Category: humbleness
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Grey Day Meditation on the Collatz Conjecture
you don’t know what you don’t know and that’s okay because omnipotence must hurt in ways that you don’t know what you don’t know and that’s… 12-19-21
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AARP
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The retired Pied Piper tried to forget What he did to village children Sat on a park bench and thought There was much to learn from a pond: The way it does not flee away to the sea The way reflected clouds and trees don’t pollute water The way a stone will skip before it…
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Zen Gaelic
You caught the blue grey glint of a single pinwheeling feather falling from the sky. It left no ripple on the water as it sank. No one saw its surrender but you. 6-16-21
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Walking meditation with Thich Nhat Hanh
1) moss comes green on the morning after rain halfway to your destination not wanting to crush haploid to diploid dance you stand paralyzed 2) a crow lands on a limb above your head shakes chill water from leaves you continue on in a village of plums bloom words “each mindful step, reminds us that…
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cup of confidence
Because I never waited on tables I didn’t learn to carry coffee and walk at the same time Every morning my confidence spills over the brim and drips upon one shoe 4-12-21
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Stopping to feast along a gravel road
1) Rancid meat only vultures crave; they never wait their turn to tear flesh from bones of what remains. I slow down to avoid interrupting the feast and wonder, if vultures eat vulture roadkill or leave it for the crows. 2) On my office shelf sits mom’s old schoolbook, 101 Famous Poems, copyright 1929. Sometimes,…
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The rehearsal
We rehearse for a performance unaware it has begun until applause begins We don’t know, if it is for the curtain opening or closing We wait for silence to adlib the next line “A pearl doesn’t know it’s value or understand it irritated the oyster…..” before the clapping begins again 4-1-21
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Lessons learned at the foot of a tree
lie down at the feet of a tree look up there are many possible ways to ascend 4-1-21
My husband's poetry 