Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Cities of Green Leaves - 6 years later

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A blast from the past, soon after the Tohoku disaster and Fukushima nuclear plant immersion in sea water and other, more murky environments unrelated the Dao and earth's natural cycles. We at the Society chose to perform a ginko no kukai and simultaneous charity rally in support of the region, an endeavor taken up wholeheartedly by members of the Hailstone group, who we can always count on to choose the Noble path when confronted with matters of urgency and the heart ... A further attempt to link the city of Sendai and our own River City in empathy for people and majestic elms alike, and for the poetical aspirations that accompany both, then came to a failure, due to River City's guardian's historical affinity for opportunistic highlighting of their careers and propensities to speak out of both sides of their mouths.

Call that presumption redundant, poor grammar, what have you, though we blame Minnesota Nice and its more passive aggressive faults today. And, I will counter with "once a jive turkey, then twice so" when backed into a corner. Crude, I know, but well grounded in prior performance and mission objectives of the good 'ol' city's administrations, great and small, in stature or character, over its relatively short but colorful life time. As in,"I know you are, but what am I"? I apply that distinction pretty much across the board for occurrences in the city of thieves. I may have devolved into a person of ruthless character and merciless scrutiny in that regard. This is how movements occur, thrive, come to fruition, or simply die on the vine of indifference.

Hide the eyes of the children. It's not going to get any prettier, as this marvelous tree always was, and will remain, in our hardened hearts. It's icons such as these that stir the senses to action sometimes, always in ways that bring new knowledge and interest. By the way, the willow pictured met its demise a few short years ago. Unfair, considering the circumstances - the tree with more character than most sentient beings in office that we know of today. There may be a lesson involved after all.

far too often
the carrot and the stick --
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow.

bandit said...

No 'bout a doubt it!

It's as though the colors just sprang from out of nowhere. it was a hard winter.