splashing bird

splashing bird is moving on

Richard Farrell — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:06:57 +0000

This is the last post in the splashingbird blog. All of the posts have been moved to “born of silence” at http://www.bornofsilence.com (http://bornofsilence.wordpress.com). At the end of this week I’ll point splashing bird .com and .org to bornofsilence.com.

The bird splashes still, but at different place and with a different name.

Posted in human living

high cost

Richard Farrell — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:47:24 +0000

the cost of inauthentic living is likely despair before death

Posted in human living

revenge 3

Richard Farrell — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:42:53 +0000

revenge is a dish best served not at all

Posted in human living

American illusion

Richard Farrell — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:39:40 +0000

the great American illusion is that the pursuit of happiness will result in it

Posted in human living

first things first

Richard Farrell — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:37:45 +0000

until you know what you are, how can you know who you are?

Posted in human living

older in America

Richard Farrell — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:23:36 +0000

how remarkable, we celebrate only youth even as our own disappears

Posted in human living

late fall

Richard Farrell — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:33:03 +0000

leaf after leaf floats,
like the moments of our living,
until the last one touches ground

Posted in human living, moments

slow fall

Richard Farrell — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:52:16 +0000

leaves linger
slowly baring branches
this year a late fall

Posted in moments

a play on a play on Socrates 2

Richard Farrell — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:16:49 +0000

thou hast no self to k(no)w

Posted in human living

in the valley, in the valley

Richard Farrell — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:36:47 +0000

the fields are dirt
again,
the harvest come and gone
again,
the earth is still, awaiting spring
again

Posted in moments

no answer

Richard Farrell — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:50:54 +0000

life resolves in mystery not explanation

Posted in human living

honking on high

Richard Farrell — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:17:04 +0000

flying wing of geese
honks its way south,
in their wake: winter

Posted in moments

outcome

Richard Farrell — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:27:45 +0000

none of us is spared the exactness of a fate

Posted in human living

slow learner

Richard Farrell — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:27:58 +0000

even after his heart attacked him, he still thought he was immortal

Posted in human living

on having the truth

Richard Farrell — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:23:07 +0000

the truth is for most part an illusion with which people tranquilize themselves thinking that they have it or will, at worst, someday

Posted in human living

looking for Truth

Richard Farrell — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:13:05 +0000

a quest for the Truth most likely ensnares, at worst enslaves

Posted in human living, the unsayable

late September

Richard Farrell — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:39:15 +0000

the sun moves faster,
last summer blossoms
float into fall

Posted in moments

64

Richard Farrell — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:10:51 +0000

she,
not being here,
neither needs me nor feeds me
now that I’m 64

transitory

Richard Farrell — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:22:24 +0000

everything is impermanent, even this wish that it weren’t

bs

Richard Farrell — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:00:09 +0000

bullshit is fatiguing

half-life

Richard Farrell — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:40:28 +0000

a life unshared is a life half-lived

evening

Richard Farrell — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:32:28 +0000

sun sets,
day cares fade,
now: the peace of night descends

social security?

Richard Farrell — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:35:16 +0000

fixed income
rising prices
the blues

no way

Richard Farrell — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:25:58 +0000

the Tao,
immortal Way,
is no way

black and white

Richard Farrell — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:21:35 +0000

black and white -
crows, egrets
in the rice fields, feeding