Walking to nowhere

Salsa

When making salsa remember to wear gloves when touching hot peppers and if you don't have gloves, get creative. Socks and oven mitts work, kinda. The goggles defeat the mighty onion by giving you unnatural human defenses. Try it. Or maybe you have a food processor, kudos.

Twenty Nine and Feeling Fine!

Happy Birthday to myself....Everyday I get older, so do you. It's a comforting thought.

No more learning, no more problems.
How much difference between Yes and No?
Between Black and Grey?
Between good and evil?
What others fear I must fear--
No point!

People are smiling,
as if at a kitchen party
I am stoic, passive, giving no sign
Like a baby who has not yet smiled
hopeless, as if I had no home.

Others have enough and more,
I do not.
I have the mind of a fool,
confused, confused.

Others are bright and intelligent,
I am boring, dull,
Drifting on the breeze,
blown about endlessly.

Others have plans,
I alone am wayward and stubborn,
I alone am different from others,
Like a baby in a womb.

-A translation of the Way-