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- Winged
with Death Reviews
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If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory for you, not in your intellect, perhaps, which lags marveling behind, but in your inmost consciousness, waking and cognizance. You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. Perhaps you do carry within yourself the possibility of shaping and forming as a particularly happy and pure way of living; train yourself to it -- but take whatever comes with great trust, and only if it comes out of your own will, out of some need of your inmost being, take it upon yourself and hate nothing.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To a Young Poet
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Police action
john baker, June 15th, 2007. 5 comments. Filed under humour, miscellaneous, quotations.
In Vermont a woman was arrested and charged with staring at a police dog in a taunting/harassing manner.
Kelly Green, a public defender appointed by Vermont District Court in Orange County, to represent the woman, likened the act to giving a police officer the finger, apparently a form of expression protected by rights accorded under the First Amendment.
After watching a video of the incident, the State’s Attorney decided to drop all charges.
And so did the doggie have a problem with it all, John…
I need a holiday. 🙂
jb says: Hi Suzan. Real trauma involved, I imagine; and a life of crime.
Hanging is too good for such behaviour. I hope the dog has fully recovered from this trauma.
jb says: Alas, no, Andrew. They say all initial counselling has failed. Deep therapy next.
Ha-Ha, John! There’s no denying you have a real penchant for caustic wit. You’d be a winner at writing comic novels. Maybe you’ll review a few for us sometime. 🙂
jb says: I was just reading an interview with Kiran Desai. She reminds us: The best jokes come from very dark places.
The best jokes come from very dark places.
Very darkly humorous John.
John
Wow! what an idea ! What a concept ! Beautiful .. Amazing