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something came over me just now, as i finished writing holiday cards to ppl in japan. my grandmother is in a private hospital, blowing all her decades of savings in the high-income ward where she was placed when she collapsed from diabetes complications. she cycles in an out of good health according to my mother, who flies back and forth between DC and nagoya in the final months of her 30-year employment at the world bank. my mom bikes back and forth from the hospital to the little wooden row-house (長屋) that survived air-raids during WWII, virtually untouched since that time.

back and forth
in and out
up and down

how to break free of this incessant cycle of death and rebirth?

only through struggle...
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xaxuaturtle said…
beautiful thoughts from a beautiful spirit. I am sorry to hear about your grandmother. I think the struggle(s) are what keep all of us going through out our life cycles. maybe the answers do live in our learning to speak, listen and learn like the plants... keep planting the seeds, whispering and shouting...
November 29, 2009 at 11:08 AM
longhairedwarrior said…
yea i agree with the turtle...i'm going to go and dig a hole for myself in my backyard and learn to eat sunlight and crap in the dirt
November 30, 2009 at 10:33 PM
naga said…
lhw, you are so deep.
November 30, 2009 at 10:51 PM
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