Life

3/2/9
Kona, Hawaii
"A weed is but an unloved flower." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

3/2/9
Kona, Hawaii
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." ~The Koran

8.8.6
"Even bad paintings, I have found - even commercial art - yield food for thought. Nothing is bad when you look at it hungrily. (The first step to art appreciation.)"
- Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronomous Bosch

January 6, 2006
Kyoto, Japan
My father is in the hospital. Three paramedics couldn't help him stand; they used a sheet to move him to the gurney and rushed him off.
He was in so much pain that they gave him morphine before they could take ex-rays. Somehow he broke his ribs; the cancer is growing; he is getting weak.
My father has built up a tolerance to some of medicine's most potent painkillers. When I was visiting three weeks ago he showed evidence of a tolerance to both Oxycodone and Ativan; I don't know how they would wean him from these pain killers. If he keeps taking morphine his end is near.

7.16/6
"The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you."
~Robert Louis Stevenson

7.21.06
"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into."
~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858

7.21.6
"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Anderson

7.22.06
"On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds."
- Mark Tobey

"The war against terror is an all-purpose fig leaf for violating or ignoring local laws and international agreements and treaties."
- Breyten Breytenbach

4.28.
"I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path."
- Dalai Lama