I don’t want heaven, were it excluding my dog, snakes,
sharks, lions, weeds, non-believers, the bad, ...
We’re fundamentally the same. Fate created them, us,
different as we, they are. Can they, we, help it?
June 2013
June 2013
Thursday, November 12, 2015
I Need You
I Need You
“I don’t need ice cream. I need you.” So said an old, near dying man to a young woman with ice cream who had taken care of him.
Living
in a rented apartment before, he offered her to stay with him. “Welcome
home.” He wrote on the table with a flower in a vase when she came in.
“This is your home,” the very old man said. His friends who visited him
in the hospital, asked him who she was. He said “she is my wife” though
they were never married.
That
must be the highest honor, the greatest reward for a woman when a man
could speak something like that. I imagine him, needing her love as the sun, even more than heaven.
August 2011
What’s The Use Of Just Knowing A Name?
What’s the use of merely knowing his name, Bach, when
you‘ve never heard, enjoyed his works. Some of his works I've heard are
unforgettable. I always will know, love, remember him when I hear these, though
I might not remember his name or even not know his name.
And it’s the same with knowing Picasso, Leo Tolstoy, ... No
use knowing them when you never saw, read, heard, enjoyed their works.
Their works, your thoughts are the real things not their
names, your name.
But today you could easily hear, see their works in You Tube or read them in a book.
But today you could easily hear, see their works in You Tube or read them in a book.
May 2013
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
The Gelatik And Benji, The Dog
The Gelatik And Benji, The Dog
Have you ever seen the Gelatik bird. She is so lovely, in grey and black and a red-rose beak, so frisky and so charming as a stewardess.
What would she say if someone offered her a home safe from predators, hunters, place it for honored guests to see in a brilliant hall of a palace with hundreds of candles. She doesn’t have to search for food or water, it would be provided, served on a plate and a cup of gold.
Said the bird: “Though not safe from the hawk, the snake, shot, trapped by man, though not protected from rain, and storm and drink but water from the rice field, a ditch, or have to provide myself with food, endure intense hunger and thirst during drought, give me my freedom, rather than be caged in a beautiful bird house, protected and well provided. I want to fly, have my nest though just of woven grass, find my mate and happily raise my baby chicks.
I’d rather like Benji to be as a wild animal and leaves us, instead of loving us. But Benji when urged to stay away, leave us, and be free, he stays, though we give him but knuckles of pork as his food or has to sleep outside on the floor. Where we go, he goes, where we stay, there he stays and there too, he’s most happy and at home.
And I mused, which is the better, being free or being bound?
August 18, 2004
December 2012
Have you ever seen the Gelatik bird. She is so lovely, in grey and black and a red-rose beak, so frisky and so charming as a stewardess.
What would she say if someone offered her a home safe from predators, hunters, place it for honored guests to see in a brilliant hall of a palace with hundreds of candles. She doesn’t have to search for food or water, it would be provided, served on a plate and a cup of gold.
Said the bird: “Though not safe from the hawk, the snake, shot, trapped by man, though not protected from rain, and storm and drink but water from the rice field, a ditch, or have to provide myself with food, endure intense hunger and thirst during drought, give me my freedom, rather than be caged in a beautiful bird house, protected and well provided. I want to fly, have my nest though just of woven grass, find my mate and happily raise my baby chicks.
I’d rather like Benji to be as a wild animal and leaves us, instead of loving us. But Benji when urged to stay away, leave us, and be free, he stays, though we give him but knuckles of pork as his food or has to sleep outside on the floor. Where we go, he goes, where we stay, there he stays and there too, he’s most happy and at home.
And I mused, which is the better, being free or being bound?
August 18, 2004
December 2012
Mickey And The Landlord
Mickey And The Landlord
Mickey said: “Why do you chase me away? Is this your land?”
“This is my house, my land. I’ve bought it. Here is the certificate.” So said the landlord.
“Sure,” said Mickey Mouse, “but I am also an inhabitant, citizen of the earth. I have also a right on a part of it. I haven’t sold my right to you or anybody. Why then do you have your house on a part of my land? Has the seller or the government the right to own the land and sell the land that belongs to all the world inhabitants without permission? What do you say? Ha, ha.”
April 2009
Mickey said: “Why do you chase me away? Is this your land?”
“This is my house, my land. I’ve bought it. Here is the certificate.” So said the landlord.
“Sure,” said Mickey Mouse, “but I am also an inhabitant, citizen of the earth. I have also a right on a part of it. I haven’t sold my right to you or anybody. Why then do you have your house on a part of my land? Has the seller or the government the right to own the land and sell the land that belongs to all the world inhabitants without permission? What do you say? Ha, ha.”
April 2009
The Gelatik Bird And The Farmer
The Gelatik Bird And The Farmer
“ Hi, Gelatik. Don’t eat, steal my paddy,” said a farmer.
Said the Gelatik. “Sure you bought and planted the paddy but the paddy is not yours but of the paddy plants and they present it to anyone who would like to take and eat them. If you forbid, then you should guard, watch over it, you greedy man. I don't steal your paddy. You have no right to forbid me.”
April 2009
December 2012
“ Hi, Gelatik. Don’t eat, steal my paddy,” said a farmer.
Said the Gelatik. “Sure you bought and planted the paddy but the paddy is not yours but of the paddy plants and they present it to anyone who would like to take and eat them. If you forbid, then you should guard, watch over it, you greedy man. I don't steal your paddy. You have no right to forbid me.”
April 2009
December 2012
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