Slow food

Assorted Fruits and Nuts

Tonsorial Update

Gosh all git up! How'd they get so lit up?
Gosh all git up! How'd they get that size?
Golly gee! When you turn those heaters on,
Woe is me!
Got to get my cheaters on, Jeepers Creepers!
Where'd ya get those peepers? Oh! Those weepers!
How they hypnotize!
Wher'd ya get those eyes?

Johnny Mercer

When I'm alone and blue as can be, dream a little dream of me

Unburdoning myself

Now the only thing

a gambler needs,
Is a suitcase

and a trunk,
And the only time

he's satisfied,
Is when

he's on

a drunk.

Oh mother

tell your children,
Not to do

what I

have done:
To spend your life

in sin and misery,
In the house of the Rising Sun.

From the dark watches of the night 'til the wee hours of the morning

May you dream of magic

Solstice Eve and the Veil is thin

Don't fall asleep next to an ass.

Lovingly,

Bottom

Heiligenschein

Turn up your audio, click here and if this don't make you smile, I'll give you a bazillion simoolians.

Karaniya Metta Sutta

This is what should be done

By one who is skilled in goodness,

And who knows the path of peace:

... Wishing: In gladness and in safety,
May all beings be at ease.
Whatever living beings there may be;
Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none,
The great or the mighty, medium, short or small,
The seen and the unseen,
Those living near and far away,
Those born and to-be-born —
May all beings be at ease!
Let none deceive another,
Or despise any being in any state.
Let none through anger or ill-will
Wish harm upon another.
Even as a mother protects with her life
Her child, her only child,
So with a boundless heart
Should one cherish all living beings;
Radiating kindness over the entire world
Spreading upwards to the skies,
And downwards to the depths;
Outwards and unbounded,
Freed from hatred and ill-will.
Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down
Free from drowsiness,
One should sustain this recollection.This is said to be the sublime abiding....
Let none deceive another,
Or despise any being in any state.
Let none through anger or ill-will
Wish harm upon another.
Even as a mother protects with her life
Her child, her only child,
So with a boundless heart
Should one cherish all living beings;
Radiating kindness over the entire world
Spreading upwards to the skies,
And downwards to the depths;
Outwards and unbounded,
Freed from hatred and ill-will.
Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down
Free from drowsiness,
One should sustain this recollection.
This is said to be the sublime abiding....

Golden Bough at Black Diamond

Síocháin

Peace

The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad

In the blackness of the cave Sinbad hears the hiss of serpents outside and for a moment the boy experiences, with intense lucidity, a double world:  he is in the black cave, in the Valley of Diamonds, and at the same time he feels his arm pressing against the fuzzy blue blanket and smells the smoking hot dogs and the river. The great mountains soar, waves from the speedboat lap the sand, diamonds glisten, the sun burns down on the backs of his legs, the serpents hiss outside the cave, a pine cone the size of a valley diamond lies on the blanket beside his mother's straw beach bag and her white rubber bathing cap.  He would like to prolong this moment, when the two worlds are held in harmony, he would like this moment to last forever.

Steven Millhauser

Next Stop: Oakland

With his long hair flyin', man, he's hard to take.
What you s'posed to do when your baby thinks he's a train?

He eats money like a train eats coal.
He burns it up and leaves you in the smoke.

Leroy Preston

Alchemy

If through your burning you turn yourself to ash, 

Your ashes will become the philosopher's stone in the

     Invisible

Which birthed you from a handful of dust

And created the whole earth from the foam of the sea

And built all the heaven from black smoke! 

This is the sacred stone that takes a piece of bread

And turns it into power for our whole life

And transmutes our vital breath into consciousness.

Rumi

Andrew Harvey, translator

Blue Tango

 Here I am with you, in a world of blue,

While we're dancing to the tan-go we loved when first we met.

While the music plays, I recall the days,

When our love was a turn that we couldn't soon forget.

Mitchell Parish

Late last night

I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took away my old man

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Joni Mitchell

Up a lazy river

Linger in the shade of an old oak tree
Throw away your troubles, dream a dream with me

Lazy River

Hoagy Carmichael and Sidney Arodin