Category: 2022

It Pays – 4th May 2022

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

Working hard or hardly working
Was the joke in the office those days
Though the environment is not conducive
It is the one that pays
Laughing aloud ‘How’s the serenity?’
A camaraderie in many ways
Though the environment is not conducive
It is the one that pays

Everything is a symbol, even the most piercing pain. We are dreamers who shout in our sleep. We do not know whether the things afflicting us are the secret beginning of our ulterior happiness or not.

Léon Bloy

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful that this week is fairly relaxed at school so I can take the time to take Cap to the vet today.

Visited Last Night – 3rd May 2022

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ 1 Comment

You were in my dream
But I don’t know who you are
So perfect to hold

Your black and white top
Hugs tight to your chest and waist
Hold this forever

Composite angel
Of everything I wanted
Gone with eyes opened

Touched me deep inside
The girl with no face or name
Visit me again

Nobody ever figures out what life is about, and it doesn’t matter.

Richard Feynman

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful for the lady who made my salad last night. It was nice of her to prepare a second bowl for me.

The Week That Was – 17th June 1979

Not Today – 2nd May 2022

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

The smiling reaper taps his fingers
Returning the smile is all you can do
Rise from your slumber shouting ‘Not today!’
Send down death, back to the blue
Bounce out of bed, your time is short
Thousands today will be sent away
Take the chances offered to you
You’ve got the gift of another day

It is extremely dangerous, very possibly even disastrous, to assume that because people are in positions of responsibility, they are therefore behaving responsibly.

David McCullough, from The Jonestown Flood

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to be back at school and to get back into a new routine.

Daggers – 1st May 2022

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

Be kind to the beggar
Never offer insults to the poor
Their circumstances now
May not be forever more

Kindnesses are soon forgotten
An insult will often remain
Digging daggers at the heart
Playing a waiting game

15th Mar 2024 – Submitted to RDP Friday

It takes great talent and skill to conceal one’s talent and skill.

François De La Rochefoucauld

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to Nong Briyao for bringing yummy mangoes from Udon Thani for me.

Final Absence – 30th April 2022

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

How to live is about how to die
Looking through this lens of a mountain
Any amount of life is enough
Let’s make do with its meaning
Dusting off the childhood discoveries
The horizon’s shimmer slows us down
The trees and the tides restless
Colours that are no longer heard
Time collapsed, reappears or not
These are the stranger things
An empty glass sits on the table
Radiating a crystal eternity
The night turns to different shades
So savour its infinite richness
The fires are burning from the inside
Bodies black and grey, becoming ash

inspired by Maria Popova writing about Stel Adnan’s ‘Shifting the Silence’

Many situations in life are similar to going on a hike: the view changes once you start walking. You don’t need all the answers right now. New paths will reveal themselves if you have the courage to get started.

James Clear

Two More Questions – 29th April 2022

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

Where has all the thinking got us?
All the questions are just too tough
For every answer, two more questions
I guess we just haven’t thought enough
For every answer, two more questions
I guess we just haven’t thought – enough!

Getting upset is like continuing the bad dream while you’re awake.

Ryan Holiday

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to be able to find solutions to minor domestic issues, water pipes broken, taps not working, needing new garden equipment etc.

The Fix – 28th April 2022

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

It’s not fair to anyone
Not an accurate account
Reinventing the score
To a more positive amount
If it’s not complete
There’ll be hell to pay
But there’s no real benefit
At the end of the day
Everyone is a loser
When the rules are gamed
It’s so simple that it shouldn’t
Need to be explained
Put in some effort
Then rewards will follow
Why listen to a king
Whose words will ring so hollow?

All human beings love to suffer… The reason people love to suffer is that it makes them right.

Michael Shurtleff

David Icke’s Dog – 27th April 2022

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ 1 Comment

Starseed shamans sharing their lizard dreams
Cosmic potential activated through DNA streams
The memories of all those galactic lives
Are proof to all that the multiverse survives

The message from above is the need to cull
Cast away, the disabled, the dark and the dull
The masters walk among us mere meat mortals
Downloaded to the metaverse through telepathic portals

The fallback plan is to evacuate to Mars
On Aryan ships fuelled by red dwarf stars
Go and build your superior master race
Leave the rest of us here, happy in our place

Inspired by a Jules Evans post on conspirituality and the connection between eugenics and fascism. At the same time watching the fourth season of The Man in the High Castle.

Little syphons the joy of life more surely than the wasted energy of indignation at how others have failed to behave in accordance with what we expected of them.

Maria Popova

The Week That Was – 10th June 1979

Right At Home – 26th April 2022

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

I walk around the zoo, muttering that life is hard
Search for a home in all the usual places
Simpler in the past, I try not to disregard
This family full of familiar faces
The time, the people, they all come and go
I learned to be comfortable on my own
Once I found myself then I’d know
That deep inside is my most sacred home

*inspired by The Tiny Wisdom

At a certain point no matter what your politics are, every action you take is political.

Geoff Rickly

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful for homegrown bananas for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Get Lost – 25th April 2022

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ 6 Comments

How can you be lost
If you don’t know where you’re going?
How much does it cost
To be comfortable with the not knowing?
You take the first step
Outside the familiar loop of each day
And don’t you forget
You got ‘here’ but ‘there’ is a different way

*inspired by The Tiny Wisdom

9th Jun 2024 – Submitted to Reena’s Xploration Challenge #334

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Khalil Gibran