
egrets & herons
stand on lily pads, only
sinking when stepping.

egrets & herons
stand on lily pads, only
sinking when stepping.

gray-green waters
shimmer in summer sun:
leaves flutter onshore.


Chess. You can play it anywhere (online, on a phone, on a board, etc.,) everyone knows the rules, and it’s a cognitive workout – rather than being a tedious timepass.
“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.”
Duncan in Act I, Scene 4
“Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.”
Macbeth in Act I, Scene 7
“when our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors”
Wife of Macduff in Act IV, Scene 2
“Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat up the honest men and hang them up.”
Son of Macduff in Act IV, Scene 2
“Life ‘s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing.
Macbeth in Act V, Scene 5