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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'thank you' it will be enough - Meister Eckhart (~1260-~1327), Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love - Lao Tzu, Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. - G.B. Stern (1890-1973) - a truer word were never said, Thank you thank you thank you x
A gift arrived upon the Cloud, shortly afore Christmas, out of the blue, that lightened said blue to a shining brightness. It arrived in a long, huge, nay, humongous tube, and was thought to be a staff or perhaps totem of sorts (potentially a very rude one that would have the neighbours agog considering the sender), but no, ’twas and indeed is something else, something very special that Esme has had framed, and which hangs from the Cloud’s rafter’s in front of her as she transmits her wordage out to the blogosphere and beyond.
It is a piece of art, an original design, one which has upon it 130 photographs of clouds taken over the period of a year by an actual Professor of Clouds from a faraway land; all but one of these photographs was taken by his good self (the other by his sister) and as these cloudy photos were taken it began to occur to him that maybe it might be a nice thing for Esmeralda who lived upon a Cloud to see how the other clouds moved and formed across the span of a year, so he collected them all, made them into a giant work of art and added a quote from the book Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell at the top, knowing she loved said book and managing to pick the quote that brought Sonmi, Esme’s previous incarnation into play too, and thus where the Cloud began it’s journey this time.
So here it be, all 153cm x 91cm of it – or in reasonable measurements – five foot by three foot . . . Esme’s Cloud Atlas.
An’ yaysome, she cogged well howzit was smart an’ truesome such kindness an’ Esme did bawl like a babbit (tho no nappymind), an’ held clasp tight to Sonmi — she who was first – an’ memry said minded an’ gave her a prescient that was spesh, an’ real for a Cloud, an’ true, truesome was this, as were an’ be her thanks to Swarn, The Professor of Great Clouds from the Land of Good Grief.
Thank you dear Swarn <3. I shall not forget your kindness and wild bold craziness at taking the gamble, for it didn’t matter to you if it were forever kept in a huge tube in some corner, hidden in the cellar/attic, or lifted on high and framed with a particularly nice bit of wood, (sir), and that too is rather special, and I feel honoured for the time and thought that went into all this and feel it makes so much of that which has appeared upon these pages a success beyond anything imagined, reaching out to people who have read the words and taken them to their beings (keeping all said words safe on pain of death of course), so extra thanks for that too.
Now some will howl and rent their hair (I hope they make a good profit) wanting to know just how Swarn got hold of the wonderfully kept secret that is the address of Esme upon her Cloud, for many have pleaded, enticed, begged, cajoled, swindled, inveigle, killed (not killed) threatened and onwards to glean said information, yet never has Esme relinquished it, so how, how did this happen, how could this possibly in a trillion years ever occur?!!
The answer is – she was drunk when he asked.
Such is the way of the known and unknown universe that Esmeralda Cloud is Empress of.
bows and blows a kiss x
Carmen said:
You must be so happy you got drunk. . . . .that once. . .. 🙂 (story made me grin, it did!)
What a lovely gift for a lovely lady!
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
I was, I may even get drunk again one day . . . grins and winks (not like Prof Taboo)
“What a lovely gift for a lovely lady!” – Thank you Carmen, so kind of you to say that. I’ve been owed something fabulous for centuries, so about time.
Hahahahahaha.
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makagutu said:
The next question to ask is when does she drink, so we know when to ask?
That’s a thoughtful piece.
Good day upon the Cloud
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
Hello Mak, if I could only remember! Hahahahaha. It very much is thoughtful, yes, he’s a good egg is Swarn.
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The Pink Agendist said:
My favourite is the sulphuric variety 😀
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/66345/amazing-images-classic-japanese-fart-battles
You’ll enjoy that then.
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The Pink Agendist said:
😛
Aether —> Ether
Sulphuric ether (diethyl) = used as an illicit drug to induce sedation and euphoria
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
Well don’t keep it all to yourself!
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Swarn Gill said:
Personally I’m glad that you saw a piece from obsessive stalking of you as a gift. Since you are Esme upon the Cloud, I thought cloud photos were equivalent to watching you leave your flat, get shopping, or get ready to take a bath. 🙂 By the way there are only 115 photos. In your attempt to do math you forgot some of the grid is taken by the quote. I shall forgive you that mistake since you are a wordsmith, you don’t have to be good at math. 🙂
Also in truth I only was confirming your address when I asked. I cleverly found your address on reddit when on a special ‘babes and baking in the UK’ page I asked where can I find a girl who’d put a warm sticky bun on my todger. Apparently there is only one person in the UK with that specialty. I am so glad you found a niche. 🙂
Thank you for this post Esme. As I said before, the many shapes of clouds are as numerous as the many ways your writing amuses, brings joy, inspires, and moves us.
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
‘Personally I’m glad that you saw a piece from obsessive stalking of you as a gift.‘ – HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. One should never be without several diligent, intelligent, humorous obsessive stalkers I find. As long as they don’t aim to eventually collect your face and keep it in the fridge that is. If the gifts are as good as yours it may well be worth the eventual restraining order too. beams
I have Dyscalculia. This is quite true, no joke, I can’t ‘see’ numbers in the right order or do much with them. I was full of A’s and B’s in every subject at school barring Mathematics, where I was received Zeds. It can cause problems, but for anything that might have repercussions, I get a normal person to check my calculations. If you had said there were actually 748 photos on there I’d have believed you. I’m glad you got in first before Hariod or Mr Pink mind you, hahahahaha.
‘ I cleverly found your address on reddit when on a special ‘babes and baking in the UK’ page I asked where can I find a girl who’d put a warm sticky bun on my todger.’ – The framed picture is all that’s stopping you getting a swift kick off the Cloud there you know laughs a lot.
‘As I said before, the many shapes of clouds are as numerous as the many ways your writing amuses, brings joy, inspires, and moves us‘ – You are redeemed, and I thank you again in return for telling me that.
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Swarn Gill said:
Your math was actually fine just from the multiplication of rows and columns. I just didn’t want people to be too impressed. 150 sounds like a way bigger number than 115. Also did you know the word Dyscalculia comes from the name of a vampire in medieval times who sucked the life out of herders that were in the middle of counting their livestock?
The framed picture is all that’s stopping you getting a swift kick off the Cloud there you know
Now you’ve uncovered the true reason for giving that to you. To give me a few ‘get out of jail free’ cards for future abuse. lol
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
‘150 sounds like a way bigger number than 115‘ – Good job I said 130 then, eh? Hahahahaha, and yes, of course I know about the vampyre connection, how could I not, he was one of the earliest animal rights campaigners and Esme is a direct descendant of him – Laurențiu Stăpânul Norilor – marvellous teeth on him.
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Swarn Gill said:
Haha…sorry yes I meant 130. It still sounds vastly more impressive. lol
Laurențiu Stăpânul Norilor
I’d ask you where you pulled that name out, but I suspect that inner workings of your mind are sometimes best left uninvestigated. lol But rest assured you are the top of my list should I ever need an alias in eastern Europe.
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Professor Taboo said:
Umm, when again are you planning festivities of free flowing spirits my Lady!? An exact day and time, preferably Central Standard Time (UTC-6), please… would be dandy! 😁😈
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
These things happen not by design Professor you understand, but by the Fates. Most of the Fates are hammered themselves, most of the time mind you (it’s one hell of a job, I’ve had twenty offers for a job swap from Muse to Fate in the past year alone – no chance, the poor lambs get blamed for some terrible kinds of malarkey they do. Of course with it being their fault so they should do. Hahahahaha).
I think that’s comprehensively answered your question, Professor.
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Professor Taboo said:
Hmmm, so I must find a way to UNhammer the Fates while not mixing and confusing myself with the Muses! By my overly stretched brain cells (that have barely survived my past, unregrettable inebriations) this formula will be MOST challenging. You and I, my nodding grinning (but not like the Professor) Lady Upon the Clouds, should have some drinks over this most foreboding formula — not to worry, I will provide the “extraordinary” concoctions. With their taste you should be well pleased, as well as feeling… umm…
disclosed! (had to carefully choose the correct word and avoid disclothed) 😁😈
You can appreciate my astute discrimination I am sure. 😁 💘
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
Yes, I think you should try and unhammer every lady you meet. Hahahahahaha.
I appreciate the level of everything you send sir, one way or another.
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Swarn Gill said:
Unfortunately the real answer is probabilistic. The asking has to occur in about 3 second window. This is time span for which she is both drunk enough to give her address and before she begins doing cartwheels which leads to injury. She’s no spring chicken…even though she does love to spring.
Now I shall shortly be thrown off the cloud for that comment, so let it be known that I am strapping on a parachute. 🙂
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
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Swarn Gill said:
Are you kicking me off the cloud in heels? Haha…take that PT!
sailing gleefully to the ground in my parachute!
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Professor Taboo said:
Hahahahaha! Indeed. Now that will leave a permanent mark! (grins & chuckles)
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Professor Taboo said:
Bwahahahaha!!! Ah, a fellow Suitor of delightful wit and twistedness! (tips his hat to the parachuting Gentleman as he swiftly descends past his own rescue cloud chanting “Now THAT is a Lady worth falling for!”)
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Kris Jennings said:
Admittedly, this one did tear up a bit at such kindness (and resourcefulness) in the world. And thankfully then laughed. Cheers!
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
Good, so it should be in this case! Thank you Kris, we always finish with a smile upon the Cloud.
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Yeah, Another Blogger said:
⛅️🌥☁️⛅️🌥☁️
Here’s to clouds!
Neil Scheinin
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
Oooh, nice display of your own Neil, thank you!
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Yeah, Another Blogger said:
Hi there, Esme. You might like my latest story. It’s about Philadelphia and the color green, but some of the photos have clouds in them. No green clouds, though. Take care.
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
I have done just that, great post sir, tickling too. Thank you for the poke, do so every now and again as I have a very poor memory and it takes me aeons to get round to all my dear bloggers places.
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Michael said:
What a glorious gift! I daresay it’s a periodic table of clouds! We are each so many face(t)s, and I am grateful for the beautiful reminder of our plenty. May we all soar in such rarefied airs! Thank you for sharing that, Esme.
Michael
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
I know, it’s just that isn’t It? You’re welcome Michael, though I am just the revealer in this case, Swarn gets all the credit. Him and the very, very careful framer!
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john zande said:
Want.
Didn’t think it possible, but Swarn’s stock just increased even further.
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
Best quality stalker this side of Alpha Centauri, I’d invest further if I were you.
‘Want.’ – Can’t have. But I appreciate your appreciation of its fantasicallarility sir (aether word), ’tis a beautiful thing, which it would have to be taking up that amount of wall.
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john zande said:
Here’s hoping that piece won’t become an artefact. Seems clouds might be endangered
https://www.quantamagazine.org/cloud-loss-could-add-8-degrees-to-global-warming-20190225/
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
Ah yes. This is why all Cloud dwellers have been reducing their footprints so fervently as best as can they possibly can for so long, and we are all plant-based eaters as well. I don’t like labels much – save lives, save the planets and save the clouds, respect them all. It’s all horribly too late of course.
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Swarn Gill said:
Yours picture would be a random sampling of 115 gods you don’t believe in. 🙂
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john zande said:
Nice 🙂
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Bela Johnson said:
So sweet. Thought-full. Truly. Good man, Swarn. 🌹🌺🥳
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
He is indeed dear Bela ❤
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Bela Johnson said:
🌺❤️🌹
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Hariod Brawn said:
I never rent my hair. Typos cause me to rend it, though . . .
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
Awful when you get it wrong isn’t it sweetie?
‘Joshua 7:6
And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.’
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Hariod Brawn said:
Yes, well, we don’t all still live in 1611 with King (of typo) James . . .
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
Of course dear, if you say so . . .
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brightonsauce said:
So thoughtful and lovely and considerate.
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
Isn’t it? nods a lot
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Ben Naga said:
A wondrous gift indeed. Well that, that person!
David Mitchell is one of my three – or rather two since Terry Pratchett passed – since his first.
As for “The answer is – she was drunk when he asked.” I believe that particular answer fits neatly with many a puzzled enquiry.
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
Hahahahaha. Aye (stuck in pirate mode here, beary withy), Terry was a love of mine, and my Esme is homage to Granny Weatherwax (if I’ve told you before just smile and nod so I don’t know), I grew up living with Stephen King amongst others, James Michener lay curled up in my arms of an evening many a time mind. Recently I’ve been spending some unexpected time with Martin Amis, who I’d expected to be stiff, snotty and dull for no reason I can explain. Not even the old book by it’s cover business. Money and London Fields are such an experience I’ll go back him there again one day, and these days I do not readily reread any books, for I do not have enough time left. Beyond that I find many writers have one great book in them, and that’s fine, not everyone can be tugged and produce a string of flag-shaped books.
It’s an incredible gift sent from a far away land, and hangs on the wall right here in front of me. The fact that it exists makes me happier than I’d have ever been before.
Thanks for digging into the vaults Ben. beams
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Ben Naga said:
My (double) pleasure. 🙂
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