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  23. <title>All Things Weird, Episode 13 &#8211; The Altar</title>
  24. <link>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=8025</link>
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  28. <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 22:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
  29. <category><![CDATA[all weird things]]></category>
  30. <category><![CDATA[animism]]></category>
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  36. <description><![CDATA[Long ago in a lifetime far, far away…Okay, when I was in my twenties, my friend and I liked to drive up Calabasas way and visit Tapia Park—part of the larger Malibu Creek State Park. They used to film M*A*S*H and other TV shows in Malibu Creek Park (still do film up there) and some [&#8230;]]]></description>
  37. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Long ago in a lifetime far, far away…Okay, when I was in my twenties, my friend and I liked to drive up Calabasas way and visit Tapia Park—part of the larger Malibu Creek State Park. They used to film <em>M*A*S*H</em> and other TV shows in Malibu Creek Park (still do film up there) and some parts of <em>Planet of the Apes</em> and other films. In fact, much of the land was owned by 20<sup>th</sup> Century Fox for location filming until the state acquired it for park land. Before that it was a country club. Before that it was taken over by Spanish and Yankee squatters. Before that, it belonged to the Chumash tribe for centuries.</p>
  38. <p>The smaller area of Tapia Park has hiking and biking and equestrian trails but the part we visited mostly just had lots of majestic oak trees and less majestic picnic tables. The big attraction for us was Malibu Creek itself, which ran along the western edge. (I think it was the western edge. Pardon me if I’ve gotten the direction wrong.) To me, this area always had a presence, a kind of watching-waiting, sometimes benevolent if you caught it in the right mood and there weren’t a lot of people around, sometimes—well, if not hostile, then reluctant to have company, if you know what I mean. I never felt anything sinister there but sometimes it just was not in the mood.</p>
  39. <p>What we liked to do was pack a lunch, take our shoes off, and go wading down the creek. In the rainy season (usually October to April here in SoCal) it was prone to flood. In the latter months of the summer, it was greatly diminished. But there was a sweet spot in late spring and early summer when the creek flowed freely and was really delightful. Chapparal grew all around and every year there was a different growing arrangement along the creek. If you’ve been in the SoCal hills on a hot day, you’ll know chaparral has a distinctive scent: wild fennel, barley, sage, manzanita, and other plants give it the baking aroma of some exotic bread. It’s a unique scent I’ve never smelled anywhere else I’ve been in the world and it always says to me: home. The creek had rock pools and small waterfall cascades over the big rocks. The flow was never so much to threaten to knock you off your feet, but some of those pools were deceptively deep and it wasn’t unusual to take a step and wind up with a soaked crotch. But it didn’t matter. I loved it so much. It lifted my heart and spirit.</p>
  40. <p>One year we went on a particularly long wade down the creek and spotted a stone pillar standing on a slight rise in the creek bed. It was about three feet in diameter and about four feet high and it was composed of shale—lovely streaks of salmon and gold and caramel and flecks of black and white. It felt like a natural altar to me. It stood all alone, maybe fifteen to twenty feet from the cliff behind it. Shale is very flinty and flakes off easily, so it’s entirely possible this had once been part of the cliff behind it—perhaps an arch or some such geological formation that got washed away by eons of floods. It had a presence, though, a sense of self-containment, even as the water washed by it, and a sense of wonder. There were a bunch of loose shale pieces on top of it. I picked up a piece that beckoned to me, put it in my pocket, and took it home.</p>
  41. <p>No, this is not one of those stories like you hear from Hawaii or California ghost towns where if you take something your luck turns terrible and you have to ship the rock or whatever back to the park it came from to save yourself. I had that piece of shale for years with no ill effect, proudly displayed with other rocks I’d collected here and there. (It’s probably still around here somewhere but I’ve no idea where. That seems to be the theme of my life these days.) But sometime after I’d collected that rock I couldn’t remember if I’d thanked the altar for it. I thanked it in absentia but somehow felt the need for an in person visit—because I felt so drawn to it. It took me a while to get back there—the next year, in fact. My friend and I waded down the stream but never found the altar even though we knew we’d waded farther than the year before (using a bridge over the creek as a marker). Where had it disappeared to? Who hid it from our view?</p>
  42. <p>I don’t really think it somehow mystically, magically disappeared. Perhaps the chapparal grew thicker around it that year and hid it from view. But…perhaps the park and the altar were just not in the mood for my nonsense. I only know that I’ve always wanted to find it again, but it’s been a very long time since I visited Tapia Park, and I’m no longer physically capable of hiking down that creek. Its disappearance, however, has kept it playing through my mind and heart ever since. Probably no enchantment involved. Probably nothing magical about it. Except, perhaps, the enchantment of a heart always willing to believe in the possibility of magic.</p>
  43. <p>But it could be magic, right?</p>
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  53. <title>EarthSky</title>
  54. <link>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=8022</link>
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  57. <dc:creator><![CDATA[PJ]]></dc:creator>
  58. <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 01:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
  59. <category><![CDATA[gods]]></category>
  60. <category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
  61. <category><![CDATA[quote of the day]]></category>
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  64. <description><![CDATA[Random quote of the day: “I am a child of Earth and starry Sky, but my race is heavenly. You yourselves know this. I am parched with thirst and am dying, but quickly grant me cold water flowing from the lake of Memory.” —Orphic tablet quoted in The Orphic Poems by M. L. West Disclaimer: [&#8230;]]]></description>
  65. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Random quote of the day:</strong></p>
  66. <p>“I am a child of Earth and starry Sky,<br />
  67. but my race is heavenly. You yourselves know this.<br />
  68. I am parched with thirst and am dying, but quickly grant me<br />
  69. cold water flowing from the lake of Memory.”</p>
  70. <p>—Orphic tablet quoted in <em>The Orphic Poems </em>by M. L. West</p>
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  72. <p>Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</p>
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  81. <title>Locked</title>
  82. <link>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=8018</link>
  83. <comments>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=8018#respond</comments>
  85. <dc:creator><![CDATA[PJ]]></dc:creator>
  86. <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 01:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
  87. <category><![CDATA[patience]]></category>
  88. <category><![CDATA[questions and answers]]></category>
  89. <category><![CDATA[quote of the day]]></category>
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  91.  
  92. <description><![CDATA[Random quote of the day: “Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live [&#8230;]]]></description>
  93. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Random quote of the day:</strong></p>
  94. <p>“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”</p>
  95. <p>—Rainer Maria Rilke, <em>Letters to a Young Poet</em></p>
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  97. <p>Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</p>
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  106. <title>They</title>
  107. <link>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=8017</link>
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  110. <dc:creator><![CDATA[PJ]]></dc:creator>
  111. <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 00:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
  112. <category><![CDATA[fairies]]></category>
  113. <category><![CDATA[my poetry]]></category>
  114. <category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
  115. <category><![CDATA[spirits]]></category>
  116. <category><![CDATA[the veil]]></category>
  117. <category><![CDATA[ultraterrestrials]]></category>
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  120. <description><![CDATA[They care but they do not care. We are luminous lights that attract them and repel them, flooding the nighttime with our concerns, stamping the land with our billions of feet, covering over what is theirs what we claim as ours. Would they end us if they could, the otherlings, the spirits, the beings living [&#8230;]]]></description>
  121. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They care<br />
  122. but they do not care.</p>
  123. <p>We are luminous lights<br />
  124. that attract them<br />
  125. and repel them,<br />
  126. flooding the nighttime<br />
  127. with our concerns,<br />
  128. stamping the land<br />
  129. with our billions of feet,<br />
  130. covering over<br />
  131. what is theirs<br />
  132. what we claim as ours.</p>
  133. <p>Would they end us<br />
  134. if they could,<br />
  135. the otherlings, the spirits,<br />
  136. the beings living beside<br />
  137. the things of our world?</p>
  138. <p>They care<br />
  139. but they do not care.</p>
  140. <p>We burn their eyes,<br />
  141. we poison their lips,<br />
  142. we cut and chop and boil<br />
  143. without respect or thanks,<br />
  144. but we are stitched<br />
  145. to their sides,<br />
  146. and they to us,<br />
  147. a shrouded veil away.<br />
  148. We walk amongst them<br />
  149. as they walk amongst us.</p>
  150. <p>Here<br />
  151. but not here,<br />
  152. caring<br />
  153. but not caring.</p>
  154. <p>—PJ Thompson</p>
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  163. <title>Uncertainty</title>
  164. <link>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=8015</link>
  165. <comments>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=8015#respond</comments>
  167. <dc:creator><![CDATA[PJ]]></dc:creator>
  168. <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 23:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
  169. <category><![CDATA[quote of the day]]></category>
  170. <category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
  171. <category><![CDATA[uncertainty]]></category>
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  173.  
  174. <description><![CDATA[Random quote of the day: “Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.” —Lewis Thomas, Discovery Magazine, 1980 Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her [&#8230;]]]></description>
  175. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Random quote of the day:</strong></p>
  176. <p>“Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.”</p>
  177. <p>—Lewis Thomas, <em>Discovery Magazine</em>, 1980</p>
  178. <p><center><a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/uncertainty4WP@@@.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8016" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/uncertainty4WP@@@.jpeg" alt="" width="557" height="359" srcset="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/uncertainty4WP@@@.jpeg 557w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/uncertainty4WP@@@-300x193.jpeg 300w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/uncertainty4WP@@@-150x97.jpeg 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px" /></a></center></p>
  179. <p>Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</p>
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  188. <title>Balance sheet</title>
  189. <link>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=8013</link>
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  192. <dc:creator><![CDATA[PJ]]></dc:creator>
  193. <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 02:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
  194. <category><![CDATA[my poetry]]></category>
  195. <category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
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  197.  
  198. <description><![CDATA[18200 days of work 2600 weeks of work 7 sentences of wages 10000 meaningless meetings 250 echo chambers; 1 million stories 99900 untold 5000 pageants of wonders 2 wander inside a mind 2 beat back the mundane 2 survive on fantasies; 100 deaths close to hand 1000 broken hearts 2 broken knees 2 hobble and [&#8230;]]]></description>
  199. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>18200 days of work<br />
  200. 2600 weeks of work<br />
  201. 7 sentences of wages<br />
  202. 10000 meaningless meetings<br />
  203. 250 echo chambers;<br />
  204. 1 million stories<br />
  205. 99900 untold<br />
  206. 5000 pageants of wonders<br />
  207. 2 wander inside a mind<br />
  208. 2 beat back the mundane<br />
  209. 2 survive on fantasies;<br />
  210. 100 deaths close to hand<br />
  211. 1000 broken hearts<br />
  212. 2 broken knees<br />
  213. 2 hobble and limit;<br />
  214. 3 million hopes<br />
  215. 2 million fears<br />
  216. 7000 cries in the wilderness<br />
  217. 6000 answers<br />
  218. 3000 of them echoes.<br />
  219. This is the balance sheet.<br />
  220. This is the sum of a life.</p>
  221. <p>—PJ Thompson</p>
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  230. <title>Heart</title>
  231. <link>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=8011</link>
  232. <comments>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=8011#respond</comments>
  234. <dc:creator><![CDATA[PJ]]></dc:creator>
  235. <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
  236. <category><![CDATA[quote of the day]]></category>
  237. <category><![CDATA[the divine]]></category>
  238. <category><![CDATA[the universe]]></category>
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  240.  
  241. <description><![CDATA[Random quote of the day: “People who love the divine go around with holes in their hearts, and inside the hole is the universe.” —Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, [&#8230;]]]></description>
  242. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Random quote of the day:</strong></p>
  243. <p>“People who love the divine go around with holes in their hearts, and inside the hole is the universe.”</p>
  244. <p>—Peter Kingsley, <em>In the Dark Places of Wisdom</em></p>
  245. <p><center><a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/heart4WP@@@.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8012" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/heart4WP@@@.jpeg" alt="" width="386" height="452" srcset="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/heart4WP@@@.jpeg 386w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/heart4WP@@@-256x300.jpeg 256w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/heart4WP@@@-128x150.jpeg 128w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px" /></a></center></p>
  246. <p>Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</p>
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  255. <title>Ethics</title>
  256. <link>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=8009</link>
  257. <comments>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=8009#respond</comments>
  259. <dc:creator><![CDATA[PJ]]></dc:creator>
  260. <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 02:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
  261. <category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
  262. <category><![CDATA[quote of the day]]></category>
  263. <category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
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  265.  
  266. <description><![CDATA[Random quote of the day: “Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life—it is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.” —Albert Schweitzer, quoted in Albert Schweitzer: The Man and His Mind by [&#8230;]]]></description>
  267. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Random quote of the day:</strong></p>
  268. <p>“Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life—it is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.”</p>
  269. <p>—Albert Schweitzer, quoted in <em>Albert Schweitzer: The Man and His Mind </em>by George Seaver</p>
  270. <p><center><a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ethics4WP@@@.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8010" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ethics4WP@@@.jpeg" alt="" width="562" height="329" srcset="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ethics4WP@@@.jpeg 562w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ethics4WP@@@-300x176.jpeg 300w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ethics4WP@@@-150x88.jpeg 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px" /></a></center></p>
  271. <p>Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</p>
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  279. <item>
  280. <title>Wrong</title>
  281. <link>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=8006</link>
  282. <comments>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=8006#respond</comments>
  284. <dc:creator><![CDATA[PJ]]></dc:creator>
  285. <pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 19:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
  286. <category><![CDATA[quote of the day]]></category>
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  289.  
  290. <description><![CDATA[Random quote of the day: “If there is one mental vice, indeed, which sets off the American people from all other folks who walk the earth&#8230;it is that of assuming that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that ninety-nine percent of them are wrong.” —H. L. Mencken, &#8220;The American: His New [&#8230;]]]></description>
  291. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Random quote of the day:</strong></p>
  292. <p>“If there is one mental vice, indeed, which sets off the American people from all other folks who walk the earth&#8230;it is that of assuming that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that ninety-nine percent of them are wrong.”</p>
  293. <p>—H. L. Mencken, &#8220;The American: His New Puritanism,” <em>The Smart Set</em></p>
  294. <p><center><a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/wrong4WP@@@.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8007" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/wrong4WP@@@.jpeg" alt="" width="455" height="458" srcset="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/wrong4WP@@@.jpeg 455w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/wrong4WP@@@-298x300.jpeg 298w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/wrong4WP@@@-150x150.jpeg 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px" /></a></center></p>
  295. <p>Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</p>
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  303. <item>
  304. <title>Calm</title>
  305. <link>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=8004</link>
  306. <comments>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=8004#respond</comments>
  308. <dc:creator><![CDATA[PJ]]></dc:creator>
  309. <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 01:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
  310. <category><![CDATA[cats]]></category>
  311. <category><![CDATA[quote of the day]]></category>
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  314. <description><![CDATA[Random quote of the day: “The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.” —Jules Renard, Journal, January 1889 (tr. Bogan and Roget) Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of [&#8230;]]]></description>
  315. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Random quote of the day:</strong></p>
  316. <p>“The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.”</p>
  317. <p>—Jules Renard, <em>Journal,</em> January 1889 (tr. Bogan and Roget)</p>
  318. <p><center><a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/calm4WP@@@.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8005" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/calm4WP@@@.jpeg" alt="" width="566" height="386" srcset="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/calm4WP@@@.jpeg 566w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/calm4WP@@@-300x205.jpeg 300w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/calm4WP@@@-150x102.jpeg 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px" /></a></center></p>
  319. <p>Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</p>
  320. ]]></content:encoded>
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