Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, the initiative she set up in honour of her illiterate father, has handed out its 100 millionth free book.Free books.
Anyone reading these words is probably a bit like me -- a person who does not recognize that there are people in this world who cannot read or write ... and what a burdensome eight-ball that is to live behind. Illiteracy may be a puff of unacknowledged wind to me, but there are those for whom it is a weight that Atlas shouldered and more.
Dolly Parton -- bless her hide! -- boobs and all.
I shall unashamedly celebrate her boobs, just 'cause.
ReplyDeleteGenkaku and Charlie,
ReplyDeleteI feel something similar to being lost, yet it ain't so. I haven't been sitting with my eyes closed lately, I do sit, but I observe. It came to a point such as tonight when, intuitively I told myself, "The greatest regret I have this life being a zazen student is that I have no regrets."
As a beginner I once was looking for break throughs in my practice all the time, these days I seldom. Yet, with all my debts paid up and enjoying my life in my home made zendo, it feels like a curse. I felt like I needed a time machine to go back to the past and make sure I drank at least one glass of alcohol which I did not, yet because I did not, the problem I am suffering from is that even a whore would have something to whine about, yet I cannot possibly whine about not being poor, doh! I am happy, because I don't need to whine and have nothing to whine about, yet, I have no use for my happiness unless I told you and Charlie about it. I can barely label my happiness as stupidity, it just happens because of what I did not do, yet in as far as it would be useless regretting what I might have done, it's even more useless regretting what I did not do.