WoodWideWorld

I am not sure whether it is nominative determinism or not, but I do have a great attraction to trees and old pieces of wood.

Both my garden and house are full of pieces of wood, as well as any other piece of nature which has an interesting look about it. It is irresistible to me to make diorama's out of these things, and create little fantasy worlds to beckon my imagination of dream places and nowhere landscapes.

I have a wooden bench in the garden which I like to sit on and watch the birds and squirrels do their thing, but I don't like talking to people while sitting on it. Because I am rather sensitive, the vibrations of their speech tend to reverberate through the bench and into me. While I can tolerate someone talking out of their arse, it is much more difficult to tolerate someone talking into mine!

I take the tortoise's path, by doing it slowly over time with a strategical approach. The hares achieve more earlier on, but eventually the tortoise will achieve its goal and with a different result. If I become a teacher, my pupils can reply to anyone who asks who taught them - “the tortoise taught us”.

“Edmund, there's a tortoise overtaking you”, said my primary school teacher as I reluctantly walked back to class after the bell had rung, and I looked to see where the tortoise was. Perhaps it wasn't overtaking me, but taking over me.

You are always on the path,
and so there is not a time or place in the future
when you achieve its goal.
Sip it all day long.

The body is a temple.
God looks after his own house.
The ego frets and does the dusting.

Here I am, in the divine maze,
where whichever way I go,
ends here.

I like to be one step ahead which is why I am practicing my second childhood by remaining in my first.

No story will set you free

“Free will” is just a name for it.

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