Drifting Awake » fate http://www.richardfarrell.com Ripples from a little-boat life Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:49:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 in the amusement park… http://www.richardfarrell.com/2010/07/in-the-amusement-park/ http://www.richardfarrell.com/2010/07/in-the-amusement-park/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:43:41 +0000 Richard Farrell http://www.richardfarrell.com/?p=4117

in the amusement park of life we don’t take the rides, the rides take us

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Berkeley sidewalk
munching on french fries –
grizzled crow

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being present, being here now, is not a choice or an act of will, but an outcome in living best characterized as a gift

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looking forward into the stream of living,
I see hopes, dreams, plans, expectations;
looking back, it’s all the luck of the drift

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I no longer ask God to give me a different fate;
after all, for whom does S/he grant such appeals?

(with thanks to Czeslaw Milosz)

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none of us is spared the exactness of a fate

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