cooperate with the inevitable

Over the past month I have become a lot more accepting of some of the bad things that have happened to me and I have stopped stressing about this. Consequently, I will now mark this goal off as completed (12/02/09).

I am slowly getting better at accepting the things that annoy me in life. For example, bidding my time in my career as I know that things are I will be getting more work shortly and just relaxing till then (06/02/09).

This seems like a commonsense goal fo keeping yourself gounded. So I have put it on my list and will see if it helps me to become calmer and stress (not that I have a big problem with either).

... simply because I can feel myself already fighting everything… ever!
It’s that resistance you feel deep in your chest. Even though you know it is coming, you have this unsettled feeling deep in your chest that stimulates that “fight or flight” mechanism. For me, it’s always a fight.

So, here’s to going with the flow…

Am on path. May I share?
road converges:
goose-bumps,
exhale.

boots,
road,
thumb!

(Note: Once again re-considered points both the ones made earlier by teacher& most recent. Have been reading haiku here, your columns, in anthologies, & an edition of Richard Wright’s recently published what for so long lay forgotten in the Wright family archives.) The Richard Wright style of haiku probably is counter to what you, sir teach; but I am not intending to follow his style, rather to see and compare and know, then find my own style or way. To seek my own path maybe is to be born again, not in the sense of the Christians, but maybe to become, as Nanabozho’ of the Ojibway, to transform… to what? We shall feel it.

If you know to read and compose in Japanese, I might use your assistance, if you would be so very kind as to correct what are my first efforts in translation:

Boots take road,
home not alone—
welcome geese!

ブーツは道を、家に単独で—歓迎されたガチョウ取る!

De laarzen nemen
alleen weg, huis niet:
welkome ganzen!

The French proves some what equally if not more challenging than the Dutch. I chose to use a more colloquial not proper French, maybe more of a tourist jargon or patois:

Commences la route,
à la maison pas seule-
- les oies venues !

I could NOT resist the temptation to experiment in the simple Chinese, using as I did with the Japanese, the Babelfish translator device:

起动上路,
在家不单独
—受欢迎的鹅!

Certainly one needs help from a poet fluent in the Japanese or the Chinese, & such would be much appreciated, thank you and forgive my clumsy attempts.

Another question if you allow:

起動上路, 在家不單獨—受歡迎的鵝!

Should these be aligned vertically? They are traditional Mandarin? Thank you!

I took a second look at the Japanese, and played with the line back to lines:

ブーツは道を、
家に単独で
—歓迎されたガチョウ取る!

Last line in English could be back translated to

“Welcome ã‚Œ Moth-Butterfly You Take,”

Of course we know this is a translator software, but let us not worry about that right now, but enjoy the game that is allowed by what tools we have. Note: Japanese students & teachers, please you are “Welcome!” to help if you are so willing, and domo arigato!

歓迎さ by itself means “welcome!” does it not? Then what is the meaning of the character ã‚Œ ?

How might I change to revise any of the above, please?

Ботинки принимают дорогу,
домой самостоятельно -
- радушные гусыни!

You can see, one has substituted the longer “добро пожаловать” for the adjective for “cordial” or радушные.

Again, one returns to the Japanese to try a slight variation:

ブーツは道の歓迎されたガチョウだけを起点に選ぶ。

This is instead of the English original changing L1 to “Boots choose path”

What is the sound of this word, please? For highway,

ハイウェー

as opposed to road:

道

or

way

方法

The above 2 characters translate back to One-Law:

Law = 法

Going back to the character æ–¹ which in traditional Mandarin Chinese means

side…

Compare now the traditional Chinese phrase

起動選擇方式

which in Japanese is

ブーツは方法を選ぶ

Thus I substituted the L1 above for

Boots choose way,

so you see…

Now I am ready for my nap.

(((yawn)))

Next time, maybe some one can help with the Korean or what not?

So “boots choose path” in Hangul

시동은 방법을 선택한다

Is that correct? If not, what then? Thank you, kamsamnida!

너를 감사하십시요

ありがとう

謝謝

Thanks again! : )

it Is, after all.. INEVITABLE !! LOL

this morning she now refuses to eat or drink and her chest is very very swollen with fluid.She is not doing well at all!! She is 15 years old and has cancer.This is just really hard to deal with right now.

..the last year of my life has been totally outta control. I thought I had reached a point where I was in control of things, and then absolute hell broke loose. I lost my show car (8 month project) in an accident that separated my shoulder, then I shattered my hand & needed 2 operations to repair it, had to drop out of school, then outta the blue I found out that my aunt had cancer and a month later she passed, then a month later my classic camaro (8 YEAR project) was rear-ended & totaled.

This ‘life’ thing is way too difficult. Things are claming down now, so hopefully i’ll get a few months without any major disasters. I still haven’t really dealt with everything that has happened so far so I really hope I get a few months to make peace with everything. Figured this would be a good time to start writing again.. to help me work through it all.

My aunt Stephanie died on Sunday, March 25th. I have nothing personal to say right now, but a website was set up in her memory HERE. Donations can be made to the American Cancer Society through the site. There are beautiful pictures of her, and stories of her life will be posted soon. She was an amazing person, and she will never be forgotten

My aunt hasn’t woken up since the last day we talked to her. This is all happening way too fucking fast. She called us to tell us that the mass was cancerous, and that was it. No more calls, no going out to visit her, no goodbyes. I suppose i’m still holding out some hope for her to wake up, but I think only for my own comfort. I know in my heart that it’s over, but it’s so hard to deal with whats going on when she’s just lying there unconscious. It’s almost as if we’re waiting for her to die, and it’s the most awful feeling. I can’t grieve because she’s still holding on, but there’s basically no chance of any recovery. I just don’t know what to do with that. More importantly, I can’t imagine what her family is going through. They have to sit there day after day watching her sleep, just waiting for her to pass on. I just don’t understand how this could all be happening so fast. She had a pain in her back three months ago, and now she’s about to die. What the fuck is that. As a psychologist, a philosopher, and a casual theologian, I can’t find any possible reason for things to come to an end for her like this. She spent her whole life passionately striving to make the world a better place, and in a heartbeat everything is taken away from her and her family. It’s fucked up. That’s all I have to say