dawn commands the stirring hours the source subtle and assertive concealed and mysterious zealous is the dark unable to abide a quiet hush disturbs the night as peaceful calm serenades the approaching light eerily entrancing unfolding and all encompassing horizon to horizon in a thousand wooden trees birds begin ...
Although I am a pocket watch My hands are too weak To tell the time For I am old And cannot speak I am not worth a dime. You keep me now For old times sake But every time I hear the hours chime My heart would break.
Finally I got the call. I've been sitting around waiting for some work to come up. Thats the way the new job goes. I'm on call for 5 weeks, and then I get 7 days off. I could work the entire 5 weeks, or just work for several days and then sit around waiting for more work. Its not as bad as it sounds, but it definitely isn't 14 days on and 14 days off like Alaska. I go in today to test the tools, inventory equipment, and check the computers. I don't know when the actual work ...
every person has the ability to live a deep, meaningful existence. the tragedy of life is that so many realize it is so late. we try to be rigid, to leave our mark. and we are in constant competition with others, although it is all futile- everyone is provided for without competition. our mark has to be placed outside of the normal means. our lives are deep because we have them, and we are important because of our dreams. dreams are important in and of themselves, just by having them...
what is on the mind? when i've studied buddhism, i've gone through a lot of its different philosophies. one concept i learned about at first was nirvana. it's interesting but as i studied different other things about it, i drifted to meditation, practice, the religion of it, the different schools, like zen or shin, and my efforts were very wide, but eventually you come back to the idea of the buddha. since the buddha is the unformed, everything formed is arising out of it. everything we see and ...