Avoid Adapting Other People's Negative Views
by Sharon Dolin
after Epictetus
To gaze upon the fatal
without commiserating gloom:
what every friend should be--
not one who rends her coat of doom
nor one who lets her ankle rankle
nor her dogged love to the hounds.
Be the cat in catastrophe
who survives eight more dives.
Though in the clutch of damage
a dame must age,
in the crazy-quilt of guilt
it was never your fault.
In the company of morose
always pull out the rose.
To gaze upon the fatal
without commiserating gloom:
what every friend should be--
not one who rends her coat of doom
nor one who lets her ankle rankle
nor her dogged love to the hounds.
Be the cat in catastrophe
who survives eight more dives.
Though in the clutch of damage
a dame must age,
in the crazy-quilt of guilt
it was never your fault.
In the company of morose
always pull out the rose.
~
If no rose it close by, try these fading, but still fragrant
lillies, rescued yesterday from the garbage
lillies, rescued yesterday from the garbage
~
or this songstress from Tibet
"Happiness Is"
by Yungchen Lhamo
http://youtu.be/Ee58iv63M2A
~
If no Star Gazing lilies can be found, and
the songstress has fallen quite silent,
simply exit quickly..........laughing!
;->
1 comment:
Ah Michelle, breathing in the wild perfume of your Stargazer lily and listening to the song for happiness and laughing in the face of all the mad stuff goin' on... namaste you shine sister!
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