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Marcus's Friends and Family Update #4
Bon Dia, Meu Amigos e Familia.
I have a huge backlog to share so this edition will be very photo heavy.
Brisbane
I visited Brisbane to go through every single material possession I own. I had one suitcase worth of capacity and one lifetime's worth of possessions to sort. I also found plenty of photos from when I was much more cute which I hope you enjoy.
Sydney Life
Philippines
Photos from Canada
A brief interlude. I think it's no mistake that I stumbled across this poem while in Canada, which renewed my appreciation for nature.
Trees
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
Sydney Continued
I'm nobody! Who are you?
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us—don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
Friendsgiving
Songs cooking class
Fleeting is this world, growth and decay its very nature, things spring to being and again they cease, Happy the marvel of them and the peace.
And I'll never let my son have an ego
He'll be nice to everyone wherever we go
I mean, I might even make 'em be Republican
So everybody know he love white people
He'll be nice to everyone wherever we go
I mean, I might even make 'em be Republican
So everybody know he love white people
Man's Maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
What are you afraid of losing, when nothing in the world actually belongs to you?
Ananda said: "Friends with what is lovely, association with what is lovely, intimacy with what is lovely — that is half of the holy life."
The Buddha responded: "Say not so, Ananda. Say not so. Good friendship, good association, good intimacy is the whole of the holy life, not half."
The Buddha responded: "Say not so, Ananda. Say not so. Good friendship, good association, good intimacy is the whole of the holy life, not half."
Jibbi
By far one of the best things I did this year was a recurring Friday morning coffee catchup with all our friends in Sydney. Second photo is with owner of the cafe: Jibbi herself
Walden
I went to the woods
because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn
what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived.
Christmas
That's all for now! Expect a written update soon! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.