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| RUSS MILLS |
Sacramento Valley Weather.
It is warm where I live.
In fact, what I would call cold
might feel quite pleasant
to a lot of this world's population.
Twelve days until Christmas.
Zipping up my light windbreaker
I head out into the long, dark night.
A waning moon. Still trees.
-James Lee Jobe
To recognize suffering is the beginning of healing.
-Dr. Bokin Kim
Bob Dylan - False Prophet
Now I lay me down to sleep.
You open your eyes and know exactly where you are
because you have woken up in the same place for many years.
You don’t like your shoes but wear them anyway; after all,
they’re only shoes, they fit, and you’re already late, you need to go.
You walk past a dog who looks up at you as if expecting
to be petted, and you consider it but you don’t break stride.
You say things to people to be polite, to be friendly,
but really if you never saw most of them again, would it matter?
Your life is beautiful, your life is a waste, your life
is a broken toilet seat, your life is fraught with despair.
Your day, though incomplete, is now complete,
and you end it with a meaningless prayer.
-James Lee Jobe
Whatever you are doing, take the attitude of wanting it, directly or indirectly, to benefit others.
-Pema Chödrön
Ready to fire, sir.
As farts go, this one was loud and powerful.
It sounded up and down the empty street
with no one else there but me to hear it.
-James Lee Jobe
The bad news: You're falling through the air with no parachute.
The good news: There's no ground.
-Chögyam Trungpa
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