It's been Said that:

"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking." ... 

So I Say Tickle Your Mind and 

Play with Your Thoughts.

 Cheryl E Gordon

12/25/10

The Fruit Cake Lady Strikes Again

 The Fruit Cake Lady Answers Questions in Her Own Unique Way

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=158330667510799

"The Un-Enlightened One"

You Say You Have the Secret to Enlightenment.
Do Not Boast of Your Enlightenment.
Others Will See and Know
If You are Indeed Enlightened.
A Genius is Worthless
When He Hoards and Gorges on
His own Treasure Chest of Knowledge,
Relinquishing Tidbits in Self Directed Concern
To any Starving Seekers.

Cheryl E Gordon
10/17/10

"The Two Wolves Inside" Cherokee Wisdom

 Cherokee Legend of the "Two Wolves Within"

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle
that goes on inside people.

He said, "My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all.

One is Evil -   It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.
The other is Good -  It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather:

"Which wolf wins?"
The old Cherokee simply replied,

"The one you feed."
Author ~ Unknown

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/TwoWolves-Cherokee.html 

"Cheaper is not Better"

Somewhere over the intercom in the mega department stores of the USA this might be heard ...

"Attention 'Blah Blah Blah' Customers.... We have been asked why we do not support USA manufacturing.

The answer is simple. We have sold out to China... You have been officially Shanghaied.

We do realize their product is inferior and perhaps @ times deadly, but we believe we are providing what you have asked for. Face it... Cheaper is not Better.

Thank You for Shopping with us .... and Have a Nice Day..."

CEGordon 10/8/10

"Creation"

In the Beginning, God Created the Heavens and the Earth.
After the Beginning, Man Made Guns and Other Weaponry.

Cheryl E Gordon
8/17/10

"Zen Mondo"

A Monk asked Yeuh-shan, "What does one think of while Sitting?" 
One thinks of "Not Thinking", the Master replied.
How does one think of "Not Thinking", the Monk asked?
"Without Thinking, the Master replied.

From " the Little Zen Companion"

"Life is a Reality Show"

The Best Reality Show is Life Itself. 
We Are All "Real" Participants in Life's Play.
We All Help in the Creation as Actors with Props on the Stage.

Cheryl E Gordon
6/29/10

"Please Turn on the Lights"

From Somewhere Deep inside my Mind
On a Very Bad Day,
I say,
"Hey Someone, Please Turn on the Lights,
It's Dark in Here!"

Cheryl E Gordon
8/16/10

Some Sarcastic Quotes About Life

Honesty is the best policy but insanity is the best defense.  ~ Anon

I'm smiling. This should scare you.  ~ Anon

 I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

~ Clarence Darrow

Love your enemies... It pisses them off.  ~Anon

He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.

~ Victor Borge

A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

~ Joey Adams

Time is the best teacher; Unfortunately it kills all its students!  ~ Anon

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

~ A. Whitney Brown

Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much. You're not that good.  ~ Anon

Mail your packages early so the Post Office can lose them in time for Christmas.

~ Johnny Carson

Bullshit: the art of making the idiotic sound sensible.  ~ Anon

Those of you who think you know everything are annoying those of us who do.  ~ Anon

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you don't like?

~ Jean Cocteau

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

~ Voltaire

Be kind to your mind. You'll miss it when it's gone. ~ Anon

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

~ Lily Tomlin

I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.  ~ Anon

Depression n. - Anger without enthusiasm.  ~ Anon

(Those) Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

~ Redd Foxx

Assassins Inc. We aim to please.  ~ Anon

Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked "Brightness," but it doesn't work.

~ Gallagher

It IS as bad as you think and they ARE out to get you.  ~ Anon

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

~ Alfred Hitchcock

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

~ Elbert Hubbard

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.  ~ Anon

A conscience is what hurts when all of your other parts feel so good.   ~ Anon

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

~ Sir Winston Churchill

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak.  ~ Anon

"Being All I Can Be""

I Know I am Not cut Out for the Army, 
For If I were to "Be All that I Can Be", 
I Would Not Be Here in my Physical Body.

Cheryl E Gordon
8/4/10

Lithographic autotype print by Ernst Haeckel from the "Kunstformen der Natur"

Lithographic autotype print by Ernst Haeckel from the Art Forms of Nature or in German,
"Kunstformen der Natur"

Here is a Link to Biography and More Prints from the artist biologist Ernst Haeckel via - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunstformen_der_Natur

These are geometric and concentric drawings of Organisms from 18999-1904.  Because of age, they are free domain.   Enjoy!

"The Egotist"

I wrote this poem for one of my friends who is plagued by an Egotist where she works.  He is the Center of his Very Own Universe.  Most of Us Have Come Across this type of Person in Our Lives and find Him/Her to be quite Irritating.  But then, Of Course, we Are Only the "Outsiders"...

"The Egotist"

Moody Thoughts of the Narcissistic Mind.
Ego Driven, You're One of a Kind.
Plastic Purpose and Shallow Faith,
Seeing without Seeing,
Focused on "Saving Your Face".

Stealing the Story of Others' Dreams
Grabbing the Glory by Self Propelled Means.
As The "One and Only" You Must Cheer Yourself On,
The Whole World Surrounds You,
And each one You Must Con.

But Few Follow Blindly, the Paths Chosen for Them.
You've a Handful of Disciples, but no "Subjects" to Win.
Perhaps these Slight Few, Might be Pretending to Care.
But They're Wanting to Move Forward,
Thinking You'll Carry Them There.


Cheryl E Gordon
5/31/10

The Limerick Challenge - You Can Write Your Own Limerick Here!

According to wikipedia A limerick is a five-line poem in anapestic or amphibrachic meter with a strict rhyme scheme (aabba), which intends to be witty or humorous and sometimes a bit risque.  The standard form of a limerick is a stanza of five lines, with the first, second and fifth usually rhyming with one another and having three feet of three syllables each; and the shorter third and fourth lines also rhyming with each other, but having only two feet of three syllables. The defining "foot" of a limerick's meter is usually the anapaest, (ta-ta-TUM), but limericks can also be considered amphibrachic (ta-TUM-ta).
The first line traditionally introduces a person and a place, with the place appearing at the end of the first line and establishing the rhyme scheme for the second and fifth lines.

You too can write a limerick!  I challenge anyone to write your own limerick in the COMMENT Section below, just for fun.  Just Click on the Comment section and submit your own completed limerick.  Remember, 1st, second and 5th lines rhyme, and the third & fourth rhyme with each other.  Don't forget to sign it as your own!  Let's see how many variations we can get.  Please refrain from submission f you have a tendency to be quite nasty .....

See My Own Limerick Below as an Example:

The Liar's Limerick

"Poem: The Liar's Limerick"

There Once was a Man Deemed a Liar.
The Words from His Mouth Would Draw Fire.
He'd Tell You a Story,
Some Outrageous, Some Gory,
(All Embellished with Glory)
But Mostly of Muck and of Mire.
Cheryl E Gordon
5/20/10

(Yes, I know this is 6 lines; not the Traditional Limerick, But I like it this Way)

Jonathan Swift: Helter Skelter or "The Hue and Cry After the Attorneys..."

"Helter Skelter" or
"The Hue and Cry After the Attorneys
Going to Ride the Circuit"

Now the active young attorneys

Briskly travel on their journeys,

Looking big as any giants,

On the horses of their clients;

Like so many little Marses

With their tilters at their arses,

Brazen-hilted, lately burnish'd,

And with harness-buckles furnish'd,

And with whips and spurs so neat,

And with jockey-coats complete,

And with boots so very greasy,

And with saddles eke so easy,

And with bridles fine and gay,

Bridles borrow'd for a day,

Bridles destined far to roam,

Ah! never, never to come home.

And with hats so very big, sir,

And with powder'd caps and wigs, sir,

And with ruffles to be shown,

Cambric ruffles not their own;

And with Holland shirts so white,

Shirts becoming to the sight,

Shirts bewrought with different letters,

As belonging to their betters.

With their pretty tinsel'd boxes,

Gotten from their dainty doxies,

And with rings so very trim,

Lately taken out of lim--[1]

And with very little pence,

 And as very little sense;

With some law, but little justice,

Having stolen from my hostess,

From the barber and the cutler,

Like the soldier from the sutler;

From the vintner and the tailor,

Like the felon from the jailor;

Into this and t'other county,

Living on the public bounty;

Thorough town and thorough village,

All to plunder, all to pillage:

Thorough mountains, thorough valleys,

Thorough stinking lanes and alleys,

Some to--kiss with farmers' spouses,

And make merry in their houses;

Some to tumble country wenches

On their rushy beds and benches;

And if they begin a fray,

Draw their swords, and----run away;

All to murder equity,

And to take a double fee;

Till the people are all quiet,

And forget to broil and riot,

Low in pocket,

cow'd in courage,

Safely glad to sup their porridge --then,

Hey, for London town again.

[Footnote 1: Limbo, any place of misery and restraint.

"For he no sooner was at large, But Trulla straight brought on the charge,

And in the selfsame Limbo put The knight and squire where he was shut."

--Hudibras, Part i, canto iii, 1,000.

Here abbreviated by Swift as a cant term for a pawn shop.--W. E. B

 http://www.readprint.com

Message From Heaven to Earth

Thunder Drum Rolls
Lightening Flash Dances
Heavenly Cosmic Orchestration
For Our Earthly Viewing Pleasure...

Or, Perhaps A Cryptic Message
Shouting Out to the World
You Need Energy?
Harness Me.

Cheryl E Gordon
4/5/10

Zen Koan, "Time to Die"

Zen Koan, "Time to Die"... "koans, or parables, were translated into English from a book called the Shaseki-shu (Collection of Stone and Sand), written late in the thirteenth century by the Japanese Zen teacher Muju (the "non-dweller"), and from anecdotes of Zen monks taken from various books published in Japan around the turn of the 20th century."
(from the website, Zen Koans -AshidaKim.com under the Zen Koans Index as # 85); It is one of my favorites:


85.   Time to Die

Ikkyu, the Zen master, was very clever even as a boy. His teacher had a precious teacup, a rare antique. Ikkyu happened to break this cup and was greatly perplexed. Hearing the footsteps of his teacher, he held the pieces of the cup behind him. When the master appeared, Ikkyu asked: "Why do people have to die?"
"This is natural," explained the older man. "Everything has to die and has just so long to live."
Ikkyu, producing the shattered cup, added: "It was time for your cup to die."

Chastity Belt

The Chastity Belt is the Medieval Times Rubik Cube.

© Cheryl E Gordon
3/23/10

"Doo Wah Diddy Diddy"

It is Appropriate I think, to post the Song here: "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" - as anything with Doowah is Open Game, and of course, for Old Times Sake.

Description of "Do Wah Diddy Diddy"  from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
http://ow.ly/1o3aA

And, For Your Listening Pleasure, Click on the Lyrics Scroller Video for the SONG & Words:
Manfred Mann Lyrics and Video

From The Minds of Sixth Graders

Are We Worried About Our School System – Of Course not! 

Insight into the minds of 6th graders:  The following were answers provided by 6th graders during history tests.  Watch the spelling!  Some of the best humor is in the misspelling. 

1. Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics.  They lived in the Sarah Dessert.  The climate of the Sarah is such that all the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.  

2. Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients.  Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments.  He died before he ever reached Canada.

3. Solomon had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines.

4. The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history.   The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth. 

5. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice.  They killed him.  Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.  After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.

6. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul.  The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king.  Dying, he gasped out: "Tee hee, Brutus."

7. Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was canonized by Bernard Shaw. 

8. Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen."  As a queen she was a success.  When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted "hurrah." 

9. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries.  Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible.  Another important invention was the circulation of blood.  Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking. 

10. Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100-foot clipper. 

11. The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare.  He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday.  He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays.  He wrote tragedies, comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter.  Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couple.  Romeo's last wish was to be laid by Juliet.

12. Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes.  He wrote Donkey Hote.  The next great author was John Milton.  Milton wrote paradise Lost.  Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.

13. Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress.  Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence.  Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backward and declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand."  Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.   

14. Abraham Lincoln became America’s greatest Precedent.  Lincoln’s mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands.  Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation.  On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show.  They believe the assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor.  This ruined Booth’s career.

15. Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children.  In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic.  Bach died from 1750 to the present.  Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel.  Handel was half German, half Italian, and half  English.  He was very large. 

16. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music.  He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him.  Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this. 

17. The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions.  People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine.  The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up.  Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men.  Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbits.   Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species.  Madman Curie discovered the radio.  Karl Marx became one the Marx Brothers.      

Earth Child/Celestial Woman

Twiddle Dum & Twiddle Dee
They Have Nothing on Me

One Foot on the Ground
And One in the Sky
I Can Move Quickly
In the Twinkling of an Eye

Backwards is Hard
But I Can Do It
Sideways is Easy
For As A Crab
I Will Get Through It

The Dolphin in Me
Finds the Water Appealing
Joyfully Playing
Sends My Spirit Reeling

Like a Mother to Earth
I Cradle Her in Love
She is My Grounding
As I am Lifted Above

The World is Turning
It Boggles My Mind
How So Many Are Lonely
Where There are So Many to Be Found

Alice in Your Looking Glass
Can You Mindfully See
How the World Is Turning
Inside of Me?

Cheryl E Gordon
1/28/10

Overcoming and Becoming

The Greatest Obstacle to Overcome is Ourselves.
We are All in the Process of Becoming and Are in Charge of Exactly, "What".

Cheryl E Gordon
1/28/10