DAILY PHOTO: Overgrown Fortification, Nagara Fort

Taken in March of 2023 near Kodachadri

PROMPT: Direction

What gives you direction in life?

I’m a compass guy, but – like everyone else – increasingly use Google Maps.

PROMPT: Quote

Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?

Four, actually:

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Plato (attributions vary)

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare (in HamLet)

Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.

Epictetus

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

James a. Michener

PROMPT: Holiday

What is your favorite holiday? Why is it your favorite?

Thanksgiving. No gifting. Full bellies. And the world would be a much better place if we all took more time to feel gratitude.

Ikkyū Limerick

There was a Zen master named Ikkyū
   who was thought by many to be cuckoo. 
 He'd allow a toot
  on his very own flute.
 Which was unbecoming of flutists (& monks, too.)

Water Lilies [Haiku]

standing proudly,
in the murky step well:
water lilies.

Painted Stork [Haiku]

a painted stork, 
at water’s edge,
seeks its moment.

DAILY PHOTO: A Corner Building with Cupola in Budapest