the impermanence of all things
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incandescensThe best thing about a three-and-a-half-hour meeting is it being over. However productive it was.
My line manager has requested a memory wire bracelet and a pair of earrings. (Don't worry, she is going to pay.) It's always a nice surprise -- and a relief -- when you see your line manager coming over to your desk in a busy and enthusiastic manner, and it turns out that she wants you to make some jewellery for her, rather than, say, drop another work package on you.
(I take my moments of relief where I can get them.)
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The knell of the bells at the Gion temple
Echoes the impermanence of all things.
The colour of the flowers on its double-trunked tree
Reveals the truth that to flourish is to fall.
He who is proud is not so for long,
Like a passing dream on a night in spring.
He who is brave is finally destroyed,
To be no more than dust before the wind.
-- beginning of the Tale of the Heike, translated by P.G.O'Neill
My line manager has requested a memory wire bracelet and a pair of earrings. (Don't worry, she is going to pay.) It's always a nice surprise -- and a relief -- when you see your line manager coming over to your desk in a busy and enthusiastic manner, and it turns out that she wants you to make some jewellery for her, rather than, say, drop another work package on you.
(I take my moments of relief where I can get them.)
---
The knell of the bells at the Gion temple
Echoes the impermanence of all things.
The colour of the flowers on its double-trunked tree
Reveals the truth that to flourish is to fall.
He who is proud is not so for long,
Like a passing dream on a night in spring.
He who is brave is finally destroyed,
To be no more than dust before the wind.
-- beginning of the Tale of the Heike, translated by P.G.O'Neill
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