Tendril 1013: Guilt is...

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Tendril 1013: Guilt is...

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Mental Vagary

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Today's Tendril...

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Today's Tendril... "Snake Charmers"

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A Saying of Kairis

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Updated 2018
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All Again

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Updated 2018
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Skyway 11: The View from Here

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Updated 2018
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The Heart Furnace

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Updated 2019
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An Observation Thing

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Updated 20191213

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By Stairs, Escalator, or Elevator

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Today's Tendril...

What's worse... Honest vanity or false humility?

Updated 2024-02-26

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Birds of a Feather

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Skyway 5: Welcome to My Day

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Updated 2019
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Concentrated Light

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Updated 2018
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Today's Tendril... A Different View

Updated 2018
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About

While working on a different composition, I jotted the following line in the margin of the page: "The lines in the sand were drawn in blood."

That line turned into the last line of this TT.

And where did this TT come from?

The ugly side of love.

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Today's Tendril...

Love is a road to hate,    when you:       Harden your heart;       Stop listening;       Make every moment about "me" rather than "we."

Updated 20220724

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Today's Tendril...

Sentimental value has the best value.

Alternate Version

Sentimental value never loses its value.

Updated 20220724

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Today's Tendril...

The heart of war beats in the bosom of man. And then drums across the Earth.

Updated 20220724

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Tendrils 16: Then and Now

A selection of Tendrils from the past and the present.

 

Sin is a house of cards.

Conscience is a wrecking ball.

2022 Remix

Sin is a house of cards.

Conscience is a wrecking ball.

Time is the operator.

 

It's hard to be grey in a rainbow world.

2022 Remix

It's hard to be gray in a rainbow world.

So shades of gray will have to do.

(Shades of gray for me and you.)

 

The trouble with deciding between the lesser of two evils is that you're dealing with the Devil either way.

2022 Remix

The trouble with deciding between the lesser of two evils is that you're dealing with the Devil either way.

And the Devil gives no quarter.

Not unless it's to the Devil's benefit.

 

A good dreamer doesn't exhaust his possibilities. He is exhausted by them.

2022 Remix

A good dreamer doesn't exhaust his possibilities. A good dreamer is exhausted by them.

Then the dreamer must rest.

And sleep.

And dream.

Then awaken — to the possibilities.

And begin again.

 

Q: What is successful multitasking?

A: Jumping among the middles of several things.

Q: What is unsuccessful multitasking?

A: Missing the middles and landing in the drink.

 

The firing line only matters when the bullets are real.

 

The snow dies.
    The God-green springs to life.
        Layers are shed.
            Hope loses its gray.
                Circles and cycles are here to stay.

 

In order of appearance, Tendril 1 from "A Batch of Tendrils," (Copyright 2012 C.V. DeRobertis), Tendril 2 from "Tendrils: Variations on a Grey Theme," (Copyright 2011 C.V. DeRobertis), Tendril 3 from "Tendrils 11," (Copyright 2010 C.V. DeRobertis), Tendril 4 from "Today's Tendril...," (Copyright 2009 C.V. DeRobertis), Tendrils 5-7 Copyright 2012 C.V. DeRobertis, "2022 Remix" remixes in Tendrils 1-4 Copyright 2022 C.V. DeRobertis

Updated 20220721

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Today's Tendril...

The business of doing business means dealing with a lot of P: Politics Paranoia Pomposity Process Procedure Pontification Plans Polling Peddling Prima donnas Patter Prattle Perception Promises Panoptic pandering "Power"

 

About

Pondering "the price of doing business"—personal, professional, spiritual—produced this P.

Updated 20220724

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Tendrils 7: Fallen

If the possibilities are truly endless, then they're only gated by the locks of the mind.

 

Finished, complete, and done are merely states of relativity.

 

Tendrils of the imagination come and go like a ghost in the night; like a ghost in the mind.

2022 Remix

Tendrils of the imagination come and go like the wisps of smoke that rise and vanish from the flame of the candle that’s illuminating the page — and the moment.

 

Hope not only renews (the heart, mind, and soul), but it adapts to the world outside our windows — and to the worlds within our minds.

2022 Remix

Adaptation and renewal work for nature and hope alike.

 

Passion becomes intensity. Intensity becomes rapture. Rapture becomes everything.

 

Sometimes all we need is the tranquility of solitude, found beneath the moonbeams of a cold winter night.

 

Evolution is a historical view.

Adaptation is the here and now.

Expectation is a burden to carry.

Anticipation is a double-edged sword.

 

Every Autumn leaf finds its own path to the earth.

 

Simplicity is like the beast waiting in the tall grass, or the creature with many tentacles lurking in the depths of a lake, or the red-eyed thing moving under the bed.

 

Intentions are like ghosts: They come and go in the blink of an eye.

 

Patience and perseverance go hand-in-hand.

And are often accompanied by frustration and iteration.

 

About

-Tendrils 1 and 2 are based on text in the About section of the image, "Fallen (Possibilities)."
-Tendrils 3 and 4 appear in Today's Tendril… posts (2009.11.09 and 2009.11.29).
-Tendril 5 is taken from the text in the About section of the image, "Fallen (I See Red)."
-Tendrils 6 is based on the text in the About section of the image, "Fallen (Blue Serenity)."
-All other Tendrils are exclusive to this collection.

Updated 20220725

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