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Archive for January 11th, 2009

Goodnight Bird

Posted in Daisy Bird, animated gif, animation, personal story, pictures, tagged , , on January 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »

My bird, Daisy, died yesterday. I loved “that stupid bird” (as she was known by everyone in the family but me). We don’t know why she died. She was only 6 years old- very young for a parrot. She has been eating fine, has been more well behaved than usual lately.
I raised Daisy, hand fed [...]

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Part 3- Poems of the T’ang Dynasty (Han Shan)

Posted in Chinese poetry, Cold Mountain, Han Shan, Mystic Poetry, Spirituality, buddhism, pictures, poetry, tagged , , , on January 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I’ve talked myself into doing chunks of this that  have some commonality. Today I’ve culled poems attributed to Han Shan, poet-mystic of the early T’ang. First, excerpts from the wikipedia article about Han Shan (for the full article go here):
Hanshan (Chinese: 寒山; pinyin: Hánshān; literally “Cold Mountain”, fl. 9th century) was a legendary figure associated [...]

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