A quick glance at yonder tree reveals A trunk, boughs, branches, leaves, some roots, and maybe fruit. But looking deeply, as the Buddhists say, Discloses more than leaf and bark, Discloses sunlight, water, air, earth, time, space, The planter, his forebears and his offspring, Countless animals and minibeasts that at one time or another, Have … Continue reading Look At Yonder Tree!
The other day, while traversing a zebra crossing at a leisurely pace, a car almost ran over me. ‘Come on boyo, hurry up, will you? This isn’t a park!’ shouted the driver. Indeed! My foot had barely touched the pavement when the car vroom-vroomed, rushing past me at great speed, brushing my back ever so … Continue reading Hey! Slow Down!
Yesterday was my birthday. My twenty-third. The problem with that is not that time passes too quickly, but that it passes at all. As one birthday succeeds another they lose their significance and gradually acquire fatalistic connotations. Another birthday, another milestone on the highway to Lady Death... I can understand why children and people with … Continue reading Happy Birthday to Me!
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