huggy bear
“The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole order of the universe and would take all time to complete.” - flannery o’connor
Chiune Sugihara. This man saved 6000 Jews. He was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote them 18 hrs a day. The day his consulate closed and he had to evacuate, witnesses claim he was STILL writing visas and throwing from the train as he pulled away. He saved 6000 lives. The world didn’t know what he’d done until Israel honored him in 1985, the year before he died.
“Last Night When I Was Sleeping” -
Antonio Machado
(trans. Daniel Hester and Joseph M. Bateman)
Last night when I was sleeping
I dreamed- blessed illusion!-
That a fountain flowed
Inside my heart.
I said, “Through what hidden aqueduct,
Water, you come to me,
Spring of new life,
From which I never drank?”
Last night when I was sleeping
I dreamed- blessed illusion!-
That I had a beehive
Inside my heart;
And the golden bees
Were making
White combs and sweet honey
From my old bitterness.
Last night when I was sleeping
I dreamed- blessed illusion!-
That a burning sun shone
Inside my heart.
It was burning because it gave
Red hearth heat,
And it was the sun because it illuminated,
And made me cry.
Last night when I was sleeping
I dreamed -blessed illusion!-
That it was God that I had
Inside of my heart.
Magic Strings I - Li Ho
The sun slips down
behind the western mountains
hills to the east vanish
the wind is driving horses through the clouds
the painted lute
and reed flute
play soft
rapid notes
a brocade skirt
rustles through
October dust
breeze flutters the cassia leaves
seeds fall
a blue fox
weeps blood
for her dead mate
riding the golden-tailed
dragons painted on ancient
walls, the rain god leaps
into the pools of autumn
a hundred year old owl
changes into
a forest demon
laughter!
green fire in the nest!
