Red Leopard

Once again, it’s the holidays; I’m not feeling very cheery.

“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell, and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will [...]

Eight forces sustain creation:
Movement and stillness,
Solidification and fluidity,
Extension and contraction,
Unification and division.
—Morihei Ueshiba

The Art of Peace functions everywhere on earth, in realms ranging from the vastness of space down to the tiniest plants and animals.
The life force is all-pervasive and its strength boundless.
The Art of Peace allows us to perceive and tap into that tremendous reserve of universal energy.
—Morihei Ueshiba

“Long you live and high you fly
And smiles you’ll give and tears you’ll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be”
—Pink Floyd, Breathe (second stanza)
One chooses or not. Nevertheless, one is; you are; I am. At the root of not knowing who one is a failure—or a refusal—to choose.
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“so far as i am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality…poetry is being, not doing. if you wish to follow, even at a distance, the poet’s calling (and here, as always, i speak from my own totally biased and entirely personal [...]