Taking the fun out of gambling.

Joshua Tree National Park, California

Spring continues with more rain

The evergreen trees seem to shine

As if they had been polished

Perhaps by giant hands

And the oaks and the elms sport new buds

Everywhere I look life continues

The winter chores I didn’t get to come to mind

I meant to trim the peach tree

And I meant to clear out some undergrowth

Instead I was sick and wrote a lot of poems

But why beat myself up for that

Poetry outranks yard work

Everyone knows that

I’ll let mother nature take charge of the yard

Again

James Lee Jobe

Life is not the taking possession of anything, but a taking part in everything. 

Lama Govinda

Be yourself, says the sun, the explosion is yet a long ways off.

James Lee Jobe

Taj Mahal - Catfish Blues

He stood in front of me and glared

And his glance was unafraid

A lizard on a trail in the yuba river country

James Lee Jobe

A poem from David Whyte

THE BELL AND THE BLACKBIRD

The sound

of a bell

still reverberating,

or a blackbird

calling

from a corner

of a

field.

Asking you

to wake

into this life

or inviting you

deeper

to one that waits.

Either way

takes courage,

either way wants you

to be nothing

but that self that

is no self at all,

wants you to walk

to the place

where you find

you already know

how to give

every last thing

away.

The approach

that is also

the meeting itself,

without any

meeting

at all.

That radiance

you have always

carried with you

as you walk

both alone

and completely

accompanied

in friendship

by every corner

of the world

crying

Allelujah.

David Whyte

I pray that your flowered dreams have blossomed like summer.

James Lee Jobe

If something is not working out, do not hold on to it for too long just because you have already invested a lot of time and effort. Knowing the right time to give up is a form of wisdom. Giving up does not mean the end but the beginning of a new path. 

Haemin Sunim

A virus that floats in the air

COVID-19

You can breathe and end up dead

And yet you have to breathe to live

This game is rigged I tell ya

The fix is in

The dice are loaded

The deck stacked with marked cards

What can you do

But cash in the chips you have left

And go on home

COVID-19

Is taking all the fun out of gambling

James Lee Jobe

Khaleesi, Mother of Dragons, granddaughter

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