Shadow-dappled [Haiku]

shadow-dappled
forest floor stretches to a
confusion of trees.

DAILY PHOTO: Lapu-Lapu, Rizal Park

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Photograph of the Statue of the Sentinel of Freedom, aka. Lapu-Lapu, in Rizal Park of Manila, Philippines.

PROMPT: Future Self

Daily writing prompt
If your future self could send you one sentence, what do you hope it would say?

“Don’t worry, I’ll make sure we die in a reasonably robust mental and physical state.”

I don’t want my future self to get comfortable with the idea of pooping ourself in bed or forgetting the few people we know just because he’s gotten more cowardly about death in its proximity.

DAILY PHOTO: Qatari Ministry of the Interior

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Photograph from a park of the Qatari Interior Ministry building.

PROMPT: Best

Daily writing prompt
What’s the best local dish you’ve ever eaten while traveling?

I’m not big on tabulating the “best” this or that. It feels like it hamstrings experience and puts one in a comparison mode in which one is always living half in the past. If it looks good, eat it, and then move on to the next experience — giving that experience your presence.

DAILY PHOTO: Bridges of Jurong Lake Gardens, Singapore

Photograph of a Japanese Garden Bridge in the Jurong Lake Gardens of Singapore.
Photograph of the Double Beauty Bridge in the fore and Cloud Pagoda in the rear, in the Jurong Lake Gardens of Singapore.
Photograph of the Double Beauty Bridge of the Chinese Garden in the Jurong Lake Gardens of Singapore during the day.

PROMPT: Schools

Daily writing prompt
What’s a thing you wish schools actually taught?

It’d be nice if schools taught people how to NOT be docile, unquestioning worker-bees.

One can come through today’s education system with a PhD without emotional intelligence, self-confidence (beyond one’s silo,) a capacity to think soundly about a range of topics outside one’s discipline such that one recognizes potential unintended consequences and counter-intuitive influences, with an intolerance of competing worldviews, and with a lack of humility about what one knows and what humanity as a whole knows.

Stone Bridge [Haiku]

in the forest,
an old stone bridge;
the sole work of man.

DAILY PHOTO: Reflection

DAILY PHOTO: Riverfront Property, Bratislava

Photograph of buildings facing the Danube River in Bratislava, Slovakia. Taken from the Old Bridge (i.e. Starý most.)
Photograph of Eurovea buildings and park facing the Danube River in Bratislava, Slovakia. Taken from the Old Bridge (i.e. Starý most.)