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My furious multitasking led me to this, a Zen Koan:

Tanzan and Ekido were once travelling together down a muddy road. A heavy rain was still falling.

Coming around a bend, they met a lovely girl in a silk kimono and sash, unable to cross the intersection.

“Come on, girl,” said Tanzan at once. Lifting her in his arms, he carried her over the mud.

Ekido did not speak again until that night when they reached a lodging temple. Then he no longer could restrain himself. “We monks don’t go near females,” he told Tanzan, “especially not young and lovely ones. It is dangerous. Why did you do that?”

“I left the girl there,” said Tanzan. “Are you still carrying her?”

There is much to ponder in there. It made some things a lot clearer to me.

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Rogue FM: Loreena McKennit – Tango to Evora. (I’m learning to play this on the guitar, very beautiful song. Listen to it here)

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Memoirs: I’m trying my best Abba, but the letting go is proving to be much harder than I thought.But you’re working on it, right? Pure awesomeness

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Offtopic:

Stand up and walk out of your history.
- Phil McGraw

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