Comment on Show Me Your Original Face — by pauline
If I was taking that koan literally, I’d just head to Ancestry.com where I’d find permutations of my face as far back as the first photograph, but if I’m reading it as the first face, the original...
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Very interesting, Pauline. I have no Ancestry.com for permutations of my face, never have — so that never occurred to me about the koan. (I always got stymied about 30 seconds into the mission.) But...
View ArticleComment on The Limits of Knowledge? by Wrapping up February « The Great Kattsby
[...] really meant something to me. Yesterday, as I was browsing blogs rather aimlessly, I came across a post about this very quotation! This is the first time I’ve come across it since I read it...
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Comment on ‘Tis a Gift to be Simple — by Stef
I also adore the line by Mark Twain: “I’d write you a shorter letter, but I didn’t have the time.” Simplicity, brevity, less-is-more; these are where quality lies.
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Famous line, so true!!! I remember some years searching desperately for simple clothes (much more elegant) only always running up against how much more expensive they were than fussy things.
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Comment on Show Me Your Original Face — by Stef
Or you look like everyone. I prefer that POV; I can get way too myopic and self-centered much too easily otherwise.
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Somehow I really doubt that about you; but humility is a sadly neglected virtue, so carry on! Actually, whichever direction you approach it from, you arrive at the place of sisterhood/brotherhood, our...
View ArticleComment on ‘Tis a Gift to be Simple — by Stef
Yes, so true. However, they will last for years and years; as opposed to the fussy things that will only last for a season (if that). In fact, some French women own suits and dresses worn by their...
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True; both paths lead to the same end. For me, though, I need to keep that sense of others-before-self top of mind; I’m working on learning (and more importantly, internalizing and living humility);...
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The problem was (and continues to be) that I can’t afford the initial investment in simplicity and elegance that is the real value. It’s true BTW in furniture and many other things as well as in...
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Comment on Show Me Your Original Face — by Touch2Touch
You remind me of one of my favorite stories: in the Middle East among the rug weavers, traditional weavers always leave the final knot unknotted when they finish the rug. Because? Perfection belongs...
View ArticleComment on Show Me Your Original Face — by Stef
Oh wow – I *love* that! I’m storing that deep within.
View ArticleComment on The “Budinoffs” of the Berkshires by Peter McCallion
I too had a pharmacy Budinoff. The pharmacy in Lee where a request for a prescription refill led to an hour of their work trying to locate a pharmacy that could fill my prescription while I was fed...
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Comment on Guess What We’re Doing? by Stef
Think of tonight as an adventure. Urban camping, if you will… Or “couch surfing”. That sounds glamorous and cool, right?
View ArticleComment on “You Can’t Cross the Sea….” by Pauline
Unless, of course, you do it in your imagination…
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Comment on “You Can’t Cross the Sea….” by Stef
Yup. It takes a LOT of hard work and paddling; but the feeling of accomplishment when one reaches the other side must feel tremendous! This morning I received a small paragraph that I think is quite...
View ArticleComment on Guess What We’re Doing? by Martin Greene
Judy In time, you will settle into your new home, and, with that, a somewhat different life will begin. After awhile, it will seem like the norm and you will feel that you are at home.
View ArticleComment on “You Can’t Cross the Sea….” by Touch2Touch
What a Zen comment! Imagination is one way.
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