I Found a Penny Today, So Here’s a Thought
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"So little is known about the ultimate powers of the mind." From Dark Shadows, episode 167.
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"Don't wait for the call." From Lighted Pathway, 1983.
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A yuletide without a ritual appeasement of the Frog in Fez? Unimaginable—and yet, who today can honestly comprehend the holiday cards of old in which a pipe-smoking frog in a fez sent best wishes for Christmas? It would seem that all things, animate and inanimate, worlds, suns, systems, Christmases, and frogs, their cycles have! Nothing abides. Through the endless tides of time, the law of change is written everywhere (except upon out-of-print holiday greeting cards). In and of it all, endowed with a brief personality like a frog in a fez, we grope, guess, gasp, and are gone. Oh, the lost, forgotten traditions of a household! Of a people! Of a world! Why is this thus? Why is anything thus?
An eternity of cycles—and yet! No first frog in fez, no last frog in fez, no beginning ... and therefore no end! The frog in fez must occur in some way. Its last incarnation might have been different—perhaps better, perhaps worse. The same question might be asked in any situation. Why not a toad? Why not a cricket helmet? Why not a frog in fez once again reigning as the most beloved mouthpiece of Christmas?
Let us better understand the Frog in Fez's lost history: its incumbent rituals, its songs, its dances, its joys, its threats. Then, spirit willing, let us rehabilitate and then deliberately reintroduce the Frog in Fez into the wilds of Christmas.
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Thurston Owl III perches atop a contraption (still-secret, but peekable here). His eyes blink in answer to questions (yea, nay, or perchance). In full disclosure, he guides virtually every aspect of my life (and he approves of this message).
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From Purple Parrot, 1928.
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"I will deal with my ghost[s], and you will deal with your ghosts." From Dark Shadows episode 1236.
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Ugh -- a tip for turning an old broomstick into a work of art, as if deep down inside everyone is a talented artist who merely hasn't tried converting garbage into beauty. From Together, 1957.
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"What are you scared of?" "Everything. Everybody. Even afraid of myself." From Dark Shadows, episode 40
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Walking on water is ...
- no trick: all you do is step over the edge and not look down
- “a piece of cake” compared to walking on mud
- knowing where the stones are
- better than breaking through ice
- scary business
- the same act as creating the world
- using the water's surface tension for support
- like walking on knives
- to experience the joy in living
- really no greater act of faith than flying a plane into the skies
- seeing and feeling the given miracle of life in every moment
- optional
- exactly like walking on land
- hard enough, but dancing on water — boy, that was tough
- not only a miracle — it’s advisable
- impossible, if you are human
- certainly not as great as rising from the dead
- not yet one of the skills taught in school
- not something people are born with, but rather a skill that anyone can develop if they learn to trust their vision and persevere in their practice
- the shouted "yes" to all that life will bring
- certainly not the “natural” thing to do
- not among my party tricks
- easy to someone with impulsive boldness
- more common than I’d once thought
[Snippets gathered during the course of our research.] See Bullet Lists.
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It's an answer that works for most all questions -- "I would still remain in a dense fog." From Biltmore Oswald by J. Thorne Smith and illustrated by Richard Dorgan, 1918.
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From The Duluth Herald, 1914.
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