*image by Ben Harubin

 

Another Little Conversation:
Father: "Leave wild animals alone; you can never tame them."
Son: "But how do you know about any specific one if you don't try?"
Father: "That particular one I know about -- BELIEVE me -- I know all about."

One day one man had this verbal vision:
"To be alive is to be temporarily present, and to be dead
is to be permanently absent."
But then, in a trice, he saw it even further.
"To be alive and asleep is to be temporarily present, but to be dead and
awakened is to be forever missing and on your mark."

"Drifting!"
suddenly thought one man,
"my problem is simply drifting."

In another galaxy, on another planet, the various methods employed by the creatures
to work for that special realization were reflected in the names of the three schools
devoted to that end:
the watch it,
the be careful,
and the stop!
(There was a rumored fourth, but which had no name, and about which those alleged
to be involved never spoke, so it is not possible to include by direct mention in this report.)

There is a particular journey in which the ultimate destination can be reached
only when you're running on empty.

And back here on Earth, in a time zone no longer much used, was once a man
who attempted to establish his own personal approach to that unique discovery,
which he referred to as "Don't call me, and I won't call me"
(whose subsequent little use may help account for that zone's decline.)