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Thu 29 May 2025

EarthSky

Posted by PJ under gods, poetry, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“I am a child of Earth and starry Sky,
but my race is heavenly. You yourselves know this.
I am parched with thirst and am dying, but quickly grant me
cold water flowing from the lake of Memory.”

—Orphic tablet quoted in The Orphic Poems by M. L. West

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 8 May 2025

Locked

Posted by PJ under patience, questions and answers, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

—Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Mon 5 May 2025

They

Posted by PJ under fairies, my poetry, poetry, spirits, the veil, ultraterrestrials
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They care
but they do not care.

We are luminous lights
that attract them
and repel them,
flooding the nighttime
with our concerns,
stamping the land
with our billions of feet,
covering over
what is theirs
what we claim as ours.

Would they end us
if they could,
the otherlings, the spirits,
the beings living beside
the things of our world?

They care
but they do not care.

We burn their eyes,
we poison their lips,
we cut and chop and boil
without respect or thanks,
but we are stitched
to their sides,
and they to us,
a shrouded veil away.
We walk amongst them
as they walk amongst us.

Here
but not here,
caring
but not caring.

—PJ Thompson

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Mon 5 May 2025

Uncertainty

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, science, uncertainty
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Random quote of the day:

“Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.”

—Lewis Thomas, Discovery Magazine, 1980

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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