sometimes
a problem pops up
and you have three choices
ignore it
maybe it’ll go away
ask someone else
what to do about it
so you don’t have to
make a decision
on your own
and thus be responsible
or else deal with it
not the easiest option
but ultimately
the one that helps you
grow
and be the adult
you claim to be
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from A Pondering Mind’s blog
when life comes calling
the eyes droop
like eyes will
with sleep
a foreign concept
here
on the border
of what lies
ahead
one plans
in a fashion
a future
resembling
one’s vision
which is
worth living in
when life
comes calling
Glad Rain on a Spring Night by Du Fu (translation)
another translation from the Chinese by Mary Tang at Life is But This
Bertrand Russell Quote
from the blog A Pondering Mind
a difficult decision
either way you go
you lose
no rules
the heart
knows no rules
but its own
Lu Chai 鹿柴 by Wang Wei 王維 (translation)
a Wang Wei poem translated by Mary Tang on her Life is But This blog
my secret
oh tree
keep my secret
keep my secret
whispered to thee
and do not tell
do not tell
what was said
by me
“The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race…” 1859
From Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation blog
“The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race;
posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. “
~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859, English, economist, philosopher, writer
Leonard Durso 