkers! There seems to be some sort of glitch with Locals (bound to happen sooner or later) so I cannot load up any photos. Tried restarting the PC and all. I guess stuff happens?? So I will take this misfortunate and make something brief out of if. I know brief???? Definitions may vary. 😉😁
How well do you handle inconvenience? Some people lose their 💩 over it. The smallest set-back , the most trivial of inconveniences brings out their inner child and let me tell you, that kid is 9 times out of 10 is a spoiled brat! I see it on the roads all the time, the impatient passer blasting by me and giving me that loving finger of "Hey drag-ass, your #1!" Isn't that what the middle finger means when you are driving?
I see it all the time in myself when the PC, phone or some other bit o technology stops working. While I might not go ape💩, I know my aggravation level spikes. A boo and a whoo for cry-baby Tommy. Perspective is needed more than emotional tantrums. We live in an age of encouraged tantrums and dismissed perspectives. We'd be happier if it were the reverse.
If you are one of the rare souls who handles inconvenience well (I give myself a B rating with occasional A performances and sadly some C efforts) count your blessings. You and the people in your life are better for than 90% of us moderns. We are so freaking fortunate and too often take it for granted. I don't mean to berate us, just pull off the old bandage and get some fresh air on the festering wounds of modernity. 😁 Well enough of me, the babbling can be an inconvenience for all of us from time to time. Happy Sunday my friends, know of my love and appreciation, even on the days any one of us might be an inconvenience. Loving your neighbors is worth far more than comfort and ease. Off to the quotes!
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. - Gilbert K. Chesterton
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair. - Tokugawa Ieyasu
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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Quite apart from the fact that I utterly admire, even love, her, this is the best possible response to an idiot, who, in his defense, asked a pretty good question.
https://x.com/TBifford/status/2087992591279407133/video/1?s=61
The Beautiful
Said the Disciple to the Lover, “Sir, before I left the world I heard certain men who were held in high esteem and thought to know the will of the Beloved say that those who loved the Beautiful did not love the Beloved but loved idols, yet in the Garden of the Beloved we are ever striving to create beauty for the pleasure of the Beloved. Were they then speaking the truth?”
The Lover answered, “Those who said this had never glimpsed the form of the Beloved nor ever truly sought Him, for all beauty is but the reflection of the beauty of the Beloved, although seen very dimly as in a dark and faulty mirror, even as all goodness is a dim reflection of the goodness of the Beloved. So it is that those who love beauty and goodness recognize dimly in them the form of the Beloved and though often in ignorance those who are seeking the Beautiful and the Good are seeking after the Beloved.”
