I always enjoy viewing your idea/avatar image.
If you had only one hair on your head it curls.
I hope that curled hair never falls in the soup.

Ig you had a green or pink mohawk that be okay.
If you but two Easter Bunnies make sure they hop.
Happy bunnies who are two females need a donkey.
heehaw.
Pretty soon the cooks in the world will clip coupons.
In these wastrel economic times folk no eat in eatery.
People best dig a small plot and learn to cook sushi?
Ginger?
You realize I love how you search-out beautiful words.
Words?
That's the best we have got. Words. Yes. Words of Life.
Sustenance.
Soul foodies.
Soul with Spirit.
Animation grace.
Grace is unmerited.
Spirituality healthy.
You can discern you.
People best behaves.
Who's to judge? You.
Aye. An examined Life.
Thanks.
I am over six hours late!
More troubles and bah!
You are not bah. Sweet!

but what a song these words sing. Clemency. Is there a greater gift.

I remember the ants. . .... . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . ... . . . .. . ... . I remember the poem.

I particularly like "every leaf a prayer flag" - the scale is immense.

clemency, I have experience with that. it is a breathe after holding breathing in. giving and receiving it two very different things.

Bonus!

What a last line!

Your clemency to the ants is more than I can muster for the bloom of stink bugs we're enduring. I'm not Buddhist when it comes to bugs that land on me.

But this--"every leaf a prayer flag / every gentle sigh a sutra"--this I can grok. Lovely.

i have a friend who is a Buddhist, when we talk, oh yes we speak to each other in different tongues, but recognize each other in the accents

(and i do so remember the ants)