When you are dead you can’t apply for your VA benefits which means more money for the Jillionairs.
09.03.2025 01:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Kano Tan'yû, "Confucius and His Disciples Yanzi and Huizi at the Apricot Altar", Mid-17th century, Japanese Edo Period
Without Virtue, Confucius thought, any ruler was morally bankrupt and should be resisted.
16.02.2025 00:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I have been meditating much these days on this hexagram, “Ko/Revolution:”
Above, Tui, the Joyous Lake;
Below, Li, the Clinging Fire
REVOLUTION. On your own day
You are believed.
Supreme success,
Furthering through perseverance.
Remorse disappears.
I pray that it comes to pass.
13.02.2025 20:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I came back alive (obviously) and went back to college, the war still on, and while deep into studying Richard Willhelm’s translation of the I Ching, Frances FitzGerald’s book, “Fire in the Lake” came out. In my personal mythology, her book was the last treasure from the almost empty cardboard box.
13.02.2025 20:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Bernard Fall’s “Street without Joy: Indochina at War,” then “Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu,” and slew of different university press publications on insurgencies around the world; I’m lookin’ at you, Ché.
13.02.2025 20:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Aside from scoring the rare SF or Fantasy, what treasures did I find at the bottom of those boxes?
13.02.2025 20:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
As a young 1st Lieutenant, I was the one who received the boxes. My method of book distribution (designed by me) was by reverse rank order; privates first, then on up the ranks until everyone got something or the books were gone. Anything left was mine. So began my true education.
13.02.2025 20:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Long ago in a war far, far away (there are always wars,) we used to receive boxes of paperbacks sent by book distributors in the US. They were unsold returns from retailers to the distributors for credit, donated for the troops deployed overseas.
13.02.2025 20:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Fire in the Lake Chinese calligraphy.
Fire in the Lake: The image of Revolution:
“Thus the superior person sets the calendar in order, and makes the seasons clear”
— I Ching
13.02.2025 20:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Fast Asleep in Frog Pajamas😔
13.02.2025 19:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stepped through the Portal,
Not knowing a clear path through,
Under vast Blue Sky,
11.02.2025 09:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
