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Hop
Scotch
“How green is blue?” the child asks,
“What is the taste of pink?”
A prodigy koan-master
with a novel way to think,
such problems keep a child’s mind
engaged in matters other
than all the daily problems
of a father or a mother.
No spider ever stumbles
when spinning out her strands,
for the feet she walks around on
are really only hands.
No specter of a problem
ever plagues a goat.
He simply feeds upon the world
and lives his life by rote.
And so it is with children.
They go from thing to thing
with no worries of the outcomes
that their acts might bring.
They leave to human adults
the worries of such things
and simply live with pleasures
that every new day brings.
Prompts for today are “How green is blue?” spider, stumble, specter and goat.
No matter what I do, WP just keeps shifting a couple of the lines. They just don’t understand how to play Hopscotch, do they?
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Such a wonderful perspective.
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Those are such happy kids. Their smiles light up my world.
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Mexico rates way above the U.S. in happiness.
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Oh to be a kid again! Your portraits of the kids are, as always, superbly representative of the kids and their character!
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Maybe because I’ve never quite grown up?
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Maybe partly, but also because you are an excellent portrait photographer!
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;o) I just point and shoot and crop.
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A lovely fun post Judy 🙂
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Sometimes children are wiser than adults. I like the part about the koans!
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It just occurred to me as I wrote this how often children’s statements are like koans…
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Delightful
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