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Today I asked readers what treatments they would allow to improve the site. What surprised me the most were
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Riding public transportation is an endless source of amusement if you enjoy wacthing people. From the back someone boards, and you see it, the long approach, scanning…looking for an empty seat: nothing. Standing and waiting for an empty compartment; is actuality it’s a dangerous proposition, gripping the metal bar is an illusory safety measure, but so are seats with no belts.

This site to a faster host on this continent – in the process I did not carry over my old database or outdated version of WordPress. It’s all for the best tho…this will be the nice new shiny version, with some refurbished posts where I can find justification, but mostly new and improved wiseacerings.

Today as I begin this undertaking, I sit back with a cup of Earl Gray, a bowl of peanut butter play-dough, and a very hopeful, inspired and reflective mind. I’ve updated this site with WordPress. Upcoming changes/additions to the site will include my resume, a list of development projects I’m currently working on, and some photographic essays.

The Magician and his Flock (Fragments: 219)

“There is an Eastern tale that speaks about a very rich magician who had a great many sheep. But at the same time this magician was very mean. He did not want to hire shepherds, nor did he want to erect a fence about the pasture where the sheep were grazing. The sheep consequently often wandered into the forest, fell into ravines and so on, and above all, they ran away, for they knew that the magician wanted their flesh and their skins, and this they did not like.

“At last the magician found a remedy. He hypnotized his sheep and suggested to them, first of all, that they were immortal and that no harm was being done to them when they were skinned; that on the contrary, it would be very good for them and even pleasant; secondly he suggested that the magician was a good master who loved his flock so much that he was ready to do anything in the world for them; and in the third place, he suggested that if anything at all were going to happen to them, it was not going to happen just then, at any
rate not that day, and therefore they had no need to think about it. Further, the magician suggested to his sheep that they were not sheep at all; to some of them he suggested that they were lions, to some that they were eagles, to some that they were men, to others that they were magicians.

“After this all his cares and worries about the sheep came to an end. They never ran away again, but quietly awaited the time when the magician would require their flesh and skins.

“This tale is a very good illustration of man’s position.”