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If we could see the whole truth of any situation, our only response would be one of compassion.

Mingyur Rinpoche

yellow and black bird on black metal bar
Photo by Saad Chaudhry on Unsplash

rain
just
says
one
word
over
and
over

jobe


Common sense is not so common.

Voltaire


Link: Angel, a poem by Angela Jackson

it's the zen dog moon
the thunder moon to some
the buck moon to others
still more people have other names
for the full moon of July
yellow light on the pines
people in the park watching
their faces aimed up at the light
these are my neighbors
an old dog wanders by
unconcerned — not looking up at all
far away the master asked the student
"why does a dog have perfect Buddha nature?"
it’s because dogs don't care
if they have Buddha nature or not

jobe


Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah. It makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

Rumi


Link: Wetland, a poem by francine j. harris

the crows have come today
to count and measure the wounds of the earth

these wounds are large and numerous
and the crows announce them one by one

I am their witness

jobe


True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

Dalai Lama XIV

house in the middle of grass fields
Photo by Noah Buscher on Unsplash

the advertisement was for a rustic cabin for sale
looking at the photograph
I decided that rustic must mean beat all to hell
looking down at this aging body
one can see that I must be a rustic poet
and then
from somewhere outside of my also-rustic house
a dog began to bark
it barked for a very long time

jobe


There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Frank Zappa


because we are human we think
we must endeavor to be perfect
how foolish —
it is our perfect imperfections
that makes us human
we suffer, we sweat, we love
so just love yourself anyway
right now

jobe


A baseball poem from William Carlos Williams, because I am jonezin’ for baseball:

selective focus photography of white baseball balls on ground
Photo by Mike Bowman on Unsplash

The crowd at the ball game

The crowd at the ball game
is moved uniformly

by a spirit of uselessness
which delights them—

all the exciting detail
of the chase

and the escape, the error
the flash of genius—

all to no end save beauty
the eternal—

So in detail they, the crowd,
are beautiful

for this
to be warned against

saluted and defied—
It is alive, venomous

it smiles grimly
its words cut—

The flashy female with her
mother, gets it—

The Jew gets it straight— it
is deadly, terrifying—

It is the Inquisition, the
Revolution

It is beauty itself
that lives

day by day in them
idly—

This is
the power of their faces

It is summer, it is the solstice
the crowd is

cheering, the crowd is laughing
in detail

permanently, seriously
without thought

William Carlos Williams

WCW in his Easter hat.


The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

Jackie Robinson

Pee Wee & Jackie

Man, I love baseball. For one thing, I spent 25 years in radio; DJ, producer, sometimes I filled in for the newsperson. I was even a traffic guy up in the air for a short while. And baseball gives an announcer space. Time. Like no other sport, baseball announcers can really talk to you. For me, Vin Scully was the master. Jack Buck, Red Barber, Mel Allen, Phil Rizzuto, Joe Gargiola — there are others who were also very real. For humor, Bob Uecker. Uecker used to do an impression of Scully calling a game during a nuclear strike. Killer. Oh, yeah, Pee Wee and Jackie were cool, too. It’s not that long until pitchers and catchers report for spring training. Yeah.

jobe


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