Realize it’s been a week since previous posting. Much coming and going (nowhere): In the Métro, in the streets, in the newspapers, on the radio and television, everybody’s coming and going (nowhere), too.
A plane vanishes (nowhere).
Obama quotes the Koran: Keep your eyes on God and tell the truth.
What other truth than brilliant morning sun and then rain today? And now someone playing a fine woody clarinet.
It’s all marvelously inexplicable.
Come upon this quote in Le Monde:
Être poète, c’est avoir une existence en perpétuel mouvement, vivre à la fois une naissance et une négation permanentes.
(To be a poet is to have an existence that is in perpetual motion, to live at the same time a constant birth and a constant negation.)
So it is.
In perpetual motion
About the Author: zenscribe
Enseignante Zen et poète, Sensei Amy “Tu es cela” Hollowell est née et a grandi à Minneapolis, aux Etats-Unis. Arrivée en France en 1981 pour étudier la littérature et l’histoire, elle y est restée, s’installant à Paris, où elle élève ses deux enfants et gagne sa vie en tant que journaliste.
The Zen teacher and poet Amy “Tu es cela” Hollowell Sensei was born and raised in Minneapolis, but came to France in 1981 to study literature and history and has lived in Paris ever since, raising her two children and making a living as a journalist.
So it is.
To be a carpenter is to have an existence that is in perpetual motion, to live at the same time a constant birth and a constant negation