Mother Mother sings a song called "Love and Truth". In searching for love and truth, I dream about a heart flush and a cormorant. My universe is a coyote, a trickster, who never quite gets it right. Always just a shade off.
The dealer stood to my right. He was a tall thin man wearing blue jeans and a black long sleeved shirt. He shuffled the cards and dealt to the five players, cards lying face up. My hand contained all hearts, a queen-high flush, the winning hand.
The dealer was flustered, but tried to cover his confusion by making a teaching point. "Let's look at this hand," he said. "For all the talk on the webinars about cooperation and working together, there is nothing like a winning hand for the winner. Would one person who was winning really feel better if everyone won?"
The cormorant showed up again after a day of rain, rain, and more rain. I thought it might have something to do with the heart since "coeur" means heart, as in coeurmorant. But no. A cormorant means "sea raven" with a reputation for voracity. I'm looking for veracity and get voracity instead.
Love and truth finds a heart flush and a ravenous appetite. What a kidder!
Truth and Love
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-Frank Zappa
"And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad."
-Aldous Huxley
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
-Thomas Aquinas
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
-Mohandas Gandhi
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Sez (seize) you.
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