Living
4th August 2023 (amended 26th May 2024)

No cosmic unification in a flash of light, or finding of ultimate secrets, or anything very much like that at all, that I can tell anyway.

Instead we build more and more complicated, twisted, and falsely ornate versions of reality and truth as we explore.

The reality is closer to different flavours of the same, a rough and tumble revolving around us, about which nothing ever changes.

We live as we live
…and we pass,
consequential or not.

We don’t get to win, or to lose,
we just get a chance to play,
along with everyone and most every other thing around us in this world.

Prompt: Rough and Tumble

Inspiration: Bab Ram Dass, modern guru who lived out his final years in an unremarkable living room in Maui, Hawaii; bound to this Earth and to living and dying no less or no more than anyone else.

Baba Ramm Dass
(born Richard Alpert),
1970, San Francisco,
Modern Day Guru and author of Be Here Now

Photo: Robert Altman/Getty Images.