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16 Feb: "From time to time..." by Matsuo Basho

From time to time
The clouds give rest
To the moon-beholders.
- Matsuo Bashō

2 comments:

  1. The Yin and Yang- coolness, rest, relaxation....
    If you "behold" and give attention to rest- rest as an active pursuit.

    I love the imagery of the moon appearing behind the clouds here.

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  2. Unlike the sun, we can observe and stair at the moon as it travels around us.

    Once in Africa I was traveling in the back of a truck at night. I watched the moon rise, as I did many nights. Then a while later there was a mountain with a flat face and as the truck drove around the curving road, the moon slowly revealed herself almost as if raise from the side. You had to be there, and I was.

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