Center of the anemone

Anemone glows
Maple leaves twist and shimmer
Gold crimson scarlet

Near Junction Lake

In the sun

The grape harvest

If the heavens were not in love with wine,
There’d be no Wine Star in the sky.
And if earth wasn’t always drinking,
There’d be nowhere called Wine Spring.
I’ve heard that pure wine makes the Sage.
Even the cloudy makes us wise.
If even the wise get there through drink,
What’s the point of True Religions?
Three times and I understand the Way,
Six and I’m one again with Nature.
Only the things we know when we’re drunk
Can never be expressed when we’re sober.

- Li Po (699 – 762 AD)

Cosmos

There are times in one's life - when one simply has to stop, step out of one's routine and take the trouble to think. It's not a luxury but an obligation: how else to even try to make measured, considered decisions based on deliberation and self-awareness rather than on impulse or fear?

from Running to the Mountain by Jon Katz