December 29, 2022

       Marie Bortolotto 2022

A thatch hut in blue mountains beside a green stream
after so many years visits are now up to me
a few peach and plum trees blooming red and white
a green and yellow field of vegetables and wheat
all night I sit in bed listening to rain
when it clears I open the window and doze off watching clouds
nothing in life is better than being free
but getting free isn’t luck

Shiwu Qingqong 1272 - 1352
The Mountain Poem of Stonehouse
Translated by Red Pine/Bill Porter






 

December 28, 2022

 Actor David Cassidy's last words (2017): 

"So much wasted time"

December 11, 2022

Marie Bortolotto 2022                                                          
 

 

"To stay young
To save the world,
Break the mirror."

- excerpted from "Break the Mirror"

- Nanao Sakaki, Japanese Wandering Poet, 1923 - 2008