I don’t know if Dwight Eisenhower played tennis. According to Conrad Hilton, he did play golf, sometimes badly. He also coordinated the most crucial troop effort of the Second World War.
Right Effort
Eisenhower lost a set. He Failed, was skunked six-zip
Got up kept serve & overcame despite a gimpy hip. A
Halt & lame guy wins the game lets ships lift troops to battle–it
Takes a chieftain rightly briefed and dice that luck’ly rattleth
Buddhist doctrine encourages the seeking of a livelihood that does not add to the world’s misery. My lovely cohabitant, her livelihood being Bookstore Manager in each of five decades, had, I strongly believe, such a livelihood. Books had changed many lives for the better.
This breaks my heart, but your support of ICE leads me to think that we can’t be friends anymore. I am sorry.
He said
OK, unfriend me then. But if you do, you are narrow minded.
Then I said
ICE murdered Renée Good and Alex Pretti and drags American citizens out of their cars and uses kids as bait and violates the 4th Amendment on a daily basis. However narrow-minded I am, please consider the blind eye you have turned to this brutal reality.
Thanks for the good times. Goodbye and good luck.
And I unfriended him.
And I wonder how many more such exchanges have taken place.
When we draw breath, it is a Voting, Electing action. We have chosen to stay alive and oxygenated. Choosing a restaurant may be a vote for convenience or a fine dining experience; and traveling is a vote to be elsewhere, taking a class is a vote for knowledge enhancement, going to sleep is a vote to heal and recharge. Now, for Americans in this crucial approaching-November time, voting itself is a vital action. Please VOTE, fellow Americans!!
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Right Action
Either drinking from a cup [Eidetic dawn or 4 to sup]
I have never read Edwin Newman’s Strictly Speaking, nor his A Civil Tongue, but I infer from the titles that Right Speech was the subject in both cases. And here in the American Heartland, one of the most lamentatious sentiments in our group mind is “Me and my big mouth!” Right Speech can move mountains and inspire greatness. Wrong speech can make enemies and sometimes even get people killed.
For “Right Intention” I took a look at Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, and his What’ll I Do Now? soliloquy. Is he better off leaving the Mortal Coil, or striving for justice for his murdered father?
Here’s what happens when you ask your significant other “What starts with an A?” Donna gave me Angst, Bougameister (no such word quite exists) and Coconut. I took it to “g is for,” putting that directly above my signature.
Today I began a page derived from the concept of Buddhism’s Eightfold Path. I will be composing eight triple-acrostics, one for each sub-path. Here is the first.
Right View
EIEIO the Farmers cheep
Got rated # One by EPA
Hi Ho Hi Ho the little fellers chat
The forest does the rest with thicket thatch
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My Trick Answer to the question “What in the name of Enlightenment does this poem have to do with the Right View segment of the Eightfold Path of Buddhism?” is “You’d see it, if you had the right…view.” 🙂