10. Unleash your power to spring back
Holy moly, well now 10. would be that wouldn't it. Having just bought my new Nike runners (just like these) light as a feather, triple bouncy and twice as cool, the lesson is to spring back. Well I guess I better had do so. I have already made a start, working on inside and outside fitness, and I am optimistic, albeit a little humbly in what I expect to achieve, but that is okay. If I can aspire to some of the 1-10 竹 lessons I have posted this week then at least I am trying. Last night we had another exceptional moon. Not quite a perigee but pretty spectacular if you could catch it through the clouds - and actually this reminded me of a haiku I first read a very long time ago:
From time to time
The clouds give rest
To the moon-beholders.
Bashō
I have never written a haiku, never tried, never thought about it, maybe I should but its not as easy as it looks. Even simply speaking, its a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, mostly written in a 5/7/5 syllable count and often focusing on images. Yet, the simplicity often defies the potential and intensity of the images being presented. But moving on, yesterday I was sent something quite remarkable by my neighbor AB. If you have the time, give this a blast, an expression of usefulness through simplicity in motion, Words of Wonder, don't just sit there, Get Up Stand Up:
