Bird

It's the first. A number, a digit, a finger pointing at the moon. 

Curving white reflection. 8% of full.

Orchids receive water. Gnarled roots snake through charcoal.

Tyrannical brooms caress leaves and stone. Yin-yang.

Charlie "Bird" Parker's sax...read and hear more>

Breath.

Metta.

Hallow's Eve

Your letters say, "A body is required. Unable to complete your request."

Waiting. 31 October. Dark is the night, cold is the ground.

Waiting for the night, for the quiet reflection shadows, waiting for you to rise and fly, to wander among friends,

Sharing stories and tales. Memories of laughter's bliss, music.

Dancing on graves smelling roses, hearing water. How you came to this place.

Bones rest in dust. Exhale exile. 

Waiting.

Spooky

So, the story goes. Once upon a time there was a chemist, physicist and economist out in a boat for a picnic.

One of them took out a soda bottle, "Whoops," they said, "we forgot the opener."

"No problem," said the chemist. "Just shake it up and the pressure will blow the top off."

"I have a better idea," said the physicist, "lean it at an angle until the heat from the sun creates pressure and the gas will force the top off."

"Excellent suggestions gentlemen," said the economist. "However, I suggest we assume we have an opener."

Metta.

Doing the Mango tango

 I go, we go, you go.

Mango. Super Fruit. Buy one, peel it down. Savor the succulent mass of alfa bet your sweet antioxidents.

A, C, E.

Ace a mango.

The humility of a mango. How the skin releases it's interior dally daily dialogue.

Being unknown. Practice flowing sensations, this dancing mango simplicity. 

Mr. Mango said, "Remember, there are two kinds of people in the world."

"What are they?" wondered a child.

"There are people who want to blame you and people who want to distract you."

"I see," said the child. "You mean, according to the philosopher, Damon Young, 'distraction is chiefly an inability to identify, attend to what is valuable, even when we are hard working or content.'"

"Yes," that is what I mean," laughed Mr. Mango doing the tango with some Taoist monks.

Metta.

 

We are all born free

We are all born free is a new children's picture book celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Synopsis:
We are all born free is an outstanding and beautiful picture book celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Artists and illustrators from all over the world offer their personal interpretation of the Articles, making them easy to understand for young readers. Children aged 6 and over will take great pleasure in discovering an exceptional illustration as well as a fundamental right on every page they turn.

Published by Frances Lincoln in association with Amnesty International, with forewords by David Tennant, who describes this collection as a 'beautiful book' in which 'you’ll find thirty rules for the world to live by' and John Boyne, for whom this book 'might be the most important one that you ever own.' 

We Are All Born Free has already been translated into more than 30 languages and sold over 200,000 copies.  more>>

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