Dharma – 8th April 2025

Unable to see the ends of the universe, we reach out to each other to make sense of it; grasping at notions to inspire comfort in the chaos and impose order on our lives.


our minds can travel

to the far corners of thought,

disconnected from

our bodies, glued to the earth;

so we must meet each other.

A tanka prose poem shared with Momoetry April Poet Month challenge – tanka and inspired by the thoughts of Jayaram V posted here.

Duality – 10th January 2025

Image by Chris Rawlins

The dawn fog settles
Honour-bound, two figures stand
Their fates soon revealed
Both fell in thunderous fire
Bittersweet, the lady faints

A tanka for Moonwashed Weekly Prompt – Bittersweet


Today I’m feeling:

Ok but I can’t talk properly. I feel like I have a mild cold but not that bad really. A little fuzzy in the head.

I got up at around 7 am and sent messages to school and work to my students to do in my absence. I went back to bed at around 8 and ended up with some nice, extra enjoyable sleep.

I got up for lunch, took some medicine and now out for my first and only coffee for the day. I may sleep more yet!

Health:

Physical: 7
Mental: 7

Today I’m grateful for:

More medicine from the local pharmacy and when I arrived there, the pharmacist was petting a street seller’s really cute dog, so of course I had to spend a minute petting too.

The best thing about today was:

Reading, lots of reading!

Something I learned today?

I hit up Kru John about the possible change of director at school but all he knew was that it’s the sub-director who will change.