Life is a balance - between things and matters - generally speaking!
Generally domestic bliss : Primary need .
Indispensable for a life : Indeed.
Your day to day living must be easy,
always staying strong dynamic, busy.
Each being may not wish for domestic bliss:
Somebody doesn't bother if they can miss.
Demand of life, not same for each person.
It tends to follow separate version.
Domestic bliss may be one's earnest desire
Other prefers 'power' through life entire.
Or, approaching every step on journey,
to gain own goal or after money.
Domestic bliss not always priority -
Happiness lies in other activities.
Yet for domestic bliss hanker most guys :
It's universal truth ! None can deny .
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i generally don't chew
mine gum (cabbage :)
twice
for thee
y'all
exception
''oh
i 'ventually took
thuh out
gum
'ventually"
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*by-thuh-by....
for astute....edvard'z conspicuos
thee i would hope, uv hiz lip
uv thuh noun; fem-i-nine
iz, "fem" "short i" annnd
"nine" az in #9
he bowz
and again ')
The way small can render a helping hand,
Never can a big one such a help lend.
As a well can quench one thirsty,
Never can a sea so mighty.
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Sanskrit Translation | 19.01.2026 | big, small, sea, thirst, well, quatrain
Note: Some quatrains called shlokas in Sanskrit are known as Subhaashhitams, words well-said. This one says, a small thing is generally more handy and useful than a big one. As a well is helpful to a man in quenching thirst, scarce can a mighty river or ocean. Transliteration follows:
Upakartum yathaa svalpah
samarthah na tathaa mahaan |
Praayah koopah trshaam hanti
satatam na tu vaaridhih || Subhaashhitam ||
Rarely feral these days,
these agile creatures, mostly furry,
are kept in houses as pets.
Meows and purrs are their means
of generally pleasant communication.
Howls and growls – not so pleasant!
Whether Munchkin or Maine Coon huge,
each has its distinct personality -
accentuated by tail flicks and eye blinks
Consolation and companionship
they may provide the fortunate human
whom they choose to curl up with.
Counting is our nature --
balls and strikes; clouds and
their potential...Stars, when
one is really bored (I generally
loose interest around 100) --
those left on a battlefield
are numbers we never forget --
and my prayers, a vault full,
between myself and God; kept safe
from human consumption.
I live on an island in the Pacific region
The largest body of water is the OCEAN
Like, can we be more Pacific?
I think Christopher Columbus got lost
Because the directions were not pacific
Oh, excuse me, the Pacific Ocean
Where you will find the small islands (Micronesia)
Where you will find the black islands (Melanesia),
Where you will find the many islands (Polynesia)
Generally, the islanders are like coconuts
So hard on the outside
But succulent on the inside
Yet they always end up wanting Samoa
Get this,
An assault by an Islander
is called a Hawaiian Punch
At times, these islands need a therapist when they are in a tropical depression
Some islands have sunk
Oh no do not laugh
That is not funny atoll
Sea yourself out
Therefore, I live on an island
A small island
I am a MICRO
I mean, how can I get more pacific than that?
"How beautiful you are, so vast and deep; how vital to us all: Magellan’s Mar Pacífico, the 'Peaceful Sea,' so magical to me." by poet
I was named for my peacefulness
though at times I batter shores with angry typhoons.
So large am I that I cover a third of the globe!
No other ocean compares to me in
volume or in number of islands and atolls
whose various beaches I touch upon.
Thirty-thousand islands claim me as their waters,
and my barrier reefs shield people from storms.
Encompassing vast regions north, south, east and west -
such as my basin's volcanic “Ring of Fire”
and the Challenge Deep of my Mariana Trench,
I am home to most of the world’s sea creatures,
but please keep me clean. Protect me!
Your plastics accumulate in the “Garbage Patch”
off San Francisco’s coast, extending to Japan.
Precious fish are dying from the mess humans make.
Generally warm, I welcome you to my shores.
Surf my waves, ride my currents, and explore my depths.
Just remember; without me and my sister seas,
your vital ecosystems cannot be sustained.
“A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma”
Like a series of hollowed crystal balls
Cleverly constructed inside the other,
Making a bell within a bell
For the amusement of a cherished child;
Such is Life, generally and specifically.
But what about what remains beyond description,
What is fundamental to Life
Which consciousness may guess
At but never actually know?
Consciousness is what constructs
The exquisite ball bell toy,
What sings out when it chimes,
And what holds and sees and hears it ring;
Consciousness is the whole of our reality,
And yet is but a subset of the totality.
However we describe it,
We never actually approach it.
However much we reach and grasp
We never actually hold it.
However much we try
We never actually arrive anywhere
But where we always are.
(10/13/25)
Generally, I am on
the Clean Side; but,
garden soil is my
rich exception --
I wallow in it,
a piggy for the scent
and feel --
Sort of like, training
wheels on bicycles
are for sissies,
glove-less, I dip and
knead; saturate and
soak. Claw! Compact!
Sniff the compost,
deeply investing with
bacteria: praising, composing
a reverent hymn, How gloriously
Efficient Is Nature!~ our
Mother recycling, wasting
nothing, reusing all,
earth gripping back my hand,
a bargain seal of the grave --
Tigers, generally, come in only one type,
wearing a coat with a vertical stripe.
My dad's stripes go sideways, and as one expects,
my fur is covered quite nicely with checks.
“Living has yet to be generally recognized as one of the arts”
- Quote by Karl De Schweinitz
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ETHICAL DILEMMA, GUILT,
COGNITIVE DECLINE, FEAR,
INSECURE, PREJUDICE,
VULNERABLE, LONELY,
DEPENDENCE, REGRET,
WISE CONTEMPLATION
gentle gesture generally generates gems
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Complaint
I'm Just
Complaining For
No Reason Just
To Have A New And
Fresh Example
Of What
It's Like.
Pure and Unadulterated.
Could Be Generally Useful.
Or Just Important.
Scratch That.
NOT Important.
-Gray Squirrel
05-18-2025
Have Patience, Love
You May Think You Know.
But Only I Know What I Know.
About The Generally
and Specifically Unexplainable.
And I Can't Quite Figure Out
How To Say It.
How To Tell You:
Yet.
That Isn't Even Quite Right.
Said Wrong. The Wrong Way?
Again.
But
It
Is.
JUST Is.
-Gray Squirrel
05-18-2025
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