For a moment
there was a cacophony of crows
as the temperature cooled and the darkness grew
At totality
a cheer from the watchers
and the brightest stars shone through
And then
like all fleeting things
it passed, returning the daylight to view
Sidequests Week 14
My sidequests for this week included meditating for 5 minutes, learning to make a better paper airplane, and to do 15 minutes of yoga.
See – already we’re meditating again. Good thing I downloaded that app. And also once again I used darebee for my yoga – this time keeping in mind to go with “Easy” for my fat lazy ass. So those were pretty easy to do. I almost considered cheating because there is a darebee one that had a few stretches and then 15 minutes of meditation, but I decided to do the 15 minutes for the meditation card, and do 15 minutes of yoga on top of that.
Then there was making the better paper airplane. This was also not going to be hard because I really only know how to make the basic of basic bitch paper airplanes and they never fly well at all. I did a google search and came across this youtube video posted about a year ago discussing the design for a literal world record paper airplane. They admit that the design that they have is not the actual final design used to break the record, but rather one of the prototypes. I followed the instructions on the video and made this:
Owing to the fact that I don’t have a large space to test this in, I don’t have any impressive video of the flight, mostly just of me causing it to crash immediately into the wall and then doing a really weird laugh as a result. But, it does fly significantly better than any paper airplane I’ve made before. The folding is a bit of a pain in the ass, but the guy in the video explains it really well, and it’s easy to pause at each step to follow the directions.
The Shallow End
Here is the lesson learnt:
Within the soil of your heart
Sow salt
Let nothing grow
Let it tick away the hours
Quietly, alone
Tighten the gaps in the wall
And lock the gate
And---
Wait.
Wait!
WAIT!
...
This one's hot tho
Sanskrit
96 words for love
Could you imagine?
Being able to understand
with immediacy
if someone is describing
their affection for sweets
or a sweetheart?
To understand if it is general
or familial
or devotional
or sexual?
How much more meaning
if I knew the exact word
to describe this thing
this mad, eternal longing
devotion beyond devotion’s due
so difficult to express
it is like how the ocean
pulls to the moon
or the flower
faces the sun
It is as neverending
and vast
as the outward flung stars
spreading across the universe
hurtling into the emptiness
of beyond.
My only hope is entropy.
Split Ends
There's no real repair for a split end
except for a snip.
Ideal to catch it early
before the damage travels
fraying and weakening the whole strand,
ruining all of what came before.
Perhaps I am at fault,
for proper care would have
prevented such.
But that is hindsight and now there is
split end after split end.
Too many build -
perhaps it would be better
to chop it all off
and start fresh.
Holding on is sometimes a sunk cost fallacy.
Learn to let go.
mehryment 