Barcelona

A moment

Catching a virus is misery

Coughing myself to exhaustion

My head feels heavy

Then as if an angel visits me

Everything is lifted

A moment of stillness

I feel so light

as if I can rise from the window like a kite

I feel eternal

As if free of all temptations

 

Time starts again

gravity returns

a tickle in my throat

Choices

We lose sleep because we want

To know if our life has meaning

What’s the meaning we are looking for.

I pray for the Holy Spirit to help me

I went to see my primary physician today. Seeing a physician is a confirmation of our mortality. We are mortals. We are subject to decay. It’s a morbid reality.

When we pray we affirm our hope for immortality.

We should realize both conditions offer us a chance for greatness. Greatness means steps of extraordinary work. Greatness is immortality in the eyes of man and God. 

My doctor told me I have work to do. 

Blind tasting

A pause from blind wine tasting
Then walking to an open amphitheater
Empty at the moment but with a promise
Live performance and an audience in two months
That’s how we look at time
Flowing, not always unbreakable, sometimes sidetracked
Returning back at the table, a new flight of wine
It’s harder to know the correct vintage and varietals
Noticing mixtures of tiny deviations
We are students of perfection eager
To extend the reach with misses and recoveries
Without showing true ignorance
We faintly know how to breakthrough
The boundaries and gain insights
To master the test of senses
A simple title of sommelier
Or it can be to master the erotic pantomime,
The courtship of the birds of paradise
We will all receive a slice of blueberry pie.

the eternal

A forest of parasols

can hold abundant rain

we can walk together, smiling.

They can fold like a fan

exposing us when we walk

old and getting older.

“Will you also go away?”

“Master, to whom shall we go?”