| 'Look'
n 'Understand' a 'Forest' - celebrating the ecological life |
21 Feb 2005 |
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Letters
To A Young Poet |
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| It was standing
still between two words - 'look' and 'understand', and what more,
to my greatest delight, I saw 'mu' - the chinese root-character for
forest in her out-stretched limbs! Aren't these revelations at the
very heart of my message ?! Yes, today's experience is truly another defining 'marker' in my own life's journey. I must confessed that I felt deeply loved today. Never mind no one bother to reply nor acknowledge my message; never mind if few understand. What I do know is that 'someone' somewhere out there is looking after me. I know somehow this is true. There is an innermost voice in me which says, 'Keep going... you are alright. You are on the right track.' Yes, laugh if you will, but my happiness is overflowing today ! And you know, everytime something like this happens, I will flip my old notebook to read something I wrote down years ago - 'Letters To A Young Poet'. I am still reading it this moment ! And yes, I believe some of you out there will find a whole lot of meaning for yourselves within these beautiful words too ! Joe Lai, 21 Feb 2005 : ) p.s. the forest needs you. Mother Nature too. |