They shine with peace, exude joy, soothe us.
We run to the excitement of hot food and fast music.
The tao is the quiet work that creates that.
It seems dull, the dirt that grows the peppers, the scales that train the musician,
The invisible physics and electrochemical principles we so try to comprehend,
There is no end, no goal, no ultimate explanation, just tao.
The Dutch have taken Holland. A quiz when anyone tells what is well known as a piece of wonderful news. Similar to Queen Bess (or Queen Anne) is dead.
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1963, p 312.
1 comment:
Or 'Mafeking's been relieved'.
I like the bit about 'the dirt that grows the peppers'.
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