the bird's head turns
so one eye is upon me,
something grows cold.
Bird’s Eye [Senryū]
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FIVE WISE LINES [July 2026]
Trust in Allah, but tether your camel.
Sufi Saying
[S]ome day you will be old enough to
C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe
start reading fairy tales again.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel proust
Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Mahatma gandhi
Learn as if you were to live forever.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael,
Pablo Picasso
but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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Solid [Haiku]
at day’s end,
atop the mountain, clouds
look like snowy peaks.
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DAILY PHOTO: Gwalior Fort Greenery
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PROMPT: Chaos
A little of every kind of stressor is good for us. A human is a system of antifragile systems. Our bones get denser if we load them. Our muscles get stronger when we cause microtears in them. And our minds can cope with a wider variety of experiences when exposed to a wider variety of experiences.
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DAILY PHOTO: Cliffside Kura River, Tbilisi
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DAILY PHOTO: July 4th; Stone Mountain Park’s 250th Program
PROMPT: Lesson
Daily writing prompt
What’s a lesson you’ve learned recently that shifted your perspective?
Just because a message has merit does not mean there is benefit in its delivery. For example, telling a person who is on fire and mad with itching not to scratch or telling a person to not be a jackass when their core nature is jackass. Saying such things will not nudge the state of the world and can only release the puff of hot air that creates chaos — like Edward Lorenz’s proverbial butterfly in Brazil that causes a tornado in Texas.
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DAILY PHOTO: Flame Towers & Grave Monument
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PROMPT: Sleep
Don’t know that I’m a proven authority on the subject, but I try to take the usual advice — e.g. no TV in the bedroom, keep it cool(ish,) and go to bed more or less the same time each night.
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