Luzhai / A Letter to Agnes DeMille
Video: A Poem Reading with Meryl Streep and Cello with Yo-Yo Ma There seems to be no one on the empty mountain and yet I think I hear a voice where sunlight entering a grove shines back to me from the green moss There is a vitality a life force a quickening that is translated […]
Don’t Play it Safe
Don’t stand idle at the side of the road don’t hold off on happiness don’t love with half a heart don’t play it safe now or ever don’t play it safe don’t fill up with calm don’t take cover from the world in a quiet corner don’t let your eyelids come down like a weighty […]
About helping
suomeksi: Auttamisesta If we wish to succeed in helping someone to reach a particular goal, we must first find out where he is now, and start from there. If we cannot do this, we merely delude ourselves into believing that we can help others. Before we can help someone, we must know more than he […]
Reveal yourself so I can be something different
suomeksi: Paljasta luonteesi, jotta voin olla jotain erilaista Don’t impose on me what you know, I want to explore the unknown and be the source of my own discoveries. Let the known be my liberation, not my slavery. The world of your truth can be my limitation; your wisdom my negation. Don’t instruct me; […]
Tongue twisters in Finnish
Tongue twisters in Finnish. Couple of times I have been asked if Finnish has tongue twisters, and I have failed to remember any. Mun mummoni muni mun mammani, mun mammani muni mun = My grandma hatched my mom, my mom hatched me (song) Appilan pappilan apupapin papupata pankolla porisee ja kuohuu = Appila vicarage’s assistant […]