hum

I want two
arms to wrap
themselves around me

when I cry

yours are the
only ones I
can think of

perhaps I will
use my own …

Yes! it works!
I can hug
me by myself!

19:2-5
Ha-sha-my-im meh-sa-peh-rim ka-vohd Kail,
U-mah-ah-say ya-dive mah-gid ha-ra-ki-ah.
Yom-le-yom ya-bee-ah oh-mer,
Va-ly-la le-ly-la ya-cha-vey da-aht.
Ain-oh-mer va-ain deh-va-rim,
Beh-li nish-mah ko-lahm.
Beh-kawl-ha-ah-retz ya-tzah ka-vahm,
U-vik-tzay tay-vail me-lay-hem.

34:13-15
Mi-ha-ish hey-chah-faytz chah-yim,
Oh-hayv yah-mim li-rote tov?
Neh-tzor le-shon-chah may-rah,
Uus-fah-tay-chah mi-dah-bayr mir-mah.
Sur may-rah va-ah-say-tov,
Ba-kaysh sha-lom va-rad-fay-hu.

18:26-27
Im-chah-sid, tit chah-sahd,
Im-ga-var ta-mim, ti-ta-mahm,
Im-na-var, tit-bah-rar,
Va-im-ee-kaysh, tit-pah-tal.

150:4-6
Hal-le-lu-hu ba-tof u-ma-chol,
Hal-le-lu-hu ba-mi-nim va-u-gav.
Hal-le-lu-hu ba-tzil-tz-lay sha-mah,
Hal-le-lu-hu ba-tzil-tz-lay ta-ru-ah.
Kol han-sha-ma ta-ha-lail Yah,
Ha-le-lu-yah.

Turn from evil, and do good,
Seek peace and pursue it.
…
Let all that breathes praise the Eternal

Mary

“The acceptance of suffering is a journey into death. Facing deep pain, allowing it to be, taking your attention into it, it is to enter death consciously. When you have died this death, you realise that there is no death - and there is nothing to fear. Only the ego dies.”

Tree is company

You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait. You need not even wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

The ultimate aim of all love affairs is more important than all other aims in man’s life; and therefore it is quite worthy of the profound seriousness with which everyone pursues it. What is decided by it is nothing less than the composition of the next generation.

the bird
i thought
was making
funny noises
turns out
to be
a squirrel

suddenly i
recognise
the footprint of
my father
somewhere
behind
in the back of
my
mind

suddenly
i
fear
and
hope

everything
is
as it
is

i eat
“fruit,
nuts
and seeds”

an aeroplane
flies
over
me

(chew, write, think, breathe)
nothing much

i
miss
the sound
of her
voice

i
need
to learn
to live
with-out.

i
need
to learn
to feel
no-thing

“Everybody has certain ideals which determine the direction of his endeavours and his judgements. In this sense I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty. The ordinary objects of human endeavour - property, outward success, luxury - have always seemed to me contemptible.”

A jigsaw, we
are all part
of a jigsaw

Little, individual pieces
we shall find
our perfect matches
to click with
and feel complete

No piece must
be lost, each
piece uniquely valuable
A single piece
goes missing, and
the jigsaw’s ruined