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Oculus Caliga Cacia
The Oculus Caliga Cacia - more easily put as the Seeing Boot Tree, or the Muflad-ing (heavy ing), can be found across a wide area of the german woodlands. Being commonly classified as a spruce-tree, the Oculus Caliga Cacia (or the Muflading) is actually a part of the Ginkgoaceae family. In the Ginkgoaceae family you can also find the Gingko Biloba, also known as the Maidenhair tree.
Muflading grows like any other tree, except that it slowly implodes after a certain amount of time. Implode is the opposite of explode, something which you probably already have guessed, and means that the tree suddenly shrinks. The process of the imploding starts when the tree is just a seed, but the implosion will happen when the tree is about 100-350 years, when it in a very sudden and unexpected fashion, disappears completely.
Well not completely, one thing is left of the Muflading after it has imploded, and that is a crunchy cone, not a pine-cone of course, but an ovally shaped and green sticky cone filled with lemon curd.
In Germany, cooking the Muflading cone would mean bad luck, so they called it the "Verflucht Kiefernzapfen", which basically means "The cursed pine-cone", so instead of eating it (which would be the recommended use) they would stuff one in to each ear to provoke a divorce or to free oneself of all the seven sins, preferably both.
Today the Muflading has extended with the ability of walking and can cross great areas in a very short amount of time. The speed is startling for its size, which just about equals somewhere between a taxi and a maxi-taxi. Mufladings eat woodpeckers and forest slugs, and also make that hooting sound mostly connected with owls, but that is a common misconception, and the owl does no such thing as to hoot, but the Muflading does.
by
Tora
Stubborn little child
At the bus the other morning, I was very busy looking out the window, I think it was raining and it was quite cold too. At the next stop a young woman and her daughter got on, they walked to the very end of the bus, at the back - in other words - the seat behind me. The bus started again, and we snailed along the morning traffic, rain all around us.
"I will hold on to you so you wont fall when the busdriver starts the bus" the mother said. But the little girl looked straight at her mother, in a tone she had very likely stolen from her and she said: - "No, it's fine. I am not going to fall. I can sit, and you don't have to hold me, because I am not going to fall". I smiled to myself as the mother took a good hold of the little girl as the bus suddenly took a steep turn, and the girl said so determined - her voice was nearly making decisions by itself- to her mother: "Let go, I can sit without your help!" But the mother didn't let go, instead she cleverly changed the subject to make the girl aware of what stop they were getting off at.
The little girl though, even more clever, while her mother was talking - slipped out of the womans hands and into the seat next to her, holding hard with little pink fingers, around one of those yellow bars they have in there so you wont topple over.
I am happy to see that parents still raise children with integrity and intelligence, I keep getting so worried when reading about how the LEGO pieces keep getting larger, and how much school they are going to punch into the little kids when they are still so young.
You can say all you want about the youth getting overweight, lazy and with a lack of creativity, but I think parts of that is due to how children are not allowed enough to ble children (or are children for too long) in this society. All you really want to do is grow up, because being a kid these days really sucks. You are the target of 60 % of all the advertising out there, you are vulnerable and socially still developing, when you should be digging holes and smearing mud all over your tongue, you are being sent to school and taught all kinds of irrelevant things.
In addition we have parents that are too old to be parents, because they spent too long getting educated and economically stable before they had kids. With no spare energy they place the kids in front of the television set, and fanatically protects them from dogs and strangers. Young humans are raised to fear the unknown, thus encouraging racism and prejudice - this does not apply to all of course, it is just a thought.
and a scary thought too...
"I will hold on to you so you wont fall when the busdriver starts the bus" the mother said. But the little girl looked straight at her mother, in a tone she had very likely stolen from her and she said: - "No, it's fine. I am not going to fall. I can sit, and you don't have to hold me, because I am not going to fall". I smiled to myself as the mother took a good hold of the little girl as the bus suddenly took a steep turn, and the girl said so determined - her voice was nearly making decisions by itself- to her mother: "Let go, I can sit without your help!" But the mother didn't let go, instead she cleverly changed the subject to make the girl aware of what stop they were getting off at.
The little girl though, even more clever, while her mother was talking - slipped out of the womans hands and into the seat next to her, holding hard with little pink fingers, around one of those yellow bars they have in there so you wont topple over.
I am happy to see that parents still raise children with integrity and intelligence, I keep getting so worried when reading about how the LEGO pieces keep getting larger, and how much school they are going to punch into the little kids when they are still so young.
You can say all you want about the youth getting overweight, lazy and with a lack of creativity, but I think parts of that is due to how children are not allowed enough to ble children (or are children for too long) in this society. All you really want to do is grow up, because being a kid these days really sucks. You are the target of 60 % of all the advertising out there, you are vulnerable and socially still developing, when you should be digging holes and smearing mud all over your tongue, you are being sent to school and taught all kinds of irrelevant things.
In addition we have parents that are too old to be parents, because they spent too long getting educated and economically stable before they had kids. With no spare energy they place the kids in front of the television set, and fanatically protects them from dogs and strangers. Young humans are raised to fear the unknown, thus encouraging racism and prejudice - this does not apply to all of course, it is just a thought.
and a scary thought too...
by
Tora
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