“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.” Peter Drucker
Swimming It's hard swimming against the title fight of culture, so many stop signs and no go zones, just the coup de gras, a tragic K O to box cutters, where thoughts are herded and trapped, taped and wrapped, no light to entertain a view, other than a room with no room, just praying for some silverfish to tunnel us out of this closed space that constricts my independent thought of throwing everything to the wind and just letting go to the centre of pure joy, where I can swim with such ease as to not care about who cares about the things that just don't matter anymore. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Really like this, it’s what we all need to do, but it’s too difficult. Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas Cheryl 🙂
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Wonderful poem. Here’s to the free thinkers and beautiful swimmers among us. Merry Christmas.
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Many thanks Pat, and happy Christmas to you.
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“the title fight of culture” what an apt term for it, Paul. It does wear after awhile.
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“Wearing” is exactly the word for it.
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It is a good description of the experience Liz.
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O it sure does Lisa, been looking for a life-belt.
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Well! My first thought…I’ve been repulsed by silverfish all this time, when they are the ones can lead me to freedom.
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You’ve made my morning VJ, brought a smile, and, well, yes 🙂
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Yeah! Smiles shared are the best.
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Yes, absolutely.
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The way out of the box for me is reading what I want and writing what I want. Maybe I should just do that. Fighting the title fight against those who seek to take the “higher” out of “higher education” is just too hard.
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Some fights are not our fight, especially as you say. The price is high.
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It took me a very long time and many tears to learn and accept that.
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Yes, I hear the struggle and pain (if only there was another way).
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Yes, it seems that there should be.
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I often wonder about the why of it all, surely it can’t all be just about maturing and character building? Seems to me that suffering is almost normalised.
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As far as I’m concerned, suffering should never be considered normal.
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No, that’s my view too, but we seem to have allowed it, here we have such a poor attitude to those who suffer, especially the indigenous, sigh.
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Big sigh, indeed.
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Bravo! nice poem!
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Thank you so much.
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Merry Christmas 🎄
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There is a great advice in it. Love it, Paul! Merry Christmas! Enjoy the silent days! Michael
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Merry Christmas Michael, wishing you days of delight.
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There is a great adivce in it. Thank you, Paul! MERRY CHRISTMAS! Enoy the silence of the days! Michael
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🙂
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Many thanks Chuck 🙂
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My pleasure, Paul! Happy Holidays!
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Thanks, and happy holidays also to you 🙂
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“Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.” – Quote by Dr. Seuss
Have a wonderful Christmas and joyous days ahead with warm laughter. Take care.
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Thank you so much Kally, I hope you had a blessed time – Happy new year.
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Happy New Year, Paul! ❤ I hope at the end of my life, I "won't care" about things anymore.
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Me too Cheryl, the only real way forward.
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🙂
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This one would be great for your book and would be great recited
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I must give that a go 🙂 Thank you.
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Really relateble I just started my own travel blog and then covid hit and I could not travel anymore from my country. No travel planning for me at all 😦
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