Laughter
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rain dances pool
bubble life
musical interlude sings magic
concentric rings
water above / below
unconscious flow
dancing laughter
bird soars free
testing air
Ling's Vision
rain dances pool
bubble life
musical interlude sings magic
concentric rings
water above / below
unconscious flow
dancing laughter
bird soars free
testing air
Ling's Vision
Ferocious afternoon waves wind magic
Midnight Blue Ink
Pigment
Prussian Blue
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Wave cloud
Empty beach lone butterfly
Boat sails into a mirror on silver edges
Sparkling dancing light curls waves
Floating world
Yellow slivers of happiness signal a metaphor
Luxury shadows - deep eyes stare people
Star trails
Strong deliberate wind
Tides
Geo therm o nuclear laughter
Flies a kite
Low season
Energy and matter
Animate and inanimate objects
Grow Your Soul - Prose & Poems Laos/Cambodia
Rural Burma.
Blindfish heads whisper The Sea, The Sea. Silver scales reflect light.
A woman hacks chickens. Blood streams down circular wooden tree rings.
The gravity of thinking sits on a suspended handheld iron pan scale.
A white feather sits in the other pan.
Balance.
Twenty-six varieties of rice mountains peak in round metal containers or scarred wooden boxes.
Horse drawn cart traps unload people and produce. Neck bells tinkle: Star light star bright first star I see tonight, I wish I may I wish I might get the wish I wish tonight. Well. Fed horses paw dirt.
Ancient diesel tractor engines attached to a steel carcass hauling people and produce bellow black smoke.
Old wooden shuttered shops with deep dark interiors display consumables, soap, thread waiting for a conversation, stoic curious dark-eyed women, others laughing at the benign crazy traveler.
A ghost-self sits in meditative silence, absorbing rainbow sights, sounds, colors, smells, feeling a calm abiding joy.
Wander and wonder.
Two new teachers arrived for three weeks. One tall relaxed American male has serious eyes. His Irish female’s unhappiness confronting the hardship assignment masked emotional distress and deep bitterness.
She lived at the girl's dorm fifteen minutes away by dusty footprints. I feel isolated, she lamented.
Cry me a river, said human nature.
Hardship and deprivation develops character, said an Asian child.
Don’t give me that crap, she said. I have twenty years of teaching experience and this is hell.
Hell is other people, said Sartre.
Be a good Catholic girl and make a confession, said Personal Problem.
It’s life lesson #5, said a child.
Yeah, yeah, said the whining adult eating her frustration and anger garnished with succulent tomatoes.
The world is a village.
Foreign couples wearing polarizing shades of ignorance incredulous doubt and wonder stroll sand staring inland at strangers staring back.
Walking eyes survey tables, chairs, people and eateries.
Strangers all. Scarce few see sea.
No drugs. No weapons. Leave your ego at the door.
Sweating runners with pulse armbands tread grains.
Workers set up beach lounges, switch on espresso machines, fire up kitchen stoves, hack ice, replenish beer supplies.
Waves erase footprints. Sleeping canines cur into sand.
Beach orchestra builds its daily tempo.
A young Italian woman unfolds a blue towel on sand. She lies face down. Pushing up with her arms she assumes a yoga posture eyes straight ahead on a blue green sea. Her spine weaves vertebrae like a wave. Calm centered grounded and focused.
Visitors stagger from beds, walk foam, eat, stare at waves evolving from a flat lined horizon holding green island hideouts. People plan to sit or go. Yes go. Go for a walk, a swim adventure.
1) kick boxers attack mangoes, chop ice while shifting gears after school in the wind
2) six month cradle infants wail at the hospital for a blue placebo pill
3) oven fired waffles scrapes a boy pedaling his bike seeking recycled trash before wicker baskets say hello
4) spare change searches for user value collecting cardboard images in a squall
5) red ink meets onion paper at an intersection whispering secrets without speaking sparrows
“I want to know the truth mother. Living safely is dangerous.”
“The truth,” she said, “is that life is an absurd comic process. If you laugh you last. Our illusionary insecurities and real authenticities evolve. Life is a celebration, a dance and process of becoming. It is a beautiful harsh short messy dream come true. It’s magic. We adapt, adjust and evolve. There’s no rhyme or reason. Life is not a career, it’s a game.
He escaped Turkey after fifty-one days of learning and enlightenment. He’d returned because he was curious about Trabzon. He appreciated the hospitality and kindness of strangers at ground zero.
He discovered he was too sensitive to Turkish suffering and repressed aggression.
A little luck goes a long way.
One door closes one door opens.
He felt tranquil seeing red and green-checkered diamond and rectangular Cambodian earth patterns. Small human habitats with flickering candles in windows illuminated manuscripts.
Let's go home, said a grateful cloud passing by. We know you by now.
Decompress language and your quality of life with slow steps and smiles.
Laughter and curiosity joined simplicity sanctuary and serenity.
Veni. Vidi, Vinci.
He came, he saw, he lived.
Good-bye and good luck to you and your family.