You Are Here?

_ Howsaboy? 

_ Consuming and being consumed. And you?

_ Present and clear.

_ Birds chirp and sing the day’s dawning but they’re really not very nice.

_ All birds are birds of prey; they are just like you - consuming and being consumed. As far as nice goes, they’re just like me - present and clear. Personally, I have no idea what nice is, or what it leads to; I’d just as soon live without it.

_ We can live without a lot of stuff, and, if you don’t mind the alienation from your brethren, be a lot better off because of it.

_ I often wonder if its a coincidence that we all want the same shit at the same time; and how it magically appears on the shelf, in the showroom, or in your grocer’s freezer.

_ Or why we all hate the same people.

_ I’m not very patriotic.

_ Patriotism is a flawed attempt at realizing the essential unity of all.

_ Flawed? If it is the cause of suffering it is not flawed.

_ Consuming and being consumed...

_ Nice.

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... The numbing repetitiveness with which we go about living our lives  will ultimately be brought into question; unsought change will do so. And then what?

... I like to visit more than one cafe in a day’s time. Sometimes I even enter into conversations with somewhat rational people. For instance: Yesterday I was sitting in a cafe with my youngest daughter, enjoying the South American equivalent of Mayan chai - yerba mate; she contented herself with a steamed, mulled cider. I steered the conversation in the direction of the similarities existing between snorkeling and sitting on a stool sipping yerba. It’s all contingent on breathing... one wrong move and you’re dead. The young lady attending to our beverages agreed wholeheartedly. 


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