Category: Beautiful People

On Walls of Alhambra

Post author By Kay T. Ananda
Post date February 28, 2022

Walls of Alhambra Palace
are covered with intricate elaborate arabesque vines
the way I like to get lost
even to enter from the exit to look for an entrance
Noriko Ibaragi

アランブラ宮の壁の

アランブラ宮の壁の

いりくんだつるくさのように

わたしは迷うことが好きだ

出口から入って入り口をさがすことも

茨木のり子(6/12/1926 – 2/17/2006)

If she were alive she would be 95 now … It’s not easy to translate poems as there’s always a little of a betrayal in finding the language that’s fitting. There are virutally no perfect fit, it’s always an approximate.

February 17th was the 16th anniversary since this Japanese poet passed onto the next world. I am always reminded as February 17th is also my mother’s official birthday … which we “celebrated” over an international phone call and Skype. It’s just not the same as when one sees another in person to transfer and share one’s Life Force, Prana, Chi, Ki, Qui, Energy … much needed at times like this. Yet we also do not want to infect another with a virus to cause a demise – it’s a delicate situation as ever that we learn to navigate.

We are all lost sometimes trying to find our way and get frustrated and irritated but why? Like late Ibaragi Noriko uttered … getting lost in finding our path is not only okay but preferred. Just try all sorts of paths to find a way and yes, sometimes starting from the exit to look for an entrance can give us an epithany so often missing in our daily programmed maze to always start to finish without complexity nor confusion.

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Huge Loss

Post author By Kay T. Ananda
Post date February 27, 2022

… he left so much as he touched so many … Honoring the work of late doctor Paul Farmer, MD/PhD. His family and students and team/peers must be so devestated. This is the kind of time when I hear my mother’s words “the good die young” probably as she referred to one of her best friends who she used to refer as an angel and a saint, late Keiko Yoshida… a beautiful soul so kind.

https://www.pih.org/

Rather than to focus on just making money and obsess about profits for profits sake, or direct huge wealth to the task of rocketing into space while neglecting the earth – in contrast, here’s someone grounded and committed to taking care of his fellow human beings. To have been gifted with someone so compassionate and intelligent, among our human race, is something one can truly be proud of. Another premature death, a great loss …but praying that he’s left many seeds for a better world. He really made a difference.

Adding to the reading list:

To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation. Ed. Jonathan Weigel. Berkeley: University of California
Reimagining Global Health. Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, Arthur Kleinman and Matthew Basilico. Berkeley: University of California Press

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Thich Nhat Hanh

Post author By Kay T. Ananda
Post date January 21, 2022

We will miss your widsom but like you said – there’s no death ; there’s no birth; those notions are perceived perceptions…you are still here in spirit with us among us visceral in another form. Thank you for teaching us through these words which has no doubt helped many as it did me.:

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”

“Love needs to be nurtured and fed to survive; and our suffering also survives because we enable and feed it. We ruminate on suffering, regret, and sorrow. We chew on them, swallow them, bring them back up, and eat them again and again. If we’re feeding our suffering while we’re walking, working, eating, or talking, we are making ourselves victims of the ghosts of the past, of the future, or our worries in the present. We’re not living our lives.”