Random Awesomeness

They can spot the culprit And magnify it on a screen Those scientists and doctors Can pinpoint that nasty gene And with a little engineering They can take that wayward train And they can get it back on track So you're smart, straight, thin, and sane ------ Loudon Wainwright III ------------------------------------------------- Last night I watched [...]

Things do get old. They dry up and fold. Decrepit dermis. Decay and mold. Climate of sin. On succulent skin. Will crinkle and crack. Ooze from within. Still is the bone. Not written in stone. Moving like marrow. There to atone. Come not the end. This body, this friend. Nurture its nature. And live on [...]

Inhale (two, three four, five six... ) Exhale (two, three, four, five, six... ) So much is different, so much the same. I sit here in silence, with a million thoughts. None of which matter. None of which will stay with me long enough to even make to this page. A testimony to my practice, [...]

And so it goes... Goodness only knows The bag, the boil, the big fat foil. Nothing left of those... To start anew... Shared with but a few In love, in life, in all my strife. So much work to do... Random as it be... Never only me A gift, a glance, a second chance. Solid [...]

“Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who’s bound to have some characteristic of quality.”  ------ Robert M. Pirsig, (Zen and [...]