Poem (Pavlova)

If there is something to desire,
there will be something to regret.
If there is something to regret,
there will be something to recall.
If there is something to recall,
there was nothing to regret.
If there was nothing to regret,
there was nothing to desire.

Vera Pavlova, from "Four Poems"

Revelations

Everything is revelatory to someone.

Senryū winners

I won a judge's award and a runner-up award in the Space Western Senryū contest. I might have done even better had I realized that they were supposed to have a "Western" theme (kind of obvious in hindsight)!

Controversy

Controversy can be convened by one loud voice.

The most selfless gift

The most selfless gift is that which no one wants, for it is given with no expectation of the recompense of gratitude or appreciation.

On willpower (Morinaga)

To take the unsettled self in hand, under whatever conditions, and return to the mind with which one set out; to pick oneself up again, after the mind changes, weakens, and breaks down, and stiffen the determination; to carry through the oft-reconstructed original vow—isn't this the meaning of courage?

Soko Morinaga, Novice To Master: An Ongoing Lesson In The Extent Of My Own Stupidity

Dreams (Gilbert)

Dreams have a morality in which no one is right.

Alan Gilbert