DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Csillaghegy

PROMPT: Admired Profession

What profession do you admire most and why?

I most admire Mad Saints / Crazy Sages because it requires great courage to show a path of thwarting convention, and it demonstrates a level of freedom and self-realization unseen, elsewhere.

Furthermore, unlike the other major contenders, there is no bad motive for entering the field. So, if you want to talk on the whole. Many doctors chased pitiful motives like money, prestige, or simply doing what their parents told them to — unquestioningly. Some teachers became teachers based on the June through August dead time or the love of the power to make kids eat their meat by withholding the pudding. But all crazy sages became so because someone needs to point out the world outside the cave, and they had no capacity to do otherwise.

Summer’s Last Stand [Haiku]

cool, idyllic day:
summer rallies a last stand,
before the Fall.

Still-Life w/ Clouds [Haiku]

hay is baled, and
the pasture is empty:
still, but for cloud drift.

PROMPT: Shop

If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?

Experiences. There are already too many stores selling geegaws and tchotchkes, and people are too good at buying and collecting them. Experiences! Now there’s a market with plenty of room for growth.

DAILY PHOTO: Simontornya Castle

Cypress Glow [Haiku]

cypress tips
glow with afternoon sun:
yellow for a time.

DAILY PHOTO: Pipo-várkastély

PROMPT: Most Important Thing

What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time?

Awareness. It’s the only thing I take in the shower or through the metal detectors, or to every place I go – regardless of widely varying customs, rules, and etiquette.

Twins, Or: Spastic Gravity [Haiku]

twin butterflies 
spiral around each other
with spastic gravity.