lions knew
The twin lions that guard the gates of Eastern temples are said to represent confusion and paradox, and anyone who seeks wisdom must be willing to pass through both.
times of no waves
times of no waves and sunny weather finally subduing the consistent rain and just getting awakened fully in the nature - the waterfall in the cove of the other day now a trickle - but what a idyllic trickle - and the mountains now lush and green and wind blowing strong in bursts and these four chickens like pets and the outside room get more and more, well, '快適' (kaiteki), as they say in these parts.
sometimes the sun
rain, so much rain of late, though this morning blue sky and enticing me out early to SUP across the ocean to distant cove and witness waterfall tumbling into sheltered bit of paradise whilst later serenely sitting, taken south by a current roused by northern winds, glided past leaves falling from trees just there on these white sand beaches whose clear oceans lap and lap and lap......
fish
swimming the other week now it was - normally all the fish - just going about their business - swimming - feeding - chilling - doing whatever fish do - but this one fish started to come for me - like - it's only a fish and all - but it was coming for me - me this comparatively big creature - but size didn't seem to matter - it had something to convey - it freaked me out - I'd flap my foot to keep it away - or wave my hand - all slow motion in it's fluid water world - kept it away for a second - before it relaunched itself towards me - I started swimming to shore - looking over my shoulder - still coming it was - like some kind of super awake being - a message for me - for us - for humankind - or just to nibble on me - but that seemed so not written on it's face - it's little fish face - all bursting with an urgency - that penetrated - beyond any layer of delusional superiority I may have held - that humans are greater than fish - hit me right in my core - maybe that was the message - though so felt like there was something more
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