PERFECT Ditty

The codfish lays a million eggs
The little hen but one
The codfish never cackles when her little task is done
So we praise the little hen
The codfish we despise
Which proves my friends and countrymen
It pays to advertise.
Anonymous

PERFECT Wright

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Stephen Wright

PERFECT Soul

Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You say,
I make you feel dizzy.
Of a little headache then,
why do you worry?
You say,
I am your moon-faced beauty.
Of the cycles of the moon and
passing of the years,
why do you worry?
You say,
I am your source of passion,
I excite you.
Of playing into the Devil's hand,
why do you worry?
Oh soul,
you worry too much.
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Rumi

(photo by Beth Arnold)

PERFECT IF

IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

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PERFECT Dove

"...Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. That is the Indian theory of existence."
Mourning Dove/Christine Quintasket

PERFECT Glad

The name Gladiolus is derived from the Latin word - gladius - which means "sword." The flower signifies honor, strength of character and infatuation and was a favorite of Monet and Gertrude Jekyll.

PERFECT Rumi

Don't go away, come near.
Don't be faithless, be faithful.
Find the antidote in the venom.
Come to the root of the root of yourself.
Rumi

PERFECT Biology

Imaginal cells - it doesn't get more magical than this, transforming a caterpillar to a butterfly.

PERFECT Blog

Nic Cage has a face that lends itself perfectly to niccageaseveryone!

Nic Cage as Sitting Bull by David Smith.

PERFECT Laureate

"Those of us who can write, meaning those of us who are able to write and those of us who are committed to writing, have a duty to write for ... the unjustly mistreated, whether they're people or not. Animals."
W. S. Merwin

PERFECT Dread

In defense of penny dreadfuls:
Literature is a luxury, fiction is a necessity.
G. K. Chesterton

PERFECT Word

Coined by J. R. Tolkien: Eucatastrophe - a joy that brings tears.