"But then I don't quite understand, my dear boy. Something must be wrong somewhere. Will you promise me to make a little more of an effort?"
Hans placed his hand in the outstretched right of the mighty man who regarded him with a benign and serious look.
"That's the way, that's the way, my boy. Just don't let up or you'll get dragged beneath the wheel."

--Hermann Hesse, Beneath the Wheel

 

 

ripe moments #3

If you save a ripe moment for later, will it rot? ferment ? or ripen to Perfection?

I don't know if we have a tree full of fruit falling all around us whenever the winds of fate shake it,

or one lone lingering plant in an otherwise barren field...

 

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