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Realized liberty, bike lanes, okeh, Bret Weinstein is right, they do measure liberty all my roads have double yellow lines, as a measure of safety in a two-way world. {which is partly why the code in DNA runs one way} measuring minding trips my trigger, to what I was thinking of writing while watching a whispy-white haired man-my-age, measuring the edge of a two-story house, which a good man is building for his daughter, down the hill, from where I sit. That old man is bowed, in a compressed spine kinda way, bam bam men walked that way, in China, before the dams. Tote that bail, tug that rope, nuthadayowe-der wise, otherwise, aliens versus everything pop knowns you had locked away, in those gated intellectual troughs. Yes, yes, troughs, Pigs eat from troughs, cows eat from cribs, chickens eat from dirt and sheep *** all the grass for wool to pull over our eyes filtering lies like sunlight under big old Pines shading little old Rosemary patches that feed bees, wooly eyes, wise meander, would you say away from world's wisest men discussing what may be done, we set a spell, make peace with having nothing else to do. -- that sorta ran through my mind as I watched the elderly carpenter. He was careful, but not afraid, aware. He stepped from joist to joist, at the very edge of the second story peak edge perpendicular to the foundation square, eye-ball-level to me slow and steady he takes a tape, {such a witty invention} a tape attached to a spring, whereas once such things were actual hinged wands that unfolded at the flick of an old wizards wrist, then out came the soapstone, to lay down the line, make the mark. Here is where we cut, measure twice, cut once, he is sayin' in his mind, to me, I think, I imagine being told this is how we learn what is right. we learn to measure what works by what is. If the distance between two points is beyond the reach, oopshit I got distracted and he fell.
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Sep 11, 2020
Sep 11, 2020 at 4:02 PM UTC
On the danger of interrupting another thought
Realized liberty, bike lanes, okeh, Bret Weinstein is right, they do measure liberty all my roads have double yellow lines, as a measure of safety in a two-way world. {which is partly why the code in DNA runs one way} measuring minding trips my trigger, to what I was thinking of writing while watching a whispy-white haired man-my-age, measuring the edge of a two-story house, which a good man is building for his daughter, down the hill, from where I sit. That old man is bowed, in a compressed spine kinda way, bam bam men walked that way, in China, before the dams. Tote that bail, tug that rope, nuthadayowe-der wise, otherwise, aliens versus everything pop knowns you had locked away, in those gated intellectual troughs. Yes, yes, troughs, Pigs eat from troughs, cows eat from cribs, chickens eat from dirt and sheep *** all the grass for wool to pull over our eyes filtering lies like sunlight under big old Pines shading little old Rosemary patches that feed bees, wooly eyes, wise meander, would you say away from world's wisest men discussing what may be done, we set a spell, make peace with having nothing else to do. -- that sorta ran through my mind as I watched the elderly carpenter. He was careful, but not afraid, aware. He stepped from joist to joist, at the very edge of the second story peak edge perpendicular to the foundation square, eye-ball-level to me slow and steady he takes a tape, {such a witty invention} a tape attached to a spring, whereas once such things were actual hinged wands that unfolded at the flick of an old wizards wrist, then out came the soapstone, to lay down the line, make the mark. Here is where we cut, measure twice, cut once, he is sayin' in his mind, to me, I think, I imagine being told this is how we learn what is right. we learn to measure what works by what is. If the distance between two points is beyond the reach, oopshit I got distracted and he fell.
Things we imagine catching attention, good enough to step...
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77/M/Pine Valley CA
Sep 11, 2020
Sep 11, 2020 at 4:02 PM UTC
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