Revisiting Visit
While Julian and I were visiting Cyndie in Boston for the Thanksgiving weekend, Julian took this shot of us up on the rooftop deck of Cyndie’s apartment with the view of downtown. It looks like I would fit right in, doesn’t it?
Relative Something
*this* John W. Hays' take on things and experiences
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Relative Something 
Well, yes, because ‘home is where the heart is’ …. and:
Meditation is not just a rest or retreat from the turmoil of the
stream or the impurity of the world. It is a way of being the stream,
so that one can be at home in both the white water and the eddies.
Meditation may take one out of the world, but it also puts one totally
into it – Gary Snyder, from “Just One Breath, ” Tricycle, Summer 1995 ”
― Gary Snyder
AND:
I DREAM’D in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of
the
earth;
I dream’d that was the new City of Friends;
Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love—it led the rest;
It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,
And in all their looks and words. Walt Whitman
And once again, John, here Whitman is talking to you in particular, I think:
O ME! O life!… of the questions of these recurring;
Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities fill’d with the foolish;
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more
faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light—of the objects mean—of the struggle ever
renew’d;
Of the poor results of all—of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me;
Of the empty and useless years of the rest—with the rest me intertwined;
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
Answer.
That you are here—that life exists, and identity;
That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.
Well, either way, you will contribute a verse – that is for sure.
Ian Rowcliffe
December 13, 2011 at 8:25 pm
Many thanks, dear friend. A treasure to read.
johnwhays
December 13, 2011 at 8:45 pm