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Under what circumstances, if any, would you lie?

Posted on Sep 19th, 2007 by Islandman : Orchid root Islandman
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for September 19, 2007:

I would not lie in order to start a war. I would not lie in order to oxygenate an illusion, I would not lie for money, I would not lie in order to protect myself. Save as aforesaid, I would lie.
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Answers are questioned

Posted on Sep 19th, 2007 by Islandman : Orchid root Islandman
I've started asking lots and lots of questions. They pop into my head more frequently and I am less embarassed to ask them.

They betray ignorance, of course.

Questions originate out of places where knowledge is lacking, and everyone can quickly identify where those places are. That doesn't bother me. I find that as I ask my questions people supposedly "in the know" stop what they're doing and listen to the answer. Sometimes, they contradict the answer, or add an interesting gloss. I've never met anyone who was squemish about answering one of my questions. They love my questions. I think that's because I ask the right questions. I've come to this position. An answer could be wrong and yet still something useful might result out of it. But a bad question has little usefulness and is often irritating.

What made you so curious to search out this blog on zaadz?

Depending on the answer I might ask another question.

Sunset




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Who in your life are you most open with?

Posted on Sep 20th, 2007 by Islandman : Orchid root Islandman
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for September 20, 2007:

Those that are most open with me.
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Tagged with: QaR, honesty, self, candid, open

The Weekend arrives

Posted on Sep 21st, 2007 by Islandman : Orchid root Islandman
Everything is made new again. The orchids attached to the mango tree seem like they were just attached and their pink flowers seem so much more pink than before, in the Ice Age of Wednesday. The lawn is more green. The bay beneath the garden is suddenly full of yachts and schooners that wern't there in the olden days, the Stone Age of Thursday.

Wednesday and Thursday give way to Friday (today) and, well, this is the Age of Enlightenment, beginning on Friday and leading right through to Sunday afternoon.

Whole eras and ages pass in a few days. We have the time to look at the orchids, the blueness of the bay and the island schooners. Time makes things look whole again, gives them back their beauty. Thank God for the weekend!

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Little things, big things

Posted on Sep 25th, 2007 by Islandman : Orchid root Islandman
This is a little thing I do to protect the environment in the Third World. Whenever I am throwing away a plastic bottle in the garbage, I always take the cover off. On the islands we have no re-cycling laws or practices. All garbage is put into one bag and disposed at the city dump. The beer company has a recycling system for their beer bottles, but that's the extent of re-cycling.

So, by taking the cover off I ensure that the plastic bottle will fill with earth or water and sink. It won't remain on the surface of the ocean, should it be washed out to sea, and it won't take up valuable cubic space in the dump, as it might be filled with some earth before its buried.

Sad, eh? But I wonder if a floating bottle is better than one that has drowned. At least the floating bottle will eventually wash up on a shore, and has a better chance of being dealt with on land than if it lay motionless on the seabed.

Questions. Questions.
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Concrete shoes

Posted on Sep 26th, 2007 by Islandman : Orchid root Islandman
I turn
and turning to the moon
I fly

I wear my concrete shoes with pride

I laugh I burn
I wander near the edge of rivers
with my mind

I turned before to the moon,
and flied

the air behind me was left behind me
the air in front me I got to keep

I also kept my sighs.


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The "ess" must go!

Posted on Sep 28th, 2007 by Islandman : Orchid root Islandman
She's a beautiful actress. She could make me cry, and then, the most difficult of acting skills, make me dry my own tears.

Actress or actor?

How come she's an actress, but her cousin, who works at Jackson Memorial Hospital, isn't a doctoress? I have a friend from the IRS and she's certainly not an auditoress.

I hate poetess and authoress as much as I hate actress. These gender definitive words originated at a time when women did not write, when men put on dresses to play women's roles. We never had any use for the word doctoress because female doctors were virtually an unknown species in the 19th Century. Madame Curie, surely, should have been Dr. Curie! Times have changed in all the professions. The suffix is dropped everywhere. Everywhere, except in the arts, which is supposed to be progressive. How come?


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