True North
Every path I ever took
Led me in a direction
Often to a destination
(But not always)
I never found True North until
I stopped travelling
Paused
And noticed this place
Between what has gone before and
What is yet to come
This bitter sweet place of becoming
My own True North
Friday 17th June 2022 9:06 am
How to be Happy
Work long hours
In a job
That you hate
Make a shedload
Of money
Spend it on stuff
You don’t need.
If that doesn’t
Make you happy
Work longer hours
Make more money
Buy more stuff.
Do this until you are
Too old to do it
Any more.
If you’re still
Not happy
Then there must be
Something wrong
With you.
But I guess
You always knew that
Didn’t you.
(On behalf of the Economy
I t...
Monday 25th April 2022 6:44 am
What is life? What is death?
We begin with a small balloon.We blow into it.
It becomes inflated
With thoughts, opinions, judgements, beliefs.
With views, hopes, fears, worries.
With perspectives and dreams and all the ways in which we experience things
With all the obstacles we create and all the possibilities we allow.
We fill our balloon with problems and desires
With everything our imagination can enc...
Monday 7th February 2022 12:44 pm
Enlightenment
The Yellow Brick Road
Is turning to rubble now
Bright flowers push through.
I thought True North was
At the end of the rainbow
A warm hearth waiting.
But I find it here
In this trickling drop of rain
In this dragon fly.
Friday 14th January 2022 3:23 pm
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