Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Buddy holly, deer, and Happy Days

Buddy Holly is name-dropped in "We Didn't Start the Fire," and I heard it in lowercase, as buddy holly -- holly in bud. The Druids (and Harry Potter) used holly wood for magic wands, and the suit of Wands is portrayed as "buddy" in the Rider-Waite Tarot.


Yesterday, I put a list of words and names, for a glossary, in truly-random order with random.org. (I didn't want them in random order, but random.org has the helpful side effect of converting tabs to spaces, so copying from a spreadsheet to random.org and then realphabetizing is the fastest way of making that particular change.) Here's what it gave me:


What first caught my eye was Holly Wood. My train of thought had gone from the proper name Buddy Holly to lowercase buddy holly and then to wands made of holly wood. Now here was Holly Wood as a proper name -- not the famous Los Angeles neighborhood, but Holly as a woman's given name and Wood as a family name.

Then I noticed the first three items: Jill pumpkin lizard. I've posted before a variant of "Jack and Jill went up the hill" in which they fetch not a pail of water but a pumpkin pie. (See "Igxuhp zvmwqfb Jack dry stolen") And Bill had that dream about deer from the Lizardmen High-Stakes Trading Company coming to steal his pumpkins.

The sequence present dove also got my attention in connection with the "gift of the Holy Ghost" (see "After baptism").

Anyway, seeing that Holly Wood brought Buddy Holly back to mind. Like perhaps most people of my generation, I was introduced to that name by the Windows 95 music video by Weezer, featuring footage from Happy Days.


I was just about to publish the above when I decided to check my email first. I found one from Debbie about the three deer that have been frequenting her property. She mentioned that she had named one of the fawns "Fawn'se (like the TV show Happy Days and the character the Fonz or Fonzie)."

So while I was writing a post that mentioned deer and Happy Days, I got an email that mentioned deer and Happy Days.

3 comments:

Ra1119bee said...

William,
Part 1 of 2 
Since Fonzie and  Happy Daze, appears to be the main theme
 in our 'telepathic' sync,
I think that Fonzie and Daze may be the clues to follow
so as to find the WHY, the sync.

Especially perhaps for you given that same path
as the character Fonzie was
known for his motorcycle, his two thumbs up,
 his invented put-down: "Sit on it" and especially
being the epitome of 'cool'.
Note in the Weezer video post, it's Fonzie
who walks away with the girls, i.e the prize.

Fonzie was also a greaser which back in the day
was a subculture symbolic of rebellion,
which would symbolically explain WHY Fonzie's
connection to a motorcycle. 
A bicycle is 2 cycles, a motor gives those
2 cycles speed, which speed is a power source.

Recall I've commented many times about my
perspective regarding the symbolism of bi-cycles
and the Ferris Wheel.

Fozie's two thumbs up is interesting as we all know
especially in social media, that thumbs up means approval.
I also find the following interesting,
copy and paste: (link below.
Scroll down for the Mudra: Vajrapradama )

"Mudras, derived from the Sanskrit word for gesture,
 refer to hand positions for meditation.
 They come in different forms, each with meaning or intention.

Additionally, Ayurveda, the world’s oldest
holistic healing system,
 reveals that fingers act as electrical circuits.
 They represent different elements:

***Thumb – fire
Forefinger – wind
Middle finger – space or ether
Ring finger – earth
Little finger – water

The term “Vajrapradama” comes from the Sanskrit vajra,
which means “thunderbolt.”
 This mudra builds trust and self-confidence.
 
Practice it during challenging times when
**** you have to believe in yourself.****
~~~~~~~~~
Note the thumb meaning 'fire'.
Perhaps Fonzie's two thumbs up is
"starting the fire" ( another Billy Joel sync)
which starting a fire is what rebellion does best.

Also fire connects to your Page of Wands.
Copy and paste: 
"The key meanings of the Page of Wands:
Adventurous
Ambitious
Energetic and active
New beginnings
Skilled
When comparing what a person wants to "move"
and what is "moving" them, experiences become less important.
 ****That is the danger, and yet it is also a chance.

 Don't "lose" yourself and don't lose your chance.
 When this card appears, it's time for a new beginning
 that will bring someone to the point where they discover
 the true power and energy of their
****own fire and personal power.

The desert around him is symbolic of the corresponding
 element fire and your own "fire".
It is at the same time symbolic of the fact
 that you must not get lost, that you can't "lose" yourself."
~~~~~~~~~~~
Sounds familiar, or no?

Ra1119bee said...

William 
Part 2

Also Happy Days ( perhaps Daze?)
Copy and paste:
"daze(v.)
late 14c., dasen, "be stunned; make bewildered,"
 perhaps from Old Norse *dasa
(compare dasask "to become weary,"
 with reflexive suffix -sk). Or perhaps from Middle Dutch dasen
"act silly."
 Perhaps originally "to make weary with cold"
(a sense in English from c. 1400)."
~~~~~~~~~~
So if to be dazed is to be stunned, bewildered,
weary with cold, confused, (and some may say
brainwashed, or being demonically possessed)
and according to the Swedish dasa meaning :‘lie idle’,
which all of the above doesn't sound very Happy,
at least not to me.

Also interestingly deer are 'stunned
and idle when they sense danger aka
deer in the headlights.

However and on the other hand
and since everything has a dual nature,
we need the 'fire' to wake us back up from the cold
 and our idle state of dazement being
blinded by the light of the illusion.
Check out the 1973 song by Manfred Man
titled Blinded by the Light. ( link below )

Also I couldn't help but noticed in the Weezer video
the number 14 posted on the wall.
Recall my comments about Switzerland's
unofficial motto and the number 14.( see link )

Keep in mind William, and IMHO,
that synchronicity is given to us by our soul in
 many puzzle pieces(chaos) with
the objective and challenge being :
for us to find the answer as to WHY (aka the big picture)
we are given the messages.

 By connecting all of our gazillion puzzle pieces
( DOTS), we solve the puzzle
which is always the soul's ultimate goal,
that is, to know ourselves.

We only know ourselves when we find balance 
which is when we become 'whole' ( the circle complete).
Ordo ab Chao




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonzie

Vajrapradama 

https://thegreenleafmag.com/meditation-hand-positions-mudras-meanings/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greaser_(subculture)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_of_Wands

Manfred Mann - Blinded by the Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33ptulhhQPg


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unus_pro_omnibus,_omnes_pro_uno

WanderingGondola said...

The bucket magician pairing is notable considering the recent wizard theme.

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