Attempt at a Haiku

Bird stand atop ledge, staring into sunset.
Breeze flows across my shoulders, through my hair and across my skin.
Bird look at me, and say 'Coocoo, coocoo.'
The warm air from the sun rolls across the valley, uplifting the land.
Bird looks at me, staring intently.
I feel the breeze, flowing across me, lifting me.
Bird looks at me, and say 'Coocoo, coocoo.'
Suddenly, I find myself embraced in the breeze, soaring in the sky.
Bird looks at me.
I have wings and I fly.
In the distance I hear a faint 'Coocoo.'
But I fly on.

- Jason

Freedom from Desires?

For the first time, I can see my path without a relationship. It's a strange feeling having a family not being the end goal that I'm striving towards. In many ways it's more practical, but more relevantly: i'm content with it.

Up to now my life has been lived based around the idea that I'm striving towards building a family. Now, though my direction is graduate school and a research career, I wouldn't say that I have control over my life. I had the good pleasure to grab myself a copy of Mythos III, the latest Joseph Campbell documentary talking about the construction of the western myth. To my shock and awe the Arthurian legends, and specifically my favorite character, Percival, play center stage. In much the same way that Percival let his horse guide him on the path, so to am I letting my path be laid by the nature before me.

Will I change the world? Who knows, does it matter? Yeah, probably. Do I need to do it? No, not really.

I do know that 20 years from now I will have a life, and it will be a good life. What it will be I have no idea, but I will have it.

- Jason