Ignorance – Silent Songs of Sonsnow

“Of the 7 billion human beings alive today, no one wants to suffer; no one chooses to have problems. Yet, many of the problems we face are our own creation. Why? Because of ignorance. But ignorance is not permanent and whether we overcome it depends on whether we make the effort.”

His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama Source: Ignorance – Silent Songs of Sonsnow

Mad, bad and dangerous to know: we are witnessing the Tories’ final descent into absurdity | Rafael Behr | The Guardian

…The Tories don’t like a country that is shaped by 13 years of their rule but prefer not to take responsibility. They have developed a keen reflex for diverting blame.

The habit was embedded in the years of strife between the referendum vote for Brexit and its enactment after Boris Johnson’s landslide election victory.

The cost of disentangling Britain from the EU was a monumental fact denied by advocates of the cause. The more it intruded on negotiations, the fiercer grew their attachment to denial.

Thus wedded to avoidance of reality and armed with a plebiscitary mandate, hardline Eurosceptics construed politics as a battle between the faithful and the unbelievers; between the will of the people and a wicked plot to subvert it…

Source: Mad, bad and dangerous to know: we are witnessing the Tories’ final descent into absurdity | Rafael Behr | The Guardian

The soul of a poet

THI SĨ(Tặng Lê Vĩnh Tài) Yêu là không bao giờ hối hậnĐôi vai của anh ấy run runKhóc như một đứa trẻ Bạn nuôi dưỡng bóng ma của anh ấyCái ác đã thành…

The soul of a poet

THE POET

Loves with no remorse
Shoulders his fears like a child

Nurture his shadows like a friend
The evil within acquainted

Blind to evil and sainthood
He sees you

You the child of the trees
The ego of a mountain
The hardness of water
The blood and bone of the earth.

It is you that he loves