rhetorical questions

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. 

I would like to see you living in better conditions. 

Hafez

A hummingbird buzzes by the lemon tree which is filled with fruit. The neighbor’s old cat lurks beneath the lovely young oak. There is a tight crispness to the breeze that whispers if you listen. A change is coming and even now in my own life autumn is easing into winter. The forecast for tomorrow calls for rain.

James Lee Jobe 

The Red Madras Headdress by Henri Matisse, 1907

The bodies dead from COVID-19 were stacked like Jenga blocks on the city sidewalks. These stacks were the same height as our mounting grief. How many coffins can you pull out before the stack falls and you lose? Does it even matter? Haven’t we all lost already? These questions are rhetorical; no one is left to hear me ask. Just the finches eating the birdseed that I leave scattered on the cold and empty patio.

James Lee Jobe

It is easy to get attached to any insight we have, 

especially if it is a profound one, but to be truly free, 

we must also let go of even our most precious realizations.

Santiago Santai Jiménez, “Free from Suffering and Free to Suffer”

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James